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Gizmodo+

Website

Gizmodo and Gawker Media

The blog that bought a lost iPhone prototype

Supported

Gizmodo, Gawker Media's gadget blog, published the biggest tech story of 2010 on 19 April: photos and a teardown of a lost iPhone 4 prototype bought from someone who found it in a bar. Police raided an editor's home days later. Gawker's network also ran Lifehacker, Kotaku and Jezebel.

Illustration for Gizmodo and Gawker Media
Original illustrationNot a screenshot
Domain in 2010
gizmodo.com
Launched
July 2002
Owner in 2010
Gawker Media
Status today
Still active

What people used it for

  • Gadget news and reviews
  • Leaks and rumours

Interface characteristics

  • Gawker's shared blog template with big images
  • Sidebar of most-popular posts

Notable features

  • iPhone 4 prototype story (April 2010)

What happened later

Gawker Media went bankrupt in 2016 after the Hulk Hogan lawsuit; Gizmodo lives on under new owners.

Archived on the Wayback Machine

Archived pages open on web.archive.org (Internet Archive). They are historical captures, not part of this exhibit.

Related

  • ProductVerified

    iPhone 4

    Retina display, FaceTime, and the antenna you could not hold

    Announced on 7 June 2010 and on sale on 24 June, the iPhone 4 introduced the 960-by-640 Retina display, a front camera for FaceTime video calls, a 5-megapixel camera with 720p video, and a...

  • PhonesSupported

    Gizmodo publishes the lost iPhone 4 prototype

    Gizmodo paid $5,000 for an iPhone prototype an Apple engineer left in a bar and published photos and a teardown two months before the launch; police later raided an editor's home.

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