Apple iPhone hoax...again

Reuben Lee | Sep 15, 2006

The long-rumored Apple iPhone recently hit the headlines again when French publication 20 Minutes published a full-page picture of what it claimed was the much-anticipated mobile phone from the Cupertino company. Not surprisingly, the news spread like wildfire across the Internet, especially since the photo was credited to Apple.

The buzz subsided only when the papers confirmed that the photo was a fake. Believe or not, the editor of the French newspaper claimed that the wrongly credited image was a result of a journalist's "desire for the product to exist". It was, in fact, an image produced by MDI Digital, a British design firm. The article itself was about Apple's newly launched iPods and Disney movie service. (Picture taken from CNET's Alpha blog.)

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