French Newspaper Pwned by Fake iPhone.

By Alex in Gadgets, Hacks & Mods, Pictures on Sep 17, 2006 at 4:48 am

Thinking they got the scoop, a French newspaper called "20 Minutes" published a full photo of a new Apple product called iPhone that they said Apple would announce that day.

Oops, turns out the thing was only a mockup created by design firm MDI Digital!

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fluff
Sep 17th, 2006 at 5:29 am
This is a swiss newspaper actually…
A french
Sep 17th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Hello,

This was in my parisian edition (at least).
But the newspaper didn’t affirmed that this was the future iPhone ! It has only use this fake to illustrate his article about the apple expo. The newspaper has made a mistake about the license, written “Apple”, but has rectified it in his next edition.
Thomas
Sep 17th, 2006 at 12:38 pm
And let’s mention that 20 minutes is a free paper, which doesn’t exactly massively invest in long, detailed, and hard – facts investigative reports…
Alex
Sep 18th, 2006 at 5:48 am
As far as I know it’s 20Minutes.fr, which makes it a French publication. Right?
Sylvain
Sep 19th, 2006 at 3:10 am
Fake, the iPhone ? Only the photo I presume … Because a lot of people seems to disagree with you regarding the “fake” ..

See : http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0609phone.html

iPhone could be issued on January ’07.
aliocha
Sep 20th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
anyway, fake or not, french medias did more funny : a xbox fansite wrote a prank news about 100 japanese kids suicides by swallowing silicon bags… a serious newspaper (‘libÃ©ration’ i think but i’m not sure) backed up and they were followed by major tv-news who talked about that on their night editions

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