US technology website Gizmodo had been keeping quiet over the weekend while its archrival Engadget sucked in the pageviews over the leading story of THAT iPhone 4G smartphone being discovered in a bar in SF.

Turned out that Gizmodo managed - somehow - to get their hands on the said iPhone and did a pretty good job at reviewing, analysing, taking pictures and even making a mini video review of the device.

As expected (see our earlier news story), the phone turned out to be a Marmite-like model, one that shuns the established iPhone heritage, moving away from the curved, pebble-like form factor, towards one which is more rectangular, reminiscent of some Sony Ericsson designs.

The phone - which is as near as the final model as it can get - was reportedly lost by a tester and Daring Fireball's John Gruber says that Apple is working hard to get it back, meaning that Gizmodo could be hit with a string of legal requests from the Cupertino-based company fairly soon.

Source-itproportal