iPhone 3GS prototype shows up on eBay

A shot of the iPhone 3GS prototype for sale on eBay

A pretty non functional prototype version of the new iPhone 3GS has showed up on everyone’s favourite auction site, eBay. The seller claims to have also bought it on eBay from someone who ‘found it’ at an airoprt. Sounds like stolen goods to me, but I’m not sure how the finders keepers laws work over there in the US. It’s currently running at just over $500, which sounds pretty pricey for a paperweight to me, especially with the whack conversion rate we’re getting here in Blighty recently. If you’re rich and love your gadgets, it may be your cup of tea!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320389513212&viewitem=&afsrc=1&salenotsupported

Tags: ebay, iphone, iphone 3gs

The T-Mobile MDA Vario V (HTC Touch Pro2) has been cancelled in the UK

There’s disappointing news for fans of T-Mobile’s Vario range of smartphones, the rebadged HTC handsets of TyTn fame and recently in Touch Pro flavour. The UK operater has cancelled the release of the MDA Vario V, even though the MDA Compact V (the keyboardless HTC Touch Diamond2 redesign) sibling of similar design was launched earlier in June, for reasons which are currently unknown. There is however no news of the device being cancelled in other T-Mobile markets, so hopefully this isn’t due to a functionality issue with the much anticipated device.

Tags: htc touch pro2, mda vario v, t-mobile, t-mobile uk, tmuk