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Two 3rd Gen iPod Touches With Camera Prototypes Pop Up On eBay

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Burbling up as flotsam in the eBay Apple stream, then yanked beneath the waves just as quickly by the webbed fingers of Cupertino’s eldritch lawyer things: these two iPod Touch prototypes marked DVT-1 and DVT-2, complete with built-in cameras. One of the iPod Touches is non-functioning, while the other runs a provisional “Switchboard” operating system. They look to have been legitimate, but regrettably, they were pulled before Nick Denton could click the “Buy It Now” button.

The question, of course, is where did they come from? Well, we know there’s at least one pissed off ex-Apple engineer with access to prototypes running around as an indignant free agent these days…

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