{"id":577949,"date":"2010-05-25T13:03:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=32200"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:03:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:03:16","slug":"verizon-exec-hits-the-gym-loses-the-unreleased-motorola-shadow-instead-of-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577949","title":{"rendered":"Verizon exec hits the gym, loses the unreleased Motorola Shadow instead of weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/500x_motorola-shadow-468x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"500x_motorola-shadow\" width=\"468\" height=\"630\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32201\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note to self: keep an eye out for unreleased smartphones in ridiculous places. Hanging out in a random beer garden in Palo Alto? Oh, hello there, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2010\/04\/19\/on-the-iphone-4-leaks\/\">fourth-generation iPhone<\/a>. Hitting the gym? Lookie here, it&#8217;s the unreleased Motorola Shadow Android phone for Verizon!<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-32200\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The tale, as it goes so far: an employee at a Verizon corporate gym in Washington was doing his rounds, and stumbled upon the handset you see above. He unlocked it &#8212; presumably to identify who owned it &#8212; and spotted a text confirming that the handset was unreleased. <\/p>\n<p>He snapped a pic and sent it off to <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5546986\/motorola-droid-shadow-found-in-gym\">Gizmodo<\/a>, dialed up the person they figured was the owner, and away it went into the hands of an unnamed Verizon employee &#8212; but not before the spy-shot taker was allegedly able to confirm the 16 gigs of internal storage, Snapdragon processor, 4.3 inch screen, and the 8 megapixel camera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DTZBEIabCtdI0z43lsNit0RgYo8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DTZBEIabCtdI0z43lsNit0RgYo8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DTZBEIabCtdI0z43lsNit0RgYo8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/DTZBEIabCtdI0z43lsNit0RgYo8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=ohEEnEDJO9Q:iad3Mh6pjIM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=ohEEnEDJO9Q:iad3Mh6pjIM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=ohEEnEDJO9Q:iad3Mh6pjIM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=ohEEnEDJO9Q:iad3Mh6pjIM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=ohEEnEDJO9Q:iad3Mh6pjIM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note to self: keep an eye out for unreleased smartphones in ridiculous places. Hanging out in a random beer garden in Palo Alto? Oh, hello there, fourth-generation iPhone. Hitting the gym? Lookie here, it&#8217;s the unreleased Motorola Shadow Android phone for Verizon! The tale, as it goes so far: an employee at a Verizon corporate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}