This is very interesting. For a short while a pre-release iPhone prototype was available for sale on eBay. Bidding reached $2000 before it was removed, presumably at the behest of Apple’s legal people. There was an accompanying video on YouTube, showing the software which is also gone.

Gadget blog Engadget have managed to rescue it, and have posted it for posterity. Always interesting to get a behind the scenes peek at the development of something like this – is it just me or does it seem much snappier than the actual iPhone we all get to own?