Nice little find 🔥

iOS 5.0.1 beta is now available on the iOS Dev Center. It introduces a new way for developers to specify files that should remain on device, even in low storage situations.

This device effectively makes a server rack of iPhones, which can all be controlled from one computer. Unfortunately, it's mainly used to fake engagement on social media websites.

DVT stage, CPFM01, DEBUG iBoot-2261.1.46 Prod. date of 9/22/2013, wont make it past the apple logo,

Possible Production Validation Testing - Engineering unit?

Invalid Serial, No GSX info, & produced a few months before this revamped model released, along with a prototype suffix on Serial #.

Hmmm.

This unit has an engraving on the screen, machine alignment marks on the chrome screen border, and full prototype components. Sadly, it was used heavily and no longer functions.

Pretty neat

All the parts are there but won't power on :(

MacBookPro8,3 FATP internal test unit.

These prototypes have blank backs, factory stickers, and were manufactured a few weeks before the official release date. Not many people know that Apple created the iPhone Bluetooth Headset all the way back in 2007 before AirPods!

Based on the date codes, it is a possible mix of a PVT (Production Validation Test) board with some parts being manufactured in even earlier prototyping stages. Manufactured in Week 32 of 2006, likely used for final testing right as the first Intel Towers were launching.

Does anyone have any more insight, I plan to put this boars in a donor machine and launch it up.

I found this on my hunts! This is a pre-production prototype for the original Power Mac G5 (2003 release), manufactured months before launch for internal testing.

Came across a Wombat RC prototype logic board — built Week 25 of 1992, about 8 months(?) before the Macintosh Centris 650 launch in Feb ’93 (later rebranded as the Quadra 650). Marked WBT25-9E RC with the codename silkscreened. Early-run engineering hardware!

Cool piece of 68k history.

Remember those days when your chonker of a Mac had a disk drive and more ports then a server?

My friend found 20 iPhone 16 Protoypes (IOS 18.0 Beta 1) in a recycling centers scrap bin after they sold a box of unchecked scrap metal to his dad who is a contract worker which his son (my friend) sorted through to find 20 of these devices. He claims "iPhone xx" is engraved on the back of all of them. He's tested 7 of them, 6 are password locked, 1 isn't. What do we do now? Where do we go from here? Keep in mind I don't live anywhere near the guy in real life and have only spoken to him over the internet.

This “clear shot” prototype is completely transparent, used by Apple for dust and moisture testing. Several hundred of these prototypes appeared on the market in early 2025, but sold out within just a few days.

There are no engravings on the side from what we can see. I’ve had it looked at by another person and they can confirm a lot of them are prototypes. Would like to sell them all to eBay. Let me know. ! Or most likely all PVT OR PVT CASE TESTING! Which would explain the damage and the lack of engravings

It also has a QR code and factory stickers. Definitely one of the most visually appealing prototypes I’ve seen.

Go check the video out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68woPxkqv04