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I love a good Apple rumor as much as the next geek, but this one is just a bit too stinky. The Appleinsider article published on the rumored Apple mobile phone this morning at 11:00 EST. An excerpt from the article:

…Shaw Wu told clients in a research note on Tuesday. “We believe this smart phone has been in development for over 12 months and has overcome substantial challenges including design, interference, battery life and other technical glitches.”

Now enter TheStreet.com and Senior Writer Scott Moritz. This TheStreet.com article was posted at 13:06 EDT, and features the following quote:

“We believe this smart phone has been in development for over 12 months and has overcome substantial challenges including design, interference, battery life, and other technical glitches. As we have seen in the smart phone space, it is very difficult to produce a converged product of high quality,” [Peter] Lin writes.

First off, how exactly does TheStreet.com occupy a different ribbon of the 4th dimension from Appleinsider?

Aside from these two sites and their war on time, MacNN and ArsTechnica have both published similar articles featuring some collection of the names Peter Lin and Albert Wu.

Is anyone here checking their facts? I mean it’s obvious there aren’t any real facts to check, but come on people this is just bananas.