Though seemingly the entire Internet (including this site) was set afire when Kevin Rose “leaked” info about Apple’s iPhone a couple months ago, I haven’t seen too much written about the fact that he was wrong on just about all accounts!

First, what he was right aboout:

1) It was announced in January.

2) He said it would probably be widescreen and probably be touchscreen.

3) That it will come in two models, 4 and 8 gigs.

Now what he was wrong about:

1) It’s “small as shit”.
Fact: It’s not that small.

2) It’ll have two batteries, one for phone, one for music.
Fact: It doesn’t have two batteries.

3) One model will be $249, the other $449.
Fact: The price is $599, $150 more then the high-end version he told of.

4) It will be available through all the major service providers.
Fact: It’s only available through Cingular.

5) It will have a slide-down keyboard.
Fact: It has a touchscreen keyboard, the whole thing can basically be a keyboard.

Interestingly the only things he didn’t seem so sure about, the widescreen and touchscreen, were two of the biggest actual features.

Now maybe he saw the rumored second version of the iPhone, that Apple was supposedly working on at the same time and will come out later (that whole scenario kind of reminds me of the movie Contact when that one guy blows up the Transport thing, but aha, they have a second one already built! “Why build one, when you can have two for twice the price?”).

Or maybe Steve Jobs pulled the old last-minute-switch and was about to go with the phone Kevin Rose saw only to go with the one we have at the last possible second.

Or maybe Kevin was fed disinformation knowing he’d use Digg (in this case Diggnation) in some way to get the fake info out there and throw snoops off the trail.

Or maybe Kevin Rose was just flat wrong and shouldn’t be trusted as a source so easily.