[Photo Removed] Sample Photo from Danger Zante, originally uploaded by s4xton.

Browsing around Flickr I noticed that two Danger, Inc. employees (larf, Rubin 110) were posting photos that contained EXIF tags saying the device taking the photo was a "Danger Zante." While various rumor sites and mobile device blogs have been speculating about a new device from Danger, there was almost zero evidence that one even existed.

I quickly inquired with my friend who runs hiptop3.com and he seemed really surprised that I knew anything about the Zante. He posted my findings and then within a few hours I'm on Gizmodo as "a bored Sidekick fan by the name of Aaron Landry." Ha. I'm certainly not a Sidekick fan anymore and while they linked everything else they didn't link my name to my site. I wasn't really bored either. The story also showed up on übergizmo without any links at all. Silly.

UPDATE: Now also on Engadget... Now also on Mobile Guerilla.
Either way, the Danger employees promptly pulled the photos they leaked, but not before I nabbed two of them.
UPDATE: They asked me to remove them, and I complied.

So now we have two pieces of information about a forthcoming device from Danger, Inc.: It is currently named "Zante" and the camera sucks.

UPDATE: Danger employee obviously not happy with me (aka Internet Drama).
UPDATE: Danger employee removes photo of me from Flickr and immediately I get anonymous comments calling me out on "bullshit." God bless the internets.