chipbennett wrote:
The sticker doesn’t concern me as much (though, why would it have been removed?); what does concern me, however, is the obviously missing, half-inch, diagonal gouge between the sticker and the “bil” of “T-Mobile”.
I don’t think it’s grass, for 3 reasons:
1) Scale. It is far too small to be grass
2) Jagged shape
3) Given the location of the light source (flash), if it were a piece of grass, the shadow produced would be on the other side. The location of the shadow is with respect to the light source implies an indentation into the phone, not a piece of debris sitting on the surface of the phone.
Side note: there also appears to be a blemish above the lens in the 12th supplement phone, that is not present in the original photo.
Side note 2: the “with” in “with Google”: can photo resolution explain why “with” appears to be a solid block of white in the 12th supplement photo? It looks like it’s been covered with white-out, it’s so blurred.
It is probably trivial but I am disturbed by the removal of that sticker. You can see some bubble effect to the original at the lower point and your upper left curve. You can see that the glue is disturbed like maybe at one stage whoever owned the phone might have tried to remove it then pressed it back down.
The phone is no longer wet either. But I find it hard to believe that the sticker dried up and fell off on its own. The glue looks smudged on your lower right side. It bows outwards.
I still think it is the same phone. If you look at the "M" in Mobile there is a defect in the printing like a / shaving off part of the top it in both photos.