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Fred Vogelstein's got a lengthy piece over at WIRED titled The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry, which does include a lot of heard-it-already recaps, but also unshrouds a few tidbits of secrecy regarding the phone's development being...shrouded in secrecy, for example:

Through it all, Jobs maintained the highest level of secrecy. Internally, the project was known as P2, short for Purple 2 (the abandoned iPod phone was called Purple 1). Teams were split up and scattered across Apple's Cupertino, California, campus. Whenever Apple executives traveled to Cingular, they registered as employees of Infineon, the company Apple was using to make the phone's transmitter.

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