Verizon's unreleased Motorola DROID Shadow leaked online

What has the world come to when you can't even leave your house with your unreleased gadgets and expect to return home with them?

Gizmodo received a tip today with a big, rather clear shot of Verizon's unreleased, yet-to-be-announced Motorola DROID Shadow.

The tipster purportedly works at a Verizon corporate gym and found the device left behind.

We're not going to grab at straws and liken this to Apple's fourth-gen iPhone fiasco, because let's face it, if Verizon/Google wanted to participate in such shenanigans, there are much better places to do so than your company's private corporate gym.

And if this was the ultimate agenda here, it shows an unfortunate level of distrust in the company's own employees. But then again -- they'd be right.

Regardless of high-level corporate antics, the phone at hand here does alledgedly sport a 4.3-inch touchscreen, at least Android 2.1, an 8-megapixel camera, an HDMI port, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 16 GB of internal memory.

Yes, please!