The boy in the adjacent image is called Gary Powell, he is 27 years old and works as a software engineer at Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, more precisely, he works on the baseband software that always blocks the decoding software of iPhoneof the Unfortunately for him, Gary Powell is also the employee who "forgotten” the supposed prototype of iPhone 4G/HD in a bar in San Jose California, prototype that was and is displayed on the Internet as the next model of iPhone.
The story goes something like this: Gary was one evening at a German bar in Redwood City California with some friends (with the supposed prototype of iPhone 4G/HD to test it under conditions of normal use in the real world) he drank a few beers, had fun, it is assumed that he was also on Facebook on his phone, and a few hours later he left for home, forgetting his phone at the respective bar, on a chair. The phone was noticed by one of the diners who alerted the one sitting next to Gary about the phone, and after asking the people there if anyone had lost a phone, he picked it up (without thinking of calling any of Gary's friends to see that no one has lost their phone).
It seems that the boy who found the phone played with it not noticing anything special about the phone's software, it seemed like a iPhone 3GS normal, it had 6 pages of applications, it tried to open the Camera application but it closed 3 times and gave up, it basically thought it was a iPhone normal, but he didn't think to call his friend to ask for his phone number.
The next day when I woke up, the phone was dead, it seems Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he had deleted everything from it even though he could have easily located it through the account MobileMe, and then he became curious and took it out of its case to notice that the said terminal does not look like one at all iPhone Normal. Gizmodo stands up that the man called at Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), to talk to someone about the found phone, but no one took him seriously, all he received was a support ticket and the promise that he would be called, but of course this did not happen.
It's strange that Gizmodo he continues the story by saying that only after a few weeks the terminal reached them, so here it is assumed that quite a long period of time has passed since the phone was lost until the moment it was presented on the Internet and reached Gizmodo for tests, a very strange thing from my point of view, but maybe it's the mistake of the people from Gizmodo.
The story ends with a discussion between an editor from Gizmodo and Gary Powell, the one who lost the phone, of course the phone will get back to Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), but this whole story is extremely strange and seems to be quite false.
Gray Powell: Hello?
John Herrman: Is this Gray?
G: Yeah.
J: Hi, this is John Herrman from Gizmodo.com.
G: Hey!
J: You work at Apple, right?
G: Um, I mean I can't really talk too much right now.
J: I understand. We have a device, and we think that maybe you misplaced it at a bar, and we would like to give it back.
G: Yeah, I forwarded your email [asking him if it was his iPhone], someone should be contacting you.
J: Okay.
G: Can I send this phone number along?
J: [Contact information]
Everything he told sounded fake to me Gizmodo above, and that paragraph where I say that several weeks have passed since it was found and until it reached Gizmodo seems quite strange to me, weeks in which a man sat with a prototype on the table, he did not call the who lost it to get it back... sounds fake to me.
