I'm sure you all know about the iPhone 4 prototype lost by an Apple employee in a bar last spring and about the presentation made by Gizmodo. Well, this year the situation was repeated and in July Apple lost another prototype of the iPhone terminal, this time in another bar in San Francisco. The device would have been found by someone and sold on Craig List for $200, but no one can confirm this with certainty. After reporting the disappearance, Apple notified the authorities and managed to locate the terminal in the apartment of a 22-year-old man who claimed he did not have the device. The police searched the young man's house and did not find the terminal, and Apple did not receive any request to redeem it.
In a bizarre repeat of a high-profile incident last year, an Apple employee once again appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar, CNET has learned. The errant iPhone, which went missing in San Francisco's Mission district in late July, sparked a scramble by Apple security to recover the device over the next few days, according to a source familiar with the investigation. A day or two after the phone was lost at San Francisco's Cava 22, which describes itself as a "tequila lounge" that also serves lime-marinated shrimp ceviche, Apple representatives contacted San Francisco police, saying the device was priceless and the company was desperate to ensure its safe return, the source said. Still unclear are details about the device, what version of the iOS operating system it was running, and what it looks like.
Of course, for now no one knows exactly where the device is and at any time images of it could appear, but its identity is equally unknown. It is not known if we are talking about the iPhone 5 or an older prototype of an iPhone, but Apple seems extremely interested in recovering it. Publication of the news by cNET it could force those from Apple to hurry up the presentation of the new device in order not to end up in the situation of last year when the iPhone 4 was presented to the whole world before those from Apple.
When San Francisco police and Apple's investigators visited the house, they spoke with a man in his twenties who acknowledged being at Cava 22 on the night the device went missing. But he denied knowing anything about the phone. The man gave the police permission to search the house, and they found nothing, the source said.
Considering that Apple has not yet managed to find this new prototype, a few very interesting weeks are announced in which it is possible to witness a presentation of the iPhone 5 or some gross fakes.
