Has another Apple employee lost another iPhone prototype at yet another bar? It seems to be the case, according to a new report.
Sometime in July, an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype at the Cava22 bar in the Mission district of San Francisco, according to CNET. As one would expect, Apple immediately contacted the San Francisco Police in an attempt to secure the device.
The report continues, stating that Apple actually traced the device to a home in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood. The police searched the home, where a man in his twenties was living. He admitted to being at the bar that night but denied knowledge of the phone. The police didn’t find anything, so Apple offered the man money for the phone with no questions asked. The man continued to deny any knowledge of the phone.
CNET has more, though. The device was apparently sold for $200 on Craigslist not long after it was lost. That’s a far cry from the $5,000 Gizmodo paid to get its hands on the iPhone 4 prototype.
If the story is true, nobody is talking about it. Apple, Craigslist and the San Francisco Police are not commenting. The owner of Cava22 says that somebody called about a missing phone several times, but hasn’t been contacted directly by Apple or the San Francisco Police.
Last year Gizmodo rocked the tech world when it leaked the details surrounding the iPhone 4. The device was lost by Apple engineer Robert Powell in a bar in Redwood City, California. It was soon found by Brian Hogan, who then sold it to Gizmodo for $5,000. Apple took the case to court, which led to a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s home.
It’s unclear whether the lost iPhone prototype was for the upcoming iPhone 5, a device expected to debut next month and hit store shelves in October.
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Posted on Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:50:10 +0000 at http://mashable.com/2011/08/31/iphone5-prototype-bar/
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Sometime in July, an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype at the Cava22 bar in the Mission district of San Francisco, according to CNET. As one would expect, Apple immediately contacted the San Francisco Police in an attempt to secure the device.
The report continues, stating that Apple actually traced the device to a home in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood. The police searched the home, where a man in his twenties was living. He admitted to being at the bar that night but denied knowledge of the phone. The police didn’t find anything, so Apple offered the man money for the phone with no questions asked. The man continued to deny any knowledge of the phone.
CNET has more, though. The device was apparently sold for $200 on Craigslist not long after it was lost. That’s a far cry from the $5,000 Gizmodo paid to get its hands on the iPhone 4 prototype.
If the story is true, nobody is talking about it. Apple, Craigslist and the San Francisco Police are not commenting. The owner of Cava22 says that somebody called about a missing phone several times, but hasn’t been contacted directly by Apple or the San Francisco Police.
Last year Gizmodo rocked the tech world when it leaked the details surrounding the iPhone 4. The device was lost by Apple engineer Robert Powell in a bar in Redwood City, California. It was soon found by Brian Hogan, who then sold it to Gizmodo for $5,000. Apple took the case to court, which led to a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s home.
It’s unclear whether the lost iPhone prototype was for the upcoming iPhone 5, a device expected to debut next month and hit store shelves in October.
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Posted on Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:50:10 +0000 at http://mashable.com/2011/08/31/iphone5-prototype-bar/
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