News: iPhone 5 prototype is lost in a bar

Яeo.

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(CNN) -- Here's a theory: Maybe there's some sort of connection between drinking and losing things?

We're looking at you, Apple employees of America.

Exhibit A: Last year, an Apple employee reportedly left a pre-release version of the iPhone 4 in a German beer hall in Silicon Valley. The gadget blog Gizmodo proceeded to buy the phone for $5,000 and splashed the details all over the Internet.

And exhibit B: Another Apple employee this summer appears to have left a prototype iPhone in a Mexican bar and restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District, according to a report on Wednesday from the tech site CNET.

CNN has not confirmed this report, and CNET says there are very few details available about what actually happened.

Apple declined to comment on the story.

"This year's lost phone seems to have taken a more mundane path: it was taken from a Mexican restaurant and bar and may have been sold on Craigslist for $200," Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh write on that site, citing an unnamed source who is said to be familiar with Apple's investigation of the matter. "Still unclear are details about the device, what version of the iOS operating system it was running, and what it looks like."

Apple is widely expected to release a new version of the iPhone this fall, possibly as soon as next month. Such releases always are met with a foaming-at-the-mouth frenzy from the tech media and Appleheads, who are more than ready to lap up any rumored details about the new phones.

The company reportedly keeps -- well, tries to keep -- its unreleased phones under literal lock and key until it throws rock-concert style press conferences to unveil them.

"The next iPhones go for their testing inside locked and sealed boxes so that the carriers can carry out checks on their network compatibility in their labs," writes Charles Arthur at The Guardian. "It's very high security, as you could guess; my understanding is that barely anyone inside the carriers gets to open those boxes, and even when they do the hardware is encased in a dummy body which means there's no clue to what the actual phone will do."

Those precautions seem to work. Until you leave that phone in a bar.

The case of the first missing iPhone hasn't even resolved itself yet. The San Mateo County district attorney's office has filed misdemeanor charges against Brian Hogan, who allegedly sold the first found iPhone to Gizmodo.

We'll have to wait and see what happens with the second "errant iPhone," as CNET has termed it.

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Drowned_World

Is that the real prototype on the picture?

Michael

Oh well.

Akruzam

A new phone per a year is lost,no exception bah!
The case looks amazing though

Mani.

Didn't they do this last year?

Яeo.

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Originally posted by Drowned_World

Is that the real prototype on the picture?

Nope, just an illustration photo. But it's predicted that its how the iPhone 5 will look like.

Drowned_World

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Originally posted by RudeBoy

Nope, just an illustration photo. But it's predicted that its how the iPhone 5 will look like.

Predicted?

Porygon2z

Apple always "losing" prototypes

chris1991

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Originally posted by Drowned_World

Is that the real prototype on the picture?

nope that's not the official picture. It was supposedly lost, but no picture was taken of it.

Athens

There's a little bit of info on what it'll most likely look like via macrumors.com

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By late July, a purported design document for the iPhone 5 surfaced and began to make its way to third-party case manufacturers, who apparently placed enough faith in its accuracy to begin making cases based on the design.

Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/03/...th-a-4-screen/

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Earlier today we posted an image to our iOS blog from Apple's upcoming Photo Stream instructions that seemed to show an unusual looking iPhone icon. We had initially dismissed it as possibly being a generic artist rendition, but upon further consideration, it does seem too coincidental that an icon closely resembling circulating rumors would appear in an official Apple release.

Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/31/...hone-5-design/

Drowned_World

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"It's very high security, as you could guess [...]"

Sure...

Akruzam

The only thing I hate about the (possible) new design is that the home button got quite larger,it doesn't look well

OnlyRihanna

Iphone 4 looks better than 5 !

BoyOnBoy Wonder

Looking forward to the bigger screen.

Wilkes

It is an amazing marketing strategy though, it builds buzz more quickly on the internet then an official press release.

Although the previous 'leak' wasn't intentional, I think this one may be a marketing strategy. Apple knows how to exploit its primary market: teens/young adults; both use the internet on a daily basis and will, most obviously, get a whiff of this.

Apple may even be tipping news and gadget websites off.

Apple

RainMan

I think we can gather that most of Apples employees are chronic alcoholics.

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exhibit a: an Apple employee reportedly left a pre-release version of the iPhone 4 in a German beer hall

exhibit b: Another Apple employee this summer appears to have left a prototype iPhone in a Mexican bar

VertigoStick

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Originally posted by Haus of Wilke$

It is an amazing marketing strategy though, it builds buzz more quickly on the internet then an official press release.

Although the previous 'leak' wasn't intentional, I think this one may be a marketing strategy. Apple knows how to exploit its primary market: teens/young adults; both use the internet on a daily basis and will, most obviously, get a whiff of this.

Apple may even be tipping news and gadget websites off.

Apple

THIS. Apple knows good and damn well how to keep their products under wraps, with the exception of last year's incident. It seems a little less credible when dealing with coincidence that someone "lost" another prototype of an iPhone in yet another bar

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Originally posted by RainMan

I think we can gather that most of Apples employees are chronic alcoholics.

Hollywood.

They do it on purpose to create buzz.

Rabid Anarchist

Again?

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