Apple loses a prototype iPhone in a bar. Sound familiar doesn’t it? Well, an Apple employee has reportedly (via CNET) done just that- lost another iPhone prototype. This time the device was lost at Cava 22, a Mexican restaurant and Bar in San Francisco last July.
After discovering that the iPhone was missing, Apple tracked the device to the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. Then San Francisco police along with Apple investigators spoke with an individual in his mid-twenties in regards to the device. He denied any knowledge of the phone. Authorities then searched his property and found nothing.
That is where the story ends. It is not currently known if Apple got the iPhone back, and Apple did not file a police report in connection with the case.
It would make sense for Apple to be testing the next-generation iPhone in July, especially if the company was planning a launch of the device in September. The missing prototype could be of the “iPhone 5” or of the rumored, cheaper “iPhone 4S”. We just don’t know.
Of course, this sounds an awful lot like the prototype iPhone 4 that went missing in the spring of 2010 in a Readwood City bar, which was then picked up, and then sold to Gizmodo who broke the story. That incident sparked a criminal investigation, which was wrapped up earlier this month.
Image courtesy of James Martin/CNET.
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