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iPhone 5 lost in bar by Apple Staff
Rhys - September 1st, 2011 10:02 AM
An employee of Apple has somehow managed to leave an Apple iPhone 5 prototype in a San Francisco Mexican Bar Restaurant called Cava 22 reports claim.
The careless staff member was using the iPhone to conduct external ‘real-world’ testing when the employee managed to leave the bar / restaurant without a phone to hand. Sure enough, the prototype iPhone 5 was no longer there when Apple returned to search the restaurant.
Since then, Apple has been frantically trying to obtain the device. So far they have managed to track the iPhone to a family home in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights region using the built in location tracking, however Police and Apple investigators were unable to recover the phone even after a search and the offer of a cash sum with the occupant denying any knowledge.
CNET report that the device may have been sold on Craigslist for $200, although the legitimacy of this is unclear.
This chain of events is very familiar to the incident which happened last year where Robert Powell, an Apple engineer left the iPhone 4 in a beer garden. The phone was then sold to gadget blog Gizmodo, which revealed photos, videos and a before-release hand-on review.
