Unluckily for this Apple employee who left HIS mobile behind on a bar stool at a German beer garden in Redwood City, California, has set alarm bells ringing.
For a website is claiming that the forgotten phone wasn’t just any old mobile. Gadget blog Gizmodo says it was a secret prototype of the next generation of the iPhone.
According to media reports in the U.S., Apple employee Gray Powell apparently left the iPhone behind after celebrating his 27th birthday at the Gourmet Haus Staudt bar.
Gizmodo said the person who found the phone claimed it was logged into Powell’s Facebook account and the last post on the social networking site was said to be: ‘I underestimated how good German beer is.'
After trying unsuccessfully to return the iPhone to its owner, the finder sold it to the website, said Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam. Mr Lam said the phone was shut down remotely by Apple, adding to suspicions that the phone held secrets the company didn’t want exposed.
Gizmodo have published the letter they say they received from Apple asking for the prototype device back.
And it has triggered a guessing game over whether the new iPhone is genuine, how it got into the hands of the website and what sort of punishment the highly secretive Apple bosses might mete out to the software engineer apparently responsible for losing it.
Photographs posted of the device show a more angular model than the traditional iPhone with square corners and aluminum edges. Technical experts claim the case - similar to the older iPhone 3GS – was perfect camouflage for a prototype.
This may not be the final design for the next iPhone, but the fact that they built a fake case to make it look like the earlier iPhone, that says a lot.
The phone had a camera with a flash on the back with a bigger lens than the existing iPhone for better photo quality. The front also sported a camera, which could indicate a video- conferencing capability for future models. On top of the device was a second microphone, possibly for noise cancellation.
The phone says XXGB on the back, however rumours are circulating that the new iPhone 4G will have 64GB of memory. The screen has an improved display with a higher resolution so that individual pixels are not discernible.
The phone measures 4.5"x2.31"x0.37" and weighs 140 grams. The 3GS weighs 135 grams. The battery 5.25 WHr at 3.7V, compared to the 3GS battery, which is 4.51 WHr at 3.7V.
On the back of the phone, it said it was XX GB, but Gizmodo were unable to see how large the memory was as they believe Apple had killed the phone's 4.0 operating system after it went missing.
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