True story? Top-secret next-generation iPhone 4G found hanging out in a California bar
Over the weekend, the gadget blogs absolutely lit up with speculation that an iPhone 4G -- the rumored next-generation handset expected this summer -- was actually found in a San Jose, Calif. bar. (This sounds like a geek joke: "Two iPhone 4Gs walk into a bar and one turns to the other....")
Of course, images and videos of it have filled the Web. So far, gadget-blog Gizmodo seems to have it in hand, while Engadget has followed the news, too. It's rumored, btw, that Apple Inc. did lose a prototype and wants it back.
It'd be interesting to see if Apple DOES move to try to claim this phone, if it is indeed theirs. In the meantime, for a company that loves secrecy as much as Apple, if this indeed is the iPhone 4G, that's gotta be a major gaffe on their part.
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Leave it to some field tester to get drunk at a bar and forget his (unreleased) iPhone 4g. It was camo’d to look like an iPhone 3Gs, but someone knew better… click here to check out its features, what’s new and what has changed… http://www.lionsdenu.com/the-new-iphone-was-found-lost-at-a-bar/
Posted by: Tim Alvine | April 19, 2010 3:44 PM
Personally I think this is a plant and I'm surprised no one has linked this release in the wild to comments from Steve Jobs a few weeks ago:
http://www.newsgab.com/forum/tech-news/88720-steve-jobs-says-iphone-4g-plant.html
Posted by: Mark | April 20, 2010 12:23 AM