Last year, an employee of Apple company 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 phone for $5,000 and publish details all over the Internet.
Now once again another Apple employee this summer appears to have left a prototype iPhone in a Mexican bar and restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District.
Apple do not pass any comment on the story.
"This year's lost phone seems to have taken a more mundane path: it was find 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. "It is 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 recognized 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 case of the first missing iPhone hasn't even solved 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.
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