Apple iphone 5 left in bar blunder mistake by apple worker

Apple worker loses new iPhone 5 in a bar.

                          An Apple employee is in trouble with his bosses after the prototype of its top-secret iPhone 5 was left in a bar... just as happened with the iPhone 4. The as yet unreleased gadget was supposedly 'misplaced' at Cava22, a tequila bar in San Francisco. Apple's security team was called in after reports that the gizmo had been sold over the internet for £120 and a 22-year-old man was questioned.

However, technology website Cnet.co.uk reports that the San Francisco Police Department said Apple had not reported the item as lost.Cava22 owner Jose Valle has said that neither the SFPD or Apple have contacted him, although he does remember getting calls about a lost iPhone last month.
                                  It follows a very similar incident in April 2010 when a then-unreleased iPhone 4 was left in a the beer garden of a German bar in California by an Apple engineer.

That phone was also sold over the internet to the technology blog Gizmodo, which paid £3,000 in cash.In that instance two men were later charged with theft for selling the iPhone 4, though the then-editor Jason Chen escaped without charges.The incident led to Apple ramping up its already stiff security so it seems difficult to believe that a virtually identical incident would befall the company via a dozy staff member for the second time in two years. 

 

Following the April blaze of publicity that accompanied the story, the iPhone 4 was released just under two months later June 24, 2010. While there is not yet any official confirmation from Apple that the release of a new iPhone is imminent, there are widespread reports that an October launch is slated for the iPhone 5, around two months after this incident took place.

                             That release date would be supported by images that appeared on the internet this week said to show production parts for a new model that have arrived at Chinese resellers, although they could also be for the mooted iPhone 4S. The images of parts labeled N94, have been reproduced by industry websites such as Apple Leaks, MacPost and Apple Insider. 

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