iPhone 4G/HD Possibly Discovered on Bar Floor
Apple lost a prototype iPhone.
A fairly strange story developed over the weekend. A strange smartphone was found on the floor of a San Jose bar inside an iPhone 3G case – but inside the case was not an iPhone 3G. It was a phone that had iPhone-like characteristics, but it wasn't any iPhone currently out in the public.
Engadget managed to get some hands-on time with the device and found it to have a front-facing camera, 80GB of storage and an OS that was "decidedly new."

After some more digging, Engadget found evidence that suggest that this 'found' phone might actually be a legitimate prototype. A similar looking device was photographed in a supposed leaked picture from inside an Apple test lab. At the time, all eyes were on the large-screened device as the hype on the iPad was at an all-time-high, so no one noticed the oddly-shaped iPhone.
Daring Fireball has chimed in too, theorizing that it could be the real thing sporting a ceramic enclosure that can be smooth like glass, but far stronger, more scratch resistant, and most importantly, radio transparent.
Now Gizmodo has gone hands-on, and even disassembled the supposed new iPhone. They believe that it's the real deal.
While we won't know if this is the real thing until Apple shows off the next iPhone this summer, this one discovery is both the most surprising and solid we've had yet.
And hopefully the person that dropped the phone will keep their job, even if they do work for Apple.
So when I see people getting outright frantic about a new Apple phone, I'm doubly mystified.
Would someone please explain to me what makes cell phones such a big deal as to garner this level of interest?
I'm guessing they won't make much of these, probably a special edition or something.
Anyone else find the shape and ports out of the norm for Apple?
If i could i would lol ... I have an N97, good phone .. does more that a phone typically does ... but it as the iphone ... is hardly newsworthy!
I suppose that's why forced and fashion hype is the only way to get this publicity .. seems to work tho eh ... everywhere you go . .relentless applecrap ... good job there are far less people buying them than there are talking about them or we would be doomed!
You know there are cell phones out there that have nothing to do with buying apps? I've never owned a smartphone nor bought anything for my cell phone, but I can see the appeal (going to college, I see a lot of people who play with their phones instead of having real world interaction. I've done it! Tetris demo ftw!). I don't see how you could be employed without having a cell phone in all honesty.
No way somebody's just carrying around the next iPhoney, and then just decides: "Oh, since I have this with me, maybe I should take it to the bar!"