Cava 22: the place to go to find drunk Apple employees losing prototype iPhones.

If the title of this story sounds familiar, that’s because it is.  Months before the iPhone 4 was scheduled to come out, a 28-year-old Apple engineer named Robert Gray Powell lost the iPhone 4 prototype at a bar.  It was found by a pair of men, who promptly sold it to Gizmodo and kicked off a police investigation (the two men are facing criminal charges under a California law that makes it illegal to appropriate for your own use something you know belongs to someone else).  Well, it’s happened again.  An Apple employee lost an iPhone 5 prototype in a San Francisco tequila bar.

The bar in question is Cava22, a bar in San Francisco’s Mission District.  The employee in question is unknown at this time, but odds are we’ll find out who he is.  As for the iPhone 5, it is apparently mocked up to look like an iPhone 3G, and we don’t know what version of iOS it is running, but we do know it has the same processor as Apple’s iPad, so it is significantly more powerful than previous iPhones.  It is believed the lost phone was sold by whoever found it on Craigslist for $200.

Want more information on the iPhone 5?  Don’t we all.  I guess we’ll have to wait until the person who found the phone sells it to Gizmodo again or until someone in Asia leaks the prototype phone to another gadget blogger.  Either that or we can wait until Sprint breaks the news.

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