Posted on Tuesday, April 20 2010 @ 18:48 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Looks like those photos of
the "lost" iPhone 4G are the real deal. DailyTech
writes Gizmodo reportedly paid $5,000 to the person that found the iPhone at a bar, and that Apple confirmed it's their property and that they would like to get the phone back.
To get the iPhone, Gawker Media -- parent of Gizmodo -- paid $5,000 to the person that found the iPhone at a bar. While Gizmodo kept the name of this person secret, it had no trouble outing the actual Apple employee who lost the phone. The employee is a 2006 graduate of NC State University and works at Apple as a BaseBand Software Engineer according to his Linkedin profile (which has since been taken down).
Now that the cat is out of the bag, Apple wants its iPhone back. Gizmodo's Brian Lam received a letter this morning from Bruce Sewell, an Apple Senior Vice President and General Council. The letter confirms that the iPhone in question is in fact from Apple (and not a counterfeit) and goes on to state, "This letter constitutes a formal request that you return the device to Apple. Please let me know where to pick up the unit."
