On March 18, 2010, an Apple engineer left what looked like an iPhone 3 in a German beer garden in Redwood City, California. Another patron later picked it up from a barstool. The next morning, the phone didn’t work (having been disabled remotely) but the finder realized the device looked a bit odd. It had a camera in the front and the exterior felt different. He was able to remove the exterior, revealing a shiny prototype for the new iPhone 4 – a product Apple wasn’t intending to announce for months.
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