Apple loses another unreleased iPhone

In a bizarre repeat of a high-profile incident last year, an Apple employee once again appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar.

The errant iPhone, which went missing in San Francisco's Mission district in late July, sparked a scramble by Apple security to recover the device over the next few days, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

Last year, an iPhone 4 prototype was bought by a gadget blog that paid $5,000 in cash. This year's lost phone seems to have taken a more mundane path: it was taken from a Mexican restaurant and bar and may have been sold on Craigslist for $200.

Apple electronically traced the phone to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood but when San Francisco police and Apple's investigators visited the house and spoke with a man in his twenties, he denied knowing anything about the phone.

The man gave police permission to search the house but they found nothing. Before leaving the house, the Apple employees offered the man money for the phone no questions asked, however the man continued to deny he had knowledge of the phone.

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