Could this be the new IPhone?

[Lord_Stewie]

Hey,

First of all I consider this to be a nice stunt, or a PR move by apple.

What do you think?

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It sounds too good to be true, and it just might be. An Apple employee reportedly left a prototype of the new iPhone at a bar, and it ended up in the hands of a gadget blog.

Photos of the fourth-generation iPhone prototype first appeared on the tech blog Engadget over the weekend. The site said whoever sent the photos found the phone on the floor of a bar in San Jose, Calif. On Monday, rival tech blog Gizmodo said it had obtained the device -- but wouldn't say how.

Alright, we're skeptical too, but there are a few reasons to take this seriously.

Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber, who is known to have connections inside Apple's Cupertino headquarters, said on his blog that Apple happens to have reported a prototype stolen. He also said Apple has a patent out for a phone with a ceramic backing, and indeed some of the images now online appear to have just such a backing.

Gizmodo's photos of the device's internal components show that they're labeled as Apple products. The blog also said that a computer recognized the device as an iPhone, and the phone apparently runs the yet-to-be-released iPhone OS 4.0.

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What do you guys think?

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