This time the new iPhone 5 was left at a tequila bar called "Cava22" in San Francisco Mission district.
Last year, the iPhone 4 that was found in a local bar was sold to Gizmodo for $5000. This year it apparently had been sold on Craigslist for $200.
It's still unclear are details about the device, what version of the iOS operating system it was running, and what it looks like
Apple electronically traced the phone to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood.
When San Francisco police and Apple's investigators visited the house, they spoke with a man in his twenties who acknowledged being at Cava 22 on the night the device went missing. But he denied knowing anything about the phone. The man gave police permission to search the house, and they found nothing.
Before leaving the house, the Apple employees offered the man money for the phone no questions asked, the source said, adding that the man continued to deny he had knowledge of the phone.
After last year's embarrassing loss, Apple reportedly has taken extraordinary steps to protect its prototype devices from leaks. Next-generation iPhones are sent to carriers for testing "inside locked and sealed boxes so that the carriers can carry out checks on their network compatibility in their labs."
Apple declined to comment after being contacted this morning. A spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department said the company did not file a police report based on the loss at the bar. Craigslist did not respond to requests for comment.
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