Iphone 5 Prototype Found At Mbk?

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iPhone 5 prototype found at MBK?

By Coconuts Bangkok

BANGKOK: -- A “non-functioning replica prototype” of the new Apple iPhone 5 has reportedly turned up at MBK Center in Bangkok.

Tech blog Neowin.com broke the story and photos, as an ex-staffer apparently came across the prototype at the downtown mega-mall. The photos of the phone seem to match earlier reports about the specs of the iPhone 5 and it was described it as a “pretty accurate” finalized design casing.

Next question: How the hell did this end up in MBK? We’re guessing that, if this indeed a real prototype, it was leaked out of a factory in China somewhere. Or maybe it’s just a fake some dude made in Nonthaburi or something… [more]

Full story: http://www.coconutsb...e-found-at-mbk/

-- COCONUTS Bangkok 2012-08-04

[lional6]

It was found in the Samsung R&D dumpster, they were finished copying with it.

[leedstony]

It was found in the Samsung R&D dumpster, they were finished copying with it.

555

[MaxLee]

This i s Thailand,... they can just copy anything without getting caught, because money is paid under the table anyway in the undergrounds...

[tragickingdom]

Nice try. We have to admit that the PR department did a good job. You go to the blogs and than you make a non working prototype so you get some much needed attention. The guy who discovered it, probably made it.

[lomatopo]

It was found in the Samsung R&D dumpster, they were finished copying with it.

Nah, we've had a 4" screen for eons.

[rotary]

It was also found with a small sticker that said "When I grow up I want to be a Galaxy III"

ha ha

[tonysilly]

Looks like the same old iPhone

[sensei]

“non-functioning replica prototype"

Dummy finds a Dummy.

[Pib]

Looks like the same old iPhone

But if you are part of the Apple cult you must have it!!!!!!!

[Tywais]

Is this going to be an annual event? And how many places can they lose an iPhone prototype?

iPhone 4G prototype found on a bar floor?

Engadget posts images of a phone purportedly found on the floor of a bar in San Jose, Calif., suggesting that it's actually Apple's yet-to-be-released, fourth-generation iPhone. On Monday morning, Gizmodo follows with its own set of photos and video of "the real thing."

Cnet - April 2010

and

Déjà vu – iPhone 5 prototype found in bar

In what by now must seem like a marketing scheme for iPhone launches, an Apple employee recently lost the iPhone 5 at a San Francisco Mexican restaurant in Mission district. Last year, the iPhone 4 was also lost at a bar and then purchased by Gizmodo for US$5000. The gadget blog managed to escape criminal charges from Apple.

memeburn

[Payboy]

Elvis must've dropped it when doing his monthly shopping heading up from his Isaan village.

[ManOnTheRoad]

Neowin dot com is on sedo ,