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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

ha ha

Looks like the same old iPhone

“non-functioning replica prototype"

Dummy finds a Dummy.

Looks like the same old iPhone

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

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

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

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