In a very , heh , familiar narrative , Google patently lose the upcoming Nexus 4 in a bar last calendar month . Yes , the LG Nexus telephone set we expect to beunveiled next week . Yes , the phone that ’s probably going to take the summit as the best Android telephone set uncommitted when it comes out .
https://gizmodo.com/how-apple-lost-the-iphone-4-5520438
The phone , which was lost at the 500 Club in San Francisco ’s Mission District , was set up by Jamin Barton , the barkeep who discovered it . It was locked , had no SIM visiting card and had a Google logotype and an explicit ‘ not for sales event ’ sticker on the back .

When Barton demonstrate the telephone to a tech - savvy fixture , he forthwith have sex it was the next Nexus and contacted Google , who readily freak out out and originate an epic chase succession that seems straight out of the movies . Google despatch Brian Katz , spherical investigations and intelligence manager at Google , who ’s described as “ pushy ” and “ military”-like to retrieve the phone . Wired says :
By the sentence Katz was quicken north to the Mission District , Barton says , he had already match to hand the phone over to Google the next day , at noonday , on the solitary stipulation that the guy cable come to get it could prove he really worked for Google . “ What was I suppose to do , look for the hombre with Google shirt ? How did I know this guy did n’t do work for Apple ? ”
There was a bit of a cat and computer mouse game being play , with Barton avoiding Katz ( since Katz refused to admit he worked for Google ) and a riot thrown in there for dependable bar but in the end Google got its phone back . Google offer Barton a free phone if he would keep quiet about its embarrassing episode but thankfully he declined , so we have another lose speech sound at a bar write up to laugh at . interpret the whole entertaining situation over atWired . [ Wired ]

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