Now this is interesting. Bruce Sewell of Apple has sent a letter to GIZMODO chief Brian Lam making a formal request to return the lost iPhone 4G. Bruce Sewell is the Senior Vice President & General Counsel at Apple Inc. Here is the screenshot of letter that Apple sent to GIZMODO:

This confirms that the lost iPhone was real and now Apple wants it back. On a side note, how many times have you seen Apple “requesting” to return something that actually belonged to Apple.

This is getting funnier. Earlier today, Gizmodo leaked as much details of iPhone 4G as you’d get in Steve Jobs’ keynote. Everyone went crazy and made their stories around the leaked iPhone that was declared “lost” by some and “stolen” by others. Now Gizmodo has a story to tell. They claim that the iPhone 4G was lost in a bar by a drunken Apple Engineer named Gray Powell. The story goes like this:

Apple engineer goes to a bar with an iPhone 4G in disguise of iPhone 3GS, drinks too much and leaves the bar but forgets to take his iPhone with him. Another guy sitting next to him is told by a third drunk guy that there is an iPhone belonging to him. The second drunk guy refuses initially but third drunk guy insists that it may be the iPhone of his friend so second guy should take it. This way the second drunk guy ends up with an iPhone 4G. He takes it home, looks for the owner but to no avail. He experiments with the device and figures out that it actually wasn’t iPhone 3GS but was a lot different device. He decides to try the camera but then the phone crashes. Weeks later Gizmodo get it, from nowhere. May be the drunk guy, obliged by his long-standing love for Gizmodo, sends it over to them who accept it whole heartedly. They break the story and make the world go crazy. Till now they know the story but they don’t know if it’s Gray’s phone. Now they have, somehow, come to know that it’s Gray’s phone, they contacted him and confirmed.

That’s the whole story with lot of unanswered questions.