While all those yakamos (you know who you are) were touching themselves and their iPads last week, I was enthralled by Gray Powell, a 27 year old software engineer who left his iPhone at a bar called Gourmet Haus Staudt, in Redwood City,
California.  This wasn't just any iPhone.  It was a cleverly disguised iPhone 4G test phone.  A man in the bar found it and attempted to return it to Apple headquarters. Evidently no one there believed him.  Weeks later, Gizmodo got their hands on it for $5,000.00 cash.

Was this a leak or simply a drunken mistake?
I don't think it was leak. While many amateur PR people have tried this stunt before, I don't believe Apple's PR machine would jeopardize sales of the current model by leaking something too early.  What do you think?

Gizmodo has tracked the entire saga here:

• All
  the details about the next iPhone including a dissection
• How
  Apple conceals prototype iPhones
• How
  Apple lost the next iPhone
• How
  Apple missed chances to get the device back
• Conspiracy
  theorists: Why Apple didn't leak the iPhone to us
• Why
  it's not about the iPhone
• And
  finally, how Apple asked to get their phone back

Mashable Coverage:

• Leaked Next Generation iPhone Footage Goes Viral: Will It Boost
  Sales? [POLL]
• This Might Actually Be the iPhone 4G [PICS]
• iPhone HD: The Next Generation iPhone? [RUMOR]

UPDATE: Jon Stewart stands up for Gizmodo, calls Apple ‘Appholes’