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Employee “accidentally” leaves prototype Nexus 4 in bar – Apple sues claiming they had the idea first

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Nexus 4 found in San Francisco bar

A prototype Lexus 4 smartphone, marked “not for sale” on the back, was found by a bartender at the 500 Club in San Francisco.  Of course they did what any good geek civilian would do – they took pictures of it to post online.  Afterward they contacted Google who offered the bartender a free phone if he would keep the unannounced smartphone under wraps.  Meanwhile, a patron at the bar, a local “tech freak”, recognized the phone as the unannounced Nexus 4, contacted Google to report the find, and then sort of freaked out about it.

The bartender explained:

“I probably shouldn’t have shown it to him. But I did. He didn’t work for Google, but Google had him pretty worked up. They told him he could be an accessory or something.”

The Nexus 4 is Google’s flagship phone (designed in a partnership by Google and LG to showcase Google’s next generation Android OS).  Manufactured by LG, the Nexus 4 will have a 4.7-inch, 1280 x 768 display, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 CPU, and an 8-megapixel rear camera. The Nexus 4 is also rumored to ship running Google’s as-yet-unreleased Android 4.2 operating system. It was to be announced on Monday but Hurricane Sandy showed up and spoiled the geek party.

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