Wow, i bet Apple is going to change the way to distribute and track these prototypes, and now there is an iPhone 5 going around...

The San Francisco police department this weekend admitted that it did in fact help Apple employees search a Bay-area home for a “lost item,” which most reports say was a missing iPhone 5 prototype. Days later, the story took two strange turns. First, a San Francisco police official said the department had no record of an investigation involving a missing Apple product. Then Sergio Calderón, whose home was searched for the lost iPhone, said six people that claimed to be police but weren’t searched his home. This implied that that Apple investigators could have impersonated police, which is a criminal offense.

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Chinese-language web site Sohu.com re-published the images which we also included in this article for the sake of discussion. The phone appears to run baseband software with version number 06.10.01, which hasn’t been released yet. It also lacks an IMEI number, just like an iPhone 4 prototype we spotted on eBay. Evaluation devices normally have no IMEI number. If you want to contact us for any reason (tips, questions, news, site errors, advertising, just to say hi etc), tips at 9to5mac dotcom goes into everyone’s mailbox.

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New business idea alert: make the tool and sell it on eBay for a buck :)

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Wondering if this is real... Steve Jobs is not going to be happy if it is!

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