Drinking Establishment (Check). Highly Anticipated Mobile Phone Release (Check). Lost Phone (Check)

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http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/drinking-establishment-check-highly-anticipated-mobile-phone-release-check-lost-phone-check/

By Evan Hansen
Gadget Lab
Wired.com
10.26.12

Jamin Barton is a soft-spoken musician with a quick laugh and a winning 
smile who tends bar under the nickname “Sudsy” at the 500 Club in San 
Francisco’s Mission District. He was closing up after a slow Tuesday 
last month when he saw the phone.

“We find about 20 a week,” he says with a shrug. “Most people come back 
for them in 15 minutes.”

Not this phone. It sat by the cash register unclaimed all the next day. 
“I don’t know anything about this stuff, but I know enough to know this 
phone was different.”

It was locked, and had no SIM card to activate it, so there was no way 
to identify or contact the owner directly. But it did have a “not for 
sale” sticker and a Google logo on the back.

Barton showed the device to a tech-savvy regular named Dave who 
immediately identified it as the upcoming Nexus 4, which Google is set 
to unveil at an event in New York on October 29. [Update: Apparently, 
the event's been cancelled "due to Hurricane Sandy."]

Dave agreed to make some calls to Google HQ. When Barton heard back from 
him the next day, Dave was shaken.

“Dave” — Barton says he does not know his full name — “sort of freaked 
out. ‘Google lost a phone,’ he told me. ‘You just got a guy fired…. The 
Google police are coming’”

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