iPhone found which prototype identified by man

Prototype identified by man iPhone found

 

 The man identified by Wired.com that twenty-one-year-old Redwood City, California, resident Brian J. Hogan who found and later sold Apples missing iPhone in a bar last month, has a message for Apple, the engineer who originally lost the precious gadget, and the tech world at large: Sorry about that.

For this trail of clues on social-networking sites. He confirming his ID with a source involved in the iPhone find, Wired named Hogan on Thursday as the bar patron who made off with Apples top-secret iPhone prototype and then sold it to Gizmodo for five thousand US Dollar after an Apple software engineer left the precious phone on a bar stool.

From the begining to now, Hogans identity has been a mystery to the public, but the 21-year-old college student may have sensed that he was in trouble after all the hoopla over Gizmodos gigantic iPhone scoop last week and the subsequent fallout, including a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's house by San Mateo sheriff's deputies armed with a search warrant.

Till now no one has been charged yet in the case of the lost iPhone, but a deputy district attorney for San Mateo County tells Wired that Hogan is "very definitely ... being looked at as a suspect in theft.

Gizmodos Jason Chen also has yet to be charged, law-enforcement officials have reportedly said they'll hold off on searching the computers and servers seized from Chen's house until they decide whether Californias shield law for journalists applies to him.