You’re not going to believe this, but someone who works for Apple apparently left the new unreleased iPhone 4G in a bar. The device made it’s way to our favourite tech geek website, Gizmodo, who broke it down for us. They have put together stacks of pics and videos of the beautiful little beast.

Check it out:

You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It’s the real thing, and here are all the details.

While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it’s clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here’s the detailed list of our findings:

What’s new
• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It’s unclear if it’s the 960×640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the “Connect to iTunes” screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

But that’s not all..

What’s changed
• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery

But the story is getting very spicy – in particular the nature in which Gizmodo acquired the device. You see a similar story happened with rival website Engadget, and people reckon it’s the same phone. And both companies claim they found the phone in bar – different bars!

The owner of Gizmodo, Nick Denton, has confirmed they will pay for stories, and also revealed yesterday on his Twitter feed:

Wow! Spieslik!

Check out this story on cnet for a more in-depth look at this spicy coincidence.

But in the meantime, I will be watching the pages of Digicape – waiting for the day that the iphone 4G comes to town, so that I can rub it against my body.