Lost iPhone in bar may be new prototype

CHICAGO (NBC/WMAQ) - It turns out that an unusual iPhone somebody left at a Redwood City, Ill. bar last week just might be the next generation phone for Apple.

It was camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS.

Somehow the tech site Gizmodo got a hold of it, disassembled it and claims that it is the real deal. They call the next iPhone "drastically new and different" with its thinner, sleeker look and plastic back.

Here's what Gizmo found:

• a front-facing video chat camera
• improved back-camera with a larger lens than the iPhone 3GS
• the camera has a flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM
• overall improved display. "It's unclear if it's the 960x460 display thrown around before. It certainly looks like it, with the Connect iTunes screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS."
• a secondary mic that appears to be there for noise cancellation
• split buttons for volume
• power, mute, and volume buttons are metallic

How the phone got in the bar and whether Apple planted it, is still to be determined.

No matter what, it has given some interesting clues into what Steve Jobs and company might be cooking up in Cupertino laboratory.

Here's the video Gizmodo posted: