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Lufthansa Offers Free Ticket To Gray Powell, Who Lost iPhone 4G

by NowPublic Staff | April 26, 2010 at 11:11 am

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Gray Powell Offered Free Airline Ticket to Germany To Drink Beer

The Apple engineer who inadvertently lost a prototype of new iphone 4G in German Beer bar has apparently been offered a free ticket by Lufthansa airlines to Germany - likely to continue drinking those fine German beers.

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Tech blogs say Powell left the prototype, which was disguised as an iPhone 3GS, behind at Gourmet Haus Staudt, a German beer hall in Redwood City, California. The iPhone was later sold to tech blog Gizmodo for $5,000. There's been rampant speculation that Powell is in trouble with Apple for losing the phone. But Lufthansa, the German airline, is offering to help the 27-year-old drown his sorrows

In what looks like the an authentic letter, Lufthansa's director of marketing, Nicholas C. Lang offered Powell a business class ticket to Germany.

“I recently read in the news that you lost a very special phone at a German beer bar in California," writes Nicola C. Lange. "We all know how frustrating it can be to lose personal belongings … at Lufthansa we also noted with great interest your passion for German beer and culture." A link to copy of the photo was posted on Twitter by Lufthansa.