When I first heard about the 'missing iPhone and subsequent death' I was thinking how could it possibly have been iPhone prototypes. You're telling me that 19 days after we get the 3GS there is a newer and better iPhone ready for testing in Cupertino?
The fifteen devices were Tablets! That's why things resulted in suicide. Foxconn is in the final phase of tablet manufacturing! The AP was told 'iPhone' but comeon, it was a new device.