Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: iPhone, Girl, Factory | Themes: Smartphones, Digital Cameras
An iPhone owner in the UK has posted pictures online that he claims to have already been on their iPhone 3G when he purchased the phone.
A member on the MacRumors forums posted pictures said he had found once he’d got home and activated his iPhone through iTunes. The home screen on his iPhone displayed a Chinese factory worker over what looked like an iPhone production line.
"Not sure if this is or is not the ’norm’ but I just received my brand new iPhone here in the UK and once it had been activated on iTunes I found that the home screen (the screen you can personalize with a photo) already had a photo set against it!!!!"
The woman in the pictures (three in total) is dressed in a pink and white striped smock with a matching peaked cap and sporting white gloves with yellow fingertips. She’s seen leaning over an unboxed iPhone flashing two victory signs.
Several news reports suggested the woman may work at a factory run by Apple contractor, Foxconn Technology in Shenzhen, China and a number of Chinese newspapers have reported confirmation of this fact from Foxconn.
According to the Associated Press, a Foxconn spokesperson said workers took the pictures to test the camera on the phone and just forgot to delete them and reports on Wired say an unnamed Foxconn rep was quoted by a Chinese newspaper as saying the young girl was “definitely not fired” from her position in the factory.
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Sigh, sad part is she most likely was fired, regardless of what they say.
lucky this guy, got some photos of a cute chinese girl
,I hope she din't got fired
That's cool. Instead of a little tag saying 'inspected by #54', you get the picture of the person. I see it as next generation quality control.
where are the nude pics?
THe new dating app, preinstalled, personalized, and one of a kind. Good luck finding her, that is if your panties aren't in a bunch.
Sigh, sad part is she most likely was fired, regardless of what they say.
yeah, but what about the one who took the photos?
Gee you all are so Freakin Behind the news here on toms!!!
Hard ocp, gizmodo and engadget already have the FULL Story on her as of 2 DAYS AGO!!!! No she wasn't fired, it was an inhouse test of the iphone's cammera. go to Gizmodo for the full story.
This really is nothing special or noteworthy. I work at the BlackBerry plant in Texas, and people get bored sometimes and take pictures, sometimes they accidentally forget to delete them. If the QA catches it, it's nothing more than a slap on the wrist, otherwise some lucky consumer gets pics of the factory worker that packaged his phone.
Nice funny story. I also hope she did not get fired. It she was kind of cute
So the factory worker forgot to delete the pictures from the phone. Big deal. They're doing their job to make sure everything works as part of QC. So she should not be fired for it, she did her job. Just forgot one lousy step of deleting the pictures. We're human, we all make mistakes once in awhile.
In way it's actually pretty cool to see who worked on your phone instead of some number.
Darkk
Who freaking cares??!?!
ZOOM INTO THE 2nd picture...
the computers their using are PCS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course they're using PCs... she works for foxconn not apple. Why would they be using macs in a production environment anyways? Macs are for graphic designers, and dumb people that like to ogle at flashy tech.
You people really think that is part of the QA test? Why the FOOOK would she be smiling then?? After iPhone picture test 9000000 you would think they were get bored and not smile??? Makes me think it is NOT a test of the camera. Also, why ON EARTH would the target of the pic be fired and not the idiot taking the pics? This article is for short bus riders.
She was trying to find a husband, and people who can afford an iPhone...
An iPhone owner in the UK has posted pictures online that he claims to have already been on their iPhone 3G when he purchased the phone.
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