Friday, August 29th 2008
Who's that girl?
An unknown Chinese worker has become an internet sensation after her smiling face was left on an Apple iPhone that was sold to a customer in Britain, who then uploaded them online.
The girl, an employee of Foxconn which assembles the phones for Apple in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, was photographed by a co-worker who was testing the iPhone’s camera.
The co-worker then forgot to delete the pictures from the phone and it was then shipped to a customer in Kingston-upon-Hull, who last week posted three images on the MacRumors.com website.
The posting received hundreds of responses, some iPhone owners joked that they were considering returning their phones because they did not ship with the woman’s photo pre-installed!
Foxconn has described the incident as a “beautiful mistake“ and has given an assurance that the iPhone girl and her supervisor would not be penalised, according to a report in the China Daily.
Posted by Richard on Friday 29th of August 2008 at 12:42pm
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