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August 27, 2008 11:24 AM PDT

Secrets of the mysterious iPhone girl

by Joseph Kaminski

(Credit: MacRumors/markm49uk)

The iPhone 3G was one of this year's most anticipated products from Apple. With more than a million handsets sold, one in particular shipped with three images of an Asian Foxconn Technology Group worker posing over an iPhone assembly line.

The photos were posted by a British consumer who purchased the iPhone, then posted the photos to Mac Rumors under the username "markm49uk." Since the photos have surfaced, many questions and discussions have taken place as to who she is, and whether she will lose her job.

According to Mac Rumors, a Foxconn representative confirmed that she was an employee of the Shenzhen Factory and addressed the termination concerns expressed by many readers.

He was quoted by the Xiandai Kuaibao newspaper as saying, "She is definitely not fired," and proceeded to say the photos were left on the iPhone by mistake, possibly during testing. The unnamed girl has now been dubbed "China's prettiest factory girl," according to the China Morning Post.

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by ofmyony August 27, 2008 12:52 PM PDT
Good story made me laugh
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by ohiostfbfan August 27, 2008 4:29 PM PDT
yea people having to work in factories is hilarious! not.
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by Renegade Knight August 28, 2008 7:05 AM PDT
Part of the problem with the US Economy is the loss of factory jobs. Service jobs = low pay. Plus who are you going to work for? Other low payed members of the service economy? Hardly.
by balltime August 27, 2008 10:57 PM PDT
"She is definitely not fired," possibly the person who took the photo is fired :)
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by ianim8 August 28, 2008 6:38 AM PDT
so true about who gets fired. she just happen to be in the shot.
but you know this is a nice story, makes me feel that my phone was not made by some robot.
robots scare me :(
LOL!
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by molotov August 28, 2008 8:25 AM PDT
Molotov says: this is rediculous. I think that the girl should be offerred immunity by United States of America and she should go work Apple and she should be compensated for this ridiculousness. Knowing how things are in China; she will most likely be punished by quick decap. Unfortunately.
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by fleurya August 28, 2008 10:04 AM PDT
She shouldn't be fired. I think it's actually good PR for Chinese manufacturing. You know everyone pictures dirty factories and dirtier people making products over there. This looks like a pretty good example pic that things aren't so backward over there. And of course the guys can warm up to the idea of cute girls handling their phones.
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by NCTARHEELS August 28, 2008 5:24 PM PDT
apparently it was a test photo just to see if the camera was in working order
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by rufustel August 28, 2008 5:48 PM PDT
If Apple was smart, it would start blasting out factory girl TV commercials within a month ...
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by t26l August 29, 2008 12:58 AM PDT
ha ! I can only image how nasty most people would be if there were pictures of a MALE factory worker....
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by CapatanJester August 30, 2008 4:55 PM PDT
Wow are people that in charge of news so desperate they had to make a story about this? Honestly, ***? That's just sad.
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by sellis16 September 1, 2008 8:41 PM PDT
Asians love to throw out the "peace" sign at every photo opp. Or is it for "victory"? I doubt they have thought to wonder. "Look at me! I'm doing something I attribute to western culture!"
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by theSTP September 1, 2008 10:37 PM PDT
I'd hit it
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by tsrini408 September 2, 2008 8:19 PM PDT
I think she's done more to present the human face of China than all the stage-managed events at the Olympics combined.
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by Gack September 3, 2008 8:17 PM PDT
check out the iPhone girl spoof in the middle of this video: :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj2WkgbnIE8
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by girlshot February 10, 2009 7:52 AM PST
thank you for your relax
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signed by http://girlshot.biz
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