ABC News:Mystery 'iPhone Girl' Generates Internet Intrigue

By MIN LEE Associated Press Writer HONG KONG August 27, 2008 (AP)
Who is the "iPhone Girl"?
Pictures of an Asian factory worker found on a new iPhone sold to a British customer have generated keen discussion on the Internet about her identity — and her fate.
The three pictures, posted on the Apple discussion Web site MacRumors.com, show a young Asian woman working on what appears to be an assembly line for iPhones.
Dressed in a pink striped outfit and hat and wearing white gloves with yellow fingertips, the young woman now known on the Web as the "iPhone Girl" is shown smiling and making victory signs as she poses next to an iPhone.
The MacRumors.com user who posted the photos last week, identified as only "markm49uk" from Kingston-upon-Hull, England, said in a posting that one of the pictures showed up on a new 3G iPhone when the iTunes program was launched.
News reports say the woman may work at a factory run by an Apple contractor, Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group, in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen.
Calls to Foxconn spokesman Edmund Ding went unanswered Wednesday. Ding also didn't immediately respond to an e-mail from The Associated Press seeking comment.
But the South China Morning Post on Wednesday quoted another Foxconn spokesman, Liu Kun, as confirming that the young woman in the pictures works for Foxconn.
Liu said workers testing the device took the pictures and may have forgotten to delete them, the Post reported.
Dubbing the mystery worker "China's prettiest factory girl," China's Southern Metropolitan Daily on Tuesday quoted an unidentified Foxconn official as saying the woman was not fired.
Apple publicist Jill Tan said the company had no comment.

Foxconn To Make Formal Announcement?

According to this translated excerpt (see below) from SZ News in China, Foxconn and Apple have discussed the situation and may make a formal announcement reguarding The iPhone Girl soon.

"Foxconn official said Tuesday, has reached an agreement with Apple, the two sides of the view that girls should be a beautiful flaws, they will not pursue girls Responsibility. And for the protection of the girls to consider, reveal other things inconvenient, but will consider in the near future to make an announcement on the incident. "

iPhone Girl news appears in Sweden

News of iPhoneGirl make it to Sweden. Please read the translated clip from Aftonbladet by Karin Holmberg below:

“The quest for “Iphonegirl”
Some pictures of a Chinese woman who smiles and makes “V” sign has been the whole world to talk about the mystical “Iphone-girl”. Now Chinese Internet users do everything possible to trace the young woman. The search for the girl started when a British Iphone users found images of the mill woman in her phone. The person la Print those on the MacRumors forums. The photos set in motion a chain reaction and Internet users in China is now making every effort to find out who the mysterious the woman really is. The woman working to mount Iphones is employed by the company FoxConn, which has most of its factories in Shenzhen near Hong Kong. Tested the camera on mobile phones A spokesperson for the company has confirmed that she is one of their employees and that they probably tested the camera in the cell phone and then forgotten to delete the photos, writes The Sydney Morning Herald online. In the camera, there were six pictures. Two of “Iphonegirl” dressed in rosarandiga fabrikskläder and four at the factory where she works. May not be sacked ”Small mistakes are inevitable”, “I would call this a beautiful mistake “to the Spokesperson Liu Kun as saying, according to AFP. Liu Kun continues to tell that the woman became nervous when the images began to appear in the newspapers and on Web pages. But the woman will not to get the sack for his mistake. Has limited it to 1000 On FoxConn’s factories in Shenzhen are working 270 000 employees, one of them is the mysterious “Iphone-girl”. The company will not reveal who she is.

In contrast, Chinese Internet users determined to find out. According to SMH, there has been more than 20 million searches for the term ”Iphonegirl” on Google.cn. Domain names iphonegirl.net and iphonegirl.cn has also bought up by people who hope to earn a hack on the mysterious woman. According to The Sydney Morning Herald has already succeeded in inernetanvändarna limit the number of “suspects” from 270 000 employees to 1000. They seem namely, to be sure that the woman working on quality control in the fifth våniingen in one of the factories and where work ”only” 1000 people. If they manage to find out who the smiling girl in fabriksdräkten is remains to be seen.”

The alleged picture of “iPhone girl” is a fake,3D Forensics Says

Yestoday i had uploaded the picture of “iPhone girl”.Its 3D proves otherwise follows:

But based upon 3D face forensic software,I think the alleged photo of the "iPhone girl" is a fake. The Reason is that:

ps:The software had cutted her beautiful hair,and that is the output of the rendering software. I wasn't trying to make her look so ugly.

On the left, a 3D rendering of “iPhone Girl” on the right, the alleged “iPhone Girl”. What do you think?

Apple iPhone 3G Twice as fast.Half the price

As you known,the Iphone girl china photos were found on the iphone 3G home screen.Now let me introdue iPhone 3G.
The iPhone 3G informations is follows:
With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G. It redefines what a mobile phone can do — again.
If you want to buy a Iphone 3G,you can go to the App Store. Its available colors is black or white.

Mystery 'iPhone Girl' On Her Way To Meme Status(CRN)

Read the article from CRN:
It's an unremarkable image on its face, but a photo of a young female worker at an Apple iPhone factory in southern China is well on its way to becoming an Internet "meme," or a viral idea that is rapidly and broadly propagated online. Internet memes can be a lot of fun for those spreading them. When actual people are at the center of them, like the "iPhone Girl," as she's come to be called, sometimes not so much. In this case, a young worker at Apple contractor Foxconn Technology Group's factory in Shenzhen, China apparently forgot to delete some pictures of herself that she had snapped on an iPhone she was testing. That iPhone ended up in the hands of a bemused British man who posted the pictures last week on the Web site MacRumors.com.
MacRumors.com visitors latched on to one of the pictures, which shows the smiling young woman making "peace" or "victory" signs at her station on the factory line, competing with each other to discover more details about the woman in the photo and spreading it to other Web sites.
The iPhone Girl meme has picked up steam quickly. As of Thursday morning, there are nearly 250 news stories about her on Google News' main Sci/Tech cluster for iPhone Girl-related articles.
Time will tell if iPhone Girl has the virility of overnight Internet sensations like Chris Crocker of "Leave Britney Alone" fame, much less the staying power of famous ongoing memes like "LOLcats" or "rickrolling".
What iPhone Girl has in common with such memes is that it emerged from a Web community, MacRumors.com, devoted in part to creating such viral phenomena over the Internet (or "Intertubes" to reference another meme that began following the spread of a quote by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) describing the Internet as "a series of tubes").
Crocker's fame came on YouTube.com, which heavily promotes its "most viewed" videos. LOLcats and rickrolling emerged from the 4chan imageboard site, where meme-creation is arguably the main purpose of contributors.
4chan, of course, is also home to meme-creation of a sort very different than cutesy LOLcats or harmless rickrolling trickery. The site's random board, known as "/b/", regularly produces sociopathic mob assaults on grieving families and children.
So far, iPhone Girl, the woman not the meme, is reportedly "scared" by the media attention she's been receiving.
"She's really scared by the media. She told me she wanted to quit her job and go back home to get away from this. We let her off work today so she could rest," a Foxconn spokesperson said, according to the Washington Post.
Not a good sign for people who care about the human beings in the middle of some memes.

Smiling iPhone Girl is definitely not fired

In an article published by the English Chinese paper, China Daily a Foxconn spokesperson confirms that The “iPhone Girl” is “definitely not fired”. Let's read the article:
“She might have done nothing more than flashed a smile to her colleague testing an iPhone’s camera on a Chinese production line. But it seems the colleague forgot to delete her photos, and now worldwide iPhone fans are gearing up to locate her.
The “iPhone girl” frenzy began last week when the girl’s photos appeared on MacRumors.com, a popular forum for fans of Apple products.
The photos show a round-faced Chinese girl dressed in pink, striped uniform, smiling and making a “V for Victory” gesture in what seems like an assembly line.
Many forum users commented that they found the girl “really cute, vivid, energetic, smile like sunshine a typical chinese girl". She loves and enjoys her job. Maybe iphone can really make this girl to be celebrity. I think that it is always better than chosing some model or star.Whatever, her life is changing now because of her little misplay. I am not sure it is a good or bad thing for her.
Other people worry that “she is so fired” because of the incident.
“She is definitely not fired,” an unidentified representative from Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, southern China, told the newspaper Xiandai Kuaibao.
The factory assembles most of Apple’s iPhones and iPods, the newspaper says.
The representative confirmed that the “iPhone girl” was one of its employees but declined to give details.
He said it was likely that the test photos were left in the phone’s memory “accidentally.” The company is investigating the incident.
Though the “iPhone girl” is yet to be traced, her popularity continues to grow. Someone has even created an English-language Web site, iPhonegirl.net, updated with global media reports on her.”

iphonegirl is my girlfriend

Iphonegirl is my girlfriend.We had got marry in the countrysize more than one year.Now she work in Foxconn realy and her surnamed is Li.

She was innocent and lovely ,also I love her very much.

Last night she said to me and her cousin,that she do not want to become a public figure that we want ordinary people of our time.Insipid is really ah hope that we stop the search of who is "Iphone girl".Thank everyone.

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On the "iPhoneGirl" of suspect

1. If "iPhoneGirl" happen in China, and if you buy a new phone insiding a girl picture on the home screen, what 's your first reaction ?
Being a chinese，You would think that this girl is very cute, or exclaimed fooled, or had buy a refurbished aircraft.

2. Many people think this is the first iPhone speculation, the success of speculation. However, Foxconn will to sacrifice his own reputation and interests of iPhone?

3. If this is not a speculation that Foxconn how to end it? "IPhoneGirl" exposed Foxconn management deficiencies, APPLE will have trouble with Foxconn, what the final outcome about "iPhoneGirl" happen?

iPhone Girl Existence Confirmed, Still Has Her Job

Remember the pictures of a factory worker found on an shiny new iPhone 3G. Well, China.org.cn has dug up some more information about the cheerful-looking factory worker in the images on teh device. According to their sources, the pictures were a routine test of the device's camera, and that the images were accidentally never removed.
In case you're curious, the girl in the photo (unofficially dubbed "iPhone Girl" by the press) is a worker at the Shenzhen factory. Some were also speculating that she would get into trouble, but they say that's not the case.
She is definitely not fired," an unidentified representative from Foxconn's factory in Shenzhen, southern China, told the newspaper Xiandai Kuaibao.The factory is responsible for the assembly of most of Apple's small electronics like iPhones and iPods. The newspaper was able to confirm that iPhone Girl is an employee there, but declined to give details.
That's not stopping her popularity on the web. She is continuing to gain fans across the web as the pretty Chinese girl on someone's iPhone, and if anything, the mysteriousness of it is only feeding the fire.

search "iPhonegirl" so hard

The "iPhonegirl" or "iPhone girl" is hot in internet.Many people want to known more informations about the Smiling IphoneGirl.
But today I use google or Yahoo to search "iPhonegirl" or "iPhonegirl china",I find that there are no real informations about Iphone girl on the first page,such as iPhone Girl videos on youtobe.com,which upload time is October 27, 2007.Oh,my god.
And the website like friendfeed.com,http://www.flickr.com/photos/iphonegirl/,
https://twitter.com/iphonegirl/statuses/885739262,is Deceitful.Remember she is a chinese girl.
At the end, I want to say:"iPhoneGirl Got Fired! ".HaHa.

iPhone 3G Appear Smiling Chinese girl call "iphone

Maybe you will ask who is the iphone girl.The iphonegirl is a foxconn worker on the assembly line.Recently a smiling chinese girl photo is hotted on internet.
A British Internet user "Markm49uk" who posted the photos Buy the new iPhone 3G.Last week when he unboxed his iphone 3G,he found three more photos of a girl on the iPhone--one on the home screen,and others in the phone's photo album.
What's the photos show?It's a Chinese girl who is round-faced.She dressed in pink,striped uniform, and also being smiling and making a "V for Victory" gesture in what seems like an assembly line.She's so kinda cute.
He(iPhone girl) said it was likely that the test photos were left in the phone's memory "accidentally."

iPhonegirl pictures from iPhone 3G

On the website of the Mac Forums forums,markm49uk wrote:

Hi,
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 personalise with a photo) already had a photo set against it !!!!
It would appear that someone on the production line was having a bit of fun - has anyone else found this ?

And also with the photos here:

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