That's really delightful. I hope she doesn't get in trouble. It makes everything about the phone seem way more human.

Ashground

@halloweenjack: Dude, that is sad. Do you paint eyelashes on your pointer finger?

Hectorvex

Even though my iPhone didn't come with these photos, or any others, I'm going to load them on anyway and then I can pretend that she's my secret iPhone girlfriend.

/am one sad bastard

halloweenjack

@Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine: I'll have you know I wasn't birthed a pervert, it took practice and lots of weed and spare time.

Hectorvex

Is official: I just found my new wallpaper for my iphone.

Aegis2k

@bjarnia: I'd rather be rich and unhappy than poor and unhappy.

stryder100

I'm waiting for Steve Jobs to show up in one of these pics.

tehdahl

Does she have vacation days? Health care? How long is here work week? What are her wages? That's why American companies get their labor overseas, so they can ignore 200 years of labor advances in the US. Sorry, I'm not impressed.

stryder100

I hope to god she is under age. That way all you jerk offs saying she isn't cute or that shes SOOO cute, can find out and feel like the true perverts your mothers birthed you to be.

Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine

No shit....she looks like she's enjoying her work. They are obviously treated horrible! I can see it now....she'll become a famous internet face for about 3 months and will then fade away....like a bad fart.

graphicwave

You think everyone is unhappy in china? Poor(er) doesn't equal unhappy. I bet the happiest people in the world are those who don't have much (but still enough to get by).

bjarnia

@Hectorvex: Yeah....

Rice pudding is good.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

@mrlibrary03@mrlibrary03:
were talking about china here.. its bring your daughter, and force her to work day

drewdoog

I say it is a publicity stunt! C'mon she can't really be that happy working on a $600 phone and only getting paid about $6 per day...

Jobs set us up again he is laughing at us just admit it fanboys!

lstar28

Actually, us Chinese, especially the women, are more commonly younger looking than the average woman of another race. It's just how it is.

@Aoi: And be quiet, please, it's not like no one has ever lip synched before. Plus technically, the girl WAS singing. She just didn't know she was being voiced over.

Mr_LaZy

@tatiana.noel
Those are pcs in the background.
And if they contact third party manus to build the phone, apple needs to throw up some lawsuits.
This this the most defective product that any major company has released in the last decade. Cracked cases, rainbow screens, light leak, dust...

drewdoog

@CorporeSano: HAHAHA dude thats hillarious

vicsells

@grayskyz:
*rim shot*

mr30gZune

@Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish: What you can't see is the guy holding a camera in one hand and a gun in the other.

"Smile!! Show the American pigs how happy you are working here!! Smile or you will be shot!! You will not reach your 12th birthday!! Now suck rice pudding!"

They probably didn't say that last part.

Hectorvex

@otis123:

My guess is that they pull one off the assembly line every now and then to do a full test which includes loading music.

Pulling a test sample is very common in manufacturing.

Scott

Apple swapped in a "cute" girl for this image. The real worker is "less cute".

CorporeSano

She does look surprisingly happy. It almost looks like a bring your daughter to work day pic. That may just be a long shot though, for several reasons.

mrlibrary03

I must say that there are far fewer men in black jumpsuits with whips and tasers than I expected in this picture. The fact that there's a person smiling just blows me away.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

why is that pc running itunes? is he rocking out? or loading the crappy firmware on? and can you even get to the home screen without the phone activated?

otis123

That's awesome. I'd be pleased by that.

Lev_Astov

@Maksimir: If she's killed in an extraordinarily cruel way, she'll be put on the Shamewall Pro, which is aluminum, and slightly larger.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Yet another reason Jobs should make a factory visit (only maybe this is a positive reason), as outlined here:
[www.thedigitallifestyle.tv]

ryanrit

Or perhaps have Windows PC's cuz the majority of them will probably be used on Windows PC's.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Jobs will probably have her executed for this, and her head mounted on the Wall of iShame.

Maksimir

Too bad the phone didn't come loaded with photos of working firmware. Ahem.

C.

grayskyz

She's obviously not taking photos of herself. It'd be the guy across from her taking pictures of her that's going to get fired.

DisposableInterloper

@Quatre707: I guess apple decided that the factories should be equipped with windows pcs to cut costs :p

shinchan

@Aoi:

Yeah! Could be a strategically released photo to hide the real truth about Apple plants in China!

Akibake-

@blakeley: Nuh uh. The Great Firewall of China makes sure that no one in the Far East sees this. Yessir.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

I'm sorry, but are those windows PCs in the background? At the iPhone factory???!!! I'm returning mine.

Wait...wait. They contract third-party manufacturers to actually build the phones right? So technically that facility isn't owned by Apple? Someone please confirm this before I stick my iPhabulous in a cremation furnace. Okay, so I wouldn't really do that. But it's not an "Apple" factory though right?

iPhone saved.

tatiana.noel

@blakeley: She could always get hired at the Zune plant...

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Don't you mean ex-employee?

Akibake-

Are we sure that this girl actually makes the iPhones? It wouldn't be the first time that china replaced the real worker (or singer) with someone better looking.

Aoi

"is an cute girl"???? um.. that would be "is A cute girl"

all I got to say is with all the issues the new iPhone is having these days... that this is one more thing that to chalk up on the quality control list... like why are the phones not going through a full hard reset done BEFORE they leave the factory...

CountryDevil

What did you expect? Some mid 40's white Apple douchebag with a beard and spectacles?
-EF

El Frijole

@blakeley: You know she reads Giz and now probably knows of her impending firing before her overlords do. :)

AskTheAdmin

what is an cute girl?

Regardless shes not really that cute anyways. I mean I probably would but shes like a 5.5. Doesnt say much for me!

yankees177

Well I just got a 16 black yesterday and the first one they tried to authenticate was DOA. Hope she wasn't OTR during the production run.

sharkync

You know you probably just got her fired Frucci...

blakeley

get off the child labor law bullshit guys. seriously. Its not like she's digging coal or something.

She's not digging coal is she? The iPhone isn't made out of coal... is it?

nystreetfilms

Awww she's so cute! I want to put her in my pocket and take her home!

RE-L

I like how they are running iTunes on what looks like an eMachine with an Intel Celeron, and "Designed for Windows XP" sticker... at the iPhone factory.

Quatre707

Those teeth are the exact oposite of british ones.

Neverkilled: zombiefied, in the summertime

I hope she doesn't get in trouble for this... :-/

Kaveh

...working 12-hour days at crap wages in a foxconn assembly plant?

willyolio

Come on. The girl has to be like 12. Is this summer camp for the girl? Although she might be older than the girls on the Chinese Womens Gymnastics Team.

SpeneyG

I like the pink static free factory work outfit

Naoki - Photoshop Ninja

doesnt look illegaly young, if thats what you mean.

danishh

that's pretty odd.

f0rge

child labor law anyone?

lilaliendog

@qaplus: Uh, "intelligence" level.

Hectorvex

shes 16, the chinese said so

Sunlokyee

I wonder if she is quality control?

Razta

Looks like a converted ping pong table she's working on.

MacTodd

This would be a brilliant PR campaign for a company that has accusations of child labor and poorly treated factory workers. Those damn apple employee's are so crafty.

Jimbuck

The intelligent level of some comments are really worrisome.

qaplus

she is adorable!

dysthymia

@Rabid Penguin:

haha

FötoGenetix

Ouch, look at the chairs they sit in all day.

ftv

She's co cute! <3
I'd let her build me an advanced cellphone anytime, if you know what I mean.

Nakko

@FötoGenetix: The iPhone?

Rabid Penguin

I started changing tires when I was 12. Seeing a kid working in an electronics factory doesn't worry me very much.

LoganAdams

Just testing the camera, nothing to see here...

trendspotter

i'd put it in her butt

FötoGenetix

I've had enough of the sanctimonious China-bashing Americans so blithely pontificate. But I guess it's easier than looking at ourselves. Couple things.

1. Socialist countries provide healthcare (safety nets) for their citizens so companies don't have to buy the services of other (HMOs, Insurance)companies who's sole job is to keep sick people away from still other companies (hospitals and pharmaceutical companies).

2.If you're really not a simple racist/hypocrite there's a simple solution. Don't buy Chinese products. It's real easy to do if you're prepared to pay 5 times as much to support your gadget binging/purging habits.

mrdale

@SpeneyG: She has to be older than girls on the Chinese women's gymnastics team, looks like she already lost all her baby teeth.

Benjaminx

I think its funny!

I'd probably have a good laugh if my new iPhone had pictures of the factory workers on it, show all my friends and then forward them to my favorite blog. Oh, wait...

stuntmanmike

@joeshit: Sounds dangerous. If a murderous nut gets a defective unit, that person suddenly becomes a target.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Waaay cute smile. Definitely in the adorable category.

ltethe

@Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine: Finding out and feeling like the perverts we really are doesn't amount to much if there's no remorse. :P

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Happy Chinese factory worker = great PR for Apple. She's safe. The world will be watching.

Gizmo

Wouldn't it be nice if they all came with a picture of the employee who did the final setup of the unit ?

Kind of humanizes the product ...

joeshit

Those teeth are too nice... bet she is just a stand in for the actually person who works there....

sfokevin

too old.

bobojuice

wow, that's the foxconn factory. woohoo!

trixrabbit

@92BuickLeSabre: Wow, that's really awful.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

I, for one, am pleased to know that our American overlords can look to the sentiments in this thread as proof that their anti-Chinese propaganda is working perfectly.

Gearworks

@tehdahl: ...holding a clipboard and a whip.

SMSDHubbard

Apparently even Apple knows PC's are better...

x omega gold

This is likely a QC line where they test the phones. Make sure the 3G, wifi, etc work.. snap a couple photos to test the camera, send it on to the next step where the phone is flashed and packaged. This particular phone just didn't get flashed.

SMSDHubbard

@Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine: Sigh... because girls under 18 can't be cute.. right? right?

bjarnia

@Neverkilled: zombiefied, in the summertime: YAY! RACISM! :D

SFLegend

@mrdale: Indeed, socialist countries do. China is no longer (if it ever was) an actual socialist country. Unless you think that the average worker is treated better than former national champion atheletes.

92BuickLeSabre

@yankees177: Yeah no, she's cute.

Gessho

she is probably making money to support her un-skilled parents.
better working in an iphone factory then becoming a sex-slave.

also i doubt the working conditions at the iphone factory are as horrible as the 1920s chicago meat packing factories that made child labor laws here such as they are

damnElantra

Guy GUYS! It was JUST bring your daughter to work day! Sheeze!

ftv

Given that all of the Chinese gymnasts were 16 and older, that puts this worker at about 30, right?

Hyloka

I would like to know who put my iphone together...that be awesome...creepy at first but awesome at the end

Enisity

@mrdale: China doesn't cover health care.

RoboChop

@berbar:

I hope not, especially since this may well be the best PR coup ever for that factory's working conditions. And can you imagine the headlines: "Chinese Factory Girl Fired For Smiling."

Serolf Divad

Poor girl might be fired by now.

berbar

@nfreader: Maybe it's made by Psystar :O

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

@seamustry: Not sure how similar the sensor is to my SE W810i, but it's also a 2MP and takes pretty decent shots for the file size, which is why i find it funny that people criticize mainly for the number of megapixels.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

Far too cute and far too happy. Next they'll include photochopped pictures of the "elves" that built your iPhone, when we all know it's built by 8 year-old wage slaves in the spice mines of Kessel.

Serolf Divad

The computer screen in the background, the one with iTunes isn't running on a PC.

I can make out the menubar from OS X at the top.

That doesn't happen on XP, unless someone set the theme like that.

Those other PCs probably run the production line or something like that.

nfreader

That's a decent photo...I didn't know that the iPhone camera could take good pictures.

seamustry

Just remember: ALL OF YOU owe money to the Chinese.

johnnyabnormal

According to the Olympic committee, she's 53

jimmykay

@lilaliendog: Chinese! They look young, but probably she's way past 18 years old.

wenderson

i wouldn't be surprised if they're supposed to test the cameras before they ship them out... haha i can see her posing like 500 times a day... and i think theyre made in taiwan, which is a really nice place, and definitely NOT china.

wilcheung

Sorry to burst your bubble but that's how 20 something Chinese girls look. Asians look about 10 years younger than Western people.

Noobs-R-Us

I watched a programme on these 10-12 year old girls sewing clothes for primark and they were so happy smiling and laughing as they made 10 cents a day. I hope she does not get fired

ichi1

See, now you all know how girls work, or in this case how hard they work.

Browsing her pics with Bowie's China Girl playing in the background..

Jrsy

By the Chinese standards, if they knew this would happen, she would have probably been replaced by someone with a cuter face.

Icantthinkofsomethingwitty

i would be super pissed if that was my phone.

rudez90

you are all retarded

sonicwinder

she wasn't sweating?

robpruitt

@Quatre707: agreed. :)

dandaman247

For just pennies a day you can help this girl get her job back...

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

Is her phone number in the contacts as well?

Badump-bump!

pir8matt

Ah, why would some of you say that she would be fired? After all she wasn't the one TAKING the photo? Should that person with her back to the camera be fired too?

If they do fire someone it MIGHT be the person who actually TOOK the photos, not the one who's in it.

Noobs-R-Us

She does look older than anybody on China's gymnastics team.

I can't help but think that she would get fired for not following proper conduct and allowing her pictures to stay on the iPhone before getting released out of the factory. It might seem unlikely but possible.

This could be either good or bad PR to Apple. Good PR would show that child labour and well-maintained factories. However, bad PR would show that factory workers are caught disobeying proper conduct.

Although, her cuteness may negate such bad PR.

Just my thoughts.

KJA

@SpeneyG:
Yes, this is the retirement plan for the Chinese womens gymanstics team.

At 16 you start making phones for tools in the west.

archercc

@nfreader: Look at the bottom of the screen in the 2nd and 3rd pics. That looks like an XP taskbar. No?

@seamustry: The iPhone takes better photos than my old Blackberry 8300, no doubt. Only problem is lack of flash and video capture. Apple needs to get with the times.

SonOfWatt

Poor girl...They'll never find her body now.

irshliquor

I'd hit it. No really. Leave the gloves on. And the hat.

Haxd

Damnit! How many times do I have to say it? Don't wash the Yankees uniforms with the colors!

shenanigans61

iTunes is definitely running on a Mac. Those little boxes next to the displays are Mac minis on edge. You can see one of the external power blocks under the one on the right. Very efficient use of space.

bregalad

Admit it, fanboys, if every phone came with her picture on it we'd all buy three of 'em.

robbo

That's a pic from an IPhone? Surprisingly good quality.

Elliott

awww she is cute. Shame she has lost her job cos of this.

alukard

anyone ever stop and think that there's a windows machine in the back because it's easier to program your assembly line on a [cheap] windows machine, instead of a mac, which isn't intended to do stuff like that. just like how large displays in apple stores are on dells, their cheaper, and were made for that kind of stuff.

Mister Cow Pnoy

@Neverkilled: zombiefied, in the summertime: You mean perfect. :D

hammertime1994

@Carmen: Lean Mean A Mans Dream Sex Machine:

I, little missy, am NOT a pervert. I am a PROVERT. (i'm good at it)

godwhacker

She looks happy at least. A little money > no money.

citylights5

I bet she hasn't lost her job and in fact is smiling because her face is now all over the internet. Man I wish my face was all over the internet :-(

Mr. M

@SpeneyG: Hey-oh!

Ginsu

Wow, nice photo for a 2MP iPhone. I mean it's indoors in harsh lighting conditions and the color and skintones are excellent. That's as good or better than most P&S digital cameras I've seen.

beetlebug62

She Is pretty cute, I hope she doesn't get fired 4 this though! I honestly don't think she is a minor....Not 2 be insensitive or any thing but Asian women tend to age very well! My ex is Vietnamese and even though she is 27, my OWN brother thought I was committing a crime when he met her! I would find it cool to have my iPhone pre loaded with pictures of a cutie!

gravion17

I wont mind if my iPhone came loaded with this photo!!!

I think i will keep it as a souvenir from the iPhone factory, and the cute girl :)

medopal

@ Noobs-R-Us:
thanks for saying, beat me to it.

anyway, that girl is definitely in her 20's. most asians tend to age well and retain their youthful looks through their 30's. most white people seem to lose their youthful looks by their mid 20's.

dynamius

At least she looks like she's having fun - and it isn't a sweatshop!!

ozgaz24

@berbar: If by "fired" you mean "shot," then yeah, that's possible.

Jesse in Japan

@SpeneyG: you must be f'king kidding me. 12? gee buddy, i guess you never been to asia.

krom

@Mr_LaZy: get em girl! my gf is korian and she gets carded left and right and she is older than me,

yungjerry703

looks younger than 16 ... should be on Olympic Gymnastics Team.

king_of_fools

@Quatre707: It's probably a lot cheaper than using Apple products for the sake of using Apple products.

Poisonous Taoist

@king_of_fools: Harr har har :)

shenanigans61

they would have to have windows computers in the facility so that they could test the iPhones with iTunes for windows. it's quality control. if you actually think about it... it makes perfect sense.

mr_deadpool

WOW!!! Even Apple uses PCs to make Apples. Check the PCs in the background. Apple prefers to use PC in their factories over Macs. So basically, the PC is the backbone of the Apple Corp.

Notch Johnson

@Notch Johnson:
your logic can haz epic failz.

tehdahl

So that's why they are so expensive!

Waka in Japan

@SpeneyG:
wow,12? She look like at least 20+....

Cute gal anyway,I want her number.

zxdxz

child labor?
She looks a hell of lot happier than any blue collar workers I've ever seen.
Conditions can't be that bad.

ionymous

@Ginsu: At least she not flipping the bird like USA workers would do in a photo. She is indeed cute.

bunker25

At least she's not giving you the bird like us USA worker would do in a photo! She is indeed cute.

bunker25

the puter in the background is running itunes....

they're either debugging, or listening to slayer.

ducati321

yeah,,, so anyone ever think it might be staged and what now? notoriously young worker in a really shiney environment looking very happy,,,, hasnt apple been attacked over labor laws over and over again? apple notices accidental pictures being taken of their production stages. so they slip in a bit of the not so accidental with really, happy, people. what better way to get people to NOT notice shes been sitting there for 3 weeks on end for a dollar a day? :P just throwing the crazy its been faked argument into the mix

nametilf

I knew it. I was certain Foxconn was just grabbing kids off the street to make those 800,000 iPhones a month. That cute girl looks to be about twelve-years-old. I'm only surprised that she's smiling after working sixteen hours straight at minimum wage. Oh, that's right, it's China, so she'd better be smiling or it's back to the country farm for her.

Maybe she's just a ringer, only used for the photograph and then she's sent back to the modeling agency to get another job as a fake happy employee.

ConstableOdo1

Well I just hope I haven't landed her in a whole load of sh*t by posting them online - I thought it was great (after initially wondering if my new phone was a used repair).

Apple should hire her !

markm49uk

@SpeneyG: Asians don't look their age in the Anglo sense of "looking their age". My 47-year old friend is still mistaken as someone just out of college. It's genetic. An Asian girl who might look 12 for a Caucasian can be actually 22.

JuniperoXVII

I had no idea my 3G was made on the beer pong table from my garage.

EvilDodger