iPhone 3G accidentally snaps photo in factory, reveals long lost siblings
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 28th 2008 6:41PM
posted Jul 28th 2008 6:41PM
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maybe some factory insider is trying to tell us something
fake............. LOOK AT THE 1ST GEN SLIVER BACK
Like what?
All iPhone 3Gs have bombs built into them? ;-0 !
xian: we know your mom's a silverback gorilla, but this is not the right place for therapy
xian - thats an illusion.
you can tell its a 3G because the ear speaker has silver mesh. the old one had black mesh.
That's just some warehouse in Russian that is hoarding unlocked iPhones to put on the black market at outrageous prices. $700 iPhones, anyone.
maybe, just maybe they're trying to tell us that more phones are on the way and the shortage will be over soon??? possible, yes...likely, no
I was just going to say how weird and scary it would be if it also had a picture of the factory workers in china pleading for help or something, or someone getting abused by the manager or something...
xian not fake because 3g's have a thin silver strip then a black/ahite back which you can see when the silver ends
Meh, there are camcorders that have recorded other units being assembled on the line. Sort of creepy.
http://tiny.cc/d5Xxz
The next morning the lady's iPhone shouted out "My name is Sunny."
Mean while all iPhones will be told from apple core to change their MobileMe pass code, result in world wide disaster.
Then sunny will save the world by sending virus to the server through Activation link.
Sounds familiar?
let's take a look at mine...
OH MY GOD, STEVE JOBS PENIS!!!!
im sure this is fake bucause i just saw the fullsized image. the black markings reads "补something号" which means "repair number something"...in chinese. why would a american apple factory write in chinese not english?
Peter, you're joking right? American factories? lol
@Peter
They say "补IMEI号"... written in english too...
Lemme take a look at your I.D., Mr. HELP I'M TRAPPED IN A LICENSE MAKING FACTORY!
yay for these. . . /sarcasm
ditto...I thought with Block being gone the endless plethora of non-important Apple stories would be gone.
Dave - you obviously don't get how this works. As long as people like you continue to comment in Apple-related articles, the popularity of these articles will continue to rise. More comments = more popular. Engadget will continue to run stories on topics that are popular.
Can't you just feel the irony? The Apple haters are the ones responsible for all the Apple articles, because they don't know how to shut up and simply not comment.
Zak,
You obviously don't realize that just about every staff member on Engadget loves Apple so it wont change. Ass.
Dave, you're an idiot, regardless of whether or not they "love" apple themselves the website is about popular gadgets and gadget topics.
If NO ONE comment on apple stories there would likely be very few of them period.
Matt, if you're telling me that you consider gadget news consisting of pictures of where the (substandard) 3G iPhone is made, and there is no Apple bias, then why do we never see any N95 factory shots? or maybe some Touch Diamond/Pro factory shots?
Just coincidentally Apple products are the only ones taken from the factory? Or how about pulling apart a Touch Diamond? because that has more advanced hardware in it than the 3G iPhone, and I would actually be interested in seeing how they packed everything into it (since they did post the disassembling of the 3G iPhone).
Well, considering he did say popular, Apple is pretty up there. I have yet to see any numbers that would suggest N95's or Touch/Diamond outsell or outmarket iPhones. If Engadget is concerned with traffic (and they are), iPhones are the way to go. I'm not really tired of it, but I like to remark on their abundance of iPhone articles. I have one and I don't buy into the crazy hype, but they are a hot item.
when will the iNeo save them all from their iMatrix?
Lay off the methamphetamine and jenkam xian, you've had enough today.
xian06,
calm down. but he's right: you failed...again
Jeez. Aren't we an angry little child?
fighting on the internet is like competing in the special olympics, even if you win, you're still retarted.
@ andres
That is freaken hilarious.
@ andres
explain "retarted" ?
could someone explain how this can happen?
thats what im saying how did it get activated
Wait...Can you even take photos with an iPhone before it is activated? Perhaps some special test mode?
I've never had my hands on one so I honestly don't know...AT&T doesn't serve my area, let alone with 3G.
:-(
Fail.
See, I KNEW they weren't made by elves in a quaint little workshop.
It's probably quaint, in China, and very little fun. Also replace "elves" with "slave labor" and you've nailed it.
Cue the Apple cease and desist in 5, 4, 3..
all i got on my iphone was porn.
Love Engadget,
Love Apple.
This?
Not news.
Would have been better if the picture showed children building them. Now that would have been a huge news story :p.
B.F.D.!
Photos, Schmotos. You don't see much in these pictures.
Pretty sure it's Chinese written on those tags.
I can see apple fanboys everywhere beatin off to this picture.
you brought it up first. what does that say?
"help I'm an iPhone trapped in a factory"?
im in ur factorees, fotoing my cuzins
ok, "phanboy", enough.
We get you love apple, thats cool, but stop it with the gay remarks.
To quote a comment from above "you fail...AGAIN"
Hi Matt,
Wow, get beat up a lot and have to lash out at internet strangers? Try out some Zoloft.
I'm perfectly happy thanks, and I happen to like both Apple and Microsoft to boot.
But your remarks are childish and annoying.
I thought it was cute, maybe I'm lame but still...
Why the hate for phanbouy. 7 out of 10 of his comments are hilarious, and the other three are good efforts. I don't see you being remotely enjoyable. Ever.
Oh this is so 10 minutes ago.
Who cares? It just shows some phones...
Hmm, me thinks that since the phone was not activated, then there is a program (guarded by dragons on steroids) that can enable the jesus phone to ascend the jewish shackles of AT&T and take photos of his brothers.
PS, in the other photos you can see the imbecile cord
Didn't Will Smith already do this movie?
Right now they aren't locked to AT&T, O2 or anybody, as that only happens after they are sorted out into where they will end up.
My question is, how did it get out of the holding device that shown, get above all the other iPhones and take a picture? Looks like we got Sneaky Pete on our hands....
they make more than one at a time?
bogus. i thought each one was handcrafted when you ordered it. like my Razr phone.
i see what you did there
Here we have the latest installment of..."Why the fuck is this news?!"
This is news, time and time again, because retards like you fail to realize that you're making these types of topics more popular by commenting them
What's the point of this post? A picture of lots of iPhones at a factory... Wow. What's wrong with you people!? It's just a phone, or, in this case, a PICTURE of a phone! "...but still interesting nonetheless"? What's so "interesting" about this? Seriously, you people (Engadget) post about the iPhone as if it were a god; you're all obsessed.
It's Monday and they've lost hope that there will be any real/good iPhone news this week?
My iPhone had a picture of Steve Jobs eating some babies....
"yummy!"
Gimme a break.
BREAKING NEWS ON ENGADGET: STEVE JOBS SCRATCHES BALLS; MORE AT 6
^Not news. I am very disappointed with the dropping quality of engadget. When Steve Ballmer scratches his balls, is there a story? NO. ENGADGET IS BIAS AND HAS LOST A READER. BYE FOREVER. SRSLY. NOT COMING BACK.
Byeee, Not really sad to see you go. Seriously, people wanting to see Ballmer scratch his nuts shouldn't be allowed here.
That is gold.
i still don't think engadget is on apples jock more than they were with blu ray.
Is this the same place where they made Yao Ming?
hah +1 for you
*Yawn*
Ground breaking.
the bottom row of iphones have indents in the casing of where the camera is.. like theyre meant to be taking pictures through the casing
oh wait cameras not at the bottom =/ nvm that
The other two blurred images? Two 3G's being promiscuous with a 1st gen ...you sick bastards...
So doesn't this mean that the crappy phone is defective. I mean really who wants a phone that turns itself on and takes pictures.
Apple FTL
no, it doesnt
Does it also occurred to anyone else that the picture could have been taken sometime ago? Just because you got your phone today doesn't mean it was made yesterday...
I don't know about yours, but my iPhone does not take pictures that are 500px by 365px. That doesn't look like iPhone quality either....so how'd it get on the camera roll?
well if this is true that this photo was found on some ladies new iPhone 3G, then there must be some type of "test" mode it was in to be able to use the camera on the deactivated phone.
xian06, I low rank your mom.
So she probable has a refurbished iPhone. Way to go. The camera was broken and the factory worker took some sample pics to see if it worked again.
It seems more likely that someone snapped some pics using one, maybe to test part of a batch out, but didn't erase them.
It's people!!!
It reads "補 IMEI 號" in simplified chinese.
Meaning that the phone needs to be "filled with IMEI serial".
What does it say?
a
I dont get it?
Why is it interesting engadget?
It is a picture of multiple iPhones not the actual factory. Thats like so amazing!
Give me pictures of the actual pictures of the factory and then you can put interesting in your story