The face that charms the world

This girl’s pictures were accidentally left on the Apple iPhone when factory workers were testing the phone.

Many had feared the cute iPhone worker would be fired after her test photos accidentally made it through, but Apple contractor Foxconn said they were “a beautiful mistake.”

“She is an assembly worker in the mobile phone testing department and she is still working there. But she has requested us not to make her name public and we will respect her decision,” says Liu Kun, Foxconn Technology Group spokesman. He did tell China Daily News that the girl was from Hunan province.

Her photograph appeared on the iPhone screen because of “a small mistake during our working process but the outcome has not been negative”. On the contrary, “her lovely face has become popular on the Internet and we would rather call it a beautiful mistake”, Liu adds.

As far as I’m concerned, she is the new face of China, artless, cheerful and far more attractive than the little kid who lip-sang at the Beijing Games opening. The iPhone Girl alone has wowed and charmed the entire world, something that the millions of dollars spent in the Olympics could barely accomplish.