'Beautiful mistake' makes Chinese iPhone factory girl a celebrity

A Chinese factory worker has become a celebrity after her smiling photos showed up on an iPhone purchased in Britain. Chinese media and bloggers have began a search to trace her out.

When a young girl in a Chinese iPhone factory tested the new iPhone camera, she might have never thought she will become an international celebrity. The ' iPhone girl ' frenzy started a few days back when cute smiling photos of a Chinese girl appeared on MacRumors.com, a popular forum of Apple product fans.The photographs were posted by a British user Markm49uk, who found the images in his newly purchased iPhone 3G. In the photos, a young Chinese girl dressed in a pink striped factory uniform and wearing a matching white cap and rubber gloves, is seen smiling at a iPhone production line.The girl in the photographs probably makes around 700 RMB($ 100) a month, and works 15 hour a day. In the beginning, there were rumors that Taiwanese company FoxConn which makes Apple iPhones had fired her for the mistake she made. But, a Foxconn spokesman termed such rumors as baseless and said such 'beautiful mistakes' are unavoidable. However he didn't disclose the identity of the girl. But Chinese bloggers have narrowed the search down to the quality control section on the fifth floor of one of the FoxConn factory buildings in Shenzhen. A total of 270,000 people work FoxConn's Shenzhen factories.Chinese search engine of Google, Google.cn has received over 20 million searches in one day on the keyword ' iPhone girl '.New websites like iPhonegirl.net and iPhonegirl.cn have come up describing about her.