“Most people lucky enough to snag an Apple iPhone probably will be quick to show it off to friends. Not Balsu Thandu. He got an iPhone more than two months ago and has been hiding it from prying eyes ever since,” Leslie Cauley reports for NewsFactor.
“Thandu is one of about 200 field technicians who have been secretly testing the iPhone and looking for technical glitches for more than 10 weeks and counting. AT&T routinely tests new devices, but the iPhone has been different, Thandu says. The technicians have logged more than 10,000 hours on the phone, including more than 5,000 hours of voice calls and near 5 gigabytes of data usage. Most phones, he says, get about half that much test time,” Cauley reports.
“For the actual testing, technicians frequented all the places where consumers go: office buildings, subway platforms, stairwells, elevators, crowded bars, sprawling suburban malls and congested city streets. They also showed up incognito at Apple and AT&T stores,” Cauley reports.
“To test iPhone’s durability, Thandu says, they doused it with water, dropped it on concrete and bounced it off sidewalks,” Cauley reports. “Thandu says he took the iPhone with him on long runs, sweating all over it. ‘We wanted to test the limits of it.’ …Though ‘iTesting’ will continue on an ongoing basis, Thandu says he is comfortable that the device is good to go.”
Full article here.
Well if Balsu Thandu sweated on it, it is good enough for me!
“For the launch, I think we are there.”
And so am I.
So if I bounce the iPhone off of the sidewalk, it will rebound like a rubber ball as if nothing happened?
Who knew plastic, glass, and metal could do such a thing?
I’m amazed.
Lucky fargin’ bastiches!!!
Apparently they had a hard time not doing it. Quoted from the article… “Doing dry runs with the world’s most anticipated cellphone has been challenging.”
Excellent, but maybe I’ll just wait a bit on those refurbished ones..
I had dry runs. Once.
“Excellent, but maybe I’ll just wait a bit on those refurbished ones..”
Ew… it might still have Balsu Thandu all over it.
“I had dry runs. Once.”
Sounds painful.
I’m surprised there are so few sweaty Balsu Thandu jokes.
The Balsu Thandu iphone! cost $50 more but boy!, you don’t need to worry about sweat, water, dropping it, using it in bars, offices AT&T shops, Apple Shops or even worry over thousands of hours of usage.
Balsu Thandu (BT)…..The name in quality testing.
The Balsu Thandu (BT) iphones when only the extreme will do!!
Get the European & global outlook for the iphone now? As if you needed telling….
“Ew… it might still have Balsu Thandu all over it.”
I hear it’s better than having you all over me.
iPhone, bitch!
Talking about a sweaty Balsu Thandu and a “Dry Run” conjures up some horrible images
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On Freaky Friday the 29th, we all trade places with Balsu Thandu.
The one and only BT iPhone on Ebay could go for a pretty penny is sweat and other fluids were included.
C1 you’ve been taking a lot of abuse lately. Maybe it was the …God …Hit me.. comment.
I think you should have said. ” There is no God.” Massage me instead.
I wonder if Balsu Thandu was brought up on a diet of you know what? Sounds like he could deliver a Balmighty Thandurous……….that would really test the iphones smell O vision capabilities!!!
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Lucky fargin’ bastiches!!!
Agreed, cork suckers!
Did you hear? Angry Santa Claus followers are after me, too.
Lucky bastard!
I think a more reliable test would have been if Balmer had sweated on it.
Why should we rely on B.T’s 10 weeks testing off the actual phone, aren’t we better off listening to one of the many experts who have yet to get their hands on it but somehow know it will be Steve’s big flop.
@ just passing through
Just keep passing through, but next time sculpt your comments so that you appear like you have thought about them.
@ anthony007
I don’t even think the iPhone could survive that.