“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.”
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