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By: Apple Store demo iPhones being used by Prank Callers « Apple News

Apple Store demo iPhones being used by Prank Callers « Apple News — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:41:38 +0000

[...] dialed me. The unknown gentleman clarified, “Why did you call me yesterday?”[…] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on [...]

By: Iyaz

Iyaz — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:54:09 +0000

It was very hard to hear the person. The quality of the audio was good, but the volume was low. I had to press my ear to the phone and place my hand over my other ear just to hear the confused stranger. I’m not sure if he was a NY’er, btw. Area code didn’t look to be local.

By: Honza

Honza — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:12:25 +0000

SO how was the audio quality? Well considering you were talking to an angry NY’er it doesn’t matter I guess :p

By: Charles O'Rourke

Charles O'Rourke — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:07:32 +0000

They’re not activated at the Apple Store Providence Place. You can’t call out or text message; you can only use the Wi-Fi features.

By: Noah Everett

Noah Everett — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:44:57 +0000

I had a similar experience at the Apple store in Tulsa, OK, except I started txt’ing a random person from the demo iPhone because I saw the history of the previous messages and thought I would try it out. The person wasn’t very happy at first =), but they warmed up after I told them the story. Fun stuff.

By: Matt Radel

Matt Radel — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:15:40 +0000

Interesting. I didn’t even think about people using them for pranks. I do think they (Apple) could do a better job of informing you that the phones are active. Fortunately an employee enlightened me before I started to randomly push buttons.