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Education
Student who scored in top .5 percent for national exam gets surprise gift in viral video
A video of a high school student in India who was gifted an iPhone 12 by her parents for her 18th birthday has gone viral on social media. ...
Michelle De Pacina
China
Chinese YouTuber creates world’s first foldable iPhone
Chinese- language YouTube channel 科技美学 (Technological Aesthetics) recently uploaded a video of an engineer using custom parts to create the...
Ryan General
Workers filmed fleeing major iPhone factory in China
Viral videos on Chinese social media apparently show workers fleeing one of the largest iPhone assembly factories in China following a repo...
Social Media
Thai Red Cross strongly recommends people not sell their kidneys for iPhone 14s
Dr. Sophon Mekthon, the managing director of the Thai Red Cross Organ Donation Center, condemned the circulating “kidney-for-iPhone 14” mem...
Bryan Ke
Samsung shades Apple for new ‘deep purple’ iPhone 14 Pro
Samsung recently shaded Apple in a tweet for allegedly copying its BTS-inspired Bora Purple Galaxy Z Flip4 smartphone. The official Samsun...
Rebecca Moon
Tech
Chinese smartphone brand Honor copies iPhone features, sees sales double
Chinese smartphone brand Honor saw its sales double in the second quarter (Q2) of 2022 by incorporating some features of Apple’s iPhone, su...
Entertainment
Apple shares Korean martial arts fantasy film shot on iPhone 13 Pro by ‘Oldboy’ director Park Chan-wook
“Life is But a Dream,” a South Korean martial arts fantasy short film, is the latest installment in Apple’s “Shot on iPhone” ad campaign. ...
News
Phone Case with ‘Girlfriend Hand’ is Perfect for Everyone Who Needs Affection
Hamee, a Japanese cell phone accessories company, has released a phone case that imitates the act of holding a woman’s hand. The iPhon...
International Students Allegedly Scammed Apple Out of Almost $1 Million With Chinese ‘iPhones’
Two college students from Oregon are facing a criminal complaint from Apple after allegedly using thousands of counterfeit iPhones from Chin...
Technology
Japanese Inventor Creates the Most Disturbing iPhone Charger That Costs $5,600
A Japanese inventor once created an iPhone charger that made a lot of people on the internet shout WTF because of its incredibly disturbing ...
Chinese Man Now Faces Serious Organ Failure After Selling Kidney For iPhone 4 in 2011
A Chinese man is now facing serious organ failure after having sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPhone 4 when he was a teenager. The man, i...
Instagrammer Implies the iPhone X is Too Expensive and Complicated for Indians to Use
Travel Instagrammer @mindbodycolleen is under fire for saying many Indian people don’t have an iPhone and that they wouldn’t know how ...
Malaysian Man Who ‘Lost’ His iPhone Every Year for 5 Years Arrested By Police
A Malaysian man who suspiciously ‘loses’ his iPhone every year was recently arrested after local authorities uncovered his...
Asia
Chinese Man Slaps Airport Employee With Phone After His Flight Gets Cancelled
A disgruntled Chinese traveler was demerited on his “social credit” standing after he was recently caught on camera slapping an airport work...
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Director Shoots Short Film ENTIRELY On iPhone XS Max
“Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon M. Chu recently put Apple’s new iPhone XS Max to the test by shooting a short film in 4K....
Woman’s ‘iPhone 6’ Explodes in Her Car After Battery Was Replaced at Unauthorized Shop
A woman in Shanghai, China screamed in terror as her smartphone exploded just a few inches away from her face. The incident, which was caugh...
Carl Samson
Toddler Playing With Mom’s iPhone Accidentally Locks It For 47 Years
A mother from Shanghai, China, had the most shocking iPhone experience after her 2-year-old son accidentally locked it for nearly half a cen...
Chinese Man Bites Phone Battery to Check If It’s Fake, Immediately Regrets It
A man in China got the shock of his life when a iPhone battery exploded right in front of his face after biting down into it to check its au...
Student Dies After Broken iPhone Wire Electrocutes Her While Sleeping in Vietnam
Exposed wiring from a faulty iPhone charging cable caused the tragic death of a Vietnamese schoolgirl after she was electrocuted during her ...
Kyle Encina
Vietnamese Company Claims $150 Mask Can Hack iPhone X Face ID
Just days after the iPhone X hit stores on Nov. 3, Vietnamese cybersecurity company Bkav claims a $150 3D-printed mask bypassed the new Face...
Khier Casino
Fake iPhone Xs are Already Being Sold in China For $100
Just days after Apple launched the futuristic iPhone X, a budget-friendly knock-off was quickly born in the world’s premiere source of count...
Camera Captures Exact Moment Woman’s iPhone Gets Stolen in China
A man in China was caught on camera pickpocketing an iPhone 6s belonging to a woman, named Xiao Jia, while she ate a chicken wing with her f...
Japanese Cat Becomes the Cutest iPhone Case of All Time
Netizens can’t get over one extremely cute “living cat phone case” that has certainly gone viral. Japanese people have always had a penchant...
King Malleta
What if Siri Was a Crazy Chinese Tiger Mom?
Every iPhone user is pretty familiar with Siri at this point. Over the years, despite knowing that she’s a “intelligent assistan...
Editorial Staff
Chinese Woman Asks Her 20 Boyfriends For an iPhone 7, Sells Them All to Buy House
A woman in China might’ve just won the 2016 “hustler of the year” award. A blog was recently published on Tian Ya Yi Du, ...
Japanese People Are Going Crazy Over This DIY iPhone Case
Japanese iPhone users have found an unusual embellishment to add some oomph to their devices. Go through #evian on Instagram — you won...
Japanese Man Becomes the First Person Arrested For Jailbreaking iPhones
Accused of selling jailbroken iPhones, a Japanese man has become the first to be charged with a “violation of trademark law” on Thursday. Da...
Thai Girl Finds Missing iPhone on Stranger, He Casually Admits He’s Trying to Steal it
A Thai woman discovered a surprising scene after she tracked her sister’s missing iPhone 6. She found the smartphone in the hands of a dude...
Chinese Company is Willing to Fire Employees With an iPhone 7
September 18th must have been a sad day for Apple fans working for one company in Nanyang City, China. The management of the unidentified co...
Woman Orders iPhone 7 Online in China, Gets Exactly What She Deserves
Sometimes when you try to buy a hot new tech item online like the iPhone 7 in a sold out country like China, odds are the offer is too good ...
Chinese Customs Confiscates Hundreds of Smuggled iPhone 7s on Release Day
Several Chinese smugglers have already been caught trying to smuggle the new iPhone 7 from Hong Kong to China on the first day that the Appl...
Hong Kong’s iPhone 7 Marketing Slogan Literally Translates to ‘This is Penis’
The iPhone 7’s popularity in Hong Kong has taken a naughty turn when its new marketing slogan was translated in Cantonese, a language mostl...
New iPhone Sells Out in Under 10 Minutes After Pre-orders Open in Hong Kong
Despite many tech experts doubting the new iPhones’ marketability, there’s no doubt that there are still many hardcore iPhone fans out...
Street Cleaners Dig Through Garbage For 3 Hours to Find a Tourist’s Important iPhone
Committed Chinese street cleaners in Shanghai sifted through five tons of garbage for hours under the sweltering heat to help Beijing touris...
Lifestyle
You’ve Probably Been Charging Your iPhone Wrong This Whole Time
Chances are you’re probably charging your smartphone wrong and doing more damage to your battery than you know. Many of us know the struggl...
Chinese People are Smashing Their iPhones in Protest of the UN’s South China Sea Ruling
The result of the recent South China Sea arbitration ruling by the United Nations Tribunal left the Chinese government, and many of its citi...