Last week, as a British user of a brand new iPhone was activating his iTunes feature, he observed a photo of a young Asian woman on his home screen. The woman was smiling and saluting her photographer in what appeared to be a production laboratory as she was dressed in a pink striped uniform, rubber gloves and had an iPhone in front of her.

The photo was posted by the customer on the Web site MacRumours.com where he also commented on it. Soon after, the picture appeared on several other pages.

"Not sure if this is or is not the 'norm' but I just received my brand new iPhone here in the UK and once it had been activated on iTunes I found that the home screen (the screen you can personalize with a photo) already had a photo set against it!!!!" he wrote. "It would appear that someone on the production line was having a bit of fun - has anyone else found this?"

Many did not consider this ‘incident’ such a big issue and actually thought of it as a good test for the phone. Also, the work environment detailed by the photo appeared extremely clean and professional and was greatly appreciated by people checking out the picture.

In just a few days the photo was viewed by thousands of people and many wondered where it had been taken and also who the mystery woman was. The problem feared by some was that she might get fired for having fun on the job.

It didn’t take long for the identification process to be completed, as Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that makes iPhones for Apple in Shenzhen, announced that the woman is part of its testing department and that the incident was only considered a “beautiful mistake” which will not lead to any sort of problems for her, as the worker’s job is safe. According to the statement, the woman is a migrant worker from the Hunan province, but no other details were offered.

“She is an assembly worker in the mobile phone testing department and she is still working there. But she has requested us not to make her name public and we will respect her decision,” Liu Kun, a Foxconn spokesman, told the China Daily. He also added: “She’s just a young girl who has come to the city from her remote hometown. She’s never been in such a situation. She’s really scared by the media. She told me she wanted to quit her job and go back home to get away from this. We let her off work today so she could rest.”

Mr. Liu concluded by presenting the company’s intentions to avoid such incidents in the future by testing all the iPhone cameras and by deleting such pictures.

According to the China Morning Post, the girl holds the title as "China's prettiest factory girl," so any sort of action against her would have been unjustified, as the whole story led to a lot of free and good publicity.