Apple returns 8 million shoddy iPhones to Foxconn

Foxconn has apparently botched a batch of iPhones, which Apple returned to the contract manufacturer because they were not fit for sale according to The Register who translated the page.

Details of just what went wrong are sketchy, as the source for this tale is an anonymous Foxconn staffer chatting to China Business. That report, after being forced through a couple of translation engines, suggests Apple sent back at least five million iPhones, and maybe as many as eight million, “due to appearance of substandard or dysfunctional problems.”

At $200 each to manufacturer Foxconn is set to take up to a 1.6 billion dollar hit unless they can be fixed properly. No one knows which phone was involved but props to Apple for keeping quality control alive.