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Week 35, Factory FD (Foxconn USA? Refurbished?)

I know it wasn’t a refurb, I got it from AT&T on launch day....
[doublepost=1506910668][/doublepost]Factory FD1, that is.
 
iPhone 8+ Space Grey 256GB

Group1: iPhone
Group2: 8 plus
Generation:
Screen size: 5.5 inch
Screen resolution: 1920x1080 pixels
Colour: Please tell us what colour this iPhone is (on the back).
Production week : -33- (August)
Production year : -2017-
Model introduced: -2017-
Capacity: 256GB
Memory - flavour: Soldered
Factory: F2 (China, Zhengzhou - Foxconn)
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This thread reminds me of new mothers talking with each other about their new babies.

'My jimmy is 3 weeks old. Here is a pick of him when he was downloaded. You can see the manufacturing plant symbol and date right on his bottom. I hope he won't scratch too easy.'

Almost made me spray my monitor with coffee! HA!
 
There is no real definitive answer to that. What happens is, is certain defects are discussed upon other iPhone owners of what they are experiencing with their new iPhones. For example, A yellow display. So naturally, other iPhone owners start asking which week was other iPhones manufactured during which week that others are experiencing with yellow displays. Then those iPhone owners speculate that "Week 33" might be a bad week for the iPhones that were experiencing yellow displays. Again, there is no way proving this. But they use it as a reference to determine where their device falls in line when it was manufactured on what week.

One year the discussion seemed to be focused on the factory location as the processor was better or faster.

This year, week 37, FD1
 
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