TUAW File: Apple's iPhone Demo Contacts - perfect for your ad spoofs

Now that you have a usable snippet of the music from the iPhone commercials with which to start making your spoofs, how about a default set of contacts so you don't post anyone's private information for the whole world to see? Thanks to a clever reader by the name of Stephen Kenny, TUAW is now hosting this copy of the 60 phony contacts set up in the demo iPhones in Apple Stores. In case you're wondering, yes: this means you too can have John Appleseed in your iPhone!

The primary idea here is that you can simply sync these contacts perhaps as a group (or the only group) to your iPhone and only use those when ~~demoing~~ making fun of any of its features. Adding them all to a specific group in Address Book will help you keep things organized (both on and off screen), and you can easily delete them once you get all those spoofs uploaded to YouTube. Plus, your friends and coworkers will thank you for not putting their phone number or home address in too public of a place.

Without further adieu, here is the 5.2MB zip file containing 60 contacts that won't mind being spotlighted in your iPhone spoof ads. This zip file contains a vCard file, ripe for importing into Address Book (and possibly Entourage/Outlook as well) and synching with your iPhone.

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Apple's iPhone Demo Contacts (5.2 MB zip file)

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Jeff

Can anyone actually get it to look like in that picture when on a call? With the contact name and picture only appearing at the top?

October 04 2007 at 3:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eric

#13: Actually, you can. Look here (yes I know Erica made it, but it's better than nothing):
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=dOgBKkcg3BGHw5sml7okhQ

August 03 2007 at 4:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

shab00ty

Here's my parody, but it's howard stern show-centric, so it makes show references you need to know for it to be funny.
:P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekEE4yPCAco

August 03 2007 at 3:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bobby

So: back to the actual my post. My friend's name is in this list of contacts he/she works with Apple...so it's not totally anonymous. It doesn't actually have his/her proper picture....but still...

August 03 2007 at 1:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joseph

Even though some of the blogs are nutty here at tuaw, case in point the above, it does not bother me one bit. It calles freedom of speech. If I don't like a blog, I just skip to the next one!

However, one type of blogs here at tuaw annoyed the heck of me and it was damn near impossible not coming across one everyday for weeks, and that was the time when that other MP3 playes was came into the market...i forgot what it was called... ah, zune. I seem to remember posting a negative comment about the whole zune thing here at Tuaw which was conveniently censored / deleted.

So much for free speech! LOL

August 02 2007 at 10:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Macroy

ash: Has it ever occurred to you that these people HATE FUN?!

August 02 2007 at 8:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

anthonys

I agree, this site is still great - the iPhone is still a hot and current topic for Apple. If you don't like it, just scroll down to the next one (or use a feed with no iPhone, no Erica, etc.)!

What's wrong with a bit of a fun post?

August 02 2007 at 8:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

@Josh:

Amen.

August 02 2007 at 8:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh

yeah, you guys are complete dicks. don't read it if you don't want to. this site has consistently been interesting to me so this blog is for someone like me. obviously its not for someone like you so go visit a different blog. I beg you to find an apple blog that doesn't say anything about the iphone. please, direct me to the blog that pretends that the iphone doesn't exist and pretends that the iphone isn't ubiquitous. just because you don't have 600 dollars to spend on an apple product that you may or may not feel is superior, there are a ton of people that do.

to top it off: i do not have an iphone. i still love the iphone posts.

August 02 2007 at 7:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Justin Lane

I've gotta say, I'm really getting tired of everyone bashing the site. If you don't like it so much, and NOTHING is being posted you want to read, then why read it?

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