A Ukrainian man has officially changed his name to iPhone 7 after an electronics store offered the latest Apple product to the first five people who do that.
The 20-year old iPhone Sim (sim is seven in Ukrainian) got the coveted prize Friday. He said he might change it back to his original name, Olexander Turin, when he has children.
Although the change "definitely won’t go down well in his native Ukrainian, in English, Mr. Sim could easily be read as SIM, the acronym for ‘Subscriber Identity Module,’ the removable smart card inside mobile phones that contains cellular user data. Therefore, in combination with the word iPhone, Sim would essentially make his name evergreen, because every iPhone (for the foreseeable future) will indeed have a SIM.
The price of phone starts at $850 (about N26,000) in the Ukraine, while the name change costs the equivalent of $2 (about N618).
Sim’s friends and family were shocked at first but eventually supported the idea.
His sister, Tetyana Panina, said, “It was difficult to accept that and hard to believe it’s true.”
She added: “Each person in this world is looking for a way to express himself. Why not to do that in this way?”
Culled from nypost.com
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