Jumping onto train tracks not a good idea. Even for an iPhone.

It’s one of those eternal questions that means something different to each person to whom it is posed, and yet still seems to cut across all demographic lines: “what would do (oooo-ooh) for a Klondike Bar?” But Klondike Bars are so 20th century that it was only natural that this question see a modernization, to keep it fresh—hip, as the kids say. And so, in our first answer to the updated question—“what would you do (oooo-ooh) for an iPhone?”—we present Laptop magazine’s interview with Bijan Rezvani.

While on vacation in New York City, Rezvani dropped his iPhone onto the tracks in the New York City subway. So he did what he had to, jumping down and retrieving his treasured device before it could be crushed beneath the unforgiving wheels of a subway train. Some might call it crazy, we call it dedicated*

LAPTOP: Did you jump for the iPhone or for the content? Was there a girl’s phone number on there you really needed? A limited edition Hillary Duff album?
Rezvani: Well, first of all it’s an expensive piece of hardware. Too expensive for me, but Steve [Jobs] owns my soul. Content was a major issue too… mainly contacts, but also photos.

It’s the first time I’ve had a cool phone that does anything and also the first time I’ve gone around taking photos of things in my life, so the stuff I had captured was kind of important for me to keep. I also cropped a couple hundred wallpapers for it so that would’ve been gone.

* Also, crazy. Please do not construe this as a suggestion that you should jump down on subway tracks to retrieve an iPhone or anything else. Jack Handy put it best: “If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let ‘em go, because man, they’re gone.”

Category: News

Posted by Dan Moren on Jan 3 2008, 3:04 PM ET

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