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‘I dropped my iPhone down the drain!’ Don’t worry, just call 311

It’s every iPhone user’s worst nightmare - dropping your prized item down the drain.

But fortunately for Queena Feng, 20, her fast-thinking boyfriend Victor Yuen, 18, told her to call 311 and get a member of a New York city workers squad to fish it out for free.

Radames Soto, of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), saved the day by lifting the grate and using his truck’s hydraulic arm to recover her iPhone.

Happy: Queena Feng, 20, was delighted after she called 311 and city workers came to recover the iPhone she had dropped down a New York drain

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Nokia Targets Apple iPhone, iPad in Second ITC Complaint

Just days after Finnish cell phone giant Nokia was rebuffed by the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Finnish company is back with another patent-infringement complaint against Apple. Tuesday Nokia filed suit charging the Cupertino, Calif.’s devices – including the iPad, iPhone and iPad – violated seven patents.

Although not offering specific patents, Nokia claims they cover technology used for multi-tasking, data synchronization, call quality, positioning and Bluetooth. “Our latest ITC filing means we now have 46 Nokia patents in suit against Apple, many filed more than 10 years before Apple made its first iPhone,” charges Nokia’s Paul Melin, vice president of intellectual property.

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