You must not have read the article. The challenge was to pull up the weather in 2 different cities (later, the manager said 2 cities in different states) The r

You must not have read the article. The challenge was to pull up the weather in 2 different cities (later, the manager said 2 cities in different states) The reps phone just "happened" to have LiveTiles setup so that the weather in 2 cities was the first thing on the home screen. They knew the challenge, and setup their phone do win it as fast as possible. The "Specially customized their phones" comment is that they rigged the phone to be near-unbeatable ahead of time, since they made the challenge.