Iphone 5 released in China

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Ok, it is a shanzhai iphone 5. Sorry for making you people, especially Apple fan's hope up:

Apple's iPhone5 has not yet been released but in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, some mobile phone dealers have started selling the shanzhai iphone 5. Fuzhou industrial and commercial administration recently conducted a raid on these dealers and seized a number of shanzhai iphone5 phone which looks up to 90% authentic.

Xinhua reported that law enforcement officers from the Fuzhou Taijiang Bureau of Trade and Industry conducted this raid at a local digital market mall, where they found these phones in display counter and labelled as "latest iPhone5". The phone cost 300 yuan (about $50 USD). These phones are dual sim and have GPS function.

The staff selling these phone told the buyers that these are shanzhai iPhone5, and claim that the phone's cover, component inside and the phone's operation system is copied from iPhone5 with 90% similarity. The back of the phone even have the Apple logo on it. It is known that these phones were manufactured in Shenzhen.

Law enforcement officers search and found box full of phones, but the box nor the phone contains information on the factory producing these phones. There is also no authentication serial on these phones. Evidence suggested that these phones are produced in violation of Apple's copyright, and the law enforcement officer seize 61 shanzhai iPhone5.

Fuzhou Taijiang Bureau of Trade and Industry advice buyers to not buy these phones. These phones
has many flaws including low responsiveness of the OS, blurry camera and connectivity problem.

Apple last week sent a letter to invite the media to participate in a press conference next week, experts expect details on iPhone5 will be released.

Source: http://iservice.libertytimes.com.tw/liveNews/news.php?no=549981&type=%E8%B2%A1%E7%B6%93 (in Chinese)

Comment: Well, I know it is often to find shanzhai phone in China, so this in not much of a news. Still it is nice to know shanzhai iPhone is not as good as the real iPhone and they are plagued with problems.
 
That's right, never trust me. A bit too much stereotype to say never trust Chinese people isn't it?

It is bad to make counterfeit goods, which is a complete rip off and a lot Chinese are against it.
 
Ah, that wasn't what I meant dude, I was just saying that they have reached so far, that they can do anything overnight.
No offense, and I never knew that you belong there.
To be honest, I appreciate what they do, I am a huge fan of Martial Arts, a chinese originated defense technique. And I watch chinese movies often.
Nothing personal..!!
 
Yeah, the factories can pretty much mimic everything, but of course the inside working of the device is going to be completely different and in a bad way for shanzhai phone.

Unfortunately, the fast economic growth in mainland Chinese due to open market and capitalism does not make everyone rich. Along with capitalism, consumerism is also spreading and many of the poorer mainland Chinese desire item they cannot afford. Therefore, counterfeit stuff exist to deceive the people as well as violating the copyright of the international companies which helps to drive mainland China's growth.

@reynod

Imagine Bruce Lee fighting Chuck Norris while he is making those goofy sound, but instead he is actually reciting the decimal numbers in pi.
 


The only thing is, that they are too supersticious (hope I spelled it correctly).
If they leave these superstitions, they can go beyond any other's imaginations.
Sorry if i was rude on the 1st post (but trust me, I wasn't)..!!
 
It ok, people do that, including myself sometimes. But I am careful on this forum and reread before I click submit and avoid it. Stereotype can never be stamped out. I blame the media not you.
 
Ai, my company supplied a piece of kit to a chinese company, reported a maintenance fault, and when we arrived, there were two machines there.

Expected us to get both working too. -_-
 
Honestly I played with the i-phone and it doesn't impress ... the Samsung Galaxy II though ... that is a beast.

It is so good my other phones just go silent in it's presence ...

So fast and slick.

The apple feels, runs and looks like a cheap clone.

 
Good advertising and a social status thing in China. If you can afford them, you are considered wealthy in China. You should see my cousin from mainland China travel to Hong Kong just to buy ipad 2 and he already has a laptop and a smart phone.
 
I honestly would never want to live in China for fear of being killed if I said anything bad about the government. It is incredibly corrupt over there and two people I know over there say its very unstable and there have been mass riots quite a bit where hes from. Hongkong seems to be the only safehaven over there but to be honest, even that city seems to have major corruption. Look at all the coverups if you dont believe me, the whole posioning of milk and baby formula; Scary stuff for sure.
 
You will be fine to criticise the government in place like at home or in a restaurant as causal chat. Just don't organise mass protest and campaign and don't spread it on the internet or newspaper and scale the thing up to a group of people. Tiananmen is still a taboo for the government there, so they really watch out for big group of people. All of the major quality scandal happens in mainland China. There is no major corruption in Hong Kong. But freedom is diminishing there.
 
What is wrong with these phone is the violation of copyright. If they are not, it really isn't that bad to get a toy phone for $50.

I think the factory producing these fake phone should concentrate on the high-tech toy market and gradually develop their own product. I remember there is a company making a Loongson based netbook with linux in it. No violation of copyright and because it is so cheap and primitive, many programmers buy them as a toy just to make their own driver and stuff on it. Don't rally understand what they can do on it, but they say they can do a lot on it (sorry I am not an IT professional so I don't really understand what they are doing).
 
I already translated the original Chinese article to English (the main article of this thread) with google translate assistance and conversion of the price to a more familiar currency.

Lemote netbook made by YeeLoong:

http://www.linux-netbook.com/lemote-yeeloong-8089
http://www.osnews.com/story/21530

Official site:

http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.html

really bad English translation thou.

Oh, ok. Bios, kernel and drivers are all open. No wonder why programmers like to play with them.
 
I doubt the factory that makes those fake phone reverse engineer. They just make them look like the real product. Reverse engineering is wrong (unless for education), but it actually means better product. I don't see the shanzhai phone company wants to R&D.
 
I think you misread what I wrote. At least MS reverse engineer. Those company I doubt they reverse engineer. They are most likely just copy the new iPhone 5 shell and reuse old design on the inside from like the fake iPhone 1. No R&D at all.
 
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