Counterfeit iPhone 3Gs Becoming More Convincing at First Glance

[iNtrigued]

Hahahaha Lmao!!!

This video is freakin' hilarious!..LOL......My favorite part was the Apple Logo on the "state of the art" accessories.........gotta be careful or you might just get fooled into buying a fake iPhone.....LOL......and to think, people somewhere out there put in of their effort, time, ideas, and work into making this?! And more sad to know people somewhere out there do actually buy these things......just don't know which is sadder LMAO

B.T.W. Got an iPhone 3G S and I'm happy. It is al least 2x faster than the regular 3G booting up, opening apps, loading pages, etc. And it''s definately like 20x faster than this fake iPhone 3G. LMAO! Cheers!

 

[hellrider]

What video?

 

[icurbyou]

Thats completely amazing. The software is as responsive as 3.0

You must've dropped your phone a few dozen times... or maybe bought yours from ebay.

 

[iNtrigued]

What video?

On macrumors.com go to MAC LINKS on the left side column and click on the link that talks about a "counterfeit iPhone". Take out your tissue...you'll be crying! LOL

 

[mmccaskill]

I'm more curious as to: what OS is it running? What language is it coded? Is it using the same hardware as a real 3G?

 

[kinchee87]

The question is ...
... does it blend?

 

[m-dogg]

A stylus - sweet!

 

[Vidder]

Who actually buys these things?

People who think they are real or people who wanna look cool but spend less?

I just don't get it!

iPhone FAIL!

Hopefully for people's sake, they think they are real because having an iPhone/iPod Touch DOES NOT make someone 'cool'.

 

[coolfactor]

Thats completely amazing. The software is as responsive as 3.0

Huh? 3.0 is fast.

 

[Vidder]

holy crap....i'd hate to be the person that bought that off ebay....that's why i only buy/sell within the US...i know there are a lot of people outside the us that are perfectly trustworthy but just don't take the risk.

What if you bought it from someone who bought it from outside the U.S.?

 

[coolfactor]

I'm more curious as to: what OS is it running? What language is it coded? Is it using the same hardware as a real 3G?

Since they had what appeared to be a Linux shell app, then I suspect it's running Linux. Shame they have to **** all over a good product with their garbage.

 

[coolfactor]

holy crap....i'd hate to be the person that bought that off ebay....that's why i only buy/sell within the US...i know there are a lot of people outside the us that are perfectly trustworthy but just don't take the risk.

So all companies inside the US are trusthworthy? Nice logic.

The bottom line... regardless of where/whom you buy from, do your research.

 

[iphones4evry1]

If they try to sell these to Americans on eBay and claim they are real, authentic iPhones, that is FRAUD, and the U.S. Govt will get involved.

 

[iPhoneNYC]

eBay is increasing full of frauds and it does very little to protect the consumer.

 

[57004]

That video was SO funny Hilarious! Kudos to the guy who made it.

 

[theMaccer]

I have to say if those people could use the effort that they put into making the fake to something original, they may be able to come up with some serious stuff.

 

[manhattanboy]

eBay is increasing full of frauds and it does very little to protect the consumer.

As has been the story year after year

 

[rstansby]

If they try to sell these to Americans on eBay and claim they are real, authentic iPhones, that is FRAUD, and the U.S. Govt will get involved.

Good luck with that.

 

[compuguy1088]

Since they had what appeared to be a Linux shell app, then I suspect it's running Linux. Shame they have to **** all over a good product with their garbage.

Actually that app is not a linux shell, but a im program, popular in china, Tencent QQ.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ

 

[0098386]

I think my cousin was going to import a load of these imitation iPhones before the official ones were sold here. They did video recording, support for dual sim... Rather good actually. But the shipment never came in and that was that.

In the meantime the real iPhone was released and sold, well, quite a few I think .

 

[rstone3]

Huh? 3.0 is fast.

Agreed - I'm running on a plain 3G and 3.0 is great.

Other than the fact it does not work, it looks pretty good.

This video was done with a 3GS? Likely a stupid question but how can you tell? It looks great; makes me want to upgrade as well.

 

[McShizzel]

Ha Ha...The iPhoney

That dock is just great.

 

[BMac702]

This video was done with a 3GS? Likely a stupid question but how can you tell? It looks great; makes me want to upgrade as well.

Yes, you can see the apple logo reflected on the "glass" of the iPhony. The video looks great I want one even more as well

 

[Drag'nGT]

LOL "we have some fantastic pirated chinese music for our enjoyment."

I saw these in person in Charleston a week ago. They're terrible.

 

[Full of Win]

Ok I don't understand one thing.

These people obviously do not care about IP rights, so why don't they hack the firmware and put an iPhone OS on it? Too much programing work? Surely more "programing" went into developing that crap OS.

Perhaps its the CPU, where they would need the same type for it to work.