Investigation finds that knockoffs fuel false rumors of budget iPhone

15 July, 2013
Not surprising as Chinese factories  are churning out back covers and Android-powered iPhone lookalikes.

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  • Anonymous
  • GT6
  • 16 Jul 2013

Anonymous, 15 Jul 2013You seem to lack basic logic.Not that difficult to recognize.

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    • Anonymous
    • GT6
    • 16 Jul 2013

    Anonymous, 15 Jul 2013How many years are you going to keep using the "paper ... moreDon't make him think too hard.

    He's still trying to get his head around how to read graphs.

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      • AnonD-156746
      • 7q5
      • 16 Jul 2013

      Rasta from Jamaica, 16 Jul 2013Can someone explain this to me even GSM Arena how comes App... morebecause they work on very small level,they are hard to notice,but it is obvious that it is hard not to notice samsung's product.....

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        • Rasta from Jamaica
        • jxX
        • 16 Jul 2013

        Can someone explain this to me even GSM Arena how comes Apple sued Samsung that the Galaxy Phones looks like IPhone 3G and other LAME patients yet he NEVER sued the Chinese Companies with Knockoff Phones that looks EXACTLY as the IPhones

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          • AnonD-156746
          • 7q5
          • 15 Jul 2013

          comment continued...
          and the US ruling in favour include damages of atleast 600 million dollars..
          so actually most of the time (out of more than 50 lawsuits)actually samsung was the one who had to suffer loss....i still stand corrected...

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            • AnonD-156746
            • 7q5
            • 15 Jul 2013

            Anonymous, 15 Jul 2013Samsung hasn't paid apple a dime of that 1.05 billion. You... moreokay so you want me to go through every single lawsuit?i can give you a summary of some major ones--
            courts where ruling was in apples favour-
            south korea(bounce back effect)
            Landgericht, germany(ban on tab 10.1 and 7.7,loss of about 500 million units)
            the Hague(three samsung phones banned)
            US(everyone know about it)..
            in favour of samsung-
            south korea(two wireless patents)
            dutch(appeal against tab 10.1 ban)
            british(judge said galaxy tab's were not cool enough to be confused with ipad!LOL)!!!

            and US ruling in favour of samsung did not include damages,it will ban old iphone model which are anyways obsolete
            and the US ruling in favour

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              • Anonymous
              • jAK
              • 15 Jul 2013

              AnonD-1825, 15 Jul 2013"i can't imagine who would buy something like this if ... moreHow many years are you going to keep using the "paper specs" line? Specs must mean something to Apple as they keep trying to raise theirs so the can keep trying to copy android features in iOS. Enjoy your toggles and new notification center that you'll get within the next few months that others have had for years. Maybe one day you'll get the "paper" NFC spec, or the "paper" IR spec, or the "widget" spec. It's clear specs aren't important to you......until Apple gets it years later.

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                • Anonymous
                • jAK
                • 15 Jul 2013

                AnonD-156746, 15 Jul 2013fanboys...just trying to convince themselves that any websi... moreSamsung hasn't paid apple a dime of that 1.05 billion. You are also neglecting the cases that Apple has lost in the US and Japan.

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                  • Noel Carson
                  • XNt
                  • 15 Jul 2013

                  I had a guy who walked up to me recently and said he managed to smuggle two iPhone 5 from the custom office. He was willing to sell two iPhone 5 (omitted the s to avoid confusion) for Rs. 25000 (one single iPhone 5 over here costs 45000). He even removed the phone from what seemed like a genuine iPhone 5 box and handed the phone to me so that I can check it. The first thing i notice is that the phone is plasticky instead of aluminium. I thought it was probably due to the plastic film on the back and front. I checked the phone's about section and behold, the version shows up as 'android version @2xxxx' (x= dont know). That's when I pointed out that his iPhone is not genuine. He immediately disappeared by the time I started explaining what I checked to my friend. I pity some others who would not be able to check the phone properly and end up getting fooled, coz I leart that these chinese phones sell for rs. 5000, where as a S3 look alike costs rs. 3000. LOL!!!! and these fakes look exactly and have the same apps as the orginal, including the calling screen and the options you see in settings are exactly the same. I mean I navigated using settings -> general -> about to the about screen, exactly as on the original iPhone. Had I not noticed the version was android version, I would have been fooled too.

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                    • AnonD-156746
                    • 7qy
                    • 15 Jul 2013

                    reporting comments because running out of answers?what is your age? 7 YEARS?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • 3Y7
                      • 15 Jul 2013

                      Lag or no lag, it does not matter, low specs or high specs, it does not matter, the only thing that matter is: if you like the experience of using the phone or not, people here fight over specs and "lag" which is silly really, i mean, don't you have any better things in your life to waste your time in?

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                        • Anonymous
                        • njM
                        • 15 Jul 2013

                        [deleted post]What do you think you're doing ? people are smart not stupid as you might think, you can't convince them to buy your company products easy as that.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • njM
                          • 15 Jul 2013

                          [deleted post]Dude you came here you troll like marketing trolls do these days and you think you did a great job isn't it ? But what you don't know is that all the world laughs at trolls like you. LOL

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                            • Anonymous
                            • njM
                            • 15 Jul 2013

                            AnonD-1825, 15 Jul 2013"when you try to open an application you have to wait ... moreAnd since you lack basic logic all your future comments will be ignored.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • njM
                              • 15 Jul 2013

                              AnonD-1825, 15 Jul 2013"when you try to open an application you have to wait ... moreYou seem to lack basic logic.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • njM
                                • 15 Jul 2013

                                AnonD-1825, 15 Jul 2013"when you try to open an application you have to wait ... moreIt is lag because you have to wait for it.

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                                  • p77
                                  • 15 Jul 2013

                                  Anonymous, 15 Jul 2013And how can it have no lag when you have all these laggy co... more"when you try to open an application you have to wait for it to load, see that's lag. LOL"

                                  No thats not lag, try google!

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • njM
                                    • 15 Jul 2013

                                    AnonD-156746, 15 Jul 2013still having no proof to support your claims....if you thin... moreDidn't you get it I'm not here to praise one company or another I'm here just to laugh at trolls. :)

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                                      • AnonD-156746
                                      • 7qG
                                      • 15 Jul 2013

                                      Anonymous, 15 Jul 2013Nobody is paying me to laugh at trolls like you it's really... morestill having no proof to support your claims....if you think gsmarena is a paid site,then why are you using it,maybe because it also praises sammy where it deserves it...is'nt it....talk when you have a single proof of your foolish claims...what do you want to say about those exploding s3,all those sites and photos are fake......it is clear who is the trolling fanboy here...

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • ajU
                                        • 15 Jul 2013

                                        AnonD-71586, 15 Jul 2013i knew there couldn't be a low budget iphone, since the iph... moreEvery iPhone, when released, is a 700 euro feature-phone. Why would anyone pay that much for a mobile phone? The only things it offers are design, brand image and smoothness of the OS. Nothing else.