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Counterfeit iPhone 3Gs Becoming More Convincing at First Glance

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Apple service provider MacMedics recently had the opportunity to examine a counterfeit iPhone 3G purchased by a customer off of eBay. The packaging and external appearance of the device appear convincingly genuine at first glance, demonstrating increasing sophistication from such counterfeiters.

The software, however, is the difficult part to imitate, and this is where the counterfeit iPhone falls flat. See the video for a complete walkthrough of the device.



Article Link: Counterfeit iPhone 3Gs Becoming More Convincing at First Glance
 
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alexprice

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Jan 8, 2005
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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!
 
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retroneo

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I'd like to get one of these just out of interest.

Start a collection of the best fake iPhones.
 
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freediverdude

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That's a pretty amazing fake actually. The average person on the street who had never used an iPhone before probably would not know the difference. If they had put a capacitive screen on this it would be pretty darn close.
 
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sonny55

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Jan 8, 2009
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I can only imagine that it would respond better if he took the plastic off. I don't understand the point of him leaving it on. Was he trying to protect his investment from harmful fingerprints?
 
fleshman03

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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.
 
WildCowboy

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sonny55 said:
I can only imagine that it would respond better if he took the plastic off. I don't understand the point of him leaving it on. Was he trying to protect his investment from harmful fingerprints?
Click to expand...

There's no plastic to take off. The plastic he mentions is the actual touch surface.
 
BaronvdB

BaronvdB

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Oct 22, 2007
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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.
 
chr1s60

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Well, it is much better than the original iPhone clones we saw a few years back. It is still horrible though.
 
windywoo

windywoo

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fleshman03 said:
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.
Click to expand...

No, its much, much more work to get the actual iPhone OS to run on non-iPhone hardware than to make something that just looks like it.
 
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