BBC: Apple spoils iPhone forgery plans

[arkitect]

Consumers are being warned to be on the lookout for fake iPhone Nanos, despite the real thing not even being released.

It was rumoured that Apple might be announcing a new, smaller iPhone at this year's Macworld conference.

As a result, counterfeiters in the Far East started producing replica iPhone Nanos, replete with Apple logo.

BBC Link…

Gotta laugh… enterprising pirates.
Happy to oblige where Apple fails to deliver.

 

[Rayfire]

Ha! I should get one!

 

[gjw4u]

So who buys a fake, if no original exists?

 

[arkitect]

So who buys a fake, if no original exists?

Desperate people who "want to believe"™

 

[grooveattack]

find the best fake!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-QUADBAND-...14&_trkparms=72:1300|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

 

[markgamber]

So who buys a fake, if no original exists?

The same people that reply to the Nigeria email and deserve to be screwed.

 

[grooveattack]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mini-iPhone-8...14&_trkparms=72:1300|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

 

[kastenbrust]

find the best fake!!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-QUADBAND-...14&_trkparms=72:1300|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

theyre not even trying to pretend its an Apple phone, no mention of it at all, im quite suprised, plus the sellers got 100% feedback, lol some people are so naive.

 

[ChazUK]

In a similar thing, someone at work was having trouble getting their sons iPod nano working which they got him for christmas.... I offered to have a look to see if it would...

What do I find? That it was:
"Designed by Appls in California
Assemblsd in China."

Oh dear....

 

[jmmtn4aj]

How well do they work though? Firmware/hardware-wise. It'd be pretty neat if the firmware offers even half the features of the real thing.. are the screens glass?

 

[mastershakess]

In a similar thing, someone at work was having trouble getting their sons iPod nano working which they got him for christmas.... I offered to have a look to see if it would...

What do I find? That it was:
"Designed by Appls in California
Assemblsd in China."

Oh dear....

suckers

 

[arkitect]

In a similar thing, someone at work was having trouble getting their sons iPod nano working which they got him for christmas.... I offered to have a look to see if it would...

What do I find? That it was:
"Designed by Appls in California
Assemblsd in China."

Oh dear....

How did you break the news to them?

 

[gadgetdad]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mini-iPhone-8...14&_trkparms=72:1300|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

I do like the "Handwriteen input" option...

 

[TSX]

Wow. It even has mms, that's a dead giveaway that it's not an apple product.