Until I see a video review of the thing, I would assume good photoshop techniques.
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Got $135 to Spare? Beguile Onlookers With This Convincing iPhone 14 Pro Ripoff
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not a single mention of the OS it runs in the article?
Much of "outrageous" overseas pricing was due to the currency exchange rate, not a (new) desire to position iPhones as status symbols.
When the iPhone 14 launched last year, the pre-sales tax price of a 128GB iPhone 14 in the U.S. was $829 which was equal to around £722 at the time. The pre-VAT price of the same phone in the UK was £707 which was actually less in £ than the U.S. price.
The pre-sales tax price of a 128GB iPhone 14 Pro in the U.S. was $999 which was equal to around £870 at the time. The pre-VAT price of the same phone in the UK was £915 are only a bit more.
Just like Apple used to fake/hide the Camera bumps? 🤣
An echo of its former self... I'll see myself out.
I'm sure it works, it's a basic phone disguised as a high-end one - just without the actual high-end features."Working" is relative here at best. Obviously the focus was more on looking like a premium phone than having working features, as evidenced by the big fat camera hump in the back that is just for show, housing just a single camera.
But it does not matter, I can already see the posts here how much Apple is ripping their customers off by overpricing their phones, when a "similar" device can be sold for so much less.
There are tons of cheap phones on the market already going for $100-150 equiped with low-end displays, poke-slow chipsets and storage, poor to terrible cameras, poor to terrible batteries and basic charging capabilities, running some customized version of Android that won't ever see a security update.
These phones have their place on the market tho, they do sell (and awfully well, too), they're just no threat to companies like Apple in any way (other than stealing their design, which just keeps Apple's lawyers busy).
It’s not a rip-off if you know what you're getting yourself into by buying a $135 copycat device. The rip-off is spending over 1k for an actual iPhone and it has horizontal lines across the screen as indicated by the story before this.
i remember my last trip to China was a walk down counterfeit lane
Speaking from past experience - virtually impossible in China. But then Apple's legal department has deep pockets...
Lol, "Faraday Never"The founder of LeEco has shifted his focus to cars in real.
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Yeah, except that the kit cars typically perform at a level equal to or better than the real cars. The one Speedster replica I can remember (years ago) was made by Intermeccanica, and it was pretty good. This thing is some Android device that looks like a 14 Pro but doesn't function or perform anything like the real one.
At least with a kit car you can put a decent engine in it and even upgrade the tech better than the original. Many times they give people the option of having the enjoyment of a car that is long out of production and unobtainable by normal means. This is just a counterfeit knock-off trying to carve out a piece of the market of a current popular phone with the only real feature being it looks like it.
Such a low price to pay to have all of my phone activity and real-time location collected by the CCP!
Whatever our socioeconomic status, most of us aspire to more. These kinds of knock-off devices are aspirational and there's a huge market for them because most people simply can't afford the real thing. The fashion industry has dealt with this sort of thing for decades. It's easy to mock devices like this when you're fortunate enough to be able to afford the real thing, which says a lot about the person doing the mocking and nothing about the device itself.
