You want an iPhone but don't want to pay

[tintin40]

Then buy Apple peel
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile ... &wom=false

 

[ajm]

Actually I definitely don't want an iPhone (my phone works well for voice calls for a start, and one charge lasts a week) but I did find this part amusing...

"The illegitimate phones are usually cheaper and contain functions, such as wireless Internet, that are not available on phones sold through legal channels."

The "fakes" are better than the real thing .

 

[Neil G]

The I phone has to be the one phone that doesn't work well as a phone lol

 

[MikeD]

The "fakes" are better than the real thing

Except that the iPhone does have wireless internet. It's not just burning through its battery in a few hours doing nothing

 

[ajm]

Having set up quite a few of them I should have remembered that Mind you, I'd be entirely unsurprised if Apple deliberately hobbled phones destined for particular markets...

 

[tintin40]

Well if you will get the Chinese to make them. Then this is just to to easy for them. By day make the expensive Apple phone. By night make them with out the Apple logo.
Companies should stop going to China. Their are good Americans, Europeans who can make them with out all the Chinese 'problems'
The last thing the world needs is rich and powerful China.

 

[hamster]

Not, this is different, these are Shanzai (bandit) phones and are counterfeits with similar functionality.
Hon Hai, who make for Apple (and HP, Nokia, and most other PC vendors) are a global (Taiwanese) company and well away from the "run off a few extra" thing of smaller makers.

150 years ago there were huge complaints about piracy from a rapidly industrialising country....called the United States. It is a part of rapid development. Singapore (where I used to live) wast full of it until companies there realised that intellectual property protection was important.

 

[cyfa2809]

i once owned a nokia n95 when they came out new, was £90 instead of £350 and did pretty much the same
it had different formware and the camera was 2mp instead of 5 but wasnt too bad
as said here, china, make apple by day and then the clones by night
people pay for a brand :roll:

 

[grahame]

Make GTs by day and Carreras (for Halfords) by night?

 

[cyfa2809]

Make GTs by day and Carreras (for Halfords) by night?

no, konas by day, carreras by night