Police in Shanghai have arrested five suspects in a phony iPhone case that is thought to have netted over three quarters of a million dollars. According to the Shanghai Daily, police raided an underground workshop in July in the city’s Zhabei district, not far from the Shanghai Multimedia Valley technology zone, and found that …

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Friday 30th September 2011 00:39 GMT Smithson

"Police in Shanghai have arrested five suspects in a phony iPhone case"

Must have been a pretty big iPhone case.

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1. Friday 30th September 2011 12:05 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  In Case
  
  But, generally, they are quite diminutive and probably have quite a high packing density.
  
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Friday 30th September 2011 08:07 GMT Eddy Ito

Shirley

"The raid netted 200 of the faux iPhones"

Don't you mean iFauxnes

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1. Friday 30th September 2011 15:11 GMT Rich 30
  
  HA!
  
  Buy yourself a packet of scampi fries with your friday pint to celebrate such a joke!
  
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Friday 30th September 2011 08:10 GMT Neoc

A difference that makes no difference is no difference.

So if they are assembled from iPhone parts, and even an iPhone engineer admits it'd be hard to make the difference, why are they "faux" iPhones? Surely, they are faux "Apple"... but iPhones nonetheless.

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Friday 30th September 2011 08:10 GMT Anonymous Coward

What a ding (bat)

"headed by a local man named Dong."

And what sound does his door bell make?

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1. Friday 30th September 2011 11:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Laugh?
  
  ... I almost started.
  
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Friday 30th September 2011 08:12 GMT Anonymous Coward

the phoney phones

made with real components and actually worked.....so how can they be phoney if they worked as good as the original? like saying tesco jeans are crap when they look and last as good as Levi's

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Friday 30th September 2011 08:34 GMT Pax681

a man called "Dong"?

sounds like a prick to me!

did he have a friend called wang?

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1. Friday 30th September 2011 10:05 GMT TheOtherJola
  
  Racism ftw!
  
  o_O
  
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2. Friday 30th September 2011 10:56 GMT Jimbo in Thailand
  
  re: a man called "Dong"?
  
  Actually, Dong and Wang are their last names. Dong's first name is Ding and Wang's first name is Long...or vice versa?
  
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Friday 30th September 2011 10:05 GMT Jedit

Five suspects?

People, we must stand up against this blatant miscarriage of justice and protest. All together now:

RELEASE THE IPHONE 5!

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Friday 30th September 2011 10:05 GMT Anonymous Coward

Ah yes where I can I buy...

that new pre-jailbroken iPhone?

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Friday 30th September 2011 14:35 GMT Anonymous Coward

"albeit with a reduced battery life"

How did people even notice?

6 hours instead of 8, was it?

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Saturday 1st October 2011 01:26 GMT JaitcH

The Android version of the look-alike continues unabated

There are look-alike hand-phones on sale in China which appear, on first glance, to be Jobs' products but are actually physically identical but running on Android. The screen icons are identical.

More popular are the Android knock-off look-alike pads on sale and from the outside appear the same. However the weight is a little heavier than the fruit version.

These, and other similar devices are readily available across China in the ubiquitous electronics 'marts'.

I even saw them in Shenyang, Liaoning Province way up in the extreme north-east near the North Korean border.

The typical Chinese user seems to be more than satisfied as long as te physical appearance is similar. I did see version numbers that were different, instead of iPhone 4 they might label it iPhone 4ZE. The Android OS runs English and Chnese characters.

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