What’s most interesting about these fake iPhones is that they were made from real iPhone parts. The assumption is that the companies that made supplies for Apple would make additional parts and sell them to third parties who would somehow assemble a Frankenstein of iPhone and non-iPhone parts together and sell them at double the cost.
It would be interesting and surprising if they got iOS working on these. I’m guessing a flavor of Android with a iOS-like skin was used. Apple would have a big problem on their hands if iOS was being pirated.
The fake iPhones had the same functions as the genuine ones but had a shorter battery life, it quoted the police as saying.
Updated with video of one of these fakes:
- T-Mobile: About the iPhone, a letter to customers (9to5mac.com)
