On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe the Chinese are peculiar, or the price is just too high compared to other high end handsets. And the cheap Chinese iPhone knock-offs with as many as 3 SIM card slots are widely available and very popular. The resemble the genuine iPhone till you get to the fake iPhone OS X and realise it is just too fake.
And we have a new iPhone 4G (or iPhone LTE) coming soon, may be the Chinese who work in the sweatshops in Downtown Shanghai that make the iPhone has told the local populace to just wait for the new iPhone.
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@Philip, Ndungu : I almost fell off my chair with laughter after reading the article. :-))))) When I was there last year, 2 things are etched in memory. Once some friends and I went to downtown Beijing Silk market to window shop. Nearby was a phone shop and it had the iphone. Well someone, against our friendly advice on the iphone being a 0.1 iphone, went ahead and bought it. And later he discovered many things missing in the OS, we could but only "insult" him further! On the second trip, someone else decided to buy a 32GB flash disk and we cautioned him against such a thing. It was branded Sony but this Sony was different. Getting back and connecting it, the 32GB showed up four 8GB partitions which could not be formatted easily! Its good fun to see the things are not what they seem and further add "insult" to injury... :-)) But I got to say these guys are very smart. Anyone on this list, how do you clone an iPhone OS and make sure that the chipsets can work with the OS? In what street do the chinese make the processors? Nice article... :-)