What You Get When You Buy a $40 iPhone In a Bar

Barence writes "How good — or bad — are fake iPhones? PC Pro blogger Steve Cassidy has a friend who paid £25 ($40) for an 'iPhone' in a bar, and he's got the photos and full lowdown of what's inside this not-so smartphone. The phone looks convincing enough from the outside, with a genuine-looking backplate, but things start to go wrong when you switch it on. What's a "Java" and "WLAN" App button doing on the screen? And how about that Internet Explorer icon? It's like you're handling an artefact from an alternate history, dropped in via a spacetime wormhole. It has dual SIM handling, too, and came with a bizarre auxiliary battery festooned with warnings about not pressing a button mounted on the front of the top-up device."

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the new version

[rarel]

the iPhony!

What You Get When You Buy a $40 iPhone In a Bar

[StikyPad]

Arrested?

High Standards

[Itninja]

From TFA: The final nail in the coffin was an app we found five screens in, which even allowing for "cultural differences" Apple would never allow through the approvals process. The app in questions showed a lissom Asian lady lying on a bed who wriggles and moans suggestively when you rub your finger over her.

So Apple would not allow this, but we can have like 100 fart apps? That's pretty messed up.

Re:High Standards

[Shatteredstar]

So its a cheap softcore porn device? I could see a market for this thing in bars everywhere!

so in other words

[commodoresloat]

This thing is far more useful than an iPhone!

Re:So?

[fred fleenblat]

the universe was completely destroyed and replaced by another universe, identical to the first except it was one in which the button had not been pressed.

Re:So?

[Existential Wombat]

A notice comes up saying "Please Do Not Press This Button Again"

Re: What You Get When You Buy a $40 iPhone In a Ba

[StikyPad]

MichaelSmith, age 5: "But what was the underlying cause? Was he in search of food? Was he being pursued by a predator? Was there a potential mate on the other side of the road?!?"

MichaelSmith, age 10: "Technically they never found any parts of the astronauts washed up on the beach, which makes that a single entendre!!"

MichaelSmith, age 15: "All mammal meat is RED!! Plus the anatomies are completely different. OJ wouldn't necessarily be any better at cutting a turkey than anyone else just because he allegedly murdered someone."

MichaelSmith, present day: "That doesn't even make sense! There were eight years between the Challenger disaster and the OJ Simpson trial, and supposedly I only aged FIVE years?!?!"