Recently a lot of fake iPhones came to life in Russia. They are often being sold in the manner of a big rush, something like “Look, bro, I don’t have enough money for my train/plane tickets or whatever, but I’ve got a real iPhone, look the battery is dead but when you turn it on pushing the power you can see an apple logo for a while, so just charge it and you have an iphone!”. So people fall on this and then bring such devices to the service centers where they are being disassembled, and what a surprise – inside there is no anything looking like iPhone inner stuff but only two batteries and a light bulb lighting an apple logo shadow when the power button is being pressed, also there is a bar of steel so that the phone can weigh like a real thing.
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Ugh. Not sure if there’s more useless junk stuffed in real one.
Russian business is inventive and best!!!!U ASS cannot beat our strong ambiton! ! !!we control market,oil,gasiPHONE! ! ! !
I am completely disgusted by these scum. Are there any single honest person in Russia anymore?
No. All the decent people moved to India, apparently. In India, as we all know, there are no criminals. Right?
At least China makes functional imitations…
nice scam
I kinda want one!
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most of the russian are still crooks. Communism spoiled generations.
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I thought all of the cell phones in russia would at least have vacuum tubes.
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The cracked iPod logo isn’t playing in the fake iPhone,i think.Beacouse i own iPod Touch and in FW 1.1.4. i got a cracked iPod logo,too.But I have the real,not fake iPod Touch.And again,beacouse the fake iPod doesn’t connect and sync to iTunes.But mine does that.
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Oh I love fake stuff – cheap and better! – I am a mad nut shell who loves ducks and gouda cheeze!
You’ve done it once more! Great article!
Cool blog. One of my favorite apps is stubsearch tickets. Link in my profile.
In naples (italy) is 100 years they makes that jokes, it’s callad ‘pacco’