The Fake One
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.
iCondom
During all the April Russian geeks were waiting for the iPhone from Apple to be released in Russia.
There were plenty of the signs: big billboards across the Moscow city made in Apple-style with the word “iSoon” in Russian and the date of April, 22st, 2008, itunes-store.ru webdomain with the same ad and many more “good signs” for those who wanted the localized iPhone. All the geek communities had a major buzz on this topic too.
But when the day X had come, it came out that they were all fooled. It turned to be a virus ad campaign by… Contex, the worldwide condom producer. They decided to advertise in this way their new condoms…
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