What You Get When You Buy a $40 iPhone In a Bar 211
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."
the new version (Score:5, Funny)
What You Get When You Buy a $40 iPhone In a Bar (Score:5, Funny)
Arrested?
High Standards (Score:5, Funny)
So Apple would not allow this, but we can have like 100 fart apps? That's pretty messed up.
Re:High Standards (Score:5, Funny)
So its a cheap softcore porn device? I could see a market for this thing in bars everywhere!
so in other words (Score:5, Funny)
This thing is far more useful than an iPhone!
Re:News Flash: (Score:3, Funny)
Well, you could take the time to get to know them. But they'd probably still sell you the cheap knock-off.
Re:WARNING I have a friend (Score:4, Funny)
That was obvious from the subject line.
Re:WARNING I have a friend (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like a better premise than the the last ~500 movies of the week on Syfy.
Re:So? (Score:5, Funny)
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? (Score:5, Funny)
A notice comes up saying "Please Do Not Press This Button Again"
Re:High Standards (Score:3, Funny)
Re: What You Get When You Buy a $40 iPhone In a Ba (Score:5, Funny)
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?!?!"
Re:fraud (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WARNING I have a friend (Score:3, Funny)
Now he's Chinaman, fighting against injustice by kicking evildoers with a leg that weighs several billion metric tons, which tends to hurt them a lot. His arch nemesis is every single Chinese citizen because they're not too thrilled about some random twit constantly tossing their entire country around. Also, the local tram company; fitting China into a tram is really difficult. He also can't fight injustice during Chinese New Year as his leg goes home to be with its family.
Okay, so I made that up. The tram company doesn't really hate him.
Re:the new version (Score:2, Funny)
I see your iPhoney and raise you an iPony.
The iPony is the only farm animal that comes complete with a beautiful white embossed iApple logo, and a USB port for syncing your ride data and loading playlists for listening while you are driving around in your iPony