iPhone knockoff costs $40 to manufacture?

April 28th, 2009

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Wondering what is the real cost of the chinese make iPhone clones like the oPhone that we saw recently? Well here is a estimated cost sheet of a fake iPhone. Cheap, cheaper and cheapest parts with no good software is what you get. According to this estimate a very basic iPhone clone shall cost $39.56 to manufacture.

Extremely popular in India these devices have given the Nokias and Sony Ericssons a run for their money. Prompting Nokia to do some dard-e-disco.

Some better clones in the market that have also accommodated the accelerometer and finger swipe gestures of the iPhone. These might cost a little more. But thats the reality of Chinese handsets for you – $39.56.

Via Gizmodo

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Indian govt working on strategy to deal with fake mobile handsets

December 22nd, 2008

We already saw the fight Nokia is putting up to fight the chinese mobiles. In the last 1-2 year s these handsets have flooded the local markets and ruined the low-end cream that the industry was growing on since the last 5 years.

And here comes the fight from the Indian govt to tackle the unbranded phones without legal IMEI. It is believed that these phones are widely used by terrorists. Earlier the govt had directed the telecos to disconnect mobile handsets on their network without proper IMEI by 6th Jan 2009. However the deadline has now been expanded till 31 March 2009.

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