Feed on
Posts
Comments

Tag Archive 'Shanzhai'

Assault on Intellectual Property – It Pays to be Paranoid

Posted in AAPL, Apple, Foxconn Hon Hai, Google, iClones, iPad on Feb 18th, 2010

They really are out to get you (your IP)!
Today’s link-bait award goes to Silicon Alley Insider for this gem of a headline – Reuters Reporter Assaulted While Investigating Apple’s Top-Secret China Suppliers
Reuters set out to do a mini exposé on Apple’s (AAPL) secrecy and security policies and the tactics Apple uses to guard its intellectual property [...]

Read Full Post »

Busted! Counterfeit iPhone operation raided in China

Posted in Apple, China, Shanghai, Shanzhai ji, iPhone in China on Jan 19th, 2010

China’s authorities took a baby step in the right direction on Friday (Jan 15) by busting a counterfeit iPhone operation in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen. More than 1,000 pirate (phony) iPhones were confiscated at the “Shanzhai” (counterfeit culture) manufacturing operation. Twenty-eight (28) workers were taken into custody for questioning in the manufacturing and distributing of the fake iPhones. [...]

Read Full Post »

India poised to hit the kill switch on 25 million Shanzhai phones

Posted in iPhone in India on Nov 30th, 2009

The headline in today’s Times of India reads – Chinese mobiles sans IMEI won’t buzz from Monday. What’s this all about? Mobile carriers in India will be required to hit the kill switch and shut off service to all mobile phones that do not have (or do not immediately obtain) a true International Mobile Equipment [...]

Read Full Post »

Photos: Real and Shanzhai iPhones in Hong Kong

Posted in Hong Kong, Uncategorized, iPhone Hong Kong on Nov 25th, 2009

Real iPhones via official distributors

*******************************
Official iPhone distributors in Hong Kong:

“3” Shop – owned by Hutchison the official iPhone carrier in Hong Kong
Fortress
Mobile City
Broadway
Apple’s online HK store

Sham Shui Po Street Market
Here (below) are few photos of Shanzhai “counterfeit” iPhones found in the Sham Shui Poi Street Market in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Many of these handsets [...]

Read Full Post »

iPhonAsia Travelogue Part 5: Secret rooms with hidden Shanzhai treasures

Posted in Apple, Blackmarket, China Unicom, iPhone in China on Nov 19th, 2009

Landed in Shanghai on Monday evening and took in a night stroll along the Bund. Then a fun glass elevator ride up to the Vue Room Bar for a look at the Shanghai skyline. Impressive. A veritable rainbow of Bund lights shimmer across the water as the glimmering tour boats glide by.
Tuesday I hired a [...]

Read Full Post »