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Last weekend, Shenzhen police has successfully cracked down a Shanzhai factory that produced knock-off cell phones. Two production lines had been smashed and closed down, more than 3,000 shell casing and components to make fake Apple, HTC, Nokia and Samsung phone had been seized on the spot. Authorities have detained 10 suspects in connection with the factory. The small factory has only about 35 workers, which doesn’t consider to be a large scale production. It seems major mobile phone companies, especially Apple, are putting more efforts to track down those evil counterfeiters, by working with local police to raid their manufacturing facilities. Click in for more pictures on the story.
According to a survey, imported red wine sells better than domestic brands in China, especially Chateau Lafite and Castel. The real Chateau Lafite only produces 240,000 bottles of wine per year, but the sales volume of Lafite-branded wine in China is 2 million bottles annually ! Obviously, over 90 percent of Chateau Lafite which you can find in China are all fake !
China has always been famous for ripping off other people’s creation. As movies and cinema industry are rising in China, more Hollywood movies are getting into the Chinese market. It might brings more challenges for the local China filmmakers, therefore they have started ripping off movie posters from Hollywood long times ago …
The tragedy was happened at the city of Zhenzhou, Henan province north-central China. A Chinese man wanted an iPhone so badly, he went to search for it in a local shopping district and met a seller who could sell him an authentic iPhone for a special price. After bargaining, the man bought the so-called new iPhone for only 2,000 yuan (US$330). Later he found that the phone is a knock-off and he tried to look out for the cheater. In the end, he found another group of people which were selling the same cheap knockoff iPhone to a young boy. The anger has driven him unexpectedly murder one of the cheater …
While the Taiwanese NBA basketball player Jeremy Lin has rapidly risen from obscurity to superstar, the ‘Linsanity’ has also gone wild in mainland China. The Lin-Mania brings tons of business opportunity to the store owners at Taobao, the biggest China online shopping site similar to ebay. Many knockoff merchandise of Lin such as iPhone cases, the #17 New York Knicks jerseys, t-shirts and hoodies are selling like hot cakes. Besides that, Lin’s Chinese name has also being quickly registered as trademark …
While the whole world is waiting for the iPhone 5, iPnoho6 has released in China. Yes, it called ‘iPnoho6′ but not iPhone 6. This is the latest Shanzhai iPhone made-in-China. Actually the device cannot be called the iPhone 6 rip-off because iPhone 5 is not even exist yet. The ‘iPnoho6′ is made of cheap plastic casing in white color, and it is label as “IPDA”. It has some large speakers on the back, and it’s creative enough that the home screen button is designed in a “full apple” logo. The specification and price unknown, properly it’s a cheapo feature phone. We are curious to know how it actually works.
2011 has just passed. It was a lively year for the China’s internet and tech industry. We look back at some of the year’s biggest stories such as Foxconn explosion, Chinese hacking, more censorship and the rise of the Chinese brand smartphones. Follow along after the break, we will run you through all the greatest China tech news in 2011, enjoy !
Chinese knockoff makers gets into the super-thin notebook game in a big way with the $499 AirBook. We’ve played around with it for a while now and can say that it looks very similar to Apple’s MacBook Air, and it’s very cheap. Unfortunately being cheap comes at a price.
A Chinese boy named WeiXin Long (Long), who self-made a knockoff tablet out of some waste materials as a gift for his girlfriend. Of course, it is far from a wonderful piece but the effort that Long took is appreciating numerous Chinese netizens and sparked their interest.
Rovio Mobile’s Peter Vesterbacka was onstage along with a trio of unauthorized Angry Bird balloons to join John Biggs at TechCrunch DisruptBeijing chatting his future plan to expand in China.
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