iphone from china

sitja

Hi guys just want to know has anyone bought one of these, basically i have an ipod touch i use in my car with usb in radio to listen, but i actually hate apple but recently i saw like an iphone clone but has windows os, im hoping that i can connect this to my car radio and listen to songs as i did with the itouch but without the hassle of having extra baggage, looking has anyone ever purchased one of these?

drunkmonkey

It's not an iphone it's not even close, if you hate apple buy a Nokia not some piece of crap put together by a 2year old which could burn your house down.

sitja

you speaking with experience? I know there is a lot crocks out there but believe i can verify thought i have often bought cloned chinese stuff which has been up to standard, infact one time a clone i bought outlived an original product i had! So im aware of serious bull that these guys can sell, but in fairness some of these chinese dudes are gifted at how to can clone materials.

whiterebel

sitja wrote: »

you speaking with experience? I know there is a lot crocks out there but believe i can verify thought i have often bought cloned chinese stuff which has been up to standard, infact one time a clone i bought outlived an original product i had! So im aware of serious bull that these guys can sell, but in fairness some of these chinese dudes are gifted at how to can clone materials.

If you hate Apple then go ahead and buy it.

sitja

well i wanna see has anyone else one yet, hence asking, so il know if it'l work the way i want it to work, no piont in rushing in might aswell get advice first.

Tom Dunne

Think about it - how can it be a clone if it is running Windows? So it won't connect to iTunes and it won't run iOS apps and it probably has much lower specs. Apart from physically looking like and iPhone, what is the point?

raycah1

A girl in work bought one just before christmas she thought it was great and played with it all day untill the battery died, she then pluged it in upstairs to charge, a little while later she smelled burning and then all the lights went out. she ran upstairs and unpluged it, the phone was fryed.not saying this will happen to all fake iphones but beware.

nordine

A friend of mine had one and it exploded in her face and killed her whole family!

stephendevlin

I have one of these. They are ok to work with but they are not iphones so dont expect them to be! Coverage from chinese phones are poor. Must be the aerials they use.

sitja

Tom Dunne wrote: »

Think about it - how can it be a clone if it is running Windows? So it won't connect to iTunes and it won't run iOS apps and it probably has much lower specs. Apart from physically looking like and iPhone, what is the point?

Thats my point i dont want it to have itunes, its modded to have windows so maybe its not a clone but whatever just want it to work through car radio like the touch but also have the benefit of having it as phone. Have any of you guys used the clone type things (since there not exactly clones)?

Thanks stephen thats the kind response i was wanting to hear.

irish1967

Doubt anyone here ever owned one since this is an Apple forum.
A friend of mine had one but it died after 2 months and the touch screen was incredibly unresponsive in comparison to the real thing.
Why not buy a descent android phone? Why a lookalike clone?

sitja

reason is in first post bud.

stephendevlin

Hard to beat the real thing IMO fork out the extra Euros and stop tormenting yourself! The replica (so to speak) had windows on it. No issues with charging or anything. was able to run sat nav / skype etc had wifi 3g an all the rest but the reception side by side with a Nokia or Iphone it was pish.. It now lies in a drawer after I bought her an Iphone last Christmas from America.

sitja

i hate itunes and that crap so hence trying to get one with windows.

vinnycoyne

What about an Android or Windows Phone 7 handset? Does it have to be an iPhone knockoff?

sitja

they wont work through usb in car radio and thats why im trying this route, saying that that could also fail so was hoping someone new first.

stephendevlin

The windows one wont play through usb. That port is for data only. What ports do you have on your car stereo?

sitja

just a usb port and when i connect ipod touch to it i can play and skip songs through stereo. That sucks but it saves me buyin one now thanks buddy.