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Working iPhone 6 knockoffs already hit the market


Fakers seem to have beaten Apple to the punch, with fully-functional iPhone 6 knockoffs hitting the streets in China long before the phone's official launch.

Enthusiast site 9to5mac.com cited photos by French blog NowhereElse.fr showing "working" iPhone 6's—or at least phones that look like the upcoming iPhone 6—online.

Apple is expected to announce the real iPhone 6 in September, with the new iPhones expected to have larger 4.7 and 5.5-inch displays, it added.

The site said the clones appeared to use the rumored specification and schematics of the actual iPhone 6, "but obviously use off-the-shelf internals and don’t run iOS."



It speculated the knockoffs may be running a version of Google's mobile operating system Android, plus a skin that makes it look like iOS 7.

"The Google Play store is already full of iOS 7 Home Screen and app clones," it said. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News

source: gmanetwork.com