Dropbox take back stolen cloud by installing fake .apk app

Dropbox had previously announced that it intended to give users of HTC smartphones running Sense 4.0 23 GB cloud-based storage at no charge for two years. It didn’t take long before some people found a way to exploit that offer of free storage space without having a smartphone running Sense 4.0. That workaround was posted to the XDA-developers forum last month.

Read More

China shuts down two fake Apple Stores

Chinese trade officials have raided and shut down two of five fake Apple Stores in Kunming, BBC News reported on Monday. The two stores weren’t closed for impersonating an Apple Store, instead both were shuttered for lacking business licenses. Travel blog BirdAbroad brought attention to the fake stores last week when it detailed one convincing shop in Kunming that sold real Apple products. That shop has not been closed because it “has a license to trade and is selling genuine Apple products,” BBC News said. Several of the store’s employees believe that they work for a real Apple Store. The Cupertino-based company has yet to respond to the growing number of illegitimate outlets.

Read More

Shanzhai iPhone Is An iPod Nano Watch

The iPod nano watch isn't even a genuine Apple product, the new multitouch iPod Nano was made to be strapped to a watch band. It’s cool and the knockoff makers now present us a similar thing, a tiny shanzhai iPhone which you can wear it as a WATCH.

Read More

iPhone 5 Clone Video, Before Official Launch

M8cool has just released a video of Apple's next generation iPhone (iphone 5 clone).
Based on the annual product cycle, Apple usually releases the new iPhone in June so looks like clone makers want to reverse the trend by releasing the clone before the official product launch and in this case almost 6 months before the launch of iPhone 5.

Read More

The White MacBook Air Clone N06, 10 inches, smaller than MacBook Air

Apple products are always the most cloned in China. And now a Shanzhai manufacturer gave his clone of the new MacBook Air 11″. Called N06, it adopts a 10.6-inch LED screen with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels. It has a netbook configuration with an Atom processor N450 1.66Ghz supported by 1GB of DDR2 and a 160GB hard drive. In addition, it offers an HDMI output, 2 USB 2.0, one RJ45 LAN port, a Mini Display Port output, a slot for 3G SIM and a SD card reader. This Macbook Air clone measures 276x188x26mm and weighs 1.1 kg with its battery of 3800mAh.
The price will be the main asset of this clone since it should be at around 150 euros.

Read More

iPhone 4 Clone Turns into a 7 inches Tablet PC Multitouch

After copying the iPhone 4 in every sense, the Chinese counterfeiters headed to a new declination, the iPhone Pad 4. Indeed, why not turning the iPhone 4 into a tablet PC?
Here is a giant clone not running iOS but Android 2.1. It adopts a capacitive 7-inch multitouch screen 5 point displaying 800×600 pixels and weighs about 500g. You will find a platform Telechips TCC8902 to play 1080p files and it integrates a 3D chip. It has many connections with 2 mini USB, HDMI output, a miniSD slot, WiFi and 3G plug-in. Finally it features a webcam and its battery has a capacity of 3000mAh.
No price announced or availability date.

Read More