Uniting the physical design of the cell phone Apple iPhone series with Google's Android operating system of choice a manufacturer of mobile phones from China named Shenzhen Shenma Lianzhong e-Commerce.
To attract the interest of potential buyers, the phone called Goophone i5S physical design features rounded corners, just like the iPhone series. And in his name, no frills 5S, reminiscent of gadget lovers will be the next Apple phone series.
Apple management is often to use the additional letter "S" in the series phone, such as the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4S. So, after Apple launched the iPhone 5 series coming out towards the end of last year, the next series of predictable named iPhone 5S.
In size landscape display, Goophone i5S has four inches long, the same as the iPhone 5. And Goophone also has a black series, with the main button is round at the bottom, which is the typical iPhone series phone.
Interface design on their software have also tried to follow the design of the iPhone 5. For example, iconic design, which follows the shape of a box with rounded corners ala iPhone. Shape the phone icon, bookshelves, and the browser is also similar to the iPhone icon.
Staining the icons is also seen as follow icons on the iPhone series so it looks the same at first glance. Goophone operating system uses the latest Android, the Jelly Bean. While iOS-based iPhone 5 6.
In terms of ability, Goophone i5S has specifications under iPhone. The phone is made in the city of Shenzhen, China, is, for example, only has two core processor speed of 1 gigahertz. While the iPhone 5 around 1.5 gigahertz speed.
Mobile Goophone has half the memory of the iPhone 5, which is only 512 megabytes. Screen resolution too perfunctory, ie 854 x 480. While the rear camera has a resolution of 5 megapixels, far below the iPhone, which is 8 megapixels.
With an inferior specification, it is not surprising that Goophone phone is priced at around U.S. $ 150 (about USD 1.4 million). Price is of course far below the base price of the iPhone 5, which is perched in the range of approximately USD 8 million.
Based on searches from Businessweek, this GooPhone series phones made since 2011. Shenma Shenzhen company has about 500 employees, who also designed the cloning of a series of mobile phone Samsung Galaxy S.
The company is reportedly planning to sue Apple on the grounds of patent infringement if the phone is the iPhone 5S later marketed in China. In the last year, Apple had received a patent lawsuit in the matter of the use of the Proview brand name iPad and ordered to pay approximately U.S. $ 60 million (about USD 580 billion).
When contacted about the possibility of a patent lawsuit, the management of Shenzhen Shenma not answer. According to He Jing, a practitioner of intellectual property rights, the practice of a lawsuit by a local company in China to the global enterprise is becoming more frequent. "The success of the lawsuit Proview teach some people a quick way to become wealthy," he said.
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BRIEF SPECIFICATIONS:
Processor: 1 gigahertz MediaTek
Memory: 512 megabytes
Screen: 4 inches with a resolution of 854 x 480
Rear camera: 5 megapixel
