Chinese clone GooPhone arrives before the real Apple iPhone
Source: James Gaskin
New Chinese phone company's plan to avoid patent lawsuits from Apple: create a knockoff and patent it before the real iPhone 5 comes out.
According to Giz-China, the GooPhone is based on the leaked hardware details about the iPhone 5, but runs the Android operating system from Google. Following the rumors, the GooPhone has a four inch “retina” screen display at 1,280x720, and the smaller dock connector that upset Apple fans, since their existing peripherals won't work with the new iPhone 5.
GooPhone is thought to be the product of a 500-employee company called Shenzhen Shenma Lianzhong e-Commerce. The company has claimed to patent the relevant physical details of their pseudo-iPhone 5, making for a potential showdown in Chinese courts that could possibly lead to a sales ban on the Apple product.
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