No Matter Whether You Call It 山寨机, Shanzhai or Bandit Phone, – China Business

thechinaobserver.com — Yesterday evening I flipped on the television and saw an infomercial for what I thought at first was an iPhone. A male and female host went through the different functions of the phone that looked identical to the iPhone, but when they flipped the phone over to the backside I noticed that the Apple logo looked slightly different from what I recalled. Upon closer examination I found that it was not an Apple “iPhone,” but instead a Golden Apple “Star Phone”.

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