iPhone 4 knock-off makes it to newspaper headlines

How popular can a knock-off of an iPhone 4 get? Well if you’re in Hong Kong – very. A newspaper called the Daily Apple (no, despite its name, it’s not the official Apple newspaper) recently featured a copycat iPhone 4 on its front pages. The imitation phone called the SoPhone 4 looks so much like the original iPhone 4 that many people have trouble telling the two apart. The phone has the same dimensions as the iPhone 4 and it weights a little lighter. But other than that, it’s very hard to tell the fake phone from the real phone just by looking at it. The phone runs on an operating system that looks just like iOS, and works exactly the same way – except that the SoPhone 4 doesn’t perform as well as the iPhone 4 (inferior hardware perhaps?). Other differences include – no access to the app store, no 3G (but it has WiFi for internet), a 2 megapixel camera instead of 5, and only 4GB of internal storage. The phone will cost about $193 (without a contract), so if you ever meet someone trying to sell you an iPhone 4 for that cheap, be wary! Watch a news report on the SoPhone 4 after the break: