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iPhone fake?

TheZohanS · 2011-08-31 14:03:46

hey, Just need some advice as i know **** all about iphones. I bought an iphone 4 off some fella on gumtree yesterday. Paid €200, as opposed to €600 they cost from apple store. I have a feeling i may have been stitched up. Brought it home and compared it to my mates one, his is definetely real. They are very similar but…

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31-08-2011 3:03pm

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hey,

Just need some advice as i know **** all about iphones. I bought an iphone 4 off some fella on gumtree yesterday. Paid €200, as opposed to €600 they cost from apple store.

I have a feeling i may have been stitched up. Brought it home and compared it to my mates one, his is definetely real. They are very similar but there is small differences everywhere. My texting thing is simply called "text" whereas his is called "messages". my camera is called "photo" whereas his is called "photos". As well as that it came with loads of apps etc that his didnt come with like skype, facebook and youtube. As well there is 4 songs already on it, all with Chinese writing etc.

The main thing is that it seems kind of slow, unresponsive. Everything from flicking across the screen to taking a photo is just slow compared to his. He seems to think it way be a software/jailbreak issue. I dont even know what jailbroken means! His modem firmware says "04.10.01" whereas mine says "01.59.00" I am correct in thinking its like him having Microsoft Office 2007 and me having 95? If i update to a latest version will it be faster/better? or is it that i have just bought a poxy fake? Let me know anyway. Cheers lads

Here's a photo of it.

TheZohan

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#2 31-08-2011 3:06pm
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Thats fine its the same as mine i got it on adverts too

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#3 31-08-2011 5:04pm
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TheZohan wrote: »

hey,

Just need some advice as i know **** all about iphones. I bought an iphone 4 off some fella on gumtree yesterday. Paid €200, as opposed to €600 they cost from apple store.

I have a feeling i may have been stitched up. Brought it home and compared it to my mates one, his is definetely real. They are very similar but there is small differences everywhere. My texting thing is simply called "text" whereas his is called "messages". my camera is called "photo" whereas his is called "photos". As well as that it came with loads of apps etc that his didnt come with like skype, facebook and youtube. As well there is 4 songs already on it, all with Chinese writing etc.

The main thing is that it seems kind of slow, unresponsive. Everything from flicking across the screen to taking a photo is just slow compared to his. He seems to think it way be a software/jailbreak issue. I dont even know what jailbroken means! His modem firmware says "04.10.01" whereas mine says "01.59.00" I am correct in thinking its like him having Microsoft Office 2007 and me having 95? If i update to a latest version will it be faster/better? or is it that i have just bought a poxy fake? Let me know anyway. Cheers lads

Here's a photo of it.

TheZohan

If i'd known you can get facebook on that, I would've kept mine

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#4 31-08-2011 5:21pm
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I see you got the latest handsfree kit with it.

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#5 31-08-2011 5:33pm
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holy shit its a prototype iphone 5!!!! was the guys name steve and did he look very thin??

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#6 31-08-2011 5:40pm
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Its definately genuine, because the elastic band(technical term) is the same colour as the one in DADES photo.

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#7 31-08-2011 5:45pm
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120_Minutes wrote: »

holy shit its a prototype iphone 5!!!! was the guys name steve and did he look very thin??

He was thin alright...smelled of pee too. Not sure if his name was Steve.

Pataman wrote: »

Its definately genuine, because the elastic band(technical term) is the same colour as the one in DADES photo.

Yeah I asked about the band and the guy just said it was to fix the antenna problems...design fault or something...

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#8 31-08-2011 5:47pm
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TheZohan wrote: »

hey,

Just need some advice as i know **** all about iphones. I bought an iphone 4 off some fella on gumtree yesterday. Paid €200, as opposed to €600 they cost from apple store.

I have a feeling i may have been stitched up. Brought it home and compared it to my mates one, his is definetely real. They are very similar but there is small differences everywhere. My texting thing is simply called "text" whereas his is called "messages". my camera is called "photo" whereas his is called "photos". As well as that it came with loads of apps etc that his didnt come with like skype, facebook and youtube. As well there is 4 songs already on it, all with Chinese writing etc.

The main thing is that it seems kind of slow, unresponsive. Everything from flicking across the screen to taking a photo is just slow compared to his. He seems to think it way be a software/jailbreak issue. I dont even know what jailbroken means! His modem firmware says "04.10.01" whereas mine says "01.59.00" I am correct in thinking its like him having Microsoft Office 2007 and me having 95? If i update to a latest version will it be faster/better? or is it that i have just bought a poxy fake? Let me know anyway. Cheers lads

Here's a photo of it.

TheZohan

Why did you copy paste this thread?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=73858165

Couldn't come up with anything wittier or did I miss something?

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#9 31-08-2011 5:49pm
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subway wrote: »

Why did you copy paste this thread?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=73858165

Couldn't come up with anything wittier or did I miss something?

I think you missed something....

Wow, what are the chances....

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#10 31-08-2011 5:52pm
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I presume quite high, but what's the joke?
Or is that the actual joke...

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#11 01-09-2011 12:35am
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#12 01-09-2011 9:23am
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grand, its just not funny then...
must get rid of my ipad so i'm not tempted to read this forum anymore

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