Can be ordered from the Russian
firmware?

Andi, if you want examples I can name quite a bit.
Even in the collectible market – how many reproductions of items are there when it comes to money banks? Roseville Pottery? Wind up toys? Souvenirs? Jewelry such as reproduction movado watches, rolex, you name it. Now there are reproductions of Tiffany & Co.

What I am getting at, is it’s not China’s own version of these items, it’s that they are EXACTLY copying them color for color, line by line, piece by piece.

Come up with your own crap and stop trying to ruin the market commies!

And if you are going to tell someone to work on their grammer, you might as well yourself. “China were not”, China IS not.

I don’t like the phones without brands from China… The materials are cheap and the OS is crap. Maybe if the chinese cellphone companies created a brand and started to use a better OS, like android, they could make a good and competitive phone. Chinese companies are able to make a exact copy from a famous brand product, but I think they may sell more if they unite their forces to make a trustfull brand.

“if this is a true representation of what the next generation iPhone 5 is going to look like, it seems more like a step backwards rather than a step forward in design”

It’s a clone! Why do you imply/assume any similarity between this phone and iPhone 5?

Everybody copies everybody else – sure China rips off Western tech designs – but the copying is at the most trivial cosmetic level – apart from that the tech is (relatively) original. Do you have bone-china teacups, a silk shirt?
The fact that China is using Apple (and many other) inspired designs and creating an otherwise original product at a fraction of the price should be a worry. Now – they are *innovating* at the *production* and design phase, soon they will be *innovating* at the production *inception* phase.
Exactly the same cycle as Japan, Korea, Taiwan – but I bet you love your LG TV, Sony BlueRay, Samsung Phone…