ZoPhone iPhone 5 clone everything you need to know!

ZoPhone weren’t the first to launch an iPhone 5 clone in China, however they do seem to have produced the most accurate iPhone 5 clone available even down to the new ear buds and Apples marketing!

The ZoPhone iPhone 5 clone is a Chinese made imitation iPhone 5. It features the same design as the new 4 inch screen iPhone and even a similar specification, however it uses Google’s Android OS rather than iOS and will cost less than the real iPhone 5.

So now you know what the ZoPone i5 is it's time to find out what this iPhone 5 clone has to offer us. Below are some of the features which ZoPhone are claiming for their new phone, and yes these images were all stolen from the Apple website and have had the Apple logo badly photo shopped out! (By ZoPhone not me).

As this is classed as a ‘high-immitation’ iPhone 5 clone, the designers at ZoPhone have gone out of their way to produce an Android phone which looks and feels just like the real iPhone 5.

As such they have made their iPhone 5 clone to the same dimensions as the new iPhone 5 meaning you can use genuine Apple accessories with this low-cost Chinese knock-off!

The ZoPhone website has this to say about the i5

The ZoPhone iPhone 5 clone gets the same 4 inch Retina display as the real iPhone 5. Not just the same size but the same resolution and PPI!

The officially specifications (here) state the ZoPhone i5 has a 4 inch retina display with a resolution of 1136 x 640 and 326ppi. They also claim that the screen on the i5 is 44% brighter than previous (iPhone 4s clone) phones and offers HD video playback.

The ZoPhone i5 features built-in Wi-fi and supports 802.11m wireless network connections and claims a download speed for 150mbps.

The CPU in the ZoPhone i5 is the popular MediaTek MT6577 dual-core CPU which is found in numerous Chinese phones at the moment.

Running at 1.2 Ghz and with 1GB RAM the ZoPhone i5 should be offer quiet impressive performance for a Chinese Android phone and will likely score well in AnTuTu and Quadrant tests.

According to ZoPhone’s official marketing blurb, the i5 has a 1400mAh battery which isn’t all that much in a market of phones with 2000mAh+ batteries!

However, they claim that the i5 is capable of 10 hours of video playback on a single charge! I would have to take this claim with a pinch of salt and would imagine to achieve this you would need 3G and Wi-Fi turned off and the screen brightness turned to it’s lowest setting.

It’s not just the look and feel of the new iPhone 5 ZoPhone have managed to copy, but also the new earbuds which Apple is so proud of!

Apparently ZoPhone performed 100 different prototypes to get to their final design.... so I guess that they look exactly like the iPhone 5 models is sheer coincidence ;)

While we still don’t know what the front camera will be rated at, the rear is an 8 mega-pixel unit which features auto-focus and all those great Android ICS manual features!

From what ZoPhone write on their site it seems they are hinting at the fact their iPhone 5 clone actually features the same camera as the previous iPhone 4S!

However they also go on to claim that both the front and rear cameras on the i5 are capable of capturing 1080 video which I’m not quite ready to believe.

Like the real iPhone 5 the ZoPhone iPhone 5 clone has a newly copied Lightning adapter which is smaller than the previous 30pin dock connector of the iPhone 4S.

It is said to work either way round, like the real lightning connector and there will be 30pin adapters to convert your current (ZoPhone) accessories to work with the i5.

ZoPhone are also advertising their clone with a voice assistant which understands and responds in Chinese. I guess this will be based on iFlytechs popular, and very effective, software which Xiaomi are also using on the M2.

As you can see from the screen shots the ZoPhone iPhone 5 clone’s Siri looks the same as the real Siri on Apple’s iOS!

While the marketing hype sounds good many of the points above seem to good to be true and I’m personally holding off judgement until some real i5’s are seen and tested.

However if it all turns out to be true and ZoPhone can offer the i5 for the $200 price mark (which they have suggested) then they will certainly be on to a best seller, unless Apple sues them!

What do you guy’s think of the ZoPhone iPhone 5 clone? Let us know in the comments section below!