Top 5 Apple Knock-Offs 2012

Knock-off’s, clones, copies, replicas! Call them what you will, but there is no denying that the Apple counterfeits from China this year, are possibly some of the greatest we have seen. But more shockingly they may actually be worth buying!

Keep reading to see out run down of the top 5 fake Apple gadget from China for 2012!

We’re not going to post these in any particular order as we think each of them is fantastic in their own way. Feel free to tell us which is your favorite in the comments section below.

GooApple have produced 3 fantastic clones of the iPhone 4, but the best is the V5. We broke news of the GooApple V5 last week, and it has been buzzing around the various tech sites ever since.

Why is the V5 so good? Well it features a perfect replica body of the iPhone 4S, get’s real GPS, can connect to the internet via 3G or Wi-Fi and has an amazingly accurate iOS clone operating system based on Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

The GooApple V5 also get s true Retina display, like the screen found on the current iPhone 4S, and a 5 mega-pixel rear camera.

Watch the GooApple V5 in action on video here and again here.

This iPad 2 knock-off by Chinese company Grefu, looks and feels almost identical to the genuine iPad 2, but there are a few areas this replica really stands out!

For example the CPU is a 1.2Ghz Cortex A9 unit and it features 1Gb RAM, double that of the Apple tablet. What’s more the front and rear cameras on this clone put the units on the Apple iPad to shame, with the front being a 2 mega-pixel unit and the rear a 3 mega-pixel.

This has to be one of the best MBA clones we have ever seen. Unlike previous attempts to mimic Apple's ultra-thin laptop, this clone is machined from a single piece of alloy and gets a very impressive hardware specification.

32GB SSD hard drive, 1.8 GHZ Intel Atom Cedar Trail CPU, and all in a super light and extremely attractive brushed aluminum shell.

Yes, we know it all turned out to be a folly, and the iPhone 5 is still hidden away at Apple somewhere, but this little knock-off made for some exciting speculation.

The iPhone nano, found at our local ‘Phone City’ here in Qingdao, China. It is an almost snack sized version of the iPhone 4! Available in black and white, these teeny weeny knock offs have built in TV tuners, touch-screens, front and rear cameras plus JAVA based fake iOS.

Well that complete our list of top 5 Apple knock-offs for 2012. If you have other favorites or want to let us know what you think of the state of the Apple clone scene, let us know in the comments section below.