Rights violations: Is that an iPone? Smartphones are the new fake bags of counterfeiting

Chinese factories are two-timing their clients, producing fake iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones for the black market in extra production shifts, according to the author of a new book on the smartphone industry.

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Rights violations: Is that an iPone? Smartphones are the new fake bags of counterfeiting 1412328835902

Elizabeth Woyke, author of The Smartphone: Anatomy of an Industry, published last month, says knock-off devices and "diverted" phones – devices intended for sale in one market but illegally imported into another – are big business with estimates of 195 million devices shipped in 2013 alone. Smartphones account for up to 60 per cent of that illegal racket, according to US research company Strategy Analytics.

In a major challenge to companies such as Apple, Samsung and HTC, some factories in China produce legitimate phones on one factory floor and replicate counterfeit devices from the same design on another level of the building, Ms Woyke says.

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Rights violations: Is that an iPone? Smartphones are the new fake bags of counterfeiting

Rights violations: Is that an iPone? Smartphones are the new fake bags of counterfeiting

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