iPhone 5S not even out and Android-running GooPhone i5S is ready to sell for $99 [video]

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Apple is rumored to launch at least one new iPhone model later this year, with iPhone 5S being the logical name for one of them, a device that’s expected to be an iPhone 5 upgrade. But while the iPhone 5S is not even official yet, the GooPhone i5S, a Chinese Android knock off, is getting ready to sell for just $99.

GooPhone doesn’t need any more introductions by now as, unfortunately, the company has ripped plenty of other products including them into its “Goo” line – and they’re not all Apple devices, as the lists includes copies of the iPhone 5, the iPad mini, the HTC One but also the Galaxy Note 2.

The GooPhone i5S is similar to the iPhone 5 when it comes to design and user interface, although the device runs Android, even if it’s made to look like iOS. When it comes to hardware, the GooPhone i5S will offer you a 4-inch display, 1GHz dual-core MT6577 processor, 512MB of RAM, 5-megapixel camera and vanilla Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with an iOS skin on top.

The first 1,000 buyers will be able to snatch the device for $99, while everyone else will have to pay $149.99 for the handset.

Anyone looking to buy a low-end iPhone 5S-like Android-running smartphone?

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Comments

Jelly Bean

Samsung is beginning to believe its own marketing. Even the Galaxy Note 8 is more expensive than the iPad mini, even though the iPad feels more “premium”. Another reason why my next phone will be the HTC One.
IncCo

Well.. the iphone is almost months older.. so i guess it should be slightly cheaper?
- Jelly Bean
  
  The iphone was never as expensive as the GS4 to begin with. :-/
  - John Koetsier poyo
    
    coz u don have money..
    stop..
    - Jelly Bean
      
      Can you speak English?
MasterMuffin

I’m pretty sure that the making of sgs4 costs more than the making of iPhone + iPhone is older so I don’t see the problem. Maybe it’s just because I’m not ‘murican and I always buy phones with full price :)
wferreira

Maybe can be because they want to slow the demand to catch up with the production of the octa-core? I will getting one but not until eligible for upgrade in 3 more months :(
But I want to see how big will be the Note 3 as that is my first choice :)
Monji

Why are you comparing the price of a year old phone with a phone that is going to get released?
chris

Seriosuly? Any person should be able to understand where the more bang for the buck really is.. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist but then again this world is filled with retarded people.
scuro

ATT gets paid more from apple than Samsung. That is one of the reasons why they throttled down the speed of android phones a few years ago. The fat is that apples past 3 phones were obsolete by 6 month to a year at the time of their release. Why buy a New iPhone 5, when you can get an “older” android with almost the same, or betters specs for about 1/2 the price?
RaptorOO7

I haven’t seen anything that states the $249 is for a 16GB version and there has been no mention of a 32GB or the MIA 64GB version. I personally will NOT buy the 16GB period. You can’t put apps on the SD card and formatted space is about 10GB so its hardly worth buying.
RaptorOO7

I haven’t seen anything that states the $249 is for a 16GB version and there has been no mention of a 32GB or the MIA 64GB version. I personally will NOT buy the 16GB period. You can’t put apps on the SD card and formatted space is about 10GB so its hardly worth buying.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Hoang-Le/100005506652055 Hoang Le

I bought apple iphone 5 16 BG by http://tinyurl.com/ccpntxz

The iPhone’s quality has once again been proven as many flock to Apple Stores to purchase the new device. I personally feel that while the iPhone has not added any drastic new features, it has almost perfected the ones that are familiar to past Apple customers. The device is very sleek and well-built. After two months of regular use, it still appears to be new. The screen is fingerprint resistant unlike many of the past iPhones. The camera is excellent (not to say that past iPhone’s haven’t been able to take good images). It can take panoramas–a very well done effort by Apple to take existing ideas from third party applications and perfect them. The main disadvantage of the iPhone 5 is the lack of good maps support. However, given that Apple is the most valuable company in the world, I am confident that it will spend a portion of its wealth to perfect iMaps in coming iOS updates.
http://www.facebook.com/rodrigo.freijanes Rodrigo Freijanes

Man, iPhone is so old. Same face ever! Boring.