Police in Northern Ireland shut down a major counterfeiting operation this week, seizing a haul of fake devices worth an estimated $750,000. The raids, conducted on Thursday, March 28th, targeted locations in Belfast and Portadown, netting over 20,000 counterfeit items.

Police in Northern Ireland captured over 20,000 counterfeit items.

While the exact breakdown of seized goods wasn’t revealed, photos from the scene suggest a significant portion were knock-off Apple products. Fake iPhones, AirPods, and iPhone cases were all present, alongside other unspecified counterfeit smartwatches, cellphones, and chargers.

This raid highlights the global reach of counterfeiting operations. While Apple products are often targeted, Detective Sergeant Mason of the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) emphasized that “criminals will attempt to copy anything.” He further warned that such fake goods often fund organized crime.

The raids follow similar actions in England’s East Midlands region. Interestingly, a repair firm in that area was fined nearly $150,000 in 2021 for selling counterfeit Apple chargers.

While no direct charges related to counterfeiting have been made yet, a 24-year-old man was arrested following the Portadown raid, though reportedly on suspicion of immigration offenses.

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After we have covered the KuPhone S9, the Apple iPhone knock-off recently, we have a couple photo comparison between KuPhone S9 and Apple iPhone 4S real machine.

While the Apple iPhone using with iOS operating system, the KuPhone S9 is equipped with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, but KuPhone S9 using iOS theme so there is no different interface between fake OS and real OS here.

The KuPhone S9 is also equipped with the the A9 architecture dual-core processor, running 1.2GHz clockspeed processor with the 326 PPI retina screena and resolution up to 960 x 640 pixel. The top of the screen is a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera while in the original iPhone we can find the 3.0 megapixel camera on it. But the S9′s surface screen is using anti-grease, anti-fingerprint coating and more user-friendly design.

Here is the picture comparison between both device :

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After we all known the news about Apple lawsuit to Samsung, and now Samsung have to pay the compensation as much as US$ 1,051 billion to Apple because Samsung copying fews patent from Apple product. But now there is Chinese manufacturer who make the iPhone imitation, that’s Kuphone S9.

We have ever covered the iPhone 5 knock-off picture before, but Kuphone S9 has look like the iPhone 4S rather than iPhone 5, the body, form factor, the bezel and camera and speaker position exactly same with original iPhone 4S. The different things is only on  their operating system, while original iPhone using iOS made specially by Apple, but Kuphone S9 is equipped with Android 4.0 operating system

The Kuphone S9 sports with 3.5-inch LG original IPS retina display with 960 x 640 resolution, qHD screen with 326 ppi. The top of the screen is a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera while in the original iPhone we can find the 3.0 megapixel camera on it. But the S9’s surface screen is using anti-grease, anti-fingerprint coating and more user-friendly design.

On the rear body of S9 has a 5-megapixel main camera with auto-focus with LED flash. The back body has cool logo, thats logo is look like leaf rather than Apple. The S9 powered by MT6577 dual-core chipset, the processor running on 1.2GHz, 512 of RAM and 4GB of ROM combination, support gyroscopes, gravity sensing, direction sensing, and light sensing which offers a good combination feature for the user.

Kuphone S9 also offers two kind of storage capacity 8GB and 16GB, while you can buy the 8GB version with 999 yuan and the 16GB with 1199 yuan, but the body dimension is same with 115.2mm x 58.6mm x 9.3mm.

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