With all of the going-ons in the mobile smartphone space in the last few weeks, the GooPhone I5 handset may have managed to slip through the shutters without any of us knowing a great deal about it. For those who may not know, the GooPhone I5 isn’t a sticky, congealed mess as the name suggests, but is instead a blatant copy of the new iPhone’s design that is being sold in the Chinese market. Fair play to the makers who have actually managed to build a functional device based on Apple’s leaked designs and got it on sale before the fruit company themselves, but the rest of the story is borderline laughable.

Apple products are among the most frequently-plagiarized across the world, and even though the next-generation iPhone is yet to be announced, the knocker-offers are already hard at work creating devices similar to the upcoming smartphone.