Inside The Shanzhai Markets, Part Deux

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Monday, April 18th, 2011

The first part of this video talked about the problem of counterfeiting in the Shanzhai markets. But not everything is fakey fakery – this is serious business.

The thing that’s most striking about this video is the fact that Shanzhai phones are made not in someone’s kitchen but in multi-story buildings by trained assemblers. It’s an industry and the same folks who make the iPhoney are probably also assembling more mainstream models.

via MICGadget