First thing I noticed on the box was how close to the iPhone the interface looked. No wonder, since it is a screenshot of an actual iPhone interface, including the AT&T carrier showing. Apart from that, the only noticeable design difference on the box between this imitation and the actual iPhone is two buttons on each side of the main middle button; two softkeys and phone "pick up / hang up" keys.
The actual main screen of the phone is not iPhone-like. Rather it looks like most other phones out there in the market with wallpaper, time and date and the carrier (in this case it was the vendor's sim card showing "HT Macau") and a few other icons.
The iPhone-looking interface is accessed when clicking on the tiny "Menu" icon. It shows icons very similar to those of the iPhone, including those for Google Maps, Pictures and Notes. Looking more closely reveals that these are not actually taken from the iPhone interface directly, but rather cheap imitations without the level detail found on the iPhone. See the details in the flower for example, or the route number and lines in the Google Maps icon.
Most of these don't lead to their respective functionality found on the iPhone. The Camera icon leads to a confusing MP3-player-like interface. We couldn't get the camera working so the vendor assumed it was simply defective. The Google Maps icon leads to a phone book, which has a design similar to that commonly found on other phones, as illustrated here on the right.
Finally the back of the box provided a list of the phone's functions, not without bit of humour with classic Chinglish. Notice the reference to the "megapixels" camera. Nowhere were we able to find out how many megapixels exactly the camera supports, if it actually works at all.You just wonder, if they're going to go through the trouble and cost of actually manufacturing and distributing a working mobile phone, couldn't they actually just make it a half-decent?
Apologies for those who would really want to get their hands on one for whatever reasons; we didn't take note of the manufacturer or the name of the phone.
