Goophone
Goophone
Counterfeit device manufacturer
Goophone (simplified Chinese: 谷峰; traditional Chinese: 穀峯; pinyin: gǔ fēng; lit. 'valley peak') is a manufacturer of smartphones, tablets and smart watches based in Shenzhen, China.[1] The company earned notoriety for releasing counterfeit clones of popular high-end smartphones such as the iPhone,[2] Samsung's Galaxy S series[3][4][5] and HTC One (M8)[6] using off-the-shelf systems-on-a-chip from MediaTek[7] and the Android operating system, often with user interfaces made to resemble the devices they imitate.[8]