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This design removes the need for two separate phones for the many people  who shuttle between Shenzhen and Hong Kong.  It runs an Android operating system and unlike the iPhone, features a removable back to allow access to the sim card slots and battery. Mobile phones such as these are  the product of the shanzhai industry of fakes that has been key to Shenzhen’s manufacturing success.\r\n\r\nShenzhen, China’s first special Economic Zone is located at the tip of the Pearl River Delta. The city grew from a  modest fishing town into a vast, sprawling metropolis of more than fifteen million in just thirty-five years, through  manufacturing, trade and relentless commercial energy. Today Shenzhen is the world’s third busiest container  port, with a population with an average age of the less than thirty and almost entirely composed of recent  migrants. \r\n\r\nThe invitation to participate in the Bi-City Biennale enabled the museum to engage with this fast-changing city and to road test the recently introduced Rapid Response Collecting strand. The museum asked more than sixty  people in Shenzhen to propose a design object that told a story about their city and the result was an exhibition  of twenty-three things and twenty-three stories about the place. By exhibiting everyday objects, the show placed  centre stage the realities of urban life, of industry and of commercial and social change. \r\n\r\nThe Mobile phones with dual sim card slot were suggested by ffiXXed, an art and design consultancy run by  Kain Picken and Fiona Lau in Shenzhen. For the two designers, ‘the dual SIM function addresses the problems  of cross-border incompatibility between the Shenzhen and Hong Kong phone networks.’ This shanzhai design  removes the need for two separate phones for the many people who shuttle between the two cities.\r\n\r\nThe Shenzhen exhibition was the first opportunity to test Rapid Response Collecting. This new approach to  collecting is intended to make museum collecting more responsive to global events, and to situate design in  immediate relation to moments of political or social change. The museum opened its own space dedicated to Rapid Response Collecting in July 2014.\r\n\t","physicalDescription":"Counterfeit iPhone 5s with dual SIM card slot running an Android operating system. Black phone, round home button is centre bottom of the screen with an ear piece centre top with a small camera to the left of this, on the left side edge there are a plus and minus circular buttons in silver with a small black a small faux switch above. There is a headphone hole on the top left ewdge with a silver button to the right. The charging connector hole is located on the centre of the bottom edge. 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Their fake iPhone imitates the looks of Apple’s iconic smartphone, but arguably improves on the original design by integrating a double SIM card slot. ‘The dual SIM function addresses the problems of cross-border incompatibility between the Shenzhen and Hong Kong phone networks,’ they write. This design removes the need for two separate phones for the many people who shuttle between the two cities.\r\nSuggested by ffiXXed, art and design consultancy","date":{"text":"2013","earliest":"2013-01-01","latest":"2013-12-31"}},{"text":"Mobile phones with dual sim card slot\r\n2013\r\nPart iPhone 4, part iPhone 5 and part iPhone 5s, this deisgn points toward the rapidity of response within shanzhai manufacture. 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