Usually, I wouldn’t be carrying such a story here, but the sheer comedy that has been put into keyboard of this phone hasn’t stopped amazing me ever since I first came across it in my RSS feed reader. It is one thing to manufacture a cheap fake rip-off of a popular phone, but when you put in a keyboard like this, you know there’s definitely something wrong somewhere.

They’re calling it the E9000 and is an obvious poke at the popular smartphone from Nokia, the E90. Go ahead, here’s your chance to chuckle.

Think again. The queuers are being paid to stand in line. From the article:

“We have these fake queues at front of 20 stores around the country to drum up interest in the iPhone,” a spokesman said.

Apparently, Orange’s iPhone attendees are actors. No word on whether there are genuine customers waiting there too, but Reuters says that T-Mobile, also due to launch the iPhone today, hasn’t seen any queues.