


Badger Smartphone
With its rounded engine and intuitively simple interface, Franklin's choice of Smartphone, the Badger, is a dead-ringer for the Samsung Galaxy. We don't know if Badger refers to the device or the operating system - or whether that OS is open-source like Android - but we do know it's an efficient budget smartphone.


iFruit Smartphone
One of the most prominent brands in GTA 5 is Fruit, a company that makes high-end smartphones like the iFruit - which, incidentally, is Michael's phone of choice. Like the Badger and Facade the the inspiration for this company can be found in the real world - Apple. However, now that iOS 7 just dropped, the interface on the iFruit looks very different to the one on the device that inspired it.


Cars
The vhicles.of GTA have always had one foot in reality. Although Rockstar's open-world series has never used real-world branded automobiles, a 'Jugular' is awfully close in appearance to a Jaguar and a Comet looks very similar to a Porsche. The car pictured here, by the way, is NOT an Audi - it's a Yellow 9F.

cars and more cars
The Exsorbeo gaming console has been a fixture in the GTA universe since GTA: San Adreas. Back then it was advertised as a handheld console that was shaped like a phallus. Adverts for it have popped up (no pun intended) in entries in the series since then - in Liberty City Stories and IV. The Exsorbeo 720 is a home console in Grand Theft Auto 5, played by Michael's horrible son, Jimmy. The Phallus control interface seems to have gone, but the inferences of a generation (ahem) playing with themselves have not.


Schmidt & Priss
In GTA players are able to trade virtual stocks for in-game cash on the stock market. They can also influence the rise and fall of shares with their illicit activities, but that's another matter. entirely. Players can keep track of share prices on the in-game market, the Bawsaq, which sounds suspiciously like the US stock market, the Nasdaq. We're sure it's just a coincidence.


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