Watch it! Nokia N95 8GB cloned to perfection
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 AM PST In Clone/rip, Devices, Nokia
Certain Chinese handset manufacturers are getting better and better in their cloning efforts. Lately we’ve spotted an almost identical “version” of the Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s flagship N95 8GB smartphone. As you can see from the image above — and more images after the jump — the fake device has some weird-looking buttons and also shady marks. Other than that, it’s practically the same. Except that the built quality isn’t there, and neither is the mobile OS (Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1) and the suite of pre-installed apps. So watch out folks, this is getting seriously out of control…
[Via: Just Another Mobile Phone Blog]
a fake nokia n95 8gb looks just the same as the real. just that the fake is missing wifi and gps. simple. i had a fake version from china as well and it looked just like the real one. it doesnt look like the pictures they have put on this site. my fake version had on the back Nokia N Series and the front N95 8GB was printed just like the real one. just make it simple by saying the fake is missing GPS and WiFi. thats all!
My supposedly authentic N95 8GB which I ordered for a client from Thaibekistania on the 32nd of Octember was delivered in a box which was originally labelled as being the container of farm produce, secured with twine and a wax seal. When I powered it up it just displayed a photo of a lobster which changed to a pineapple when the screen was rotated to landscape orientation.
There was no SIM and the unit included a SIM-adaptor with surface mounted components and 3 jumper wires wrapped round connecting both sides of the PCB. The SIM was supposed to be secured to that with an elastic band (2 spare ones included in the package) and the whole adaptor assembly was connected to the phone’s main PCB with solid core soldered wires.
Then we found it did not even include an internal battery and it just had a PP6 9-volt battery terminal on flyleads.
Still, my client persevered and managed to install both the SIM and the battery to find that it would only dial a single number regardless of what you dialled on the keypad. The call would always connect to a recorded message featuring a random “message of the day” style haiku poem.
I must say on reflection that I am somewhat disappointed and could offer the suppliers of this supposedly authentic unit various suggestions as to which direction their research efforts should take, and which of the features they did include are in fact not in my opinion ‘mission critical’ to the functionality of the unit.
Needless to say the customer was nonplussed and I had to find an alternative source.
The moral of the story is (to quote the fable); never clean your windows with a hard-boiled egg.
bloody chinese
c – copy
h – heritage from blood
i – idiot / imitators
n – nonsense
e – evil
s – stupid
e – enchant
all above are used in manufacturing product like Nokia N95 8gb, which i have experienced, all chinese are using cycle and then recycle them by using above abbrivation.
Actually, nokia a international company, having their copyright and patents and rights misused by chinses companies, and also mislead the genuine customers.
Nokia has to find out the culprits manufactureres to protect the genuine nokia users.
As i have suffered 8 times value by purchasing Nokia N95-8GB assuming genuine nokia , but found Copied, imitated , idiot box phone.
Genuine customers believe in quality but chinese gives more quantity at kilo rate.
a cheated cusotmer
Here in Australia it strikes me as ironic this talk of nasty Chinese fakes, when in the sidebar here, to the right is a Google advertisement saying “cheap phones” for “Iphone $79.9″ and “Nokia 8800 $89.9″! Are we promoting the copies or are we encouraging them? You may consider it unethical to profit from copy but in the mean time the Chinese people are hard at work. I believe that before too long we can expect the Chinese to make no-name phones that are as good as any. They will likely run Linux variant OSs written in India and we will be loving how little they cost and how much they do! Further out, sales of branded devices will decline in favour of custom built tech using modular architectures. Not more than you need or want, “your spec” at your price. We are seeing a further commoditization of gadgetry and China is just now practising!
guys u can also check by going on “web” and then go 2 wap . then go 2 settings & edit profile . ull’e see china mobile