Fake Chinese iPhone – C-002 is the REAL iPhone killer
By Will Park on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 at 1:12 PM PST In Devices, iPhone
Sure, every handset vendor and their grandmothers are putting out their own iPhone-killers, but leave it to the Chinese to make a real iPhone killer. While others are concentrating R&D resources on design and UI tweaks (remember, the future of mobile is the user experience), the Chinese-made C-002 basically takes Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s iPhone design and stuffs its own guts inside.
Now, Apple never intended for the iPhone to be a “reference” design, but we’re sure the authorities in the Far East won’t mind if anyone rips off Apple’s work.
The C-002 claims a “rock solid 99% iPhone clone” that features:
1. 3.5″ big screen that supports finger touch and no keypad, touch pen needed.
2. Dual SIM slots that holds two SIM chips and supports SIM card switching.
3. Triband GSM 900/1800/1900MHz that supports USA GSM standard.
4. Web addresses entering; web browsing, WAP setting, web address management.
5. Unlocked to any major network carrier.
6. SMS, MMS, voicemail and cell broadcast
7. MP3, MP4, file playing, recording, phone call recording.
8. Capturing, video capturing, photo viewing, playing
9. Hands free speaker phone. 3D sound.
10. Bluetooth supported.
11. TF card supported.
12. Diversified screen switch
13. One-Key return
14. Automatic screen rotation
Actually, with Trans-flash (microSD) expansion and removable batteries (not to mention the video recording and dual SIM card support), the C-002 offers everything that is lacking on the real iPhone. But, will it survive a showdown with a semi?
We can’t be sure if it’s the angle of the camera/lights or what, but the C-002 has a fairly “janky” look to it. But hey, for $239, you really can’t complain.
Blasphemous video below.
I love that they kept the apple logo on startup, and the fact that it’s not the “iphone”, it’s the “HIphone!”
but it does seem a bit slow at registering inputs, though
Still, it’s impressive.
just discovered that it doesn’t support wifi and gps
Well i have this one but i have a little problem, maybe u can help me.
On some way i turned on Flight Mode and now i don’t know how to turn it off. i am a little piddes off cus i can only lisen music on it now….
did u just pay 239$ for it?hahahahahah i got mine yesterday for 100$…
where did u buy your iphone from? i want to buy one 2
I wouldn’t be surprised that by the time the clones get to be “100% iPhone” that it would be like $100 less than an unlocked iPhone.
There is no iPhone killer. I haven’t seen one iClone yet to be as rich as the iPhone.
The user interface still dominates big-time in the iPhone. Nothing is as smoothe and reliable. And no Wi-Fi or GPS? That sucks.
I bought an i68 (God knows whichever version was brought to me…I can’t figure it out) for about $100 and I think it’s crap that it’s called a clone. It’s a good phone for the money, don’t get me wrong…but it’s no clone.
The EPHONE M8 is the 100% iphone clone with accurate touch screen response
with wireless application protocol and gprs support connection,camera,tv function and bluetooth.
Better than iphone.The EPHONE M8 cost only around 140$ compared to 700 dollar of unblocked iphone.
Another iphone exact clone is the Meizu M8 with wifi function
No software support but still its impresive