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Barack Obama loves him some ‘BlockBerry’

By: , IntoMobile
Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at 11:14 AM

You know how China has become the de facto land of counterfeit handsets and the source of headaches for some mobile phone makers’ legal departments? Right, well, yet another Chinese clone-maker is now pushing their questionable goods by playing off US President Obama’s love for his BlackBerry.

I hate covering counterfeit/fake/clone phones, but this one deserves a mention.

“Obama have BlackBerry, I have BlockBerry” – goes the slogan on the BlockBerry ad. We’re going to go ahead and assume that these guys never got the go-ahead to use Obama’s image in their ad campaign. In fact, it’s unlikely these guys even speak a lick of English or even know where the White House is located.

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The BlockBerry runs WinMo 6.1, has a 460Mhz processor, and sports GPS and WiFi. The specs sound decent, but there’s no way we’d every rock a “BlockBerry.” Imagine the snickers from iPhone 3G S owners…

[Via: ZiggyTek]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Jrom

    Funny to see that every single look-alike pirate phone comming out from China works on Windows mobile, I thougt only Ipod possessors where real pirates…

  • Foo Bar

    What’s the difference ? iPods are manufactured in China and while Blackberries currently aren’t, they soon will be.