Apper! No! This is Orange!

by John Biggs on October 24, 2008

My friend Jeremy once bought a tourbillon watch on eBay. Tourbillons were invented by Breguet in the 1880s in order to offset the force of gravity on the balance wheel and they’ve become something of a status symbol of late. Jeremy’s watch, however, had a working tourbillon in it but broke maybe three weeks after he bought it, never to run again. This is what I think of this wonky but almost note-perfect rendition of the iPhone. But, like most Chinese knock offs, they might have gotten the details right but the rest is abysmal.

via BBG

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CoolProducts - October 24th, 2008 at 4:15 pm PDT

When it comes to this phone I guess its just apples and oranges. Pretty nice knock off. Right down to the demonstration showing only a pair of hands. haha

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Steve Jabs - October 24th, 2008 at 4:39 pm PDT

I bet the apps run better on that phone. If safari crashes one more time for no reason on my phone it’ll be time to consider selling it for another.

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- Devin Coldewey - October 24th, 2008 at 7:16 pm PDT
  
  I want to try to get one to review. I bet they’re better than iPhones in one way or another…
  
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Ddub - October 25th, 2008 at 12:07 am PDT

I saw a show on how they make these knockoffs. They basically buy an iphone. crack it open, write down all the parts, buy the exact ones, then put them together, install the hacked software which again is often actual apple software just hacked, and then sell them cheap.

In fact contrary to popular opinion do to using the identical materials and surprisingly good workmanship the foriegn clones where of quite good quality when it came to knockoff electronics. In many cases they found they were better and added substantially more features then were available on American marketed devices. Like MP3 players could use tons of codecs, had radios, the phones could do video conferencing and streamed live tv. It was interesting though.

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