Warning: SciPhone Dream G2 doesn’t use Android but lookalike UI
Only in China could you find a company knocking off an opensource OS for their own fake version. Welcome the SciPhone Dream G2, a phone we are sure is going to cause a lot of buyers remorse. We had all been made to think the G2 was infact the first phone out of China to run on Googles Android OS, but i guess we somehow choose to forget this was being made by the company that makes one of the most popular iPhone clones, the SciPhone i68+. SciPhone didn’t fail to disappoint, they are the first company to make a UI to knock off an opensource OS, unbelievable.
Those of you who have own China phones, like the CECT variety will see immediately the similarities of the phone in the above video to that of other China phones, although it does have a nicer UI, it has all the earmarks of the CECT UI, just redone with a cleaner look.
The sad part is, the UI is actually nice, i mean fort a China phone, its pretty slick and well laid out, its a shame that they couldn’t have taken it one step further and made the UI more custom to their own design and let it stand on its own, it probably would have gotten some respect, but as it is now, a clone of the Android OS, its going to be stuck in the shameful hall of phone clones.
So just becareful when buying this phone and sellers claim it to be using Android and having Edge, it has neither.
Via Engadget.
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Comments (3)
hey raz will you be selling these also?
I really hope in the future we do not see more rip-off Android phones. With the OS being open source there is no real reason to rip off the UI. I really think Android should solve the ripping off platforms out of China because it is open-source. Lets keep our fingers crossed.
I also was fooled by the dream G2 took two weeks for it to arrive from China to Brazil.
Sciphone take me from a phone with android real =)