Another sleek looking iPhone 4 clone is hitting the "Shanzhai" market, with model number / name W801. It runs on the Google Android 2.2 operating system, or FroYo, and it is powered by the Qualcomm MSM7200A processor clocked at up to 528MHz. It's a pretty decent processor, and will handle smartphone functionality smoothly and has OpenGL ES 1.0 support, but it won't dazzle you like the 3D of a Tegra 2 might. A 3.5-inch HVGA (320 x 480) capacitive touchpanel display, 512MB RAM, 4GB of internal storage, a GPS module, WiFi and a g-sensor. All in all, it's a pretty solid clone phone but lacks 3G functionality or the high-performance metric of current non-clone solutions. The "Shanzhai" market has always contained less powerful handsets to better minimise costs, and it's good to see another so
This HTC Desire HD clone certainly looks dressed for the part - it's barely distinguishable from the HTC Desire HD non-clone, and from afar, a stolen glance would leave you still none the wiser. Where the cloned phone falls down, though, is in the typical area of power. While this Desire HD clone comes with Android 2.2 and what looks to be a non-standard UI, it is powered by the MTK6516 chipset, which means its woefully underpowered and you won't be playing any 3D games on this. It's got WiFi and GPS connectivity, but all in all you're looking to pick up this phone only if you need it for very basic web functionality and if you take it easy on the power-usage. If you try and multitask on one of these, you'll probably drive yourself mad. On the plus side, the HTC Desire HD clone packs a c
iPhone 4 fever came and went quite a while ago, but evidently not for the clone-phone manufacturers - the iPhone 4 is likely to still be a hot commodity over in the Mainland, but with a not-so-hot price tag. Enter the cloned iPhone 4 units, and you've got the ideal solution to a certain area of demand. This unit, the M98, is the latest of the bunch, running Android 2.2 FroYo. All good so far, right? Well, until you hear that it is powered by the MTK6516 chip clocked at 416MHz which is sadly underpowered and won't give you a particularly good experience with Android. It will be usable, to a certain degree, but could just become an exercise in frustration. The 3.5-inch (presumably resistive) touchscreen has a resolution of 320 x 480 but supposedly a better revision is due out with a more c
Nokia's E7 - a capacitive smartphone with slide-out keyboard - has yet to be released, but that hasn't stopped a clone popping up. The display size is 3.5 - smaller than the E7's 4-inches, and would most probably be resistive. It runs on an MTK processing chip, and has WiFi connectivity - but no Android OS - this is no smartphone. Throw in an FM radio function and an affordable price (USD$100) and you've got yourself a simple yet good looking clone. The slide-out keyboard looks alright, and we wonder how well it works.
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We all knew this was coming, but it is surprising we haven't seen one of these earlier. This Samsung Galaxy Tab clone does look a bit like the real thing, which is pretty cool, but the buttons at the bottom really give it away. Oh, and the lack of the Samsung logo. This is a 7-inch Android 2.2 tab, powered by the ARM Cortex A8-based Samsung S5PV210 processor, likely clocked at either 800MHz or overclocked to 1GHz, as we have seen before. Also under the bonnet is 512MB RAM. Not much else is known - whether it has a capcitive or resistive touchscreen, for instance - but we are expecting to see more and more of these crop up in the near future. This clone will easily sell for less than half the cost of a Galaxy Tab - but that doesn't say much!
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FroYo cloned phones are certainly few and far between, with most Android cloned handsets running on Android 2.1 Eclair. However, this HTC Desire clone runs Android 2.2, powered by the MTK6516 chip - but we're not sure at what clock speed, but hopefully higher than the dismal 300MHz range that we've been seeing from some clone phones as of late. A WVGA display (480x800) at 3.6-inches is large and spacious, and the phone also gets dual SIM support. This phone also runs Angry Birds working (but not that well.
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Above is a video showcasing a recent iPhone 4 clone - but this time with a swivel clamshell keyboard design which is very snazzy, if not a tad thick. The specs haven't been released yet, but we do know it has a 3.2-inch display, along with dual-SIM functionality, dual cameras (front and back presumably) as well as Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. We're not sure what kind of OS it runs, but it is definitely one mimicking the look and feel of iOS. Menu operation is a tad bit laggy. From the video (nail usage), I'd speculate that the device has a resistive touchscreen, and if the proposed price point of roughyl 600 RMB holds true, then that is likely the case. The keyboard, aside from just swivelling, can also flip back over so that it sits on the back of the phone, which is pretty cool. Ho
The Motorola Devour is a nice looking phone - it's clone is as well. The original may be slightly pricey, despite the fact that it's not a smartphone, however, if you had an eye out for the Devour in particular but your wallet has been thinning due to the upcoming winter holiday, you may be in luck with the clone. Spec wise, it uses an MTK processing chip. It has a 3-inch screen with a resolution of 240 x 400, has dual sim, Bluetooth and WIFI connectivity, and has 1GB of in-built memory.The nonsmart clone phone also has two camera's - one in front and one in the back, however, they're only of 0.3 megapixels. For something that currently costs around USD$70 though, it's not something to cry about.
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This Samsung Galaxy S clone, the I9000, features some extremely underwhelming specs. Powered by the MTK6516 chip clocked at a lowly 416MHz, to go alongside 256MB RAM and a 512MB ROM in order to power Android 2.1, we're all wondering why a higher clocking and better chip wasn't used. We're looking at pretty sluggish Android performance... at best. Bluetooth, WiFi and a 5-megapixel camera are all par for the course on this Eclair clone phone. A somewhat redeeming rumour is that the manufacturer is supposedly developing a firmware that will allow for dual boot of both the Android OS and Windows Mobile, though it is not alluded to what version of Windows Mobile... No information on price yet. If cloned phones could reach the pedigree that cheap Chinese tablets are at, it would make them a lo
What you see above is the GPhone G2 - an HTC G2 clone that dual boots both Android 1.6 as well as Windows Mobile 6.5 (as you'll see later on in the video). Performance seems responsive, if not a tad bit laggy, but that is not all that surprising when we take into the account the rather underwhelming specs. It's powered by the Marvell PXA310 processor; has 3.2-inch 480x320 resistive touchscreen; 128MB RAM / 256MB ROM. While this particular dual boot may entice some, but I am yet to be convinced. Can't say anything bad about the way the clone phone looks, though. A couple of pictures after the break.
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