Posts Tagged SciPhone

SciPhone Dream G2 – the fake Android Phone – Pictures

February 4, 2009 by Raz in Phone with 1 Comment.

There was much hype about the SciPhone G2, most of it due to the makers of the phone claiming that it would run Android, which would have made it the first Chinese phone to run Android and only second to the T-Mobile G1 to run the Open Source OS. However we found out not too long ago that infact the phone did not run Android but ran a new version of the OS that runs most China made CECT phones but its interface had been made to look like that of Android. I have used this phone and confirm it does not run Android, the overall UI is very slick, much nicer than most CECT phones, Java program work well, the touch screen is responsive and the overall UI looks very clean and slick. Its a real shame that the makers of this phone choose to just rip off the look of Android, clearly they took the

Warning: SciPhone Dream G2 doesn’t use Android but lookalike UI

January 16, 2009 by Raz in Phone with 3 Comments.

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 U

 

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