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Cheap iPhone Clone Hits Global Market

Submitted by Edward Kirk on December 8, 2007 - 7:14pm.
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A new Chinese iPhone knockoff has surfaced for sale on the internet, described on the site as "High quality copy UNLOCKED IPHONE AV-P688 SIMILAR STYPLE IPOD GSM CELL PHONE WITH MP3 MP4 FUNCTION”. A Google search yielded several sites selling the device.

The CECT P168 is intended to imitate the iPhone, but for US$200, it's no surprise that it falls pretty short. Where the iPhone has a simple, responsive touchscreen, the CECT P168 relies on physical buttons (so old-fashoned). On the upside, it does have seven hours of talk time or 340 hours of standby time. It also has a two megapixel camera (though some reports say only 1.3). Still, it only has 100MB of built-in memory, but supports flash card expansion. It is also unlocked, a big advantage over the iPhone.

[via iTech News Net]

Submitted by *bnelse92 (not verified) on December 8, 2007 - 11:00pm.
Wow, a whole 1 mb of memory....uh...that can't be right! Could a phone OS even run with only 1 MB of memory?

Submitted by bwilliams18 on December 8, 2007 - 11:38pm.
it looks OK for an iphone clone i just saw a video on you tube and it has some features that would be good on an iphone but it just looks cheap

Submitted by Edward Kirk on December 9, 2007 - 3:51pm.
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Originally Posted by *bnelse92 View Post
Wow, a whole 1 mb of memory....uh...that can't be right! Could a phone OS even run with only 1 MB of memory?
Oops! My mistake. Thanks!