HTC Hero clone gets a capacitive touchscreen and Android 1.5 OS

We’ve seen quite a few HTC Hero clones out of Shenzhen since the original one made first appearance, but it seems this is the first one that runs Android OS. The phone seems solid-built, and gets a capacitive touchscreen, which is rare to find on a Shanzhai phone. What’s more, it gets a HTC sense [...]

[ More ] May 12th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Nokia N97 Mini clone supports three sim cards and three-standby

Dual sim is a most common feature for Shanzhai nonsmartphones, especially those that are based on a MTK chipset. Now the Shanzhai has brought this standard to a higher level by providing the world a phone that supports three sim cards and three-standby. The phone is Nokia Mini N97 clone, and is alleged to be [...]

[ More ] May 12th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Nokia E5-00 leaked to Shenzhen market

Nokia’s QWERTY phone E5-00 hasn’t been officially launched yet, but several units were spotted in a Shenzhen consumer electronics mall recently, and were said to be leaked from accessories manufacturers. The specs are the same as they were published before, a 600Mhz processor, a 2.4 inches display, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM, a 5-megapixel camera. As [...]

[ More ] May 8th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Another XP phone Shanshui P72 caught in video, looks like iPhone, not too much though

The most famous Windows XP phone ITG xpPhone has been showed around the world for almost a year, but we are still not able to see its any real product on the market. So we seriously doubt the practicability of these Windows XP phone, like this Shanshui P72, another XP phone. P72 is big and [...]

[ More ] May 7th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

Shanzhai brings Nokia C2 inspired phone

We still don’t know whether Nokia C2 is a real thing. There is just one picture circulating around the web a week ago, showing a phone with a rotatable display, which looks pretty weird. But obviously some Shanzhai player love this idea and has brought it to phone. Basically you can treat this phone as [...]

[ More ] May 5th, 2010 | 17 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Nokia N8 clone spotted in China as Nokla N8

we knew this day would come sooner or later when Nokia’s new flagship phone N8 was leaked with pictures, and now it’s come.Nakia N8 was just unveiled about a week, but the time seems pretty enough for some Shanzhai maker to churn out a clone. This clone, called as Nokla N8 from the most famous [...]

[ More ] May 5th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Video: IHTC HD-2 is a HTC HD2 clone, looks very nice

If you are one that keep tracking China’s Shanzhai phone market, you would notice that IHTC HD-2 is long anticipated phone. It’s revealed back in the end of January. Now more than three month has pasted, it finally arrives to receive love from Shanzhai phone fans. As the name tells you, IHTC HD-2 is a [...]

[ More ] May 4th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

iPhone 4G gets cloned in Shenzhen

Once again Shanzhai speed brings us surprise. We, all the earth residents know that Apple’s next generation iPhone was leaked weeks ago. People on tech website Gizmodo have got their hands on the phone and published very detailed information and pictures. Shenzhai makers in Shenzhen that have the most acute business sense took advantage of [...]

[ More ] April 28th, 2010 | 10 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

QderoPateo Ouidoo Phone with Windows Phone 7 alike UI and Palm Pre alike design

QderoPateo teamed up Chinese manufacture DaTang digital on 23rd to  launch a new handset named  Ouidoo at an event hold  in Shanghai. It’s said the software part is developed by QderoPateo, and DaTang digital brings the hardware.  Ouidoo gets a nice Windows Phone 7 alike user interface and Palm Pre alike design , bringing with an [...]

[ More ] April 25th, 2010 | 7 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

HTC Magic clone with Android OS, capacitive touchscreen

We’ve seem quite a few Knockoff phones even iPhone clones that run Android OS, but this HTC magic clone is the first Knockoff phone that equipped with an capacitive touchscreen, with HVGA resolutions. So this phone has done a great job that  brings  the Shanzhai standard to a higher level. Before it, all the Shanzhai-made [...]

[ More ] April 25th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

Miphone A3 is an iPhone clone with Android OS

It has been a long time we don’t talk about iPhone clone here, but this doesn’t mean the iPhone cloning has stopped in Shenzhen. New iPhone clones still keep comming out, but most of them, if not all, are not worth being mentioned. They lack new things, and have little difference from each other except [...]

[ More ] April 21st, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Mato Ball football phone

Chinese ancestors started to played ancient solid  football two thousand years ago, but now China national football team play the worst football on the world and the football leagues are full of scandals . It’s really a big shame, and we’ve heard Shanzhai players are really mad at them, so they launched this football phone, for…for reasons we, [...]

[ More ] April 21st, 2010 | 7 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Shanzhai PSP phone PSP P99 hits the market

We ever reported that Shanzhai players were going to bring their PSP phone before Sony Ericsson did. Now the Shanzhai PSP phone is out, though to be exact it doesn’t looks very similar to PSP Go. This phone comes with a side slide gaming console that allows you to play some simple games. It’s based [...]

[ More ] April 20th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Spy spots of new Motorola Android handsets

We get no more other information than these spy shots. It seems they are two different phones, and look like the Ming Series, both with a transparent cover on the front side. According to the people who put these spy shots on Chinese tech news website IT168′s forum, one of them may get a code [...]

[ More ] April 17th, 2010 | 6 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Rockchip Android prototype phone debuted at HKEF

HongKong Electronics Fair (HKEF) Spring Edition just came to its end today after lasting 4 days. Rockchip was there to display their products, including its RK2808 based Android prototype that got a code name CJ-2. This phone was first introduced half of a month ago, but at that time most of the specs were not [...]

[ More ] April 16th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |