E-Pad T8100 is a handset that likes like a 3.5-inch mini iPad

Some crazy Shenzhen Shanzhai maker is trying to make its phone looks like an mini iPad. So we have this E-Pad T8100, which has iPad alike design, and the most similar part is its back. Except its great ‘iPad’ back, it doesn’t have much special really. It’s a nonsmartphone, so just don’t expect modern mobile [...]

[ More ] January 4th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Video: Meizu M9 launch day, long lines formed for the phone

Meizu company chose the first day of 2011 to launched its highly-anticipated phone M9 in China today. Meizu in the mobile industry become known for its first phone M8 that looks very similar to iPhone. It seems that the company does not only copy Apple’s design, but also the company’s market strategy and culture. In [...]

[ More ] January 1st, 2011 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

Video: SoPhone is the most similar clone of iPhone 4 ever

Big news from Shenzhen Shanzhai industry! Someone has managed to bring out a iPhone 4 clone that looks exactly the same to the original. It’s called SoPhone, and the maker seems to have good humor sense. It said this phone was to salute to Steven Jobs. It can’t be more similar, as you could see [...]

[ More ] December 30th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Meizu M9 hands-on videos

This video gives a detailed look of M9. The whole phone looks very decent, and sort of similar to its predecessor M8. The video above show’s the UI of the phone. M9 runs Android 2.2, but it gets a highly customized UI, as you might have expected, with similar style to M8. As you could [...]

[ More ] December 18th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Meizu M9 got unboxed

Read this post for Hands-on videos. For those crazy Meizu fans Meizu M9 is really a long anticipated phone that they’ve been talking about more than a year. Right now the launch day has been very close, and the phone is expected to arrive before Christmas, or the New Year at latest. Today the phone [...]

[ More ] December 18th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Video: Shanzhai iPhone 5 arrives

Not long ago there’s a picture circulated on the web that’s said to be the iPhone 5 concept. Obviously that’s not very credible. But it doesn’t matter much to Shanzhai makers. Right now a Shanzhai maker has brought out a phone that’s based on that picture, and of curse this phone was named as ‘iPhone [...]

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

iPhone 4 clone X8 appears in clamshell form, with a rotating QWERTY keyboard

Obviously Apple iPhone will never have such form. and it is not the first time we see this kind of phone. Shanzhai almost bring this to every most popular phones. Now it’s time for iPhone 4. But we still want to give our credit. Compared to other iPhone 4 clones that only copy everything for [...]

[ More ] December 11th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

Video: MTK6516 powered HTC Desire clone supports Android 2.2, dual sim and WVGA display

MTK company seems to have made big improvement in its smartphone chip MTK6516. They’ve successfully had this platform to support Android 2.2, and WVGA display. All this is not only said in the air, but has been proved on  a real phone, a HTC Desire clone. the phone  runs Android 2.2, with a 480×800 display, which [...]

[ More ] December 11th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Motorola droid X clone arrives

This Motorola droid X clone looks quite nice, but sadly it comes with Window Mobile 6.5, which is quite out of date now. It’s powered by a 416 Mhz MTK6516 chip, so it’s a little confused why the maker didn’t choose Android. Compared to the OS it has now, Android definitely are more popular to [...]

[ More ] December 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |

HOT HD9 handset gets dual sim and dual OS

Not  only HTC,  the  Chinese manufacturer HOT also has a HD product line. This HD9 is the company’s newest phone from this series. HOT HD9 has a 4.3 inches 480×800  capacitive touchscreen, 512 MB ROM, 488 MB RAM, a  8-megapixel camera, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. It supports dual sim, and dual OS : the out [...]

[ More ] December 9th, 2010 | 7 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Samsung Galaxy S I9000 clone from Shenzhen

Samsung’s Galaxy S series phones behave not bad at the market, and of curse they got attention from Shenzhen Shanzhai makers. This Galaxy S I9000 clone is their newest respond. The phone looks decent with a golden trim, and also solid built, the thing might upset you is that it’s based on MTK MTK6516 chip, [...]

[ More ] December 7th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Cheap Motorola Devour clone priced about $70

Look at this MOTO Devour, it’s quite nice at looking, but the most important thing is that it’s unbelievably cheep, priced just around $70. Of course, its other specs will be not able to satisfy you if you are looking for a powerful smartphone. It’s just a nonsmartphone that’s based on a MTK chip, with [...]

[ More ] December 6th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Itoos i5 MID hits the market, priced at 780 Yuan

As tablet/MID become more and more popular, it seems that those cheep but function-lacking portable media player has lost the love from consumers. So many Chinese PMP manufacturers have enter the MID market. Itoos is among them. This company’s first MID i5 today was officially launched to the market. As the PMP products, this MID [...]

[ More ] December 6th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Video:Chinese university students use Nokia N8 to control their automatic house

Several Chinese university students built a completely automatic house in a big container. This whole project cost them three months, and 120, 000 Yuan (about $1,8000 USD).  The space in the container are only 9 square meters, but it has everything that’s require for modern human’s daily life, which even including a wind turbine generator [...]

[ More ] December 3rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Lenovo S800 gets a transparent color display

About a year ago Sony Ericsson Launched the world’s first transparent display phone Xperia Pureness, which made the world wowed for it. Now Chinese manufacturer Lenovo is going to launch its own of such kind, which is called S800 ( this name is still not officially confirmed). Lenovo is not just simply going to copy [...]

[ More ] November 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Mobile |