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Keepin' it real fake, part XXXI: China gets some carob

Pardon the pun, but we've been waiting a while for the right time to use it; thanks to China's Zikom, that time has come. For those that aren't familiar, carob is often used as a chocolate substitute, and Zikom's hoping that customers will pick up their Z-200 slider as... well, a Chocolate substitute. To be perfectly fair, the knockoff looks great and appears to sport all the same heat-sensitive control action that shot the original to mobile superstardom -- and let's be honest, usability couldn't be that much worse. The handset rocks 64MB of internal storage with microSD expansion up to 1GB, Class 10 GPRS (EDGE doesn't seem to be too popular in the Far East), and a 1.3-megapixel cam in your choice of black or white. What, no pink?