Chinese PMP knocks off Cingular logo for no apparent reason

You know, sometimes product development can take a long time. A really long time. A really, really long time. Sometimes you slap a Cingular logo on an iPod nano knockoff, expecting to pull in tons of sweet cheddar for your novel idea, and before you know it -- bam! -- Cingular becomes AT&T. Of course, once you've got a warehouse full of these ugly-as-sin players, you might as well try to sell them, which shouldn't be hard considering all of the unique features this little guy has, like a 1.8-inch color LCD, MP3, WMA, AVI, and JPEG playback, plus... um, it fits nicely in a pocket. At the very least, those clinging to happier days when Cingular logos roamed the land can now return to their happy place. No word on price or availability, but we're told the feelings of extreme humiliation when using the player are included free of charge.

[Via SlashGear]

[Billy Fiul @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:06PM]

Cingular?

Did you mean AT and T, evil empire of yore?

(Just click minus button.)

[staniel @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:12PM]

I clicked the exclamation??

[Billy Fiul @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:16PM]

No, don't do that! You're going to get me in trouble!

[ethana2 @ Oct 2nd 2007 6:48PM]

Who else finds what just happened to be funny?

[Javi0084 @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:06PM]

LOL thats clever.

[James Ollier @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:10PM]

Not really...

[rwfu666 @ Oct 2nd 2007 7:43PM]

I like how the next and previous buttons are reversed. hehehe. at least it makes it "unique"

[Brian @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:19PM]

Looks like the forward and reverse buttons are in reversed from a normal player, that would annoy the hell out of me

[Fruition @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:24PM]

I like that my phone has the Cingular logo on it. It's the Pantech c300. But the phone it replaced, an ugly and four year old low-end Nokia, had the AT&T logo. So, AT&T became Cingular became AT&T. In due time, I'm sure it will become Cingular again. This PMP is just ahead of its time.

[Hunkbeet @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:29PM]

it was like

ATT -> SBC - AT&T

ATT -> Cingular -> AT&T

crazy

[Alex @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:21PM]

I love the intuitive assigning of the skip forward and skip backwards keys.

[apeguero @ Oct 2nd 2007 4:03PM]

Them and Russian Aircraft designers - well, most of the time anyway.

[dante @ Oct 2nd 2007 9:17PM]

Its not like cingular became at&t 4 years ago. Most people are still walking around with cingular branded handsets. I don't see the big ordeal or why it would be embarrassing to have.

[Diego souto @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:48PM]

Pre-Teen's is good call.

no Wait now Everybody has a ipod

[Diego souto @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:48PM]

Pre-Teen's is good call.

no Wait now Everybody has a ipod

[Miker @ Oct 2nd 2007 4:01PM]

You gotta laugh...all this at a time when China has launched a crackdown on the sale of counterfeit Olympic goods!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7021608.stm

All together now...1...2...3...HYPOCRITES!

[Xzavier @ Oct 2nd 2007 4:24PM]

Come on bro... lets be fair now. America does her share of the conterfit goods and selling Ameican/Non-American couterfit goods in the streets of America!

What is that saying again... oh yea, Good artists copy, great artists steal!

All together now...1...2...3...SteveJobs!

And yes I do know that's not Steves original qoute, that was, ahem *borrowed* as well. Pablo Picasso.

[Cagrino @ Oct 2nd 2007 5:48PM]

And where exactly are those counterfeit items that you can buy on American streets made... Oh yeah that would be CHINA!

FTW

[riggs @ Oct 2nd 2007 4:03PM]

hey these players are ugly as sin but theyre a mockery of the ipod, so doesnt that make the ipod ugly as sin too?

[kcRaider @ Oct 2nd 2007 4:44PM]

spot on there Riggs..spot on

go ahead apple-fanboys, flame away

[deedeedee @ Oct 2nd 2007 4:43PM]

man, i guess they really need the money...these chinese knockoffs are pathetic. what a complete waste of money and time, but then again chinese labors nowadays are cheap as hell, so i guess it don't matter.

[Grant @ Oct 2nd 2007 7:30PM]

if they weren't selling at least a handful of them, they wouldn't keep making them.

[MR @ Oct 2nd 2007 4:51PM]

I'm pretty sure that I used to draw something like this in the art classes when I was a kid. So did many other kids then and now.

[Tony @ Oct 2nd 2007 5:23PM]

..and look at what you unleashed upon this world.

[Spanky @ Oct 2nd 2007 5:49PM]

and you really give a hoot because????

for $20 I can take an ugly player and use it till it dies.

[rento @ Oct 2nd 2007 5:50PM]

This makes me laugh.. Can you imagined the person that designed this going through the web looking for an interesting design and then spotting Cingulars logo? Ahk that's so great.

[tom @ Oct 2nd 2007 6:01PM]

It's ok to use Cingular's logo becasue they don't exist anymore.

[David @ Oct 2nd 2007 7:38PM]

I love it. The orange is a good look.

[lacy @ Oct 2nd 2007 7:19PM]

Is this a freaking joke?

[Grant @ Oct 2nd 2007 7:29PM]

of all logos they could steal.... why that?
talk about oogly.

[Hovan Ho @ Oct 3rd 2007 4:35AM]

Really guys, do you have to take every opportunities to diss Chinese made products?
Most of the electronic products in the world are from China.
And the feature list is pretty comparable to other players.
Seriously, remove your bias already. At least let us see solid proof of the machines failing more than the iPods.

[Mago @ Oct 3rd 2007 6:40AM]

Exactly. The sad thing about the Internet is people will blatantly talk from non-experience. Actually playing around with these products they are of pretty high quality and most often then not, have great features for what they are.

[SCC @ Oct 7th 2007 10:58AM]

Not to burst anyone's bubble, but it looks like a bad photoshop job where the cingular logo is and a better one around the screen.