Keepin' it real fake, part LXXXIII: LG's Shine gets a clone

The Shine may already be available in a variety of colors, but we're confident that LG had no part in this one. The so-called Venus JXD205 purports to be your average PMP, sporting AVI / MP3 / WMA / WAV support, a 2.4-inch QVGA color screen, FM tuner, built-in gaming function and an expansion slot that supports cards up to 2GB in size. Interestingly enough, it looks almost identical to a famed member of the Black Label series, but we doubt you'll do much any calling on this thing. Nevertheless, those willing to buy a potential heap can grab the 1GB version for 399CNY ($53), or you can double your capacity for just 100CNY ($13) more.

[Via PMPToday, thanks Brian B.]

[Kurian @ Oct 2nd 2007 2:43AM]

Id rather not spend 53$ for a flash chip with bad sectors, low quality DAC, and cheap earphones.

[Kieran Egan @ Oct 2nd 2007 2:45AM]

Looks like it should be called the Shite, instead of Shine.

[Xidius @ Oct 2nd 2007 6:05AM]

Heh. The old Mac OSX default desktop image. The originality is staggering!

- Xidius

[ryan.sahb @ Oct 2nd 2007 6:21AM]

Notice how all cheap knockoffs use this wallpaper, accompanied by cheap-arse Arial Black Engrish on the box?

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 2nd 2007 10:27AM]

Incredible how they'll equip it to handle video and then only put 2GB at most in the thing.

2GB is minuscule, and 1GB less acceptable by half.

[Patrick @ Oct 2nd 2007 1:01PM]

Does it work? Does it last? Many electronics are cheap because of the cheap construction and cheap electronics which leads to low performance, for example, start up times, etc. If it works and plays music, and has a decent navigation system with it's screen, there's definitely a market.