Keepin' it real fake, part XCVIII: T-Mobile Shadow gets shadowed

Well, would you look at that. If not for the gaudy packaging, $69.99 price tag and blatant Oasis Media branding, we'd swear the Playr was a T-Mobile Shadow (or HTC's P3300, we guess). Yep, this knockoff does a fairly decent job of mirroring its inspirer, sports 2GB of storage and a miniSD expansion slot, comes with 35 free eMUSIC downloads and includes a built-in media player for good measure. Interestingly, we get the feeling that this thing won't actually send or receive calls, but if you're quick, no one will even notice.

[Thanks, Rick]

Update: Turns out this thing is actually the MachSpeed Oasis Video Player, and is readily available on Amazon (among other places). Still, it could stand some originality in the design department. [Thanks, Rob!]

[Jared Posted Nov 29th 2007 1:17PM]

Does anything not come with 35 free eMusic downloads?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 6:33PM]

Yea, I have a card here with only 25 downloads. I feel discriminated against.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 1:33PM]

These cheap knockoff stories are boring me. Isn't there anything more interesting happening in the world?

[spyder91 Posted Nov 29th 2007 10:43PM]

No.

[Randomness Posted Nov 29th 2007 1:36PM]

Awesome! Just picked one up from Fry's ( http://shop4.outpost.com/product/5346418 ) My friend's with their iPhones are going to be super jealous!

[Richard Posted Nov 29th 2007 4:14PM]

But it's not a phone...

[Brad Hubbard Posted Nov 29th 2007 1:50PM]

I could have sworn that was a Fry's price tag...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 8:51PM]

That is a Fry's price tag.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 1:53PM]

That's a fake of the HTC P3300. Look's nothing like the Shadow to me.

http://www.europe.htc.com/products/htcp3300.html

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 2:26PM]

This is TOTALLY REAL!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 3:10PM]

You Engadget writers are total idiots!

This is not a knock off of anything. It's a MachSpeed Oasis Video player and has been available on Amazon for months. MachSpeed is an American company.

[insertAlias Posted Nov 29th 2007 8:50PM]

Sure, because it's only other countries that rip designs off.....

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 3:26PM]

Yeah.. definately the HTC P3300.. My dad has one and it looks exactly like that.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 3:33PM]

google: Palm Tungsten T

Who's ripping off who now?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 30th 2007 5:35PM]

This MP3/MP4 player has been out for a while now. I saw that at my local computer store months ago before the release of the Shadow.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 5:19PM]

I agree this sort of article is a bit stale. Particularly since it's not so much a knock off, as it is a slightly similarly looking, differently purposed device that was actually released first.

I'm kinda suprised it wasn't compared to some Apple product: look, it's got a large screen and a circular button at the bottom, it must be an iPhone fake.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 5:50PM]

That's a total rip off of the P3300. Just because it doesn't do the same function it's not a rip off? So all those KIRF 'mp4 players' of the iphone that don't have a phone function aren't kirfs? What a joke.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 6:48PM]

For one thing, the OP said it looked like the Shadow, not the P3300. But I didn't say just cause it has a different function it isn't a design rip off, I said if it only looks slightly similar and has a different function, it's probly not a rip off.

Besides, it sure looks the P3300 is ripping Palm if anything.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 5:35PM]

In the end there's only so many ways you can make a PDA/smartphone look, so things will inevitably start looking the same.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 29th 2007 5:58PM]

That is the HTC Artemis (P3300 variant). Come on Engadget. Do your homework.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 1st 2007 7:34AM]

Oh come on now Engadget !! We've been selling this at CompUSA for months now, and i means months, as in up to 4 months, way before the Shadow came out. Go here http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=cat3&product_code=347722 . The 1

Geez, this mp3/video player came out before the Shadow, geez!!!

The 1GB version is here http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=SEARCH&Ntt=onyx&N=0&Dx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&D=onyx&Ntk=All&product_code=345298

[cetus corr Posted Nov 29th 2007 11:12PM]

That has been at Fry's for at least months...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 30th 2007 9:09AM]

Doesn't matter if it has been sold for months now. The design is still a direct copy of the HTC Artemis (P3300 variant) which came out a year ago. So yeah it is still a keepin' it real fake, but not on a Shadow.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 18th 2008 9:11PM]

Yeah, when I sent this in to engadget, I wasn't as familiar with the P3300 as I was with the Shadow. "Oasis Media Playr" was written on FRY's PLU sticker, and that sticker covers most of the Oasis logo. With no other product name visible, I just figured "Playr" was the actual name. I guess it's actually just either a typo on FRY's part, or they ran out of characters.

Now that I've seen the Artemis, I'd agree it looks more like that than the Shadow, but I think that just points to the shadow as a smartphone evolution/variant of the 3300 design. Either way, it's still a ho-hum media player encased in a rip-off of an HTC cellphone/PDA design.