Keepin' it real fake, part CXII: Is the DaXian X999 the ultimate fake iPhone?

iPhone cloners: meet your new king. We're not kidding when we say we even tried fake names and disguises at CES to score an early picture of the DaXian X999 you see here, only to be shot down by the eagle-eyed vendors in the International Pavilion -- but it's out now, baby, and never has KIRFdom been so thoroughly rocked. Not only does the hardware ape the iPhone -- 3.2-inch single-touch QVGA screen, dual 2MP cameras, motion and proximity sensors -- the UI is actually a TouchFLO clone running on what is surely an unlicensed copy of Windows Mobile 6.0. That's a hat trick, people -- and to top it all off, the list price is a staggering $369. It's like we don't even have to make the jokes -- except to say that if your love / hate relationship with Apple compels you to buy this thing, you should probably seek therapy. Random dramatic video of the UI in action after the break.

[Via thegadgetsite]

[Boywithhair @ Feb 20th 2008 2:11PM]

Oh my god lol. That looks terrible and...is it running windows mobile?

[Jeff @ Feb 20th 2008 2:53PM]

bahahaha "Looks and works like the iPhone but works with Windows Mobile"



haha. yep, that thing looks like it works exactly like the iPhone. but yeah, that's Winmo and TouchFlow.

what a turd.

[BrianB @ Feb 20th 2008 4:29PM]

Definitely a HiPhone Killer.

[BrianB @ Feb 20th 2008 4:46PM]

Just realized. No WiFi.

[strangefate @ Feb 21st 2008 1:38AM]

This looks nothing like the iPhone. Everytime a touchscreen phone comes up, I swear. Apple fanboys.

[Lisa Smalls @ Feb 21st 2008 7:11AM]

ya, this does not look very good... check out the 99% D800i iphone clone by DigitalRise here: http://www.chinagrabber.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1531 got mine today and am pretty happy with it...

[Rod @ May 13th 2008 4:18PM]

this one has Wi-Fi - the Wi-Phone W99i is the upgraded model and under $300... http://www.chinagrabber.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1614&HS=1

[Scott Miller @ Feb 20th 2008 2:20PM]

Can I have that 3:25 of my life back?

Please?

[joe23521 @ Feb 20th 2008 3:47PM]

Especially that 1 minute spent watching a guy scroll a web page.

[Flashpoint @ Feb 20th 2008 5:51PM]

What I like about Chinese people is they would NEVER buy one of these if the iPhone is available in their city.

Chinese buy specificaly name brand items and they HATE Chinese made brands cause they know the shit won't last and isn't covered by any warranty.

[Blaktornado @ Feb 20th 2008 6:45PM]

Especially since it was Internet Explorer... not even FireFox... what sort of crappy phone is this!?

[phanbouy @ Feb 20th 2008 2:21PM]

wow, that is a gen-u-ine turd popsicle; with a high price to boot. lmao!

[Jamma @ Feb 20th 2008 2:52PM]

It's a fake version of a gen-u-ine turd popsicle; with a high price to boot.

[phanbouy @ Feb 20th 2008 3:09PM]

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

[Jamma @ Feb 20th 2008 5:58PM]

WHy are people low ranking me?!?! I'm right, it is a copy of the Meizu M8!!

[OSnix*-geek @ Feb 20th 2008 6:28PM]

OH MY GOD THIS WHOLE COMMENT THREAD WINS EVERYTHING.

Especially this "I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE"... oh my GAWD that cracked me up.

[phanbouy @ Feb 20th 2008 6:32PM]

lol

[aaronbareford @ Feb 20th 2008 2:23PM]

That really is dramatic LOL

[Esat @ Feb 20th 2008 2:24PM]

Wow that.... is a terrible name for a product.

[Esat @ Feb 20th 2008 2:27PM]

Oh and another thing, I think we are all intelligent enough to appreciate that you can scroll up and down on this thing, do we really need to see them demonstrate scrolling for almost a minute?

No. No we don't.

[Roxanne DeBarge @ Feb 21st 2008 11:23PM]

i did some research and the icons on the d800i are really like the iphone's ... the daxian iphones are not... also, only the D800i is tri-band which means it is for the USA... the other iClones are mostly all dual band so be careful when you buy from other sites... That being said, the D800i is tri-band but if you are with ATT, some places in the U.S. are 850mhz meaning it is not supported.... i got mine today and it works great.. i got mine from here... http://www.gadgetgreats.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=781&HS=1

[derX @ Feb 20th 2008 2:32PM]

Finally, AN IPHONE KILLLER. IT HAS MORE FEATURES THAN AN IPHONE. THE IPHONE HAS ONE CAMERA, THIS ONE HAS TWO! THIS ONE EVEN COMES WITH A STYLUS.

DOES APPLE PROVIDE A STYLUS?
THOUGHT SO.

*goes into rant about Steve Jobs being the antichrist*

This is so craptastic, I couldn't even imagine the most devout iBunny wasting his/her time to comment on this.

[Scott @ Feb 20th 2008 2:56PM]

Works just like an iPhone. Stylus and all!

[joe23521 @ Feb 20th 2008 3:45PM]

You know what though, there's been quite a few times where I've wished I could have used a stylus when browsing link-intensive web pages on the iPod touch/iPhone. That and also a hard button(s) for scrolling.

[frankXchange @ Feb 20th 2008 2:33PM]

Did you see the "Ebay sucks. Don't trust." message flash on for a few frames. And yet I must obey, must obey, must obey...

[PSM @ Feb 20th 2008 7:58PM]

Yeah, WTF was that???

[Esat @ Feb 20th 2008 2:35PM]

All things aside, I did kind of dig* the cube interface thing. If it was smoothly done it could look kind of cool.



*Bet your wondering what that star implied? Me too...

[Jeff @ Feb 20th 2008 2:54PM]

...then get the HTC Touch.* ...that cube thing is the craptastic "Touchflow" thing that comes on the HTC Touch.

*just a warning, it's a turd.

[RR @ Feb 20th 2008 6:54PM]

Hahaha that made me 'LOL'... :P

[Andrew @ Feb 20th 2008 2:41PM]

That 3D cube is the HTC cube that comes with the HTC touch, exactly the same down to the icons.

[Tech^Cellfish @ Feb 20th 2008 2:55PM]

High price. And a hacked up patched stolen OS is not so good.

[ljm @ Feb 20th 2008 3:00PM]

HTC touch flow ROM...

[Phoenix @ Feb 20th 2008 3:15PM]

oh boy... they're gonna get sued to death by Microsoft, Apple and HTC all at the same time...

this I gotta see.

And GOOD GOD! they're claiming to run XP Professional O.o'

[r3loaded @ Feb 20th 2008 3:01PM]

I think playing Linkin' Park's "What I've Done" is highly appropriate. What they've done is make a piece of crap.

What are the odds that it'll come preloaded with Linkin Park's discography, all in DRM-free 96k mp3s?

[captain underpants and the bringdown gang @ Feb 20th 2008 3:30PM]

Keeping it real fakE, Part CXIII: the iFone army:
http://www.dealextreme.com
/details.dx/sku.5179
/details.dx/sku.11012
/details.dx/sku.11030
/details.dx/sku.10749
/details.dx/sku.11031

[phanbouy @ Feb 20th 2008 4:47PM]

lol dealextreme ftw! my fav product is the Cigarette-shaped Butane Lighter. cuz, you know. 2 'cigs' are better than one.

[FRZ @ Feb 20th 2008 9:58PM]

Hey, I've seen someone with one of those ifone thingies. They say it was the asia version of the iphone.

[captain underpants and the bringdown gang @ Feb 20th 2008 10:38PM]

I thought the meziu m9

[TIMMAH! @ Feb 20th 2008 3:46PM]

Why do you need two 2MP cameras? Does that make it a total of 4MP then? :-)

[phanbouy @ Feb 20th 2008 5:24PM]

i want one with 30 cameras so i can see in bee-vision. that would totally r0xor

[emjoi @ Feb 20th 2008 5:27PM]

Does it do stereograms? If it came with a pair of 3D glasses, I'd buy one!

[DP @ Feb 20th 2008 3:51PM]

As far as imatations go this one ain't so bad.

[sodapop @ Feb 20th 2008 4:06PM]

Although, I wish the iPhone also had handwriting recognition. Or even copy+paste.

[PSM @ Feb 20th 2008 9:40PM]

During that neverending scrolling section I kept waiting for the guy to copy and paste something. I mean if you're going to do a knockoff, at least advertise the advantages your product has over the original.

[doctorSpoc @ Feb 20th 2008 5:20PM]

well we know the scolling function works... literally half the video is of scrolling.. you know some programmer spend some late nights getting that working so he wants to show that off...

doesn't work like the iPhone.. the iPhone doesn't require a stylus.

holy crap though... these guys are shameless... rip off the look of an iPhone and rip of HTC touch cube interface thing.. these guys have reach a new low.

[maryland157 @ Feb 20th 2008 5:51PM]

Sometimes the fakes are better than the real ones , too bad this doesn't have wifi.

[Jason Cox @ Feb 20th 2008 5:55PM]

Windows Mobile? Nice!

[applefreak @ Feb 20th 2008 6:23PM]

I don't mind suposed "iPhone knockoffs", but I don't like it when ANYBODY just totally rips off Apple.

BTW, I wonder if they paid the artist of that song

[Michael Linehan @ Feb 20th 2008 6:39PM]

What kind of twisted mind thinks the iPhone is so cool that they want one desperately, but so screwed up they think a clunky imitation running on Windoze mobile is an adequate substitute?
And if an iPhone is so great (which it is), what does a hundred or two dollars matter?

[mushrooshi @ Feb 20th 2008 6:58PM]

that wasnt a cube.