Keepin' it real fake, part CLXIV: Apple's and iorgane's
By Thomas Ricker 
posted October 24th 2008 7:20AM
posted October 24th 2008 7:20AM
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posted October 24th 2008 7:20AM
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Its for picking their ears (this is true, i live here)
You're all wrong, it's a coke nail.
It's for sexy time
One thing that nobody seems to have mentioned is that all this copying the chinese are doing is only making them better at understanding form and function. They have always been good at learning how to copy something and then to do it for themselves. It won't be too far into the future before we'll be seeing a rise in quality and a bit more originality from China in the technology markets anyway.
"They have always been good at learning how to copy something and then to do it for themselves."
Kind of like I could copy Picasso. I could copy him, just not very well.
Well, to be fair, this is kind of like comparing Apples and iorganes, isn't it?
good on them.... screw Apple.
Welcome to Jan 2008, the iPhone 3G clone has been out for sme time now..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRrDiTETtAc&feature=related
The iorgane website even has instructions on how to tell the fake fakes from the real fakes!
OMG, they are even complaining (well, Google translator isn't too good) that someone else is copying their product
http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http://www.iorgane.com/2008-10/19/10.html&usg=ALkJrhjuogLPc-r58Z0Bwu4O0fj6FMJRQw
dude, this is too funny.
that's Apple striking back with the clone of their clone of their own original !
OMG apple is going to make this company wish it never exsisted thats just wrong and i hate the iphone but come on they cant let them get away with this
dude has a cocaine fingernail on his pinky
What the hell. Their website is even using real iphone promotional shots to advertise their tripe.
http://www.iorgane.com/0tpl/images/products_03.jpg
Please Apple, take these guys to the cleaners.
dude, Apple can't do shit, that is why China is notorious for pumping out knock off products like this, American companies have no recourse.
That fingernail is gross.
But.... ignoring the phone part, will it play the music formats that I want AND let me use whatever software I want to put that music on the device? If it can do those two things and be cheap enough......
it probably can play music okay, but I think it probably is another MTK solution so you wont have much software 'you want' on it. I am sticking to my wm6.1 device for now.
What's funny is the clone supports flash. Don't get me wrong, I have an iphone and love it, but I've never understood why Flash was such a big deal. *shrug*
two better looking copies are here...
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fshanzhaiji.cn%2Flabs%2F20081006%2F5186.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=zh-CN&tl=en
the companies who make those 'iphone' devices can be established in hours(not days) and it can desolve jjust as quickly, trust me, it's hard to punish them. just like SNL,JL show or soutpark, we know it's fake any way.
Did no one else notice that this phone is "F4" compatible? That has got to be way better then G3, right?
hilarious.
F4 was some lameass Chinese male boy band that existed when I was there in 2003.
Neither the F4 nor the mispelling of orange mean a damn thing. They shoulda just called it the "iphone4G"
yo,is it named 'reDESIGN'?
ahah```just kidding
chinese always make the best copies
but never the best original creations```damn```
\anyone else see their product line-up? i cant decide whether i want to get a wang cooltouch or a mytouch. XD i bet their next ip is going to be "youtouch"
In french when we refer to an (organe) it almost always means the thing between your legs
These guys have NO shame... Whatsoever!
LOL, I like to end of the vid even more! They are even copying the commercial.
It eez so match fun using finga-hand!
Hey, all I know is that I want that album they showed with kim jong-il singing! He is super big music star!!!
Why is 'orange' spelled incorrectly?
They can't even spell orange right.
iorgan (e) and ibone, all in the same day. Oh my.
I couldn't help but think this was about an iomega rip-off, the first split second I looked at the pic.
Why buy an iPhone when you can have that cheaper and unlocked.
Most people only buy one to be cool anyway, why not a save a buck.
this is why i boycott purchasing any electronic device from china on ebay or most "cheap" sites. odds are, it is fake
Wow that accelerometer is so responsive for gaming.
oh no... this is insane... Sometimes I'm proud to be Chinese, but sometimes I don't. Today is the latter one.
The English in the ad is so bad... but nevertheless they managed to rip the iPhone off (I'm glancing to my iPhone sitting on the table...). Did they realise that their phone's name has a spelling mistake (seeing that they said "orange" at the end of the video).
and something good with that iorgane -- to change pages of the calendar you just need to swipe the page -- I wish Apple could've implement that. It's easier than pressing the arrows near the top.
...if they're selling it less than $20 I'll buy it :)
Wrong,
Read this link... (Just the picture)
http://gb.cri.cn/13524/2007/05/14/2245@1586586.htm
Somebody has done what you want to do... again, in china.
They even tried to copy the end of every iPhone commercial, the incoming call and the hand moves away. Pathetic.
no matter how good design is, how good performance is, it's still MADE IN CHINA
I don't get it. Is Engadget implying some sort of resemblance between the Apple and iorgane? Come on, they're clearly different.
1) the box the iPhone comes in is black, while iorgane's is clearly orange.
2) When I look at my iPhone all the characters are based on the Latin alphabet and use English. The iorgane use some sort of ideograms which I'll bet are Chinese.
3) The hands in Apple's and iorgane's TV ads are certainly different as iorgane's hand model obviously has a coke habit where Apple's hand model is a Tea Toddling Mormon (probably) .
Man, why must everything be construed to be a rip off of Apple?
You're sad. Wake up! It's a new millennium already! You guys are SUPPOSED to be hipsters, haven't you ever heard of parallel universes?
is it me or is orange misspelled? organe???? really is that how its spelled?
Sounds like half an orange and half a banana.
Meizu could really learn a thing or two from iOrgane, really
ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL
HAHA! Seriously?!?!
So Shan zhai
In china ，this series of iclone are called “shan zhai ji 山寨机 “
Yes,these are called “SHAN ZHAI JI” ，in chinese “山寨机” ,if someone knows chinese,you can google the chinese word "山寨机"
then you can see how hot this word in china.
I'm a chinese and in china none likes these clones.
I don't see why any of this is funny.
The iorgane TouchCool has a 3.2 mp camera, uncrippled bluetooth support, a standard mini USB connector and interchangeable batteries. Maybe Apple /should/ be the one copying them.