Keepin' it real fake, part CLXIX: the iPhone gets flipped

What would you get if you combined an iPhone, a unibody Macbook, a strobe light out of a smoky, drugged-out disco, and a shelter from pesky copyright infringement? We guess you'd get something like this, the creatively-named "iPhone V126" that you'll find floating around the streets of Shenzen these days. The QVGA display shows off a reasonably faithful reproduction of the iPhone's UI (for a non-touch device, anyway), but the similarities end there considering that you're going all the way down to a useless VGA cam paired with an Apple logo on the front cover that emanates entrancing pulses of searing white light every time you get a call. We'll take two in gold, please.

[Via PHONE Magazine]

[Chizzed @ Nov 27th 2008 9:36AM]

Def. sassier than the BB flip.

[todd @ Nov 28th 2008 10:14PM]

Maybe if they put the apple logo the correct way so the logo isnt upside down when talking on the phone.. the lens for the camera is in the wrong spot too

[SITEiNK @ Nov 28th 2008 12:16AM]

these things are so lame. why do they even bother?

[Anghell @ Nov 27th 2008 9:49AM]

I can never help but wonder who actually programs the OS for these types of KIRF's

[greenlight @ Nov 27th 2008 11:06AM]

Wang Jhi-jun http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalleboo/2296531596/

[iEye @ Nov 27th 2008 9:50AM]

Not 1/2 bad... but not 1/2 good either....

If this was at a good price at Deal Extreme and I had some extra cash, I would pick one up just for a collection piece...

[SpectreGadget @ Nov 27th 2008 11:05AM]

Funny, I was thinking the same thing... It would be great to have side-by-side with my iPhone and MacBook Pro... lol

[no_one @ Nov 27th 2008 11:28AM]

OMG look around!

Baffled, crossed, pitifull fanboys.

They are truly derailed by this. Seeing the logo and all. Hesitating, but some of them actually do **want** that darned thing. It looks like the logo finally conquered their sheep minds and they are submitting to it, not daring to refuse stuff marked by the 'holy' sign.

[(01) @ Nov 27th 2008 11:33AM]

I actually wouldn't mind the flashing logo, or at least have it turn red and/or blink when you have a message.

[Aaron @ Nov 27th 2008 9:55AM]

Does it have copy and paste?

[Zunavio @ Nov 27th 2008 10:49AM]

Does it even got a notepad?

[Félix @ Nov 27th 2008 12:51PM]

No this (and the Fake-Apple logo) are actually the only similarities between the 2 phones...

(And YES this means even that crap can do MMS)

[Flashpoint @ Nov 27th 2008 1:51PM]

IT HAS A 3.5mm HEADPHONE JACK !!!!

[aawil40 @ Nov 27th 2008 10:00AM]

I'll be honest, I wouldn't mind having one of these. I would imagine it would be impossible to find one in the states though.

[ChineseJadeShop.com @ Nov 27th 2008 10:00AM]

Looks good

[gad get @ Nov 27th 2008 10:09AM]

Just don't put it up to your face; it's probably full of lead.

[Skazer @ Nov 27th 2008 9:43PM]

Thanks. Next time I try to stuff a phone into my mouth, I'll remember what you said.

[gad get @ Nov 28th 2008 3:54AM]

Whenever you eat a phone from now on, you'll think of me? Ohhh, that's sweet!

[Xavier @ Nov 27th 2008 10:12AM]

You forgot to mention "duo SIM card".

[Booshack @ Nov 27th 2008 10:43AM]

Okay now I just have to ask, what the hell is "unibody" about the new makbooks, when it is built from two shells stuck together like every other notebook ever made?

[Patriks7 @ Nov 27th 2008 10:54AM]

Uhm, not true.. look at the majority of the laptops and you will see many parts attached together, especially on the inside, which I think is the main "thing" about the unibody style..

[Booshack @ Nov 27th 2008 11:01AM]

Most laptops i have seen have a plastic bottom, perhaps with some lids for easy acces to various places (even apple fans will now agree that this is actually a feature), and then the motherboard is attached to the bottom and you stick in various hardware and slap on the keyboard and the lid.

Even if apple were the first to do this, it would still be complete bullshit to call it "unibody", when the body is in fact 2-part. They want the average idiot to believe, that the entire body of the notebook is milled out of one solid block of aluminium (they literally claim this), but it is just not true.

[KarlW @ Nov 27th 2008 11:22AM]

If you're actually interested and not just bashing Apple, you can check out the keynote. They explained the structural changes they made and why it's called a "unibody" enclosure.

[Booshack @ Nov 27th 2008 12:26PM]

Right, so they can call it "solid gold" as long as they explain why they call it something that it clearly isn't in a keynote. Your saying I should watch the keynote is actually eerily similar to a religious nut telling me to read the bible.
It is a 2-part construction. Two (2) shells enclosing the internals. Get it through your thick fanboy skull that that is not a unibody construction.

[gozer @ Nov 27th 2008 1:08PM]

so what you're saying is that the two cover panels that are a couple of mm thick and only used to cover the innards are part of the body of the laptop?

[JJV @ Nov 27th 2008 1:10PM]

Uni-body = all made out of one single piece of aluminum and melted together so that the body encases thae actual components, and they arent just screwed to a bit of plastic.

[Booshack @ Nov 27th 2008 1:23PM]

@JJV - i agree, and what you described is certainly not the case for the macbooks.
@Gozer - those two parts indeed constitute the body of the laptop, like the bodywork of a car.

Recap: The new macbooks are 100% not unibody designs. You may argue that they are more unibody than other laptops, or that they are very solid or whatever, but they are per definition NOT unibody contructions, insofar as the body of the machine consists of two (2) major aluminum shells.

This is such a perfect example of the zombie-like lack of critical thinking inherent in many mac users, even from a technology site such as engadget.

[Kevlar @ Nov 27th 2008 2:12PM]

Why the F(*ahwooga*)K are you arguing whether or not "unibody" means what Apple thinks it means in a KIRF story?
1. Apple says "unibody". Fine. They have a reason to call it "unibody" whether or not the entire damn laptop is made from a single chunk of aluminum. It's basically that it was carved out in the correct shape, as opposed to a thin sheet that was bent. So no, it's not "actually" a uni-body, but at least one component of it is.
2. Yes, that means it is two pieces. Get over it.
3. Don't feed the trolls.
4 .... profit?

[Booshack @ Nov 27th 2008 4:53PM]

See how long it took for someone to actually realize that I am right? To answer your question Kevlar, it simply annoys me that a), apple gets away with being so blatantly misleading and b), a 3rd party, supposedly authority on the subject, willfully perpetuates every word. I care for the same reason that I would care if Apple (and subsequently engadget) decided to call the ipod screen "pure sapphire" or something else it factually isn't.
It's incredible that the unibody myth has already sunk in so deep that an attempt to point out the fallacy is identified as trolling.
If i really was a troll, I would start drawing nazism parallels at this point - and rightfully so.

[Raheem @ Nov 27th 2008 10:58AM]

The article says it has a 3 Mega Pixel camera.

[Chris Ziegler @ Nov 27th 2008 11:22AM]

At the source it says 300,000 pixels, which is VGA.

[Ryan M @ Nov 27th 2008 11:02AM]

The Apple logo is up-side-down when you're actually using the phone, remniscient of the PowerBook G3.

[Ahmed Bin Tariq @ Nov 27th 2008 11:16AM]

i would totally buy this if i ever found one... even though i already own an iPhone... but this is sarcastically hilarious.... :-)

[lnx @ Nov 27th 2008 11:28AM]

I love the ripping off of SE as well with "QuickShare" stamped at the bottom of the screen.

It's one rip off hybrid shit brick.

[Abuzar Baloach @ Nov 27th 2008 12:26PM]

lol

This actually isn't that bad looking.

[sean @ Nov 27th 2008 1:08PM]

It really pisses me off that Chinese companies are allowed to so blatantly steal intellectual property of foreign companies. Fair trade should be linked to elements of fair trade (like copyright laws) beyond the whole human rights-thing.

[Gnormie @ Nov 27th 2008 3:00PM]

You're comparing child labour, people working twice as long as you for 1/100 the pay and many human rights issues across the world to Apple getting ripped off by some no name Chinese company that most likely won't sell one unit outside the town where it was created? I think you have priority issues...

[sean @ Nov 27th 2008 3:39PM]

Actually that's exactly the opposite of what I said.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beyond[1]

"beyond = in addition to"

[Gnormie @ Nov 27th 2008 5:36PM]

You know it may just be me, but I'd rather that they had 100% of their attention on the things I mentioned. Rather then trying to financially ruin some small company that will make no difference to Apple in any way whatsoever.

[Imran @ Nov 27th 2008 5:00PM]

Quite nice actually

[Matthew @ Nov 27th 2008 8:10PM]

Those boys in China would be smart to leave the hardware design work to the experts in San Francisco. That is, this phone not only hideous, but the antithesis of Apple's design principles.

[Greg @ Nov 27th 2008 8:16PM]

Design principles like non-unibody unibodies?

[Skazer @ Nov 27th 2008 9:43PM]

Wow, these Chinese clone companies are getting better so quickly. It actually looks pretty good if you take off the led lights. Even the UI looks great.

[bocaj @ Nov 28th 2008 12:30AM]

just a heads up: shanzhaiji.com is I guess a Chinese KIRF website. shanzhai means "mountain stronghold or fort" and is a reference to warlords that used to be out of the king/emperor's control. the term now refers to knockoff/bootleg products

[JMDerrick22 @ Nov 28th 2008 11:39AM]

this is one of the ugliest and least appealing designs i have ever seen.

i love mac products and there is a reason for that.
you can't just slap an apple on a phone and expect me to like it.
it is the time and consideration into the beauty of design of mac products that make me love them, not the fact that they have a light up apple...

[Screw Off Top @ Nov 28th 2008 10:24PM]

I like their look more than I do the real iPhones. I was given an iPhone free as part of a promotion, and after two weeks, I sold it and got myself a centro instead. I hate the way they look. It just bothered me. Everyone talks about how aesthetically pleasing Apple products are, and for the most part, I'd say sure. But not when it comes to their hideous iPhone. Google's device is just as ugly, though. I don't care at all for the current style trend.