Keepin' it real fake, part CLXXI: iFone 3G is more than phonetically inaccurate
By Darren Murph 
posted December 6th 2008 11:11AM
posted December 6th 2008 11:11AM
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'i' dont like it looks like a cheap knock off and 'i' wish phone companys would stop copying apples iphone touch screen its just embarrassing now looking at the copy cats
Man, I would not Hesitate to fart on that phone.
Hush up!, it may just be a copy, but it is far superior in design to any nokia or moto out there today!!!
Are you like 10 or something? What a immature comment, I'm sure!
I would too, if, well....
*sniff*
*Sniff*? What are you sniffing at? Never mind, I don't want to know!
Wow. They can't even get the font size right in that "Slide to power off" box.
they are going for a different look. cheap and incomplete, it is all the rage these days
Incomplete.. Like leaving out copy+paste and multitasking?
That was my favorite part of this KiRF. Maybe it's because they don't have the fullsize screen?
If you click on the picture and follow the link you see a bunch of applications one of which is "CS" and an icon that looks like Counter-Strike. If this thing can play Counter-Strike, I'm in for one.
I can also see a WoW icon
Yeah no
Don't forget Stopwat.
It'll be a 2D Counter strike which plays damn awful.
Useless phone, just as much as the original!
Rank me down ibitches ;).
heh maybe apple could take a few lessons from this
Data Connections: WAP, GPRS, SMS,MMS
Playback Formats: MP3/3GP/AVI/JPG/TXT
Bluetooth Stereo Music Profile: A2DP Stereo Supporte
Because it drives me crazy that I can't play TXT files on my iPhone 3G.
*COUGH* *COUGH* he was talking about the a2dp alekzander
It's ok it's a typical Apple fanboy response to jump on some trivial and unfunny joke rather than look at the fact that this cheaper and poorer device has more functionality than the iPhone.
Also for what it's worth there is no way to get notes from your PC onto your iPhone, I would actually find this feature useful as would others who frequently whine about lack of notes synchronisation also.
I agree, especially about the A2DP, that rules...I use it on my Bold in the car and it's AWESOME, that's the one thing I personally miss about the iPhone. The second and third are no expandable memory or removable battery (possibly for a longer extended battery and modified back case to support it) BUT, the interface looks shotty and like the above post, couldn't even get the slide to unlock graphics right before production kinda shows what else you might expect...I'd go for 99.00 or something MAYBE, but no more for sure!!!!
"It's ok it's a typical Apple fanboy response to jump on some trivial and unfunny joke rather than look at the fact that this cheaper and poorer device has more functionality than the iPhone."
You obviously miss the point of the iPhone, which is why so many people like it.. the SOFTware.. HARDware isn't that bad either compared to some current high-end touch phones.. I mean I really like the expandability of my current WinMo phone (Touch HD), but the OS is slow and complicated to use, which is not really what a phone is supposed to be like..
@ Dyranios - 1) Alek was being ironic, not trivial, and was at least mildly amusing 2) "more functionality than the iPhone" ha ha ha ha ha, good one! 3) "I hate iPhone because it does not do what I want ... I want notes sync" AH HA HA HA HA HA ha ha ha ha ha ha stop it man, you're killing me!
@ Dyranios: i was JUST about to post about those... particularly the A2DP.
Plus there's this
"
- Manufacturer claims the phone is powered by a fast 204MHz CPU"
1) they can't even find out?
2) Since when was that fast?
There are plenty of phone knock-offs on DealExtreme, and most of them have lots of parenthetical "manufacturer claims" features. e.g. "Java (manufacturer claims)". Agreed with Engadget - if they were cheap, they might be worth a look, but not at the price they're charging. (Then again, comparing with DX's normal prices, it is remotely possible that they're half-decent, really terrible knock-offs :P)
I Wonder, who would ever buy a cheap ripoff of the iPhone for such a price... Anyone an idea?
I nominate iFone x1 for crapgadget!!
Actually, iFone x1 AND iFone 3G
"i" might pick one up as a collector's piece...
It it like collecting fake Rolex or Cartier wrist watches... kinda fun to compare complete original superiority to a clone!
To bad the iPhone is garnishing soooo much attention and the other shite! Nokia phones only have about 3 clone versions..
WHAT HAPPENED NOKIA??? you took a fall into a vat of shite?
Best of All is this "Model: iFone 3G (note that the "3G" here is merely a model number, it does not represent 3G network support)"
....and engadget has an editor controlled Downrank/uprank button which he can use as much as he wants.
Listen, if downranks mattered to me, I'd sleep with hotter women.
Isn't the name phonetically accurate? Would the inaccurate thing simply be the spelling?
If it were to be phonetically accurate it would be the 'ahyFone'
So the original iPhone is also phonetically inaccurate?
I'm pretty sure that "phonetically" may have been a pun. You know, because it has the word "phone" in it.
Phonetic is not phonetic. Everyone loses.
I love how engadget always posts a picture of the real iPhone...as if we forgot what it looks like.
Do you seriously think one of the phones in the picture is a real iPhone? HA
They are too dumb to make it looks right.
Tt is not a rip off, it is a shame of intelligence - of true rip offs.
Loool seems it does WOW and CS...
Is there someone interested in testing the gaming capabilities of that device? But else I have to say it's just ugly, that font came out before I was born I think. This Keyboard is only usable by birds. The Menus have Numbers on the front and nobody knows why. Nobody knows what the OK and Cancel button in every menu is for. Any Videos of this so far?
The picture of the power adapter cracks me up. "Dangerousinshock by electricity. Please use in the dryencironment"
Who ever reads the Waming on a power adapter?
hey engadget your site search is broken
could not open XML input
I don't get it... why do all these fake chinese products have almost everything copied correctly apart from the font face?
Maybe because they are chinese, and used to chinese characters, they don't understand the aesthetics of the Latin alphabet.
Even the logo of the site selling them, DealExtreme, is a ripp-off! It's the logo of the Yamaha DX range of synthesizers:
http://www.tonetweakers.com/images/used/yamaha_dx100_pics_web/w_yamaha_dx100_m.jpg
"iFone" is phonetically more accurate that the Apple's "iPhone" if that's the sound you unambiguously want to achieve in an international market.
I think he means "orthographically" inaccurate. That would make sense. These guys need to hire more editors.
An edit option would help for our posts too. My "more accurate that the Apple's "iPhone" should have been "more accurate than Apple's "iPhone"...
Oh well.
There are sooo many things wrong with this.
The pictures at the end show actual iPhone shots with the Apple logo pixel'd out.
I would expect that most of those icons are just fake and don't provide anything.
Wow, RIP. OFF.