Keepin' it real fake, part CXCV: NOKLA N97 drops two i's, fools no one
By Ross Miller 
posted April 1st 2009 4:07AM
posted April 1st 2009 4:07AM
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Crapgadget, anyone?
KIRF yes. Crapgadget no.
If speaking of functionality, apple iphone might be a crap gadget. (ok, until release of OS 3.0 at least)
What a nice looking phone. Its amazing what China is capable of. Just move the NokLa tag from the side to the top of the earpiece and youd have a sale from me :-)
Oh and it would actually have to be Nokia not Nokla
Obvious troll is Obvious
What a nice looking phone. Its amazing what China is capable of. Just move the NokLa tag from the side to the top of the earpiece and youd have a sale from me :-)
Oh and it would actually have to be Nokia not Nokla
Its funny that Chinas backstreets can churn out better looking phones than the likes of Motorola (and probably more functional too).
Its also amazing how crap Engadgets comment system is. When small websites can create better commenting systems than a global multi million dollar site, owned by a multi million dollar corporation, it says something.
Very seldom have I double posted, but when I have it's been my own fault, not Engadget's. It's called impatience, and it afflicts the very best of us.
F5 is your friend
april fools!
In other news, Nokia buys Apple's mobile phone division.
Looks like NOKLA buy both Nokia and iphone division ;-)
this motorola fake phone actually looks more like a sony ericsson phone
Actually has elements of a Blackberry Bold in there too.. the bezel around the sizes and the speaker/earpiece at the top.
Noklahoma, whose design goes drippin' down the drain
And the knockoff screen is really keen
When you see how small it's just a pain.
Noklahoma, Ev'ry minute with you's such a waste
Sit alone and talk, try not to gawk
At the kind of poop the Chinese buy!
We know this belongs in the can
And the can it belongs to is so grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! This sucks so hard!
We're only sayin'
You're such a crapfest, Noklahoma!
Noklahoma, "OK"!!
(just a little doodle I came up with whilst pooping.... it gets so lonely twitterin' out here in space by meself... Yarrr)
I liked it! Got a little dicey there at the end but all in all my hat's off to you. Nice work :- )
I might be wierd, but I could' nt care less if the makers of this thing copied from Nokia, Apple, or Leonardo's codices , what I would like to know is "How does it performs?" Or "How does it compare to the "real" phones"?
I know that most probably (er, almost surely) it will suck like the maelstrom, but sometimes thes unknown chinese "copies" turn out to be quite good: I' ll never forget how pleased I have been with a ridiculously cheap, colorful laptop (branded Amoi) that I picked up during a business trip to Shenzen.
I always wandered how it was possible that the price I got it for was less than half of the components in the laptop: turned out that even the components were copies of real components. I discovered it years after when I opened it to upgrade it, because it never had any problem that required me to open the chassis.
I' d buy another one (more modern) tomorrow if I could find it for an equivalent price.
Amoi is actually a very large manufacturer or electronics things. (www.amoi.com.cn)
I don't know whether it's the sheer desperation these guys must feel in order to rip off other people's work like this, the fact that Nokia hasn't yet released a worthy iPhone-beater, or the fact that they've got iPhone OS running on what's supposed to be a rip-off of a Nokia phone....
... But this really, really depresses me.
It looks nice, in fairness.
Chinese things...
i don't wanna say something bad about Chinese products...
but...
It's weird anyway.
speaking of cradgadgets, ntlam is a crapgadget.
at least lks much better than mtrl phone
I didn't know that 'N97" = words, or is that part of the april fools joke?
What's up with the "OK" button, I guess they are trying to differentiate it from certain fruit phone's button design.
It's like "Mochlate" from Friends
There is just something I do not understand about Chinese companies. They do not seem to comprehend or care about the concept of being original and they do not believe in such concepts as intellectual property or copyright. If any one has a good idea or design they just feel it's free for the taking. Case in point, these Engadget "Keeping it real fake" series.
Recently I heard of an even more disturbing event. We all hear and know about CISCO, the beloved maker of all things router and network equipment. Turns out there is a Chinese company called Huawei that wanted to get into the networking market. To this end, they bought one of CISCO's popular routers and reverse engineered every single part down to the last bit of software and the last piece of circuit board. A while later Huawei shamelessly entered the networking market with their own router. When CISCO analyzed this new machine they found it was a 100% clone copy of their own router; even the names of the original American programmers were still embedded in the OS. So much for the millions of $$ CISCO invested in R&D, testing, design and the countless hours their people invested in making it all happen. The Chinese just come and take it.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=77818
@FoxKenji,
The lawsuit between CISCO and Huawei were way old. CISCO dropped the case at 2004. Last year, Huawei became the biggest telecommunication company in the world. They supply telecommunication system for England, France, Germany, India, Africa, and South Americans. The number of international patents they filed during 2009 also tops any other company in the world. I don't think all these new patents are stolen from CISCO. I bet Huawei will no longer need to do those things to CISCO any more.
Looking back to the history:
About 150 years ago, English bashed Germany for stealing their technology;
About 100 years ago, Germany called American "Shameless" for copying their skills;
About 40 years ago, American blamed Japanese for stealing their automobile technology;
Now, everybody is complaining Chinese for violating intellectual property rules.
Sometime, people forget things really fast, ignoring the fact that: rules are made by pioneers, and followers trend to break them when necessary.
Maybe in a few decades, nobody remember China used to be the a KIRF kingdom. Our next generation turned to blame Africans for something else.
I see this sort of crap all the time. Last time I wandered through Harbor Freight tools I saw a pressure washer with an engine that was obviously a direct copy of a Briggs & Stratton, except the B&S logo on the valve cover said something like J&S.
Sometimes these clone items come from the same production house as the real items, company X contracts Chinese manufacture to build 100,000 of product X, which they do, then they make another 100,000 of the same thing and slap a bogus name on it. No regard at all for the intellectual property, but the product is the same.
Other times they buy an example and blatantly copy it, I've seen lawnmower engine blocks where you could still see where they ground off the serial number of the engine used to cast the mold for their copies. Quality of these varies all over the place, usually toward the bottom end of the scale.
The Soviet Union showed what happens when you base your technology on copies of everyone else, by doing that you are always at least one step behind and having not gone through the development process, many times nuances are missed and the final product does not live up.
@FoxKenji,
I do not mean to hurt your feeling, just tell you another thing many Chinese people think about Americans:
I came to this country for my PhD program a few years ago. When I first saw those Chinese made KIRF gadgets, as well as all those IP violations by Chinese companies, I felt embarrased and shamed. I used to ask my collage roommates who works in the KIRF industry why don't you guys focus on original designs? Recently I got an answer from him:
Americans made rules on almost everything in the world, including international financial rules. Therefore they can borrow money from worldwide and live a life that they don't really deserve. In return, they sold toxic financial products to the world and drag the whole world into this crisis. Now the whole world have to pay for this. Many hard-working Chinese save their little incomes and part of those saving just vanish because of the trouble that Americans made. Hey, why you are still saything that we have to obey every rules they made? See, people learn from copying at first. We are just walking the same track that everybody passed.
Te be frank, I don't know how to argue with this....
I want some nokla for tee
what an abomination
this phone is shit!!!!
“support incoming call with big head sticker”
http://www.solomobi.com/viewpr.....ro_id=2613
WTF?