Oh hi,
HiPhone. Not much of a surprise to see you
here, again. The latest masterpiece, the HiPhone F06-Slim, is a Frankenstein amalgamation of KIRF favorite iPhone and RIM's first foray into the world of touchscreen phones, albeit with a slightly smaller, 3.2-inch display. We're also looking at a 1.3 megapixel camera, FM radio, microSD support, GPRS, Bluetooth, dual SIM card slots, and "TV phone" capabilities, which we're taking to mean a mobile receiver of some sort. Looks like it forgot the refresh button on the bottom of the device, but with any luck, it left out SurePress as well. If you hang out with the kind of friends who respect a good knockoff, the price of raising your street cred is just a penny under $190 before shipping.
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PMP Today]
posted Jun 17th 2009 4:17AM
1MP camera... WTH go back to middle age
1.3 dew. 1.3
This will seriously sell like hot cake in China!! It's probably the sexiest KIRF phone to date! Now someone make it work with iTunes.
I love how some of these phones have features that some real phones don't have, dual-sim for example.
"Real phones don't have"
These knock-offs are real phones, and they do support two SIM cards, whether that's switching between them or using them both at the same time.
Have you ever looked at the touch pro 2? It has dual sims and is a top notch smartphone, check it out.
@sacapuntas
The TP2 costs 900$ to import unlocked, what I think he means that that no affordable phone "including feature and dumb phones" has this.
Wow. So Blatant. That middle button is like so RIM. And that slide to unlock is like so iPhone. Come to think of it, that whole package is like so UGLY.
Really?? I think it looks pretty good for $189.99, no contract.
It looks so plasticky...and...plastic.
So's your face.
KIRFs are never worth buying because they just imitate real smartphones and haven't got nearly as many functions. and the functions they have usually don't work properly.
and you have no warranty if the phone breaks down which probably happens a lot.
Anyway $190 is not much less than the new Nokia 5530 XM which costs 199€=$276 with no contract and for 86 extra dollars you get a REAL touchscreen smartphone.
Why Oh Why Oh spells yo-yo, but why are the KIRF phones always so much more awesome than the pukka article?!
If only they could sue...I smell fresh meat.
Why can't they sue?
And in this case, if they could sue, they could be sued from both, Apple and RIM, right? :D That'd be hard I guess...
Bro, we are talking about China's commie regime, where cash is KING. Companies can pay themselves out of trouble.
So RIM and apple win the case, so what? penalties and injunctions are hardly enforced anyway. What is the point?
My buddy went to China a few months ago, Wu (a Wii imitation made in China for the chinese market) is selling like hotcakes.
China's government doesn't cooperate in recognizing patents and trademarks from other countries, so suing is pretty hard to pull off under their system. That's why all the knock off stuff comes from there.
RIM is too busy taking it up the butt by APPLE while PALM jerks off in the corner.
Apple and RIM have made an agreement with these OEM companies: work in exchange for freely copying their products.
Win-Mo?
Maybe in their next model.
what the hell, i'll take it!
damn... even the price is a rip off.
Not to nit-pick, but "the refresh button"? Clearly the author has never used a blackberry. That's the back button, dummy.
These Chinese knock-off companies would be wise to just use Android. They make decent handsets, and they've got a free, robust OS they could use with real developer support.
Actually, if you look at other phones offered lower on the page, you'll see that they offer a quad band Android phone that they call DreamG2. Maybe they'll introduce more Android phones. Their prices are certainly low enough to make one consider a moderately-featured phone. I refuse to pay close to a thousand for an unlocked phone and I hate contracts with US-based wireless carriers--they're a ripoff for the most part. If the Chinese develop a cheap Android smart phone with WIFI that has good call quality, I wouldn't hesitate buying it. As of now, most reviews of Chinese phones that I've read complain of extremely poor call quality and poor antenna designs that don't enable the user to get a radio signal.
Whats fuvked up is that it probably has a better OS than the storm.