Keepin' it real fake, part CCXXI: Apple's iPhone and iPod nano hook up, combine
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 9th 2009 9:44AM
posted Jul 9th 2009 9:44AM
[Thanks, facelessloser]
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As usual, my country tricked some people by placing 5.0 on the back, it's actually a 0.3 megapixel camera (you can check the specs below)
Yup, its also not 8 gigs.
lol, I pissed myself how on the site it on the back it says 5MP, but it's really only 0.3!!!!
It is 8gb and 5mp it always says that stuff in the specs check every phone!
It would be funny if Apple was thinking about doing the same.
Wasn't there a rumour that there was an iPhone Nano being developed?
So then how is this "keepin it real fake"? the iPhone nano doesn't exist. That's like saying the santa claus at the mall is an imposter. How can you be an imposter of something that isn't real? Seems like solomobi just beat Apple to the punch.
The iPhone and the Nano are real, so yeah, this is a real fake item blending the two devices together. Lets not try so hard to be hypercritical.
I think the important term here is "rumour", which is another term for horse shit dreamed up by industry analysts who couldn't find their backside with both hands and GPS.
Apple would never have made a device that looked anything like this.
When you say, "it will be huge" - you mean, a huge piece of shit.
Hey that click wheel would come in handy when using a rotary dial app!
"Heck, there's even a 5 megapixel camera, which easily trumps the 3.2 megapixel shooter on the iPhone 3GS."
What type of reporting is this? Satire?
yes.
See, they used a lowercased 'p' in iPhone... because it's a nano.
It actually looks rather sweet :D
A billion people and no original thoughts.
China is the Microsoft of countries. :(
I disagree. It takes lots of brains to set up manufacturing and duplicate all those replica products. A its probably done using a very small staff.
I didn't say they had no brains, I said they can't come up with anything original on their own.
Just like Microsoft.
China must have a shitload of money then.
I don't know where you've been living all this time, but China DOES have a shitload of money.
Yes, they have a boatload of our money.
Actually they don't have a boatload of 'our money', they would if the US would pay up what we owe them but we're too busy consuming like the fat Zune guy.
*waves hi from reality*
Just like all Americans are obese.
Yeah, China owns a huge amount of American debt, more than a trillion dollars worth... if China cashed that in, we (Americans) would have a truly rude awakening.
Can it be used in America?
um yea. 640x480 = 5 megapixel. Also 8 GB yet the specs say it has 480M on it. On top of that you are limited to 400 contacts. typical bootleg crapware.
haha I second that. I noticed all the false stuff they advertised also.
I wonder what are the specs and what OS is it running... maybe you could hack it to run the iPhone 3.0 software?
Very intelligent knockoff.....
i wouldn't see the point of the click wheel if it were touch screen.. and as the person before said.. it would be good for rotary dialing if it weren't touch screen.
This is awesome, it has Magic Voice and "support incoming call with big head sticker" - take that Apple! lol.
you can even see that the box is just a regular box with paper glued on it...check the side edges.
You think Apple will drop the clickwheel this September and go all touch screen?
I have my doubts but I wouldn't be surprised to see the end of the iPod Classic this time around. I think the iPod Nano with a click wheel still has some time to go before it is replaced with a Touch Mini or something. But I certainly could be wrong...
Wow that website is the motherlode of all KIRFs. They have an entire section labeled "iphone copy". Actually, some of their other phones don't look half bad, and even if they are, they're so cheap it's no great loss if they fall to pieces.
Capacitive touch screen, tegra and android and I'm sold!
Isn't that all it takes for a phone to be good here on engadget?
@ilovethewaggle wait.... Santa is not real?
The hell with this phone, I see an M8 on this site...
http://www.solomobi.com/viewproduct.asp?pro_id=1832
I love the solomobi site they even have a category "iphone copy" :-)
( http://www.solomobi.com/category.asp?lx=cate2&cate_id=106 )
My wife and I were just talking about how we think the iPod Touch (similar to iPhone for discussion's sake) NEEDS a click wheel or shuffle-wheel tactical input button device. Having to unlock the screen and look at it to press the right screen area to advance, pause, etc. is ludicrous.
@FThorn Double click the home button to get the ipod controls w/o unlocking screen.
Specs say "0.3 Mega pixel camera" on the link page, not 5mb. Sounds like it is worse than the 3GS camera, not better. Did you guys actually read the link you posted?
This is horrible.
Will it run Crysis?
will you run Away From The Internet?
@iphone nano.... get out of my dreams and into my car
i dont see where they (on the product page) specifically said that the cam is 5mp and it has 8gb of storage, just because its written on the back doesnt mean that thats whats inside. seems like its just for looks i guess. also i would love both touchscreen as well as hardware buttons like a click wheel because sometimes i like the feel of regular buttons and ive always had at least some fondness of the click wheel. great idea imo
Even though it's not 8 GB (unless you put in a 8 GB card in it) and camera is crappy, I still kinda want it. I bet this thing looks awesome if you don't get a close look at it.
God damn you, China.
ew
I'm sold
Hmm, well despite the phone casing claiming a 5.0 megapixel camera and 8 gig memory, the spec says 0.3 megapixel camera and 480mb space, so it's a piece of c**p still unfortunatly ^^
From the same company...
http://www.solomobi.com/viewproduct.asp?pro_id=2815
Now THAT is a cool phone!
Has darren murph EVER produced correct facts?