Keepin' it real fake, part CCXXIV: Hello Kitty Phone 3G is our next impulse buy

We aren't usually so taken in by a KIRF. In fact -- we've seen so many knockoff iPhones, we had started to consider ourselves steeled against their charms -- and then along came Hello Kitty Phone 3G. What is it about HKP3G that we love so much, you ask? Is it the happily tooled pink background scene on the facade of the phone? Is it the hideously realized user interface, complete with typos and a blatant disregard for capitalization standards we've all respected since the 19th century? Is it the little kitty on the solo button? Is it the name? Is it the fact that, at $99, it would cost us just as much to own one as a real, actual, iPhone 3G? Answer: it's all of those things. We're getting one. There's another shot of this masterpiece after the break.

[Via Chip Chick]

[DanielT @ Jul 13th 2009 11:16AM]

I will trade my 3GS for this glory device.

[Karl @ Jul 13th 2009 11:19AM]

This phone tries to making iPhone reference but must certainly fail.

[betafrog @ Jul 13th 2009 11:24AM]

@karl

you tries to making English speaking but must certainly fail.

[Return of Jackson...whoo! @ Jul 13th 2009 11:32AM]

But can it play videos of Micheal Jackson moon walking?

This is the most important question that need to be answered.

[sinai @ Jul 13th 2009 3:45PM]

why not just wait for HKP3GS?

[Imran @ Jul 13th 2009 11:23AM]

YESSS! This is what we've all been waiting for!

[mrspiteri @ Jul 13th 2009 11:25AM]

At least it doesn't come with a contract straddling two decades.

[Swordrune10 @ Jul 13th 2009 11:26AM]

that thing is massively thick!

[joe23521 @ Jul 13th 2009 11:28AM]

That's what she said.

[PiperSon @ Jul 14th 2009 8:37AM]

But not to you...

[Mike Carney @ Jul 13th 2009 11:31AM]

Case mod!

[TentosToys @ Jul 13th 2009 11:36AM]

It it an optical illusion, or do the bottom row of icons slowly get further away from the bottom edge of the screen as you go from left to right? That's quality software.

[Josh @ Jul 13th 2009 12:44PM]

Not you, I was gonna make this comment as well. Fail.

[james @ Jul 13th 2009 2:44PM]

I love how the screen is lopsided like that

[Gravy @ Jul 13th 2009 11:46AM]

Check out Mario's cameo appearance on the "Games" icon.

[Level 5 @ Jul 13th 2009 11:46AM]

Wow look at that EGA-esque screen! Let's play some Crystal Caves on that thing!

[Jon Doe. @ Jul 13th 2009 11:50AM]

Not as bad as a link someone sent me the other day to a hello kitty ball gag...My brain inverted there for a few minutes trying to understand....WHY? And then I got it with supreme clarity. To the hellokittienities HK must be on all things for a zen like peace to be obtained. I now believe HK is turning into a religion....fear the disciples of the kitty, for they will bring about the downfall of man!!! Seriously though ball gag....no...just no....and no again.

[Dead_Rebel @ Jul 13th 2009 4:22PM]

You are teh w31rd.

[Michael Zupcak @ Jul 13th 2009 12:03PM]

TIME

[Orbital @ Jul 13th 2009 11:57AM]

At least they didn't copy the safari icon. Or even better, the icon that says it's Tuesday all year long. I see KIRFs are going up a little in the world.

[endoplasmic @ Jul 13th 2009 12:01PM]

More like Hello Sh***y am I rite?

[peepeepants @ Jul 13th 2009 12:12PM]

That's actually kinda cute... Minus the screen.

[CraigJ @ Jul 13th 2009 12:14PM]

Batz Maru Phone 3G > HK Phone 3G

[logicbomb.de @ Jul 13th 2009 3:38PM]

No love for Monkichi?

[Bonqueesha @ Jul 13th 2009 12:19PM]

Gross

[David @ Jul 13th 2009 12:20PM]

I'm loving the Calenda

east side...

[Patrick @ Jul 13th 2009 12:40PM]

Ebay is loaded with the iPhone fakes from CECT.....including some that go so far as to put the Apple logo on the back of the phone. Every one of them has awful icon/menu fonts and craptacular build quality.

[Abbot @ Jul 13th 2009 12:47PM]

lol

[10minutehobo @ Jul 13th 2009 1:21PM]

It's $99 UNLOCKED!

And it has Mario as the games icon.

HKP3G: 2
AIP3GS: 0

[Carl Withakay @ Jul 13th 2009 1:40PM]

I love how the Calanda app tells you the weather too.

[stew @ Jul 13th 2009 1:46PM]

wtf is it with the hello kitty obsession?

[Jon Doe. @ Jul 13th 2009 2:07PM]

There is a virus that is loosely related to H1N1 that causes a swelling in the brain. The only relief is to collect HK items that cause a feedback loop in the brain in the frontal lobe. This causes a dopamine increase in the cerebral cortex. So once the swelling goes down people are then addicted to HK for life.

Either that or people just have bad taste.

[WalkingAGH @ Jul 13th 2009 3:09PM]

Please!

[Brendan @ Jul 13th 2009 3:11PM]

TIME!

[mike @ Jul 13th 2009 4:31PM]

i hope Video P and Sound r will be in the ap store soon

[andrew autopsy @ Jul 13th 2009 5:01PM]

From the looks of it, at least it has an expansion slot.

[Magallanes @ Jul 13th 2009 6:05PM]

From a Dildo to a Iphone.

Hello Kitty is everywhere!!

[Al-Ma7moudi @ Jul 14th 2009 5:22AM]

lol

[Shansion @ Jul 14th 2009 7:33AM]

Can it play crysis?