Keepin' it real fake, part CCXXVI: Soniphone C908 takes a little o' this, a little o' that
By Laura June 
posted Jul 16th 2009 11:32AM
posted Jul 16th 2009 11:32AM
Well, what do we have here? The Soniphone C908 is just a confused mishmash of branded signals -- Sony Ericsson is plainly visible across the top of the LCD, but a little Walkman branding was thrown in under it just for added fun. And, just in case you needed another, completely different reason to have your interest piqued, they threw in a wheel that is suspiciously iPod-like. This classy baby is undoubtedly worth every penny (it'll run you about $117 to grab one), if you decide you can't live without one. One more shot after the break.
[Via PMP Today]
[Via PMP Today]
Is that a monochrome screen? L-O-L
Maybe your computer screen is, cause I see colour.
There is colour, but the background picture is greyscale. ;)
This is what the iPhone dreams it could be.
no. It does however look like the LG chocolate from earlier. The LG even has the space there for the clickwheel, maybe it's one of those touch/heat sensitive ones.
HOT
NOT
Looks like a quality unit?
...How Come?
I actually quite like the design of an iPod nano with a slide out keypad for calls. It's the secondary school electronics project build quality that I take issue with.
. . . So you can call two people at once, but you can't hang up? That sounds horrible.
Win.
This is just rofl.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
...that being said, this is more like a Frankenstein cellphone. A mishmash of different devices, just wanting to be loved instead of just being seen as full of fail.
yeah, and why does it have "cybershot" written on the bottem? There isn't even a camera!!!!
girl on the phone looks like a chinese version of Audrey Hepburn...
That's exactly what I was thinking, cool picture.
is there no way to hang up the phone? i just see two ways to answer it.
Seriously... what the hell is up with having two SEND keys?
Not only is the phone an imitation because that girl is actually a guy.
I say if any electronic device uses the GB2312 character encoding set its probably KIRF
GB2312 has to use the worlds ugliest Roman character font....It might even be worse then MS Mincho.
Then again..im getting a bit tired of Helvetica too....
Lets just do everything in Bookman Old Style for a few years? :-p
GB2312 is mostly a Chinese font.
http://kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yasuoka/CJK/gb2312-80.gif
O.o
mmm ya, i know it is...thats why the KIRF phones use it.
It doesn't negate the fact that the roman characters that the font includes (including Western Arabic numerals) are terrible looking.
comparing to the following, this is hardly news
nokia never released this concept phone
http://cn.engadget.com/2006/10/11/nokias-aeon-full-surface-screen-cellphone-concept/
well, small factories did
http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail-db1-74b857c1e4cd35de4e12991f0e526eca.jhtml
Why does engadget post these?? Seriously.. are they advertising or what?
I don't think anybody actually cares what sort of KIRFs are around. 226 engadget stories about things nobody wants.
Well maybe Engadget should post about what BEN wants
not too horrible
that battery is gonna explode someday...