Keepin' it real fake, part CCLII: Nokia N900 commits S60 5th fraud

It's not the first N900 KIRF we've seen but it's definitely the truest fake physical reproduction of Nokia's flagship "mobile computer" to date. Not necessarily a good thing since its the raw power and OS that makes the N900 such a compelling handset -- not its looks. Nevertheless, the industrial design, port placements, and QWERTY layout of this "N900 Style" handset is a near exact physical knock-off of its Nokia inspiration. Critically absent is Maemo 5 riding an ARM Cortex A8 processor, 32GB of integrated storage, WiFi, 3G data radio, Carl Zeiss optics, and the peace of mind you get when purchasing a genuine Nokia handset. Besides, even with dual-SIM support, do you really want to spend $120 for a JAVA-built S60 5th-ish user experience on a 3.2-inch display pushing 240 x 320 pixels? Oh hell no. One more shot after the break if you're feeling surly.

[Thanks, Drew]

[Nokia N900 Posted Jan 25th 2010 4:31AM]

wow that almost looks so real.

[geekthree Posted Jan 25th 2010 5:43AM]

@Nokia N900

I dunno.. I'm tempted to buy it anyway, I want some "Fun & Game"

[camroncake Posted Jan 25th 2010 4:31AM]

Oh, the humanity

[f2000372 Posted Jan 25th 2010 4:48AM]

Another war impending by the US... All the copy rights + plus the money we owe them

[Pdexter Posted Jan 25th 2010 5:01AM]

Burn it with fire!

[weeman Posted Jan 25th 2010 5:06AM]

I doesn't look that bad you know...except the bit about the tech specs...and that its not a nokia

[spaz1 Posted Jan 25th 2010 5:17AM]

"Critically absent is Maemo 5...:

Stupid KIRF...Isn't Maemo... ugh... free?

[cosmicinglewood Posted Jan 25th 2010 5:20AM]

I would do what I do to blackberries to this hunk of crap: it would go under my run flat tires, get backed over by the prius, then the crunched pieces of this ripoff shit would get the wood baseball bat office space style with some local urban ethnic music bumping to complete the scene in style.

If they are going to clone something, why not give it the full specs?

Although it looks nice (so do blackberries) it is obvious a hunk of crap (just like blackberries).

[Exbloder Posted Jan 25th 2010 5:27AM]

At least this thing has native portrait

[panciuc Posted Jan 25th 2010 5:30AM]

Apparently China has made a phone named Blockberry, which is a replica between iPhone and Blackberry and their slogan is Yes, we can. I wonder what's gonna be next? A clone of the US?

[jellotime91 Posted Jan 25th 2010 10:19AM]

@panciuc yeah but it would have a lot less greedy people and fatasses, so it just wouldn't be the same.
zing!

Btw, incase you didn't know, RIM is a Canadian company, not American.

[hmmwv Posted Jan 25th 2010 10:21AM]

@panciuc China is already on the way to become a clone of the US economically.

[panciuc Posted Jan 25th 2010 10:35AM]

@jellotime91 Thanks. Did not know that :)

[tpbftw Posted Jan 25th 2010 5:35AM]

Yawn

[welshstew Posted Jan 25th 2010 6:40AM]

but can it play PrBoom??

[dedparrot Posted Jan 25th 2010 7:40AM]

........but can it play crysis?

[cashclientel Posted Jan 25th 2010 12:09PM]

@dedparrot
chuck norris said it can...
(just ban us both).

[Rev Posted Jan 25th 2010 7:57AM]

Heresy I say, Heresy!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 25th 2010 11:45AM]

ROFL They even put the space bar in the wrong place like the original Nokia fail model. Fucking morons, rofl.

[Rev Posted Jan 25th 2010 12:59PM]

@(Unverified)

Now the question is, on a three row keyboard, where would you put the spacebar? If center, how would you place the other buttons on that row?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 25th 2010 1:04PM]

@Rev
Simple. You don't make a three row keyboard, you make a four row one with the space bar in the proper place, and allow the device to slide out further, and have the screen tilt as well (ala touch pro 2).
Problem solved, kthxgoodnite.

[Caprice0083 Posted Jan 25th 2010 1:53PM]

Everybody do the Kirf KrunK!

[montusama Posted Jan 25th 2010 4:59PM]

looks decent, now where can I get it?

[mastagadget Posted Jan 25th 2010 10:24PM]

well what do you expect all china seem to do is copy everything popular (for example psp / GEDA VX690HD blackberry / blockberry nokia e72 / Zoho E72)
so don't be surprised if they start copying googles nexus one next!