Confused pig face mobile phone has paw print buttons, Winnie the Pooh sticker

Oh China, how we love the gadgets you produce. Particularly those of the homegrown variety. We can't say we spotted this pig face mobile during our recent jaunt through the gadget sectors of Hong Kong, but boy, do we wish we had. In one of the most extreme cases of product confusion ever, it looks as if we've got a clamshell phone with the face of a pig, a 0.3 megapixel camera, light-up eyes, a smattering of misplaced Walt Disney logos, paw print send / end buttons and rear speakers, and a random Winnie the Pooh sticker on the rear -- you know, to really cap things off. We're guessing this is some failed attempt to generate yet another KIRF Disney phone, but seriously, a glowing pig? Hello Kitty is not pleased.

[Thanks, Chris]

[darius Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:28AM]

No legal issues?

[jmhalder Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:43AM]

@darius its china, its not like theyre gonna sell more than like 500 of em... this really did make me lol... since the demon pig SORT of looks like WTP.

[Miakandogadget Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:21AM]

Apple, take note.

[Billy Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:26AM]

IMHO, these posts are boring....

[Whiternoise Posted Apr 18th 2010 6:29AM]

@darius There isn't any law against Bear-Piglet sex as far as I know. Though presumably some child-abuse laws cover it?

[Smart People Play Tuba Posted Apr 18th 2010 7:26AM]

iPhone killer

[Beatnik Posted Apr 18th 2010 9:10AM]

@darius
GOLD Medal Award for greatest CRAPGADGET of ALLTIME

[schultz Posted Apr 18th 2010 9:37AM]

@darius

Nope, but I wish there were so that we would have something interesting to read on Engadget this weekend... talk about a slow weekend.

[cc3d Posted Apr 18th 2010 12:42PM]

@darius
China does not care about these legal issues. They donot respect US IP. It's the number two reason we shouldn't do business with Chine. Number one being they are a communist country! I'd love a bleeding heart to argue with that!!

[nbolmer Posted Apr 18th 2010 4:50PM]

@cc3d I just want you to know that everyone is laughing at your post.

[Bahumbug Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:29AM]

*oink*

[m4192 Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:39AM]

@Bahumbug
That's actually one of the tags. This is also the first article to be tagged as pooh.

[Smart People Play Tuba Posted Apr 18th 2010 7:27AM]

0.3 megapixel? Odin's beard!

[angermeans Posted Apr 18th 2010 12:37PM]

@Bahumbug Oh my God, its Man-Bear-Pig and I'm so cereal.

[OGM Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:30AM]

Winnie the Pig?

[FasterThanC Posted Apr 18th 2010 9:19AM]

@OGM

Winnie the Pooh and Piglet's love child

[B3astofthe3ast Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:32AM]

I'll trade my nexus for that right now.

[ongadget Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:35AM]

I want one

[Smart People Play Tuba Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:10PM]

@ongadget

For your Android to piss on, no doubt.

[ongadget Posted Apr 19th 2010 12:07AM]

@Smart People Play Tuba My android is lubricating.

[ps Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:36AM]

It's a Man-Bear-Pig!

[JonnyB Posted Apr 18th 2010 4:33AM]

@ps we should send troopers to China right away, this creation is far worse then any clamshell phone design the world has ever seen, wait Nvm there's was the helio:(
Poor thing never had a chance

[angermeans Posted Apr 18th 2010 12:39PM]

@ps LOL that's what I just said. I guess I should of checked all the other posts first. LOL

[Alexpeegs Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:42AM]

Al gore the man bear pig ruuuuuuuunnnn!!!!!!!!!!

[jmhalder Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:47AM]

lol at the source w/google translate: "Speaker is actually not a trotter bear paw, um, magic is jumping the design ..."
even M8COOL is confuzed at quite a bit of this.

[aubreyq Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:23AM]

@jmhalder "All your base..."

[ylj Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:54AM]

Demented.

[loox42 Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:03AM]

Haha, imagine a normal dude walking down the street with that.. people would definitely stare.

[Gad Get Posted Apr 18th 2010 4:26AM]

@loox42

Wait, a normal dude? Uhhh... I'm having trouble with that image.

[Johnny Rockets Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:21AM]

Looks like they're going after the same market as the Kin phones.

[tech404 Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:37AM]

@Johnny Rockets true that

[tech404 Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:31AM]

apple store is down

[MatthewF Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:46AM]

I'm sure it's supposed to be Piglet, friend of Winnie the Pooh. The plastic on the inside of the phone is even the right color for Piglet, though for whatever reason on the outside he's painted the color of Pooh. Both are (now) Disney characters, so the attempt isn't quite as inept as it seems.

[buoy Posted Apr 18th 2010 4:01AM]

@MatthewF you're sure? We won't know until we get a full autopsy report anyway... and shouldn't the inside be grey with red squiggles? I mean, if we're being anatomically correct... I can't even see the corpus colossum where they keypad should be. As Josh said with the Engadget Show - if you're going to do something you might as well do it right first go. At least have some decent brain / capillary etchings around the keypad.

If I ever want a piglet phone (I dunno, if I happen to be on valium for a year) when I open it up I expect to see brains, or die-cast representations thereof. cheers.

[sstastic Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:48AM]

something stinks

[gax907 Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:55AM]

Wonder if it will be commercially sucessful...

[Trashbat Posted Apr 18th 2010 4:17AM]

But will it have cut and paste and multitasking?????

[bembo Posted Apr 18th 2010 4:18AM]

... and we call it the kin three ;-)

[exsonic Posted Apr 18th 2010 5:15AM]

may Africa or MIDE's kids love them

[kspraydad Posted Apr 18th 2010 7:13AM]

Screw Winnie the Pooh...I want a Toro phone. What the hell was I thinking when I posed for that photo.

[streetstealth Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:23PM]

@kspraydad Yeah, that's Toro, the Sony cat there, not Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty keeps much more of a poker face!

[mrgrassypants Posted Apr 18th 2010 11:09AM]

that looks exactly like piglet what is the cofusion. I asked 4 under 5 year old kids who is that and they ALL said Piglet.

[To Hell Posted Apr 18th 2010 11:43AM]

"Hey look, your mom's calling"

[Xacto01 Posted Apr 18th 2010 2:44PM]

For a second there, I thought this was the Kin 3....Oh wait it is.

[Kilian Posted Apr 18th 2010 3:25PM]

Great article, nicely written! (Y)

[Crabs Posted Apr 18th 2010 5:18PM]

It really looks like a cross between Pooh and Piglet. If you look at some features, you could say, it's Pooh, just with wrong ears and wrong nose. Others, Piglet with the wrong mouth, eyebrows, and color.

Regardless of who it is, the whole purple eyes and mouth thing is extremely creepy.

[tricheboars Posted Apr 18th 2010 6:01PM]

Verizon should release a 4g LTE version of this phone! K