Apple Peel 520 gets reviewed: turns your iPod touch into an iPhone, but quirks exist
By Darren Murph 
posted August 5th 2010 9:38PM
posted August 5th 2010 9:38PM
posted August 5th 2010 9:38PM
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@CitrusFruit iPod touch with case = iPhone 4 with case
Haha, I'm kidding.
Sad to hear about the call quality maybe it will get better in time. I love the idea though
ITS A TRAP!!!
well if its unlocked i am game, hell why not at that point
ture or false?
wow~~that is so magical!
in short:Apple Peel 520+touch= iphone 4 ?
wow~~ that's so magical and expected!
aha,but i don't care about these function, i just about about the sound quality, and hope the itune can support any format audios and videos,if this, if so, i need not to use a aneesoft ipod video converter..hehe, joke~~~
@LeJay if they somehow could get a CDMA radio in this make it connect to verizon or sprint they would sell these by the millions.
Is there a version for the iPhone4? :)
@kchase731
The problem is the connecting the phone to the CMDA network. GSM uses SIM cards and though CDMA has some sort of removable chip capability, I don't think Verizon or Sprint implement them in any of their phones and I don't think Verizon or Sprint will connect any non-Verizon/Sprint phone to their network. I remember reading about people importing Korean phones to the United States since Korea also has a fairly significant CDMA market and Verizon stopped activating these phones since they were losing revenue from contracts and whatnot.
If this were available for CDMA since I have Verizon, I'd get this in a heartbeat. I have the Moto Droid and if Verizon got the iPhone then I'd get it immediately. As one commenter said, where else can you get a $259 iPhone? If you want to take that even further, where else can you get a 64GB iPhone in general? Even a 64GB iPod + this thing is HUNDREDS less than even an unlocked 16GB iPhone 4. Give this nearly flawless Verizon Wireless implementation and I'll get this and have an uber nerdgasm.
This will change everything.
@deedeedee
I kind of don't because the last time I checked, the iPhone 3GS goes for $100, it's 8GB not potentially 64GB, and like many of us "bloggers", I am not too big of a fan of contracts. I'm not saying you can't like contracts, but I speak for just about everyone on here in that I'd rather pay $260 for a completely unlocked, no contract phone than pay $100 for a phone that forces you to pay your hard earned cash to AT&T every month. And if I'm not mistaken, this works for all 3 generations of the iPod Touch so you hit up eBay.com and get a 1st or 2nd gen iPod and this $60 tool for less than the price of an 8GB iPhone 3GS.
Just my logic that doesn't seem to make much sense to you.
@MysticLeviathan Even if the manufacturer of this product included the proper CDMA radios, only a user who would blindly abandon a perfectly fine Android device for Apple's walled garden would be naive enough to believe that Verizon would even consider willingly activating a device such as this on their network.
@coolbho3000 Why wouldn't they activate it? If they do that means they get your money every month, and they don't even have to give you a phone at a subsidized price. Sure they may not get you into a contract but they wouldn't lose anything from letting you use this (or the hypothetical CDMA version) on their network.
Man!
If they make a CDMA version it is MINE! I've always wanted an iPhone but AT&T doesn't have service in my area so they won't even sell me on :(
When my buddies from the city come out to where I live (kansas) their iPhone only have Edge and they're roaming on a "partner network" that's why AT&T won't let me sign up with them!
So yea I would take it. It's not perfect but to have an "iPhone" I could live with it!
iPod Touch + Peel 520 = IPHONE SEVENTY-THREEVE! LYEK OMGZORZ.
Sounds ultra-promising, and if they iron out all of the kinks mentioned in the source review, then I promise you these addons are going to sell millions on millions. I'll buy a GSM and CDMA model each that way I'll have a device that can literally function anywhere in the entire world.
Any spec on this mod(phone adapter)? aside from trolls..
¥300 ($44) and ¥500 ($74)?
$1.00 = ¥85.92
$44.00 = ¥3,781
$74 = ¥6,358
You must have meant ¥3000 and ¥5000?
@nipponese
Thats japanese yen.
This is chinese yuan.
will it work on my Axim x51v?
@crow610 I don't mean to be harsh but what do u think really,use your head
so does this one have all the gb's? I might buy it just to try. Sounds like china only though.
Boo hoo... We can't afford iPhones so we slander them with lies and stroke our cheap plastic droid phones.... Engadget hung the moon in the sky! All praise friendly google - who's definitely not big brother! No! No way! Google is your friend!
Screw calls and texts, I want 3G data on my touch!
I'll wait for the v3.2 but it will have to survive to v2 first. v1 doesn't sound like it's working all that well...
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If this supports the SIM card from my Motorola i850 (and worked on Nextel), I'D SO BUY THIS!
@CitrusFruit
Poor call quality, unreliable texting, missed calls...
Sounds like it turns the touch into a perfect copy of an iPhone!!! Great job!
China is definitely a peculiar country where the government is despotic,the people weak but creative
@berto2cj
Assuming you have a girlfriend I'm confident you call that out often with her.
Or you could just buy an iPhone...
Jeeze another apple product that requires a case to be used as a phone...
Wait this doesn't have 3G web wtf? Is this true, it kinda seems like a deal breaker to me.
Got the case from apple tested it, went back to the original naked look.
People who put cases on phones are either cheap or have no style at all in life.
its magical
does anyone know what kind of apps i would need to get this to work??
also i cant wait till they come out with a CDMA case so i could use this on sprint. but untill then i guess theres boost mobile($50 a month unlimited everything) which has a sim card.
Will it work on an iPhone 4?