Keepin' it real fake: Nokia's Android N8

Can you believe we've waited on the N8 long enough for (at least) three KIRF versions to beat it to market? This latest one's pretty special too, as it gives us a glimpse into one of the fevered dream of Engadget commenters: a Nokia flagship rocking Android (2.1, in this case). The iZiNN CJ-3 copies the N8's form factor, styling, and 3.5-inch screen, but throws in an upgrade of its own by going with a higher-res 800 x 480 capacitive panel. Yeah, we're shocked too. A 5 megapixel imager, a budget Rockchip CPU, and an HDMI port fill out the rest of the known specs, while a release in China is expected some time later this month. Anyone know why this thing isn't being built and sold by a legitimate manufacturer?

[Thanks, Ludger]

[pika2000 Posted Aug 6th 2010 11:27AM]

Well, at least it's not yet another winmo KIRF crap.

[meatball Posted Aug 6th 2010 12:04PM]

Is it truly fake if it is better? Just sayin'.

[metamorphic Posted Aug 6th 2010 8:08PM]

@meatball
I don't even know where to begin with these sort of asinine comments. Seriously, take a mobile phone course at Epsoo or something.

[kapryt Posted Aug 6th 2010 12:11PM]

I bet you even this fake Nokia droid is better than the iPhone!

http://www.styrofoamsoup.com/tech/10-things-android-does-better-than-iphone-os/

(I just do it to upset the Apple fanboys!)

[LordThree Posted Aug 6th 2010 1:54PM]

I wouldn't say it's exactly 'rocking' with janky old android 2.1 lol

[sparkymat Posted Aug 6th 2010 2:01PM]

No thanks. I will stick to Symbian. Personally, I am ok with the UI being plain and functional, as long as the OS is good.

I believe in Symbian.

[metamorphic Posted Aug 6th 2010 8:11PM]

@sparkymat
I agree as well. Symbian^3 hasn't yet been released, but you'll have these fanboys pop up and insult it without even having seen or experienced it, like a pack of wolves jumping on a bandwagon. Once upon a time, Symbian was the best OS on the planet and choice of smartphones all over the world. S^3 and S^4 is its answer to the other, new OSes (which have seen all these kids adopt them, who previously had known jackshit about phones). I don't follow on this bias and would like to give Symbian my all-out support too-- they can create something wonderful once again.

[LoubieLou Posted Aug 6th 2010 4:11PM]

Nokia announce the N8 in April an the Chinese always copy mobiles an have had loads of time to created this Copy,as we still not have the N8 released by Nokia,i bet loads will buy this Cheaper Version to try it out,an a 5 mega-pixel camera is not bad for a Copy,but people now buying the N8 on the interenet better check out the phone they are buying or might end up with this Copy an losing loads of money,so please read carefully what you are buying

[HKCally Posted Aug 6th 2010 4:34PM]

@LoubieLou
That's the only real downside to KIRFs, trying to sort the cool from the crap on ebay.

[naio Posted Aug 7th 2010 4:26AM]

or this is the legitimate manufacturer...