TomTom GPS for iPhone is Fake

As much as some iPhone users wish for having a satellite nav in their iPhone the news on TomTom’s working on it is confirmed to be only a rumour now.
The engaget.com Internet blog inquired more deeply into the matter and found out that their informer is already known from his penchant to iPhone fakes. The picture showing an exemplary screen of an iPhone with TomTom’s navigation appeared to be a fake one as well.

Obviously there is a big demand for this sort of service being offered by an iPhone. Therefore we still hope for Apple to develop some sort of Sat Nav for it’s “God’s Machine”.

Thanks: Engadget

Written by Krzysztof on December 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Polish clone of iPhone/iPod touch?

A polish company offering MP3 players has got a nice clone of iPod touch in its offer. Laberg SMART is a fully fledged 4GB media player with integrated FM radio. It supports MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC, AVI formats, and allows to browse pictures and read e-Books.

Thanks to Dual Core technology, based on Rockchip and Wolfson solution, that media player offers good sound quality and high built-in speaker output. The user can navigate between different functions by using an iPhone/iPod touch-like touchscreen, or pressing three menu buttons.

The 2,8′’ size screen allows a SMART user to watch avi movies with 24fps quality, while adjustable display contrast gives offers even more viewing comfort. This SMART player has a MiniSD card slot for a memory storage.

The retail price is about 160 US.

Here’s the official product site onhttp://www.laberg.pl“>www.laberg.pl (thanks: iPhoneBlog.de)

And of course, you should check out our iPhone fakes section for even more curious devices.

Written by Krzysztof on December 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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BTL M2801: iPhone clone, but not quite

After the ridiculous amounts of iPhone fakes we’ve seen (we covered the latest iPhone fake just yesterday), there is yet another one. BTL M2801 appears to be an iPhone clone, although it is just a media player featuring 2.8 inch, 320*240 pixels, 520K full-colour TFT touch screen, which already sets it apart from some of its competitors.

It also includes integrated flash memory from 128 MB to 4 GB, Mini SD slot, 2MP camera, built-in rechargeable Li-polymer battery, MP3/WMA/WAV audio, and AVI/WMV video file playback.

This looks like one of the better iPhone clones on the market. It wouldn’t be embarrassing to show it to your friends, but try to stay silent about its phone capabilities.

Thanks: iTechNews

Written by David on December 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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“High quality” Apple iPhone copies in China for $196.53

It seems that some people in China got so tired from indecision regarding its release there that they decided to manufacture their own iPhone (and not one made of clay too).

The device costs $196.53 (the price is really precise), and can be purchased online on several sites that we will not name here (Google search should be your friend if you really want to get one).

The official name of this iPhone ripoff is “High quality copy UNLOCKED IPHONE AV-P688 SIMILAR STYPLE IPOD GSM CELL PHONE WITH MP3 MP4 FUNCTION” (typos left in on purpose).

This iPhone clone has a 262,144 colors screen with 176*220 pixel resolution. It features mp3 music playback, mp4 videos playback, 2MP camera, a huge 1MB (Yes, you read it right! At least that’s what the official description states.) of memory (of course allowing use of memory cards), and unlike the real iPhone it obviously comes unlocked, so you could use it on any network. Dimensions are 103×48×16.5mm with 75 gram weight.

But can you really call this mobile an iPhone clone? You be the judge.

The AV-P688 has a 7 hours battery time while talking, and a rather impressive 340 hours in standby mode.

Now that’s definitely a gift to get for Christmas if you’re really cheap (although you could just get all your friends some cheap Canadian $1 iPhones instead). And be careful not to get scammed with something like this on eBay and similar auction/sales sites…

Written by David on December 7th, 2007 with no comments.
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Japanese man fabricates own Apple iPhone

Yes, you read the title of this article right. A Japanese man with too much time on his hands fabricated his own copy of the Apple iPhone, from scratch. And while it doesn’t really work, it looks 1:1 to a real Apple iPhone, thus beating the iPhone cake and the iPhone clay replica.

Using only freely available manual tools and materials (as in, he didn’t use any industrial equipment or capacities to accomplish what he did), Aoshima built an exact replica of the iPhone at home, save the functionality, even before the iPhone was launched in the USA — he used the Apple iPhone 3D model as a basis for his creation.

You can see photos of the the whole process on Aoshima’s website.

Thanks: to our friends from IntoMobile.

Written by dennis on August 15th, 2007 with no comments.
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