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    With No Real Apple Netbook on the Horizon, Chinese Create Fake One

    Made-In-China Handset Turns iPhone Into a Clamshell

    iFauxne Of The Day: The Sciphone V188

    Fake Water Cube Building Spotted in Sichuan, China

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    Image of TheHeartless TheHeartless
    03/19/09

    In reply to With No Real Apple Netbook on the Horizon, Chinese Create Fake One
    The insistence on the part of the Chinese (and elsewhere, to be sure) of stealing other peoples' ideas, and then repackaging them into inferior products to sell to unsuspecting luddites, never fails to make my blood boil. It's not cutesy fun to me anymore, to look and say "oh look what half-assed shit those people make!" This past Christmas a friend of mine ordered a HiPhone on behalf of his father, to give to the daughter of his father's girlfriend (stick with me). This "HiPhone" ([www.mobilewhack.com]) is a pretty close knock-off of the iPhone, until you actually start using it and realize that it's about 10 years behind the ball as any sort of pocket electronic device, and I still pity that girl for having received it as a Christmas present.


    I wish these people would make something of themselves and go out and earn an honest living. If you can't think up your own innovative ideas, then you should probably fuck off and go be a farmer or a bartender, and leave the inventing to the inventors.

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    03/19/09

    In reply to With No Real Apple Netbook on the Horizon, Chinese Create Fake One
    It's an outmoded idea anyway.


    Just go buy a (whatever) and put (whatever) on it.


    Look, it's the FUTURE, here! Get with the times.

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    Image of zchendevlemh **Pacman > Hitman** zchendevlemh **Pacman > Hitman**
    11/26/08

    In reply to Made-In-China Handset Turns iPhone Into a Clamshell
    so it has a touchscreen and a keypad??

    kinda a crossbreed bet SE & IPhone
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/27/08

    @zchen - lawlaw beklog oO: NO touchscreen...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/26/08

    In reply to Made-In-China Handset Turns iPhone Into a Clamshell
    Really rough around the edges, but has some potential. His Steveness is probably plotting against these people like Gargamel.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    11/12/08

    In reply to iFauxne Of The Day: The Sciphone V188
    The Siphone, eh?


    I wonder how that compares to the Shmiphone, Fiphone, Piephone, Tiphone, or Ziphone?


    Not that I care, really. Nothing beats my SHMAZR.

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    Image of beardedkid beardedkid
    11/12/08

    In reply to iFauxne Of The Day: The Sciphone V188
    I wonder what the mac face does?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/12/08

    @beardedkid: When you click it, the Steve's face pops up, looking intensely at you.



    You feel a wave of guilt fill your soul as something deep inside you tells you that Steve is disappointed in you. You scrub your hands furiously, trying to wash away the shame. It will never leave you - not as long as you own this phone.


    As you can see, the Mac Face is the greatest anti-piracy tool ever devised.

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    Image of yungjerry703 yungjerry703
    11/12/08

    In reply to iFauxne Of The Day: The Sciphone V188
    I don't want a phone where a pic of a 3.5 floppy disc is an icon.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/12/08

    @yungjerry703: Really? I do.


    I would be willing to give a spot on my iPhone for a 3.5" floppy disk icon that does nothing. Perhaps even a 5 1/4" floppy.


    You forget that the iPhone is targeted to, among others, the ironic hipster.

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    11/12/08

    @yungjerry703: I beg to differ.


    Retro goodness!


    Well, not HERE of course, but on another device I might LIKE!

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    Image of Nutchromeo Nutchromeo
    11/12/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: Actually, from everything I've seen lately, the phone is REALLY targeted at sorority girls.


    And AT&T Execs, based on the rampant "We love AT&T" marketing blitz...

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    Image of Daimyo Nintendo Daimyo Nintendo
    10/30/08

    In reply to Fake Water Cube Building Spotted in Sichuan, China
    Hey, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Um, NO. Imitation is a condensed way of saying "hey look at me I copied someone because I have no imagination of my own."
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    Image of alukard alukard
    10/29/08

    In reply to Fake Water Cube Building Spotted in Sichuan, China
    china, the world's factory and xerox machine.
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    Image of Giz Has Lost It Giz Has Lost It
    10/29/08

    In reply to Fake Water Cube Building Spotted in Sichuan, China
    FAKE: To prepare or make something specious, deceptive, or fraudulent; to pretend, trick or deceive.


    COPY: An imitation or reproduction.


    Unless they're also calling it Water Cube, it's just a copy, not a fake.

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    Image of GizWizKid GizWizKid
    10/29/08

    In reply to Fake Water Cube Building Spotted in Sichuan, China
    Aww shucks! I thought it was going to move and flutter like a Koi Pond.


    Sucky.


    Thanks for teasing me Giz.

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    Image of tehdahl tehdahl
    10/29/08

    In reply to Fake Water Cube Building Spotted in Sichuan, China
    "This is the way we copy a building, copy a building, copy a building..."
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    Image of Frexy Q. Frexy Q.
    10/29/08

    In reply to Fake Water Cube Building Spotted in Sichuan, China
    That's one hell of a poor imitation. The impact of the original one is a lot higher than this one. And it's all caused by scale and form factor. The Water Cube is (more or less) what it says it is; a 'cube'. 5 sides (technically 6), and a huge bubble like completely supportive structure.


    This seems a lot less interesting, with almost no impact: it's too edgy, not a cube at all. And I even want to bet that these bubbles are not a structure at all, they're just a facade, attached to an invisible (normal) wall..

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    Image of mrsalty mrsalty
    10/29/08

    In reply to Fake Water Cube Building Spotted in Sichuan, China
    A friend sent me the same picture last week. Only the front of the building is illuminated though. It doesn't look anything like the water cube in the daylight.
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    Image of dookas dookas
    10/29/08

    In reply to Fake Water Cube Building Spotted in Sichuan, China
    Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan, Chongqing is the capital of Chongqing


    FYI

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