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Fake Chinese iPhone is Pretty Good Photocopy of the Real Deal

A forum poster over at Macrumors has posted photos of a fake iPhone that's close enough to the real hardware that you might believe it at first glance. Its proportions are off, the screen's not wide-sized and there's a mini-USB connector instead of an iPod dock one, but even the packaging is mocked-up to look Appleish. The UI is glossed-up to look very real, with some differences of course. And sure, you can imagine it would be not so sweet to operate... but you can't argue with the look of the thing. Steve's famous "start your photocopiers" call has gone a lot further than Redmond. Wonder how soon we'll see photocopy iPhone 3Gs? [Macrumors] More »

3:56 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,533 views, 27 comments

Latest by Itspeat!: damn, if only there was a knockoff itunes store on it! then maybe i would take a little trip to Asia with the passport i dont have ...wow no asshole asked "Will It Blend!?"..i say this calls for celebration more »

Gizmodo Design

When Companies Copy Gadgets, Is It Inspiration or Stealing? The Experts Speak

When a company comes out with an innovative, landmark product, many other companies will end up incorporating those design features into their own products over time. But at what point does drawing inspiration from a rival's innovations become simple bootlegging? We asked three experts. More »

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4:00 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Elaine Chow
15,009 views, 42 comments

Latest by stupidjerk: @rubicon_65: are you kidding me? [madvertisingblog.files.wordpress.com] more »

n95 clone

Move Over Meizu: China's Clone "Gods" do Nokia N95 Too

It's not just the iPhone that's being cloned: now this black 8GB Nokia N95 clone has joined the party. With dual slider keypads, a two megapixel camera with flash, another small camera, media player, Bluetooth and microSD card slot, it's actually not all that bad. It doesn't have the 8GB, of course. But you've got to admire the brazen advertising: "STRAIGHT FROM THE CLONING GODS OF CHINA! WE BRING YOU THE ALL NEW N95 DUAL SLIDE VERSION!" It gets worse. More »

6:34 AM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Kit Eaton
7,546 views, 16 comments

Latest by bungee: I've less issues with the Chinese copying the design (which is still wrong) than trying to pass this off as the real thing. At least Meizu doesn't label their copies the same way as the originals. I can just see more »

iphone

Copy and Paste on Your iPhone With iCopy

Everyone wants it, but for some strange reason we have been denied copy and paste functionality on the iPhone. With a new bookmarklet called iCopy, we can finally copy text and URLs that can be plugged back into Safari or an email later on. To get this miraculous technological development, simply visit the iCopy site and follow the instructions. It isn't a perfect solution by any means (all of the text you paste is sent across the internet), but it should tide you over until someone at Apple decides to make an official solution. Videos of iCopy in action are available after the break. More »

5:30 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Sean Fallon
20,172 views, 26 comments

Latest by frogpelt: Here's a much better solution: www.vimeo.com/266383 more »

how to

Instructables: Copy a Key Using a Coke Can

Instructables has a neat if dangerous tutorial on how to quickly make a key copy by tracing the metal from a Coke can. It's pretty obvious, and with that seed planted in your mind, there's probably no need to read the instructions. More »

2:57 PM on Tue Nov 20 2007
By Brian Lam
21,927 views, 11 comments

format war

'Fantastic 4', 'Day After Tomorrow' Highlight More Blu-ray Movie Incompatibilities

More trouble for Blu-ray comes as newer titles Fantastic 4 and The Day After Tomorrow are running into playback problems with Samsung's BDP-1200 and LG's BH100. This is different from the previous problems with disc extras that were unplayable (which had more to do with BD-Java spec incompatibility) in that it's the entire movie that's unplayable. Samsung's BDP-1000 can play them, but suffer from error messages and stutter. Bad news? It's BD+ copy protection that's causing it. The worse news? LG will have a firmware update in 3-4 days, but Samsung will take "a couple" weeks. [High Def Digest]

7:30 PM on Thu Oct 4 2007
By Jason Chen
2,671 views, 24 comments

Latest by tomaartist: i know for the company that designed the menus for the two movies in question, it's pretty deep what they were trying with all the menu animations, the processors in these machines are just not fast enough run bdj animations, but the ps3 works just fine more »