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Black iPod Shuffle?

Iggstah345 — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:05:13 EDT

Damn, they fooled me again! The knockoff gadgets are always more colorful and appealing than the real ones. Ha ha, "assombled in China" I love Engrish and its complexity.

Iggstah345

Black iPod Shuffle?

Ultraorange — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:53:41 EDT

I love how many people seem the think this is a mod or a new version. It's a Chinese knockoff just read the copy under the first picture.

Ultraorange

Black iPod Shuffle?

PizzaDelivery — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:06:49 EDT

Something that small and black?
I'd lose it within 5 minutes of owning it.

PizzaDelivery

Black iPod Shuffle?

protozoider — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:24:32 EDT

Still absolutely no competition for the zen stone plus. That and it's still freaking over-expensive. That packaging costs more than the device itself.

protozoider

Black iPod Shuffle?

StackyBotrus — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:20:41 EDT

I bought the 1GB version of this for $20. There is a 2 and 4GB version also. They do WMV as well. All for like $50 for the 4GB. Sounds awsome, too.

No shuffle mode though! Hahahaha... they are at dealxtreme.com or whatever the URL is :)

StackyBotrus

Black iPod Shuffle?

ShaunMac — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:05:18 EDT

Looks pretty cool anyway....

ShaunMac

Black iPod Shuffle?

NicleT — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:26:51 EDT

It's a real fake made colored with a Sharpie.

NicleT

Black iPod Shuffle?

Trackback — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:33:24 EDT

This black iPod shuffle is a convincingly unambitious fake. It looks rather like the French fansite that spotted it got taken in by the realistic loadout: it's certainly a great mockup, with Apple-style packaging and the works. It's the orange-peel texture of the paint job that gives it away.

Trackback

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Collins1990 — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:01:42 EDT

@strider_mt2k: "If I get married, I'm keeping my own name!"

@mangochutney: If you can find a picture of that iWalkman, let us know!

Collins1990

Black iPod Shuffle?

DeadWriter — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:38:18 EDT

This may even use the casting molds that are used to make the Apple Shuffle. There is a real problem with molds being retired "early" or disappearing. It the price companies pay when sub contracting business.

There is one for sale on e-bay right now, but the play/pause button is orientated correctly. ersatz ipod

DeadWriter

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GrandpaSeth — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:09:57 EDT

I bought one of these for 20 bucks a few months ago. Battery life sucks ass. It lasted 3 hours when I first got it. 4 charge cycles later I get maybe an hour and a half. It has decent sound quality.

GrandpaSeth

Black iPod Shuffle?

pmorie — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:03:24 EDT

I don't think this is a real shuffle. In the picture of the 'shuffle' out of the case, there appears to be a power switch next to the headphone / dock connector. The power switch on the shuffle is on the side opposite the headphone / dock connector, with the shuffle switch.

pmorie

Black iPod Shuffle?

strider_mt2k — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:35:33 EDT

Yeah, but this one has a new hat!

(unexpected mileage out of that line...)

strider_mt2k

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coach — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:45:26 EDT

I noticed that immediately. Play/pause upside down. With all those fun vivid colours, I don't see why people would want black for their shuffle.

coach

Black iPod Shuffle?

mangochutney — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:26:59 EDT

by the way, did anybody notce that the Play/Pause-button is falsely oriented?

(sorry for the double-post)

mangochutney

Black iPod Shuffle?

mangochutney — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:25:47 EDT

Try walking through the Beijing electronics market "Zhong Guan Cun". If you make it without having to laugh about the iPod replicas for 15 minutes I'll give away a lollipop.

It's hilarious! The best thing by far was a combination between a iPod mini and a Sony NW-A3000.
It looked weird, and had both logos on it; The Sony Walkman one and the Apple sign above it.
Price was about 40$ sporting 4GB of storage.

mangochutney

Black iPod Shuffle?

Sternfan91 — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:19:14 EDT

Theres a shitload of IPod lookalikes on ebay and you can get a 1 or 2gb for dirt cheap...this is basically what it is :)

Sternfan91

Black iPod Shuffle?

tomasland — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:15:00 EDT

does it work with iTunes?!?!?!?!?!?

tomasland

Black iPod Shuffle?

waterdrop — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:06:18 EDT

As soon as I saw the picture I thought it looked like a knock-off.

waterdrop