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Nokia Clone Wars

September 7, 2008 · Filed Under Gadgets, Mobile Phones, Technology  · 305 views

Much like Jango Fett being cloned in the Star Wars saga, it wouldn’t take long from the copy masters from China to copy our favorite gadgets and things. They have cloned Nike shoes, which looks like “real” nike’s. They have cloned bags from prada to dolce, hopefully they haven’t cloned Yao Ming yet.

This is a testament to their craftsmanship, attention to details, intricacy, concentration and discipline. They also need their economy to work, so a bunch of cloning (used loosely, means copying too) shops and factories has sprouted all over China. Before they made crappy copies, and now you can’t even distinguish the Authentic from the clone.

Their next project is due to the ever increasing need for the Techie crowd to always be on top of the Gadget list. So they started to clone electronic gadgets as well. From all types of iPods, iPhones and all types of mobile phones. I recently purchased a Nokia 5310 clone just to give a quality review to the Chinese manufacturing and cloning prowess.

Star Wars Clone Wars

Jango Fett in a Million

First off, Side by side the original 5310 (I borrowed an original from a friend) it looks exactly the same. The paint job, the plastic’s color, the plastics design and even intricate details like the rain-drop style design on the battery cover is to the point, exact. Dimensions are also the same, I didn’t notice a difference in their weight nor the display quality. There is one problem on my clones software version, it was on the cheeky side with custom cutesy icons and I can’t use an mp3 as an alert tone, although it plays mp3’s. I changed my unit with the more standard version of the clone which has the exact software as the original. It even has a memory card slot and it comes packed with a 256Mb microSD. The only thing I noticed that was off is the Nokia logo itself. On the clone version, it was Nckia, with the letter “C” more like an “O” but with a little stripe in the supposed open end of the letter “C”.

Nokia 5310

I was Cloned!

A tell-tale sign for these cloned gadgets is more commonly on the feature set, like most early April release of the cloned Nokia phones has the same default tones and most can’t use mp3’s as message alerts. The batteries are also different on their models. On iPod clones, the screen is a bit murky and the tactile response of the touch-screen is a bit off. So better check your gadgets before you buy them, you might be paying a higher price for a cloned product which is priced two to four times less than the original price of the authentic.

Using the cloned phone for a couple of days, it feels and functions like the original, no hiccups and been solid for a week now. Dropped it twice already and it’s still functioning with not a single glitch. Been playing it’s mp3 a lot on the bus since it’s built-in speaker are much louder compared to it’s authentic counterpart.

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