Nokia Clone Wars
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.
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”.
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.
Cheap but Great: Nokia 2630
You know this site is all about great affordable stuff right?. So you want a new mobile phone you can throw away when you get your PMS tantrums (if you are a girl) or you favorite football team loses and you put all your savings to your bookie (if you are a stupid moron)?
If you got 100 USD left in your pocket, then this would be the absolute phone for you. The All New Nokia 2630. I busted my Xpress Music phone 2 months after I bought it, I got it serviced but the week in between was hard thinking I couldn’t Txt (sms) all I want. Although i have my business phone with me, my personal phone is the busier one. So I got up and hunted for a phone. Price wasn’t my main concern at first.
Nokia 2630
So I went to a local Nokia Dealer and asked for their selections, they pointed me to the N-Series phones and the SuperNova lineup. I was sold on them and I was trying out some of them which I found amazing. Then I thought, why splurge on something I don’t essentially need? My other mobile will get replaced anyway.
Still the N-Series phones were quite tempting. That is when I sort of do my “take a leak” routine as a reason to think ten times before purchasing anything. I found this a good way to minimize impulse buying.
When I got out of the Mens room, I saw this pretty girl looking at lanyards in one section of the shop. Well I guess I have time to strike up a conversation, so I actually looked at lanyards my self and said “My phone is so heavy for these things, I think it’s nice for ID cards though”. The pretty girl which I got the name later as Jenny looked up and said, “Well you can always get a lighter phone”. What a nice idea I thought, so I talked to her some more and asked what phone she is using. That’s when she pulled out a bright white version of the Nokia 2630. So i said what a nice phone she has, she said thanks and quipped that it was affordable too. She then attached Read more
Obama: iPhone Savvy
No Offense to the McCain Tech and Campaign guys, but Obama’s got you owned! Obama always speak of CHANGE, and then McCain started chanting it too. But who actually goes with the time and change? Well I modestly say Obama. Although I am not biased to either one of them, this discovery made me lean a little to the Obama side. Obama has got his own iPhone App!
Obama iPhone App
There is a bunch of features there like current events, daily schedules for the Obama Campaign, Statistics and other Election related features like News and Videos which is a bit buggy sometimes.
Donate to Obama
I however dig the little green button at the button that says “Donate” with the countdown to the elections. It is nice way to get Donations, making it easy for the user to just click and go. The target crowd here are the techie and younger crowds, as your grandma couldn’t even squint to see the texts on the iPhone. Here is a thought however, what if Palin started taking some Model Shots of herself and make it availiable for download as an iPhone Wallpaper, would you Donate to her?
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