Just took the following photos last weekend at one of the major malls in Ozamis City and I have to say that the Chinese Clones have really intensified, this time a becoming more daring in copying Nokia and other mobile phones as close as they seemed to be with sophistication on the products made day by day. I've been featuring clones in this blog before but I never encounter this very close clones than ever.
As you can in the right inset image, side by side are Nokia 6600 Slide, 90% copied in my opinion hardware wise that it really look like the original from size and dimension except the keypad where it has Chinese character embedded and that if you are not very keen to details, you would really be fooled by it thinking that it was original. Of course, the software and User Interface (UI) is beyond question, the clones is far out in this aspects but then, a great percentage of the mass market specially in Third World Countries like Philippines doesn't know how to differentiate original from clone UI as they haven't seen what original software looks, so it wont matter, they can still do basic function of the phone like call, text or even watch TV.
The N97 on the picture is somewhat around 80% copied with just a wash out call and end key buttons but the fact that it also have a sliding form factor and QWERTY keypad underneath, its feels very much the same as that of the original. The E52 is 85% copied while the E71 White is 95% approximate. Second image inset is the E71 Gray version, again looks really close to the original, not so much for the N79 cbut my fav phone, the Nokia N86 is 95% close copied which have also a dual slider form factor.
I where Nokia or Sony Ericsson among the other mobile phone manufacturers, I will surely be mindful of the scenario and took this seriously because anytime soon, this cloners can raise capability to duplicate not only hardware components of there phone but also the software and UI in the long run. This will also serve as a call to the consumers to be mindful of this products and not to buy them as they violate international laws of intellectual property rights and infringement, and there's also a possibility of being fooled to buying this devices at the original price, common venue to get victimized, online shops and auction sites like eBay, again just be cautious and Buy Original!
Oct 17, 2009
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