Adidas Phone is Fake, Probably not Allowed to Use the Brand

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

When we usually spot a phone that uses a strange or too famous branding, it's made in China or some other part of Asia. This is also the case of this Adidas phone, taking the same route as the Rolex, Ferrari, or Porsche handsets. These Shanzai phones are sadly only ...

TianJi 608, a Chinese Phone With an Interesting Form Factor

Friday, June 12th, 2009

This uniquely-shaped handset is called TianJi 608 and it's not even a great phone brand knockoff, but an entirely new device, made in China. It comes with a 2.6 inch touchscreen display, dual SIM slot, a 1.3 megapixel camera and FM radio. There's also an MP3/MP4 player on board, Bluetooth, a ...

Nokla Batman Phone Gives the Batmobile a New Sense

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

What if the Batmobile wasn't a vehicle but a cellphone? It would probably look something like the Nokla handset below, made by Chinese manufacturers. The device looks pretty hard to hold in one's hands, specially if they're small. We're dealing with a dual SIM phone with FM radio on board, 3 ...

Lamborghini Vertu Phone is Surreal, Almost Fancy

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Welcome to yet another edition of "we clone your phones and combine brands chaotically", made in China! This time we're dealing with a mixup between the Lamborghini and Vertu brands and we can't even call the handset a "clone", since there's no original device. ASUS was planning on making a Lamborghini ...

Lenovo X1 Gets a Red Dot Design Award, Why?

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Yes, the handset pictured below has just won a Red Dot design award and if you're wondering why, you should go ask the jury and not us. The device looks like an Instinct that features a sliding keypad and the TouchWiz interface. Strangely enough, the UI of the phone is ...

QiJi i6 Phone Runs Android and Windows Mobile

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

This goes to show that Chinese phones can sometimes deliver and that they can be more than clones of great handsets. Enter QiJi i6, one of the few handsets that supports Android and Windows Mobile, albeit without the possibility of using dual-boot. You just pick one of the operating systems, ...