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In my many encounters with all sorts of hardware recently, I came accross a couple of very interesting pieces of technology. We'd been discussing the fact that the Chinese can replicate anything for some time, but it was just theoretical, speculatory, and rumour-based. That is until we came accross two clones, of two modern-day mobile communication icons.
The iPhone clone was pretty impressive. A bit thicker than the original, without the multi-touch touchscreen, far less memory and a menu that's lightyears away from Steve Job's real model, it packs a lot of features which still make it an interesting choice for a phone with Internet access.
The Nokia N95 clone was even more impressive as it has exactly the same external dimensions as the original. It's about 30g lighter as it lacks the 8GB internal memory, and is obviously constructed of lighter more inexpensive materials. It also has a low resolution camera instead of the original 5 megapixel but other than that it's almost the same. The microphone on the clone is actually better and louder. If it weren't for the obsession of the Chinese with Times New Roman and serif fonts in general even the menu would have probably been identical. All of this for 1/4 the price.
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