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We hate to say this, but the KIRF market is often a good indicator of how popular certain devices are, hence the plentiful fake iPhones and Galaxy phones in China. (Meanwhile, MediaTek is shamelessly cashing in as it ships its SoCs to those cloning factories.) Now, we’re not saying the HTC One doesn’t have any clones, but most of those we’ve seen weren’t very convincing — they were either of different sizes or had very poor build quality. But we eventually stumbled upon a pretty good fake in Huaqiangbei.

The offending device is pictured above on the left. Externally, it bears a disgustingly strong resemblance to the real deal thanks to the same 4.7-inch screen size, the same curved back, the same micro-SIM tray, the same dual-soft-key layout and even the same metallic chamfer on the front. But if you look closer or touch it even, the tell-tale signs start to show up. See for yourself in the gallery below — the fake One is to the left or on top of the real thing.

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The things that you read in the news these days, now I know that what you are about to embark on is not exactly full of GHz and RAM figures, but at least there is some semblance of bio-technology involved. Apparently, Harvard Professor George Church is convicted that there is enough DNA available which can be extracted from fossils in order to achieve cloning, somewhat like how dinosaurs were created in Jurassic Park. Of course, the cells would first be grown in a lab, and on paper, it could then be implanted into a female for gestation. Having said that, Professor Church is looking for a woman who is willing to loan out her womb to birth to the clone, a Neanderthal in this aspect.

When approached on the situation, a lady replied, “I don’t know. I’m in support of the science if she’s willing to do it. I would not be that adventurous of a female, no.”

Just to get some background on Professor Church, he is a leading geneticist at the Harvard Medical School, and has also been credited in the assistance of initiating the Human Genome Project. Do you think this will find success?

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You cannot deny that the Samsung Galaxy S3 is one high end smartphone that has done extremely well in the markets where it has appeared in, and there is the proverb which goes like this – imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The Nova N3 pays homage to the Galaxy S3 by looking more or less exactly like it, although it costs just a fraction of the price. Spotted on a Malaysian Facebook page, it retails for a mere RM599 (that would be $200 tops after conversion) for an unlocked device, accompanied by a free case as well as a screen protector. Heck, even the model number of the Nova N3 itself is misleading, carrying the i9300 number while the Galaxy S3 also shares that model number – at least for its international model.

Other hardware specifications of the Nova N3 (i9300) include a 4.7” touchscreen WVGA resolution display, sporting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system while running on a clearly inferior 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor. The back carries an 8-megapixel camera, with a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera. You will not find LTE connectivity here, as it maxes out at just 3G. Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi and USB 2.0 connectivity rounds off the list of features in terms of connectivity.

Clearly, this is a far inferior model, carrying just 512MB RAM instead of the minimum 1GB RAM that the Galaxy S3 carries (with variants of 2GB RAM also available). Do bear in mind that the Nova N3 also lacks NFC connectivity, and you will not be able to take advantage of other cool Samsung features such as Beam.

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A number of Sony PSP clones have surfaced in the past. However, the new JXD S602 is in a different league because it runs Android 4.0. It comes with a 4.3-inch, 480 x 272 display and costs a mere $66. JXD S602 is available at Willgoo and packs a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 chip together with 512 MB of RAM and 4GB storage. Storage space can be extended via a microSD card slot. The device has a multitouch resistive touchscreen and a G-sensor which means that users can play motion-control games on it without any qualms.

The looks and dimensions of the device seem fairly close to those of the original Sony PSP. It features a 0.3 megapixel camera and supports WiFi. The battery that juices up the device is a 2500 mAh.

If you get bored of playing games on it, you can also load your music stash into it and get the party going since it also works as a media player. It supports MP3, OGG, FLAC audio files and a number of video formats. In $66, this doesn’t sound like a bad deal except that we can’t say anything about the perforamce of the device. Even though it packs an Android 4.0, clones often turn out to be clunky and slow.

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Here’s something you still don’t see every day: a KIRF that’s unveiled before the device it’s supposed to copy. Although the 2012 iPhone may not show for weeks, the Android-based Goophone I5 is already doing a remarkable job of aping Apple’s rumored style, including that two-tone look that we’ve all seen before. Just don’t get notions that it’s the bargain of the century. Where most rumors point to a bigger screen for the real thing, the I5 is making do with a 3.5-inch screen similar to that for Goophone’s iPhone 4S imitator, the Y5. Performance isn’t likely to jolt the engineers in Cupertino out of their seats, either. Mum’s the word on whether or not the I5 will beat its inspiration to the store shelf, but we’d wager that it will cost a lot less.

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