Hasta La Gadget!

Hey, Microsoft — you’re pretty proud of that Arc Mouse, yeah? If so, you should probably alert your legal team to the image shown above, as it seems one BOL-LINK has decided it best to just copy the arching input peripheral you helped pioneer and showcase it to onlookers in Taiwan. Then again, these guys did use a slightly different color scheme…

Filed under: Peripherals

Keepin’ it real fake, Computex edition: Arc Mouse gets aped originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Sigh. Where to begin? It looks like a Magic, it smells like a Magic, but the perfectionist in us fully understands that it’s absolutely not a Magic. The self-proclaimed followup to HTC’s G1 has itself an impostor, and that very shammer is parading around on eBay for the low, low price of $122.99. Granted, that doesn’t buy you an HTC logo, Android or 3G, but hey, it just might fool a few folks on the subway. Take it from us, though, it’s totally not worth the risk of embarrassment.

[Thanks, Jeremy]

Filed under: Cellphones

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXIII: Magic trick goes awry on eBay originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 May 2009 21:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

There’s just too much inherent greatness here to bothering nursing it out: Meizu’s iPhone-aping M8 just got its very own imitator in the $99 MeiLi M8. The phone harbors all of those design distinctions that Meizu so carefully implemented into its hardware to differentiate from the iPhone, but oddly goes for an iPhone cloning interface. Best of both worlds? Something like that.

[Via PMP Today]

Filed under: Cellphones

Keepin’ it real fake, Part CCXI: MeiLi M8 is a Meizu clone, sans the drama originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 18 May 2009 11:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Well, no need to wait around for the Storm 2 to right all of the BlackBerry Storm’s wrongs, the Cool9500 is here to make it all better. Namely, the Cool9500 brings the all-important gold trim, something we always felt was a major shortcoming of RIM’s first stab at this form factor. There’s also an all-important TV tuner — another wild misstep in the original. Sure, we’ll miss SurePress and the usable software, but we’d say Cool9500 really hit RIM where it hurts with this impressive followup.

Filed under: Cellphones

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCIX: Fake BlackBerry Storm adds some gold trim, beats the Storm 2 to clickscreen-free living originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 May 2009 16:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

Look, in real life, we all know that Batman’s car is called the Batmobile, NOT the Batman Mobile, and to be perfectly honest, we don’t know why it ever seemed like a good idea to name a phone after an auto anyway, but then again: it does look rather… awesome. No, it doesn’t look like the most comfortable phone, but as the Dark Knight himself would surely tell you, life is full of pain. This GSM bad mother’s boasting a whole host of whack features, including an FM radio, and a “pixel high definition camera,” plus “basic functions,” but we all know this one’s purely about style — which it’s got to spare. This bad boy seems to be currently available in China, and while we doubt we’ll ever see it on shores of the U.S., we can tell you this: we’d be willing to pay at least twenty-five dollars to add this to our NOKLA collection. There are a few more stunners after the break.

Continue reading Keepin’ it real fake, part CCVII: NOKLA Batman Mobile phone gets all its signals crossed

Filed under: Cellphones

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCVII: NOKLA Batman Mobile phone gets all its signals crossed originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 16 May 2009 04:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments