{"id":2656,"date":"2010-02-21T22:21:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T06:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2010-02-22T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T19:52:02","slug":"25-iphone-nope-a-sciphone-rebranded-but-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/25-iphone-nope-a-sciphone-rebranded-but-still\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a325 iPhone? Nope, a SciPhone rebranded, but still…"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if you were in a bar, and someone showed you an iPhone and said it was only 25 pounds?\u00a0 AND then the things actually worked?? As well as common IPhone apps?\u00a0 Well, clearly its a rip off copy, but still.. the things was working!!\u00a0 And running Java on top of that?\u00a0 Well according to Steve Cassidy on PC Pro (pcpro.co.uk<\/a>) this happened.\u00a0 Well, he didn’t buy the iphone copy, only saw it for a bit, but close enough.<\/p>\n

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From PC Pro<\/p><\/div>\n

Seems there are a number of these clones running around, commonly referred to as the SciPhone. Although the post was interesting, (and I really want to check one of these out), it was the comments that really got me thinking.\u00a0 So lets say you can find for around 30 quid, around $50 US or so.\u00a0 My first thought was, no way.. You cannot produce them cheap enough.\u00a0 Well based on the comments, that is not the common opinion. Hit up Ebay for the SciPhone i68 and there are quite a few.\u00a0 And check the specs.\u00a0 Bluetooth, Color Screen, Dual SIM, GPRS, EDGE, Java Enabled, MP3 Player, Touchscreen, USB and 3m camera.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Now just to be clear, THIS IS NOT AN IPHONE!\u00a0 Thus the iphone(ish) apps are just copies running, as best I can tell, some variant of windows mobile. But that being said, its pretty amazing that you can get something this close for so cheap with some aspects that are actually better. Really makes me wonder what will happen when the Andriod clones come out, which wont be clones because the OS is free.\u00a0 Now that does not mean there will not be ‘rip offs’ like the one in the PC pro story, but I have a feeling we are going to see so really cool phone for REALLY cheap in the next year.<\/p>\n

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From Pc Pro<\/p><\/div>\n

So would I pay around $35 US for a copy?\u00a0 Sure, just for the heck of it.\u00a0 Just not through Ebay.\u00a0 I would have to see it, hold it, and make sure it worked.\u00a0 I would recommend the same to anyone else.<\/p>\n

\u00a325 iPhone down the pub<\/h3>\n

Steve Cass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What if you were in a bar, and someone showed you an iPhone and said it was only 25 pounds?\u00a0 AND then the things actually worked?? As well as common IPhone apps?\u00a0 Well, clearly its a rip off copy, but still.. the things was working!!\u00a0 And running Java on top of that?\u00a0 Well according to… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,170,105,59],"tags":[594,593],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-other-smart-phones","category-product-review","category-tips","tag-iphone-copies","tag-sciphone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-GQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}