Mobile Inspired

It is not a secret that many iPhone owners want this device to have QWERTY keypad. But Chinese developers are always ready to meet the wishes and announced Cooli902. This mobile phone has sliding QWERTY keyboard and 3 inch touch screen with 240×400 px resolution. Other characteristics of this phone are 2 Mp camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, TV tuner, FM radio and microSD memory card slot (up to 4 GB). The dimensions are 113х57х16 mm. Cooli902 has been already in sale and costs $142.
Sponsored by My gadget Guide

Chinese developers continue to amaze us with new iPhones clones. This one is one of the most remarkable examples. It is iPhone NG68. This device combines design of Apple iPhone and iPod Nano media player. As a result iPhone NG68 looks nice and has thin case (only 10 mm). The list of technical characteristics is typical for other Chinese phones – 2.4 inch touch screen with 240×320 px resolution, 0.3 Mp camera, Bluetooth 2.0 module, 480 Mb built in memory and microSD card slot (up to 16 Gb). The price of iPhone NG68 is only $90.

At last Apple introduced its new iPhone 3G S. This remarkable event took place on Worldwide Developers Conference 2009. Letter “S” means “speed” – new iPhone supports 7.2Mbps HSDPA and runs twice as faster than its predecessor. The design of this device is almost the same – it also has easily soiled plastic case. iPhone 3G S is based on iPhone OS 3.0 platform which has more than one hundred improvements. The list of technical characteristics also has some improvements – 3 Mp camera with autofocus and video recording support, extended built in memory, magnetometer and more capacious battery. This new smartphone also has Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR. iPhone 3G S will become available in AT&T mobile operator’s shops on June, 19. Its price is $199 for 16 Gb version and $299 for 32 Gb one. In other countries new phone by Apple will become available in next few weeks.

It seems that Chinese mobile phones market is so overfilled with different iPhones clones that local phones’ producers have to offer something else. So they introduced iPhone V126. The design of this clamshell phone has elements both of iPhone and MacBook. To make V126 mobile phone cheap producers use not aluminum case but plastic one. According to developers of this device the set of technical features includes 2.6 inch touch screen with 240×320px resolution, 3 Mp camera, Bluetooth module, microSD memory card slot and 1800 mAh battery. Supported networks are GSM 900/1800 MHz. The price of iPhone clone is only $100.

It is rumored that Apple is going to introduce diminished version of its iPhone which will be named iPhone Nano. As usual Chinese developers go ahead of all and have already introduced m888a mobile phone. It really looks like small iPhone. In all other respects this mini iPhone is typical product of Chinese mobile industry. It is assigned for GSM networks and has 2.4 inch touch screen, 0.3 Mp camera, Bluetooth module and microSD memory card slot. Presence of stylus points out to the fact that this device doesn’t support multitouch technology. Besides, as many other Chinese mobile phones m888a supports dual SIM card mode.

iSuppli company continues to do its favorite work - mobile devices’ cost calculation . This time it is T-Mobile G1. Calculated cost doesn’t include t costs of transportation, assembling and software development. So the cost of Google phone without all this additional exps is $143.89. Today T-Mobile G1 mobile phone is available at the price of $180. By the way similar analysis was performed for Apple iPhone 3G. Its “pure” price is $173. According to Tina Teng who is chief analyst of iSuppli T-Mobile G1 phone is nice and powerful device with good operating system. Nevertheless it is yields to iPhone in design and control simplicity. Prices for main components of Google phone are: ARM11 and ARM7 CPUs - $28.49, 3.2 inch touch screen – $19.67, camera - $12.13, radio-frequency amplifier -$9.84, built in memory - $9.70.

The process of iPhone cloning is not stopped not for a second in China. Different developers create every possible fakes and CiPhone i88i is one of them. The screen of this device has 3.5 inch diagonal but its resolution is only 320×240 px. To make up the deficiency this Chinese mobile phone has 1.3 Mp camera, 2 GB built in memory, FM radio, TV out and microSD card slot.

French GeekInc site published photos of HTC Touch HD together with iPhone 3G. As you can see they are very similar to each other. Besides both of them have 3.5 mm audio jacks. It is also said that camera of new HTC mobile phone works well and the screen with 800×480 px resolution is excellent.

Whereas Chinese were cloning iPhone’s appearance Cest company was developing user interface with multitouch function support. This advanced clone of iPhone supports GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz), has 3.2 inch touch screen with multitouch support, 1 GB built in memory, 1.3 Mp camera and Bluetooth 1.2. Cest Element mobile device is based on MTK6225 chipset and is supplied with headphones.

Samsung company is going to produce mobile phone which is similar to iPhone and LG Prada. Samsung Croix has large touch screen, 5 Mp camera and QWERTY keyboard. This mobile phone is already known due to the first place on iF Communication Design Award 2007. There is no any information about other features of Samsung’s future mobile phone. Evidently we have to wait for official announce.