Filed under: Handsets, Others, GSM
Most people try to keep carrier branding on their phones to a minimum — it’s gaudy, loud, and unnecessary — but for the burgeoning KIRF industry, anything goes. Take for example the SciPhone S18, brought to you by the same company that saw fit to clone a free platform, Android, of all things. It sorta looks like a cross between an Incite, a Vu, and a Prada (which never launched on AT&T, coincidentally), but the kicker is the big ol’ AT&T logo top center. We’re pretty sure it wouldn’t take more than a couple days on an American carrier for these dudes to decide that the logo’s doing more harm than good, but then again, maybe they know something we don’t. Doubtful.
[Thanks, Andrew]
Keepin’ it real fake, part CLXVIII: no carrier subsidy to be found originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Original post by Chris Ziegler
Related posts:
- Keepin’ it real fake: a Nintendo DS Lite that gets it (mostly) DS right The death of Nintendo’s DS Lite getting you down? Good...
- Keepin’ it real fake: Sony NGP with Xbox 360 livery shows up in China Look away now, Kaz, because it looks like this KIRF...
- Keepin’ it real fake: Nckia’s N-Gage knockoff harkens back to a simpler, side-talkin’ era Imagine a world where Nokia’s N-Gage is the mobile platform...
- Keepin’ it real fake: Windows Phone 7 debuts in China If smartphone platforms are legitimized by a KIRF manufacturer’s tenacity...
- Keepin’ it real fake: the 1.2GHz Dell Streak that can make phone calls and run Gingerbread You know, knockoffs are usually meant to be downgrades from...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
