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This morning we saw a video of a Nokia N98/E7/”N9″/N8-02 aka N8 with QWERTY clone.

Another video popped up and along with that, a gallery of RM-626 clone.

For 140USD you get:

• 3″ touch screen
• 15mm thickness
• Dual band
• 1.3mp camera that takes VGA photos -_-
• bluetooth
• rest of your generic clone features.
• Click to read rest of details from myreplicaphone – whole host of handsets you just need to avoid.

You might as well get yourself a Nokia 5530 (£79.99 on pay and go brand new)

Red and Green buttons, 3 row keyboard, 3" screen, thicker, wrong menu button placement, general wrong button/ports/sensor placements. Interally, so much crap too.

versus real RM-626 – ridiculously slim, 4 row, 4″ screen 16:9, 4 row keyboard, menu button in middle.

The RM-626 still does not have an official name (originally called N98, later N9, but also E7 and N8-02) and now there is a clone. The demo girl calls it the Nokia N98, showing off the Nseries branding (the series let alone the name is debatable in the RM-626)

This is your usual dual-sim variety, coming with 2 batteries, (because each die in 30 minutes) and looking radically obese in comparison to the fantastically slim real RM-626. Amongst the list of superficial changes (smaller screen, colour scheme, overall design, camera, removable fake BL-4D), the main one is the 3 row (N97 mini keyboard) vs the newer 4-row keyboard (with spacebar in the middle). As for the software, it attempts to clone the fever inducing S60 5th edition.

The site watermarked in the video doesn’t seem to actually list this handset.

Green and white versions

Running an S60 5th Edition clone

I was reading a question comment on one of mynokiablog’s YouTube videos when I noticed an advert for the N900 underneath the video. But it wasn’t any ordinary N900. It was a fake dual sim knock off. It’s quite an accurate copy of the N900, I mean, it least the slide is sideways, unlike this dual slider n900: << click.

What’s even more disturbing is that it runs (what attempts to look like) “S60″. On the “N900″? *Shudders* Click to see Clone N900 unboxed pics

Can’t wait for the official release of the Nokia N900 Maemo 5 SuperPhone? Not going to Nokia World but need to get your paws on a N900 now?

Here’s a Dual sliding clone of the N900. Features your generic clone capabilities – dual sim, TV, VGA cam, accelerometer, 3″ touch screen etc and for 127USD (pretty cheap – but as always with these clones you get exactly what you pay for)

The clone UI still attempts to mimic S60 though.

Via PapayaOne

Check out more posts about Nokia Clones >>here<<

Back in April, there were some rumours on an upcoming E-series swivel phone with QWERTY. The image on the left was a of a mock-up based on BGR sources’ first hand impression.

Hideous was the first word to pop into my mind. Next were horrendous monstrosity. But then again, it is just a mock-up. The actual leaked photos of the Nokia N900/Rover/RX-51 looked completely different and utterly beautiful compared to Mobile Crunch’s render (when closed anyway). Was there hope for the same in this swivel QWERTY?

All we could do was wait for Nokia to announce it or leak some pics.

Well, Chinese knock-offs have got there first. We shouldn’t be surprised in clones appearing before the original even had confirmation of existing – the same people that brought us the NokLa E97 (simply based on a concept design by Fabien Nauroy) has produced the NokLa E81.

Admittedly, this 90 degree QWERTY swivel phone doesn’t look half bad. It’s petite and quite feminine looking, especially with that mirror thing going on. Plus the owner could probably wear it as a necklace (just put a chain through the swivel hole), not to mention that there’s something girly about being a swivel form factor (ha, or maybe it’s just because the last swivel was the effeminate 7373?)

UPDATE 24-08-09: This maybe the Nokia 7705 – Check out more details via The Nokia Blog or BGR

The actual swivel qwerty from Nokia is rumoured to running only S40.

M8Cool via JustAMP via Engadget

UPDATE: This maybe the Nokia 7705 – Check out more details via The Nokia Blog

I’m not sure if this is meant to be a Nokia N97 clone (sometimes there’s some radical changes ) or they’ve gotten wind of a new Nokia and have already cloned it but here’s nokLa with their E97i (Priced at $139).

Thanks to lladd for the heads up. This is, as I’ve forgotten, a concept phone by Fabien:

This is a rip off the the concept phone that some designer made and won a competition for…the concept from this guy looks beautiful! see here: http://www.concept-phones.com/nokia/nokia-e97-concept-inspired-paper-mail-based-eink-technology/

Lets hope Nokia actually make it!!!

It’s pretty much a fugly thing except for the keyboard section. I don’t entirely understand the placement of the D-Pad or the keys themselves (not in QWERTY arrangement) but the aesthetics is quite beautiful, and looks as if it would be pretty nice to type on. Shame they’ve integrated the numbers row with the top set of letters, especially since they’ve got oodles of space to play around with. (update: This makes sense though in the concept device which uses the space above the keyboard as an additional display)

I’m not entirely sure how the hinge works either. It looks like a floppy piece of material connects the two but it may be clamshell. The photo directly below looks like the hinge will break if you so much as look at it. I think it may be entirely detachable.

[Below] the thicker part is actually the screen.

Tech Specs – as for your usual clone:

• Screen : 16:9 wide touchscreen, 260k QVGA
• Dual sim cards work at the same time – Dual Standby
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Qwerty Keyboard and Toucscreen input
• Dual speakers (one on front, one of back
• Language : English
• T-Flash Card Supporting, 1GB TF included
• Camera : factory print 1.3MP – max output is 1280*960, support video with sound, the time depended on storage
• Stereo Loud speaker, 64 chord ring tone
• MP4, AVI, Support to play in full screen, speed/pause and play AVI film
• GPRS & WAP connectivity, MMS Transceiver
• U disk support function to keep the information storage
• Calendar, To do list, Alarm, World Clock, Spotwatch
• Caller picture, caller Ring Tone, Caller Video
• Video Recorder, photo Editor, Audio Player, Sound Recorder
• Telephone directories : 300 groups of contacts, support MP3 ring, can use downloaded MP3 as SMS rings, 200 SMS, support MMS; can use downloaded MP3 as SMS rings
• Games : 1 common games
• More information : MP3, MP4, Handsfree, SMS group sending, Voice recorder, WAP, Handwritten input, Bluetooth, GPRS download, MMS, Memory extended

From Chinagrabber via PMPtoday

For a more faithful clone of the N97, check this out.

These first three aren’t your usual dopplegänger Nokia imitations. These are cute tiny versions of them!

1. The Mini N95 8GB, complete with dual sliding mechanism.

2. The Mini Nokia N96, also with dual sliding mechanism

3. The Mini Nokia N83, with touchscreen, even though there’s no N83 yet!

The UI of these Clones, although looking a little temperamental on occasion looks surprisingly fluid. They all have the accelerometer, to change orientation of the screen and to switch music tracks.

I’m not sure about the quality of materials, but they look so nice and shiny! Look at the N78, it’s got a bigger 2.8″ touch screen and a built in hidden telescopic antenna for live TV! No DVB-H which we’ll no longer see in Nokia phones as that division has been sold off and acquired by Wipro.

4. Nokia N78 Clone – with touch screen

I’d love to have standard TV on my phone. Check out this mini Apple iPhone 3G version.

5. Apple iPhone 3G – with analogue TV

Or for actual digital TV, a sony ericsson variety:

6. SE and Digital TV.

These clones are clustering around the $100 range. That’s really good considering the list of features – although the reliability is yet to be proven. It may last a week and could end up being a really bad purchase.

You can check out what else they have on their website.

http://www.dualsimmobileshop.co.uk/

[No I am not affiliated with this site, I'm just intruiged by what these clones can offer in terms of price:features ratio.

Here are a couple of videos of some Nokia N97 fakes and dummies.

The first is a fake working version of a clone of the N97 that we saw on Sunday. It’s the one with the glaring neon blue backlight on the keypapd. It actually looks pretty good considering the price.

The second is a real non working dummy version of the Nokia N97. It seems doesn’t have the feel of a real N97, which you would sort of expect even from a dummy as that is what consumers will look at first in the shops.  Maybe it’s a replica dummy version?:P

For those extremely anxious to get their mitts on the Nokia N97, both are actually available for purchase.

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Update: Here’s another video of a working N97 clone. I think it’s a different clone, not because this one’s black but the media player UI looks different. Even has an accelerometer like the other clone and real N97.

If you can’t wait till June or don’t want to burn a whole in your pocket, here’s the N97 clone – and it’s a pretty good copy that only a techy would notice. It’s also not just the touch screen shell, but it even has the flick stand sliding mechanism. But best of all, check out the last photo with the neon blue backlights on the keypad! Slightly garish, but infinitely better than the original N97′s attempt of soft glow orange from the 1980s.

Engadget China via Spazio cellulare

Here’s a transgenic, chimeric, phone clone, complete with aesthetics of the iPhone and even the dual sliding mechanism of the N96 (at least that’s the Nseries it most resembles).

Host of features include your uninspiring but seemingly value for money: 3.2″ 16:9 widescreen touch screen, 2mp camera (which is apparently equivelant to 5 PIXES; yes pixes.), Dual speakers, Dual Sim, MP4/Avi/MP3 playback.

You can pick up this chimeric handset for $129.99 at chinagragger.com.

chinagragger.com via PMPtoday

For a REAL Nokia combined with iPhone deal, you could look closer to the N97.