Yes, you got it right, I bought this glamour phone for just a little over four hundred ringgit. I bought it over at Hua Qiang Bei in Shenzhen and it got one year warranty. I was amaze by the feature this little gadget pack and how it looks and works. The photo viewing works fine with pinching zooming capability. The music player goes to album view when the phone is tilted. This is something that other models could not do. The cheapest I’ve seen starts at RM3xx and all the way to this model RM4xx. I found out on the web that this phone’s name was CiPhone and it was a fake that gets as close to the real thing as possible. Just search for CiPhone at youtube and you can see a wealth of video about this phone.
Out of the box, the device came with a sleve, earphones, charger, usb cable and a user manual. All looks like the real thing. You can check out a video I made unpacking this thing. There are so many “iPhone” models over at Hua Qiang Bei, All the model except this one supports dual sim card and they comes with two batteries. However they are much thicker and the dimension are much bigger. But they have much more functions, some could even change song when shake, like the sony handphones when it first introduced.
There are a couple of things that might turn you off, first there seams to be a lag on this phone, you will notice it on my video. Secondly, the phone battery indicator can go up and down, especially if we let the phone hibernate, the next time the phone wakes up, you will notice the battery indicator shifts up a little. This phone only supports single sim card, while other models support dual cards. Lastly, there seams to be a problem with the phone where after some time, the music player would reset the phone whenever I click on the music player icon. The shop guy first says it was virus, then he said the mp3 format not compatible, which is all loads of BS. Somehow the Chinese Songs that came with the phone seams to be fine. So there goes, want perfect working beautiful iPhone, stay away from fakes. if you dont mind this, then, it is a cheap glamour phone for you.
On this day..
- Four Hundred Ringgit Glamour Phone - 2008
- - 2004
- Riccia Fluitans - 2003
so it is not really worth getting it?
thought of asking you to help me get one but now reading your post making me think twice.
i think i save the money and get a portable 2.5″ hard disk better.
By tvbtorrent on 08.05.08 10:55 pm | Permalink
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By Half the price | My So Called Life on 08.06.08 7:46 am | Permalink
yea, it is not worth it, especially if you put the real thing side by side, its like the sky and earth…
By kew on 08.06.08 10:15 pm | Permalink
wei man… thts really bad but actually i was more interested in the mobile that you were saying supports dual sim card. with one of those, i don’t need to carry 2 mobiles with me all the time.
By tvbtorrent on 08.07.08 8:04 am | Permalink