Do you love Sony Ericsson enough to fake an unboxing of their upcoming Android smartphone? Now there’s no official confirmation that mobile-nova’s unboxing set of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X3 – aka “Rachel” – isn’t legitimate, but having peered through our handy loupe at the pictures we’re not convinced that this is the real deal.
While endearingly janky devices like the Nokla E97 aren’t usually to be found on Western shelves, that could change thanks to a key High Court ruling in the UK. The case had been brought by Nokia, who alleged that Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in the UK had acted unfairly when allowing a shipment of counterfeit goods bearing Nokia’s trademarks free passage through the country after discovering they were not intended for sale there.
Resembling the offspring of a Samsung Omnia, the Nokia E97 concept from back in April and Verizon’s LG Versa, this glorious Chinese knock-off is the Nokla E97. A touchscreen handset section with a 2.2-inch display, camera and Bluetooth can be hooked up to a folding QWERTY keyboard section for messaging.
You have to admire Peking University’s Founder Group: when asked about any connection between their ebook device, shown here, and Amazon’s Kindle 2, they bravely told those at the Digital Publishing Fair in Tokyo that “it has nothing to do with the Kindle.” Unfortunately they also seem a little confused about their own hardware specifications; asked about the E Ink panel size, and they said it was “unclear”. Happily Tech-On!’s Takuya Otani had brought a ruler, and found it to be a Kindle-like 6-inches.
We’re not entirely sure what’s going on here, but it looks as though a Chinese firm is attempting to sell what are claimed to be prototypes of the Crunchpad internet tablet. Reminiscent of the “Prototype B” design, rather than the newer renders TechCrunch have been displaying, the confusing product page and Windows OS leads us to suspect that this is more about borrowing Crunchpad hype than it is selling off prototype designs.
Is this the Sony PS3 Slim, narrowed-down follow up to the PlayStation 3? That’s what workers in a Chinese manufacturing plant would like us to believe, but the jury as to the images’ authenticity is still out. On offer is the PS3 Slim box art and several shots of the supposed casing.
Remember those photos purporting to show Nokia’s 5900 XpressMusic phone? At the time we weren’t sure whether they were a legitimate leak or a Chinese faux-phone; now Kunal over at Tech Ticker has been training his eagle-eye over the photos, and flagging up some obvious issues. The biggest is shown here: the memory card slot appears to be labeled “TFLASH”, presumably for Transflash.
Images claiming to show Nokia’s follow-up to the 5800 XpressMusic touchscreen cellphone, the Nokia 5900 XpressMusic, have leaked, and while there’s no confirmation that these are legitimate they certainly look the part. Believed to include a larger, 3.5-inch touchscreen, 3.5mm headphone jack and 5-megapixel camera, the 5900 XpressMusic is expected to run the same Symbian S60 5th Edition OS as its predecessor.
The Nokia Aeon was an obvious concept even when we first saw it, all the way back in 2006, but according to a Dutch newspaper online retailer Bestelmaar.nl will be exclusively offering the touchscreen handset from next week. In what seems to be the run-up to an April Fools’ Day prank, both green and blue versions of the handset are listed for €799 each.
As knock-offs go, this Sony VAIO P copycat – called the VAINO – is pretty blatant. Unfortunately there are no images of it next to the real thing, otherwise it’d become clear that the VAINO’s 250 x 185 x 31mm dimensions are more your typical netbook scale than the long & thin VAIO P.
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