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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXIX: Meizu gets a taste of its own medicine

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:46 pm

  Tags: Dap, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, Meizu, Mp046, Pmp, Shenzhen

  Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoPoetic justice at its finest. Meizu, which has received loads of criticism for knocking off Apple's iPhone with the forthcoming M8, is now facing turned tables thanks to Shenzhen Gold-East Electronic Company. The MP046 may resemble any vanilla PMP at first glance, but if you take a closer look at the

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• Keeping it real fake, part LXX: Blue Raven hatches a Hi-Fi knockoff

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Blue Raven, Blueraven, Dock, Fake, Hi Fi, Iphone, Ipod, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, Knockoff, Real Fake, Realfake, Speakers

  Filed under: Home EntertainmentBlue Raven has introduced the Maestro 1070, an iPhone and iPod hi-fi docking station, with 70 watts powering a 5" center sub and two 3" satellites. Looking suspiciously like the official iPod Hi-Fi -- but with handles on the side, not the top!! -- the universal dock accepts and charges Apple's hardware, and also has

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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXXI: X-Game 360 doesn't play Halo

  Published: August 19, 2007, 11:15 pm

  Tags: Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Keepinitrealfake, Krif, X Game 360, X Game360, Xbox 360, Xbox360

  Filed under: Gaming Most people pop across the border for a good time. Engadget editors interpret that good time as a chance to check out rip offs like this $28 "X-Game 360." No bonus points here for spotting the inspiration behind this KIRF. All we wanna know is, what're the chances it comes with HDMI? Read Permalink Email this

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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXXII: Sudoku handheld resembles Sony Ericsson phone

  Published: August 22, 2007, 8:43 am

  Tags: Japan, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, Knockoff, Puzzle, Sony, Sudoku

  Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsIt's one thing to long for Sudoku on your handset, but to pick up a Japanese look-a-like trinket that handles the former yet omits any calling abilities just seems silly. Nevertheless, this interesting handheld purportedly allows brainiacs to whittle the day away with Sudoku puzzles, and while it sure looks eerily

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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXXIV: the Gameboy Micro PMP clone

  Published: August 24, 2007, 11:58 pm

  Tags: China, Dap, Dvp, Gameboy, Gameboy Micro, Gameboymicro, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, Pmp

  Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio, Portable Video You can never have too many name-brand duping, cheap looking Chinese sweatshop produced PMPs laying around, can you? I mean sure, we've seen little guys that boost the Gameboy Micro before, such as this number from way back in 2006, but this new entry does it with so much flair and unabashed

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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXXV: MA-727 apes Samsung's T9B

  Published: September 3, 2007, 9:25 pm

  Tags: China, Copycat, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, Knockoff, Ma 727, Pmp, Ripoff, Samsung, T9b, Yepp, Yp T9, Yp T9b

  Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video There's blatant knockoffs, and then there's blatant knockoffs. As you can probably tell, this is most certainly a case of the latter, as the so-called creators of the MA-727 didn't even bother to take their own photo. Instead, it looks pretty clear that they simply doctored Samsung's own snapshot of the

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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXXXIII: LG's Shine gets a clone

  Published: October 2, 2007, 3:20 am

  Tags: Jdx205, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, Lg Shine, Lgshine, Shine, Venus

  Filed under: Cellphones The Shine may already be available in a variety of colors, but we're confident that LG had no part in this one. The so-called Venus JXD205 purports to be your average PMP, sporting AVI / MP3 / WMA / WAV support, a 2.4-inch QVGA color screen, FM tuner, built-in gaming function and an expansion slot that supports cards up to

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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXXXIV: V-MODA ripoffs for your KIRF-pod

  Published: October 3, 2007, 4:02 pm

  Tags: Canalphones, Earbuds, Headphone, Headphones, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, V Moda

  Filed under: Portable Audio Just as V-MODA's Vibe Duo earbuds got revamped with a new iPhone-friendly music controller, an unnamed set of copycats have surfaced on the web. This painfully bad ripoff manages to ditch the newly acquired music control and it opts for a lovely gold / black color scheme -- you know, so folks are absolutely certain

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• Keepin' it real fake, part XCI: Loomax Ii touch isn't an iPod, duh

  Published: October 20, 2007, 11:15 pm

  Tags: Germany, Ipod Touch, Ipodtouch, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Keepinitrealfake, Kirf

  Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video German publication Welt Online has the scoop on a killer KIRF: the Loomax Ii touch, which rips off the iPod Touch and sells for less than half the price. It has all the usual ingredients -- it plays music, has a touch screen, and Apple-esque icons -- but this time, Apple gives a damn. Apple spokesperson

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• Keepin' it real fake, part XCIV: Act-429 PMP puts on a RAZR2 act

  Published: November 3, 2007, 8:48 pm

  Tags: Act 429, China, Fake, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Keepinitrealfake, Kirf, Pmp

  Filed under: Cellphones Another unimaginative PMP for you this weekend, which happens to vaguely rip-off the design of the RAZR2. Nope, this doesn't have a phone stuck inside: it's simply a regular little PMP that features a 2-inch screen and controls that mimic the look of Motorola's flagship. It also has an FM tuner, a speaker -- hey, at least

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• Keepin' it real fake, part XCVII: Nabaztag's sad little knock-off

  Published: November 23, 2007, 2:25 pm

  Tags: Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, Knock Off, Knockoff, Nabaztag, Rabbit Sensor Night Light, Rabbitsensornightlight

  Filed under: Misc. Gadgets You know the Nabaztag -- the lovable, WiFi-sporting, olfactory-equipped plastic rabbit which wormed its way into our hearts. Sure, everyone wants to nestle up to the little critter's twinkling LEDs and soothing expression, but what about Nabaztag's pitiful, cheap, single-function cousin, the Rabbit Sensor Night Light?

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• Keepin' it real fake, part XCVIII: T-Mobile Shadow gets shadowed

  Published: November 29, 2007, 12:50 pm

  Tags: Clone, Copycat, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, Knockoff, Oasis Media, Oasismedia, Playr, Real Fake, Realfake, Ripoff, Shadow, T Mobile

  Filed under: Cellphones Well, would you look at that. If not for the gaudy packaging, $69.99 price tag and blatant Oasis Media branding, we'd swear the Playr was a T-Mobile Shadow (or HTC's P3300, we guess). Yep, this knockoff does a fairly decent job of mirroring its inspirer, sports 2GB of storage and a miniSD expansion slot, comes with 35 free

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• Keepin' it real fake, part CIII: half Nokia, half HTC, all ripoff

  Published: December 20, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: Emulation, Fake, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, Knockoff, Ripoff, Ztc

  Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds As if the N73 wasn't already up for the "most knocked off cellphone of the century" award, here we have yet another rip that wasn't even so kind as to stick solely to the Nokia motif. Rather, the ZTC 8898 threw in a dash of HTC to flavor things up, and apparently, this unit can even handle its fair share of NES

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• Keepin' it real fake, part CIV: BlueBerry gets blatant on RIM's trademark

  Published: January 9, 2008, 10:20 am

  Tags: Blackberry, Blueberry, Ces 2008, Ces2008, Copyright Infringement, Copyrightinfringement, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf, Rim

  Filed under: CES, Misc. Gadgets Sometimes a picture really does say a thousand words. BlueBerry, the cease-and-desist is on the way! Permalink Email this Comments

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• Keepin' it real fake, part CV: Chinese automakers invade Detroit Auto Show

  Published: January 16, 2008, 4:31 pm

  Tags: Byd Auto, Bydauto, Changfeng, Geely, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepin Itrealfake, Kirf

  right at home in our keepin' it real fake series, which is somehow never starved for material. Among those that did their best to blend in at the Detroit Auto Show is Geely and its Cadillac-esque HIFUN model pictured above, as well as the double-take-inducing ChangFeng Hyundai-lookalike and BYD Auto's Mercedes-influenced F8, both pictured

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