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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXVIII: the four-wheeled Segway

  Published: July 28, 2007, 10:43 am

  Tags: Kirf, Segway

  Filed under: Transportation You can really only go two ways when you're knocking off an iconic product, according to our copy of "Asian Device Fakery, 4th Edition": either you can slavishly copy every detail and come up with a faithful replica, or you can throw caution to the wind and crank out the craziest mishmash of branding and design you can.

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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 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 LXXIII: Lasonic rips the Samsung YP-T9

  Published: August 23, 2007, 8:58 am

  Tags: Kirf, Lasonic, Samsung, Sp 02sbk, Vp 04sbk, Vp O1sbk, Vp Sbk, Yp T9

  Filed under: Portable Audio So you're looking for a DAP that's got all the cred of the Samsung YP-T9 but none of the screen resolution, Flash interface, PlaysForSure support or battery life? Lasonic's got you covered with the VP-SBK line of DAPs, which feature the same 1.8-inch screen size and basic design as the Sammy, while adding in an FM

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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 LXXX: ONDA Honey VX878

  Published: September 20, 2007, 7:41 am

  Tags: Keepin It Real Fake, Keepinitrealfake, Kirf

  Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video What's made in China, costs just $55, and looks like your favorite [insert touchscreen device here] full-screen media player? The ONDA Honey VX878, that's what. The followup to the Honey VX855, overhauls the GUI while squishing the touchscreen down to 2.4-inches and just 260k colors with up to 15 hours

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• Meizu's MiniOne M8 GUI exposed: shame on you J. Wong

  Published: September 21, 2007, 6:27 am

  Tags: Apple, Breaking News, Breakingnews, Clone, Iphone, Kirf, Meizu, Minione

  Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video Ok Meizu, seriously, with your M7 announced a week after the iPod touch and your CEO J.Wong just posting these new interface shots of the M8 to your user forum, how can we or any straight taking rag not call you for what you are: a brazen Chinese Apple cloning machine? We understand that

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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXXXI: New iPod nano clones unveiled, thanks China

  Published: September 23, 2007, 9:05 pm

  Tags: Apple, Fake, Ipod Nano, Ipod Nano Third Gen, Ipodnano, Ipodnanothirdgen, Kirf, U2 C, Yjl

  Filed under: Portable Audio The first third-gen iPod nano fake we spotted was kind of low on details, so we're glad to see YJL giving it to us straight here with the new U2-C player. Innovative features include MP4, MP3 and WMA playback, mass storage support (what a novel idea!), voice recording, "A-B repeat" and an FM tuner. Clearly the iPod

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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXXXII: The Chintendo Vii

  Published: September 28, 2007, 8:25 am

  Tags: China, Chintendo Vii, Chintendovii, Clone, Fake, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepinitrealfake, Kirf, Nintendo, Vii, Wii

  Filed under: Gaming While we imagine that reverse engineering the Wii console is a fairly straightforward procedure, reproducing Nintendo's extensive software library would be quite the trick. That is, until Meizu's OS X duplication team becomes available. Pages 3 and 4 after the break.[Thanks, Anonymouse]Continue reading Keepin' it real fake,

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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 LXXXV: not Zune enough

  Published: October 4, 2007, 8:51 am

  Tags: Dap, Huiying, Hy 658, Kirf

  Hooray for equal-opportunity KIRFing![Via PMP Today] Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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• Keepin' it real fake, part LXXXVII: "Manhattan" mobile not a T-Mobile Dash

  Published: October 6, 2007, 5:07 pm

  Tags: Gprs, Gsm, Keepin It Real Fake, Keepinitrealfake, Kirf, Manhattan, Sim

  Filed under: Cellphones Although this "Manhattan" Wide Screen GSM Dual Card Mobile phone doesn't rip-off any logos, it most certainly is more than "inspired" by T-Mobile's Dash. You probably won't want to pick up this $224.99 model, unless you don't mind living without any internet access at all (it doesn't even do GPRS), but if you need a phone

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