A Comparison of Apple’s iPhone Wanna be’s

Hiphone CECT HiPhone is undoubtedly one of the most commonly-seen iPhone imitators out there in the wholesale cell phone market these days. Some differences from original version take form in a plastic rather than a glass screen, The clone is a little bigger in its shape (though both the original and the imitator feel quite similar when held due to the fact that both have metal plates. Buttons which was originally located to the top of the phone and the headphone jack port are relocated at the bottom taking the form of a mini USB opening. In spite of the fact that multi-media functions such as the 2 MP camera, radio and the MP3 player are not inferior to its original anyhow, it can hardly be said that the rest of the HiPhone features are perfect. However, that said, comparatively, CECT's Hiphone is more exquisite compared to older CECT cellular phones.

Not all the cell phones in HiPhone series are made similar to each other; among CECT's HiPhone replicas there are different models. relatively new models are the CECT Hiphone i9 and i9-3G. What is the difference between the 2 mobile phones?

Well, the two models are essentiallythe same phone in terms with external looks as i68. It is noteworthy that the latter is not actually a 3G phone as the word "3G" leads you to believe. The "3G" in the i9-3G only refers to the resemblance in the appearance to the iPhone 3G; the i9-3G phone has an openable and rounded back in two colors: white and black like the iPhone 3G. HiPhones range from $200 USD to $239 American dollars (plus $15 US dollars shipping) if bought from b2b wholesale marketplaces represented by DHgate from China.

SciPhone
The SciPhone, which is also deemed as the i68 or the Y32 iPhone clone, does a very passable job of imitating the iPhone as far as the outer look. Functions of Sciphone find their way in a quad-band GSM, a 3.2'' touch screen that supports multi-touch (the same as the iPhone) and an additional stylus to help input. The SciPhone has a less brilliant 1.3 megapixel camera (if compared to the 2.0MP camera of real iPhone), but support Bluetooth and an additional FM radio tuner application that other iPhone imitator family members have. The SciPhone, appearing succeeding the first HiPhone, presents smaller, thinner and more mature than older ones.

Akin to the LH01, the SciPhone is an iPhone clone that is known as the "mini iClone or "mini HiPhone" since it’s smaller than both the real iPhone and those full sized Apple iPhone replicas. Also, even more remarkable than the original iPhone it’s added with dual sim slots, a camera which also functions as a webcam. This mini HiPhone cost less than the HiPhone—coming in at approximately $150 American dollars.

CiPhone
And last but not least, a brief word on the CiPhone, known as the i88i as well. Of all the iPhone replicas out there, there is the least information about this one, probably due to the fact that it is not very sucessful. Yet, looking strictly at the functionality, it works on a quad-band GSM network. Like the Apple iPhone 3G, the Ciphone comes in two colors: black and white. Sort of smaller than the real iPhone screen (3.5 inches), the CiPhone's screen is 3.2 inches with only a 240 x 320 resolution. It's got all the usual functionality of iPhone clones with MP3 and MP4, polyphonic ringtones, et cetera. It's got the added characteristic of a radio (a feature which many iPhone critics say is lacking in the Apple iPhone). However it does lack WiFi that the iPhone has, offering only WAP Internet.