SciPhone brings us one of the first Android dual-SIM phones available at the moment. (For a real quick unboxing video in French, scroll to the end of this post.) The SciPhone N21 has been available for a month now but we have yet to come across a video of the Android-based SciPhone. Beareyes, has an unboxing going on in their site. Oddly, Engadget’s logo makes a cameo (anyone know for what strange reason a test unit meant for Engadget ended up at this Chinese site, leave a comment below) on the packaging of this popular iPhone clone. SciPhone is one of the better-selling iPhone clones, though recently they have been gearing toward a more non-iPhone look, so adopting the Android OS shouldn’t be taken as a simple economic decision–SciPhone wants to strike out on its own.

SciPhone N21 uses a 624MHz of the Marvell PXA310 processor. It has a 3-inch touchscreen LCD, 5 MP camera, accelerometer, WiFi, Bluetooth and , of course, the dual-SIM slot.

Update: the official unboxing above was originally published by Engadget Chinese. They have more photos at the link.

The French unboxing of the SciPhone N21:

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We’ve known for months that SciPhone is interested in Google Android as an OS for its non-iPhone clone smartphones, such as the N12. We suspect that SciPhone will not stop on one Android phone in the market. And here they are with three new phones: N16, N17 and N19.

The report also included information on the possible launch of the SciPhone N12, which is October. The other phones with the known details follows:

N16: Touchscreen, Android OS, Marvell 624 MHz processor, GSM, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA, WiFi, built-in GPS, 3.2 MP camera, microSD

N17: touchscreen with ambient sensor, Android OS, GSM/EDGE, GPS, A-GPS, 3.2MP camera

N19 (above photo): touchscreen, Android OS, 400 MHz processor, nothing else is known.

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]]> http://www.pmptoday.com/2009/10/03/more-sciphone-models-to-run-android-n16-n17-n19/feed/ http://www.pmptoday.com/2009/10/03/great-tutorial-videos-for-cect-hiphone-and-sciphone-iphone-clones/ http://www.pmptoday.com/2009/10/03/great-tutorial-videos-for-cect-hiphone-and-sciphone-iphone-clones/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:25:00 +0000 BrianB http://www.pmptoday.com/?p=15976 Did you recently purchase a HiPhone or a SciPhone? How about a CECT Phone and a C-002 phone. These are among the most popular iPhone clones available and PMP Today has received its fair share of requests and complaints about them. Most complaints are about setup to U.S. wireless providers. Also, some iPhone clone owners bemoan the difficulty of using features such as MMS.

Below are some useful Youtube videos that helps you setup a CECT phone to a U.S. network. This may not work in all popular iPhone clones but in my experience they often use the same software and hardware parts. The videos can be found on this site.

Setup to AT&T


T-Mobile iPhone clone setup

Installing a JAVA .jar file on a CECT phone

More videos here.

The famous SciPhone i68, perhaps the most popular SciPhone out there, is now 3G connected… or is it?

Though the SciPhone i68+ 3G is a non-smart iPhone clone like its predecessor (it runs Nucleus) it’s a cheap phone that supports Java, Bluetooth 2.1, a 3.2-inch touchscreen and the look and feel of a “real” iPhone 3G shell. But don’t buy one of these for a lot more than $100–one of the reasons it’s kicking Meizu M8 butt.

It’s only 3G by name only, it seems, though it supports dual-SIM. You get cheated on battery life as well, because it has 1200mAH instead of the purported 1800mAh. Other fake stuff include the scientific calculator function (not a scientific calculator at all) and most everything in the user interface. Best price for the SciPhone i68+ 3G is around $90.

[via gadget.blog]

One of our readers has sent us a manual to the popular SciPhone i68, one of the most highly trafficked keywords here at PMP Today. We are posting it here because our readers have been asking for a SciPhone manual for the longest time. They’re also interested and so are we on an easy-to-read, in English, user manual for the HiPhone or other iPhone clones.

i68-user-manual-page

quick-start-guide-sciphone

Thanks to Ann White for the trouble. The SciPhone Mnual was based on the original provided by TomTop. For other iPhone clones like Sciphone visit this page (continuously updated).

Just when we thought HiPhone is winning the cloning wars by a huge margin, SciPhone suddenly made its biggest leap yet in cloning terms. First, the SciPhone N12 is the first SciPhone Nseries phone we’ve ever heard of and, second, it runs a genuine Android OS. Not only that, it’s got crazy specs like WiFi, GPS and CMMB TV support, powered by a 624MHz processor. Yes, it’s also 3G WCDMA. Wow. Price tag must be worth at least a Meizu M8, right? Well, no, because you can have this baby for 1600 yuan ($234). It should be out late this June. Apparently, M8cool is saying the SciPhone N12 has a virtual keyboard but a trackball is also provided for navigation. Well, aren’t you aching to see one in a demo video?

[via m8cool]

Specs of the SciPhone N12

• 3.2-inch touchscreen
• Marvell Monahands (624MHz) + Qualcomm MSM6246
• quadband GSM + WCDMA (3G)
• 3.2 MP camera
  
• WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth
• CMMB TV
• Available June 25

Another photo of the SciPhone N12, showing homescreen:

One of the most popular iPhone clones has big dreams about their Android-clone-running phone. SciPhone has just added WiFi to the G2 now calling it SciPhone Dream G2+. Wow, this is a big boost for SciPhone and its piece of the ever widening iPhone clone market (no stats here just speculation).

The Dream G2+ seems very well-featured for a $185 phone. Almost too good to be true:

• triband GSM, GPRS,WAP, EDGE, WiFi
• Android OS (we’re pretty stoked this could be real Google Android this time)
• 2.8-inch touchscreen QVGA screen
• PDA functionality (MS Office support)
• Bluetooth
• video and music file support
• games

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Right now sciphone and hiphone are our most consistently searched for keywords. With good reason, we think.

As hard as the exclusivity of the lone iPhone model to maintain, 3 new iPhones could mean triple the hassle for both Apple and wireless partners the world over.

Of course it all depends on how Apple feels about iPhone’s current market. Does it think it’s big enough and is it content with the additional revenue streams via the App Store?

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It’s been a while since we posted a decent iPhone clone. No idea whether GiPhone is related to HiPhone or SciPhone. I remember being told once these iPhone clones with iPhonesque names are all related to Cect phones. Anyway, what’s interesting about the GiPhone F5… well, the F5 has many interesting features: the white color, the “multi-finger”/ finger swipe support and the 16GB flash storage. The YouTube video leads to Banggood, an online wholesaler/ retailer but I can’t find the specific phone in there. If any one of you has more infor on the GiPhone, just drop us a comment or an email.

Update: readers have been asking if the GiPhone plays SNES games. We don’t know if it supports SNES but we’ll tell you when we the information reaches us; meanwhile, check out our iPhone clone page, and RSS us for updates.

Update 2: someone from Engadget, where this post was linked, found the HiPhone F5 with similar specs as the GiPhone. Go to Banggood.

The video after the break.

Conclusion: the fake Android OS looks like Android without the features of Android. It’s pure aesthetics without the usability of the open mobile OS developed by Google. Curiosly, SciPhone even faked the megapixel count of the 4 MP camera built into the Dream G2. Just about a 2 MP, really. No WiFi, no Android, some Java apps, Bluetooth, Opera Mini, GSM/GPRS only mediocre video playback, has album art… Price is $165.

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