...and refuse to pay O2 and Apple an extortionate amount of beans for their iPhone and 18 month contract, i'm considering getting an iPhone clone.

Specifically the A88 Tri-Band.

You can see them being used here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQDjIQc_gq4

and here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Vq...feature=related


I've been looking around, and can get one for about £60 - £70

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Specifications are

3.2"WQVGA TFT Touch Screen
Mp3/Mp4 Video Player
Tri-band 900/1800/1900MHZ
Dual SIM PDA Mobile Phone
New fashion rocking switching function
Sliding Unlock
Large-capacity card-phone number
Comes with a Free 512MB Micro SD Storage card

Display: 3.2” TFT High-Resolution WQVGA display Screen, 260K colors, 240 X 400 pixel resolution

Unlocked Tri-band Phone

Connectivity and Data Transfer: Bluetooth 2.0, USB, GPRS class 10, WAP 2.0

Dual SIM card slots

Comes with a spare lithium battery so you don't have to worry about power

Ring tones Type: Polyphonic (64 channels), Monophonic, True Tones, MP3

Music player: Support MP3 player with mp3, midi, wav format

Movie player: Support 3GP/MP4 movie player with full-screen

Camera function: 2.0 Mega Pixel Digital Camera Built-in with video recording capability

Memory Type: Support Micro SD (T-flash card) expansion slot - up to 2GB

Interface: USB 2.0

Built-in hands free operation mode

Vibrate: Yes

Internet Browser (GPRS + WAP)

Java 2.0

Handwriting Recognition

Messaging: Email, SMS, MMS, EMS, SMS group send, Long text SMS

Cell phone Directory: Large Phone Book Memory capacity

Supports Caller Ringing / Caller Video Player

Game Supported with built in games

Calculator/world time/Unit Conversion/Currency Conversion/Calendar/Games

Stand-by time: Up to 150 hours

Talk time: 180min--300min

Complete English Interface (Default)

Dimension: 5.3 X 11.3 X 1.3mm

Weight: 107g

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Looks kind of cool, wouldn't mind one of those for myself.

Where you getting yours from?

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I remember the days we lived in shoe boxes and comunicated face to face.
These new fangled devices bah humgub.
i've got an mp3 player the size of wales, ppl look and stare i bought it 3 years ago out of argos 40 GB 50 quid, it fell out my pocket when i was wiping my arse into shitty water, it still works.
i have £50 phone it works.

What is my point?
fucked if i know

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Looks really cool. Where do you see it for £60-£70?

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I've only been looking around ebay, but a mate said he would dig out a website where he saw it for £50 plus £15 for shipping

Ebay shops are selling them for £60 - £80 brand new, but you need to pay shipping on top. Most are sent from Chinaland or Japan

link me do....

http://phones.search.ebay.co.uk/A88...orefinesearchZ1

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Why not buy the iphone for £170, you don't sign up for a contract there and then it only starts when you activate through itunes, then jailbreak/unlock with the freeware one click software thats out there and stick your own sim it?
Better than buying that generic chinese crap.
Just my 2 pissy pence.

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Originally posted by Gimp Mask
Why not buy the iphone for £170, you don't sign up for a contract there and then it only starts when you activate through itunes, then jailbreak/unlock with the freeware one click software thats out there and stick your own sim it?
Better than buying that generic chinese crap.
Just my 2 pissy pence.

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Originally posted by 404notfound
Because it doesn't work like that anymore. From what I understand, you have to buy the phone by debit card and if you don't subscribe, O2 will debit your card the full amount of the tariff. People got away with buying the phone with cash from Carphone Warehouse until O2 clamped down.

Besides....the legit one still costs 100 quid more, can't do mms and cant shoot video.

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It doesn't really make much business sense, they'd sell twice as many if they hadn't gayed up with O2 exclusivity.

I hate O2 so I say fuck em, Generic Chinese crap ftw.

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I dunno, imagine chattin up a woman and you have to use your phone, and she says "oh is that one of those fancy iphones?" do you tell her it's generic chinese crap or do you tell her it's an iphone. Just wouldn't Feel right using borderline fake goods.

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"Is that an Iphone?"

"Yes it is, you can't borrow it, get your knickers off"

End of conversation.

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Originally posted by cupidstunt
"Is that an Iphone?"

"Yes it is, you can't borrow it, get your knickers off"

End of conversation.

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Indeed

I've decided to go for one of these, just going to spend a few hours shopping around first. I have a 2GB SD card which is more than enough for my needs and it has the bonus of being able to send and receive MMS and also shoot video, which the iPhone can't. Plus a dual sim slot will come in handy.

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Originally posted by cupidstunt
"Is that an Iphone?"

"Yes it is, you can't borrow it, get your knickers off"

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PMSL i like that.

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Originally posted by 404notfound
Because it doesn't work like that anymore. From what I understand, you have to buy the phone by debit card and if you don't subscribe, O2 will debit your card the full amount of the tariff. People got away with buying the phone with cash from Carphone Warehouse until O2 clamped down.

Besides....the legit one still costs 100 quid more, can't do mms and cant shoot video.

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Originally posted by cupidstunt
"Is that an Iphone?"

"Yes it is, you can borrow it,

get your knickers off"

*knickers off*

hang on a minute this isnt a iphone
what type of cheap girl do you take me for ???

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Indeed

I've decided to go for one of these, just going to spend a few hours shopping around first. I have a 2GB SD card which is more than enough for my needs and it has the bonus of being able to send and receive MMS and also shoot video, which the iPhone can't. Plus a dual sim slot will come in handy.

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The whole knickers thing has really sold it for me

Are you getting it over eBay or did you get that magic link?

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The whole knickers thing has really sold it for me

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But men don't wear knickers!

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Ebay, I'm afraid. My mate found the link, but it was for the older model, the P168+ which you can see here....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZSJqKRqMIQ

...and isn't as good as the A88.

I'll let you know how I get on with using it to get into girls knickers

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who honours the warranty on these things ???

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who honours the warranty on these things ???

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