China Gets Android-Based iPhone Clone
The release of the Motorola Droid last week is going to create a tough dilemma for many consumers. Should you embrace Android, an open-source OS running on a phone carried by Verizon? Or should you go with the state-of-the-art iPhone, whose platform is tightly controlled by Apple, but nonetheless still has the greatest versatility to date with 100,000 apps and counting?
What if you could have both?
Demonstrated in the video above is an Android-powered iPhone knockoff produced by counterfeiters in China. It’s appropriately (and hilariously) named the “Aphone.” Running Android 1.5, the Aphone features a 2-megapixel camera, a scroll wheel replacing the iPhone’s Home button, and a 3.5-inch touchscreen that appears to be extremely sluggish with responding to gestures.
