Keepin' it real fake, part CLXXXIX: meet the HTC A296 -- and its gaping maw

by Chris Ziegler posted Mar 6th 2009 at 1:41PM

We can totally picture this scenario at a bar, party, or Engadget reader meetup: "Hey, check out my Touch Diamond... oh, oh, wait, what's this? Wha-BAM!" Out comes the numeric keypad, right out of nowhere, accompanied by a sickeningly bad S60 knockoff interface. Observers are stunned, dumbfounded; some even pass out in shock. Babies are crying, you can hear the forlorned wail of sirens in the background, and mass riots ensue. Put simply, the world was never designed to handle a fake Touch Diamond with a slide-out keypad -- but you had to cross the streams, didn't you? Jerk.

[Thanks, Jack G.]

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, GSM

Tags: a296, htc, kirf, slider, touch diamond, TouchDiamond

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duswdav @ Mar 6th 2009 6:56PM

wha-bam!

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bensec @ Mar 6th 2009 8:33PM

am i the only person in this world who actually likes the chinese knockoff phones i mean they are some nice looking devices gprs not withstanding

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DK @ Mar 7th 2009 8:57AM

If a KIRF wasn't enough, incorporating a Ghostbusters reference... Brilliant!

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Omar @ Mar 7th 2009 12:23AM

How do these chinese manufactures get away with this stuff? Seriously? I'm tired of seeing all these fakes going around. Lets say I were given this phone as a gift, and I didn't anything about HTC or cell phones. And if the phone sucks, like crashes, quality of camera sucks, the build quality of the phone is not good, it overheats, or whatever the reason. The next time I go shop for a phone, I wouldn't want to get an HTC phone because of this bad experience, me not knowing the phone was a fake. So this would hurt HTC sales in general if this situation were to happen to many people. I just don't get how they keep coming out with mostly identical fakes carrying the same exact name and logo. This hurts HTC's image, so why don't they retaliate? /rant

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