The less salubrious electronics markets of the Far East often turn up quite accurate looking - but ultimately shonky as anything - clones of popular handsets, with high-end Nokia’s being a favourite target for the dodgy duplicators.
This must be a first, though. The CECT K898 is a clone of the Nokia N97 - a phone that has never been officially announced by Nokia, nor seen in the wild.
Weirdly, the phone looks a lot like the N85, the patent for which was leaked earlier this year.
It is definitely one way of staying ahead of the competition. Perhaps we are about to witness a strange inversion of the market and the cloners will start innovating new hadnset designs that will then be slavishly copied by Nokia.
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