It was only a matter of time before the BlackBerry Z10 clones started to come out of China. This one was found on eBay, running Android 4.0. As you might expect, the specs aren't exactly impressive: 1 GHz processor, 256 MB of RAM, 2 megapixel camera, and an 800 x 480 3.5-inch display. Quad-band GSM is supported for 850/900/1800/1900 MHz through twin SIM slots, plus Wi-Fi b/g/n. At least you get some earbuds with the thing.
Bidding sits at around $56 so far, and it's hard not to be tempted to bid out of sheer morbid curiosity. Exactly how badly could this thing run? How much like a real Z10 could this feel like?
Now we've got to keep our eyes out for some Q10 and Q5 knock-offs...
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Android-powered BlackBerry Z10 knock-off hits eBay
Hardly worth it now a large UK retailer has Z10 at £150 (that's roughly US$225)
Sadly, most people wont even know it is a BBRY knock off, because they have never had the pleasure of the real BB10 experience.
This falls under the category KIRF (Keepin' It Real Fake)...... This is still not as bad as the Chinese knock-off Lumia 1020, which features a "41 megaplxel" (yes that's the spelling on it) speaker.
http://petapixel.com/2013/09/08/ridiculous-lumia-1020-knockoff-boasts-41...
WOW anything that looks like a Z10 running Android is an insult to BB10 and its genius OS design.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery
LOL auction has been removed...
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Also, it's probably got a listening device inside it.
JB
Posted from my brain to your screen via CBQ10
The China should never made a nock off of the blackberry Z10, Q10, Q5 what the blackberry should do start taking them to court like Apple did with Samsung
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You think Obama and his ilk are spying on you just think what the commies will be downloading off of everyone of these crap phones they are making.
Would you want a fake girl or a real girl? Real girl cuz she is a thing of beauty. Gotta love the Z.
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Hey China! Have you looked at the market here for Bridge to BB10? And BB10 for the Playbook? Throw some of that around and see if it will stick!
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iWant !!
Imitation = the greatest form of flattery...
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Why?? oh WHY!? That's grouse! Android on a fake z10! Blaaaaaaahh
We need tool, not toys.
I would buy it just to get APK's.
Via CB 10 on my T-Mobile Z10
It's better to shifted to the clone one! So that atleast we can enjoy some apps which is cannot provide by blackberry. Honestly, I like the design of z10 but when it comes for apps? You have to improve your apps which is your clients everyday use.
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LOL! China can do everything! Nothing is impossible in China
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It cost 65usd android 2.3 256of ram bad device
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It's made for poor Chinese consumers who can't afford the real thing, not for the rest of the world. I'm glad people still want to pretend to be using BlackBerry!
So that means the phone is popular enough to make a copy. Im glad i got a real one
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Hahaha china as always
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Yikes! Made in China it is! Haha..
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Item has been removed from ebay.
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Despicable!
Posted via CB with STL100-2
Nice maybe better then BlackBerry at upgrading
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At least it offer a dual SIM, thing that is impossible to get from the major Market players outside China and India.
You can buy clones of just about any phone in China. including the Iphone. In the past I saw a 9800 clone there. They sell these fakes to people who want the real deal but do not have enough money for them. The person uses the fakes until they can save enough to buy the real one. I saw many Iphones being smuggled in prior to the Iphone being sold in china. They were so hungry for the Iphone that they were buying fake copies to use. I doubt if BB will do anything because it will be nearly impossible to identify where these are being manufactured. It seems when you have inexpensive copies China seems to igonore it and figure if you are stupid enough to buy it then you deserve what you get. The really good fakes are the ones that they focus on stopping when they decide to actually do something.
S/he must think this whole country is stupid.
Someone needs to buy this hahah
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I'll get one and review it, loool.
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I loved that 'will it blend' comment!
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Trade-mark and industrial design infringement suit incoming... Or maybe not, BlackBerry doesn't have a history of trying to beat the competition through litigation.
Posted via CB10 on Z10
This is the real deal.
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Could be a good thing. Free promotion and ppl may want to know more about the real thing.
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Ew to the copy and the spec just sound horrible lol
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Does it have netflix?
Ewwwhhhh... The Horror!!!
Even though, we have on of the best uprising apps (BlackBerry 10), I Hope blackberry will come with 10.2 to wipe all our frustrations in sideloading apps.... #android
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I bet these are the specs BlackBerry wanted to release for the z10. Having 2gb of ram probably killed them "ah gawd we are at industry standard"
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If you think that the NSA is bad for intercepting electronic data, this knock-off probably has a direct link to the Chinese intelligence service!
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KIRF, as they call them.
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China only know how to copy and paste..lol
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I bet they would want snowden to have one.
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What the point... if it's not bb10 OS then it's not for me ! ! . . #teamblackberry
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Crackberry, you should bid on it and do a video comparing it to a real z10! that would be interesting :)
I would not trust anything coming from
China
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The only use i could see for this thing is a way of getting at apk files...
(The issue i habe with bluestacks ist that it aitonatically loads at boot with no proper facility to switch it off)
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That's awfully awful
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Well, it runs more apps than my real z10 and that's the real tragedy here.
BB10 has BlackBerry Balance, why can't they find a way to dual boot bb10 and Android?
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Will probobly outsell the real z10
Ahh my eyes! My toaster gets better specs.
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Will it blend?
Damn Chinese people!
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If a q10 knockoff came out with android I'm buying it
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Aside from the general shape, this phone is really not like the Z10.
- All ports are either not there (HDMI, speaker) or not at the same location (USB)
- The camera is on the top bezel, not below it
- The speaker is not the same shape as the Z10
- The phone is thicker
- The BlackBerry logo has one more bit to it, so it's not the same
- Camera and flash are located at an uber-bad ans ugly place
- Specs are way lower, 2010-like
So yeah, it had been copied, whatever.
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F A I L
Kill Confirmed ...via CB10
And with the way patent laws work in China BlackBerry will have trouble getting it off the market.
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Most of you are not seeing the bigger picture here:
This is one of the best pieces of news I have seen this quarter!
Isn't name recognition in China a current problem? Well, this will mitigate that! I hope it gets 'launched' in other countries as well. Forget the specs, name brand is what counts.
Go (BlackBerry?)!
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And when this thing turns out to be a malware riddled POS, BlackBerry should take the fall for it in the minds of the consumer foolish enough to buy this? I don't think so...
If I were part of BlackBerry management I'd be unleashing the lawyers, as well as the Canadian government, all over this. Sadly, with China's complete lack of IP laws, this kind of thing is possible.
Because of iPhone's success before China made the iPhone's clone "Goophone". So right now they've made the clone of BlackBerry Z10.
Now waiting for an imitation Q10.
It's pretty easy to make imitation phones in China as the hardware came as a standard kit, all they need is to make a casing for it.
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The model is actually the Z10 and it appears to have a Blackberry symbol on the back of it.
This is just bad.......
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Sorry state of affairs.
Ahhhh so now we can say BB Z10 is a success, they wouldn't copy if it wasn't a success phone :D lol
Ain't nobody got time for that! LOL!!!!
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Lol... poor man's bbry z10... only for people who want a bbry z10 but can't afford it...
Sent by Bbry Z10
Very well. That proves the popularity of Z10. A phone won't be successful without a clone from China indeed.
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Need to blow up that POS!
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All I can say is not surprised lol
Lol
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Only in China they get away ripping off other companies products bec they can't be original or be innovative enough to come up with their own!!!
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pretty awesome... shows blackberry still is a sought after hp
Of course, most likely no FCC approval, so use in the States at your own risk.
Buy one CrackBerry! I wanna see a review! :)
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+1
Come on Kev!! You HAVE to grab this.
Posted from the CB App on my White Zed 10
It has the logo on the back! How does eBay or sellers get away with this?
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The logo is not quite the same rofl
Nice someone will buy it and complain that it is not working like the real Zeeeee 10. Gimme the real thing.
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What's a zeee 10?
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Same thing I ask when people say they have a zed 10. It's Z10...
Posted without the aid of AutoCorrect with my physical keyboard via CB10
It is a "zed" 10 since that is how Z is pronounced.
Posted via CB10
He's American... they go with 'Zee' not 'Zed'.
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American alphabet: A, B, C, D, ..., X, Y, C...? Makes sense. :P
My next phone after A10, just.
You can guess! :). I'm sure now that Zed 10 will be eventually a big success!
A Q10 with android running would be even quite interesting.
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If i had the money i would buy it for the "Sheer morbid curiosity"...
my old htc had 512mb en was dualcore and was to slow for android, this is to try about
The closed system of iPhone would be the end of iPhone and the open os system of android would be the end of Android. Smh.
Well people have been asking for a BlackBerry running on Android. Here's their chance to buy one.
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Aww yeahh, bootleg products son!
Haha that's disgusting
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Looks nice
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Head to head tests reveal that this cheapo device crushes the Z10 in all major benchmarks [plus has far more apps]
I doubt that with 256MB of ram and who knows what GPU that it would "crush" anything.
i'll use it to crush peanuts...
You can try but that knock off might not even be able to crush peanuts maybe grapes (or maybe a "Jellybean")
Posted via CB10 on my Z10
256MB of RAM on Android 4.0. Don't waste your money.
Posted from my Zed 10
China = duplicate expert of duplication :(
Posted via CB10
Sorry folks! I can't see anything like our Z10. Take it easy.
the future is easy because it doesn't exist
Wait...isnt it powered by Android???
This knock off yes. The BlackBerry Z10 no.....
Posted via CB 10 on my naked Z10 ;)
Guess I will get a clone of myself too.
Posted via CB10
Starts bedding as well for 58$? ;-)
the future is easy because it doesn't exist
Janky Zandroid 10s. Hilarious!!!
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Hey. Shows that the z10 design is is worth copying!
Where's my FULL BRIDGE Mr. Heins? Please return it!
I was about to say the same thing. People don't make forgeries of something people don't want in the first place.
BlackBerry Z10 | Verizon | 10.1.0.4633
Want.
as mp3 player...
Good luck, you get what you pay for. Avoid at all costs!
"nade in china" !!!! Epic fail !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Made in China : Like most of electronic products from the shelves!
Failure : not sure, and you are always get what you pay for!
That Z has something extra and something missing. Really close though.
it has three things missing. USB port, HDMI port and speaker at the bottom. Also has a button on the left side. according to this photo.
Lmao! wow Bootleg Nation!SMFH
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thats awesome
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
LOLOLOL!!! Tell that to the victims of identity thief
I wouldn't be surprised to find it loaded with malware.
I would be surprised if it WASN'T loaded with malware...
Sad.... no one can match the Z!
Posted via my super-duper Z10
Ewwwwww!! Gimme my real z10!
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Tragic
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Makes sense. Then you don't have to sideload apps.
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LOL :)
Would to still need to side load apps! BlackBerry 10 apps that is!!! Lmao Need a converter from bar to apk!
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great.
What's more tragic is these knock-offs soon enough will have BBM on board, meanwhile BlackBerry PlayBook...
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Whats even more tragic is that they stuck an outdated version of android on it. It's 2013, Put Android 4.3 on it.
Lol! So true.
Posted while peeking and flowing on my incredible BBQ10!