Did Apple’s Cheaper iPhone Kill Off The Bootlegs? No Way! (AAPL)

By Dan Frommer

Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 3G — subsidized in many countries to reasonable prices, like $199 in the U.S. — hasn’t done a thing to kill off the bootleggers.

Behold, the next gadget we need to get our hands on — the $140 Sciphone i68, available… somewhere in China, according to the email we just received from our “friend” Kevin Lee.

It doesn’t seem to have 3G access, but will let you use two SIM cards at once, sports a removable battery, and do photo messaging. (Nothing about copy and paste, though…)

Dear Friend:
Do you want get one IPHONE? then please follow me.
Seanee offers Tri-bands mobile phone, Quad-band mobile phone, watch mobile phone, & bluetooth mobile phone, & MP3/MP4 mobile phone, & touch screen mobile l phone. We also offer TV mobile phone and dual SIM working mobile phones, also N95
Attached you may find the JPG photo of this Sciphone I68. (Price :USD140)Which main functions are:
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900Hz. (4band)
Sciphone i68 has new features

such as 8GB memory expansion, dual sim dual standby.
1. Dual sim working at the same time.
2. Bluetooth (stereo, remote control)
3. Rotating image with moving
4. Unlock with sliding
5. Changing the position of image when playing film
6. Battery can be removed
7. E-book reader
8. Language: English/French/Arabic/Russian/Viatnamese/Portugues/Spanish/German
9. 8GB memory expanded is supported.
Features:
1. 3.5 inch screen, 16 million color QVGA; PX: 320*240
2. Bluetooth 2.0
3. T-Flash Card Suphporting, 256 MB TF for free
4. 0.3 Mega pixel camera for Picture & Video capability, put out biggest size is 640*480
5. Stereo Loud speaker, 64 chord ring tone
6. MP3 & MP4 player
7. GPRS & WAP connectivity, MMS Transceiver
8. U disk support function to keep the information storage
9. Calendar, To do list, Alarm, World Clock, Spotwatch
10. Caller Ring Tone, Caller picture, Caller video
11. Telephone directories: 500 groups of contacts, support incoming call with big head sticker, group ring an Messages &Multimedia messaging: 200 SMS, support MMS; Can use downloaded MP3 as SMS rings

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