RumourMill: iPhone clamshell clone takes a bite out of the Apple

A third party company has created an unauthorised clamshell version of the iPhone for sale in China, whoever said clams and apples wouldn’t mix.

One of the most interesting leaks of late came to us from the mobile phone news website site shanzhaij, with images that are truly amazing and we hope are for real.

They’ve compared it to a crosspollination between the Motorola RAZR V8 and the iPhone; we can see where they were going with this.

Obviously Apple will have nothing to say or to do with the handset and we won’t even waste our time trying to get a response from them.

However, it’s interesting to think; why wait around for someone to create a phone you’d like, just commission some smart engineers and have your own bespoke one made up.

Known only as the iPhone V126 (so are there 125 more handsets in the series?), it appears to even be running a ported version of the Apple OS.

How this was achieved is anyone’s guess, but good on them.

We’ve got some basic spec’s from a rough translation of the website, so we could be way off base here. The iPhone V126 measures up being 105 x 53 x 17mm, weighing in at 110grams.

They’ve (who ever they are) have managed to fit in a 2.6-inch screen, with a resolution of 240 x 320 and a 3MP camera.

Also it appears to be just a GSM based handset, but really, who are we to criticise. If someone goes to all the trouble of making a handset like this we just have to applaud them.