Whenever there is a beautiful device by some big company, Chinese manufacturers try to encash the device’s success by making a KIRF( Keeping It Real Fake).
KIRF’s are phones which look very familiar to the actual device, including the phone’s branding and design, but are no match for the user experience and construction quality of the actual one.
Today itself, when I went to get my mobile phone talk-time topped up, I came across a KIRF which at first look bluffed me and made me believe that it was an actual Nokia N9. But, one close look and it’s truth was revealed.
The phone mimics Nokia N9 in terms of the horizontal slab-like design that Nokia has incorporated in N9, Lumia 800 and the newly announced Lumia 900. But, the phone is made up of cheap plastic and runs some crappy OS which is nowhere near (my favourite) Meego.
Here are some pics of the KIRF device and see it for yourself.
KIRF’s are phones which look very familiar to the actual device, including the phone’s branding and design, but are no match for the user experience and construction quality of the actual one.
Today itself, when I went to get my mobile phone talk-time topped up, I came across a KIRF which at first look bluffed me and made me believe that it was an actual Nokia N9. But, one close look and it’s truth was revealed.
The phone mimics Nokia N9 in terms of the horizontal slab-like design that Nokia has incorporated in N9, Lumia 800 and the newly announced Lumia 900. But, the phone is made up of cheap plastic and runs some crappy OS which is nowhere near (my favourite) Meego.
Here are some pics of the KIRF device and see it for yourself.
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