Posted by Sammy_boy
*See the pictures on the second page I've just done comparing the Ricson K610i with a genuine
K610! 
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You can keep your N95s, W880is, K810is, I've got the mighty Ricson K610i phone from China!
Curiosity got the better of me - I went and bought one for Ģ40 off a UK seller just to see what it was like, and this is what I found out:
The phone does look very much like the
K610i!
That 'fun' logo looks strangely familiar.... It's been pinched from the 'Samsung Fun Club' logo!
And that menu looks familiar too - another Samsung rip off!
The back says a 2 megapixel camera...
.... but let's just take a look at one of those pictures, taken at it's highest 'resolution'...
... it's only about 30k or so in size - and only at VGA resolution!
Someone's been telling porkies! 
And is it just me or does that picture look a bit fuzzy?
I'm wondering now whether those Chinese copies with tempting prices and sometimes better specs on paper are worth going for, they use cheaper components, and could well be lying about the phone specs. And of course no Bluetooth, or even Infra-red, though transferring files to the phone is fairly easy via USB as it just recognises it as a removable drive, it came with a 256Mb mini-SD card, but that took a bit of fiddling to get the phone to recognise it - a cheap mem card reader?
Anyone else had any experiences with these Chinese copies?
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Posted by maggflodd
boohooooohooo...it's the mpeg4-model! I wanted the divx-610i
Posted by goldenface
Thats absolutely scandalous!
It has reminded me of another thread on here featuring chinese pirated goods with everything from cars to, well everything.
Posted by PeterKay
WTF
Posted by Horonaim
LoL! what a joke.
Posted by Sammy_boy
It's quite ironic that it seems to pinch rather a lot from Samsung, it also came with a Briteny Spears track on it - surely a breach of copyright as phone was bought new so can't have been put on by a previous user?
Posted by amawanqa
LMAO, this just gets funnier and funnier.. :-D
This message was posted from a P900
Posted by goldenface
On 2007-04-13 13:06:31, Sammy_boy wrote:
.... it also came with a Briteny Spears track on it - ...
Did it sound like it was the real Britney?
Posted by BobaFett
love the brand name "ricson"...
er-ricson
Posted by QVGA
whats the res. of that screen? 50x50?
Posted by BobaFett
that loudspeaker on the back looks like an old shower-head
Posted by antichrist
50x50? damn you are very optimistic !!
Posted by BobaFett
aaaaahhhh, forget 610, GET THE 810 of ricson
http://cgi.ebay.ie/RICSON-810[....]eNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Posted by Evil Eye
f**kin' sexy! lmao
Posted by antichrist
for 24 pounds you get a 1,5" screen and the ability to play mp3 and mp4!!! omg!!
Posted by oscbarv
Looks like it is: cheap. As some people have said: Ricson comes come from "Ericsson". The style comes from SonyEricsson K610, that's right. And The word "Fun"...they didnīt even change the colors of that Samsung's mark!. It's an strange hybrid.
Pictures...2 Mp?. Never. 3 year-old Nokia 6230 takes better pictures within VGA camera.
And something I have never understood: why those stubborn chinese ones do keep using that old-looking, old-fashioned and ugly font style in their devices (some cell phones and low range mp3 and mp4 players)???
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Posted by Sammy_boy
I think the screen res is something like 128x160! I've often wondered why they insist on that old fashioned font too, looks very outdated!
It's the real briteny track and not a rip off, though there is a rip off of that 'numa numa' song on there!
Yes, that camera isn't the best, I've got a Moto V3 and will post a pic from that for comparison.
Another annoyance I've found is that you can't add words to the T9 dictionary, you have to type unknown words th old fashioned way.
It is though quite a slim and light phone, feels ince in the hand, though that could be the lack of proper features!
Posted by driftmania
make way for the iPhone!!!
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Posted by Trev1982
them phones are a great thing for kids to be playing about with saves them throwing your brand new phone across the room, ( the little twats) lol
Posted by Sammy_boy
Just for comparison here's a picture of the same area that I took with a rather scratched V3 with over 2,100 hours on the clock:
To me the picture quality is better on the V3 pic - and yes, that is my foot in the corner of the pic!
This 'K610i' does record video too - but for some reason saves it in a .vid format with a sound file next to it from what I can see - very strange!
Posted by Sammy_boy
Alas, the Ricson K610i is just too much phone for me, so is up for sale on Ebay, either have a bid or buy it now for Ģ39.99 - click the link in my sig to find the auction!
Spamming and blatent plugging aside, I've just recieved and fixed a genuine
K610i, so thought before the Ricson goes I'd post some comparison pics:
The K610i could do with a new housing, so bear that in mind:
Next few pics show the difference in thickness of the two phones, surprisingly the Ricson phone is actually thinner:
Tell me what you think!
Posted by brix25
Can't the WTO do anything about this and what about
lawyers? If this happened anywhere else in the world you'd wake up the next morning with a heavy law suit hanging over your head.
Posted by max_wedge
hey if it detects as a normal usb drive, that may mean it's fully usb2 compliant. This thing's cable connection may run at 480Mbps! That would be it's only advantage of K610
Posted by ambyzown
We have chinese versions of any conceivable bestseller phone being sold in shops here. P990i, M600i, K750i, W800i, N72, N70, D520...... The list is endless.
Funny, but these imitations look sleeker than the originals. The chinese P990 for instance is thinner than the original, and comes in shinny stainless steel and black keys.
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Posted by Marly
There's also a copy of the N91, which isn't as huge as the real one, just take a look at miss uk's thread :
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=147569&start=75
Posted by max_wedge
On 2007-05-19 14:10:10, ambyzown wrote:
We have chinese versions of any conceivable bestseller phone being sold in shops here. P990i, M600i, K750i, W800i, N72, N70, D520...... The list is endless.
Funny, but these imitations look sleeker than the originals. The chinese P990 for instance is thinner than the original, and comes in shinny stainless steel and black keys.
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they are smaller, because they have cheaper hardware and less features and lower specs than the originals. For example the "K610" has no bluetooth, no IR and a VGA camera (a vga camera module is half the volume of a 2MP version). So they are gonna be smaller! But I bet when you hold one it feels a hell of a lot more flimsy and cheap than a real K610
Posted by Sammy_boy
Actually, the 'K610' doesn't feel too flimsy, the chassis/facia does have a reasonable quality feel about them, though as stated the actual components are rather cheap. I tried recording a video with the phone, and looking in the file folders it seems to have saved the 'video' in some strange format, with the audio in one file and images in another if I've read it right?
It does seem to auto-recognise as a USB drive, though not checked as to whether it's USB 2 or not, though when connected to a non-USB2 connector I don't get the usual Windows 'This device could operate faster' bubble!
Posted by max_wedge
On 2007-05-19 16:33:59, Sammy_boy wrote:
Actually, the 'K610' doesn't feel too flimsy, the chassis/facia does have a reasonable quality feel about them, though as stated the actual components are rather cheap. I tried recording a video with the phone, and looking in the file folders it seems to have saved the 'video' in some strange format, with the audio in one file and images in another if I've read it right?
It does seem to auto-recognise as a USB drive, though not checked as to whether it's USB 2 or not, though when connected to a non-USB2 connector I don't get the usual Windows 'This device could operate faster' bubble!
fair enough about it not feeling flimsy. In the pictures the K610 looks more accurate and finely molded than the "610".