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Just got a brand new HPM-70 for £4 . fake? |
ehosin
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Today I went to the o2 shop and had a look at the HPM-70 headset (the one which comes with the W800i), £29.99 - no thankyou.
There was a market nearby with a mobile stall...out of interest I asked the trader if he had "W800i earphones" - so he pulls out a OEM HPB-60 (K750i earphones) from a box and says £8... I say no thankyou... he says "but this is original!". He then says... I also have this for £4 - an OEM-looking HPM-70 wrapped in a plastic bag thing. I think to myself... a HPM-70 for £4?!?!!?! even on ebay from hong kong they cost at least £15... so i decided to buy it. I noticed that it didnt come with any replacement (different sized) earplugs as they usually do.
I havent had a chance to actually try it out because I sent off my K750i to o2 for repair...
On close inspection the headset seems fine, but the plastic chassis of each earphone is sort of loose...im not sure whether this is common with all HPM-70s? Also the "walkman" writing on the microphone seems a bit poor... again not sure whether this is common with all HPM-70s...
Enclosed are some pictures...
Any opinions?
EDIT: The sony ericsson logo just fell off the left earphone.. doesnt look too promising
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whistla
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My hpm-70 has a circuit inside the little connector bit whereas your just seems to be a load of wires going from one side to the other with nothing attached to a borad of some sort.
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Sammy_boy
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Sounds suspiciously cheap, I suspect it's a very good looking Far Eastern fake one! How's the sound quality, that's often a big giveaway!
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wrecked_porsche
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Well, at least you've got the adaptor now, that means you can now use any headphones of your choice.  |
baste07
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id say it is a fake one |
IRFCA_WDG-3A
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If the sound quality is as good as original enough and it doesn't feel like it'll fall apart at the slightest usage, it's perfectly okay to have a £4 fake - i'd buy it any odd day!
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ehosin
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If... it doesn't feel like it'll fall apart at the slightest usage
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heh well it's a bit too late for that now... as i posted earlier the sony ericsson logo fell off each ear, and the earphone casing completely split as i tried to take off the rubber plug... but that wasn't a problem... some super glue did the trick
As far as sound quality goes, at low volumes its a bit tinny, but at a high enough volume the sound quality is decent, if not a little bit too much bass
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madkat
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I got this
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBay[....]ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=016
£6.50 and following the tip here I opened the mic and found the circuitboard inside. It also came with other sizes of ear plugs and the little light-green tag by the connector with a serial number on it: 1068928.
Looks good. Shame my W550i had a problem with only playing on the right channel and has had to go back for repair!! |
Hammer2006
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Genuine ones come with a little tag attached to the cable (near the phone plug) with serial numbers etc.If it hasnt got that its will be fake but do bear in mind these little fakers in the far east have probably cottoned on and now fit the tag.
Btw i bought 2 sets (one black and one silver) recently for £8 each and if these were fakes they were bloody good ones cos from my experience owning a !00% genuine set (paid over £20 for a blistered pack) i couldnt tell the differences by looking at them and they sound exactly the same also. |
baste07
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definitely a fake |
ashg77
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I got one from ebay for £7 and if it is a fake I certainily can not tell from the build quality and sound quality. |
altemyr
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On 2006-12-04 19:41:04, Hammer2006 wrote:
Genuine ones come with a little tag attached to the cable (near the phone plug) with serial numbers etc.If it hasnt got that its will be fake but do bear in mind these little fakers in the far east have probably cottoned on and now fit the tag.
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That little tag can be faked too. I have a couple of such earphones, the tag looks OK, and it came with three sets of earbuds, and it came in a platic wrapping that looked vey much SonyEricsson original, with instructions leaflet and all, and I bought it in a store that I wold not suspect of selling non-original parts, but if I compare the earphones with the ones that came with my daughter's W300, I notice that the cables are much stiffer on my earplugs than on hers, which is much more flexible. THerefore, I'm beginning to suspect that mine are not original after all, or maybe they just came from a bad batch. Like with the firmware releases, there probably exists a constant product development and improvement on hardware like earplugs as well. |
k4m!k4ze
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This is definitely fake, i bought one for almost the same price price too and it didnt come in some plastic cover like how u got it, it came in packing which was exactly like SE's packaging.... too late i found out it was fake only after testing it and hearing the audio quality.
The ear plugs were also a bit stiff. and the internal wiring was same as the pics you've posted.
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