Top 5 Sony Clones This Year (So Far)

We’ve seem some excellent looking Shanzhai (fake,clone) products this year from a whole host of companies trying to imitate the most sought after gadgets and gizmos, but out of all of them it’s the Sony offs which really grab our attention. Here are our top 5 Sony clones for this year (so far) 4 of the listed are here for being genuinely good looking high quality products (despite the fake branding) and one is on the for the sheer cheek of it!

The only give away to this fantastically priced and well spec’d laptop not being a genuine laptop is the fantasy model number printed on it! If the company responsible had slapped a real model number on it, you would really find it difficult telling it from genuine. Full specs and of this 1500 Yuan ($225) laptop can be .

This knock off Sony Handy Cam HD-65 caught our attention back in August due to its HD quality video capture, 5 mega-pixel still camera, packaging and price. Read full details of this $150 here, complete with sample still shots.

Another Sony Laptop clone, but this time a 12.1 inch screened model. The manufacturers of this copy state it has taken 2 years from them to successfully produce a clone, and looking at the appearance it seems like a worthwhile wait! The branding is all Sony as is the packaging, but the 1500 Yuan price tag is distinctly Shanzhai. Full specifications and more photo of the Vaio can be seen here.

Although not really imitating the real Phone as well as the other Sony clones do in this list, the has made it on as it was released on sale only a matter of days after official of Sony’s planned Phone were published! It gets a 2 mega-pixel camera and built in NES emulator and costs around 400 Yuan.

Full details and photos of the Sony PSP Phone clone here.

Although not the only Vaio P on the market (, and ) this was one of the first to get on to shelves. Power and specification wise the can easily hold it’s own against the genuine Vaio P model, but does so at a fraction of the price.

Vaio P clones start from 1500 Yuan rising to 3000 Yuan. Full details can be read here, here and here.

With over a month left to the year lets see if the Shanzhai crowd can surprise us with more Sony knock off electronics.
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