Top 8 Apple Clones This Year (so far!)

It’s been a monster year for and in turn the industry which has grown up around copy and cloning them. Keep reading to see our favourite iPad, Air, Pro and iPod from this year. This version of the came at the time I was trying my best not to label every new tablet device as an clone, but as you can tell by the it was just impossible not to cry ‘clone’ after seeing this. The measure a little smaller than the at 8 inches, but what it lacks in size it makes up in shear rip off. The body is the same alloy glass mix with huge bezels and home button as the real . The Android O.S is skinned to mimic iO.S and the packaging is just an box, with branding! .

Not only does this 1380 Yuan ultra thin netbook look remarkably similar to the new generation of Air, but it also has it’s own Steve Jobs lookalike on the advertisement! The model we covered actually measures 10 inches (so an inch smaller than the new 11 inch Air) and has some great features such as SD card reader, 2 x USB, HDMI out plus a weight of only 1.1 kg!

White Macbook Clone

Not the most desirable of Macs the white Macbook seems to be the latest edition to the Shanzhai portfolio. The 13.3 inch laptop is actually a very accurate copy of the real Macbook with only a few tell tail discrepancies such as the head phone and Mic plugs being on the front of the machine, the inclusion of an SD card reader and VGA plug and DVD draw loader rather than slot loader.
The DVD drive is actually removable and can be replaced with an extra battery to double your productivity time while away from home or the office.
The specifications are welcome surprise on this clone too as they seem to be Hackintosh friendly!
More details on the White Macbook clone here.

Another Air clone, but this of the older model and with a larger 14 inch screen and running OSX 10.6.3! Not only does the alloy bodied really look the part (as long as you ignore the Windows key) it costs an extremely reasonable 2600-2800 Yuan depending on the size of hard drive and amount of RAM you spec. Go

Although not the best quality in the world these 90+ Yuan iPod Nano 6 do have colour touch screens, alloy bodies with clothes clips and do an ok job of playing music, the odd video and if you have excellent eyes reading an ebook! But for 90 Yuan they do make good stocking fillers! .

Just recently we reported on the daddy of of Mac laptops getting a good old cloning, but not content with go partial copy the company responsible have gone ‘Full Shanzhai’! With an logo adorning the lid of this alloy unibody Pro . What’s more this thing runs OSX 10.6 out of the box and costs considerably less than the original!

Looking just like the older white iMac this does a superb job of fooling all but the most hardened Mac fans. The exterior gets either a 18.5 inch or 21 inch LCD screen with built in faux iSight camera. On the rear there are USB plugs and other expansion areas, but the unit is missing a DVD/CD drive. The best thing about these knock offs though was the price! 1600 Yuan for the 18.5 model !

Believe it or not but I almost published this article without mentioning one of the hundred of iPhone 4 clones! There are so many to choose from but our fave for the year has to be this Android iPhone 4 . Not only do these knock offs look surprisingly good, but they also sport features which are able to rival the original iPhone 4 plus some nice extras, like SD card reader, we’re never likely to see from a real iPhone! Check out our Android running iPhone 4 articles and here (with video).

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