By Chris Chang, posted Apr 22, 2010 at 2:00 AM, 2,144 views,

Android Running On iPhone Knockoff

We are glad that the iPhone knockoffs in China are not dead yet. Recently, the knockoff makers came out one with built-in Android OS. Almost all missing stuff on the original can be found on this iPhone knockoff. and it has something you have begging for since Apple’s iPhone was released.

This iPhone knockoff is named as “MiPhone A3″, don’t really know what the A3 stands for…

On the back, it really looks like the original with the curved-design finishing. And yup, it’s glossy and fingerprints are easily attracted to it. It also comes with 2 megapixel camera on the back. You get the power button and headphone jack on the top.

Stereo speakers are located on the bottom, and you can easily remove the back casing to access the SIM card and micro SD card slot (support up to 32GB).

The UI is specially modified to look like the iPhone OS. Don’t worry, it’s still Android 1.5 based.

You get a 3.4-inch Multi-Touch display (800×480) instead of 3.5 inch. Too bad, only simplified Chinese is available for the language choice for the UI. Anyway, it’s happy to see that it’s built-in with Wi-Fi and at the same time, it supports GSM, WCDMA and 3G networks.

All kinds of Android apps are supported on this iPhone knockoff but may not support new apps since it’s running Android 1.5

Up to 5 hours of talk time and up to 8 hours of standby time, it’s maybe an ideal backup phone in your life. It sells for $1580 RMB (about $230) and we are not sure what’s the capacity of storage in it. [M8cool and Shanzhaiji.cn]

One more thing, it has a front-facing camera that you are going to see on the upcoming iPhone 4G.