I just bought the i9 3G (apple iphone copy / clone) from a guy on craig’s list just after christmas (him and his business buddies have alot of ads on there)… I spent all night and all day today trying to figure it out. The manual that comes with it is absolutely useless so you better have experience with multiple cell phones in the past to figure it out. I am still figuring this thing out so if anyone can correct anything I list please do as you may answer a question I am trying to get an answer to.

They say it’s an “Exact” copy of the apple iphone but it’s not “Exact” there is a lot of things missing and the displays & functions are different and its not super easy to navigate through.

Things missing (some items are not really important though):
GPS, iTunes, App Store, YouTube, Stocks, scientific calculator (due to no tilt function). The manual also says it comes with “several” games but it only comes with one puzzle game.

Things that are different in function, view, or application:
iPod (not an ipod you can just upload music to the music player), calculator (not scientific or tilt function), text messaging (this function is extremely annoying/frustrating and difficult to navigate through and the set up is quite different and cant find the automatic dictionary/spelling function and doesn’t do text and numbers in the same text function option, meaning you have to scroll to find the numbers option to enter a number within your message, you will also have to rely on the stylus a lot.), Keyboard buttons and scroll bars are very small and difficult to use (comes with stylus but there is no slot for storage), safari is called service and takes you to sub menus wap… calendar display is different, at first I didnt thing the photo album had the finger touch zoom in capabilities.. just discovered it works with photos I uploaded to my phone.. the pictures I took with the built in camera wasn’t doing zoom when I originally was playing with it. The phone also takes you to submenus to view photo (etc.) instead of just clicking on picture (etc.) to select , phone book contacts don’t allow you to add personalized photos and if stored on the sim card you can only select a name and one phone number.. to get more categories to organize your contacts it has to be stored on the phone directly. Comes with multiple languages so it’s very annoying when texting and you have to scroll through all the languages to select other options (because you can not do numbers and letters in the same input method and you cant delete the other languages).

Some good things:
-Price only because no data plan is required.
-Sound quality is good (talking, so far)
-Support two sim cards so if you tend to have a personal phone and a business phone you can consolidate them into one phone and use them individually. I am not sure if iphone has this option.

Some not so good things:
-I feel its slow (touch function)
-Doesn’t have exact features I liked about the iphone
-Not 100% satisfied as it doesn’t live up to what I was told and have read on their website but only reason I have it is due to price and no data plan needed.
-Touch Function can be finicky.
-FM radio not that clear, very finicky.
-Calendar is one thing I was really finicky about and it’s not to my liking, notes is not simple (view wise) like the iphone, very difficult to view (so spread out and view on note/task at a time and have to scroll to see any info). Repeat does not allow bi-weekly… only options are once, everyday, days, weekly & monthly.
-The camera location is further away from the edge of the phone so the silicone cases cover up the lens. (I have even looked on ebay for an i9 cover and if you look closely at the pictures you can see they will not even work with this phone).
-I have small fingers and its even hard for me to select options, even with use of the stylus it can be difficult too.
-The clock was a bit of a pain to set up as they dont have am or pm so you have to select 12hr view but enter in 24hr style. Note: if time is not viewing correctly turn phone to update time automatically and turn phone on and off to register the update .

Questionable things:
-[Althought I wan’t counting on any warranty as it was a Craig’s list seller and I know better than that, lol] Say one year guarantee and 100% satisfaction guarantee but no paperwork is exchanged only a business card which looks iffy anyways. He assures that if there is any problems to call him and he will take care of me but I don’t completely believe that, guess time will tell if I ever need assistance. There is No documentation as to when you purchased it, he doesn’t even take your name and number. I even looked up his (incomplete) address on his business card to compare it to where he verbally said he is located and they are way off. He also has (250) # but lives in Vancouver.
-Cash deal.

-I don’t know what the data portion is like as I don’t have a data plan.
-I have yet to add photos, music, etc so I don’t know what those functions are like. I did however take test photos and not super happy with clarity but I haven’t played with it much.

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Application

I post a city and then the next person has to post one using the last letter to start the new city.

Example

VANCOUVER [now you need to post one starting with the letter R and so forth] Try to have no repeats!!!

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