$57 "Apple Peel" Converts iPod Touch to iPhone

[SexyGreyFox]

Chinese based company, Yoison Technology, has unveiled the Apple Peel 520 which allows voice calls from an iPod Touch. The "Peel" is a skin for the Touch containing a battery, SIM card and dock connector. It will retail for $57.

The inventor of the product, known only by his screen name, "Maxpy," invented the Peel because the iPhone is, "Too expensive in China." The iPhone costs between $588-$740 while the iPod Touch costs around $235.

150 Peels have been pre-sold on the Chinese internet marketplace, Taobao.com. It remains to so be seen what impact the Peel will have on Chinese iPhone sales or what Apple´s response will be to the product.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mo...ndex.html?hpt=Sbin#fbid=I7B1lfvrNkC&wom=false

 

[gam3r]

Interesting. Do you think Apple will allow it?

 

[Makhaira]

With Jailbreaking now legitimised, and the fact that this doesn't tinker with the unit per se, I can't see how Apple can stop it?

I love seeing inventions like this, good on the bloke .

 

[Russinating]

Interesting. Do you think Apple will allow it?

Does it make them money?

The answer is the same.

 

[Robbo]

Interesting. Do you think Apple will allow it?

Not a chance in hell.

Whether they can do anything to stop it is another matter entirely.

 

[Azza]

This is interesting. Just had a little Google and there is a rival to it as well.


http://micgadget.com/6994/the-rival-of-apple-peel-520-unveiled/

 

[AndyClough]

Does it make them money?

The answer is the same.

Lol, makes sense...

 

[hittman]

Looks very interesting. Who wants one?

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Looks very interesting. Who wants one?

Definitely me.
Can you imagine the sale of IPOD Touches if this comes out?
APPLE will be rolling in it (but of course they won't see it that way).

 

["andy"]

guy makes something in his shed 300% cheaper than apple sell them for

not surprising

 

[Ac1dh0u$3.]

haha look at the size of it. Its massive

 

["andy"]

hardly

 

[hittman]

Definitely me.
Can you imagine the sale of IPOD Touches if this comes out?
APPLE will be rolling in it (but of course they won't see it that way).

I'm currently in China, so I'll see if I can find it.

 

[reflux]

Apparently it's hardly ideal - the software still needs a lot of work.

 

[starfighter]

It might not be perfect but it shows how much of a rip of the iphone is. It is just an ipod touch at the end of the day. Glad someone has done this.

 

[Simmz]

"Doesn't support 3g"

Instant killer for me.

 

[McBain]

Loving this terminology;

"users will have to break into the software of the iPod in order to download the necessary applications"

 

[steve258]

Those glitches mentioned are quite serious, and as said no 3g support so the call function is rudimentary at best. At least for the moment it doesn't look like it can be a long term reliable solution.

Plus does it need to be JBed first? And what happens if you update iPod touch firmware?

 

[TonyM19]

Anybody else think there will be an 'essential' update from Apple within days of its release that will stop it from working with most iTouch?

 

[unwashed potato!]

Anybody else think there will be an 'essential' update from Apple within days of its release that will stop it from working with most iTouch?

that was my first thought