If you're not seen or heard about the Chinese clones of the iPhone, you may be surprised at their quality. Basically, Chinese manufacturers saw an opening when Apple's iPhone introduced technological advances in mobile phones, but left room for improvement by having a few flaws with the phone which turned consumers off.

There were several things that consumers did not like about the iPhone, as follows:

1. The original is single sim. This means you can only have one cell phone number, forcing you to basically carry two phones if you need one for business and one for leisure;

2. The iPhone forces you to use AT&T's expensive plan which starts at about $100 per month. If you don't want to use AT&T, you're forced to try to hack the phone, which isn't always successful;

3. The original does not have a removable battery. Every time the battery dies, you have to go to the dealer;

4. The iPhone only has three skimpy speakers;

5. The original is prone to freeze up and have other performance bugs.

CECT took all of these problems and fixed them. Making their phones dual sim (two phone numbers), adding a removable battery, unlocking the phones (so you can use whatever carrier your wish other than AT&T), and adding three extra speakers was just the beginning. The CECT 599 has taken the improvements a step further by introducing shake technology. This means if you want to advance any media (songs, video, wallpaper, photos, etc) you don't need to scroll or look down, you just shake the phone until it advances where you need it to. No fumbling around. Just a quick shake and you're done.

The CECT 599 has all of the features you want from your touch screen phone. You can surf the web, take and play video, play MP3s, and take photos. (It has a really nice camera phone). It also has Bluetooth, a 3.2 inch, high resolution screen and of course, the touch screen technology everyone is looking for.

The 599 is priced very competitively at between $100 and $130. This is a great smartphone if you are looking for the newest, high performing technology but don't want to be chained to the manufacturer.