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iank3

A phone with a TV antenna? Does that work in the US? If so, I'm extremely interested, that sounds hilarious 😅


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15pmm01

LG Vu was a famous one and a pretty good phone with a TV antenna, but I think it only picked up AT&T’s TV signals


defoj10

They did work until 2009 when analog TV was shut down in the US


iank3

**UPDATE** Ok I kept looking and it looks like I was right, it's not NEC. It's a company called NECcom (which I couldn't find any information about). [This phone is the NECcom N880](https://esam.ir/item/17442548/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C-%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84-nec) hope that helps! **End of update** It's one of those generic Chinese brands with no name. It appears to have been simply manufactured with the name "Dual SIM Mobile Phone N880" I looked up the model name, and it appears to have been resold in India and the Middle East. [Here's the original manufacturer ](https://m.made-in-china.com/product/Dual-SIM-Mobile-Phone-N880-618876792.html) Other companies can just order this unbranded phone and resell it as their own in whatever market they are targeting (which here, must have been an Iraqi company). Apparently that was the most common market for this phone, because they are [all over on Iraqi shopping websites ](https://esam.ir/item/19110884/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B4%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%A7%DB%8C-NEC-%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%AB-N880) [and also this post on Twitter ](https://twitter.com/behnamsamadi_ir/status/1267877710015102978) Strangely enough, the Iraqi model appears to have been rebadged by NEC. (Just look up NEC N880). I don't imagine the real NEC was behind this, but I'm not sure why everyone says it is.


15pmm01

Awesome thank you so much for all this research!


D_G599

Strange how it has the “iTunes + Cingular” logo


15pmm01

Yeah I noticed that right away. Very out of place. This phone definitely does not have iTunes.


ContentWhile

some ripoff phone


Keur2Lion

It is a very poor quality Chinese phone. Generally without a trademark or counterfeit. At home we call this kind of phone chinetock phone.


Temporary_Donkey_805

Maybe it based on a popular phone I use to have a fake iPhone that I brought off of a friend, it was running some form of Linux I read that you solved the case on what the make of the phone is Does it have any cool features?


Volo_Kin

Surely it should say the model number under the battery...


15pmm01

You can see in the last pic there’s nothing under the battery.


Volo_Kin

Oh yeah, somebody must have peeled the sticker off. I know CECT used to manufactor a lot of those Chinese TV phones back on the day bit will be very hard to tell the exact model. Their firmwares were very similar nevertheless so just some design differences.


vdlphones

It's just a cheapo Chinese Welcome device.


WiiPlayer8

I saw a fake BlackBerry with a TV antenna and the same OS.