Oh yeah! Sheep aren't the only ones that get cloned these days. Mobile phones go through this too. Almost every successful cell phone launched on the global cell phone market has its clone "somewhere" (to be read China). The LG Chocolate didn't escape this either. It now has a clone made by Zikom, a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer, and named Z200. I wonder if they have some kind of cartoonish cloning machine that clones anything you put on its conveyor belt or they really have employed men that "designed" it. If the first case is true, I might give them a call to ask them if this cloning apparatus can be shipped over here, for the purpose of cloning hamburgers and cups of coffee! I just hope it won't be very expensive and the thing would eventually come up with eatable and drinkable clones. And another thing: does anybody know if cloned cloning machines still work and have a higher than 50 % cloning rate of success?

No jokes now! This handset, even if it is a clone which probably came from the machine mentioned above, still works and it copies the LG Chocolate form factor, being an 18 mm thin slider. It also tries to offer some decent features in the overall package: a LCD display that can be viewed even in direct sunlight, a 1.3 megapixel camera with a flash LED, touch sensitive back-lit MP3 playback control buttons, a microSD expansion memory card slot for up to 1 gigabyte and a built-in speaker. These are features that make it a quite impressive copy and that would make me a happy Zikom Z200 owner, and I think that many other mobile phone users would agree with me and would want to give it a try. Be aware tough that the overall sensation that you'll get when using this device is of fragility, and this could be most probably explained by the cheap materials used when making this phone.

Overall, the Zikom Z200 is just a copy of THE CHOCOLATE, it doesn't want to compete with it, and there are people out there that will buy it, if they want something that looks classy, offers a pretty nice pack of features and is not that expensive.