As you may have heard, there is a new clone on the market, a fake iEdge card that is NOT affiliated with the famous Edge team. We now have further details available now that we actually have one of these fake devices in our possession.
In our last post we kind of glossed over the packaging except for the text on the back, but upon further inspection, a myriad of differences show up.
First, let’s inspect the front of the package. The pattern is nearly identical, but on the fake iEDGE there’s an extra iEDGE logo at the top near the point.
The elastic band on the fake iEdge also sports an “iEdge” logo whereas the real one only has the general “Edge” brand icon. Detailed below:
The elastic band itself is also different. The colors reverse on the real one as seen in the photo below with the logo showing in reverse as well. However with the fake, it’s the same main turquoise color on both sides, and there is no logo on the back of the band.
If you look closely at the real iEdge packaging, on the right hand corner it has an “i compatible” note that is missing on the fake.
The back of the packaging is the most discussed as it contains the fake iedge web address. Here, you can see side by side the fake and the real. As you can see the real card has two lines of text with the real website http://www.edgd-ds.cn and the fake website http://www.edgei-ds.cn on the other box.
Once the fake iEdge is loaded up it will display different behavior as well. As previously mentioned, the fake iEdge will show up as having Danny Phantom flashed to the firmware much like the M3i Zero and the EZFlash Vi.
Previously it was reported that loading up the wrong software, i.e. software NOT from the fake www.edgei-ds.cn website resulted in a red dstt menu, but this was not our experience. We found a black “System File is Missing” Screen. The REAL iEdge has a white screen that says “Edge.DAT not found!”
Here you can see the GUI menu of the fake iEdge. The REAL iEdge (unskinned) has a multicoloured 3d wallpaper on the top screen unlike a plain metallic logo on the fake menu.
The games selection screen is different too. The REAL iEdge will load the game straight from the window and not show all the info in the bottom screen. Settings like Cheats will be set in the main 3-icon menu under “Settings”
There you have it, a full rundown of the fake iEDGE and comparison shots with the real iEdge packaging and menu software.