The Keepin' It Real Fake industry has become so good, so fast,
so well-tuned to market trends that we knew it was just a matter
of time before it'd be consistently beating the real phones to
market. What we didn't expect, necessarily, was for Nokia to
start making its own fakes. We can't tell what's going on
exactly, but it appears that the twisty E81 that we saw a while
back could've very well been a genuine article -- either that,
or it was scooped up well ahead of release in China and cloned
ages before Nokia had intended the phone to be announced.
Anyhow, this thing is launching as the Twist for Nokia, the
bizarre swivel phone that's been rumored for a while now.
Alongside the Surge, the Twist proves that Espoo's committed to
releasing totally customized gear for US carriers, and we'll be
especially curious to see how well the swivel works in practice
here. It'll run $149.99 on a two-year deal before rebate,
featuring a 3 megapixel autofocus cam with flash, full HTML
browser, so-called "Habitat Mode" (lik