An iPhone with a keyboard

LAS VEGAS--With so many press conferences, meetings and product demonstrations, there's never enough time to really see CES. Indeed, it wasn't until day two of this year's show that I was able to roam the Las Vegas Convention Center and check out the cell phone action.

Naturally, I was first drawn to the booths of the big players first, but half the fun of a gadget trade show is tracking down the smaller mobile players that bring the the more unusual products to Las Vegas. So while racing between the immense booths of RIM and Verizon Wireless, I stumbled upon a company called Eyo Asia Electronic.

Lining the tables in Eyo's small booth were a broad range of cell phones in almost every design imaginable. And though I'd never seen the handsets before, much less even heard of the company, all of Eyo's products were strikingly familiar.

Clearly a company Eyo believes imitation is the sincerest form of flattery because all of the company's devices looked like something else. There were iPhone clones--one of which looked like the Duet W002 that we reviewed last year--BlackBerry doppelgangers, and almost identical twins for handsets like the T-Mobile G1, the Samsung Flight, Sony Ericsson Satio and W995.

Though somewhat fascinating, it was also rather creepy. It's one thing to jump on to a design trend, but quite another to have no ideas of your own. Perhaps you'd disagree, so I invite you to check out the look-alikes for yourself.