Noticia oficial do site True Blue anda uma imitação da Dongle TrueBlue. Não estamos a falar de uma dongle recentemente lançada no mercado chamada PB2
O exterior pode-se dizer que é exactamente igual mas como provam as imagens mais abaixo no interior modifica radicalmente. Pelo que foi informado no site oficial da Dongle irá ser lançado um FW que permite verificar se a Dongle é verdadeira ou não sem necessidade de abrir para verificar a veracidade da mesma.
Site oficial True Blue escreveu:
A new clone has appeared using a very similar external housing to that of True Blue. However, after removing the clone PCB from its exterior casing it becomes evident that there are a number of major differences:
- Actel used is A3P125 instead of larger A3P250 used on True Blue.
- Clone uses a cheap MCU and cheap dip type crystal in addition to cheaper Actel instead of full Actel integration in the original True Blue design
- Clone has a tact switch which the original does not require, and switch can only be accessed by pulling PCB out of the case
- Actel logic on clone is based on partial guess work of the original and will not function correctly in future updates
- PCB circuit design is highly congested, with numerous visual differences evident, such as programming pads for the MCU and addiional resistors/caps
Please refer to the pictures shown below, to compare the original and clone.
A new software update will be made publicly available in the next few days which will allow users to differentiate original from clone by performing a firmware update.