Funny, we rarely, if ever see a company producing Chinese knocks of high profile devices start defending themselves, but it sounds like Meizu wants to (partly) shed the bad light cast on its
M8, er,
miniOne non-
iPhone. According to some posts in their forums by someone who appears to be Meizu's CEO, J.Wong, the original M8 design for a massive-touchscreen cellphone debuted four days
before Macworld -- however, the design was still undergoing changes, and when Apple launched their product, so Meizu reworked the aesthetic, added some metal, slimmed it down, and voila, M8 cum miniOne. We recognize that's some serious gray area for Meizu to be treading -- kind of the design equivalent of double-checking your answers with your neighbors' before turning in your test -- but let's face it, a phone like that coming out of China, it would have been pegged an iPhone knock either way. Plus, they were still ahead of the game with that insane 720 x 480 res screen they've apparently spent $1m US ordering in bulk. So take this one for what you will, but we think Meizu's among the first to keep it somewhat real while still managing to keep it real fake.
[Via
Engadget Chinese, thanks Kevin]
posted February 14th 2007 12:39PM
I'd rather have this phone than an iphone.. I can write programs for this phone and make it do stuff I want it to.. It does need WiFi though, and a programmable infrared port so that I change channels, etc on devices without a bluetooth remote interface.
I never like chinese knockoffs, however, you think Apple's people are legit? The company were hammered with lawsuits after lawsuits for stealing others' technology and ideas. First with ipod, now with iphone. Do you know why the launch has been delay over and over? They have to go to court and settlements. That ryan block guy probably one of the dickheads at Apple, probably the ceo himself. Apple is not that much different from Meizu. Read below.
(1)Quantum Research Lining Up for Suit #2: The iPhone looks like it could be getting another call, this time from the UK-based Quantum Research, a Southampton-based touch sensor specialist that's already suing Apple for the capacitive touch-sensing technology used in the iPod clickwheels. The lawsuit this time, a patent lawsuit, may directly address Apple's use of various touch screen apps based on Quantum's patented charge-transfer (QT) capacitive sensing technology.
(2)Cisco has extended the time available to Apple in its iPhone lawsuit yet again in effort to reach an out-of-court settlement over the iPhone trademark.