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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[Those clones don't really look like the original. The graphics may look the same or may even have the same copied bitmaps, but it seems that the fakers can't make the transitions between views very nicely. Why? They don't use the proper toolkit or are incapable of doing that with e.g. OpenGL. E.g. in the video, the only transition seen was the transition to main menu. Everything else was like it would be done with just some traditional 2D toolkit (despite there are open source toolkits being developed that could do those things for real, like the clutter toolkit from Opened Hand, maybe for the fakers it doesn't matter). Anyhow, in my opinion, faking something really innovative is lame and it would be better business to do some real products instead of copy-products, however, on the other hand, if the company that produces this kind of fakes would have some innovation, they would not be listed on this particular topic... <br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[iPod touch owner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 6th 2008 7:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[DONT BE FOOLED BY THESE "CLONES" THEY SUCK. I BOUGHT ONE AND AFTER JUST TWO WEEKS OF HAVING IT I SOLD IT AND BOUGHT A REAL IPHONE. THE "CLONES" OPERATE NOTHING LIKE THE IPHONE. THE SCREEN LOOKS LIKE IT WAS THE FIRST COLOR SCREEN EVER MADE FOR A PHONE. THE D800i I BOUGHT IS AN ABSOLUTE PIECE OF CRAP, IT IS CONSTANTLY FREEZING, DROPPING CALLS, SHUTTING OFF ON ITS OWN, AND IT ALSO CAN'T DO ANYTHING COOL. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY WITH THESE CHEAP PHONES. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND BUY THE REAL THING!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[steven.butler]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 2nd 2008 10:35AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[Saya penggemar HP YF seperti YF718 saya punya 4 buah, bagaimana caranya saya agar saya dapat memiliki HP YF yang lainnya?....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lutfi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 16th 2009 1:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's ashame that they are all clones, some of them are actually pretty nice (cheap, nice features).<br><br>Remove the fake apple branding and i wouldn't mind owning one!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NiGhTmArE]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 9:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[Problem is, the iPhone appeal lies in its software and its integration with hardware. It score high in looks but it is missing the point to think that that is an important reason to get one (or a knock-off).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Espinoza]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 9:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think the funniest part is, I'd love to get an iPhone clone, simply as I don't feel like switching to Cingular. I think that's the iPhone's biggest problem, is being tied to one carrier.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ShaleX]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 9:23AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[True to that talking about a company that really sucks and is way to expensive for the low quality services it offers.  Iphone is really nice But the only problem is Cingular.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[periks]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 28th 2007 8:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[i have an IPhone Clone ... it has 2 simcard holders .. i am running T-Mobile Plus AT&T ... and i can switchback and forth to each server as i want .. i love this phone .. but i cant seem to download any movies tho:( ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[james]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 13th 2008 6:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'll take one- all the looks (and more features) of the iPhone with none of that nasty AT&T 2-year lock-in. <br><br>Especially the CECT P168- it says in Chinese "dual standby". That means dual-SIM and no switching, something that hasn't ever been done in other countries before. If a call comes on on a given card, it automatically switches to that card.<br><br>Oh, and the plus is that the phonebook can be saved to the microSD card- says so right on the box.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 9:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[Big problem with almost ALL the CECT/Chinaphones... they only use dual-band 900/1800 radios. Given that tri-band is pretty much a given in almost every phone these days (if not quadband) I can only imagine that they're chewing up surplus dual-band radios OR they don't want 1900Mhz in there to preclude use in the US for some reason. Fortunately, my rockin YF718 Retrobrick (a heady HK$450, or just under $60) not only sports 1900Mhz, but also a complete rip of the SLVR L6 interface. No USB or data so I can't SEEM edit though. :(]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 2:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[So now since we don't have enough iPhone stories we're just gonna move the ones from this morning to this afternoon?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 3:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[So now since we don't have enough iPhone stories we're just gonna move the ones from this morning to this afternoon?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 3:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[And none of them compatible with Verizon =(]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 3:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[Frankly, if the Meizu comes out fo realz, I'd pick it up in a heartbeat.  I switched from Palm to Windows Mobile <br><br>1. because Palm refused to cram a cellphone into a TX (which the losers could have done 2 years ago instead of working on the damned Foleo).<br><br>2. after an extended play with WM5, it gave me no problems (HTC Wizard).<br><br>3. after using Opera (on the much faster Hermes), I was blown away by YouTube video loading and playing IN the browser.  (of course that broke last week when YouTube made some changes - probably FOR the iPhone - but I'm sure flash video will work again).<br><br>I realize that I probably COULD go keyboard free, as I'm not bad at banging out SMS with Transcriber or the virtual keyboard (depending on my mood), and I'd LOVE more screen real estate, since I watch a fair number of video podcasts on my commute.<br><br>The saddest part about the iPhone is it just shows that the folks at Palm should have been paying attention to all the disenfranchised Clie fans when Sony left the game.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Strangis]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 3:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[I personally would not include the meizu m8 as an 'iclone'. Firstly meizu had plans and designs in place prior to the iphone announcment. Secondly the only similarity with the iphone and the m8 is it's visual appearence. The similiraties stop there. The meizu specification is far higher than the iphone and based on WINDOWS CE 6.0 (Not Windows mobile 5). The other devices listed as 'iclones' are all cheap chinese knock offs with sub standard operating systems. Meizu puts a lot of money and resources in to product research and development. If you include the meizu m8 then you should include the LG prada phone, would you be including the m8 if it had released at the same time as the prada phone? The only new (to cell phone anyway) features the iphone utilizes is multitouch and visual voicemail. Take these 2 features away and you have a middle of the road phone, with a pleasent looking and easy to use interface. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mr Corsini]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 4:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[I personally would not include the meizu m8 as an 'iclone'. Firstly meizu had plans and designs in place prior to the iphone announcment. Secondly the only similarity with the iphone and the m8 is it's visual appearence. The similiraties stop there. The meizu specification is far higher than the iphone and based on WINDOWS CE 6.0 (Not Windows mobile 5). The other devices listed as 'iclones' are all cheap chinese knock offs with sub standard operating systems. Meizu puts a lot of money and resources in to product research and development. If you include the meizu m8 then you should include the LG prada phone, would you be including the m8 if it had released at the same time as the prada phone? The only new (to cell phone anyway) features the iphone utilizes is multitouch and visual voicemail. Take these 2 features away and you have a middle of the road phone, with a pleasent looking and easy to use interface. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mr Corsini]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 4:39PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[I called Verizon today to ask them the cost of early termination on my contract ($125 per line) and they asked me, "Why would you want to termiinate?"<br>I told them I wanted to get an iPhone.... The guy said to me, "Well, we have comparable phones."<br>My reply was, "Oh no, you don't."   :-)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lotharia]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 26th 2007 9:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[yeah, you forgot the Dell Axim X50V!  Oh wait, that's a PDA that was introduced long before the iPhone!  Too bad Dell never got the Axim right on the details (including an actual functional Internet application, plus decent music software).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bftsplx]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 27th 2007 10:36AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[love or hate it, someone's doing VERY well for himself. <a href="http://www.huckstr.com/spoofs/apple-money-machine.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huckstr.com/spoofs/apple-money-machine.html</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[zack vigneron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 27th 2007 11:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[Who needs an iPhone?<br>I want a “Sensicast-Tranzeo 3000” that I saw on the WIRED site today:<br><a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/local" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/local</a> <br>Now datz what I'm talkin about.<br> <br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 29th 2007 5:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[i saw that first one in miami.<br>The guy told me 1010% that it wasnt fake. Well i didnt belive him. HAHA]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[patty]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 4th 2007 7:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[Dude, how could anyone *ever* forget about this one?<br><br><a href="http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/iPhone.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/iPhone.jpg</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[derX]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 9th 2007 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[men i really feel u people you are dem trin can i be ur distributor here in nigeria. pls reply]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[banky]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 18th 2007 6:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Fake iPhones: a retrospective]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/fake-iphones-a-retrospective/</guid><description><![CDATA[How could the author of this article include Meizu as iPhone clone?? He got the fact upside down!!! <br><br>Meizu has been on the market for 4-5 years now, if not longer. When did Apple announced their iPhone? less than 2 years!!<br><br>If anything, iPhone has been cloning other touch panel Mp4 players or Motorola and LG and Samsung touch screen smart phones!!<br><br>Meizu should sue the author of this article!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[disagree]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2007 1:35PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
