Keepin' it real fake, part LXIX: Meizu gets a taste of its own medicine

Poetic justice at its finest. Meizu, which has received loads of criticism for knocking off Apple's iPhone with the forthcoming M8, is now facing turned tables thanks to Shenzhen Gold-East Electronic Company. The MP046 may resemble any vanilla PMP at first glance, but if you take a closer look at the control pad, the link between it and the M6 becomes crystal clear. This knockoff of a knockoff artist's work comes with 256MB to 2GB of internal storage and includes a two-inch LCD, FM transmitter, image viewer, a variety of EQ modes, and support for MP1/2/3, WMA, and ASF file formats. No word on price, but if you're interested in taking on the minimum order quantity of 200 pieces, be sure and phone 'em up for the latest bulk discount.

[Rusty Shackleford @ Aug 3rd 2007 6:04PM]

b-a-bay-b-e-be-b-i-bicky-bi-b-o-bo-bicky-bi-bo!

[chris @ Aug 3rd 2007 6:11PM]

uh...ok...?

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 3rd 2007 6:14PM]

Curly's a dope!

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 3rd 2007 6:16PM]

"...comes with 256MB to 2GB of internal storage..."

Is that the classic, "looks like 2GB until you try to format it, and then it magically becomes 256MB"?

-because it's kinda looking like that.

[Mike @ Aug 3rd 2007 6:41PM]

If you knockoff a knockoff, does that make it original?

[Emceay @ Aug 3rd 2007 8:31PM]

Nah, it just makes itself, the knockoff, and the original cliche.

[lapa @ Aug 3rd 2007 7:27PM]

It is sold at dealextreme.com and 2 Gb version costs $44.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4869~r.23486626
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4897~r.23486626
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4899~r.23486626

[Emceay @ Aug 3rd 2007 8:33PM]

Meh.. You'll be back tomorrow. :D

[samk @ Aug 3rd 2007 9:56PM]

FM transmitter? Guess we'll never see them over here.

[Oscar @ Aug 4th 2007 5:33AM]

Looks like the hunter has become the hunted.

[joe23521 @ Aug 4th 2007 4:46PM]

The Meizu M6 is a knockoff of what again? I must be missing something here...

[random @ Aug 4th 2007 6:36PM]

You guys are a bit slow. I just came back from China, and there are mMeizu knockoffs everywhere from every company. The most flagrant seems to be Newman, which has like 3 or 4 different models of Meizu knockoffs. Seriously though, just let Engadget Chinese handle the knockoffs, they're likely more well informed on this kinda stuff...

[PatrickB @ Aug 6th 2007 4:02PM]

Poetic justice? Meizu makes great products, and is doing very well sales-wise. How exactly are these knockoffs "poetic justice"? Can the horrible 4-hour battery life Nano knockoffs be called poetic justice too?

Poetic justice is me getting a great quality player that does everything a Nano does with greater compatibility, for much less money.