http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/ Engadget Comments for BenQ's Mobile Internet Device peeked on video http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/
STFU Irwin!]]>Sep 20th 2007 2:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/
So I wonder how well it would compare against the ViliV P2 running dual OS WinCE and Linux.

Vid here!
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-viliv-p2-in-depth-preview
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Before you flame me, yes I am an Apple fan. And yes, I think they have better UI options for phones and MP3 players. But I've *NEVER* thought that was the end of it. I always expected that a competitor would come up with a UI that was better. I keep thinking it's got to happen. But it doesn't.

Is Apple the only company on the planet that spends money on R&D and then uses the findings to create a whole new concept for UI? It's like these companies are creatively blocked or something. ]]>Sep 19th 2007 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/
So far all the "me too-IPhone" UI are disappointing me. So far only Samsung has something nice...but it isn't a phone....yet....]]>Sep 19th 2007 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/So we should say Apple copies from Yahoo!?]]>Sep 20th 2007 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Sep 19th 2007 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/
Oh by the way... it was out a year in advance of the iPhone and it won the International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007! Perhaps it may have *INSPIRED* other companies to take notice?
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/11/iphone-and-lg-ke850-separated-at-birth/

When looking up the name Noel Rubin & iPod you will find out that he created a flash-base website interface that looks remarkably similar to the iPod's UI. However he created his website a year in advance!
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/apples-ipod-patent-not-thinking-differently-enough-9001.php

Apple has settled a lawsuit filed by a Vermont-based company called Contois Music Technology, which alleged that the iTunes user interface violated a 1996 patent for a "Computer Control System and User Interface for Media Playing Devices.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/03/apple-settles-itunes-interface-lawsuit/

I give Apple credit where credit is due... Marketing and Sales! However as for them inventing... well, sorry.

Apple creates very good hype around their products, releases it to the market, and all of a sudden everybody gets amnesia as towards what UI or design style are/were available!]]>Sep 19th 2007 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/
The interface of the LG that you show is actually pretty crappy. The screens Engadget chooses to show in those pictures make it look like they are similar but it's a total lie. How is a touch-screen supposed to dial numbers? Telepathically? A keypad has to be there.

As for your patent-lawsuit comments, they don't hold any water at all. Any jackass can cry foul and go to Texas to file a patent lawsuit. Just read Engadget on any given day and you'll see 3 of those. Apple takes what exists, evaluates it against their own R&D, puts it all on the line with a way no one has done it before, and then everyone gets their panties in a bunch because they couldn't think of it or do it themselves. Hence the lawsuits.

Hater.]]>Sep 20th 2007 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/benqs-mobile-internet-device-peeked-on-video/Yes I have used the LG Prada. I wouldn't call it the BEST UI however I wouldn't call it the WORST as well. It does have a very interesting UI, it breaks away from the normal, traditional UI on most phones. Isn't that something that Apple did with the iPhone? That is *my* opinion. Your opinion is that it is AWEFULL UI. Please do remember that it did win the International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007! If it were Apple winning that award some people might be doing backflips!

Your comment
"Apple takes what exists, evaluates it against their own R&D, puts it all on the line with a way no one has done it before, and then everyone gets their panties in a bunch because they couldn't think of it or do it themselves. Hence the lawsuits"

I don't know how Apple can take, "whatever exists/iPhone" and then evaluate it against their R&D when the product is not in existence? Apple dose copy a lot of stuff, however they don't claim that they invented it. That would pour lawsuits in their direction. It is their FAN-BASE that claim that they invented these products hence most of the discussion in most forums. I don’t think I have heard of one company suing another company because that company thought of and idea, “not copying and idea, or implementing an idea” before another company?

And as for me being a MAC Hatter... I have 1 G5 2.5gig dual core Power Mac, 3 G4 Power Mac’s, 1 G4 Cube and a iPod. I am OS X 10.3 ACTC certified! I call things how I see it. If Apple copied something then they copied something. End of story!

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