http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/ Engadget Comments for Meizu MiniOne to miss CES; Jack Wong promises it'll be at CeBIT, your next softball game 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/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
The iPhone is the slickest, most beautiful phone I've ever used. It's UI is a thing of wonder. So I guess I'd agree it's an *artistic* marvel. A marketing master piece definitely. A technological marvel? Not so much.

Anyway, your point is moot. The MiniOne's specs are completely different from the iPhone's (assuming it really exists). It's design and, let's say, 'operating philosophy' are the same, but hardware-wise, they're as different as any two random phones.]]>Jan 6th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
"A technological marvel that can't even send a SMS to more than one
person at a time. Or MMS. Or copy-paste. Or record video. Or transmit
data faster than dial-up. Or..."

Actually, everything you mentioned are things that the iPhone "could"
do, but don't currently, due to the lack of software (at least, not
natively... some of those are addressed by 3rd party software).
Besides, that's not the point, really, at all... all those things
are, as you know, stuff that other phones can already do, and I agree
it sucks that the iPhone can't do them already, but obviously, those
things aren't what's limiting Meizu from releasing their rip-off
clone.]]>Jan 6th 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
Thanks for the tip. I knew I'd read that somewhere, but didn't have the source so didn't mention it.]]>Jan 6th 2008 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
a) ignorant
b) blind
c) have your head shoved up your ass
d) all of the above]]>Jan 6th 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
Why is it not ripping off the iphone? It's copying inside(OS, GUI) and out. You must be really 'ignorant' to call this a LG Prada copy and "10x" better than the iPhone. BTW, no one calls removable battery "innovative" these days.

]]>Jan 6th 2008 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
1st: the iphone is not 3g minione is
2nd: minone screen resolution is alot better
3rd: iphone has only a 2mp camera... jesus bit behind arent we
4th: minione extras camera on the front for video calling, gps, digital tv tuner...

So it make look very similar but operates different if you ask me meizu are doing what appple should have taken the time to do in the first place and release a full product.... i vote for the rip-off]]>Jan 19th 2008 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
by the time minione comes up the next gen iphone will be announced. ]]>Jan 6th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
I am not an Apple fanboii, however, I am level-headed. Now, the iPhone was announced before the miniOne. Although on paper the MiniOne > iPhone, the iPhone was still announced first thus the MiniOne is, in fact, a rip off.

And, Mr Corsini, give Apple all the crap you want, it's the only finger operated touch screen phone without major complaints about its touch screen.

Apple's devices might not do it all, but what they do they done well.]]>Jan 6th 2008 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
But seriously, do you really think they were thinking: OMG, HOW CAN WE RIVAL THE LG PRADA'S SUCCESS?

I think not. Clearly it was the iPhone. Seriously, the iPhone has much more buzz than the Prada, who the hell talks about the Prada nowadays (especially relative to the iPhone)? ]]>Jan 6th 2008 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 7th 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/]]>Jan 6th 2008 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Here we should really appreciate Apple because they can actually deliver real products in quantity and lead the market with them. Other makers are 1-2 generations behind them in both user friendly mobile phones and portable media players and just continuously trying to catch up.]]>Jan 6th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/]]>Jan 6th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
Dozens of CES-related posts, all on non-Apple products and yet, what generates the most comment? An article about a (possible, or even vaporware) knockoff of an Apple product!

Why does it seem sometimes like Apple sets the agenda even when it is absent?]]>Jan 6th 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
We get it. You have your little calendar out in front of you and have the Prada being announced before the iPhone. Good for you.

The matter of the fact is just because the Prada was released first, doesn't mean it was the muse for Meizu. If you hold the Prada side-by-side with the iPhone and MiniOne it's pretty damn clear where the inspiration came from. There really wasn't a craze for touch screen phones like this before the iPhone.

To argue with those FACTS would make you, in fact, ignorant.

---------

Per usual, nothing personal.]]>Jan 6th 2008 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.devour.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/ipod-vs-palm.jpg]]>Jan 6th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
WHO THE HELLS COMPARES WHETHER BUTTONS HAVE ROUNDED CORNERS OR NOT?

Know what, I realize that reason and logic do not appeal to you so I will try to to string together a string of random phrases and hopefully something will click for you. Here we go:

Red apple run faster than zebra cakes check out the ostrich that out ran famous US president Colonel Sanders, just do it, you're a star!

Worked?

How about some subliminal messaging.

Below is an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The [iPHONE]slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. [IS] To die, to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and[CLEARLY] the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. [WHAT'S]To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
For in that [BEING] sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. [RIPPED] There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life,
For who would bear [OFF]the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised [HERE] love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient [NOW] merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat [ENJOY] under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered [THIS] country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, [WELL-WRITTEN] puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills [WORKS] we have
Than fly to others that we know not of? [OF LITERARY]
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue [ART] of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
]]>Jan 6th 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/

... and the M6 miniPlayer's far overrated.]]>Jan 6th 2008 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 7th 2008 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 7th 2008 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/Jan 6th 2008 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/
Seriously, people griping about it being an iPhone knock off, so what? ALL these products evolved from something earlier... Palm begat Pocket PC begat Newton begat Treo begat WinMob begat iPhone ad infinitum. (yeah and a couple of those might be in the wrong order... I leave that up to anal crowd to dissect).

Hell, if Palm (or Sony's Clie division) was smart about 3 years ago and listened to the fan base at 1src etc., it would have made everything about the iPhone's innovation a moot point except multi-touch/rotate. I'm not the only one who wanted a phone crammed into a Palm TX or Sony TH55 back in 2004-2005. When I switched to WinMob a couple of years ago, one of the first things I did was a 3rd party launcher that has nice big icons like the iPhone (though it didn't exist in the day, so it was to simulate the Palm Launcher).

The point is, Apple helped take some of the fugly out of the smartphone market and added some great new concepts, but they didn't invent it. In some cases, they dumbed it down.

If a so-called knock off maker wants to make a WinMob device that looks more iPhone sexy, why not? Knock off artists have been doing this since the Levi jeans rush in mother Russia. Well before the iPhone came out I had a 3rd party launcher on my HTC Wizard that made it's start screen look a lot LIKE what I thought Palm's Launch should be (coincidentally, a lot like the iPhone).]]>Jan 7th 2008 4:49PM