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Sure I know Apples making bank on the App's... But seriously, At what Cost?]]>Mar 28th 2009 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
Besides you can't own the intellectual rights to a black rectangle with a screen in it - as shown by the LG Prada. And if you look at the software on this thing - again it obviously has roots in the iPhone but Meizu has made an effort to improve the iPhone OS rather then just copying it directly.]]>Mar 27th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Well you have to admit, that this is more of an iPhone copy than the iPhone is a copy of the LG Prada. I have the iPhone, Prada and Touch HD, and software wise, the iPhone comes out on top out of all three of them. But I have been looking at the new Prada, as the keyboard looks nice, but the software still hasn't convinced me.]]>Mar 27th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
Gnormie, yes you can own the rights to a black rectangle with a screen. Its called patents.

This doesnt look similar to and iphone. It looks EXACTLY like an iphone, down to the shape, button placement, speaker wholes, and even the silver border.]]>Mar 27th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
As regards the Prada/Touch HD argument, com'on, you know what I mean. We're not talking about the "idea" of a touchscreen-only phone, we're talking about the exact same design.

It doesn't help that the UI also looks the iPhone's.

Sincerely,
A devout PC]]>Mar 27th 2009 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
To me, this is like grabbing a Ferrari (Chevy, more like it), taking the badge off of it, and putting your own on it. Just because you took the time to buy an angle-grinder and get good w/ it...

I'm not a legal expert, but as someone who owns a business, this makes me cringe.]]>Mar 27th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Meizu tries to "innovate"? That's laughable... So is everyone who *reallY8 believes this is nothing more than a cheap ripoff.]]>Mar 27th 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/"black rectangle with a screen" is too general to be able to file for a patent. If it was filed and approved, HP/Compaq, HTC etc... will be suing Apple for their iPhone long before they can sue anyone. iPhone will be at the very bottom of the list before they can sue.

Multi-Touch is good idea though, not sure if it ever gotten approved or not.]]>Mar 27th 2009 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/The thing is that the iPhone, Prada and Touch HD really don't look similar at all.]]>Mar 29th 2009 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.20665]]>Mar 27th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
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-72 days til they announce the new iPhone]]>Mar 27th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/But while the commercial tactics of Apple are quite unsavoury to people who like to have control of their choices, what is often more difficoult to stand for these indipendent minded folks , are the rants of all those misinformed, uniform and quite silly masses that insist (sadly often in good faith) to repeat the mantras of their conventional wisdom without realizing ,(or maby too scared to admit even to themselves) that their sorry ass has been taken together with their dollars.]]>Mar 27th 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
That's different.]]>Mar 27th 2009 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
It all depends on what you want, of course, but it's fair to say that this phone lacks GPS and for some (myself included) that's a big deal. I don't know exactly why Swimatm prefers the iPhone but you don't necessarily need to actually use the Meizu to know that it is or is not for you.]]>Mar 27th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
I do agree with you to a point, but all I was looking at was swim prefers the real deal (IPhone) which I also own and more than likely would prefer aswell, but could not possibly make that distinction until seeing them side by side. Just did't seem like a phone options/OS argument.]]>Mar 27th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/I think it's silly to blame Meizu for trying to produce an iPhone that actually does what it should. ]]>Mar 27th 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032502626.html?wprss=rss_technology
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Maybe if Apple had their products made in facilities here in the US, they wouldn't be as easy to copy... IP would be easier to enforce...]]>Mar 27th 2009 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
There is absolutely nothing in the iPhone that anyone else couldn't have done, yet despite that it wasn't done until the iPhone did it and this newcomer to the cellphone industry is now taking the most profitable segment, the smartphone market, and turning it into the mediaphone market that everyone is now playing catch up to compete with. With Meizu at one end making a device that can only be sold in countries with lax laws on copyrights and trademark. Yet despite the blatant copying from the bottom up it still taken them over 2 years since the iPhone was first demoed and they first sent out vaporware photoshopped images of what there device was going to look like in "6 months".]]>Mar 27th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
It's the only way to keep Apple on their toes.]]>Mar 27th 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
HTC IS a Chinese company. They are based in Taiwan which is part of China.]]>Mar 28th 2009 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 28th 2009 5:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
Well maybe you should leave that thinking cap at home cos it isn't doing much for you]]>Mar 28th 2009 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/
When I referred to Chinese reverse-engineering, I meant specifically the shady outfits that do this stuff, NOT every Chinese engineering company. Asus, Foxconn, Garmin, Nvidia and all of the other companies that are based in Taiwan call themselves "Taiwanese", and not "Chinese", so your point is moot anyway.]]>Mar 29th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Apr 6th 2009 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/27/meizu-m8-unboxing-and-hands-on/Mar 27th 2009 2:52PM