http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/ Engadget Comments for China Mobile planning to subvert Unicom's iPhone launch with the OPhone? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/
"are people there so eager for iPhone they'd jump on the imitation"

I am just eager to get something that isn't an Apple iPhone... sadly this oPhone won't be coming to our part of the world soon (?).

Whilst we're talking about the similarities.. the iPhone looks very similar to my PDA, apart from the phone feature. So does that make an iPhone a KIRF as well?]]>Apr 20th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/
Obviously they cant practically ever expect that to happen, so they engage in the KIRF B.S. or finding any little thing that looks remotely similar something on an iPhone, and claim a patent or copyright on it on behalf of Apple, and then engage in attacking the device on that.

Mind you, Apple has no patents on much of general stuff from the iPhone because many of these things in or on it were created by other companies.

Why do you think they never took any of the supposed "KIRF" devices, which to Apple fans are all of them, to court? If it was so open and shut, Apple would have done so ages ago.]]>Apr 20th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/
P.S. There's a little brown on your nose, and there's also some bodily fluids running down the side of your mouth.]]>Apr 20th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/
Did i miss something, or do you expect me to click every single link on the engadget mobile page (where I'll probably have to do some more clicking through). You wrote the article on this site, you think it's KIRFy, why don't you provide your reasons instead of linking to Nilay's article which also doesn't provide any real reasons?]]>Apr 20th 2009 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/]]>Apr 20th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/
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I, for one, am looking forward to having android running on something besides the HTC G1/Magic frame, though I doubt we'll ever see it over here.]]>Apr 20th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/
Bad PR

Competition

Criticism

Are sadly the three pillars of many tech blogs.


Just wait for when the Pre is released and you will see it in full form.]]>Apr 20th 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/
OMS(Open Mobile System) which is essentially Android + TD SCDMA (China's home-grown 3G standard).

follow links silly people]]>Apr 20th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/ --apple invented the color black now? Just about every phone out there has a black background available(if not default)
rounded-edge square icons of exactly the same proportions utilizing the exact same spacing/organization.
--Again, there are tons of phones out there with rounded square icons, it's been done for a while(long before the iphone)
Then there is the hardware similarities -- chrome bevel, black top and bottom pieces, one button,
--Hmm, so would you call the blackberry storm or the HTC Touch, HTC Diamond, etc, etc, etc,etc,etc KIRF also?
similar screen size and shape.
--What other shape do you want it to be? I wasn't aware apple invented large rectangular touch screens. Actually this screen size and "shape" has been a staple of just about every touch screen phone/pda since the beginning.]]>Apr 20th 2009 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/If iphone never came out, there wouldnt be half the touchscreen phones we see out there including this one.

iphone may or may not have taken the all touchscreen form factor from LG prada but they did something with it that LG couldnt.
that is to make it the defacto consumer phone everyone wants(or pretty much).

ps. i do not own a mac nor iphone.]]>Apr 20th 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/
The theme I agree is iPhone inspired (black, round buttons), haven't used the UI so can't tell the rest. But they didn't attempt to do a knockoff (in the actual knockoffs, the lock screen always has the fish background and the home screen has a dock on the bottom and the icons extend all the way to the top, this one breaks that design with a message bar and search bar; if they wanted to fool people they wouldn't have changed the design elements).

I don't see how the Apple can pin this as a knockoff. Like most of the other phones, ie Samsung Instinct, a whole bunch of LGs, the Storm, etc, it's certainly jumping on the touchscreen bandwagon after seeing the sales on iPhone, but this phone is about as KIRF as they are.]]>Apr 20th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/It seems that the "KIRF" phone has better specs than the Apple

click here - http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2008/12/17/lenovo-android-ophone-gets-pictured-and-with-specs/

I didn't think that ripoffs usually had better specs than the "original".. because companies like Nokla [sic] are just there to make a quite profit. OPhone seems to have a better camera AND a microSD slot!! I think this the more appropriate term to describe this Lenovo is "competition". Choice is good right? I thought, living in a "free country", you would expect to at least be given a choice (of touchscreen phones).

;-)]]>Apr 20th 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/More like
are people there so eager to burn money they'd wait for the real thing?]]>Apr 21st 2009 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/Apr 20th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/china-mobile-planning-to-subvert-chinese-iphone-launch-with-opho/
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