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I think it's nice that at least now people in China will have an ebook reader with wireless connectivity, but it is a little lame that they didn't bother to try and make the design a little less blatantly derivative.

Still I think it's mostly just that Chinese companies don't really think about this kinda stuff-like the design is basically an afterthought a lot of the time. Under the hood all the stuff like Chinese text support and working with SIM cards and wireless downloads (obviously not through Amazon) is all original, because obviously the Kindle doesn't support any of that.

It's a shame that the exterior makes it seem like such a knockoff because in reality there's a lot of original engineering here.]]>Jul 12th 2009 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/I like the fact that they seem to have managed to get the frame border a little thinner than on the Kindle II though, and being able to use whatever SIM you want is nice but I have a hard time believing they didn't take a little too much inspiration from the Kindle.
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个人感觉没什么市场....反正我是不会花1千多买个只能看书的...

这价钱还不如买个手机看电子书爽....]]>Jul 11th 2009 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/--
Look carefully .... halo was produced Founder of ....

Nothing personal feeling is the market .... Anyway, I will not spend more than 1000 buy only one book of the ...

This price might as well buy a cool cell phone to see e-books ....
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Well that's all clarified isn't it.
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Corona….As soon as careful looked originally is the upright product….
Individual feeling not any market….I cannot spend in any case more than 1000 to buy only to be able to read…
This price might as well buys a handset to look at the electricity classical philosophical works crisply….]]>Jul 11th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
"One fine evening a young princess put on her bonnet and clogs, and went out to take a walk by herself in a wood; and when she came to a cool spring of water with a rose in the middle of it, she sat herself down to rest a while. Now she had a golden ball in her hand, which was her favourite plaything; and she was always tossing it up into the air, and catching it again as it fell. "]]>Jul 11th 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/lol...Taking a closer look, I found this is produced by 方正 (Chinese Peking University Founder Group Corp)...

I don't think it will sell...Anyhow, I'm not going to spend 200bucks for something I can only use to read books.

I'd be better off getting a cell phone to read e-books.]]>Jul 11th 2009 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
To the OP:
国内EINK的产品没有多少，反正看书用起来比手机要好的多，看起来和纸上印的没有太大的区别。一千多是蛮值的。]]>Jul 12th 2009 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 12th 2009 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/]]>Jul 11th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
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Regardless though, while a large portion of the products do mimic the designs of major brands, I don't see why it matters. If it functions better (probably not this case, who knows) and is more powerful/flexible and better in every other respect, why would it matter to me, a consumer? I prize functionality over aesthetics, unless the aesthetics interfere with the practicality (for me, apple keyboards are impossible to use in comparison to my thinkpad keyboard..)]]>Jul 11th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
If all the idiot politicians didn't sell all of our debt to China and consumer products companies hadn't gotten so greedy with outsourced manufacturing, Western nations could impose an embargo on China until they clean up their massive piracy and IP-theft problem.]]>Jul 11th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
I'm guessing you hate Meizu as well for 'ripping off' apple designs, but they make higher quality products than their apple counterparts.

And who gives a shit about intellectual property about something like this. They hardware exterior design; big deal -- it's not like the design is groundbreaking and innovative. If they stole the source code for the Kindle, then I would think that matters.

Your take on the chinese government isn't exactly right either - it's not so much that China does or does not support it, but the number of new products being pumped out is at an extraordinary rate. The basic idea is that each developer of tech products has some kind of OS already developed, and they just create a new exterior design and then quickly port the OS and modify here and there to fit the product. This way, they can easily and quite quickly produce limitless numbers of designs quite easily. I doubt mimicking the design of their western counterparts can really improve the technology of the products. And it's not like the chinese government allows all of them, they certainly take action against especially bad counterfeiters but I doubt copying designs for tech products is the least of their concerns given their many problems right now.

Another thing, China is rather strict in piracy and people selling pirated software and movies usually have to do it quite discreetly, and it's pretty damn hard to enforce (Have you even been to a chinese tech market in your life before, once? It's really quite interesting, and would probably run counter to your perception of one.) I agree though that China is riddled with problems, but I'm not going to address your commentary on putting an embargo on China which seems to suggest and gross oversimplication of the issue on your part.]]>Jul 11th 2009 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
Have some ignorants on this board been to China, East European, or South Asia, buying pirated DVDs or software? Being able to compare the experience? Then you know how rampant piracy it is in the rest of world other than China.]]>Jul 12th 2009 4:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 12th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
I haven't been to china for 3-4 years now (I went to beijing), due to a busy schedule, but if I remember it was quite easy to get pirated movies and software. You just had to say you wanted to buy movies, and the shopsellers would sneak you to the back and let you look through a shoebox. There were also streetvendors who smuggled them in while pretending to sell small jewlery. Obviously, the police try to crack down on it, but it was way to rampant and ubiquitous to control. However, in comparison to countries like India, I would say it's far better, or at least based on what I've heard.

@ende:
Not quite.

In this case, (gasp) China is enforcing peace. There are racial disputes between the minority, Urumqi, and the majority, Han. That is, violent riots following the death of a Urumqi worker in a dispute between two factory workers. What followed was essentially that that the Urumqi rioted violent, killing 100+ Han civilians. In retaliation, the Han attempted to carryout a riot against the Urumqi, but at this point the Chinese riot police intervened and attempted to stop both sides. That is, the riot police was in the middle trying to separate the two races.

The racial tensions there are fierce, in part due to the Chinese government trying to forcibly change the Urumqi culture. As an isolated incident, however, the riots were completely unjustified as the Urumqi murdered innocent Han and likewise the Han murdered innocent Urumqi.

And please don't try to compare this to Hitler. Anyone can pick out and select certain bits of information (which are unbelievably vague) while ignoring others that contradict it here and there to make it seem like a nation will become the fourth reich. ]]>Jul 12th 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
As to the Urumqi incident, I see that you aren't even mentioning what the Uighur minority's been reporting about the whole thing, and still sticking to the Chinese side of the story, I won't be having a discussion with such one-sided party. I really do hope that China will do good in the future. Cheers]]>Jul 12th 2009 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
If you want to talk about ignorance, lets talk about you. I don't know if you are a chinese nationalist, a communist sympathizer, or just mis-informed, but China is responsible for the most piracy and intellectual property theft of any nation on earth. Here are some references if you want to educate yourself:

# Financial Week Magazine: "Top risk in China? Intellectual property theft"
http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070813/FREE/70810013/1003/TOC

# Electronic Design News (EDN) magazine: "China Still Leads Pack in IP Theft"
http://www.edn.com/article/CA6346189.html

# International Federation of the Phonographic Industry says "95% of commercial music sales in China are from pirated sources"
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20080407.html]]>Jul 13th 2009 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
That on a side-note, i like these products in general to bad they arent worldwide avaible. Besides that they just copy the inner and outer shell they also improve. Instead of protecting their idea badly which will not work in their own market they realize that the only way to stay ahead of competition within China is to keep improving excisting products.

Regarding the quality, sure a lot is crappy but there are plenty of Chinese producers who deliver quality equal or better then their counterparts which imo is rather shamefull to the initial producers. ]]>Jul 13th 2009 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 13th 2009 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/
You can put antying you want on a Kindle with relative ease.

The killer feature of the Kindle is its connectivity to the amazon store. Otherwise, buy a Sony or other unit and have fun finding a place to load a book onto it while on the road. Whispernet FTMFW.

As to the dumbass up there talking about getting a "better cellphone" to read books on:AGAIN: LOL. NEWB. Enjoy getting your eyes raped by the lame ass display. Nothing compares to the e-ink for long haul reading.]]>Jul 11th 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/11/keepin-it-real-fake-part-ccxxii-looks-like-wefound-a-total/Jul 11th 2009 10:42AM