The Chuwi isn't a ripoff because these companies are all buying the same platform and stuffing into a box of their own design. The Teclast T56, the RAmos T11 TE, the Sigo S40/S50 and this Chuwi P7 are the exact same player internally with only the box and the (mildly tweaked in most cases) UI to differentiate them. The Chuwi player was announced roughly at the same time as the Teclast, basically when the platform was made available to manufacturers.
Also, SmartQ is building a MID on the same platform with the difference being the added connectivity a MID should have by definition.
The platform is a Telechips processor + Wolfson codec, by the way.
The same thing happened late last year into this year with a processor called the ChinaChip 1600 (with a Cirrus Logic codec for audio). That platform was used in at least a dozen players from different manufacturers.
For heaven's sake, Engadget, stop throwing around the KIRF/ripoff/clone tag as an excuse for poor fact-checking.
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The Chuwi isn't a ripoff because these companies are all buying the same platform and stuffing into a box of their own design. The Teclast T56, the RAmos T11 TE, the Sigo S40/S50 and this Chuwi P7 are the exact same player internally with only the box and the (mildly tweaked in most cases) UI to differentiate them. The Chuwi player was announced roughly at the same time as the Teclast, basically when the platform was made available to manufacturers.
Also, SmartQ is building a MID on the same platform with the difference being the added connectivity a MID should have by definition.
The platform is a Telechips processor + Wolfson codec, by the way.
The same thing happened late last year into this year with a processor called the ChinaChip 1600 (with a Cirrus Logic codec for audio). That platform was used in at least a dozen players from different manufacturers.
For heaven's sake, Engadget, stop throwing around the KIRF/ripoff/clone tag as an excuse for poor fact-checking.