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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[Is there any way, legal or not, to get newer releases of Android on it?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nitesh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 8:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Nitesh Only if you put a gun to its screen...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan K.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Nitesh <br>well you could  compile the source code and flash it]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DefPo3t]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Nitesh As long as you don't rip off Google's apps it' OK to use a newer version of Android, since it's open source...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[frauhottelmann]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 19th 2010 5:27AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[KIRF of the Alcatel KIRF... zzzzzz]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SolidSnake]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 8:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[@SolidSnake Which itself was a KIRF of an earlier HTC device..<br><br>It's "Pre-like" only because the author doesn't want to explore pre-Pre devices.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Freakin Ijit]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 19th 2010 8:25AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[It would be nice to see a portrait qwerty where the screen flips to landscape, like the phone RDJ had in Iron Man.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TareG]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 8:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just like Pre is an HTC Blue Angel knock off? <br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.technotalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/samsung-flight.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.technotalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/samsung-flight.jpg</a> raeg]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[@ady Um...yeeaaahhh]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[I don't understand how a phone is a knockoff of another as long as they aren't one of those Chinese iPhone clones. The Prē looks entirely well curved and also has the Gesture area which to me is innovation a long shot away from any of these phones in comparison.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dachiefmizzy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:20PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[@dachiefmizzy <br>Exactly.  The Pré is actually an amazing phone.  Not sure where the negative jabs are coming from.    Engadget was a big supporter of the phone.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thor e]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 10:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a KIRF be Kirfed, and outsell the original KIRF in the same market.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TareG]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[So, every time a slider phone with buttons on the bottom emerges we're going to call it a knock off of something circa 1996? They can't own this. Its to plausible a design for it to be owned by anyone. No harm, no foul, and I think more manufacturers ought to explore this design model, with careful attention to the top row of keys accessibility while typing. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[trumanhw]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[I remember the days when every phone with a decent sized touch screen, a small bezel, and only a few buttons on it was called an iPhone knockoff. Hell, I remember the days when every phone with a portrait keyboard was called a Blackberry knockoff.<br><br>Eventually we'll get to the point where portrait sliders will be called portrait sliders and not Pre knockoffs.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kenny goo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[my grammar above sucked. lol. And the slider I mean is the one more similar to the g1... does that make the droid a copy of the g1, and so on and so forth? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[trumanhw]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[low end or not it's nice to see something running android that doesn't cost an arm and a leg without contract.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tekdemon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's dirt cheap.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[broli]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[why would you bother to copy a failure?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[obobo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[The main reason to buy a Pre is Palm's webOS.  If only I could position some loudspeakers over China and have a translator scream that at them.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[zullnero]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 9:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[hmm... this looks interesting<br><br>look at this. it was put on engadget earlier today!<br><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/alcatel-ot-980-with-android-hands-on-we-feel-frugal-just-lookin/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/alcatel-ot-980-with-android-hands-on-we-feel-frugal-just-lookin/</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kendall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 18th 2010 10:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'll  PRE on that...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mr2dxtream]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 19th 2010 2:01AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ZTE's Smooth Android slider is a not-so-smooth Pre knockoff]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/ztes-smooth-android-slider-is-a-not-so-smooth-pre-knockoff/</guid><description><![CDATA[There's nothing wrong with a phone that looks like the Pre, especially since there were phones that existed before the Pre existed that looked like the Pre. Sheesh.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jak Crow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 19th 2010 3:55PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
