Meizu did not show up because their engineers let engadget shoot a video demo'ing a device that does not show any prowess for mainland. It did not represent. Engineers were hauled away and will be executed by gunshot when they fly back to mainland china.

M8 will disappear forever after this CES event and you will hear of an M9 announcement that runs red flag linux as the OS.

I should make this clear: I'm talking about MAINLAND...I should not say "chinese" as in a whole...

MAINLAND is the one I am referring to. All bootleg, pir8ted, garbage comes out from MAINLAND. HK chinese are actually very tech eccentric, modern, and pleasant compared to MAINLAND.

Stealing IPs, just basically destroying a market. Major reason for all the necessary bootleg products is due to the corrupt ass govt.

"Theft" is theft. Pure and simple. There's nothing to justify this carbon copy. At least LG had a working sample..wait they are Korean manufactured...

@Alex-

Wake the fuk up will ya? China is still closed - less than before but still very closed-esp closed minded. Obviously you have zero experience living about chinese cultures judging from your ideology about "western" influences into china. From crappy ass cars, to bootleg windows XP/Vista being sold without any consideration for the hard work put into it, to fake name brand hand bags, shoes, clothing, to fake ass jewerly, cell phones, toys, guns, hand bags...damn, everything!

It's all about "image" homey. So I guess it justifies stealing IPs because the economy is growing so fast...lol, lead is still being used! time to stop making that buck!

an MDA without qwerty keyboard!?!

you're kidding right??! This is smartphone? so no touchscreen! wtf!?

so wait.... microsoft says 83% of windows users game - hard core games should get Xfire triple video card setups...buy an 780G chipset board, phenom proc. running triple core to play games?

If you haven't already noticed, there are almost worthless pc games. Exclusive and top AAA titles are released on the consoles FIRST...pc's get sloppy ports. You mean to tell me I have to upgrade my complete $3000 PC setup (8800Ultra SLI/QX6600) system so that I can enjoy DX10.1 games that supposedly looks and plays better than any PS3/360 console game???!!

Well, I'll say no thank you - 360=$279...plays fantastic games, plays HD videos, streams, windows media extender...the list goes on...no way am I going to jump ship over to AMD and get all the hardware so that I can play WoW or some crappy PC ports...

PC gaming is nearly dead...or soon to be. The next Xbox 720 will put that nail in the pc coffin!

typical marketing:

the amd 780G runs with ATI's hybrid video acceleration while the Intel G35 runs on what again?

Do not mix this with other 'asian countries'. China is the only one making 90% of worlds products but copying 100% of the products themselves. The problem is their products get worse and worse. Blatant copy cats reproducing any modern/profitable/popular product but it's proven their copy designs are shit. Look at the cars - you don't even spend years developing your car designs and yet you decide it's best to start shipping them and having them tested - lol, what a joke that is. Who will trust your brand after it fails publicly?

Not to mention, everything is moving so fast in china, it's actually a bad thing. Slow down, learn, and grow from your mistakes. Xeroxing products left and right at light speed to make a buck clearly shows your intentions - which is to make the buck so who cares if people get ripped off!? Why do you think piracy and bootleg products sell so well in china?

Here's something to ponder about: if you can't afford something luxurious, you can't buy it. But yet people in china want to have that "image", they would pay cheaply for knockoffs just to show off. It's all about face-what's even more moronic is why are these "poor" chinese people in such a need of an 'iphone'? 1st thing I'd do is earn enough to eat; buying a luxury item such as an iPhone is last on my priority list if I were poor.

As much as it sucks to hear it, china cares more about making a buck more than anything-even above human life! Look at all those toxic products coming straight out of china...we are just beginning to witness how products are made in china just to save a buck!

^^sure it can be copied, but not OVERNIGHT.

Why has this taken so long? Because the knock-off artists would first have to get their hands on an actual iPhone- then do their knock-off magic on the iPhone. POOF! One year later (with 6 months to go), we have an M8 iPhone knockoff.

If it was actually "original", you would've seen this before the iPhone - NOT after the iPhone. But this is typical: chinese copy machine at work, no wonder taiwan hates mainland lol..they steal their shit too!

If it's cheap, they will buy it: that's how china sees the economy. It's always the $ comes first, human life is last on the list. Doesn't matter what product they try to copy, at the end it is the dumb asses who actually pay for these products.

Engadget has posted prior knock-offs: even the SonyEricsson W800i phones have been duplicated but done so poorly.

"Although everything is made in china, there's almost nothing made by china" - at least anything that is tech/clothing/anything of popular/value.

^^can you say CARBON COPY?