jay jay above is right: It's the RAmos T8HD, but I call BS on the 1280x720 unless this Hallods company has contracted with the OEM to add a higher resolution screen. The T8HD will have a standard 800x480 and cost about $90 in China when it gets released.

@Quixotic:

The iriver N10 -the first version of this player- came out in 2004...the year before the first Shuffle.

Why doesn't anyone do any research?

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.

The story misses the the odd-but-key feature of this player: it's supposed to be worn as a pendant and those earbuds/neckstrap are hardwired to the player.

@TJ Hooker
"Great phone, I bought mine yesterday at Nokia Store Shanghai, China, unlocked and without contract for 3590RMB."

How did you buy the E72 in Shanghai when Nokia doesn't even list it on their China site...and still "Coming Soon" in Hong Kong...and only pre-order bait listings on Taobao, for that matter?

The iAudio 7 spoke to all of Cowon's traditional strengths: no-nonsense, great sound, unbelievable battery life, powerful headphone out, unique style.

The iAudio 9: not seeing it.

Android in the works...WiFi already included...MicroSD support, well you're SOL there.

This is a nice little internal update and should make for a better-performing device. One big change: they've upgraded the Wolfson audio to a latest-generation WM8993, a much better performer than the old 8753.


@msm:
"So now they're copying Apple's development strategy too. Interesting."

Cute, but not quite. This was a redesign to address shortcomings on the original and there's talk of a very generous trade-in policy (like: free) for users who have experienced signal issues with their first-gen M8s.

Since 3G was essentially useless in China up until this summer, Meizu is still only a tiny bit behind the curve there. The clock is ticking, though.

More important right now is ironing out their firmware issues and finally releasing v1.0...they're way, way behind the curve on that count.

Oh, and for the comment somewhere above for being a "fail" in China for not having dual SIM slots: It's only a fail if you're a fan of shanzhai crapware. I've never met anyone in China with a dual-SIM phone; they're around, of course (including a few from major manufacturers) but hardly a must-have. Everyone I know (or have seen on planes, trains, and automobiles) just uses two phones if they so require.

The player in the photo isn't even the Teclast T56:

http://www.imp3.net/1/show.php?itemid=25408

kr_metal @ Sep 19th 2009 7:22PM
This is awesome. Oh and jian in Chinese means knife.


knife/blade in Chinese is dao (刀)
jiandao (剪刀) means scissors
jian on its own (剪) means "cut (using scissors)"

There are also 158 other "jian", which is why every time I promise myself to sit down and concentrate on learning some Chinese, depression quickly sets in.

The character for this Haier laptop is jian (简), which means simple. From the definition in Wenlin, I guess Haier chose the name because the character is derived from zhujian (竹简), the thin bamboo strips once used for writing.

The "possible UI" linked above is for a RAmos Rockchip player, but probably not this MID. More likely an update to the T11RK...or an entirely new device given how fast the Chinese market moves.

Then again, if RAmos is planning an Android-based MID with a Flash UI and capable of 1080P video playback, please ignore this comment.