engadget.com — Funny, we rarely, if ever see a company producing Chinese knocks of high profile devices start defending themselves, but it sounds like Meizu wants to (partly) shed the bad light cast on its M8, er, miniOne non-iPhone. According to some posts in their forums by someone who appears to be Meizu's CEO, J.Wong
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virtualballFeb 15, 2007
I'm sick of people saying that about the Meizu M8! Either you REALLY want to believe it is not a knowck off or you're blind! The icons are in the same place and I mean the EXACT same place, same "dock" launcher, the same "letterbox" formfactor....Seriously, it even came out AFTER MacWorld.Not to mention they even said they took the design....
kenokFeb 15, 2007
There's nothing wrong for a CEO or any staff to post in a forum. It could be a nice thing for them.
divxrippimpFeb 15, 2007
This phone is in japan and will be sold in japan... i seriously doubt ANYTHING will happen... you can buy rip-offs of honda motorcycles over there... it may be frowned upon but there are many many loopholes...
Closed AccountFeb 15, 2007
The iPhone is not even close to original. So if they are blamed for knocking something off, than Apple did it too.
fremeerFeb 15, 2007
So your telling me the m8 has higher resolution, is smaller, has 2 cameras one at higher resolution then the iphone and uses windows ce 6...hmmm the m8 sounds better then the iphone already, lets see how much memory it will have. 1 question does the meizu have removable battery?
berkanaFeb 15, 2007
It's not any element in particular; it's the industrial design of the iPhone that has been knocked off. They just prove that they have no creativity and no shame.Meizu doesn't just make close imitations that get by with the bare minimum of difference, the background images on their players (The abstract steaky blue backgrounds) have been ripped right out of MacOS X without modification.
flag564Feb 15, 2007
@randomgeekLG has said publicly that the Apple phone ripped them off. Of course the response from sites like Engadget is that it was all pure chance that it happened, but they are going on a tirade about the Meizu phone. They should be happy that a phone that offers similar fuctionality as the Apple one is can be done for a lot less and is more open.It seems like Ryan and the gang are acting like legal for AppleCo.
Closed AccountFeb 15, 2007
Ouch this Meizu phone looks nice. Its probably an open system, since it has IE installed, so it can probably run other apps. Long goodbye to iPhone. This thing is smaller than iPhone and look super.Wow.
crossersJul 21, 2008
The design was still undergoing changes, and when Apple launched their product, so Meizu reworked the aesthetic, added some metal, slimmed it down, and voila, M8 cum miniOne.<a class="user" href="http://www.leannrimes.info">http://www.leannrimes.info</a><a class="user" href="http://www.shpe-sac.org">http://www.shpe-sac.org</a><a class="user" href="http://www.pmidsig.org">http://www.pmidsig.org</a>