Chinese iPhone knock-off on the way

[aryayush]

Chinese electronics maker Meizu is the first company to closely copy the look and feel of Apple’s iPhone. The Meizu miniOne, due out in the fourth quarter of 2007, is a GSM phone with numerous iPhone similarities, including a curved, black and polished steel design, touch-screen interface, and a nearly identical on-screen software icon layout. According to preliminary specifications, the miniOne is slightly smaller and thinner than the iPhone, has a higher resolution screen, and runs the Windows CE 6.0 operating system. Meizu also claims that the phone will be powered by the ARM11 processor and will sport two built-in cameras—a 3.0 megapixel camera on the back and an 0.3 megapixel camera on the phone’s face.

*images.apple.com/iphone/images/indexhero20070109.jpg *meizume.surfterror.com/images/4260m8.jpg​

If I need to tell you which of the two is the Meizu miniOne, you can go back under that rock!

Here are a few more pictures. Click on them to see a larger version:

*meizume.surfterror.com/thumbs/4432200721316432425766.jpg

*meizume.surfterror.com/thumbs/8135200721316432433223.jpg

*meizume.surfterror.com/thumbs/9119200721316432495942.jpg

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[gxsaurav]

Lets see, Windows Mobile 6.0 which means 10000000 of apps & choices to install from, 3G, 3 MP Camera, Stylus based writing & finger based button press along with stylus support....hmm, iPhone is dead even before it is relesed to the public.

Oh! Well...long live the real Phone manufacturer like Samsung & Nokia, Apple can't relese a new phone every 6 months, but others can...which means rapid updatation with the technology, so that leaves iphone with what it was meant to be, an iPod with touch screen

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

We have both "the guys" and some anti-apple talk.

 

[s18000rpm]

man why dont these Chinese dudes come up with something Original, from a small toy to Electronics goods to a CAR. what else are they goin to copy - a Jumbo Jet

why cant the affected Company Sue them??? why the heck is Chinese Govt. like this

 

[freebird]

^^ may be bcoz they are different;they learn MATH using ABACUS.dont ask me the logic but i understand that most chinese cant do a calculation with a paper;only using suanpan.that may be the reason-there brain tuned to became a copycat

 

[..:: Free Radical ::..]

PocketPC already has a theme of the iphone.
Windows mobile 6 is out. Lets wait for that instead.

 

[Pathik]

watever.. Wm6.0 cant hav multitouch atleast.. Dumb chinese

 

[gxsaurav]

watever.. Wm6.0 cant hav multitouch atleast.. Dumb chinese

umm....actully, it can....just a firmware hack or an OS Mod required. Since it's not official, it doesn't matters even if it breaches the patent

We have both "the guys" and some anti-apple talk.

Oh plz....no way, looks like apple camp is getting paid to post things for apple here, i m not getting paid to do anything. Infact I am worried, what if that thread gets reported & me banned again for no reason. Stay away from macboys

what else are they goin to copy - a Jumbo Jet

Yo, don't give them ideas

Just saw the comparision, 720X480 pixel resolution, thats freegin cool, no idea about the memory, it would be good if they only provide 128 MB or 256 MB inbuilt memory with option to expand using memory card, that to SD, cos it's cheap

 

[..:: Free Radical ::..]

@pathiks... I meant the above is just the iphone theme (you can get the theme now for your ppc for the QVGA interface which emulates the look of iphone, not the functionality...google it or look in appropriate forums)
There was a previous thread of an LG prada model for which LG had filed a patent so that Apple could not get exclusive rights for multitouch.
Probably we may see more of multitouch too

EDIT:
was posting before the above was posted

 

[Pathik]

if such a mod is available then it ll rock.. But i dont think it is or ll be.. Neways u cant multitouch wit a stylus.. Poor screen..

 

[gxsaurav]

This just in....LG Might sue Apple for copying LG Prada

Lolz....have to admit, apple is a genius when it comes to stealing & copying ideas, but presenting them before anyone else. .

Plz no flames here, Face it, everyone copies everyone. The MOTORAZR wasn't the first skinny phone and it won't be the last. The iPhone wasn't the first touchscreen only handset and it won't be the last. The iPod wasn't the first MP3 player either. Let's just move on and enjoy our options as consumers

Edit : Even Microsoft copies

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Dude be careful here

 

[gxsaurav]

^^^^^^ yup, that was my last post in this thread, warna ande & apple parenge

 

[Pathik]

@gx i agree... But i advice u to include ms in that list to be on the safer side..

 

[aryayush]

why cant the affected Company Sue them???

I am sure Apple will. Their lawyers might already be preparing for the case.

Lets see, Windows Mobile 6.0 which means...

... a slow, buggy, unstable operating system from the company which knows nothing about operating systems.

Stylus based writing & finger based button press along with stylus support

But no Multi-touch and no advanced sensors.

hmm, iPhone is dead even before it is relesed to the public.

Yeah, sure! If Apple had been competing solely on the basis of the number of features crammed into the device, the iPod wouldn't have been such a huge success. Apple's genius lies in hardware and user interface design coupled with an aesthetically pleasing device that has an awesome flaunt value. The iPhone, as well the iPod, falls in this paradigm too.

Just wait and watch, everyone and his brother will be clamouring for this device.

umm....actully, it can (have Multi-touch)....just a firmware hack or an OS Mod required.

Oh yeah? What good will a firmware hack do when the hardware itself does not support it? How can you make a hardware recognise two fingers and gestures by changing the firmware? If you can, would you mind giving us a link to someplace we can download the hack from?
Given your intricate knowledge of the subject, may I assume that you yourself have written a hack for it?

Stay away from macboys

Yeah, I can see you are definitely playing your part in doing that.

LG had filed a patent so that Apple could not get exclusive rights for multitouch.
Probably we may see more of multitouch too

LG Prada does not feature Multi-touch, so I think they have a very very slim chance of stopping Apple from getting that patent.

This just in....LG Might sue Apple for copying LG Prada

I "might" sue you for being a jerk but that does not mean that you ARE one (and I am not implying anything here).

Lolz....have to admit, apple is a genius when it comes to stealing & copying ideas, but presenting them before anyone else. .

Both phones have been in development for a long time and both have been kept in total secrecy until the official announcement. How in the world would either company be able to steal the other's ideas?

The iPod wasn't the first MP3 player either.

Oh, so if there are already MP3 players in the market and you make one too, you are copying the other company! Logic at its best.

Edit : Even Microsoft copies

Boy, do they! You have put in the word even as if Microsoft is some holy organisation which would never think of copying others. It is their second nature (and I wouldn't be surprised if it was their first one too).

If some mods take note of this thread and decide to use the Mod CP, please take a moment to realise that this is all for the sake of fun. It feels really great to read and post these humourous replies.

 

[rajasekharan]

thats a nice phone.....*e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/w00t.gif

 

[gxsaurav]

I
... a slow, buggy, unstable operating system from the company which knows nothing about operating systems.

& yet they rule the market, with Other's trying to play catchup & trying to defeat

here we go again, i wonder arya, how much u love apples, i mean, R U Apple, R U mac or Are u Steve Jobs himself, you take every remarke given to them on yourself

dil pe mat le yaar.....dimag par le

 

[crystal_pup]

Like copy cats they are!!!!

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"GOOD is not GOOD when BETTER is expected"

 

[..:: Free Radical ::..]

^^^
btw, I already have the above theme

 

[tarey_g]

This chinese phone is kickass , smaller,thinner , high res screen , 3mp camera. bye iphone.

Those who are crying that meizu copied iphone design(which allegedly copied prada) can cry even more because this phone is even better(and definitely will be cheaper) than the iphone.

IMO not only Meizu copies iphone design , it does it better . And it has windows . Sweet , like gx said tons of third party apps.

LG Prada does not feature Multi-touch, so I think they have a very very slim chance of stopping Apple from getting that patent.

Great, what a reasonable comment , because LG prada does not have Multi touch thats why iphone is not a copy/inspiration . Ok good enuff , but now according to you it implies that because Meizu does not feature multitouch it can not be called a copy of iphone(which has multi t). Awesome.... but meizu looks a copy to me.
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... a slow, buggy, unstable operating system from the company which knows nothing about operating systems.

Definition Straight from the official MS haters dictionary.