an iPhone clone?

[difenbaker]

http://www.engadget.com/media/2007/01/meizu_m8.jpg

We're not sure if the pics above are the result of an engorged, Chinese fanboy fantasy or actual product renderings of Meizu's rumored M8. We wouldn't be surprised either way what with China-based Meizu's history of uh, Apple inspired design. Posted by a senior discussion-forum jockey on the Meizu site, the M8 is now said to measure in at a scant 57x105x11.5-mm and packs both a GSM and Chinese TD-SCDMA 3G radio, a 3.3-inch 720x480 pixel display, Bluetooth, a 3 megapixel camera, and an ARM11 CPU capable of recording video at 30fps at the device's full 720 x 480 resolution. Too good to be true? Perhaps, but if not Meizu than certainly some other nimble Chinese outfit will be unveiling their iPhone clone soon enough and likely well before the iPhone hits Asia sometime in 2008. And as we've seen, even Apple's tenacious legal team can be helpless in the face of shutting down copycats on foreign turf.

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/01/29/meizus-m8-apple-lawyers-start-your-engines/


cheers!

[carcomptoy]

HAHAHAHAHA that's great...I would get this just to spite Apple people. although what's up with the TD-SCDMA...I know it's their thing, but is it actually in use yet?

[oneclick]

I'll bet the whole farm that is going to be CHEAPER than the $599 iPhone! :D :D

tnx-1clk

[Jose_R.A.M]

This looks a lot more like what an iPhone should look like.

[carcomptoy]

What do you mean should look like? I don't understand why the iPhone is black instead of while...its current look makes it seems like the BB Pearl.

[TheZodiac]

IT It will be cheaper, because the only difference between this and any other Windows mobile handheld is, it has no keyboard.

Plenty of competition from the windows world for the windows world, so it has to be cheap.

Its like saying Mac's compete with PCs. PCs. compete with PCs. Thats why they are so cheap.

Why do I bother - .... hahaha.

[Jose_R.A.M]

What do you mean should look like? I don't understand why the iPhone is black instead of while...its current look makes it seems like the BB Pearl.

But that's exactly it. It's got more white than the iPhone - white being synonymous with "i" apple products.

And I also said " This looks a lot more like what an iPhone should look like"

[Walkingman1]

It's getting to be a case of the clone wars! :)

[carcomptoy]

I don't think the chrome should've been there...but yeah I get what you mean now, Jay.:o

[stephanie]

I hope that the chinese doesn't like copy everything the iPhone has. Like that non user-replaceable battery, and the iPhone being "closed" to 3rd party applications. Or they might find themselves in like the same boat as the iPhone - which many are already starting to dislike.

[[K]]

this is better than the iphone :D