“Meizu’s miniOne will borrow even more directly from Apple’s iPhone interface than expected, even as the company trims its pricing. The handset is to feature a contact list and text messaging virtually indistinguishable from the iPhone, including elements such as the side column of letters for faster navigation,” MacNN reports.
MacNN reports, “The company claims it has established pricing well below the iPhone: a standard edition with a camera and 4GB of storage will cost as little as $310, with an 8GB variant costing $400… A basic version of the MiniOne without the camera will retail for even less — $195 and $285 for 4GB and 8GB, respectively.”
Full article, with more and larger images, here.
Sad. Is there no company that can come out with something new? Or even original? Plus, this “iPhone” doesn’t have OSX on it. That is the killer thing there….
Nowhere near as exciting or game-changing as the iPhone I’m afraid.
And you’re right, OS X is the killer app for the iPhone…
June can’t come soon enough.
I sure hope Apple is suing their asses off. They got patents…well protect the damn things. Even the iCal icon looked ripped off.
Bast*rds
Except for the Windows icon, I think that it is a good deal
Cry HAVOC, and let slips the dogs of war!
Apple legal is going to have a ball with this thing.
Face it Mac-Losers, you can’t think fast enough. All your toy phones and silly candy icons can be copied within weeks in the global economy.
Microsoft is th only company capable of playing on a global field.
Stick to your overpriced mp3 players.
OOHHH, I see a Windows logo on it. It’s a failure.
Looks good. I may buy this instead of the iPhone 😀
That was quick! Maybe Microsoft will send a team of “experts” to study how to reduce development time from decades to weeks.
Silly troll, copying Apple only emphasizes that Apple is the clear leader in consumer technology. Too bad for you that mimicking Apple seems to lead to inferior products with only a superficial likeness to Apple.
These knock-offs remind me of the old ’70’s kit cars. You know, the ones with the real swoopy bodies that looked gran prix race cars, but the still had a Volkswagen engine in the back. Always driven by wanna-be losers.
This surge of windows-trolls lately feels a lot like MDN has been infected with a virus.
Dear Windows Trolls,
Please keep your viruses and desperate comments to yourself. I liken your presence to the Plague. Let’s face it…your OS sucks. Your big ‘ol company is slowly being eaten away, and your computers are ugly.
Go back. Go back to your windows blog site. Either that, or just face the plain facts: our Apple Community feels sorry for you. We don’t THINK we are better, we just KNOW that we are and are content smiling in the background, while you all struggle to adapt.
Your Friend, M@c
In the ’70s Chrysler ran a marketing campaign comparing one of their mid-sized sedans to a Mercedes 250. They referenced a few features common to both, then boasted their offering was $2,000 less! No one in their right mind believed that Dodge or Plymouth was equivalent to the Benz, and no one in their right mind should believe that Meizu’s cheap knockoff, despite the rounded corners and home key is equivalent to the iPhone. We saw cheap knockoffs of the original iMac (running Windows, of course), and knockoffs of the iPod. Expect to see more of this crap.
People used to joke that Microsoft’s R&D lab was located in Cupertino. The rest of this sorry industry, lacking in vision and imagination and too lazy to do the hard work themselves, will continue to copy the truly revolutionary products of our day until they’re called to account.
the screen? It obviously has a touch screen, but I suspect several of the features that make this interaction appealing are not present.
What about integration with a computer? Apple’s products have great hardware, but they also understand that ease of use and integration
are critical to consumers. I suspect the software that will support this phone is going to be ass.
Mac-alufugus shut up! If you don’t like Apple so much then why in the world are you posting on a Mac rumor site? Apple does not copy but it does make things similar to what has already come out but they usually improve other companies mistakes and make it easier for consumers to use. Im sorry your mad the Microsoft can’t seem to do anything right these days! O and yes I own a PC many of them but not more than Mac’s lol
Laughing Out Loud…..
I would be embarrassed to release such a clone….
No wonder 90% of the world uses Windoze!….so many copycats…..
Since it does not take much brains to copy, I guess they don’t realize..that it will take much more than a look a like phone to share in the success of the iPhone.
I can’t believe they are not smart enough to realize that the iPhone is not just about being a phone or a music player, or an internet device…
Apple has the right idea about integrating services on an advanced platform to grow from…none of the copy cats can provide the integrated experience that Apple can with OS X as the base and the Apple Applications….
Together, they are worth much more than the sum of its parts…
look at all the copy cat iPod players still eating dust a 1000 miles behind the trail of the iPod.
It’s just a cheap copy and that’s all that it is. One feature that it won’t and can’t have is an iPod player. So with that it’s just a cheap Windows piece of crap that will not sell even if they cut the price in to just a quarter of what the iPhone is now. I say that Apple’s lawyers will be paying them a visit before the end of the year.
It can’t really be copied that easiliy, the software is the differentiating factor. The hardware can easily be imitated, but I don’t believe there are too many phone companies that are currently capable of copying the software. They need to write an OS or acquire one, a web browsing platform and all the other technologies incorporated in the iPhone. Only a company such as Apple with all the resources in computer software could write such a thing, save maybe microsoft and their copies of Apple software are largely regarded as being a little poor.
Won’t they get sued?
Where is the built-in iPod with CoverFlow?? Did’nt think so.
Zune Tang was hilarious. Come on out Tang, we’d love to hear from you.
Yeah, it’s a turd. That being said, there is one thing I would like to see inthe iPhone that this knockoff has. That is the camera facing the operator so you can use it to iChat.
No worries. They’re pretty, but they’re not the original and won’t be an issue in the long run. Crumb snatchers.
Jake, I eat pussies like you for lunch. Face it, the iPhone, like Apple’s computers, is/will be if it ever materializes — overpriced.
Who the hell needs a “phone” to do all that shit? And for $600 no less?
As the saying goes, “You gotta be SHITTIN’ me!”
Software on a phone is more limited. MS and many others can write quailty software for something so simple. One lone programmer in his spare time already has. . . http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/12815/
Jobs is a flim-flam artist of the highest order. James Randi would destroy his lies.
MS shows and grows. Apple blows and blows.
I’m amazed that the M$ losers are so superficial.
It’s not about the outside that counts but whats in the inside.
As ‘Raymond from DC’ pointed out Chrysler tried to compare their cars to a Mercedes.
It had the same outside designs/grillwork, etc. But there was no comparison to performance.
I think this is was differentiates Mac uses from M$. Mac’s have real internal substance.
M$ users are what they PCs represents – they’re all clones with no real substance.
So what if it doesn’t really work, it looks like the real thing and thats all they care about. They want to look the part even if it sucks!
What a joke!
Mac-alugugus,
I’m having a hard time figuring out if you’re pulling a Zune Tang or if you’re serious…
If you’re serious, I used to be just like you. My time of enlightenment came, and yours will too.
In the mean time, keep your Microsoft-lovin’ views and be their little pawn. You’ll someday realize how stupid you were for allowing them to control you for all those years…
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How is this type of rip of possible? Does anyone see a lawsuit coming?
Apple shall ignore the Chinese company and sue Microsoft for licensing it’s pocket PC for copyright infringemnet purposes.
I’ll buy to one that supports CDMA.
What a surprise! An Asian company ripping off other people’s ideas – I thought only Mafia$oft did that.
“Meizu’s miniOne will borrow even more directly from Apple’s iPhone interface than expected …”
Yea, I don’t think The Steve is in a “lending” mood. So what we are talking about here is theft plain and simple.
Cupertino, start your litigation!
Ah, keep rocking on Steve!
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Well, Pissed@MDN’s Webmaster,
It looks like your theory is wrong. I just posted the “Zune Tang” post above with no problem.
“Who the hell needs a “phone” to do all that shit? And for $600 no less?”
I do, and I’m going to tell my boss I will settle for no less than a $600 iPhone. After all, I’m sure he’ll be glad to shell out the money when I tell him I can listen to music and surf the web all day when I’m supposed to be working…
I suppose they’ll sell 10,000,000 of them though. Between wannabe hipsters and fanboys, there should be enough of a market…
iPhone is a toy… I love my Mac, and iphone is a great overpriced technology demonstrator.. nothing more, nothing less..
I need a phone in my pocket and my Blackbery does just fine for email.. Those who need / want toys will snap up on it or one of the pretty clones…
No amount of lipstick will conceal the primitive underpinnings of the “knock off” iPhones – just as however Mac-like the user interface of Vista appears, it is still built on DOS underpinnings.
The key to iPhone will be in the network integration – otherwise why would Apple have gone to all the trouble to select a single partner?
Windows lemmings are getting more pathetic by the day.
Mac-alufugus = Zune Tang?
I would say so! (or perhaps a close cousin or something)
Whatever. Thank you for amusing us!
Oh, my brother, a long time Windows user got a Mac assigned at work. He came the other day and told me: “Man, you were soooo right, the Mac rocks! Kicks the helI out of Windows! I want one!”
I think I’ll buy a new MacBook Pro and give the kid my good loyal iBook. I know he’ll thank me from now to the eternity.
It’s nice to show people the Light…
So, how many companies rushed to copy the Zune……… ?
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
A knockoff cost less than the original? I never would have guessed. So, those fake Prada bags sold on the street should actually cost less than those in the store? How about we try for a more clever headline next time?
THANK YOU CAPT. OBVIOUS!!
WHY DO PEOPLE CALL THIS A KNOCK-OFF? It takes companies more than a month or two to design a product. If this is more than a ray-traced CAD image and is a photograph of an actual product, then they’ve been working on this for at least year. I’m a Mac “fanatic” but I’m also an engineer. So I’m atune to giving credit where credit is due. I assume that if they aren’t infringing on any of Apple’s patents, that this product will be inferior in many ways to Apple’s product. People should avoid the temptation though, to say that this company copied Apple. They MAY have actually copied Apple with added software features (since that’s easy to add late in the game). But features like text messaging are a no-brainer and one should assume that any company that’s going to develop a product in this vain are going to have that sort of functionality.
Laughing Out Loud…..
I would be embarrassed to release such a clone..
I would be even more embarrassed being caught with one in my possesion,
like some one else said
wanna be -losser
Wow what a copy off the iphone. Even though the iphone and this thing look like basically the same thing. I would still pay an extra $200 for the iphone just so the company that deservs the money gets it!! This company can go to hell as far as i’m concerned.
Well, I’d say this phone is very akin to a Hollywood film set. From the front the buildings look like real houses and business, but when you open the front door and go in – there is nothing there but a thin facade.
Does this phone have all of the options that the iPhone has like the visual voice mail? Movie capability with the rotating screen? And anything else that makes the iPhone what it is. I seriously doubt it.
And as mentioned previously – it isn’t running OS X. It’s just a phony MS front impersonating the real thing.
Mac-alufugus
Mar 02, 07 – 01:50 pm
Face it Mac-Losers, you can’t think fast enough. All your toy phones and silly candy icons can be copied within weeks in the global economy.
Thanks for the retards view, retard.
Let me get this straight. Others only end up copying Apple’s innovation, which means they have to wait for Apple to come with the original ideas, but Apple doesn’t think fast enough?
Obviously, since they are ahead of everyone else, they are thinking faster.
That’s the problem with trolls. They have to go so far with their hyperbole, they end up constantly contradicting themselves, to wit: if it’s a “toy phone” with “silly icons” then why does everyone fall all over themselves to copy everything Apple does?
Moron.
Apple will take in $500m from punk companies like this just in patent infringement lawsuits in the first 2 years alone.
Buy Apple stock now. Other surprises are up Apple’s sleeves.
Watch.
One of the pitfalls of mass-producing products in China. As soon as you hand off the design, it gets copied and sent to the knock off manufacturers.
2007 will be the year of the hi powered Apple legal team. =)
GregL ” It takes companies more than a month or two to design a product. If this is more than a ray-traced CAD image and is a photograph of an actual product, then they’ve been working on this for at least year. I’m a Mac “fanatic” but I’m also an engineer. “
I’m a product designer and I could make a phone that look like this in an afternoon. This is a model, it is a block of polished, spray-painted wood with a colour print mounted behind a bit of polycarbonate plastic, those dull scratches are typical. Note that despite the different photographs the time on the clock never changed.
This isn’t a knock-off, its a publicity stunt.
Engineers, phtt. Always looking for the complicated answer.
Pinto or Lexus… hmmmm…. lets see…
“MDN Magic Word”: run (as in RUN away from this product)
Apple’s legal department is going to be working this week – go get them boys!
A mate of mine had a load of those ipod nano rip off’s from china, there was no doubting the thing was cheap and remarkable for 15 quid, but the interface was totally different and it didn’t have a scroll wheel, so hardly an ipod killer.
forget one thing about that meizu zunephone,its not multi-touch!!! gotcha.
This is GOOD. Apple has planted the seed of how to make a product. Sure this may suck in comparison but it’s great that Apple is changing the world a bit. Or at least peoples way of thinking. And no one has to buy this thing if they don’t want. That goes for the iPhone as well.