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Walt Mossberg: Samsung Instinct is no iPhone

ashoperon — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:09:37 +0000

Walt Mossberg has been playing around with the Samsung Instinct for Sprint for a while now, and has something to say about the device. That is, it is no iPhone. According to Walt, the device is nice, but it is lacking in some areas that he really would have liked the device to excel in. According to him, the interface is just not pretty enough.

“I’ve been testing the Instinct, and while it isn’t a bad phone and has some features the Apple product lacks, it’s no match for the iPhone. The manufacturers haven’t replicated the iPhone’s greatest strength: beautiful, powerful, breakthrough software.” – Walt Mossberg

Strong words against the device. The Instinct will begin shipping on June 20th, meaning it will beat the iPhone 3G out of the gates. The problem is, Sprint has been advertising the devices 3G and GPS, directly targeting the iPhone on that front. Maybe someone should tell them about the iPhone 3G. Mossberg seems to be the few, as many that have reviewed the Instinct found it to be a very nice device.

[Via Wall Street Journal]

Meizu M8 Mini One – iPhone clone will launch in August

ashoperon — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:59:16 +0000

We have been seeing the M8 Mini One by Meizu for quite some time now. It was not too long after the iPhone came out that we started seeing the clones. This one my Meizu though, has arguably been the most successful, well persistent, clone to date.

While Meizu had very little mind of their own when making this device, and it is very apparent when looking at the device. Before totally writing it off though, it is at least worth glancing at the spec sheet, with features such as: Wifi, TV out, capacitive touch screen, quad band GSM, 3 megapixel camera, and Bluetooth 2.0.

The device will be made available in August. While the device will never go on sale here, it is supported, as it has that 4th GSM band. No price has been set. Really though, does anybody that has even heard of Meizu not have an iPhone already though?

[Via VR-Zone]

HiPhone iPhone clone unboxed and demoed

Vincent Nguyen — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:02:29 +0000

For an iPhone-knock off, the HiPhone is pretty decent. That being said, it has the looks of the iPhone, but still lack heart and soul of the iPhone.

Click through for the full list of specs and a demoed video on steroid.

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=vz_MviiyQx4[/youtube]

[thanks for sending the video and images over - mobiles.shop.tm]

Detailed Product Description
Dual SIM Mobile Phone with 3.2″ Large Touch Screen Hi-phone.

Basic Specification:

1-Network supported: GSM850/900/1800/1900( 850/1900 optional )

2-Form: Candy bar

3-Main display 3.2″ touch flow with multi-touch function

4-Talk time: 120-180 mins

5-Standby time 200-250 hours

6-Shell color: Black

7-Dimensions: 110x55x12mm

8-Weight: 107g

9-Battery: 1200mAH Li-ion battery,

10- Dual SIM card, Single Standby.

11- Slides to unlock the screen.

Basis function

1-Sound :64 Polyphonies

2-Phone book: 250

3-Message : SMS/MMS

4-Language: English,Russian,Arabic,Vietnamese,French,Portuguese,Spanish,German etc.

5-Alert clock, Memo, Calendar, Calculator, World time , Area code.

Data application

1-Stereo Bluetooth 2.0

2-JAVA

3-Browser: WAP/GPRS

4-Data cable Supported

5-Memory card up to 2G

6-Flash disk

Multi-media entertainment

1-MP3/MP4 player with motional control ;

2-Camera 1.3 MP;

3-with Fm;

4-Photo display Zoom in and Zoom out

Package contents

1-Li-ion battery;

2-Charger;

3-512MB T-Flash card;

4-Silica case;

5-USB Data cable;

6-English manual

Meizu iPhone-clone prototype breaks cover

Chris Davies — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:11:02 +0000

As anyone who has followed the Optimus Maxiumus saga will know, after a while people get sick & tired of renders and want to see the real thing. Up until now, we’ve only had digitally-created images of Meizu’s range of iPhone-clones, but now there are leaked photos of the iPod Touch lookalike handset the M9 M8 to prove that it isn’t just a designers folly. Update: the device is a mockup, bizarrely not even using the final production materials.

~~The M9 is, predictably, the follow-up to the M8, and differs from its predecessor by virtue of a matte black plastic body as opposed to the M8′s aluminium frame.~~ Given that the device has been confirmed a pre-production mockup, not using the official materials it eventually will be produced in, there’s no reason to presume this is a different model from the M8. It’s expected to launch in 2009 – presumably with the same non-MultiTouch touchscreen as earlier models – although it could be a China-only product due in no small part to Apple’s seething legal teams.

[via SlashPhone]