January 29th, 2007 by ketyung
iPhone is only coming into Asia market in 2008, there is no surprise that we’d see lots of iPhone-clones coming up in Asia before iPhone launched in 2008. Well, the copycats phenomenon has become a norm in Asia market, especially China.
M8, the rumored product of Meizu, which looks pretty much like an iPhone, but it was first reported having no cellphone function, which was said as purely a MiniPlayer, the newer version of its M6. The M8 was first said to feature a 533MHz Samsung ARM processor, a 2.6-inch screen and loaded with the Windows CE OS.
This is something that we’ve rarely seen before , i.e an MP3 player with Windows CE loaded. Due its “imitation of design” of the iPhone, the touch-screen feature is difinitely a must.
According to Engadget, the post by a senior discussion-forum jockey on the Meizu site, the M8 is now said to measure in at a scant 57×105x11.5-mm and packs both a GSM and Chinese TD-SCDMA 3G radio, a 3.3-inch 720×480 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. GSM, camera, Windows CE loaded? A smartphone? A PDA ? I guess it could be a change of direction by Meizu into producing an iPhone clone instead of only an MP3 player due to the overwhelming buzz of iPhone. Will Apple take any action on this ?
Via Crave, Via Engadget, Via Dapreview
Technorati: iPhone,Apple,Meizu,M8,Meizu M8
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