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Ahh, the almost mythical Chinese rip-off of the iPhone. We’ve been seeing prototype mock-ups and renderings of the Meizu M8 miniOne ever since the iPhone launched, but we’ve yet to get our hands on one. The problem? There just isn’t a finished version of the Meizu M8 iPhone clone in the wild.
The closest we’ve come to actually seeing the Meizu M8 in the wild is Engadget Mobile‘s recent coverage from CeBIT 2008. We missed Meizu at CES 2008 in Las Vegas, but Engadget Mobile spotted a Meizu M8 prototype hanging out at Meizu’s booth and had to good sense to recordify the barely working demo unit. The trademark-flouting Meizu team was passing around a prototype handset that did little more than splash a few interface screens – a strictly “for show” prototype with decidedly “no go.”
Meizu did manage to demonstrate some of the Meizu M8 interface, but it was only up and running on an engineering reference board. These guys have had a lot of time to bring their handset into reality, you’d think they’d be past the reference board stage.
Now, we just wait for Meizu to get their affairs in order and bring the Meizu M8 miniOne to market. And then we wait for Apple’s legal team to have a field-day.
[Via: Engadget Mobile]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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