JP
So the rep from Meizu, much like the company as a whole, continues to profess their design didn’t come from the iPhone, that their design was completed some time towards the end of 2006, well before the iPhone was released. They still don’t mention anything about the software though, which is almost definitely stolen from Apple.
Technically the OS runs on top of Windows CE 6.0, but it looks, and works, just like the OS X Mobile interface on the iPhone, even the finger flicks are the same. They don’t currently have a fully functional handset, they have a handset that can display 4 different images, and then they have a prototype board that has a fully functional OS.
Once they get everything figured out and working in a handset, it will have a 3.4” touchscreen with a 720×480 resolution, a 3MP camera, and GPRS/EDGE (even the good knockoffs can’t give us a 3G iPhone) it also has TV-out and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. It will be launching in 6 months, hopefully.
[via PhoneMag]
2 Responses to “Meizu M8 – no, of course it doesn’t look like an iPhone…”
Steve Carlson March 5, 2008
Actually they said last year that they changed their design to mimic the iPhone.
http://www.slashgear.com/minio.....153918.php
NeutralKevin March 11, 2008
I was writing industrial field apps under Windows CE years ago that had icon driven screens and fingertip scrolling.
I had to smile when the iPhone came out, because it validated what others had been doing for a long time before them on touchscreens in some parts of the industry.
So, while I agree that Meizu is trying to copy a lot of the UI, some basic things have been around. Just not seen by the normal consumer.
Neutral