It looked like Intel and Apple were becoming pals, with Intel offering Apple its Core Duo processors for the Mac and even praising the iPhone. (…)
Check out this video where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laughs at Apple’s iPhone, “the most expensive phone in the world,” because, he says, “it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine.”
He’s right, the lack of tactile response could be a killer for iPhone. (…)
With all the news of iPhone-inspired mobile phones, I thought I’d put together a list of the five most notable iPhone clones:
Meizu miniOne
Teclast T59
LG Prada KE850
ASUS Aura
iSoftPhone
See these iPhone competitors reviewed after the jump…
Meizu miniOne iPhone Lookalike
Meizu’s miniOne, formerly known as the M8, will sport:
WinCE 6.0
3-megapixel camera (compared to iPhone’s 2 megapixels)
3.3-inch VGA+ screen (iPhone’s is 3.5 inches)
GSM support
TV-out
Photo/video/MP3 compatibility
The miniOne seems like a suitable iPhone alternative for the Windows-inclined who can live without a rotating display and Visual Voicemail. (…)
Apparently Meizu looks up to Apple like a big brother, because just as Apple used the iPhone name despite Cisco owning the iPhone trademark, Meizu’s iPhone clone, miniOne, also happens to share its name with a Venzero portable media player that has been out since last June. (…)
So I was only half-right about the Meizu M8. It is in fact not real… but only because the real Meizu iPhone-knockoff is named miniOne. (…)
