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Looks like Chinese copy of what Apple did in 2006, despite the technical specs.

est 15y ago
> Looks like Chinese copy of what Apple did in 2006, despite the technical specs. The first iPhone was unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007.
- karolist 15y ago
  Thanks, but I don't see how that adds or takes away from "did in 2006", unless of course you state that the phone was built during first 9 days of 2007 before going public.
jensnockert 15y ago
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, and the specifications seem to be almost the best around. At that price-point, some thing like the battery life might not be very good, especially with such a high-clocked processor, but it seems to be a quite reasonable design from the pictures, not counting the buttons, I prefer hardware buttons. I don't own an Android phone right now, but I am definitely considering buying a Xiaomi Phone, and if you can actually import it at that price, well, then it is competing with phones like the Wildfire S. Which may make it quite a nice high-end phone popular with geeks and developers, befriending those groups is always important.
- exDM69 15y ago
  Cheap phones might have low-end displays too. The quality of a display is hard to quantify as numbers (unlike the CPU, memory, etc) so it's easy to leave that out from your marketing material.
  - jensnockert 15y ago
    They claim to have a huge 1930mAh battery (http://www.gadgetsbing.com/2011/08/first-chinese-phone-with-1-5ghz-dual-core-soc-xiaomi-phone-pre-order-on-august-29th/ http://www.gadgetsbing.com/2011/08/first-chinese-phone-with-...) and that the display is a Sharp 480 x 854 LCD, but there might be many models.
- roc 15y ago
  I would very much recommend waiting for reviews to show whether that potential results in a good phone. Phone specs have a way of not making much difference in the end.
jarek 15y ago
In the same way that the iPhone was an Apple copy of what Samsung and HTC did in 2005. It's the despite that counts.
- karolist 15y ago
  Very interested to see what htc and samsung did that apple copied? I'm talking about presentation style and phone visuals, not that it's "a phone, someone did a phone before, so they're copying a phone".
  - jarek 15y ago
    Touchscreen-oriented phone that appeared mostly as a large touchscreen with a couple of buttons around the periphery. You can add LG to that list, too.

est 15y ago

> Looks like Chinese copy of what Apple did in 2006, despite the technical specs. The first iPhone was unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007.

karolist 15y ago
Thanks, but I don't see how that adds or takes away from "did in 2006", unless of course you state that the phone was built during first 9 days of 2007 before going public.

jensnockert 15y ago

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, and the specifications seem to be almost the best around. At that price-point, some thing like the battery life might not be very good, especially with such a high-clocked processor, but it seems to be a quite reasonable design from the pictures, not counting the buttons, I prefer hardware buttons. I don't own an Android phone right now, but I am definitely considering buying a Xiaomi Phone, and if you can actually import it at that price, well, then it is competing with phones like the Wildfire S. Which may make it quite a nice high-end phone popular with geeks and developers, befriending those groups is always important.

exDM69 15y ago
Cheap phones might have low-end displays too. The quality of a display is hard to quantify as numbers (unlike the CPU, memory, etc) so it's easy to leave that out from your marketing material.
- jensnockert 15y ago
  They claim to have a huge 1930mAh battery (http://www.gadgetsbing.com/2011/08/first-chinese-phone-with-1-5ghz-dual-core-soc-xiaomi-phone-pre-order-on-august-29th/ http://www.gadgetsbing.com/2011/08/first-chinese-phone-with-...) and that the display is a Sharp 480 x 854 LCD, but there might be many models.
roc 15y ago
I would very much recommend waiting for reviews to show whether that potential results in a good phone. Phone specs have a way of not making much difference in the end.

jarek 15y ago

In the same way that the iPhone was an Apple copy of what Samsung and HTC did in 2005. It's the despite that counts.

karolist 15y ago
Very interested to see what htc and samsung did that apple copied? I'm talking about presentation style and phone visuals, not that it's "a phone, someone did a phone before, so they're copying a phone".
- jarek 15y ago
  Touchscreen-oriented phone that appeared mostly as a large touchscreen with a couple of buttons around the periphery. You can add LG to that list, too.