Jan
iPhone impersonators are arriving and every other day now and right on the heels of the LG PRADA touch-screen handset we now have the Meizu M8. However, we can all expect many more on the horizon in the days to come. Meizu is not new to being an apple copycat but it has managed to excel in its Apple inspired products
What Meizu seem to have is a great track record of copying an Apple product then adding a feature that the original product should have had in the first place. This time they’ve given their M8 mobile phone the ability to work on both 3G and GSM.
The Meizu M8 is a personal media player/phone that will reportedly run on Windows CE. Features include a 3.3-inch screen, GSM and 3G, Bluetooth and a 3-megapixel camera capable of capturing video at a 720 x 480 resolution and 30 frames per second. We’re expecting to hear lots more about this product come the summer.
Source: Unbeatable.co.uk
Jan
Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple’s rich financial terms and other demands. Apparently Apple’s first choice for exclusive iPhone service was Verizon and not Cingular! The two companies couldn’t agree on a deal that worked for both companies. “We said no.” Said Jim Gerace, a VZW VP. “We have nothing bad to say about the Apple iPhone. We just couldn’t reach a deal that was mutually beneficial.” Talks began as far back as two years ago, but Apple’s demands were steep.
Apple wanted a percentage of monthly service fees, control over distribution that would limit iPhone sales to Apple and Verizon stores, and even some control over service and support for iPhone customers. “They would have been stepping in between us and our customers to the point where we would have almost had to take a back seat … on hardware and service support,” say Gerace.
Whether consumers — who would have presumably had a fair shot at an EV-DO iPhone with Verizon as a service provider — will win in the end is yet to be seen.
Source: Engadget
