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[aeboi]

Wow...just went to the Meizu website--it's even an almost exact copy of the Apple website design and layout. No shame I guess.

that's a reach

 

[C DM]

that's a reach

What's a reach?

 

[tbayrgs]

that's a reach

You're joking, right? It's a near carbon copy--even has the image 'parallax effect' Apple uses on their iPhone page.

Yup, these look nothing alike.

 

[sviato]

Other than the camera placement, I think it looks better than the 6 design. I always liked the chamfered edges.

 

[mrex]

Placing the lense in the top centre of the phone is a very "Samsung" thing to do.....

and placing the camera to the area where you keep your fingers is good then? how many times i have almost taken a photo of my index fingerprint...

 

[mi7chy]

That's funny because as I look through dpreview.com virtually all cameras have centered lens relative to body.

 

[Savor]

When it comes to external design, copying others is the fastest among Chinese OEM's. Meizu have been aping Apple even years before Xiaomi. I already see HTC clones already. HTC One Plus Two renders. Still, I like the value Meizu offers with their phones. Actually being familiar with more Chinese brands, they sorta closed the gap with quality vs the global ones. ZTE is another one to look out for.

After reading endless posts on GameFaqs during the last week as I am trying to get back into gaming, I realized I sorta PEAKED with smartphones just like in video games. Almost everyone HATES the 7th gen of gaming and might HATE the 8th gen even more. Everyone loved the 4th-6th gen. I preferred gaming throughout the 90's and early 00's before all the online FPS and DLC flooded the scene. Smartphones is also getting oversaturated. Rumor has it Note 5 will be S6-ish. Samsung went the fruity variety. No wonder Consumer Reports gave #1 to the S5. An underappreciated, unpopular device based maligned solely on aesthetics/build quality. Didn't Nintendo have FUGLY hardware designs too but people still love them? Just like GRAPHICS over GAMEPLAY which ruined the gaming industry and shortened the REPLAY VALUE and memory for them, the FLASH OVER SUBSTANCE is finally saturating in the mobile industry with features based on foresight being omitted. In 2015, there is seems nothing to look forward to. A gimmicky feature here or there that gets forgotten in a few years. It is like console gaming after the 6th gen. All that capability but still gives me a hollow feeling. Luckily, smartphone users keep moving and don't rely on retro stuff like nostalgic gamers do.

But there is ONE CHINA-MADE smartphone that has interested me as of late combining my two loves - gaming handheld + phones. It is a little old now (2013) but has emulation that runs across the video game generations (NES-PSP) that mattered to me...

JXD S5800

Probably better than a 3DS and Vita just for having the phone functions. Sony Xperia Play done better.

 

[dojoman]

The whole web page looks like it ripped of Apple's design so what else did they copy aside from web page?

 

[Michael Goff]

How did Meizu beat Sir Ive?

 

[MRU]

How did Meizu beat Sir Ive?

With a kinky stick

 

[Michael Goff]

With a kinky stick

....

And now I have a mental image that is not going anywhere. -_-

 

[mi7chy]

They both look like inferior copies of my 2012 Galaxy Note II. Funny how people have selective memory and quickly forget the iconic tiny sardine can shaped iPhone. But between the two copies the Meizu is better.

 

[2984839]

I preferred the Mazda MX5.

I'm never giving up my NB 5 speed.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Like many here I am mystified as how someone thinks this iPhone copy from the product to the marketing has somehow beaten Jony Ive and Apple? I suppose it's flattering to some degree.

They all copy ideas off each other but this is laughable I'm afraid lol.