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Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:23:06 +0000

[...] That leaves Lenovo and HP, each of which has their own potential plan to remain relevant in a mobile future. Lenovo is leveraging its home base in China, an area ripe for handset growth, even after it sold its smartphone division in 2008 and then paid double to buy it back 18 months later. But the company hasn’t yet pushed its smartphone strategy beyond the borders of China, where it faces competition from a growing number of cheap Android handsets. [...]

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5 Biggest Losers As Smartphone Sales Surpass PCs: Mobile Technology News « — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:21:31 +0000

[...] That leaves Lenovo and HP, each of which has their own potential plan to remain relevant in a mobile future. Lenovo is leveraging its home base in China, an area ripe for handset growth, even after it sold its smartphone division in 2008 and then paid double to buy it back 18 months later. But the company hasn’t yet pushed its smartphone strategy beyond the borders of China where it faces competition from a growing number of cheap Android handse…. [...]

By: Bobbie Johnson

Bobbie Johnson — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:59:04 +0000

Nirmal, good point on support. Rdx, my argument’s that companies which start out as shanzhai manufacturers are making incredibly rapid advances now, and can often produce better hardware, faster. Good ones don’t need to stay shanzhai for long. Meizu’s M8 was a straight Apple clone – but with each successive generation, things get better and more innovative and offer features that local buyers want. If Android is harnessed by these aggressive, local, rapid companies, then it’s going to give it a massive leg up.

By: Toady

Toady — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:08:20 +0000

Ah, it comes down to this. Google has become the Walmart of the internet.

By: Rdx

Rdx — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:18:14 +0000

I think categorizing Meizu as a clone maker is not the right way to look at it if you want to understand why so many people qued up to buy the phone, it is a very good android phone, probably better than the evos and the droids at a much more affordable price…

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:22:04 +0000

There is a reason that the chinese forms large que’s for Meizu’s products.
1, Meizu has a reputation for creating good quality products,some of which EXCEED the quality of western stuff : specifically their M3 and M6 music players.
2, Meizu generally gives good support for their products unlike other chinese manufacturer’s.
I doubt it has anything to do with apple,though meizu gained fame in western circles because they were the FIRST to ape the apple UI/Single button interface(though every other manufacturer has done it subsequently)