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Look Out, iPhone Game Addicts


Posted on Jan 12, 2009 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Humor, UGC | 27 Comments
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This video was shot by a Youku user six days ago at the Dazhongsi subway station in Beijing. Though we don’t know who the bowling guy is (where are the human-flesh search engines when you need them?), the Youku community has already given him a nickname: Arm-Swinging Man (甩手男). I really think Apple should consider [...]

Meet Meizu M8, The Fabulous Shanzhai iPhone


Posted on Nov 21, 2008 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Shanzhai | 2 Comments
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Please meet the Meizu M8, the big aspirational gadget-of-the-week for Chinese consumers, the greatest iPhone clone you’ve ever seen, and still, the biggest mystery in China’s mysterious shanzhai world.
In January 2007, Jack Wong, Meizu’s CEO, claimed that the original M8 design for a massive-touchscreen cellphone debuted four days before Macworld, where Steve Jobs wowed the [...]