You know, we might have done another
TechFaith keepin' it real fake post, but honestly we don't really see the point. Oh sure, TechFaith is totally knocking off these other guys with their phony Q and Hermes and so on, but when they showed off their new fake
i320,
SLVR, and
Universal at CommunicAsia this week, we started to realize not only were these guys moving at lightning speed emulating these phones, they were also improving them. The SLVR rip has an impressive 512MB integrated flash memory; the i320-alike uses Pocket PC -- similar to their Q ripoff, and differing, of course, from both the original devices which are stuck with Smartphone; we'd imagine the faux-Universal won't have a VGA display or some of those other ultra high-end niceties, but damned if they don't have the twist n' swivel display in a form factor smaller than the original. TechFaith Wireless, we think you're about one post away from getting your own category on Engadget Mobile.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
nickmanderfield @ Jun 24th 2006 1:08AM
I don't see the big issue with this TFW company. They arent exactly copy-pasting these ideas, look, its a windows mobile smartphone with a QWERTY keypad, and it's thin, they must've copied the Q, or maybe they realized, aswell as Moto did, that a small form factor smart-phone is a good idea.
And the SLVR look-alike smart phone is being called a cheap rip off too, but it's a flipping smart phone, it looks like the SLVR why? Because it's thin and it's black? Look at the keypad http://www.theunwired.net/media/news/tfw_slvr3.jpg compared to a real SLVR (Google it if necessary), and tell me they look exactly the same. They are using the form factor of it, that's about it, that being it's thin, and MAYBE the color, even though look at the slew of black phones Samsung has come out with, and Nokia came out with a black phone a long time ago, so let's stop pointing fingers here.
I'd like to see some creative posting by engadget about this company, and not the same bashing I've been reading. I've been reading engadget for quite some time and subscribed to the RSS as soon as I could, but come on, the writing about TFW has been low-balling and pathetic, whatever floats your boats though.
Being a long time user of the triplet series of Motorola phones that they just love pushing in the US, I would much rather have a 'cheap rip off' of their SLVR which differs in plenty of ways from the SLVR (aside from 'OMG it's thin') then the actual SLVR, or any other triplet series phone.