Deeda introduces the "Pi" phone and fools nobody

by Sean Cooper posted Apr 14th 2007 at 10:10AM

Let's be honest, the cleverly named "Deeda Pi" (Pi phone, get it?) isn't going to fool anybody, and we are dead certain these guys can expect to hear from Apple legal in short order. We thought we were done with iPhone clone news (in fact, we actually promised our mothers we were) only to have this new touchscreen handset fall in our laps and force us to break our word. Employing a proximity touch screen, vibration touch feedback, a 3.6 inch screen at 800 x 480, WiFi, Bluetooth, and the familiar iPhone-esque user experience, it seems to bring the goods (at least on paper). Though Deeda claims it has been working on this handset since 2005, we have our doubts; if we hear anything about a release, we'll pass it on, but we're not holding our collective breath.

Filed under: Handsets, Others

Tags: clone, deeda, iphone

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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maxdunhill @ Apr 14th 2007 12:41PM

What kinda joke is that? 'Deeda Pi' or 'Did a pee?'
It's a con

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Yubastard @ Apr 14th 2007 1:05PM

@1: jaja lame con

http://el-cabron.blogspot.com

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ShaleX @ Apr 15th 2007 10:19AM

If it works on another network other then Cingular... like t-mobile.. then what's the harm? Looks like a godsend to me.

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PEZ @ Apr 15th 2007 10:54AM

this is better than the iphone.

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Cleverboy @ Apr 16th 2007 9:52PM

This should have been released on April 1st. While the Flash presentation is very cool in theory, the only difference between this, the iPhone, and most phone's being considered... is that EVERY SHOT of this phone is a fabrication. Every... single... one. That's just a teensey weensey bit irritating.

Can anyone else say "Infinite Solutions"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9SK_M_nVWA

I was looking at Brevisys's website, and noticed this interesting like to some more examples of their "technology":
http://www.brevisys.com/314156/
Shame OTHER devices with "fingerprint" scanners are so comparitively bulky for single-function devices. Funny how that works.

I here the new Pi will come in 4Gb,8GB, and um... "60GB" models. DEAR LORD can someone shut these people up?

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Harleigh Quinn @ Aug 25th 2007 12:08AM

I find it funny that lots of people comment before actually reading the history of the device.

The deeda pi is the only mobile phone in the line-up. the Kiku is a media player and the Menx is capable of VOiP, but is not a celluar phone.
The Pi has been worked on since 2004, over a year before the iPhone, even confirmed by an iPhone specific faq page [www.iphonefaq.org]

I will admit I am thinking there will be an IP fight concerning this one, if it makes it to market, but did anyone consider that Google seems to have also been planning a phone and this may be it? Google an Apple work pretty close to each other and isn't it possible that one or the other may have been talking about ideas, and.....

Sort of like Paul McCartney talking to Michael Jackson about owning the Beetles catalog......and then Michael went right out and bought it!

These ideas are not new and have been in the pipeline for a while. Hell, I came up with night vision in cars in 1991, and Cadillac had it a few years later. Of course I was in highschool in '91, so it's not like people were prone to listening to teenagers back then.....

Came up with the flying squirrel suit around the same time. about ten years later you see it in a tomb raider movie......

As I said, these ideas are not new. even when the concept of the multi-touch screen debuted with the iPhone, apple admitted they weren't the first ones to come up with it.

That's the nature of technology and that's how things work, so pay attention, deal with it, and STFU.

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