Toshiba sued for cloning Fujitsu's RakuRaku handset

by Darren Murph, posted Mar 17th 2008 at 3:07PM

It's ~~fairly~~ commonplace for Chinese manufacturers to crank out clones of other popular wares, but apparently, things aren't brushed off as easily when the cloning gets done by a mega-corp like Toshiba. Granted, quite a bit is lost in translation here, but the long and short of it is that NTT DoCoMo and Fujitsu are suing Tosh for creating and selling its 821T -- which, as you can see above, looks an awful lot like Fujitsu's RakuRaku handset. Reportedly, the plaintiffs have demanded that Softbank Mobile withdraw the 821T from the market, but it seems there's quite a bit more back-and-forth left to go down before the dust settles on this one.

[Via GearFuse]

Filed under: Others, NTT DoCoMo, Softbank Mobile, Toshiba

Tags: 821T, clone, knockoff, lawsuit, legal, ntt docomo, NttDocomo, RAKURAKU, ripoff, softbank, sue, sued, suit

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Smileypanda @ Mar 17th 2008 4:05PM

Here's my question: why?

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MIKE @ Mar 17th 2008 4:23PM

exactly, they are both awful looking handsets. don't even get me started on how much i hate toshiba.

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kastonie @ Mar 17th 2008 4:41PM

@mike
Please, lets us know about why and how much you hate toshiba. I would like to get your started, if you will....

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Graham @ Mar 18th 2008 1:49AM

@Mike: They're both old-people phones, as I recall, which is why they're ugly and have huge ass buttons and the three speed dial buttons under the screen. They also have little functionality (intentionally), and simplified menus. They're comparable to the Jitterbug. http://www.jitterbug.com/Phones.aspx

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