Meizu’s CEO denies the that the design ideas of M8 phone and the entire Miniplayer series have been taken from the iPhone. Well everyone seems to deny they didn’t copied from the iPhone.

This is what the CEO had to say. Although he doesn’t like the M8 to be called a copycat still he admits the design ideas are similar(i wonder how did you thought of that design only after everyone got a peekaboo on the iPhone.) Guess what! they announced the M8 four days before the January 9 iPhone announcement at Macworld. He adds that the designs were already public in 2006, but after checking out the iPhone in January they decided they need to again go to the drawing board.

Having spent $1 million on R&D for that 720×480 resoultion screen(they didn’t wanted to make the standard 3:2 or 16:9 ratios like the other phones), they don’t mind changing the design even future if Apple decides to sue them, which seems highly unlikely.

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