Hasta La Gadget!

You know, it was just another busy Wednesday here in the Engadget compound until this guy came across our screens and greatly brightened our day. Bearing the appellation that the Vaio P’s highly fashionable media campaign has thus far only hinted at, the “Vaino” is a 10.2-inch, 1.6GHz Atom-powered ultraportable also-ran that, sadly, will not be making it to these shores any time soon.

[Via Slash Gear]

Gallery: the Vaino not-so-ultraportable

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CLXXXVI: the Vaino not-so-ultraportable originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Word on the street has it that the Meizu’s M8 — that vaporous iPhone killer from the east — is now officially on sale, as of February 18. For real. Wait, you ask — wasn’t it available last week sometime? Well, yes and no. Apparently, the unit we’ve seen making the rounds was a beta version — if you slapped down your $440-ish dollars on that one, you got something with “a fair amount of problems to be ironed out,” according to DAP Review. The site, whose Chinese-to-English translator is apparently functioning better than ours, goes on to point out that while the test units had WiFi enabled, the final production version does not. A strange decision, sure, but this is a tale fraught with strange decisions. And danger. And excitement and glamor. By the way — we just hit up the official Meizu site, and the 16GB version of this device is “out of stock” — probably due to the rapturous reception the unit’s received all over the world.

[Via DAP Review; Thanks, Michael]

Continue reading Meizu M8 defies the odds and officially goes on sale – again

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Meizu M8 defies the odds and officially goes on sale – again originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here lately, we’ve been pretty impressed with just how awesome some of these Chinese knockoffs have been. In fact, we were beginning to wonder if the bona fide manufacturers weren’t in cahoots with some of these low-class acts. Thanks to China Grabber, we’re being reacquainted with the garbage that we once knew and loved, as the WebXpress handset is about as pathetic a rip of the 5800 XpressMusic as you could ever hope to see. Reportedly, it’s packing a 3-inch QVGA LCD, quad-band GSM radio, dual SIM slots, a 1.3 megapixel camera, video recorder, e-book reader and even some form of “health management” software. For $149.99, we’re almost tempted to order one just to see about the latter. Almost.

[Via PMPToday]

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CLXXXIII: WebXpress just a “Music” and “5800” shy of greatness originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh, the horror! You know, Samsung’s Omnia isn’t terribly unique, but we never thought we’d see it knocked off and disrespected like this. Clearly created for use on China Mobile (and by fools who don’t actually inspect the devices they buy), the Sumsang Omnia is a GSM smartphone that sports a 2.4-inch 320 x 240 resolution display, an MP3 player, a 13 megapixel camera (right…), USB connectivity, a couple of games, a microSD card slot and a sure-to-be-counterfeit version of Windows Mobile running the show. Of course, this abomination will only set you back a buck twenty, and hey — at least this version comes with dual SIM slots!

[Thanks, Derek]

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CLXXXI: Sumsang Omnia can’t fool anyone originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Despite finding it incredibly luscious to behold, we realize not everyone can afford to drop $2,000 on a piece of pocket jewelery like the Motorola AURA — ourselves sadly included. Regardless, we would never advise anyone to go the KIRF route, and that includes the RicT-007 AVRA. It looks to offer something of the etched beauty of Moto’s choice handset but lacks the exclusivity, cherry wood packaging, and, we presume, the solid feel of the real thing. Yes that 750 yuan price (about $100) is mighty tempting, but resist, fair readers, resist.

[Via Engadget Chinese]

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Keepin’ it real fake, part CLXXIX: AURA clone loses a vowel and a lot of class originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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