The VX747 brings a jumbo-jet touch screen into ONDA’s line of iPhone and iPod Touch clones. It all started, I suppose, with the VX858, a layer with a 2.8 touch screen which incidentally also became Pasen’s iTouch and I-Fighting’s FT4021. Then came the Nano version, the VX878 with a 2.4-inch screen. The VX747’s screen isn’t [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 20, 2007
Meet ONDA’s Honey VX878, the little brother of the VX858. Sporting an improved interface, this device has a 2.4-inch touchscreen display with 260,000 colors and support for AVI files, and MP3, WAV, WMA, FLAC and APE audio formats, with LRC for portable karaoke. JPG and BMP images, and TXT documents are handled as well. The [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 11, 2007
Popular Science writer Dan Koeppel went to China for a close-up look at Meizu’s elusive miniOne, also called the M8, but learned about the China’s blooming cloning industry. Everything can be cloned in China, even a Mercedes Benz C-class. China’s copycats have become a lot more sophisticated since they started copying Western products in the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 30, 2007
Pasen’s new iTouch PMP a.k.a ONDA VX858, a.k.a iFighting’s FT4021 is to date the most popular iPhone clone that is available to the buying public. But how does it fare against the product it took it’s looks from. One thing iTouch has going on for it: you can put it in your jeans pocket. More photos [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 26, 2007
The ONDA VX858, also known as iFighting’s FT4021, has now appeared in Italy as the Pasen iTouch. The specs are the same: 2.83-inch 260k-color320 x 240 QVGA TFT screen. MPEG-4 (AVI), DivX, Xvid (320×240 @ 24fps), MP3, WMA, JPG, TXT and LRC, FM tuner, microSD storage (4GB available), USB 2.0. When we found this PMP back [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The Chinese is known in the West for its iPhone clones, but that doesn’t stop it from producing models that stray from what is popular now. You will never suspect Cupressaceae’s BK-900 stealing from Apple. We don’t have all the information yet on this new mini-PMP but it’s quite obvious from the image that the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 4, 2007
The newest iPhone clone out of the woodwork is iFighting’s FT4021. It’s not a phone, though, but a PMP with a 2.8-inch touchscreen, plays MP4 videos and MP3, WMA and WAV audio files. Besides the look, I-Fighting does nothing to compete iPhone’s features, making it simple with an FM tuner, dual headphone plugs, miniSD memory [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Remember the Onda iPhone/LG Prada clone we showed to you last month? Well, it was the VX858 and it’s now got some specs to go with its widescreen looks. The VX858 has a 2.8-inch 320 x 240 TFT touchscreen. This PMP has an FM tuner, a mic, 8 equalizer settings, microSD slot, USB 2.0/UMS and [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 18, 2007
If you’re in China, you have dozens of PMP brands to choose from, and they’re not all Apple imitations. But here’s a site that can give you the kind of PMP choices that the Chinese enjoy. House of DAP makes available all the popular Chinese portable media players with a U.S. dollar price tag. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 4, 2007
When Chinese PMP maker ONDA is not imitating an Apple product, it can come up with very solid PMP designs. Take the VX989 mini-PMP. It looks like it’s encased in brushed stainless steel. A thing of simple beauty. The screen is a 2.8-inch QVGA (320 x 240) TFT LCD. Compatible files: MP3, WMA, [...]
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
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