Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements
An anonymous reader writes "Popular Science notes that
manufacturers in China duplicate many well-know products. This includes the
Apple iPhone, imitations of which are rolling off the assembly line already.
That might actually be a good thing for some users, who
might enjoy the user experience of China's own miniOne. 'It ran popular
mobile software that the iPhone wouldn't. It worked with nearly every worldwide
cellphone carrier, not just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. It promised to
cost half as much as the iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers.'
The cloned iPhone uses a Linux-based system. 'The cloners hire a team of between
20 and 40 engineers to begin decoding the circuit boards. At the same time,
coders start to develop an operating system for the phone with a similar feature
set. (The typical cloner either uses off-the-shelf code, writes something
entirely new, or modifies a publicly available Linux-based system.)' Using the
iPhone as an example, the PopSci site walks through the process of making
imitation technology."
I found this at hardware.slashdot.org
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/08/10/1236207.shtml
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