With the release date of the new Vernee Mars getting closer and closer we just received some more pictures showing the phone in all its glory. So far the experience with Vernee devices have been a very positive one so we are looking forward to the next one.
The released pictures are mostly showing the back of the phone so it’s obvious the Mars will really have the arc antenna design as mentioned before. It’s a shame that the pics are not showing the announced blue version of Mars, but even the ordinary silver one is not looking bad.
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Looking at the pictures we can speculate a bit about some similarities of the Mars design with the iPhones, specifically the carbon grey style with darker plastic stripes for the antennas. But maybe we are just paranoid and already affected by the omnipresent chinese obsession with Apple products.
Anyway we will be eagerly awaiting more detailed information and the Vernee Mars in the coming days, because we think it’s a possible sleeper hit device.
“Looking at the pictures we can speculate a bit about some similarities of the Mars design with the iPhones”
Would that be the iPhone design that was a copy of Meizu’s?
no matter who copy whom, i think it’s a nice design appear on a metal smartphone 🙂
To be honest, the iPhone design would most likely pre-date Meizu. The first iPhone 7 body leak occurred in March of 2016. This means the design had to be floating around for some time prior to the creation of a dummy unit. The Apple devices being constructed in China makes it a lot easier for competing OEM’s to get their hands on design plans. Meizu released the PRO 6 in May this year.
Based on how quick these companies churn out models, I believe that they hashed something together based on previously leaked or acquired documents eluding to the new iPhone design. A few months is plenty of time to design and construct a phone based on leaked information in terms of Chinese phone manufacturing speed and readily available hardware.
I’m not saying they couldn’t have designed it themselves more than I doubt it based on Meizu’s history of borrowing design from popular manufacturers.
That first design leak in March was actually the Meizu. It was misreported as the iPhone.
That isn’t the leak I was referring too. In this article on BGR. They have an image of the aluminum body schematic displayed on a monitor. This was also posted by Evan Blass. This was from early March.
There was also the front glass leaks and early third-party case designs that leaked in January. Apple does not come up with a new phone every few months. They take time and often start getting the all rolling before the launch of the new model every September.
I just can’t see Meizu putting the Pro 6 design together and spending a huge amount of resources to do it. They are a churn and burn phone company.
BGR is one of the worst sources to use they are self-admitted iPhone fanboys. But that article you just posted is from last month. The Meizu leaks were also from March, and the Pro 6 launched April 13. Are you really telling us Meizu saw a supposed leak that wasn’t confirmed, figured out how to change their design both visually and physically and managed to get it into production for a factory worker to leak, all in the matter of about a week? If that’s your line of thinking then Meizu needs to be studied by every company for having the most advanced R&D and manufacturing process in the world.
I hate to break it to you but this wouldn’t be the first time that Apple copied an Android phone for their design. They did the same thing with the iPhone 6 and HTC. They have lacked originality ever since Jobbs left. It wouldn’t even be the first time Apple copied Meizu, they copied several elements from Meizu’s Flyme OS.
Okay, that article was a recap of leaks starting from last year. Also, BGR may be a bunch of fanboy writers, but this wasn’t their leaks. They were aggragated from other leaks and gathered from articles posted by a variety of publications all over the globe, most notably, China, and tweets throughout the year.
And you would have to be very misinformed to think that Apple didn’t have the design of the outer case prior to or near the release of the 6s. Again they only design 2 phones and barely designed the SE externally.
Regarding he HTC One. There is no doubt Apple drew inspiration from the M7, but one could say that the design language was already apparent in the MacBook lineup. It was a natural progression. I would say the implementation of the antenna lines definitely came from HTC.
Flyme OS and how it is presented is a complete aesthetic ripoff of iOS. The Chinese market in general uses many of the design cues and implements much of it into literature they use to promote it. The same flattery is given to Samsung in the design and presentation department. It doesn’t mean they don’t offer new tricks. I personally think Flyme and MiUI are excellent Android flavors, if not the most fluid.
We will just have to agree to disagree.
Flyme isn’t a ripoff of iOS but it does borrow a lot of things from it. But iOS has also copied a lot from Flyme, MIUI, TouchWhiz and Android.
One does not exist without the other. The paradigm shift caused by Apple and iPhone OS 1 immediately shifted focus from the QWERTY focused OS to the Touch-Centric OS presented after the iPhone launch. The Android developers themselves admit this in numerous interviews. There is no doubt Apple has borrowed from Android, but Android is still borrowing from Apple. We saw this with Doze mode, which brings Marshmallow and up phones more to iPhone land in terms of Standby time. The OS’s have came to far for it to matter anymore, but the realities still exist. It doesn’t mean one is better than the other, it only means that certain things are cause and effects as a result of iOS and as a result of the open nature of Android.
No one is doubting that the original iOS shaped much of what we have today. That is not the argument here. What is the argument is Apple’s continuance to copy Android and Android Phones and not get called out for it. There has been plenty written about the Android manufacturers copying Apple, there is very little written when Apple does it, like they did here with those Meizu antenna lines.