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Lenovo steals Apple's iPhone design for "oPhone"
Lenovo steals Apple's iPhone design for "oPhone"
China leads the world in intellectual property theft, and Apple's IP is a juicy target. But usually rip-off counterfeits are produced by disreputable, back-room shops and illicit factories nobody's ever heard of. Now, it appears, that international computing giant Lenovo is getting into the ...
Lenovo's X1 for China is full of KIRF, win
Lenovo's X1 for China is full of KIRF, win
engadget.com — Okay, there's some amount of originality here, but enough to justify a Red Dot design award? What... you're looking at here is the award-winning Lenovo X1 -- as opposed to, say, the Sony Ericsson X1 -- which is a triband EDGE handset Lenovo sells in ... (more) Lenovo's X1 for China is full of KIRF, win
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Lenovo KIRFs again with the oPhone UI
Engadget — ... Alright, we have no idea why Lenovo's phone division is suddenly pumping out copycat handsets, but these supposed shots of the Android-based oPhone's UI look awfully familiar, don't you think? Combine that with the equally-fishy rip of Samsung's TouchWiz UI found in the recently-announced X1, and it more or less seems like Lenovo's running a high-end KIRF outfit over there -- no wonder this stuff never leaves China. [Via The Raw Feed] Filed under: Cellphones Lenovo KIRFs again with the oPhone UI originally appeared on Engadget ...

Apple iPhone UI cloned for Lenovo oPhone
Phones Review — As most know when it comes to ripping off a mobile phone and cloning interfaces the gold cup has to go to China as they certainly lead the world in producing counterfeit products. And now laptop maker Lenovo is getting in on some of that Chinese counterfeit act with what they call their new Android smartphone the oPhone. And thanks to the guys over at The Raw Feed we now see the Lenovo oPhone takes more than just closeness to the iPhone name as it also seems to have a remarkably similar user interface to that of the Apple iPhone. ...

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