A Chinese company---Meizu----has announced to the world that they gonna release the M7, a strong PMP device that really will hurt the Touch sells in 2008 March.
It will have an ARM from Samsung, so it will have touch control, the size is 89*48*7.3mm (smaller than the Touch), the screen is 2.81 inches 15:9 and have a resolution of 480*288 (like the samsung P2) with 1660M colour.It can support video of 720*480.
So AAPL will have a bad day as the M7 has the same power but half the price.
Three cheers for the company!!!!!
Umm, are you serious?
1) I see no sign of multitouch, kind of important that one if you want the full 'wow' factor of the IPT
2) Wireless networking? No mention that I can see which means...
3) No web browsing
4) It's from Meizu who have a habit of announcing products then not delivering (M8 anyone?) just for the publicity.
5) The ipod range decimates every other MP3 player in the world because it is basically the only MP3 player that the general public want, a combination of functionality, looks and brand that seems unbeatable right now. If Samsung, Sony etc can't knock it off the top spot then this certainly won't. This cheap knockoff will only ever be bought by a handful of geeks who simply want to be able to say they've got an IPT for a fraction of the price and anyone who buys the IPT is an idiot.
6) If it ever looked like this would threaten Apple it's not exactly a difficult target to hit considering that EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF THE DESIGN OF BOTH HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IS A DIRECT COPY OF THE IPT! Well, except for it being white of course. Hardly something to be cheering Meizu for: "Hey, we can produce the exact same thing as Apple for half the cost. With a few less features. And less hardware. And we haven't actually made it yet, this is just a photoshop image. But I'm sure we WILL figure out how to make it by this date I've just pulled out of somewhere unmentionable. We're heroes!"
And then there's all the little additions like the Calendar and contacts apps, 3rd party development (which will be available via SDK by the time this thing launches) and of course iTunes. No, this product will die a death just like the hundreds of other cheap, no-name PMP units that are presented to an uncaring world. That's if it ever actually makes it out the door for sale in the first place of course.