![]() Ella Wong, a marketing manager at Meizu, the Chinese company building the new phone, had invited me to come to the annual Hong Kong Electronics Fair only days before it began this April. ![]() ![]() I made a hastily arranged flight to China to find out. Was it real? When would it go on sale? And most intriguing, could it really be even better than the iPhone? The miniOne’s first news teases-a forum posting, a few spy shots, a product announcement that vanished after a day-generated a frenzy of interest online. It promised to cost half as much as the iPhone and be available to 10 times as many consumers. It worked with nearly every worldwide cellphone carrier, not just AT&T, and not only in the U.S. ![]() It ran popular mobile software that the iPhone wouldn’t. The miniOne looked just like Apple’s iPhone, down to the slick no-button interface. The little gadget was bootleg gold, a secret treasure I’d spent months tracking down.
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