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Apr 17, 2007, 03:41 PM
 
http://www.deeda.com/

Crappy renderings. I don't know why they bother.
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Apr 17, 2007, 03:55 PM
 
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Apr 17, 2007, 03:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by Gossamer View Post
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That's because hundreds of sites including MacNN front page are now linking to it and calling it the iPhone killer
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Apr 17, 2007, 03:59 PM
 
screenshot?
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Apr 17, 2007, 04:14 PM
 
Originally Posted by Peter View Post
screenshot?
Imagine a 5 year old used Photoshop for the first time and tried to draw an iPhone by copying and pasting screen elements together but then didn't know how to make the corners of the device curved so he just gave it sharp 45 degree corners.

Then imagine said 5 year old gave it insane specs that we want the iPhone to have such as third party app development and unfettered WiFi, and include a limited edition version of Firefox that nobody in the Mozilla community has heard of.
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Apr 17, 2007, 04:29 PM
 
deeda piphone

There it is. Yeah, awful.
     
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Apr 17, 2007, 05:20 PM
 
They could have at least shaded it so it looked like it was real.

From what I can gather, they're trying to generate some buzz for their product. reading their customer statement, they state that "Our multimedia players began their design and development process over a year before the recently unveiled Apple iPhone® and LG Prada Phone."

It could be cool, but frankly I think it'll be too little too late. They're a small company, they likely don't have the power to really push a device like this.
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Apr 17, 2007, 05:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by SirCastor View Post
They could have at least shaded it so it looked like it was real.

From what I can gather, they're trying to generate some buzz for their product. reading their customer statement, they state that "Our multimedia players began their design and development process over a year before the recently unveiled Apple iPhone® and LG Prada Phone."

It could be cool, but frankly I think it'll be too little too late. They're a small company, they likely don't have the power to really push a device like this.
They're not anything. They can't even decide what to call their joke device, multimedia player or smart phone? There's an icon for 'phone' and the status bar says it is connected to T-Mibile. Yes, T-Mibile.

I bet this is a prank device and that the site owner is going to use the attention to launch deeda.com about something else. iWalk did the same thing. It was to get attention for SpyMac. Could be the same person behind it.
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Apr 17, 2007, 06:17 PM
 
haha, Aron I like ur sig

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Apr 17, 2007, 06:27 PM
 
Originally Posted by MM-o4 View Post
haha, Aron I like ur sig

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Apr 17, 2007, 06:39 PM
 
Wow. Terrible. How is this thing even getting any press whatsoever??

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Apr 17, 2007, 06:45 PM
 
Originally Posted by Super Mario View Post
Then imagine said 5 year old gave it insane specs that we want the iPhone to have such as third party app development and unfettered WiFi, and include a limited edition version of Firefox that nobody in the Mozilla community has heard of.
Third-party app development on a $500 phone is insane?

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Apr 17, 2007, 06:55 PM
 
Originally Posted by CharlesS View Post
Third-party app development on a $500 phone is insane?
Insane as in insanely good. We want insanely good 3rd party apps on iPhones.
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Apr 17, 2007, 10:53 PM
 
Originally Posted by Super Mario View Post
Insane as in insanely good. We want insanely good 3rd party apps on iPhones.
It's not even that - third-party app development is more of a standard feature on expensive smartphones.

Heck, if you're on a provider that uses Java on their phones, chances are you can get third-party apps even for a cheap/free phone.

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