Lenovo's X1 for China is full of KIRF, win

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 China. To us, it looks like an Instinct with a slide-out keypad and TouchWiz, but what do we know? Coincidentally, Lenovo calls this totally original UI "Touch Dream," which sounds just a little bit (okay, a whole lot) like an HTC device. So, to summarize: Sony Ericsson and HTC branding, Samsung design, made by Lenovo. Right then.

[Thanks, Bin Xu]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 10:16PM]

I think you guys are just grasping at straws on this one. I'll give you the UI looking like Touchwiz, but if you take away the sidebar there, it could be any touch oriented UI. X1 is fairly vague, and it's not Xperia X1, so its not awfully plagiarized. As for nagging on the name of Touchdream, come on, your just kidding yourselves on that one. And it looks like the instinct? My god so does every other touch screen phone that's flush on the front. Admit it, the only thing remotely KIRF is the name, which is the only reason it was probably even brought to your attention.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 22nd 2009 10:21PM]

It's clearly a rip off of the iPhone!

/sarcasm.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 23rd 2009 12:30AM]

It actually looks pretty nice...