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Huawei Honor 9 Lite design Copy

Mar 14, 2018 1:27AM PDT

Hello
everyone
I am new here and want to start the discussion with two upcoming smartphone look like Huawei Honor 9 Lite in Mobile World Congress 2018.

Huawei Honor 9 Lite



ZTE Blade V9



iLA Silk



why those Chinese Companies copying those top brand design?

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It is normal
Mar 14, 2018 7:05AM PDT

First of all, Honor is sub-brand of Huawei, which is a Chinese company. It is normal in mobile industry to copy the design of premium handsets. We have seen Clones of iPhone over the years.

Only thing that you can't copy is patented technology. Correct me if I am wrong.

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Thanks
Mar 17, 2018 4:15AM PDT

Yes you are right, but my question is that how they can sale on just for design copy with cheapest hardware.