cutehinano

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000857035387/

From engadget:
" You hear that? It’s the sound of Stevie J. letting loose a thousand lawyers on the people at Luxpro who think that they’re somehow not going to get the crap sued out of them over the “Super Shuffle,” a flash-based MP3 player that looks so very, very familiar to us. Supposedly the Super Shuffle MX-575D/1075D has the same weight as the iPod shuffle, but is slightly larger (8.4 x 2.5 x 0.84mm for the shuffle vs. 8.5 x 2.5 x 0.97 for the Super Shuffle) and comes with a built-in FM tuner, comes in 512MB and 1GB flavors, and offers support for playback of MP3, WMA, and WAV files."

Link to actual site: http://www.luxpro-corp.com/e_575d.htm

I wonder if it works with iTunes? They'll probably get a letter from Apple's legal department soon...

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gmark2000

Looks exactly the same. Could this be the Chinese company who actually makes the shuffles?

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CN

Is this a joke? This isn't similarity, they are the exact same! The earbuds even look like apple earbuds.

Its the iPod shuffle's slightly overweight evil twin brother!!!

Macaholic

Do they really think they'll survive this?? LOL! Apple's gonna carve them a new one, man.

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yatko

If this was true and the thing did not require any software to transfer MP3 files this will sell like bread and butter.

Very unlikely it will reach to NA though (even if the product and site is real)
http://www.luxpro-corp.com/e_165e.htm

miguelsanchez

well, i hate to say it but that's what happens when you send your technology overseas to be manufactured. currently the chinese "reverse engineer" just about everything that is manufactured there, and there really is no copyright or patent protection for corporations that have been ripped off. this is not the first nor the last instance of such blatant ripoffs:

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miguelsanchez

update: these guys even have a booth at cebit in germany this week, and they're showing the super suffle there! now that's bold.

Heart

Could you get any closer?

Principal

Kudo's to them for putting an FM tuner in it, and shame on Apple for not adding one.
Here is Apples, "keep it simple" mentality again... just like the one button mouse... as if a two button mouse with a scroll wheel is way to complex for Mac users! yeh right!
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iMan

Yep it certainly looks the same. I think they will sell well because of the FM tuner. I sure wish they had them built into the original ipod shuffle.