Meizu's M3 Music Card unboxed

Even Meizu itself admits to ganking a few design ideas from Cupertino, but that's not stopping it from sneaking past Apple's legal team and loosing the M3 Music Card into the wild. Thankfully, it has apparently reached the hands of a digicam-wielding individual over at iMP3, and the results are just as cute as we'd thought they would be. The shiny device comes in a tad skinnier than the beefed-up M6, and the shots of the video playing prove that watching a trilogy on this thing would probably drive your retinas insane, but a quick episode of Family Guy might not be out of the question. You know the drill, click on through for a few more snaps, and hit the links below for more of the unboxing action we all adore.

[Via TheGadgetSite]

[Yami @ Apr 2nd 2007 8:05PM]

I think I see a little of iriver's H10 creeping into the design. Mainly the touch strip. Wouldn't mind picking this up, on the other hand.

[roarkmeister @ Apr 2nd 2007 8:10PM]

OMG! is that the new ipod?! ;)

[srilyk @ Apr 4th 2007 12:05PM]

No, actually it's the iPhone ;)

[AndrewNeo @ Apr 2nd 2007 8:44PM]

There's a touch-strip on the Zen Vision:M, too..
The device is a little tall just to have a screen that small.

[Tom Reinke @ Apr 2nd 2007 9:00PM]

Yikes... Only 3 buttons with the strip?

How do you Fast forward or skip a song?

I would love to see this thing in motion because it looks really sleek but.. I dunno, the interface has me asking questions.

[kadajawi @ Apr 2nd 2007 10:54PM]

The materials are similar to the iPod, the design itself rather similar to Creative/iRiver. So I guess it's a mixture of everything.

You fast forward with a short press on the button, to rewind you hold the button. Yeah, not really the most convenient idea, but I guess it gets the work done. Looks better than having a button for each function IMHO. Dunno how you fast forward inside a song, probably with the touch strip?

Wouldn't mind getting one of these too. Huge format support, very low price and probably very good to excellent sound quality. Doesn't look bad either.

[BlackCoffeeNoSugar @ Apr 2nd 2007 10:05PM]

I have just searched YouTube. There is a short clip there about Meizu M3. Not very clear though.

[PerryCollective @ Apr 2nd 2007 11:01PM]

I know this isn't a car, but M3 will always represent a tight nasty sports coupe to me...

[Josh Warner @ Apr 2nd 2007 11:20PM]

Call me crazy - but on Meizu's official page for this in English speaking countries ( http://en.meizu.com/product_m3.asp ) there is NO mention of the mp3 codec.

It's easy enough to transcode to ogg, and the thing supports all forms of WMA (inc. lossless) and FLAC, but the fact that they don't state mp3 support surprises me. Did they get sued for mp3 royalties or something?

I don't really mind, I want to see a review of this thing w.r.t. lossless sound quality and then I'm ordering an 8GB one. No iPod for me - these codecs are much better!

[Josh Warner @ Apr 2nd 2007 11:21PM]

Retract that last - mp3 is there in the specs. False alarm.

[starwxrwx @ Apr 3rd 2007 12:30AM]

Does it do AAC?

[sdsdv10 @ Apr 4th 2007 1:59AM]

@starwxrwx
"Does it do AAC? "

Sorry, no AAC on the M3, only MP3,WMA,WAV,OGG,FLAC.

[SoCal @ Apr 3rd 2007 1:26AM]

Meizu M6 can be picked up from www.walgreens.com, they don't sell just drugs.

[eleazar @ Apr 28th 2007 4:57PM]

Does anybody actually know where to get Meizu products in the US? I really wanted to get the M6 a while back but couldn't find one anywhere :( Has it gotten any better for Americans wanting to pick one up?

[sdsdv10 @ Apr 4th 2007 1:59AM]

As SoCal said, you can get an Meizu M6 at Walgreen's here is a direct link. $110 plus s/h for 4GB. It's a great price.

http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=304539&navAction=jump&navCount=0&id=prod2855107

[peshue @ May 8th 2007 1:32AM]

I'm seeing more influence from sandisk (button in the corner) and creative (touch strip) than apple. But then again people like to jump on everything and call it a apple knock off.

[JG @ May 28th 2007 4:49AM]

I just picked one of these up on a business trip in China, for 510RMB. I love it. When I got back to my hotel, transferred a bunch of music to it and it worked flawlessly. The slider is a little sensitive, but if you read the English version of the manual on the Meizu's website, and use your finger as they describe it's easy. I choose the 4Gb MusicCard over the MiniPlayer because I didn't need video. The only thing that I wished that it came with was the lanyard and rubber cover, I had to get that seperate, 30RMB. Plus it has an FM reciever.

[Robbert @ Jun 22nd 2007 2:36PM]

Where do I buy these things when I am not in China and certainly where do I buy them for the prices you guys mentioned.