Meizu's miniOne packs more acronyms than you can handle
By Chris Ziegler 
posted May 18th 2007 2:04PM
posted May 18th 2007 2:04PM
iPhone clone or not, we've got to hand it to Meizu for equipping its miniOne handset with a veritable what's-what of modern day mobile tech. According to Akhiabara News, freshly-updated specs allegedly indicate that the device -- assuming it makes it past Apple's legal gauntlet, of course -- will ship in configurations ranging from 4 to 16GB of internal storage and feature a 533MHz ARM11 core from Samsung, 128MB of DDR (yes, DDR) RAM, VGA front and 3 megapixel rear cams, Bluetooth, WiFi, DMB mobile television, and integrated GPS all wrapped up in a tight little Windows Mobile 6 package. Oh yeah, and don't forget the glorious 720 x 480 display and the 3G data. Sound too good to be true? Yep, and as long as we see nothing more than renderings of the miniOne floating around, we'll figure it is too good to be true.
This is a sweet device
Unfortunately, there are rumors that the miniOne is meant for the Chinese market, and a phone-less version is meant for the rest of the world... If this is true, the 3G support will most likely be for the Chinese market and the device will probably only be tri-band GPRS (no EDGE)!
Also, it uses Windows CE 6.0 OS at its core, not Windows Mobile 6.0- this is similar to the Neonode N1/N1m (CE 5.0) and N2 (CE 6.0), meaning that the UI will be custom (a good thing), but most WM apps will not work (a bad thing).
Let's see what happens :)
OMG!! *drool =-P*
this thing looks AMAZING and i want one SO BAD!
why do chinese, japanese, and asians get to have all the fun? why do we americans always get SHAFTED with the short end of the STICK!
can u imagine the icrap...err...iphone going up against this thing, or ANY of their other devices? they are probably laughing at us for even daring to release this hunk of garbage in the year 2007! it's sooo outdated to them.
So true! This totoally rocks the IPhone. I'm in China right now and have been following this compnay like a Hawk. Unfortunatley, everything just seems like speculation. Also, for a phone this powerful it should be listed at around 600USD but it was quoted that the phone will only cost around 300-400! Such a good deal!
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tnkgrl @ May 18th 2007 4:07PM
This is a sweet device
Unfortunately, there are rumors that the miniOne is meant for the Chinese market, and a phone-less version is meant for the rest of the world... If this is true, the 3G support will most likely be for the Chinese market and the device will probably only be tri-band GPRS (no EDGE)!
Also, it uses Windows CE 6.0 OS at its core, not Windows Mobile 6.0- this is similar to the Neonode N1/N1m (CE 5.0) and N2 (CE 6.0), meaning that the UI will be custom (a good thing), but most WM apps will not work (a bad thing).
Let's see what happens :)
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Hey tnkgrl, I m a Chinese, and I m expecting M8 as well, i just read some information from Meizu Chinese official Forum.
Actually the real situation is just the opposite from the one you got.
Wifi will be banned softwarely on the M8 sold in the Chinese market because we have the law restricting the wifi products in Chinese market... ('coz our government was trying to develop a new set of wireless... although no one knows when that will come -_- |||...)
Hence only the overSea market can get the whole-features version... we, because of the weird law, have to go to the international website of Meizu and get the software update to unlock the banning of wifi... but clearly Meizu made it easily to be unlocked, haha.