Meizu M7 doesn't look familiar at all
By Nilay Patel 
posted Sep 19th 2007 8:47PM
posted Sep 19th 2007 8:47PM
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What, no 4 GB model?! This is doomed doomed! Would still buy it over a touch though lol!
good to know...
http://www.sizeasy.com/page/size_comparison/5441-Apple-iPhone-vs-iPod-Touch-vs-Samsung-YP-P2-vs-Meizu-M7
Im surprised this post hasn't been spammed (yet) with that "Chinese piracy costs us $600billion a year" rubbish or "Typical Chinese thieves" etc. Where have all the racists gone?
alan, that's a proven fact, not racism. heck, i'm a chinese myself and i still don't like what they're doing. want more proof? say check out "li ning" and "anta", they're both sports brand in china, li ning's logo is 'inspired' by nike, and have been doing quite well. anta comes into the picture, and decides they should copy li ning's logo... yes, this is how bad it is
It's so funny how meizu keep doing this. They see something coming out from apple (iphone, touch), rushes to their computers and do a mockup (m8, m7) photoshop and then 'claim' what their features and price points will be, and then say that they'll launch it like a decade later...
There are two facts intentionally ignored:
1. The original post from the CEO was posted on 2007-9-2 2:28:00, which was before ipod touch anounced;
2. J.Wong's post was to POLL the users community to see how many people are interested in such kind of design.
Please see the link as following:
http://www.meizu.com/bbs/dispbbs.asp?BoardID=22&ID=551017&replyID=2685233&skin=1
Even more interesting is the translated version of the site...
http://www2.worldlingo.com/SG57TOc3OQEKDfaVckWDX00P4iv,6sqPb/translate
Notice the left side of the top blue bar "Demon Race English BBS"
WTF?!?
Dangit, just tried that link and it didn't work.
Go here
http://www.worldlingo.com/en/websites/url_translator.html
copy and paste the url from above, and change the "from" to Chinese Simplified and the "to" to English
That was suppose to be "meizu's blog" in Chinese. That's translator's bad.
"on sale in late 2008", late 2008? uhm..
That's code for Q4.95
Well if you actually go and read the forum, it's slated to come out in March 08, not Q3 08. Secondly, the idea appears to have been floating around since Sept 2 07, as a replacement to the M6 apparently. Of course, I'll be viewed as a Communist, a pirate, and Meizu lover for saying this :)
Well it's a bit early to speak of an mp3 player that is meant for late/second half of 2008, who knows what the competition is, and how many GB is standard then, or what we expect from a player.
Also, why the hell would it take more than a year to slap together a new mp3 player? are you sure it's not late 2007?
Did you know you can hurl the entire planet all around the sun in that time? and that's with breaks :)
The whole thing seems very curious.
This clearly steals the Zune form. Shameless and not brown or pink.
I was scrolling up from the comments and saw a Zune ad. The first thing that came to mind was "Hey! Meizu shamelessly copied the Zune ad!", then it hit me. They do look remarkably similar.
Meizune?
LATE TWO THOUSAND EIGHT?
Shit, there had better be a better iPod touch-beater out by then than this knockoff.
Wow. Just wow. First the M8 now the M7. Christ.
This makes me sick... I mean, yes they have the right to make an MP3 player that may look like an iPod Touch, but seriously if you showed me only a screenshot of this Meizu M7 I would've thought it wasn an iPod Touch. Can they make it ANY more alike? I feel ashamed... :(
Dont like competition? Then go move to a communist country...
guess where this product came from Gill...
Shame it was announced before the iPod Touch.
iFanboys try to change the space-time continuum yet again......
"Dont like competition? Then go move to a communist country."
Like China?
will this ever make it to the US?
It does look a lot like the touch, but I think it actually looks a little better.
pricing? really? $10 between 1gb and 2gb? and $40 between 2gb and 8gb? come on.
and stftw late 2008??
Thats a negative ghost rider, the pattern is full.
150 for a 8GB or pay Apple twice as much..
wow, I just resist the urge to throw my money away.
the fact remains, Apple is way overcharging their loyal customers.
sure, hold on to your money and wait for this product that's announced a year early to its launch date... so when is your m8 arriving?
i actually agree that it looks better, but come on, 2008??
the ipod touch will probably already have a second gen or at least a refresh out by then...
love the white, but if it were out by x-mas, or at least spring 08, people might consider it, but not late 08.
Meizu is on a mindfuck crusade. Soon people will be berating Apple for copying Meizu. LOL.
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meh
i'll be more impressed when you guys start typing in squircles
As the Braille says, there's really no reason to be impressed. It's just friggin' Unicode.
is any of this company's product on market?
after hearding so news of this company
i wonder if they exist
heard of this before iphone came out
and it still have no release on market
or... it just in China?
The M6 is currently available in the US.
Reviews have been quite good.
The Meizu M6 has been on the market for a while.
It's a great product. You should read up on it. Available to order from reputable resellers, too.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=meizu&x=0&y=0
SQ on the M6 is better than anything i've heard in a DAP, and it's supposed to be even better with the SL out in a few days. M6 just generally kicks the crap out of the Nano.
well how else can they make a player that is mostly screen and square shaped?
its gotta have way better codec support as well.. the m6 already supports a ton of codecs.
by late '08 the iPhone will probably have 64GB. Boo...
well, i just came out from under my rock. What's new?
Apple left the perfect opportunity by not making the nano just a smaller touch. Now companies should step in with something similar.
You people do realize that if it does come out in 2008 it will have the same features of anything else that will be out then... No one is stupid enough to make a product and then ship it out when its been outdated.
The menu layout certainly looks familiar.
Oh yeah.