http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/ Engadget Comments for Meizu's MiniOne M8 GUI showcased further, still devoid of originality http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
Meizu looks like they are are running out of ideas (if they ever had any), their newest player the Meizu SL, is just a think version of their old player:

http://www.mp4nation.com/products/index.php?PID=m6SLw]]>Oct 19th 2007 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/[really] make it to the moon

>JohnTitor< puts on his robe and tinfoil hat.
]]>Oct 20th 2007 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 25th 2007 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
I'll be first in line.]]>Oct 19th 2007 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Damn stupid if you ask me.
M]]>Oct 19th 2007 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
Sorry dude - you're wrong. Look at the calculator app. There's no 'back' button on it at all. Some apps do include a 'back' button, but it's up to the app, and I think what M is talking about is application by application - so if you launch Notes and then Calculator, you can go back to Notes without having to go all the way back to the main screen then rerun Notes.]]>Oct 19th 2007 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Ops, my m8 just overheated cuz of the 160gb HDD...
Ops, the HDD just died, and all my files are lost...
Ops, the HDD just run down my battery while talking...
Ops, I wonder why my M8 with HDD weighs like an elephant...
Ops, just got fired by my boss cuz M8's HDD makes too much of nose while talking to him on the phone...

...Just bored, taking piss about putting HDD in a phone...]]>Oct 19th 2007 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
Read the drive, park the armeture, and use cache. It works for the iPods.

"Ops, my m8 just overheated cuz of the 160gb HDD..."

The HD only spins to put information in cache. Again, works for slim little iPods.

"Ops, the HDD just died, and all my files are lost..."

As opposed to flash memory, which can only be written to so many times? Both will fail eventually, no matter what. Files lost on ANY medium? Should have backed it up. That's common sense.

"Ops, the HDD just run down my battery while talking..."

Again, you need to learn about a magic thing called "cache."

"Ops, I wonder why my M8 with HDD weighs like an elephant..."

Have you ever picked up a 1.8" hard drive? Their weight is measured in ounces.

"Ops, just got fired by my boss cuz M8's HDD makes too much of nose while talking to him on the phone..."

Again, why would the hard drive be spinning while you were talking on the phone? Are you watching a movie while talking on the phone? Listening to MP3s while talking on the phone?

How about this - I'm using a device that's touted as a portable media player SLASH phone SLASH music player... it works awesome as a phone, but I can only put a handfull of videos and a handfull of songs on it before my tiny 4GB of space fills up.

The iPhone is great as a phone, but worthless for all of it's other features - not because of the features themselves, but because the features are limited by the space. I'm not the first person to say it. If Apple could implement a hard drive correctly, with a good amount of cache, they could keep the size down, and keep the battery life up.]]>Oct 19th 2007 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
Read the drive, park the armeture, and use cache. It works for the iPods.

for a certain amount of music at a time only, a ipod video can hold like 12.5 mins of 256kbs music, then it will spin up again, the chance are that drop a M8 with HDD at 1.5 metre, you end up with a dead HDD, drop a m8 with flash memory, your data will be safe. Cuz even if you drop a powered off 1.8 inch HDD, it's liklely to fail.

"Ops, my m8 just overheated cuz of the 160gb HDD..."

The HD only spins to put information in cache. Again, works for slim little iPods.

HDD generates much more heat than flash memory, especially if its continuous seeking, comparing an ipod classic with a ipod touch while using coverflow.

"Ops, the HDD just died, and all my files are lost..."

As opposed to flash memory, which can only be written to so many times? Both will fail eventually, no matter what. Files lost on ANY medium? Should have backed it up. That's common sense.

it's common sense but despite flash drive can only be written to so many times, you cannot that easily break it and lose your data, HDD are far more vulnerable to breakages caused by physical factor, which a mobile is subjected to far more than your average HDD spinning in a desktop. In actuality, its far more likely that you will break the HDD before it reach it's end.

"Ops, the HDD just run down my battery while talking..."

Again, you need to learn about a magic thing called "cache."

The caching can only cache so much data, the smaller it is, the more often the HDD spins up again, the larger, the more power hungry they are, you never know if M8 will include the caching feature that is anywhere nearly as efficient as ones in the ipod, which passed through generations and generations of improvements.

"Ops, I wonder why my M8 with HDD weighs like an elephant..."

Have you ever picked up a 1.8" hard drive? Their weight is measured in ounces.

Yes, when i broke my 5th gen ipod accidentally by dropping, i toke out the HDD, it's not light, as far as i can say.

"Ops, just got fired by my boss cuz M8's HDD makes too much of nose while talking to him on the phone..."

Again, why would the hard drive be spinning while you were talking on the phone? Are you watching a movie while talking on the phone? Listening to MP3s while talking on the phone?

yes, you heard the term 'multitasking'?]]>Oct 19th 2007 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
Shame on you Meizu!]]>Oct 19th 2007 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin]]>Oct 19th 2007 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.k26.com/buran/Info/A_Comparison/a_comparison.html

On topic, even the icons are direct copies on the Meizu. It's almost ballsy to just completely copy the UI, instead of at least coming up with new icons.]]>Oct 19th 2007 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
These are not photographs of an interface running on an actual Meizu M8, they are renderings of what they hope that interface will be. That's why the handset's physical characteristics change with the wind, they can barely decide what they want it to look like! This is almost 10 months after they announced it.

Apple must have created a truly astounding product if it's taking them this long to get it down. I seriously thought, for a second there, that Meizu might get their product out the door before the iPhone even shipped! Now Apple may very well have the 2nd Generation iPhone and an expansion of the lineup (iPhone nano, etc.) on the market before Meizu finally stops playing games and releases their copycat product. That's incredible.

And after all this, it still won't have multi-touch.]]>Oct 19th 2007 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Can it play Ogg? I'll take two!]]>Oct 19th 2007 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
For crying out loud, it's not even an actual QWERTY keyboard! They placed the I, O, P, K, and L keys at the very top row! I'd love to see how much of an improvement that is for you.

Not to mention flanking that same top row with the Caps Lock and Delete keys, making them harder to reach than on an iPhone.

They took pictures from the internet of the iPhone interface and altered them in a half-assed manner.]]>Oct 19th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
http://osdir.com/ml/culture.india.sarai.reader/2005-01/msg00198.html

How to stop worrying and learn to live with piracy
A US professor has rocked the current patent debate by saying that piracy is not

only inevitable, it may even be beneficial.
Doron S. Ben-Atar is hardly your usual suspect when it comes to
subversion. He is a genial giant from the world of academia, a
professor of history at Fordham University in New York who has written
or co-authored several books, a researcher who has won prestigious
fellowships. For all that, he has managed to undermine the
conventional arguments in today's hotly debated question of who owns
intellectual property (IP) - simply by looking at the issue through
the prism of the past.

Ben-Atar's contention is that all developed nations, especially the
US, did not respect IP rights and indulged in rampant piracy - and he
has detailed researches to prove this - during a certain period in
their history of industrialisation. Tracing the roots of patent and
copyright laws in early America, he says that during the country's
industrial revolution, its very prosperity was founded on copyright
infringement, industrial espionage and outright theft of IP.

to be continued......]]>Oct 19th 2007 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
-Don't forget that all of those Chines people your talking about tend to be the ones who manufacture 90% of the products you use including the iPod's we own.

-Every manufacture builds off of another's great ideals and mistakes and learns from them.

-Yes this phone resembles the iPhone but as much as I commend the Apple brand it's not what I want to use. If Apple created a wPhone wm6 I would be the first in line to say thanks and hand them my cash.

-If the rolls were reversed an Apple had a larger presence in the world all the issues that are found in the Windows based products would hit be Apples problems.

-Why would I try to make a quick buck developing some software for 10,000,000 when I can spend less time and make more money selling to 100,000,000 people. ]]>Oct 19th 2007 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/
wateva... i dont think i can see myself reading what you wrote over my dead body...


APPLE 4 LIFE!!!]]>Oct 20th 2007 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/Oct 19th 2007 3:47PM