Meizu opens flagship store in Shenzhen

If you're going to go to the trouble of procuring an M8 from Meizu, you may as well turn it into an authentic, memorable, world-class experience by making the pilgrimage to Shenzhen, China to pick it up in its hometown. Oh, but don't just pick it up from some random street vendor -- do it up right by swinging on over to Meizu's shiny new flagship store, where you'll be able to select your M8 (or at least see renders of the M8) in a comfortable, relaxed environment while rubbing shoulders with Meizu employees. The fresh digs just opened today, and pictures from the grand opening show an epic mass of humanity waiting for the doors to unlock -- a promising sign for Meizu, and an unfortunate sign that the enochlophobes among us probably ought to wait a few weeks to make the trek.

[Via Meizu Me]

[Sgt_Strider @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:02AM]

Guys, it's Shenzhen and not Shenzen.

[stiltskin @ Jan 2nd 2009 1:30AM]

"Imitation is the Highest Form of Flattery"

[Flashpoint @ Jan 2nd 2009 1:36AM]

Actually, its "Shen Zhen" 深圳市 - but, the average American doesn't recognize Pin yin so they don't bother even trying to pronounce it or spell it right.

As for this store... if america ever goes to war with China, I want this to be THE FIRST TARGET.

[kadajawi @ Jan 2nd 2009 6:34AM]

@Flashpoint: Wouldn't it be rude to attack the country that owns you?

[Will @ Jan 2nd 2009 8:17AM]

Flashmeister,

What you wrote, the Pinyin that is, makes no sense without tones. You need to show the tones for it to be Pinyin. The Chinese characters have nothing to do with Pinyin.

Will

[joe23521 @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:58PM]

Uh, thanks, Juston. Now move along.

[James @ Jan 2nd 2009 2:58PM]

Hey Flashpoint, tell us, is this Phone unlocked or Jailbroken?

or do you need more time to understand that concept...

[webon @ Jan 5th 2009 10:44PM]

wait... that's me in that picture and I've never been to china,


wooooa do you recon I have a twin brother in that Manhattan-like Chinese city?

[Gamer-X @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:02AM]

can we sell oranges outside the store?

[KarlW @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:11AM]

No, but you can sell organs

[coldside @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:16AM]

What about apples?

[Flashpoint @ Jan 2nd 2009 1:37AM]

Only if they are adam's apples.

[Decoy @ Jan 2nd 2009 4:43PM]

Flashpoint won engadget today.

[Ehren Goo @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:03AM]

Shenzhen, not Shenzen.

[oakie @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:04AM]

so how long before another chinese maker manages to KIRF the M8?

[oakie @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:05AM]

engadgetoh.cn probably has the Apple iPhone listed as a KIRF for the M8.

[eggothewaffle @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:04AM]

Chris scores 14 points with the word "enochlophobes."

Congratulations!

[Predator.Z6 @ Jan 3rd 2009 1:37AM]

BUT...BUT..."enochlophobes" only has 13 letters....LOL

[Tushar @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:04AM]

iPod,iPhone,and now apple store what bout mac.I bet it can't do that!

[1234321 @ Jan 2nd 2009 1:16AM]

give em a little time, dude they are kinda working on it easiest to hardest, they are probably looking at buying Psystar if it lives and hiring Fake Steve Jobs

[konshuss @ Jan 2nd 2009 10:11AM]

will fake steve jobs wither away into the shape of a nano gen4?

[Pierre @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:06AM]

hey it looks like that apple store

[dcoaster @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:06AM]

Thought the same thing. Strange.... I wonder what their product is competing with.............. o_O

[Snitch @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:13AM]

Yeah even the bags look like the ones that where giving out with the iphones, lol, they even used a similar box to what apple uses with the iPhones, that's plain sad

[bigcow05 @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:15AM]

-.-;

It's a photoshopped image of an Apple store. The customers walking about don't look Chinese, and the perspective of the logo is off.

[Jeremy K. @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:17AM]

rofl.. whoosh

[jupiterthunder @ Jan 2nd 2009 1:15AM]

Well, that was the longest run of FAIL ever.

[Ahmed Alzayani @ Jan 2nd 2009 2:56AM]

For a split second i thought this is real image.....

Engadget you should use the real image http://cnc8.kabiqi.com//pic/2007/12/5/szlcwy/%E6%89%8B%E6%9C%BA/%E9%A6%96%E5%AE%B6%E9%AD%85%E6%97%8F%E8%AE%A4%E8%AF%81%E5%BA%97%E5%BC%80%E4%B8%9A/DSCF4653.JPG

Meizu =/= APPLE

[superhobo @ Jan 2nd 2009 5:36AM]

No, its the Mapple store.

[Ken J @ Jan 2nd 2009 9:12AM]

@ Ahmed's link

Am I mistaken or is the only shapely ass in that pic belong to a guy?

[matt merritt @ Jan 2nd 2009 10:16PM]

@Ken J

Is it sad that I went back and found it?

[Alexei @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:12AM]

Just another Apple Stor..........holllllyyyyy smoookes!

[Tohe @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:14AM]

Hoax me Not!

[Oliver @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:15AM]

i wonder what the store really looks like.

[martin @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:20AM]

Because the read link is broken?

>_>

[Mobius_1 @ Jan 2nd 2009 7:35AM]

It's Chinese censorship.

[KarlW @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:16AM]

I love machine translations. Here are a couple of my favourite snippets from the read link:

"Lady - the first time, placed the exact level of a little less, but there is one very important point: a lot of machine! !
Inside the staff feel more tension"

"Mysterious flagship store will be opened"

"At the door of our handsome young man to the door, we all do not worry"

"retired before the young man is the special police"

"Passing of this friend simply let our boys please Shuai out;"

[Kris120890 @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:18AM]

What doe the store look like or is it just a counter in the corner of a retail chain.

[Kris120890 @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:23AM]

The read link is working again. It looks..........................................small.

[D! @ Jan 2nd 2009 1:47AM]

I agree..it's smaller than the Apple Store that just opened up in my mall (took over the now defunct Sharper Image location), that has a full service Genius Bar :D

[Mike C @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:18AM]

I keep going back and forth trying to convince myself that it's a photoshop job...

Please say it is.

Please?

[iPriest @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:28AM]

It is, the real meizu shop looks awful to western standards. It actually looks like a chinese shop looks overhere.

[cheng @ Jan 2nd 2009 1:42AM]

that's cause it was built as a normal shop, not a temple like the apple store above.

[Dean @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:21AM]

Um, commenters, you know that's the Apple store in New York, right? The editors just 'shopped it ;D

Not to be racist or anything, but the people walking around are white.

Hit the read link.

[xconan @ Jan 2nd 2009 3:07AM]

hmmm... the people walking around sure don't look white, maybe a group of posses from the UN.

[rita hainsworth @ Jan 2nd 2009 5:43AM]

thats definitely the Apple 5th ave store in Manhattan.

[acme @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:30AM]

thats some good photoshoppery, Who does all the headline art anyway?

[Johan S @ Jan 2nd 2009 2:37AM]

I wanna know that too .. whoever comes up with these is awesome.

[sacapuntas @ Jan 2nd 2009 12:32AM]

If Meizu only had some kind of fruit to put on their player... to bad all the good ones are taken... cantaloupe phone anyone?

[Wormbolt @ Jan 2nd 2009 1:04AM]

I can't wait to see a laptop with the silhouette if a lichee on the lid.