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.
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Meizu Me]
posted Jan 1st 2009 11:58PM
Guys, it's Shenzhen and not Shenzen.
"Imitation is the Highest Form of Flattery"
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.
@Flashpoint: Wouldn't it be rude to attack the country that owns you?
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
Uh, thanks, Juston. Now move along.
Hey Flashpoint, tell us, is this Phone unlocked or Jailbroken?
or do you need more time to understand that concept...
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?
can we sell oranges outside the store?
No, but you can sell organs
What about apples?
Only if they are adam's apples.
Flashpoint won engadget today.
Shenzhen, not Shenzen.
so how long before another chinese maker manages to KIRF the M8?
engadgetoh.cn probably has the Apple iPhone listed as a KIRF for the M8.
Chris scores 14 points with the word "enochlophobes."
Congratulations!
BUT...BUT..."enochlophobes" only has 13 letters....LOL
iPod,iPhone,and now apple store what bout mac.I bet it can't do that!
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
will fake steve jobs wither away into the shape of a nano gen4?
hey it looks like that apple store
Thought the same thing. Strange.... I wonder what their product is competing with.............. o_O
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
-.-;
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.
rofl.. whoosh
Well, that was the longest run of FAIL ever.
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
No, its the Mapple store.
@ Ahmed's link
Am I mistaken or is the only shapely ass in that pic belong to a guy?
@Ken J
Is it sad that I went back and found it?
Just another Apple Stor..........holllllyyyyy smoookes!
Hoax me Not!
i wonder what the store really looks like.
Because the read link is broken?
>_>
It's Chinese censorship.
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;"
What doe the store look like or is it just a counter in the corner of a retail chain.
The read link is working again. It looks..........................................small.
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
I keep going back and forth trying to convince myself that it's a photoshop job...
Please say it is.
Please?
It is, the real meizu shop looks awful to western standards. It actually looks like a chinese shop looks overhere.
that's cause it was built as a normal shop, not a temple like the apple store above.
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.
hmmm... the people walking around sure don't look white, maybe a group of posses from the UN.
thats definitely the Apple 5th ave store in Manhattan.
thats some good photoshoppery, Who does all the headline art anyway?
I wanna know that too .. whoever comes up with these is awesome.
If Meizu only had some kind of fruit to put on their player... to bad all the good ones are taken... cantaloupe phone anyone?
I can't wait to see a laptop with the silhouette if a lichee on the lid.