http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/ Engadget Comments for Video: Meizu M8 prepped for full-scale launch, IP battle with Apple 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/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Sorry grammar Nazis. ]]>Jan 23rd 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/I'm sorry too.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/*FLAC http://flac.sourceforge.net
*Ogg Vorbis http://www.vorbis.com
*the sense to offer a removable battery
+ more.

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Click on 'Specifications']]>Jan 23rd 2009 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/
The screen is beautiful and crisp, definitely better than iPhone, color is accurate or at least to everyone's liking. The UI though HAD some glitches (fixed by firmware updates most likely), it's responsive and groovy most of the time. and she runs ported CE applications like a glove. Better yet, after years of developing, The M8 is not the M8 she used to be. There's not much Apple inspired stuff left in her system other than things like menu layout, photo viewer etc. However, despite all above, I don't view her as an iPhone killer. because she just can't be. Her UI is not as unified and polish as iPhone, Her creators has mindsets far different from westerner's, and the iPhone is not just a phone, am I right?]]>Jan 23rd 2009 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/
The good news is the VLC is making a version of their player for WinCE, which means broad CODEC support for WinMo. So FLAC playback on your phone won't be limited to the M8.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/
....plus the one glove...

...it all fits!!!









...like..a glove...
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I hate it just as much as everyone else when people say "Apple invented the touch screen" or what have you but the "inspiration" here is obvious.

The bevelled edge, the single button, the interface, the actual design, its all been taken from Apple. Now if you look at the Palm Pre or the Storm....every part has been originally developed by their respective makers. THIS device is just a high quality knock-off.
]]>Jan 23rd 2009 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Have a look on ebay at iPod lookalikes Apple's legal powers are not really that strong.

Apple are trying to trademark "multi-touch" software patents stink.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 4:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Removable battery - Check
Back Ground Task management - Check
Native Copy/Paste - Check
Copied iPhone Style - Check
Copied iPhone interface - Check

Seems to be the best iPhone clone to date and better in a few features, removable battery is a great plus. ]]>Jan 23rd 2009 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/
/s]]>Jan 23rd 2009 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 5:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/
Seriously though, I've had the chance to play with a M8 for a few minutes last month, and it was a pretty impressive device. The screen is brilliant, and the thing is rather snappy and responsive. But to be honest, the Palm Pre announcement killed it to me. It also killed the iPhone. Also, it seems as if the M8 might come without WiFi (Chinese regulations...). A version that is not meant for China should have WiFi though.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/
Michael Jackson moved to China and is making knock-off phones.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/If it turns out to work as promised Meizu has got a winner here and I might even be end up buying one of these.

I find it ridicolous that Apple would pretend to have a sort of design patent on a rectangular slab of metal with a screen on top, it's like if a tyre company would pretend that every company producing round rubber tyres is copying its original design.
Innovation is on UI, features, or maybe so called "experience" ; not the shape of the touch screen; unless Apple pretends that because it has been the first company to copy the design of its iPhone from the first touch screen phones from Samsung and LG, now all other companies can only produce triangular screens.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Not only that , but because the vast majority of smartphones use win mobile, you can also modify the UI to your liking by flashing HTC's touch flo or Samsung touch whiz, or SE X1's whateveritscalled etc.
I like the iPhone UI (it's its only strong point in my opinion) but if it comes to available choices or possibilities win mobile is still the undiscussed master of the game.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/
I might actually consider getting one. You know, just to be different. lol. ]]>Jan 23rd 2009 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/
http://www.viddler.com/explore/b4tech/videos/23/]]>Jan 23rd 2009 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/
The features are quite good, too.

But too bad it's from a crappy chinese brand.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Jan 23rd 2009 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/A tasty apple is eating, a rotten apple is half bitten and thrown away. Should have seen the signs.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-apple/Those who still say it's a rip off need to come to their senses. If they have any, that is.]]>Jan 23rd 2009 10:10AM