We know, we know, it's gonna be awfully hard to part with the comfort of your current beloved
Meizu M8, but trust us, change can be good. We've already heard reports of an
Android-centric UI refresh, and now company CEO J. Wong has chimed in to outline a tentative upgrade plan for the upcoming
M8 3G. Current users of the
eerily familiar 8GB / 16GB device will need to pay approximately 1,300 RMB to 1,500 RMB (translation: about $190 to $200 US) for next year's model. Oddly enough, despite these estimates, he's not confirming any market selling price. Wong also adds the screen size has been expanded from the initially planned 3.54 inches diagonal to 3.6, with same 720 x 480 resolution. Keep saving your pennies, last we heard launch date was still (lightly) penciled in for March 2010.
posted Jun 21st 2009 5:51PM
Meizo... psh. what a ripoff of Meizu.
Engadget fails at currency conversion. It'd be $190 to $220 USD - they were off by $20.
currency value changes every day, not always at the best of times, idiot.
it doesn't change on the weekend, IDIOT.
plus, the currency exchange rate between dollar and yuan rarely changes by anything more then a cent
I'd like it if they stopped trying to make their phone similar to the iPhone because it seems like an excellent device which benefits nothing from being viewed as a KIRF.
And if they give it a real OS like Android it will be a killer phone
iphone os isnt a REAL os?
Exactly, if they had a touch of innovation, I reckon they will be massive hit. They are good enough not to copy the iphone ie. the OS, and if they stuck android on or something that doesn't copy apple then it will be perfect. Copying apple gives it a bad image.
And that new 3G model's screen sounds mind blowing.
A 720*480 screen sounds mind blowing? Have you been living in a cave for the last 2 years?
Windows CE is a real OS, and their building on top of a newer version of WinCE than windows mobile.
I agree, this is a nice phone. But I don't want to look like a cheapass carrying around a KIRF.
Matt:
I think he means a real OS for the M8. As opposed to an iPhone OS clone.
Personally, I think the M8 is a great phone, having played with one, it's full of KIRFy goodness, but that screen resolution: Beautiful. I'd love to see it running Android.
I never thought of it like that, but this is truth. Considering how much Meizu has invested in their clone, and considering the asking price - why not just make up their own, totally original thing? At least an original design. It looks like a great phone that is tainting it's own image for no good reason, aside from how that's what Meizu does best.
WinCE 6 > Android
They just need to improve on it but they had a decent start for a small kirf company
it took meizu longer to rip off one apple product than it took apple to release three revisions of it.
and they say china's going to take over the world economy? HA!
nah, they were busy copying every other phone ever made
You're an idiot. The M8 came out after the first revision, the 3G iPhone.
Does anybody actually buy these things?
Meizu products are really high in quality. and they sound superb too.
cant wait for their next phone.
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and you are a very beautiful lady
meizu fanboy spotted!
@thisisit,
or do u mean "spotting another fanboy to join me..."?
??????
If you like a product and its company, you are a fanboy. Unless it's Apple.
Yeah, you're not a fanboy. You're insane.
Your avatar scares me
@thisisit: Meizu sales rep spotted. :D
Does anybody actually own the original meizu? I'm just curious how it is? KIRF or no KIRF, on paper at least, it sounds like a great phone, and the upgrade is even better.
@matt: The original didn't have a real iphone os, whereas this one, seems like it'll use real android.
Engadget has a M8... they never bothered to review it though...?!
How is it homosexual?
YESSSSS!!!!! Finally.
Also, if anyone wants to have meizu iPhone clone sex, e-mail me, and we can meizu long time.
The worst thing is that there is people who actually buy these KIRFs... And they think they made a good deal. If all people stopped buying this crap, there wouldn't be a market for KIRF companies -- like Meizu, which seems to be aimed to a "premium KIRF" market -- anymore.
It doesn't have to be. You see, north americans are so pathetically freaked out about homosexuality and homosexuals they tend to pretend they're perfectly normal (heterosexual) by playing tough and laugh at anything of less "pwnage" calling it "homo" etc...
I personally don't get the whole anti-homo rage in the US. Especially since they make it seem "God" doesn't like homosexuals and so on... Well, if "God" didn't like them, why did he "create" them? Also, why do you think homosexualism isn't "natural"? Take a look at penguins for example (OH NO! Linux is totally HOMO!). Also, if all this were true, who ARE YOU to judge?!
I hate hypocrisy and bullshit like this...
Anyways, sorry for this totally off topic rant, I just hat to let it out... and no, I'm not homosexual...
WTF?! These articles are at least funny! Unlike those gazillion iPhone "news wannabes" that everybody is sick of by now...
In contrary to very avarage ipod/iphone sound quality Meizu does very good, if not to say superb products in this terms. And if you hadn't had boners when you hear word iphone/ipod, and tried and heard Meizu device at least once, you wouldn't post such shitty and meaningless comments. According to spec, this would be one of the best Android devices if released within 4 months (which unfortunately won't happen knowing Meizu ;/ )
I totally agree on everything u said, I have a meizu SL, an mp3 player and this one sound amazing paired with my Grado cans. Hope this phone be released this year.
can m8 use iphone apps?
Are you serious?
No reason why it couldn't..
I can think of one really big reason why it can't.
That would be perfect for a Blendtec blender.
Clone smoke! Don't breathe this...
I don't even know if this phone's out there or not. I mean I've read a lot about it but it doesn't seem too serious... if that made sense.
It's great,rmvb,avi and many video formats which iphone can't play are supported by this phone.
It looks very much like iPhone, but sounds a lot cheaper!
Yes, it's "serious", yes it's "out there" and yes people are buying them. It's been officially on sale since February and unofficial "test" units were being sold a couple months prior to that. By March, Meizu was reporting monthly sales of 50,000, so let's say -conservatively- that sales by now are probably comfortably in the six figures. The M8 is best built, best spec'd "KIRF" out there; the hardware is top-notch (Samsung, Wolfson, etc.) and the OS is thoroughly developed, not just a pretty welcome screen backed up by atrocious-looking garbage. Remember too that Meizu went with WinCE 6 to build the OS, which took a certain amount of chutzpah even if the end result is considered inspired. It's solid; at one point during development, fans were wondering aloud if CEO Jack Wong wasn't getting too anal-retentive over the build tolerances on the phone. It plays APE, FLAC, OGG, and FLV files (and all the other usual suspects) out of the box. Meizu's fans in China are every bit as rabid/zealous as Apple fans and they actively support the company through feedback and app development. Their Chinese forums average upward of 30,000 posts a day. Some of that is meaningless chatter, of course, but the forums are, um, busy nonetheless. Current high water mark: 82,155 posts in one day. Although users outside China have to tolerate more bugs in the firmware than those inside China, Meizu still hasn't released v1.0, so wait & see what's coming.
The M8 isn't perfect, but it's a first try; the next gen will move further way from its inspirations, and the 3rd gen further again... The company isn't going away; laugh, bitch, moan, complain all you want, but they'll slowly, steadily evolve and carve out their own little niche -however small- of the mobile market with some pretty compelling devices.
In several months,it will support both android and wince maybe.