Sneak peek at Meizu M8's new user interface

Heads up, Meizu fanboys! We just got a sneak peak at the M8's new UI (said to be dropping in August when the handset gets its firmware update) and you know what? It looks like a UI. Pretty k-rad, right? Check out the other two face-melting pics after the break, if you dare.

[Via Meizu Me]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:13PM]

Are you telling this is meant to be a knock off phone?????
WOW standards are pretty high

[loocas Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:03PM]

Barney, seriously, WTF?! o_O

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:14PM]

It looks more and more like the Pre, from iPhone's OSX.

[ToniCipriani Posted Jul 4th 2009 8:47AM]

I was about to say that pollen background looks awfully familiar.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:14PM]

I see HTC, Apple and Palm styling in there.

Yay lol

[Soaa Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:04PM]

Some Samsung too. Yep, definitely some Samsung in there too.

[Dest Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:27PM]

I also see some LG, Nokia and a smidgeon of SE styling.

[Hitman Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:59PM]

Can you say "Copycat"? *Bounces right eyebrow*

[joe23521 Posted Jul 3rd 2009 11:14PM]

When it looks like 12 different things, it doesn't look like anything.

[GGG Posted Jul 4th 2009 4:30AM]

i agree with joe, all UIs look at least a little like some others, but that doesn't make them copies.


OMG it has icons! that's so unoriginal!

[skatekarate Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:57AM]

Maybe all of the Pre/iPhone/WM/Blackberry fans can be friends and buy this phone..

Wait, who am I kidding?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:16PM]

Wow, this looks... quite nice actually. Simple layout, nice transparency, well done icons, etc. This is far better than the UI I've seen on touch phones from Samsung and LG.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:52PM]

these aren't screenshots these are mockups... once you put these on a cheap 240*400 screen they would look as horrendous as any samsung or LG UI

[gcj Posted Jul 3rd 2009 10:21PM]

Except the screen is 720 x 480...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 12:31AM]

oooooh internets burn

[kadajawi Posted Jul 4th 2009 6:30AM]

The screenshots on Engadget are already reduced in size, on the phone the resolution is higher. I've seen it and it's nothing short of brilliant. (Too bad the rest of the phone isn't.)

[Jeff Wheeler Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:16PM]

That actually looks surprisingly nice. They should stop trying to make knock-offs, and make the real thing. :)

[meepmeep Posted Jul 3rd 2009 10:15PM]

A lot of electronics companies in China start off making cheap knock-off products, then start their own R&D after accumulating enough money and assets.

[YpoCaramel Posted Jul 3rd 2009 11:49PM]

I agree. About time mainland China pulled a HTC on us.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 12:00AM]

It may be a mixed bag, but it looks good. :)

[bigcow05 Posted Jul 4th 2009 7:15AM]

Copying other products is how Japanese and Korean manufacturers started off too. But I don't think the UI is much of a copy at all; it is beautiful in its own right.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:17PM]

Looks... familiar...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:58PM]

iknowright? They totally ripped off the Pre!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:27PM]

And the pre ripped off OSX so you are correct :)

[enhuman Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:49PM]

and since the iphone os ripped off palm os he is more correct.

[eliazar Posted Jul 3rd 2009 10:10PM]

Yeah, this does look way too familiar ...

I've totally seen flowers exactly like that at the Botanical Garden. Sheesh these guys can't even grow their own flowers huh?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 3:22AM]

And since the Palm OS ripped off the Apple Newton, you're super duper correct!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 10:05PM]

Palm did not rip off osx, perhaps you have been misinformed webos is a linux based os and for those who do not know mac uses alot of the open source code and ideas in their operating system, just saying go play with ubuntu and then tell me who ripped of who.

[Mr Oos Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:18PM]

at this point, shouldn't nice looking user interfaces and legible fonts be the norm for all relatively costly devices? besides, aesthetics aren't everything (windows vista is very nice looking imo, but so troublesome to use)

[allislost Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:05PM]

O_o ok...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:40PM]

Aaron said it. In my opinion samsung and lg´s touch ui´s look and feel very confusing.

But this on hte other hand looks nice and clean.

[The Fresh Prince Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:30PM]

Pretty neat.

[Levi Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:30PM]

looks decent, but I can't wait until the iPhone UI stops getting copied so much. I know that was Meizu's idea from the get-go, but I think I'm getting tired of a pile of icons to choose from. I wonder what that new UI on the HTC Dream will look like. I'm also getting more and more curious about WinMo 7. They did such a good job with Windows 7 so far, and the competition is fierce in the mobile market, that I have a feeling WM7 will be miles ahead of 6.5... which really only means that it might finally compete with the new wave of smartphone OS's in the consumer market.

I mean, when did these companies think it was a good idea to just dump launchers for all of your apps in one place? Whatever happened to tools, options, apps, games, you know, categories?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 4th 2009 1:10AM]

Go back inside, Grandpa.

[Bolo Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:31PM]

Is anybody actually using a weather app on IPOS/WM/Android/WebOS/Symbian/whatever ? Just wondering... Sorry for offtopic

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:35PM]

Accuweather on the Pre is quite nice looking. I'd still like something with animated radar though. We get big storms in Texas. Having radar on the road would be nice.

[Bolo Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:40PM]

Right! Never thought of that, sorry!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:41PM]

Back when i had my ipod touch the first tying i would do when i woke up is check the weather. Just something to do.

[ustna Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:12PM]

I use it everyday on my iPhone...

[Chris Dunning Posted Jul 3rd 2009 10:09PM]

Any time I'm at the airport.

[nDy Posted Jul 3rd 2009 11:39PM]

WorldMate is better,
it reads it out loud in the morning

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:32PM]

Awfully familiar, but this can be good. You can get the use of it a lot faster.

I like it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 8:33PM]

Great, another Pre clone. Doesn't anyone have any originality anymore?

[Streetfights Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:00PM]

I think your pic could definitely come off as racist...to most people

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:04PM]

Actually, most people consider it a parody of a popular poster. You are the first person who's mentioned anything about race.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:58PM]

"I think your pic could definitely come off as racist...to most people"

Right, because it always has to do with race and not policy, right? Are you one of those tools that thinks anyone that didn't vote for your guy is a racist?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 3rd 2009 10:04PM]

Its because he's a lawyer and he wants your money... imagine an entire career living as leech to the rest of society by finding ways anybody offends black people I mean AFRICAN AMERICANS then suing them for money and taking up to 50% of the winnings as commission... at least he's going to hell so I cant complain

[CJ Posted Jul 4th 2009 10:08AM]

Hey Nilay!

You banned that guy for having an opinion about Michael Jackson a few days ago, how about banning someone who deserves it?

[qst4 Posted Jul 3rd 2009 9:46PM]

I love the music icon, that old school record.

[Pixelologist Posted Jul 4th 2009 5:09AM]

What's a....record? ;- )