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]

[dolapo10 @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:13PM]

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

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

Barney, seriously, WTF?! o_O

[iKurt 7 @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:14PM]

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

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

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

[Technophile @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:14PM]

I see HTC, Apple and Palm styling in there.

Yay lol

[Soaa- @ Jul 3rd 2009 9:04PM]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[G @ 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!

[Sk8rman @ 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?

[Aaron @ 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.

[murmermer @ 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

[geoffreyji @ Jul 3rd 2009 10:21PM]

Except the screen is 720 x 480...

[Gerard @ Jul 4th 2009 12:31AM]

oooooh internets burn

[kadajawi @ 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 @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:16PM]

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

[Gabe @ 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.

[Ypoknons @ Jul 3rd 2009 11:49PM]

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

[Ian @ Jul 4th 2009 12:00AM]

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

[bigcow05 @ 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.

[Erik @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:17PM]

Looks... familiar...

[sweet greggo @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:58PM]

iknowright? They totally ripped off the Pre!

[Erik @ Jul 3rd 2009 9:27PM]

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

[Dayne @ Jul 3rd 2009 9:49PM]

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

[AutumnBringer @ 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?

[novdoom @ Jul 4th 2009 3:22AM]

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

[techyd0od @ 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.

[all things considered @ 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 @ Jul 3rd 2009 9:05PM]

O_o ok...

[Butchercow @ 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.

[NiGeRiA_StAnD_Up! @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:30PM]

Pretty neat.

[Levi @ 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?

[unclejimbo66 @ Jul 4th 2009 1:10AM]

Go back inside, Grandpa.

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

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

[sweet greggo @ 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 @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:40PM]

Right! Never thought of that, sorry!

[Erik @ 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.

[aaron @ Jul 3rd 2009 9:12PM]

I use it everyday on my iPhone...

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

Any time I'm at the airport.

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

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

[Shiz @ 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.

[sweet greggo @ Jul 3rd 2009 8:33PM]

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

[lawyer bird @ Jul 3rd 2009 9:00PM]

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

[sweet greggo @ 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.

[CraigJ @ 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?

[murmermer @ 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 @ 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?

[q @ Jul 3rd 2009 9:46PM]

I love the music icon, that old school record.

[nkatz @ Jul 4th 2009 5:09AM]

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