Meizu CEO Jack Wong spills more M9 details: Android 2.2 and retina-busting 960 x 640 screen
By Tim Stevens 
posted August 17th 2010 12:18PM
posted August 17th 2010 12:18PM
Update: It's 960 x 640, not 480.
posted August 17th 2010 12:18PM
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Look again. The pixels are now DIAMONDS!
@Outsider
Look down, now look back up, if you're man had a higher res display like me you wouldn't even see his pixels...now i'm on a yacht.
@Outsider They really are !
Meizu makes good products, it's a very different brand than most chinese phone makers. But their ressources are too low to ship their products in time :)
@Outsider I just gotta think there's gonna be some crazy-ass hardware running Android at CES in January. *nom*
@Outsider Is this the famous Cantina display? so high res it makes everything blurry and the camera makes ugly chicks look good...
LOOK HERE: http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/specs.html. The iPhone 4's retina display has a resolution of 960x640. This does not match it
@Outsider - LOL!
More attempt by Meizu to get some "Apple stink on their hang-low"! Hey Wong, don't be such a Wang! Break the teasing bate n switch cycle already. To quote a famous poet named G. Dubya: "fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, we can't get fooled again'!
@MrT OMG 180 pixels off, what a fail! /sarcasm
@Outsider
I must say, if the screen shot is any indication if the working UI I may just have to import this bad boy (edge speeds expected)!!
I'm on a horse...
@MrT
That is because the screen ratio of Iphone is 1.5:1 i believe, while the screen ratio of this phone is 2:1, so the pixel density is close.
I believe this is because it will be 16x9
Correct me if I'm wrong
@MrT So then I went to other blogs
http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/08/16/meizu.chief.wants.retina.display.for.m9/
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/08/16/meizus-m9-to-sport-retina-display-android-2-2/
So is this a typo, or are all these guys wrong?
@N900 I believe it even says 960*640 in the original text before translation from Engadget's source article.
最新消息：M9已确定3.54寸960*640 十月体验 2010-08-05 10:54 来源:魅族迷
@N900 You may be on to something, i just hope engadget fixes their article
@MrT You should have said "THIS DOES NOT MATCH IT SUCKA!"
@Siryj +1
@Outsider Remember when Jobs said the retina display would be the new standard in phones. Again Steve Jobs is changing the way we look at our phones... again!
@iPhone 4
especially when no one will buy a 4"+ screen...
@Outsider More like 267x400. I checked in photoshop it never lies.
@Outsider
This resolution hype is silly. Not only are minimal increases in resolution used to gain a higher spec number mostly meaningless (you have to quadruple pixel count in order to double the linear resolution), but the higher you take linear resolution, the less it even pays off anyway.
@Outsider Nice. You're a man's man.
(or maybe a woman who wants her man to smell like a man's man)
@owen66 My EVO says otherwise.
@Outsider
The fact that people still use the term "retina-display" goes to show that Apple won..... sad times.
@Outsider
"like a Retina-matching 960 x 640 display -- making us wonder if this isn't just going to be an iPhone 4 wanna-be after all"
Are you serious?
Copying the iPhone exactly makes them think it's not an iPhone 4 wannabe?
What world are you guys in?
@angelusp
I remember someone which name starts with Stev and ends with obs once said: Geniuses copy. So Meizu is a genius.
They have come from behind with small capital and by copying Apple they are slowly making an space for themselves. And if they use plastic because their resources are small but the internals are solid then they will keep growing and will improve in the future.
When I tell iPhone loving friends I got a Samsung Galaxy S and I love it I keep being told... so you love cheap plastic in your phone instead of glass and aluminium?
The answer is simple... does the appearance of iPhone4 suddenly makes all the previous iPhone versions cheap? Does it mean all the previous iPhone incarnations were always cheap phones?
Of course not! iPhone is a wonderful device!!! But there are so many people brainwashed by Apple to levels bordering to fanaticism that I just cannot understand.
I think iPhone has already been surpassed in many levels. The resolution thing is the last advantage Apple has right now and I guess Apple fans will try to hold on that as long as they can and small companies like Meizu are now breaking into that advantage... good for them!
I think Meizu will become the chinese HTC soon.
Luck!
@Guimo
And one more thing. The modern Japan we know today with its advanced robotics and research facilities, started after the second world war by copying. They copied everything in the western world from cars to TV sets and then they improved them. The pattern is now being duplicated in China with the added benefit China has way more human and natural resources than Japan.
There is nothing wrong in copying, as they say, copying is the highest form of adulation. So Apple should be proud of themselves.
@Guimo You are so obsessed with the iPhone that you bought a Samsung. way to stick it to all those iPhone obsessives.
Oh no, a high res screen?
That means it's an iPhone 4 copy!
/totallysarcastic
@Cam Exactly, on the one hand they want someone to compete with Apple and release a great screen on a phone and when someone tries it's an iPhone wannabe. Honestly, was this article written by a 14 year old?
@Cam
Meizu, I am disappoint. /s
You're right, although at the same time I think that high a resolution on such small screens is just O-V-E-R-K-I-L-L.
Good on you Mr. Wong for trying to become an establishment in this game that is technology!
@Rem DX i remember when phones could make phonecalls LMAO
i love the high res stuff but pretty soon i think the advertisements are going to be along the lines of "resolution so high your eyes cant tell the difference between this model and the last, but this is better... TRUST US"
@Cam If you think that it is not an iPhone wannabe... you are living in a fools' paradise.... as most of the users here are (I can tell by the 'highest ranked'). Just like some iFanboys have their minds clouded by love for the iPhone yours is clouded by hate for it.... Just my 2 cents.
@Cam Except you forgot all the quotes this past 2 years where he said specifically that they wanted to start with a copy of the iPhone and then add their own flavor.
@Cam Engadget has the nasty habit of claiming every single Chinese product as a KIRF even when it isn't.
@JojoMojo whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Firstly, did I ever say I hated the iPhone? No. And I don't.
I was simply joking that Engadget called it an iPhone wannabe because o the high-res screen. Read my comment again. All it contained was a bit of poking fun at the article. This may or may not end up being an iPhone copy, but we don't know enough, and a high-res screen is not enough to qualify it as a KIRF.
And calling me a fool? Not cool.
It would be nice if we lived in a world where we didn't have to resort to insulting someone else to prove a point.
Just because it has a 'retina display,' it's an iphone 4 wanna be? You guys are ridiculous.
@Mr Oos
but it's a touch screen phone AND "retina display"...totally an iphone4 ripoff!!!
/s
@Mr Oos
Yeah, it is starting to bother me too. I admit the first previews from Meizu a long, long time ago were VERY KIRF-ish and iPhone copying down to the interface.
This phone is no where near that much of a copy. Engadget, you are disappointing me with your obvious bias in this case.
Might as well call anything with a GSM radio an iPhone copy if we're going to be that general with what an 'iPhone' contains. I guess the next iPhone/iPads are Droid wannabes too huh? They have a CDMA radio!
Every phone on the planet is a blatant rip-off of Motorola. Period!
@Mr Oos. Meizu have always ripped off and stolen the design of the iPhone. Piss Off sucka and stop being such an Android fanboy. I'm sick of the new Android fanboy foos and their passion for hatred of Apple. So sad.
@MrT
I pity the foo whose an iSheep POS and somehow is living vicariously through his Mr. T avatar...
@Mr Oos Beyter question - where are their screens coming from?
@Mr Oos Yeah you, stop being such an Android fanboy, even though I don't know HOW your comment confirmed you were anything of the sort.....
@Mr Oos. The Fuck? GTFO over sensitive fanboi. i happen to have an EVO 4G and an iPhone 4 so i have the best of both worlds, you are a sad commenter who is somewhat in pain because the "iSheep POS" has sold so well
@loocas I'm glad someone realizes that. I can play the first game too. Motorola rip off.
@MrT
yeahhh...no. I couldn't care less how well the iPhone, or any other phone sells. What pains me is your incessant lack of logic or really any rational basis for existence beyond the simple confines of your crib, or whatever soft, blanketed, cage you're currently housed in. I don't dislike you; you can be my best friend! Then we can frolic in the land of ignorance together for years to come, reaping the rewards of your vast knowledge and general outlook on life. See you there, T!
@Mr Oos. So just because i have an iPhone 4 (jailbroken) you think im ignorant? You think i should be punished? I don't follow apple religiously neither does Engadget. YOU HAVE TO GIVE CREDIT WHERE ITS DUE SUCKA. I know that Apple are incredible innovators. No one can deny that
@MrT
No sir, I think you're ignorant because the point of my original post is that this device has little or nothing to do with Apple, and should not invoke an Apple-based conversation. Yet here you are, attempting to do just that, despite an entire wall of comments seeking the opposite. That, sir, is why you are ignorant.
@iroq d mullet The Sony Xperia X1 released around 2008 was a touch screen phone with "retina display". That makes both the iphone4 and the m9 xperia ripoffs!
@loocas I think, were he still with us, Alexander Graham Bell would beg to differ.