Engadget RSS Feed http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2013 AOL Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/ <![CDATA[Video: 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-appl/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-appl/ http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/23/meizu-m8-prepped-for-full-scale-launch-ip-battle-with-appl/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
Meizu's been on a tear since our last M8 update. Sitting atop a new 0.9.0.1 firmware release complete with working copy and paste, Outlook calendar synchronization, and a "full backup system," the M8 is now supported by a published SDK and licensed to ride the Chinese airwaves for what looks to be a March, mainland China release. With all the passion it could muster, Meizu posted the following announcement to its English website:
Let's bear witness together, to the great moment of MEIZU formally entering the big stage of mobile phone industry!
Currently, the M8 handset with its iPhone roots (but a WinCE core) is only available to an abiding Chinese press and die-hard Meizu fanatics -- a population said to rival the intensity of Apple's own sheeple elite. Having watched the M8 make the transition from art to part over the last few years, we're mighty stoked at the prospective launch to say the least. And while Meizu has clearly trumped Apple's spec sheet (not user experience) in terms of software (copy paste, background task management, video recording, and plenty more) and hardware (720 x 480 pixel display and beefier silicon), we'll bet there's still enough "inspiration" to get Tim Cook and Apple's legal counsel whipped up into a frenzy of Intellectual Property defense. Latest video after the break.

Read -- Mobile license approval
Read -- SDK release
Read -- firmware 0.9 release

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]]> applechinaintellectual propertyIntellectualPropertyipm9meizuminionemobileothersvideo Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:26:00 -0500 21|1438401 <![CDATA[Video: 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/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget 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/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
Meizu's been on a tear since our last M8 update. Sitting atop a new 0.9.0.1 firmware release complete with working copy and paste, Outlook calendar synchronization, and a "full backup system," the M8 is now supported by a published SDK and licensed to ride the Chinese airwaves for what looks to be a March, mainland China release. With all the passion it could muster, Meizu posted the following announcement to its English website:
Let's bear witness together, to the great moment of MEIZU formally entering the big stage of mobile phone industry!
Currently, the M8 handset with its iPhone roots (but a WinCE core) is only available to an abiding Chinese press and die-hard Meizu fanatics -- a population said to rival the intensity of Apple's own sheeple elite. Having watched the M8 make the transition from art to part over the last few years, we're mighty stoked at the prospective launch to say the least. And while Meizu has clearly trumped Apple's spec sheet (not user experience) in terms of software (copy paste, background task management, video recording, and plenty more) and hardware (720 x 480 pixel display and beefier silicon), we'll bet there's still enough "inspiration" to get Tim Cook and Apple's legal counsel whipped up into a frenzy of Intellectual Property defense. Latest video after the break.

Read -- Mobile license approval
Read -- SDK release
Read -- firmware 0.9 release

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]]> applechinaintellectual propertyIntellectualPropertyipm9meizuminioneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideovideo Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:26:00 -0500 21|1438384 <![CDATA[Meizu M8 interface gets tweaked once again. A few pixels to the left, please?]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/meizu-m8-interface-gets-tweaked-once-again-a-few-pixels-to-the/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/meizu-m8-interface-gets-tweaked-once-again-a-few-pixels-to-the/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/meizu-m8-interface-gets-tweaked-once-again-a-few-pixels-to-the/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
While it appears that Meizu's infringement shutdown at CeBIT was for unlicensed MP3 usage, and not at all to do with the eerie resemblance to a certain iPhone, the company still seems eager to prove to the world it is brewing something unique with the M8 mini One. CEO Jack Wong posted a bunch of new shots to the Meizu forums with small interface tweaks that inch the OS a bit away from its iPhone roots -- but certainly not far.

Gallery: Meizu M8 interface gets tweaked once again. A few pixels to the left, please?



[Thanks, Lino G.]

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]]> interfacem8meizumini oneMiniOnemobile Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:40:00 -0400 21|1141212 <![CDATA[Meizu M8 interface gets tweaked once again. A few pixels to the left, please?]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/meizu-m8-interface-gets-tweaked-once-again-a-few-pixels-to-the/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/meizu-m8-interface-gets-tweaked-once-again-a-few-pixels-to-the/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/16/meizu-m8-interface-gets-tweaked-once-again-a-few-pixels-to-the/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
While it appears that Meizu's infringement shutdown at CeBIT was for unlicensed MP3 usage, and not at all to do with the eerie resemblance to a certain iPhone, the company still seems eager to prove to the world it is brewing something unique with the M8 mini One. CEO Jack Wong posted a bunch of new shots to the Meizu forums with small interface tweaks that inch the OS a bit away from its iPhone roots -- but certainly not far.

[Thanks, Lino G.]

Gallery: Meizu M8 interface gets tweaked once again. A few pixels to the left, please?

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]]> interfacem8meizumini oneMiniOneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideo Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:40:00 -0400 21|1141211 <![CDATA[Meizu's CeBIT booth shut down over MP3 licensing issues, not the M8]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/meizus-cebit-booth-shut-down-over-mp3-licensing-issues-not-the/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/meizus-cebit-booth-shut-down-over-mp3-licensing-issues-not-the/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/meizus-cebit-booth-shut-down-over-mp3-licensing-issues-not-the/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
Well, it looks like that Meizu CeBIT shutdown wasn't for what you'd expect -- in a Meizu forum post, Jack Wong says that an Italian company called Sisvel complained about another Meizu PMP's unlicensed use of the MP3 codec, and that's what prompted the 5-0 to arrive. Interestingly, Jack also says that it's all a big misunderstanding, because Meizu products, including the M8, don't actually play MP3s, just WMA, and that local distributors have to cough up the licensing fees for MP3 playback. Apparently the booth is now open again, with the offending PMP removed -- the M8 remains on display, probably because it doesn't actually work yet.

Read - Jack Wong post at Meizu forums
Read - Heise article about the shutdown

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]]> cebitcebit 2008Cebit2008m8m8 mini oneM8MiniOnemeizumini oneMiniOneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideo Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:57:00 -0500 21|1132387 <![CDATA[Meizu prototype caught in the flesh at CeBIT, we handle it]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/meizu-prototype-caught-in-the-flesh-at-cebit-we-handle-it/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/meizu-prototype-caught-in-the-flesh-at-cebit-we-handle-it/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/meizu-prototype-caught-in-the-flesh-at-cebit-we-handle-it/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
We've finally seen the M8 in the wild, made with real molecules -- sort of. The prototype being passed around doesn't really function beyond showing a few screens, though a rough cut of the full interface was available on a decidedly un-M8 looking prototype board. Check out our comprehensive coverage of the device, which looks nothing like the iPhone, below!

Read - Video: Meizu M8 mini One OS looks very, very familiar
Read - Video: Meizu M8 mini One
Read - Meizu M8 mini One vs. iPhone... fight!

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]]> breaking newsBreakingNewscebitfeatureshands onhands-onHandsOnm8meizumini oneMiniOnemobileothers Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:48:00 -0500 21|1131154 <![CDATA[Video: Meizu M8 mini One OS looks very, very familiar]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/video-meizu-m8-mini-one-os-looks-very-familiar/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/video-meizu-m8-mini-one-os-looks-very-familiar/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/video-meizu-m8-mini-one-os-looks-very-familiar/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
Besides that very early prototype handset, Meizu also brought along a rough (and we mean rough) engineering board and display to show off the M8 mini One's UI and feature set. It was lacking Bluetooth, camera, or WiFi so we weren't able to see those features of the Opera browser which the mini One will one day happily tout. Still, we had high hopes of seeing just how talented Meizu's software engineers are at recreating the iPhone's lauded user experience. Well, from the demo we saw, they've come pretty close but they've got some serious house cleaning to do before the August launch. Rubber banding scroll bars, finger flick gestures, big inviting icons... it's all there. Unfortunately, the wheels fell off when set to motion. Meizu claims the issues seen during the demo are due to the display -- a stock, touchscreen and sensor with plastic screen (the final product will be glass) which was quickly cobbled together for the purposes of the CeBIT demonstration. Regardless, finger taps were more often than not greeted with cold, stilted silence. Be sure to check out the video to hear how Meizu's device is different than the iPhone. It's a bit long and sometimes painful, but if you hang in there long enough you'll see (and hear) Engadget get the first public phone call from a Meizu M8 mini One... prototype, thingy.

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]]> cebitcebit 2008Cebit2008engadget videoEngadgetVideofeatureshands-onm8meizumini oneMiniOneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideo Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:22:00 -0500 21|1130821 <![CDATA[Video: Meizu M8 mini One]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/video-meizu-m8-mini-one/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/video-meizu-m8-mini-one/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/video-meizu-m8-mini-one/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
It's just three screens on a very early prototype, but for those of you who doubt Meizu's ability to bring the M8 to market, we give you -- the video. Sure, Meizu's just rendering three image files as opposed to any real processing. Nevertheless, there's plenty of catchy dialog to hold you over until these pups go live in China sometime around August. Who knew English as a second language could be so fun.

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]]> engadget videoEngadgetVideohands-onm8meizumini oneMiniOneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideo Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:03:00 -0500 21|1130764 <![CDATA[Meizu M8 mini One vs. iPhone... fight!]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/meizu-m8-mini-one-vs-iphone-fight/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/meizu-m8-mini-one-vs-iphone-fight/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/meizu-m8-mini-one-vs-iphone-fight/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
So we finally had the chance to lay palms to Meizu's M8 prototype. Better yet, we set it up side by side with it's muse, the Apple iPhone. Let's be clear, the prototype is not functional by any stretch of the imagination. It simply turns on and then slaps up one of three images representing the home screen, dialer, or media player depending upon which of the three physical buttons you press along the bottom of the main display. The capacitive touch panel does not work at all. While the physical components may or may not be in place, this is clearly a very early engineering sample. Having said that, Meizu claims that the hardware is complete and final -- they are only working on their Meizu OS tweaks to the Windows CE 6.0 base. However, the GUI and icon designs are pretty much locked in at this point with only minor changes expected before this hits China this August for a to be determined price. Unfortunately, Meizu is still working on their international deployment strategy (duh, they're looking to sign up distributors at CeBIT) so they are not willing to commit to any dates or prices. Gotta say, for all our justifiable M8 bashing, the mini One felt good in the hand and the additional hard buttons, 720 x 480 pixel display, 3 megapixel camera and likely el cheapo price tag have once again perked our interests. Still, it's a long way from it's original 3G HSDPA and kitchen-sink roots and a bit too late (GSM/EDGE in 6 months, Puh-leeze) at this point to be anything more than a novelty outside of China. Nevertheless, the development lifecycle has been fun to watch. Click through for the main features and specifications expected at launch. Video in a jiffy.

Update: Video now available, also of the UI.

Gallery: Meizu M8 mini One vs. iPhone... fight!

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]]> breaking newsBreakingNewscebitcebit 2008Cebit2008featureshands-onm8meizuminioneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideoprototype Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:36:00 -0500 21|1130693 <![CDATA[Meizu's M8 a CeBIT no show just like CES -- surprised?]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/meizus-m8-a-cebit-no-show-just-like-ces-surprised/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/meizus-m8-a-cebit-no-show-just-like-ces-surprised/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/meizus-m8-a-cebit-no-show-just-like-ces-surprised/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments So we hurried on over to the Meizu booth in sweaty-palmed anticipation of laying fleshy bits upon a working M8 MiniOne. It's gotta be here, right? After all, Meizu CEO Jack Wong promised it his damn self. Nope. Oh sure, they did bring that siliconless, plastic mockup already seen kicking around the Nets for awhile and they offered to show us a laptop-based demo of the UI if we come back tomorrow. Although even the demo is feature incomplete. Nevertheless, Meizu is confident that it will begin shipping the M8 in China in the next "half year" while remaining coy for a rest-of-world launch. Guess reverse engineering the iPhone isn't so easy, eh Jackson?

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]]> cebitcebit 2008Cebit2008m8meizuminionemobile Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:42:00 -0500 21|1129615 <![CDATA[Meizu's M8 a CeBIT no show just like CES -- surprised?]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/meizus-m8-a-cebit-no-show-just-like-ces-surprised/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/meizus-m8-a-cebit-no-show-just-like-ces-surprised/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/meizus-m8-a-cebit-no-show-just-like-ces-surprised/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
So we hurried on over to the Meizu booth in sweaty-palmed anticipation of laying fleshy bits upon a working M8 MiniOne. It's gotta be here, right? After all, Meizu CEO Jack Wong promised it his damn self. Nope. Oh sure, they did bring that siliconless, plastic mockup already seen kicking around the Nets for awhile and they offered to show us a laptop-based demo of the UI if we come back tomorrow. Although even the demo is feature incomplete. Nevertheless, Meizu is confident that it will begin shipping the M8 in China in the next "half year" while remaining coy for a rest-of-world launch. Guess reverse engineering the iPhone isn't so easy, eh Jackson?

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]]> breaking newsBreakingNewscebitcebit 2008Cebit2008m8meizuminioneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideo Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:42:00 -0500 21|1129610 <![CDATA[Meizu M8 hits the Chinese patent office, top of the irony meter]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/21/meizu-m8-hits-the-chinese-patent-office-top-of-the-irony-meter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/21/meizu-m8-hits-the-chinese-patent-office-top-of-the-irony-meter/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/21/meizu-m8-hits-the-chinese-patent-office-top-of-the-irony-meter/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments t
Given the Meizu M8's not-so-faint resemblance to another semi-famous handheld, you'd think trying to get a patent on the design would be fairly fruitless -- but it looks like the company's giving it a shot anyway. This Chinese patent app was apparently filed last February, but China's patent office just published it on the 16th, so we're not even certain which bad render, doctored photo, or cardboard mockup of the M8 is referenced within. Still, Jack Wong had better get his lawyers in gear and get this patent on the books -- Apple might be slow in getting to China, but it's not going to be happy once it does.

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]]> m8meizumini oneMiniOnemobile Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:36:00 -0500 21|1092325 <![CDATA[Meizu MiniOne to miss CES; Jack Wong promises it'll be at CeBIT, your next softball game]]> http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/ http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/meizu-minione-to-miss-ces-jack-wong-promises-itll-be-at-cebit/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
We would have honestly been more surprised if Meizu had actually shown up at CES with a working MiniOne, but according to CEO Jack Wong it's not going to a happen because Meizu is busy "finetuning" the device -- and that it'll make its long-awaited debut at CeBIT in March. We'll see when we see -- Apple's lawyers would have us stalling as well -- but we were definitely suspicious when Wong also promised that the MiniOne would take us to California next week to meet its pro skateboarder friends and then drove off in an white '89 Camaro.

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]]> jack wongJackWongm8m8 minioneM8Minionemeizuminioneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideo Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:38:00 -0500 21|1078781 <![CDATA[Meizu mocks up the M8 MiniOne]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/meizu-mocks-up-the-m8-minione/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/meizu-mocks-up-the-m8-minione/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/14/meizu-mocks-up-the-m8-minione/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments

These pictures of what appears to be a Meizu M8 MiniOne have been popping up all over, but according to postings by CEO Jack Wong, this is just a final design mockup to judge the "feel" of the device, and isn't real -- in fact, it's not even made of the planned production materials. That's pretty random -- and probably way more effort than necessary, since we'd think you could judge the feel by, you know, purchasing and holding an iPhone.

Update:New UI design?may be.

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]]> m8m8 minioneM8Minionemeizuminione Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:23:00 -0500 21|1063131 <![CDATA[Meizu rips off artist to showcase iPhone ripoff]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-rips-off-artist-to-showcase-iphone-ripoff/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-rips-off-artist-to-showcase-iphone-ripoff/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-rips-off-artist-to-showcase-iphone-ripoff/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments Why merely steal the entirety of your product's industrial design and user interface when you can gank so much more? Philip Warner of Lithium Picnic studios dropped us a line to let us know that the wallpaper being used on the latest rendering of Meizu's M8 MiniOne is his own work -- and surprise, surprise, Meizu hasn't licensed it, which ironically only serves to rip off Apple's own ripping off of artists. Yeah, you've gotta have stones to survive in this industry, but Meizu's chutzpah takes it to a whole new level, particularly if they makes good on their apparent intention to debut the M8 stateside at CES in a few weeks. Then again, when they said "CES," maybe they meant some knockoff tradeshow held in a vacant lot somewhere.

[Image via CNMO]

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]]> applecellphoneiphonem8meizuminionephone Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:57:00 -0500 21|1048321 <![CDATA[Meizu rips off artist to showcase iPhone ripoff]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-rips-off-artist-to-showcase-iphone-ripoff/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-rips-off-artist-to-showcase-iphone-ripoff/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-rips-off-artist-to-showcase-iphone-ripoff/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments Why merely steal the entirety of your product's industrial design and user interface when you can gank so much more? Philip Warner of Lithium Picnic studios dropped us a line to let us know that the wallpaper being used on the latest rendering of Meizu's M8 MiniOne is his own work -- and surprise, surprise, Meizu hasn't licensed it, which ironically only serves to rip off Apple's own ripping off of artists. Yeah, you've gotta have stones to survive in this industry, but Meizu's chutzpah takes it to a whole new level, particularly if they makes good on their apparent intention to debut the M8 stateside at CES in a few weeks. Then again, when they said "CES," maybe they meant some knockoff tradeshow held in a vacant lot somewhere.

[Image via CNMO]

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]]> appleiphonem8meizuminionemobileothers Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:57:00 -0500 21|1048300 <![CDATA[Meizu M8 MiniOne to debut at CES in January?]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-m8-minione-to-debut-at-ces-in-january/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-m8-minione-to-debut-at-ces-in-january/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-m8-minione-to-debut-at-ces-in-january/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
Listen fellas, are you sure you want to venture onto US soil with this thing? Compared to Meizu's native China, the US is a haven for intellectual property protection -- and as far as we're concerned, not a single tweak done to the M8's design since its intro has ventured far enough from the iPhone to keep Apple's sharks lawyers from circling. Nevertheless, Chinese site CNMO reports that the M8 could make its first real, actual public appearance (as opposed to the countless renderings and dummies the company has produced so far) in Sin City itself as part of the CES festivities in early January with retail availability as early as February. That would put us just shy of a full year since the M8 was announced, and probably just weeks (if not days) before Apple gets an injunction against sales here. Just a guess.

[Via myminiOne and Meizu Me]

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]]> applecellphonecesiphonem8meizuminionephone Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:50:00 -0500 21|1047513 <![CDATA[Meizu M8 MiniOne to debut at CES in January?]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-m8-minione-to-debut-at-ces-in-january/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-m8-minione-to-debut-at-ces-in-january/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/meizu-m8-minione-to-debut-at-ces-in-january/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
Listen fellas, are you sure you want to venture onto US soil with this thing? Compared to Meizu's native China, the US is a haven for intellectual property protection -- and as far as we're concerned, not a single tweak done to the M8's design since its intro has ventured far enough from the iPhone to keep Apple's sharks lawyers from circling. Nevertheless, Chinese site CNMO reports that the M8 could make its first real, actual public appearance (as opposed to the countless renderings and dummies the company has produced so far) in Sin City itself as part of the CES festivities in early January with retail availability as early as February. That would put us just shy of a full year since the M8 was announced, and probably just weeks (if not days) before Apple gets an injunction against sales here. Just a guess.

[Via myminiOne and Meizu Me]

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]]> cesgsmm8meizuminionemobileothers Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:50:00 -0500 21|1047510 <![CDATA[Meizu's M8 MiniOne gets touched]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/meizus-m8-minione-gets-touched/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/meizus-m8-minione-gets-touched/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/meizus-m8-minione-gets-touched/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments Everybody's favorite IP duplication engine is back in the news. Meizu's M8 Mini One iPhone clone just received an iPod touch makeover in a bid for protection from Apple's lawyers. See, the M8 is a phone, the touch is an MP3 player -- so toootally different your honor. They've also bumped the display from 3.3- to 3.4-inches with pricing still pegged at about $265 / $320 / $400 for the 4GB / 8GB / 16GB models if they ever make it Stateside... or locally to China for that matter. We're at 10 months and counting since it was announced.

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]]> m8meizumini oneMiniOnemobileothers Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:16:00 -0400 21|1026058 <![CDATA[Meizu's M8 MiniOne gets touched]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/meizus-m8-minione-gets-touched/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/meizus-m8-minione-gets-touched/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/meizus-m8-minione-gets-touched/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments Everybody's favorite IP duplication engine is back in the news. Meizu's M8 Mini One iPhone clone just received an iPod touch makeover in a bid for protection from Apple's lawyers. See, the M8 is a phone, the touch is an MP3 player -- so toootally different your honor. They've also bumped the display from 3.3- to 3.4-inches with pricing still pegged at about $265 / $320 / $400 for the 4GB / 8GB / 16GB models if they ever make it Stateside... or locally to China for that matter. We're at 10 months and counting since it was announced.

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]]> m8meizumini oneMiniOneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideo Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:16:00 -0400 21|1026055 <![CDATA[Meizu's MiniOne M8 GUI showcased further, still devoid of originality]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments If you had even a sliver of faith left in Meizu that it would change its copycatting ways and turn its heart to creativity, you're probably feeling quite foolish right about now. In a recent posting made to showcase even more interface shots of the MiniOne M8, we got a glimpse at the not at all familiar music interface, more insight on the calling screens and a few more looks (shown after the jump) at how it'll handle messaging. Needless to say, we can just swear we've seen a similar GUI before, but apparently, playing the ignorance card makes it easier to swallow. Oh, and the actual phone now sports a "new edge" with a somewhat grayish motif -- enthralling, we know.

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]]> clonecopycatguiinterfaceknockoffm8meizuminionemobilemultimediaothersripoff Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:14:00 -0400 21|1017301 <![CDATA[Meizu's MiniOne M8 GUI showcased further, still devoid of originality]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/19/meizus-minione-m8-gui-showcased-further-still-devoid-of-origin/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments If you had even a sliver of faith left in Meizu that it would change its copycatting ways and turn its heart to creativity, you're probably feeling quite foolish right about now. In a recent posting made to showcase even more interface shots of the MiniOne M8, we got a glimpse at the not at all familiar music interface, more insight on the calling screens and a few more looks (shown after the jump) at how it'll handle messaging. Needless to say, we can just swear we've seen a similar GUI before, but apparently, playing the ignorance card makes it easier to swallow. Oh, and the actual phone now sports a "new edge" with a somewhat grayish motif -- enthralling, we know.

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]]> clonecopycatguiinterfaceknockoffm8meizuminioneripoff Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:14:00 -0400 21|1017299 <![CDATA[Meizu's MiniOne M8 GUI exposed: shame on you J. Wong]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/meizus-minione-m8-gui-exposed-shame-on-you-j-wong/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/meizus-minione-m8-gui-exposed-shame-on-you-j-wong/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/21/meizus-minione-m8-gui-exposed-shame-on-you-j-wong/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
Ok Meizu, seriously, with your M7 announced a week after the iPod touch and your CEO J.Wong just posting these new interface shots of the M8 to your user forum, how can we or any straight talking rag not call you for what you are: a brazen Chinese Apple cloning machine? We understand that any full-screen, touchscreen phone or DAP will look pretty similar given the limited panel sizes available to manufacturers. The possibilities with the user interface are however, infinite. We already know that you have a half dozen or so iPhones in-house so please, just admit to your "inspiration." No more weightless claims that your design appeared four days before the iPhone unveiling. You're not fooling anyone.

Gallery: Meizu's MiniOne M8 GUI exposed: shame on you J. Wong


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]]> applebreaking newsBreakingNewscloneiphonekirfm8meizuminioneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideo Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:27:00 -0400 21|994977 <![CDATA[Meizu M8 gets unwelcome price hike, dodgy release details]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/02/meizu-m8-gets-unwelcome-price-hike-dodgy-release-details/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/02/meizu-m8-gets-unwelcome-price-hike-dodgy-release-details/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/02/meizu-m8-gets-unwelcome-price-hike-dodgy-release-details/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
Sure hope you weren't counting on getting your palms around Meizu's oh-so-familiar M8 anytime soon, as it now looks like the handset may not even be available to purchase until mid-next year. Granted, the 667MHz CPU, 128MB of RAM, GSM connectivity, 3.4-inch VGA touchscreen, video output, and built-in Bluetooth 2.0 / WiFi sure are appealing, but those still willing to wait this one out will apparently be paying even more than previously expected. The latest on the street pegs the forthcoming 8GB iteration at around $400, but if money ain't a thang, you may as well continue on pinching those pennies for the 16GB (and potentially 3G-enabled) flavor.

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]]> bluetoothdatedatedlaunchm8meizumini oneMiniOneportable audioportable videoportableaudioportablevideopricepricingsmartphonewifi Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:04:00 -0400 21|956652 <![CDATA[Meizu M8 gets unwelcome price hike, dodgy release details]]> http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/02/meizu-m8-gets-unwelcome-price-hike-dodgy-release-details/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/02/meizu-m8-gets-unwelcome-price-hike-dodgy-release-details/ http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/02/meizu-m8-gets-unwelcome-price-hike-dodgy-release-details/?utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Engadget#comments
Sure hope you weren't counting on getting your palms around Meizu's oh-so-familiar M8 anytime soon, as it now looks like the handset may not even be available to purchase until mid-next year. Granted, the 667MHz CPU, 128MB of RAM, GSM connectivity, 3.4-inch VGA touchscreen, video output, and built-in Bluetooth 2.0 / WiFi sure are appealing, but those still willing to wait this one out will apparently be paying even more than previously expected. The latest on the street pegs the forthcoming 8GB iteration at around $400, but if money ain't a thang, you may as well continue on pinching those pennies for the 16GB (and potentially 3G-enabled) flavor.

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