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Originally Posted by sere83
The M8 will not have to down scale anything, this is the whole point. Because the screen res will be so high (720x480) the screen will be optimised to properly handle any mpeg 4 file up to this resolution. In other words it will be optimized to handle 720x480 without a problem so anything lower will be less taxing on the processor. This means that no file up to dvd res will have to be down scaled at all. You could encode your videos at any resolution 320x240/640x480/720x480 and the M8 will be able to play them back sharper and with more clarity than any other phone on the market. Also by the time you have written 1000 cycles you will almost certainly have a new phone anyway!
The Sony Xperia offline will be very expensive when compared the M8, it has other features like 3G and GPS but it will also be more than twice the price! To put a micro sd 16gb card in it will also cost a lot more too as they have not even been released yet. You are looking at around $800 at very least at release and the price will not fall very quickly either. In september 16gb micro sd will probably not be standard in any phones. The M8 will also have other features like USB-OTG/codec support and a bigger screen that the sony ericsson will not have. In September there will be very few (if any) phones that can offer the kind of spec meizu will be offering for the price. There may be better specd phones out by then but they will also cost a lot more money. I am not sure but I think the 8 and 16gb M8's will release at the same time too.
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Stongly disagree to the fist paragraph. I think you have never programmed - I wrote two emulators (ok small and crappy one) - and scaling from low to higher resolution cost MUSH (I have not seen any hardware feature for that in the M8 - correct me if I am wrong) - especially if you can not simply double the pixels. So upscaling costs processore time - and it costs battery! Also the the sentence "... the M8 will be able to play them back sharper and with more clarity than any other phone on the market." I so much nonsence. You can not create better qualtiy by a screen if the source is sh***.
In fact: especially the features over the small m8 (+aGPS) the SE X1 will offer are the more expensive ones. And if you want to compare both phones, you have to do it with the M8 released in late 2008 - the big one with front camara, 3G, and big storage - and btw: SE X1 has an mini-USB, most likely with host support - so it is an USB-OTG port! For this M8 we do not know the price yet, but it will most likely be + 100 € (+150 $) in addition to the small m8. That is much for a small, unknown, not established chinese brand, never proven to constuct quality phones.
Also keep in mind: SE put the SE X1 in direct competition to the iPhone 2 - they will not try to make money (in first glance), but to gain market share.