Latest News About M8

On 2008-4-25 21:45:00
The Meizu Company President-- J Wong post a message about M8 on meizu's official website.
the Chinese is..
由于许多因素的影响,m8上市一再推迟，
对所有期待m8的朋友我深深感到抱歉。
对于m8的正式上市时间我无法给大家一个准确的答复。
但按计划m8将参加7月初青岛的展会，然后直接在市场上发布测试版（9折）取代原先的网上测试 活动。

关于公布视频问题，JW先生这样回答：
目前我们在改进ui中,在还没完成前不能公布视频或照片
我给出的都是估计时间,我也很着急, m8项目已花费大量的资金,并占用了魅族几乎所有的资源,再拖下去恐怕我们都无米下锅.


It was about: Becasue of some reasons ,Im sorry for the delay of M8's release,I do apologize to you freiends.However, I can't give a exact answer that when will the M8 be released !
According to the plan ,M8 will join in an exhibition on eraly July in Qingdao(A Chinese city), and then the alpha stage products of M8 will be realeased to the market directly at a discount of 90% and the original testing activity on Internet will be canceled.

When asked about the video of M8, JW said:
Now,we are updating the UI, the video can't be released before it is finished.
And he also said,the time he gave was estimated, m8 project had already spent a large quantity of money
and occupied nearly all the resource of Meizu Company, they would have noting to fill their stomach if the M8 is delayed unceasingly.

So,will u go on waiting 4 M8?
im sure i will haha~~
Let's give some encouragement to Meizu

Thats not a news....J WONG tell us somethin' we don't know abou'....anotha' delay...lol

Thanks for the translation Sunless!

Gangsta: Where do you see the delay in that? He said sorry for the whole delay I think (it was supposed to come out in December 2007 if I'm right) But yeah...still no specific release date.

He clearly mentioned "I can't give a exact answer that when will the M8 be released!"...then he goes maybe in july in some exhibition in a chinese city(I thought it was end of April or somethin')...The latest update leaves us with a feelin' of uncertainty and an obvious indication towards anotha' delay...All these false promises by JW will backfire his business strategy and by the time M8 will be out(hopefully) it would loose heaps of valuable customers.

We don't want apologies, we don't want false promises, we want a workin' M8.

Thanks for the news, finally we hear something after a few weeks of silence. Alpha test after July means there's still quite a bit of time left before it can be released.

Sounds good as long as the phone comes out before August and it's has no problem when it comes out and has all the features I want then its all good. I hope JWong can keep updating us every other week or so. Keep up the work Meizu

Originally Posted by kyauk

Sounds good as long as the phone comes out before August and it's has no problem when it comes out and has all the features I want then its all good.

You're talking about August 2009, right?

Originally Posted by Sunless

According to the plan ,M8 will join in an exhibition on eraly July in Qingdao(A Chinese city), and then the alpha stage products of M8 will be realeased to the market directly at a discount of 90% and the original testing activity on Internet will be canceled.

Alpha stage? 90% off? So you'll buy a nice looking (plastic) shell with basic phone features.

Let's face it: The real M8 will be released in 2009 at the earliest!

Originally Posted by Hendrik

Let's face it: The real M8 will be released in 2009 at the earliest!

I guess not! Meizu KNOWS under what pressure they are, and they would be stupid to release the phone later than September, because by then even the patientests will have give up!

Nice to hear something news.

I think its hard to make a phone that compares to the iphone, and it has to be good and not something unfinished. So i dont care how long they gonna take with making the phone, as long as its gonna be good. And as long that meizu dont goes bankrupt trouhg all the costs this phone is making :P

Originally Posted by M47Z

I guess not! Meizu KNOWS under what pressure they are, and they would be stupid to release the phone later than September, because by then even the patientests will have give up!

They can't release a phone, which does not exist.

I've been waiting M8 for more than 1 years, iphone is excellent, but for some aspects it's not suit for me, now I am only interested in M8, I hope it won't let me down when it's released.I believe Meizu,4 years ago, it was still a small mp3 company,only a few people in China knew Meizu this brand, im one of these a few people, since i bought E2,i'd paid attention to all the products of Meizu, when M6 was released, didn't Meizu give us a big surprise?
Compared to other mp3 companies in China, Meizu's mp3 are not expensive but they are really good both on appearance and sound quality.
Jw is a person goes in for the perfection , he once said, M8 is not only a product, it's also his dream!
anyway,we do not know when it will be released,but we sure that M8 certainly exists, if you were really in need of changing the phone, it will be a suffering.....waiting....
What I use now is a CECT one, do u hear about this brand before?
I like it, but its poor quality really depressed me...

I guess u missunderstood JW's statement....he actually said "M8 is not a product, it's just his dream"....lol

hmm, not sure what what to take form that statement. Nevertheless I don't think Mr Wong is an idiot, he says himself that Meizu are devoting almost all their resources into making the M8 so they are clearly doing all they can to get it out in the quickest time possible without compromising it's quality. When an mp3 player manafacturer has not released a new model for as long as Meizu, when their main domestic market is China, there is definitely going to be a sense of urgency in the Meizu camp to get the M8 finished without a doubt.

On another note, all this talk of 'deception' and 'broken promises' is in many ways I feel is unjustified. Every body knows that Meizu made a mistake announcing the M8 too early and ran into numerous unforseen delays. But what company do you know that informs it's prospective customers and fans weekly about a products development progress? I think we are lucky to even get that. I have seen so many products delayed for just as long as the M8, some even longer.

Your all getting pissed off and saying 'deception' and 'broken promises' blah blah blah, but when did Wong actually promise anything? He may have said a few times they were HOPING to release by a certain date but it was never set in stone. Also In what way is he being deceptive? he has had his cards on the table at all times and informed everyone about the progress and problems and setbacks at every stage of the M8's development.

The only reason anyone is getting pissed off is because your all so eager to get your hands on a device that on paper effectively looks almost too good to be true. I sometimes get the feeling none of you use your common sense when thinking how long the M8 will take.

Do you not understand what Meizu are trying to do? They are effectively making a device that uses very very similar hardware (and shares many software functions) to the iphone (iphone uses the samsung arm S3C6400 processor the precursor to the S3C6410 which Meizu will be using in the M8) and are attempting to make it in less time than it took apple to develop the iphone.

So in other words a multi billion dollar corporation took 2 years to develop a ground breaking phone and Meizu, a small chinese company with extremely limited resources and misiscule r&d budgets (compared to apple) who have only ever made a few models of cheap mp3 players are trying to make something with almost identical hardware and many of the software features of the iphone from scratch in under the time it took Apple to develop the iphone. OF COURSE ITS GOING TO TAKE A BLOODY LONG TIME! If they actually pull this off and deliver at the quoted prices it will basically be an unbelievable feat. Also you cannot talk about them having the iphone to use as a guide for software development as windows ce 6.0 has a totally different platform architecture to OSX.

I suggest you all start using your brains and common sense for a bit instead of waiting for Wong to say something then whining about another delay. It will be out when it is out, if you are no longer interested in the phone there is a simple option > GO BUY SOMETHING ELSE. * rant over*

Hm... what do they mean by alpha version? Like hardware definately final, software not? I think that would be ok, I would take that. I mean I've been using a phone that feels like an alpha version for 3 years now, I am used to incomplete software (though Motorola says it's finished...). As long as the alpha testers may update the phone themselves to the final production version. 90% means 90% discount or 90% of the original price?