Release before Iphone 3G.

When Iphone 3g is announced and im sure its annonced in macworld Jan. 15, 2008 and probaply released in march to aprill or even before. Iphone II will have GPS, 3G, or even HSDPA connection:D and all the things fixed from previous model so its going to be sweetest device on market and even everyone here can admit it straight from their heart. im distriputor in finland and would like to sell m8, but there is no point if m8 is released in march or later it wont have a change in eropean or US markets at all. I say for meizu to release even bugy device before and fix the bugs with firmware releases later.
There is going to be nokias touch screen phone, google phone, deeda pi and iphone II released in next year so it's going to effect also sales in china.
Personaly i love m8 it looks better than iphone, specs are better but why the hell there isnt 3G in begining when it's released this late i can't understand.
I hope some one from meizu reads this and understands how serious the situation is.

That's because they have the worst company strategy ever. Besides that, their products are of very good quality, not to underestimate that.

also iphone is realy good quality whit its scrach protection, and well built not like htc devices or nokia. seriously i like the design of m8 and believe its going to be as good or even better than iphone from quality, But too late if they dont do something about it.

what everyone must realise is this phone has been made primarily for the CHINESE MARKET. I don't think the 2nd gen iphone and it's release figures in Meizu's distribution strategy at all. For a start the 1st gen iphone has yet to be released in China, secondly the 1st gen iphone will be far to expensive for the majority of the population to afford. The M8 will be a far cheaper alternative. Price is a major issue for consumers in China, as the majority of the population are significantly poorer than the average European or US consumer. Also Meizu will sell many many times more M8's in China than all the other countrys they destribute to put together. Hsdpa is also very battery draining and requires additional engineering than a normal phone would require to counteract this issue, hence the delay. It is also clearly to make more money too, just like the 1st gen iphone has been released with no 3g and various options missing. Now apple has sold millions of them they will relase their second generation and sell millions of them too. The 1st gen M8 is also a far more complete product than the 1st gen iphone is, and has many many more options. The only thing that is really missing from it is 3G. There are all sorts of additional functions missing form the 1st gen iphone including basic things like picture messaging!

yes thats true also, but you have to understand that we are living in the end of 2007 when meizu is planing to release m8 there will be even better and as cheap phones coming from other manufacturers. M8 would be big success if they would include 3g, withouth that its going to be just another shadow of upcomin nextget phones also in china when its released. if they released it in january before other brands annonces their nextgen phones with android and 3g it would sell a lot but when everyone knows there is a next wave coming there is no hope for meizu even in china.
And there is allways option to close HSDPA if battery drains out .
technicaly adding 3g is damn easy and would rise the price of the phone mayby 50$ so why not meizu are you guys stupid.
Well who is going to buy M8 when there is Iphone II with all sweets with 100$ more expensive.
And poor people in china is going to buy some cheap phone under 200$. If the phone is planed only for cheap people what about those who have that 100$ more are they going to buy m8 or phone with updated functionality.

Everyone give oppinions are you going to buy m8 or iphone II if iphone is 100$ more expensive and have all fixed and upgraded like 3g , gps and maypy hsdpa, and are releseased same time as m8.

they are releasing a non 3g version of the M8 1st simply to make more money. This is exactly what apple did with the iphone. This has been done to sell more phones. It is obvious. And you say there will be better phones for cheaper by the time the M8 is released but this will definitely not be true for where I am from (the UK) and we get all the newest products form all the biggest manafacturers. I can almost gaurantee you by the time the M8 is released there will be no phone which can match the specs exactly and is available both unlocked and offline for anywhere near the price of the M8. Here in the UK any high end Nokia, sony ericsson, samsung or any other large company cell phone OFFLINE without a contract is very very expensive. A standard 1st generation nokia N95 (not the 8gb version) still costs £250/$500 offline. The M8 will be releasing around the time when the next generation of phones are coming out. To buy one of those next gen phones (from any large manafacturer like nokia, sony ericsson etc) unlocked and without a contract here in the UK will probably cost close to £500/$1000. Think how many M8's you can buy for that! Also the new phones still probably will not have functions like USB-OTG, optional dvb-t/dmb module, optional gps module or a 720x480 3.4 inch touchscreen. Also at this current time there are only 2 or 3 phones I am aware of available here in the UK with 8gb of flash memory. It's only 3 months until the M8 is said to be releasing, if it is on time it will still beat all the competition by miles (for the amount of functions for the price) at least in the UK anyway. Plus the 2nd gen iphone may have 3g but so what? will it have divx,xvid,flac,ogg support? NO. will it have a 720x480 screen res? NO. Drag and drop file transfer? NO. Removable battery? probably not. Will it have USB-OTG? NO. Will it be available offline? NO. Will it be ridiculously priced? YES. Will you be forced to use itunes and convert to apple formats? YES. I don't care about the 2nd gen iphone as you will still be chained to apples closed platform and it will be ridiculously priced and unavailable offline too.

i hope what you are saying about m8 release is true, but even till now they havent give us any official info of release or even speaking of when 3g model is released 2009 maby.
And when released where are you going to get it from ebay.china and what about
gurantine. Im sure im going to buy it when available but when that is the whole point if they dont have it in CES im going to buy something else pecouse of disapointment in meizu and I think there are about 10000 other people thinking the same way even in china.
But even you cant say meizu is stupid becous they dont release 3g model in begining if they would they would get attension of people waiting for 3g iphone and buy this instead but now theyll lose people waiting for 3g and when iphone 3g is released they are lost for sure.

I'm happiest for the M8's capacity and pricing. PMP first, phone second.

I don't think Meizu are stupid for not releasing a 3G phone to start with. What about all the people who do not want 3G? Surely it makes more business sense to sell many non 3G phones (which are cheaper to produce and still wanted by many people) then sell lots of 3G phones after you have sold many non 3G phones. This is what apple will do with the 2nd gen Iphone. It is not good for customers looking for a 3G phone but in terms of Meizu's business, it works out better for them. Money making always comes 1st before customer staisfaction. Also I believe that HSDPA is not even widely used in China. I think the M8 will also be available from online retailers shipping from China and also it will exported and sold by retailers outside of China. I do not think getting one from a reputable seller will be a problem considering how much interest there is in this product.

The iPhone may not be oficially sold in China, but that hasn't stopped a whole lot of people from buying one:
blognation China » Blog Archive » China’s Big iPhone Secret

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The addition of 3G to the M8 would prolong our wait. And as mentioned before it is only a 1st gen phone. They have the necessary room (and God knows that they will steal the necessary time) for improvment. I presonally have waited far too long. Upon relase of the iPhone 3G I'm purchasing the original iPhone from a friend for 200USD and unlocking it. Yes, the wait will be just as long. But on the other hand Apple has a much larger community than Meizu ever will (as far as the US is concerned). And after the iPhone 3G release Steve will probably stop trying to stick his foot up our rear ends with updates for the 1st iPhone.