It's Time We Got Serious And Gave Up on The M8

After todays news about the M8 no show at Cebit I hate to say it but I think it's time we got serious and gave up on the M8 at very least for the near/not so distant future (until 2009). You have to look at the facts. To date there has been:

NO pictures of a real model (not a plastic dummy)
NO videos of a real model
NO reports of any person who has touched or seen a real M8
NO pictures of a working interface
NO videos of a working interface
NO videos of any working electronic parts
NO concrete evidence that the GUI/Hardware is anywhere near completion (apart from perhaps a few posts by the CEO on the Chinese forum)
NO release date (only vague speculation about 'Q3' or 'second half of the year')

At the end of the day Nokia have already shown working prototypes of their S60 touch interface which they say will not even be released until 2009. The same with other companies and products, who at least have working prototypes for 2009 models. It takes quite a while to bring a product to market even after it's completion. If Meizu cannot even show any evidence that there is a working version of the M8 at this stage I find it very hard to believe we will see it before 2009 (if at all). They have continually missed oportunities, made excuses, and mislead their customers and fans. It has been well over a year since it's announcment and still nothing. To be honest I have now lost a lot of faith in their abilities to bring this phone to market this year (if at all). I hate to say it but I think the M8 is 90% hype. We have to be realistic, the facts are here for everyone to see. Hoping and wishing means nothing when there is not even a shred of concrete evidence to suggest the M8 will come out by the end of 2008 (if at all).

you are right. I think I'm going to by a Iphone, instead of hoaping for an M8. But stil I like the M8 more than a Iphone. Even when it does't exist yet. So ime going to by one when it comes out.

May the force be whit the M8

i was waiting for it for a long time, but now it doesn´t matter anymore.
when i am able to renew my phone contract in july i can select a new phone.
i wanted an m8 but when it won´t be out then i will pick up another one from HTC, Samsung, LG........let see what the cebit shows

greetz

I too gave up on the M8, I waited and waited and nothing untill the point I said forget it and went out to buy an iphone and to be totally honest I'm loving it.

M8 looks like a really nice phone but realistically when it comes out all the other cell phone companies will have their on models out by the looks of it.

I've had my iphone for 6 months now, and the M8 might have a couple more features but the thing is I have the iphone in my possesion and using it on a daily basis, and even though i'm not an apple fan, I have to admit it has to be the best phone I have ever had, my only complaint is that there is no Java but it's just a matter of time before someone develops something for it (3rd party)

It's taking Meizu so long to release this thing, just makes me wonder on the quality if they can't even get a working prototype to show, and makes me wonder how buggy it might be and how long it will take to fix the bugs because as we all know everything new has bugs

100% ack on your post sere!!!

I have said it before look at: http://www.meizume.com/minione-m8/56...t-updated.html

The man who updated my title, please make it how it was before please!!!

So stope waiting M8, buy iphone of every thing!!!

LikeM8...

Be my guest, iPhone boy.

I'm done waiting for a product that doesn't exist. Well, wait no more. I'm buying another. M8 doesn't exist.

I guess all of those pictures of the motherboards are fake?

no one said the motherboard pictures were fake. A picture of a motherboard is not a real picture of an actual working phone itself.

I would not say it does not exist, but the delay is beyond even the most pessimist's expectations. To put this simply Meizu have failed massively to deliver on all their promises.

I am of the opinion that if, and when they deliver the M8, it will be too late. With so many companies working on touch-based phones Meizu is quite simply too late in the game, despite being one of the first to announce.

ahhh, the sense of englishman, music to my ears

" NO concrete evidence that the GUI/Hardware is anywhere near completion"

how is a couple of pictures concrete evidence?

Because the pictures must be real, right? Everybody knows it's impossible for Wong to photoshop an image that well...

P.S. I lol'd at my own post

Originally Posted by sere83

how is a couple of pictures concrete evidence?

I would call it somewhere near being completed.

May I remind you that the GUI was supposed to be done like 6 months ago?
May I also remind you that the "m8-units (read: hardware)" were supposed to be done at the end of last year?

Lol, even I could photoshop that.

Originally Posted by DusL

May I remind you that the GUI was supposed to be done like 6 months ago?
May I also remind you that the "m8-units (read: hardware)" were supposed to be done at the end of last year?

Lol, even I could photoshop that.

Sorry, I must have forgot. Have a link? Your Photoshop skills must be pretty good if you can Photoshop a motherboard.

Lol, i'm not bothering looking up all the links again.

I could photoshop the GUI, trust me :P Use the program often enough.

Concerning the mobo's Wong clearly used the plural form (units..), you know, in the manner of hardware production being entirely done. A plastic thingie 2 months overdue wasn't exactly what I expected.

Just the existance of a mobo doesn't mean anything. What kind of conclusion could you get from that except they produced "something" and the project may or may not be discontinued in the future? What other meaning does it have?

You're right. It's time we give up. I can't believe I've been waiting since Winter of 2006. I might go for a Nokia N95. It has plenty of features and is considered the "Swiss Army Knife" of cell phones.