WinCE & WinMobile

I really hope to see M8 with WinMob 7.0... I'll wait it!
Reading Meizu Forum (translate) there is some people wants M8 with WinMobile and are creating a group for program the Minione to use it.

I hope to see the same in this forum ^_^... I'm not a programmer ç_ç but I'm disponible to do a paypal donation for see this project!

I actually think that Meizu's decision to base the M8's interface on Windows CE 6.0 was a good one. Windows mobile 6.1 would have been a terrible choice for a number of reasons.

Firstly Meizu is designing a complete finger touch based interface. As we know from the htc diamond, samsung i900 and all the rest who have tried to customise the standard winmo inteface to make it more finger touch friendly.....it doesn't work very well. Win Mo was designed to be used with a stylus pen and not made to be used with a finger. However they dress it up, once you get a little deeper into the menus of any of these phones it reverts back to the old dated looking traditional Win Mo interface and you will need a stylus or tracker to operate it properly. Any phone based on Win Mo 6 will never have a touch based interface to compete with the iphone, as the sytem architecture is dated and was never made for this purpose.

WinMo also places far more restrictions on the Interface design and it's implementation than Win CE (despite WinMo 6 obviously being based on Win Ce 5.0). Hence why you see Win Ce devices that look totally different to Wim Mo. Win Mo also only supports 65K colours which is really quite sh*t as compared to the 16 million on phones like the iphone.

In addition while I am not too knowledgable about whether you can use different sound processing chips in WinMo phones (im sure you probably can), the sound reproduction is notoriously crap. While the HTC diamond and the Samsung i900 are said to be a bit better for sound, they are still no where near the M6 for example.

In addition as people have mentioned before The Win Ce 6.0 kernel has been totally re-designed from scratch and will be far more flexible and will also form the basis for WinMo 7, which I believe will support full proper finger touch control.

In terms of Applications, the SDK will be made available and once released I'm sure a large community of developers will form. There are also certain apps like core player that will already work on Win Ce 6.0 embedded devices.

We are lucky Meizu has not opted for Win Mo 6.1 as we would would be left with the same poor attempt at a finger touch based device like the HTC Diamond or Samsung Omnia. Lets be honest, we must face facts, apple is in a completely different dimension to every cell phone manufacturer on the planet when it comes to making a finger touch based interface for cell phones. If Meizu can come any where near what apple has achieved then it will be a huge success IMO, considering the closest thing available at the moment are these botch job horrible Win Mo based attempts from the likes of HTC and Samsung. The hardware and features that these phones offer are still nice, their interfaces just suck ass.

thank you so much Traps, you have tell a lot of good things.. now maybe I'd buy it also if it use WinCE, but before I want see if M8 will be supported by third part software

For example a quick look at Opera's website says that Opera Mobile runs on WM. But we know for a fact that M8 will have Opera Mobile on it by default...

Originally Posted by Speeder

For example a quick look at Opera's website says that Opera Mobile runs on WM. But we know for a fact that M8 will have Opera Mobile on it by default...

yes, I've ask to me the same question... they have modified opera for works with wince?

Originally Posted by Speeder

For example a quick look at Opera's website says that Opera Mobile runs on WM. But we know for a fact that M8 will have Opera Mobile on it by default...

Opera for Windows CE - Opera Knowledge Base