[10.25] M8 screenshots

waja2000 · 10-26-2008

Originally Posted by nice2know_u

"I have a lot of work to do on the M8"

I wonder what JW meant by that...are there still many bugs or what?

JW not mention anythink， but he voice out that he very busy on this and next month.

1. on bug think, reply from M8 tester, the almost most no more new bug or and most bug is solve already, just left few software need to be tune and finalise like QQ, RMVB, etc. and everythink work need to be finalise on november somethink like that.

2. And JW also need to finalise the spec, specially on MoviNand speed, power consumption tuning.

3. Few Meizu fans go to Meizu direct store/dealer to getting info on M8, and info like Meizu will start traning for Sales Agent on M8 at beginning November. also dealer mention will getting M8 on end of November and confident getting license.

look like November is Month for preparation for M8 launching。 marketing, delivery, production, vendor tranning, documentation, all required JW to join meeting , check and verify on paper.

DusL · 10-26-2008

MartijnGP; you never owned or intensively used a iPhone did you?

They do seem in a rush to release it, but I can imagine it being a lot of work to do.

But AGAIN, they underestimate the work. 1 month to go from fixing power consumption and os-bugs to finishing sales-deals, production, and commercializing? Wong won't sleep for a month!
With some luck they can barely make the end of the year.

MartijnGP · 10-26-2008

@DusL: In fact, I have. I've had an iPhone (non-3G, but the interface didn't change much) as my main phone for 3 weeks. It's okay, but the M8 already looks WAY better even though we haven't seen decent video's yet.

DusL · 10-26-2008

Okay, everybody their own opinion.

chengdude · 10-26-2008

Someone at Meizu really likes A Mei.

gabest · 10-26-2008

imo noone should judge the UI, since its customisable by using skins. we have a thread of existing skins or something like that.

nice2know_u · 10-26-2008

You can only customize the icons and the desktop background yet. With the SDK we'll be able to skin the UI too. It will be released sometime after the M8.

SteveMB93 · 10-26-2008

Originally Posted by DusL

"Uninspired"? Because their GUI was innovative you must mean..?

I think those call/SMS/etc icons are nicely implemented, accessing those apps quicker than with "slide to unlock". However if you're "sliding" through a couple of songs it can seem quite irritating to me having to slide that icon half across the screen every time instead of just simply tapping it.

Innovative?

All they did was take the Palm GUI and made it look more modern (more eye candy).

DusL · 10-26-2008

What are you basing your argement on, icons placed in a grid?

- finger-touch GUI
- strong virtual keyboard
- use of multi-touch to zoom in/out
- involving coverart on a phone, coverflow
- LOADS of eye-candy, sleeker in contrast to a ugly WinMo

How were the above not innovative 2 years ago? All of the above do not contribute to much difference or were used by Palm or whoever else already?

adamL · 10-26-2008

Originally Posted by SteveMB93

Innovative? All they did was take the Palm GUI and made it look more modern (more eye candy).

what palm are you talking about?

JkPwNsTeR · 10-26-2008

Palm OS. I use one of those as my organizer and day planner. There's several current models, the T|X, Z22, Tungsten E2, the Centrio, and the Treos.

SteveMB93 · 10-26-2008

Eye candy is not innovative. The iPhone managed to leave out copy and paste, a function that has been on Windows Mobile phones forever. Coverflow is a unique concept, but is it innovative? The iPhone has excellent multi-touch and zoom in/out, but that alone doesn't make it innovative. If the iPhone had some basic functions and features (removable battery, copy and paste) it might be "innovative". But there are way too many shortcomings with the iPhone.

DusL · 10-26-2008

What makes a phone innovative by your standards?

A removable battery isn't innovative, however the inclusion of it would contribute to it..
It's also no part of the GUI.

SteveMB93 · 10-26-2008

A removable battery isn't innovative, correct. But being the first phone to have a battery that is soldered to the mainboard and is not easily accessible is very uninnovative. The GUI isn't innovative, and I believe I just listed why two posts above.

szonek · 10-26-2008

Stop arguing about iphone and meizu. We know that iPhone is a great phone and multimedia device and we really hope Meizu will beat it in SOME aspects. Currently there is no MEIZU M8 so the fight is between iPhone and NOTHING so the winner is obvious.

SteveMB93 · 10-26-2008

We've seen it operational. There IS a fight, but the fight is mostly pointing out the iPhone's flaws.

DusL · 10-26-2008

Not like Meizu has less flaws or something, this is not how I'm interpreting any fight

Again if you think the iphone GUI isn't innovative than what would it take to make a GUI so by your standards..

SteveMB93 · 10-26-2008

I never said that the M8 didn't have flaws. I'm not talking bugs, I'm talking about functions (such as non removable battery).

MartijnGP · 10-26-2008

Originally Posted by SteveMB93

But being the first phone to have a battery that is soldered to the mainboard and is not easily accessible is very uninnovative.

Well, seeing it that way soldering the battery to the mainbord is actually innovative as no company has came up with something stupid like that before :P

And why shouldn't we discuss the GUI's of this kind of phones? That's what this is mostly about, I don't see the problem.

<=~Rex.llvleizu~=> · 10-26-2008

"Well, seeing it that way soldering the battery to the mainbord is actually innovative as no company has came up with something stupid like that before :P" - exactly what I was thinking when I read his post

"strong virtual keyboard" - Um, I don't know much about the iPhone...but...wasn't the virtual keyboard something that people greatly disliked about it? Here, check it out:

The Most Overhyped Gadgets - Yahoo! Shopping

Some of you may get a kick out of this one

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