J.Wong reply on 1 Nov. very important.

Just inform all fans here, Not the JWong don't want include wifi driver, this because China Telecomunication Authorities still not allow mobile phone which WIFI funtion in china.

'cause it may make calls through wifi to anther phone which also include wifi.This is bypass the telecommunications company, which currently is not permitted by law.Perhaps in the future will be open not now/

I know it's not allowed in China. I was talking about providing the driver for international customers.

maybe there will only one version at the first time for china mainland market. Then they may give diff version for diff market .first maybe HK MACAO TAIWAN (and it should be include wifi in this version)

OMG no Wi-Fi?

Will there be Wi-Fi at the second version? The 3G version?

Edit: the Wi-Fi hardware is in the M8 but the China firmware don't allow it?

so in fact the wifi will be inculded in the device but no activated in the firmware?

From what I understand, yes.

Originally Posted by nice2know_u

Don't worry I'm sure we can get the software patch

I'll see. If we can't I'm not even bothering with the M8 anymore, I'll probably get a Palm Centrio.

Yeah...without wifi I'm not that interested either. But I'm sure we can get the software patch from somewhere...

Originally Posted by nice2know_u

Yeah...without wifi I'm not that interested either. But I'm sure we can get the software patch from somewhere...

I hope so..

WIFI is not my main concern as its no good on the road. Without 3G present(activated or not) the M8 will never leave the "beta" stage in my opinion.

In the mean time I have bought an Iphone.
Its easy to use but the sound quality is shitty

Well that was a shocker.

I highly wonder how easy it will be to hack into WinCE/develop a custom driver for the WiFi-feature. From the optimistic side we can be happy Wong put the chip there in the first place, as it would look seemingly useless if it's forbidden by law, Meizu won't release the driver/enable WiFi until it sells international.
I dont suppose they won't include a English language setting in the GUI? English interface for solely Chinese people?

They do seem to like to cripple the m8 a lot don't they? They shouldn't have promised all those features in the first place if they had the slightest idea that it might actually be hard implementing all of them.

So for now it's a 720x480 smartphone with removable battery which sucks at everything else..

@job: put your eq on rock. Even if you don't listen rock it improves the sound remarkable.

Originally Posted by Job

WIFI is not my main concern as its no good on the road. Without 3G present(activated or not) the M8 will never leave the "beta" stage in my opinion.

In the mean time I have bought an Iphone.
Its easy to use but the sound quality is shitty

M8 will properly still be a nice music player if you only go for that thing after all.
But no wifi - thats ridiculous! we NEED that thing at least.
With all those license delay I highly doubt even the chinese people will see the M8 on christmas time or this year.

I just hope the M8 don't using the bass of the M6SL
It's kind more muddy compare to my old M6 SP. On the SP it was way more deep and smooth and enjoyable.

as long as the hardware is in there i wouldnt be concerned a bit. . .

just missing a driver? . man. .now not that i can do it, but i would be 100% confident that some very smart dude out there could write it. .if it had the driver but missing the hardware that would be worth getting pissed about.

but the fact that it will have the wifi hardware in it says volumes. . .i wouldnt be surprised if it was some 'sneaky' way of bypassing the license. . .put the hardware, and dont support it knowing full well someone out there can write the missing function. . .

as long as the hardware's in there - dont worry i say.

man this is bullshit, internet browsing without wi-fi? no 3G this is bad. The M8 will remain a PMP or even less as PMPs have wi-fi enabled.
expect an ousider to write a driver? not so confident.
JW has really messed things up, promisses, promisses and not keeping theme one after the other...

He did not even say there will be no WiFi. As I understand, the chip is in there but JW won't release the official driver for it. I'm 99,9% sure there's some dude somewhere who comes up with a WiFi driver after the first day of release. As long as the chip's in there, I'm not worried at all.

The thing that worries me is the English interface..

I'm sure it at least has an Engrish option.

Are you sure that some 3rd part patch will be needed to enable WiFi? Meizu can put that driver on their website with label "for Internatinal users only", but dowloadable for everyone.

On M8 WIFI driver matter, you think we can email to Nanoradio request for Win CE driver to active M8 WIFI ? M8 use nanoradio WIFI chip.

Infact the test user already have a m8 with wifi .so maybe they can provide the dirver you need :P