This is a discussion on J.wong: M8 will be published at Nov.30 within the General Meizu M8 forums, part of the Meizu M8 category; J.wong makes sure M8(China Version) will be published at Nov.30
now he is waiting for license, if he cannot get ...
J.wong makes sure M8(China Version) will be published at Nov.30
now he is waiting for license, if he cannot get it , he will publish M8 as test version to users in the end of Nov.
and about Wifi:
china goverment forbid wifi mobile selling in china , so M8 china version has no wifi software support
J.Wong's M8 marketing strategy:
1. China /India , publish in Nov, with no wifi (maybe with wifi-chip but no driver)
2. HongKong/Europ/US, maybe before 12.24, with wifi(ensure)
Price:
M8 8GB=2380RMB about 340USD$
M8 16GB=2880RMB about 411USD$
Last edited by leaveindia; 11-05-2008 at 04:13 AM.
lol , I have been an exchange student, now residing in shanghai, for 9 months now and my 10 months here has almost come to an end, have been checking this website for months now, seems i will be witnessing m8's introduction.
but wow no wifi , that must suck. so anyways, any info about the prices yet? I know i can get an iphone 3g 8gb for 3700rmbs in Beijing...
J.Wong's M8 marketing strategy:
1. China /India , publish in Nov, with no wifi
2. HongKong/Europ/US, maybe before 12.24, with wifi(ensure)
so many chinese wait for the HongKong version , and will buy the smuggle form HK.
In fact All mobiles(including Nokia/moto..) selling in china have cut off the wifi chip, goverment will check it in lab,and then give you the license.
Now J.wong is waiting for goverment's license, but J.Wong post :that is WAPI-chip not wifi-chip , maybe this is words he cheat to goverment, and he cant give more explaination about wifi.
so I guess the first M8 have wifi-chip(named WAPI-chip) but no software.
Last edited by leaveindia; 11-05-2008 at 03:48 AM.
Reason: update
J Wong cheating the government? That seems possible.
Only for the M8 sold in China, wifi driver will not be delivered. J.Wong said that there will be WAPI driver provided after M8 released to market. The hardware between WAPI and WIFI is the same, only the driver is different.
J.Wong's M8 marketing strategy:
1. China /India , publish in Nov, with no wifi (maybe with wifi-chip but no driver)
2. HongKong/Europ/US, maybe before 12.24, with wifi(ensure)
I'm not sure where the author got this information, but JW never said anything about launching the M8 in India, that was just some bogus news...
Also he said they are only focusing on the chinese market currently, so no Europe, US, HK for now...
Last edited by nice2know_u; 11-05-2008 at 07:43 AM.
Correct me if I'm wrong! Or does he just mean the Wifi version?
Originally Posted by leaveindia
J.Wong's M8 marketing strategy:
1. China /India , publish in Nov, with no wifi (maybe with wifi-chip but no driver)
2. HongKong/Europ/US, maybe before 12.24, with wifi(ensure)
He'll probably never confirm the wifi chip is present, because it's not legal in china, so he doesn't want to get into any trouble. It will be hard enough to get the license...
Earlier he said many times they will hide the wifi by software (not providing the driver for it to work).
J.Wong's M8 marketing strategy:
1. China /India , publish in Nov, with no wifi (maybe with wifi-chip but no driver)
2. HongKong/Europ/US, maybe before 12.24, with wifi(ensure)
so prolly the same hardware but different software,
so we buy a china/india version, wait untill launch HongKong/Europ/US
version and install this firmware on our device to activate wifi? (= me is evil? ;-) )
What about CDMA?? Comeon, i have been tracking this for a very long time. Very disappointing for us SPRINT users. I will check with my local store if they can adjust their network on to the GSM network. I've heard some people had it work.
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