My advice for who wanna buy an M8 in the near future

I've been using M8 for a week until today. I'd say it really satisfied me much. I also see many foreign friends like you love and want to get an M8. I'm very happy that there are so many people all over the world love MEIZU and M8, but, I think I have to say, you'd better keep waiting for some time, because M8 is not stable enough. There are still many bugs need to be fixed, and some of them are very critical.

For example, currently, M8 has some problems during phone call ---- what I think is critical for a phone. People there may not able to hear what you're saying when using M8, or the volume of your speaking may be too low to hear clearly. You may hear the voice from there jagging, turning into a total mess and finally becoming noise. Or, one may not be able to receive phone call, or the phone will hang up suddenly during a phone call with no sign. Even more, M8 will tell "No service" with signal bar empty after hanging up a call, and recover after several seconds. Beside these, there are still many other problems that emerge not so often like, the machine might be out of response while searching WiFi when there are too many AP near you; the image from camera might crash sometime; the video might be partly-missing with noise far too loud than normal, and many more problems.

Looks very horrific? Partly yes, but in fact I still feel satisfied with my M8. However, I don't think all people could put up with those bugs like me while there is only one phone in your hand. Deciding to buy M8 now needs patience, really. You must be ready for fighting against bugs in a long period of time, because MEIZU needs time to fix them. I just upgraded my M8 to the newest 0.8.0.1 firmware, but I don't know whether those bugs are fixed or not. So my advice is, you'd better waiting, while us who got M8s first to check the bugs, report them to MEIZU, then be fixed until it becomes a eligible PHONE first. I think that's the time you go and buy M8.

By the way: today I got news from local store. M8 might be mass available next month. And the license might come in a few days. Cheering.

Alright, thanks for the informal review.

thanks to be honest

i think that is one reason for no europe-release yet..
these bugs where very embarrassing for meizu

Yep. But I heard MEIZU is now focusing all its energy on solving the signal problem. Once the basic phone functions are all right, I think it's time to buy M8, even there are some other little bugs.

I'll post the latest news about bug fixing.

can these bugs be fixed with a firmware, or need hardware update?

Unless anyone here happens to have a good experience in computer sciences and engineering, I doubt anyone can answer that question accurately.

well, im almost about to finalize my order, so i would really need an answer. if it only requires firmware update then i dont care, but if it does need hardware update, then my xmas gift is gone lol.

I think it's both. Hardware and Sofware problems... but it's only my "opinion". I think also MEIZU doesn't really know if it's hardware or softwar.
But I think most of the bugs are sofware... maybe the problem about the signal stuff is hardware.

I'm not going to buy a M8 I think. There are fare to many problems and honestly I think MEIZU is to unexperienced for dealing them. M8 is becoming more and more an iPhone fake... even if it's better then the "real fakes".
I hope MEIZU will learn about it and bring up a pretty nice Phone with the M8 3G and then I hope I will get my M8... at last

Originally Posted by gabest

well, im almost about to finalize my order

Well... what you want to order and where =D? I'm sorry but you made me curious =)


Chrisi

The M8 is a "pretty nice phone".

I think gabest was talking about ordering the M8.

And the license might come in a few days.

How ironic is that? Finally the network license and the phone has all sorts of trouble just being a phone.

For Meizu, this has to be a nightmare; thank goodness it's happening now and not after a wider release. If the M8 gets a reputation for buggy call & signal quality, it's dead in the water...dead. Let's hope they get it all worked out and not just patched up.

It is most likely a Firmware problem, so I say go ahead and buy it, assuming that Meizu will work hard on firmware updates.

Like that will ever happen...

Well, at least for the M6. The updates have been inconsistent and don't come out on specific dates, like Patch Tuesday. They just come and go, really.

I think those bugs could be fixed by firmware update. Hardeware problems are easy to find out, for on one side hardwares nowadays are all hightly-intergrated and need no complex design and tune. On the other side, hardware problem can be easy detected by instruments, or, one can find out whether a hardware is good or bad simply by testing with instruments. But software problem are not. They are hidden, in many cases you think it is right but in fact it would be wrong, or it looks right at most time but would wrong in some case. And maybe only by long time testing one can see them. Currently M8 is doing the public testing, there have been many problems and advices reported. Once MEIZU solved the signal problem, they will go to those bugs. The only problem is CURRENTLY M8 still have some problems, so if one decided to by it within 1 month or less, I think he/she still need to get prepared with the bugs he/she might meet.

I upgraded 0.8.0.1, and there are lots of changes. Some are reported by me, lol.

I remembered at 12.8, the firmware version is only 0.5.0.2. Then there came 0.6.0.0, 0.6.0.3, 0.7.0.1, 0.8.0.0 and 0.8.0.1 ---- all in less than a month. So how can I blame MEIZU? They are really doing their best.

I would buy the M8 if it had a bunch of software bugs. I've waited nearly 2 years for it, I think I can wait for a few updates.

im ordering from tails2
thanks for the answers, then i will stick to getting one now.

testing... where did my last few posts go? is someone deleting them? if so... why?

Originally Posted by tommie-s

testing... where did my last few posts go? is someone deleting them? if so... why?

i guess it was magic

Latest news: MEIZU is now developing the WAPI supporting on M8. If the license comes before the development completed, M8 would be released WITHOUT WIFI HARDWARE. Then after the development completed, MEIZU will send another machine and try to get another license with WiFi enabled. Then there will be M8s with WiFi hardware again. However if the government refused to let the WAPI-supported M8 pass the test, there may never be M8 with WiFi in China.

So I don't know if MEIZU want to export M8 or setup foreign agents or not. If they don't, you may not able to get M8 with WiFi support after this public testing period---- what a bad news!

By the way, I think if that thing comes true, MEIZU may change their opinion and decide to export M8. After all, M8 without WiFi isn't a complete M8, J.Wong won't accept a phone like that if they will never be agreed to add WiFi to final M8s in China.

So keeping waiting, I'll still post the latest news.

Wow, this raises so many questions and so many possibilities...but the only ones I really want to know right now are:

Can anything else go wrong for Meizu and will Jack Wong's hair turn grey by the time this is all over?