Meizu M8 miniOne Redesigned

Originally Posted by Hendrik

Let's see .... you are saying that Apple is selling their iPhones in the hacked version? And cheaper? So you can use it with any mobile phone contractor?

:D :D :D

This is totally wrong. You can only buy iPhones from Apple with an AT&T contract. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL.../family/iphone These 2 years contracts start at 60$/month. (in two years with the cheapest contract and no extra minutes and text messages: 1400$. With the most expensive contract (100$/month) that will be 2400$)

You have to pay with your credit card/debit card. Cash is NOT allowed any more. You can only buy two iPhones (last week: 5).

Hacked iPhones are spotted on eBay for 700-1000$

Apple doesn't and won't sell their iPhones without an AT&T contract in the US. Basically in every country you can only buy an iPhone with an 2 year contract. There is one exeption: France. Apple HAS to sell their iPhones without a contract there (besides their offer with a contract). The price is not known yet, but it is said to be over 1000 € (equals 1440$ --- oh, that's exactly the amount of money you would have to pay in the US for your mobile phone contract)


Edit: Source for the restriction that you are only allowed to buy 2 iPhones and that cash is not allowed anymore http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/1...em-to-two-per/

I hate it when people say "the phone costs you so much" and throw out the 1400 dollar price. Yes it is 60 dollars a month, but don't you have a cell phone right now? That is already 40 bucks a month without internet! So really your increase in cost is less than 500 bucks over 2 years as you are already paying almost 1000!

The iPhone is an amazing device, the biggest problem is choosing ATT as their service sucks and the slow internet on the machine makes surfing the internet when not in a wifi zone slooooowwwww...

Does this have additional languages besides Chinese. Im considering buying the iPhone because I know it, but if the M8 has English language support, then I may change my mind. I also hope it's SIM free (unlocked), thin, stylish, and cheaper than the iPhone. The new design will surely prevent people saying "It's that an iPhone?". But even if it did come out, how would I buy it (I live in the US).

This is supposed to be available in the 4th quarter of 2007 right? Well it should be anytime now... Any official launch date set? Still expected this year? I love this phone! And I see the "no cell phone version in the US" thread is closed so that means that was just a rumour right? All versions will have cell coverage correct?

I cannot wait for this! I hope it comes out before the new year as my current HTC phone is dying!

sorry to disappoint you buddy, but the prototype will see the lite of day earliest on CES in January next year. If we are lucky, we should be able to buy one in March/April next year. If your service provider uses SIM cards, you should be able to use it. If not (like I think Verizon) then you can just forget it.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

sorry to disappoint you buddy, but the prototype will see the lite of day earliest on CES in January next year. If we are lucky, we should be able to buy one in March/April next year. If your service provider uses SIM cards, you should be able to use it. If not (like I think Verizon) then you can just forget it.

Yeah I figured pre-2008 was a longshot, I just hadnt seen any updates anywhere on this for when. The few places I found updated in the last month or so still say Q4 of 2007, so I thought there might be some hope!

I love my windows phone, and there is no way I will ever give apple my money, but I do like their design for the iphone, so this is a win-win for me if it ever comes out! Maybe I will just pick up a cheap phone in the mean time.

Originally Posted by vavoo

Hello

just a quick question... i hope somebody can answer.

supposed i get myself one of those in china.... HOW do i get an english OS on it? :-p

You can change the languages in it! Any digital product's OS can change into English!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Does this have additional languages besides Chinese. Im considering buying the iPhone because I know it, but if the M8 has English language support, then I may change my mind. I also hope it's SIM free (unlocked), thin, stylish, and cheaper than the iPhone. The new design will surely prevent people saying "It's that an iPhone?". But even if it did come out, how would I buy it (I live in the US).

I think M8 is the one you just need!Of Course it has English support as nearly any digital product has.
And It's also SIM free (unlocked), thin, stylish, and cheaper than the iPhone.
So I think it suit you very perfectly.

Originally Posted by Sammy

Wow!!! I think I like the bottom of the new design and the top part of the first design. Hopefully that'll stop idiot bloggers writting about how meizu rips off the iphone.
(First Post!)

what the hell have they done much difference coz ur all a bunch of F**king plonkers it is well a rip off from the iphone and if they call that changing it they aint done much apart from moving a blooding line from the top part and changing the square bit at the bottom idiots its well a rip off but who gives a f**k anyways

I might understand the group-hype, triggered by this fictive product which promises everything anyone would want, including me.
Great!
Now, with those never ending "breaking news renderings" from whomever creating those, this latest one here tops them all.
Would someone of this lemming crowd please tell me why one would have a camera lens next to that same display you would want to see through? Well, I assume it's for making pictures of our own face, dropping down after realizing that the manufactured fata morgana bubble just blew...

Originally Posted by BadBrain

I might understand the group-hype, triggered by this fictive product which promises everything anyone would want, including me.
Great!
Now, with those never ending "breaking news renderings" from whomever creating those, this latest one here tops them all.
Would someone of this lemming crowd please tell me why one would have a camera lens next to that same display you would want to see through? Well, I assume it's for making pictures of our own face, dropping down after realizing that the manufactured fata morgana bubble just blew...

umm ever heard of video calling??? and also this is about 8 months old.. harldy the 'latest rendering'

haha rofl, what do you think about video calling?

You know, where you see the face of the person you're calling with ->
Just guess how they will be able to see you(!)

YES! The revolutionary Front-Cam!

(srry people, i'm feeling a bit destructive)

Oh brother... a video conference cam? Give me a break.

Yeah, my bad, I know it's an old rendering, but there are only renderings to this date, beside a couple of "images" of some thin, black something with some sort of a "screen", looking like it's purchased from Toys-R-Us.

In fact, I have breaking news myself. I will be able to post new prototype images soon. Showing the never seen model, sporting yet another little lens. Reliable sources, as those of Mr. Wing (Mr. Wong's second assistant) has posted somewhere, claim this new lens to be a projector lens for a 3'x5' screen projection on any surface...

Originally Posted by BadBrain

Oh brother... a video conference cam? Give me a break.

Yeah, my bad, I know it's an old rendering, but there are only renderings to this date, beside a couple of "images" of some thin, black something with some sort of a "screen", looking like it's purchased from Toys-R-Us.

In fact, I have breaking news myself. I will be able to post new prototype images soon. Showing the never seen model, sporting yet another little lens. Reliable sources, as those of Mr. Wing (Mr. Wong's second assistant) has posted somewhere, claim this new lens to be a projector lens for a 3'x5' screen projection on any surface...

Mr. Wing? it's got to be Mr. Wang ( Mr.Wing's Wong's co-ex-joint chief of staff )
a Very Influential Member leaked me, and TO ME ONLY
this breaking news:

THE MEIZU MINIONE ALREADY IS IN THE STORES, AND SELLS TOO!
It's called the LG KU990 Viewty.. and this one's for real.
With a 5 Mpx camera, 120FPS recording, DIVX playback ( yeah you're reading right.. it's DIVX CERTIFIED) and touchsceen vibration-feedback interface!

C'mon friends, let's face it: the Meizu MiniOne was never meant to be released, nor be sold.. no one was either ever built!
Meizu jumped on the iPhone clone bandwagon, without spending a single dollar..
and all of its player immediately became so popular.
It's all windblowing. nobody ever meant to produce a real, working, mass-produced M8.

LG did.

calm down... the viewty doesn't have wifi, also it costs like 3 times more than the m8 will, and i have read that it's internal memory is freakin slow (like 90 KB/s)

anyway it's a nice phone, it it would cost around 300 bucks and had wifi i'd go for it!

Originally Posted by nice2know_u

calm down... the viewty doesn't have wifi, also it costs like 3 times more than the m8 will, and i have read that it's internal memory is freakin slow (like 90 KB/s)

anyway it's a nice phone, it it would cost around 300 bucks and had wifi i'd go for it!

You just haven't got it, do you?
there will NEVER ever be a Meizu M8. Ever. forget that.
it's all been whistle blowing. a fake. got it now?
Anyway,

-Unless you don't spend your whole biological life
inside an airport, a school, an office or at home
Wi-Fi is pretty worthless compared to a whopping HDSPA connection.
HDSPA is broadband Internet connection, anywhere, anytime.
Wi-Fi is not.

-You cannot speak about "slow internal memory".. my ass is slow,
not a cellphone with such buffer memory to allow you to shoot 120FPS movies ( and no, they're not limited in lenght )

The Viewty is costy? expensive?
Hell it's a REAL cellphone.. real, existing cellphones you can actually buy
they do cost something..

Originally Posted by Unregistered

You just haven't got it, do you?
there will NEVER ever be a Meizu M8. Ever. forget that.
it's all been whistle blowing. a fake. got it now?
Anyway,

-Unless you don't spend your whole biological life
inside an airport, a school, an office or at home
Wi-Fi is pretty worthless compared to a whopping HDSPA connection.
HDSPA is broadband Internet connection, anywhere, anytime.
Wi-Fi is not.

-You cannot speak about "slow internal memory".. my ass is slow,
not a cellphone with such buffer memory to allow you to shoot 120FPS movies ( and no, they're not limited in lenght )

The Viewty is costy? expensive?
Hell it's a REAL cellphone.. real, existing cellphones you can actually buy
they do cost something..

Little frustrated? If you believe it's not coming out, why do you keep posting here?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

-Unless you don't spend your whole biological life
inside an airport, a school, an office or at home
Wi-Fi is pretty worthless compared to a whopping HDSPA connection.
HDSPA is broadband Internet connection, anywhere, anytime.
Wi-Fi is not.

-You cannot speak about "slow internal memory".. my ass is slow,
not a cellphone with such buffer memory to allow you to shoot 120FPS movies ( and no, they're not limited in lenght )

- first point: true, but wifi can be a dealbreaker for some people who wants to use the internet on their cellphone without an extra data plan... and when wifi is not around you can still use hsdpa. it's all about the money

- second point: i assume that the phone saves the video on the memory card not the internal memory... i only said internal memory is slow.

anyway why do you care about the M8? be happy with the Viewty (if you have one)

Why am i so angry?
Because i've been one of those people
wich really believed in the MiniOne from the start.
I've been avoiding buying myself the SonyEricsson K850i ( after a lifetime of SE "Cybershot" phones), i've been loving the Meizu project..
And i've been writing here several times. i've been following this forum,
and whatever news Err0r thought fit to give us.

Since the iPhone came out, i've watched the market explode,
even due to Chinese companies creating knockoffs at a speed
no western industry could.
I'm speaking about the Desay and CECT clones, notably the Desay M888;
wich are cheap knockoffs indeed, but took 1/10 of the time
Meizu is taking.

I'm so angry since
i don't like to be fooled around.

No one is forcing you to stay. Leave.