Meizu Mini One M8 Working Prototype Ready?

Err0r

Meizu recently held a conference on their upcoming mobile phone Meizu Mini One M8 for larger distributors in China.

According to one of the attending agents, the agents were shown a "real" Mini One. However, he also mentioned that they weren't allowed to "contact" the OS of M8. Therefore, it is still unclear whether they were shown a working prototype or merely the dummy unit.

He also reported that there are people from Microsoft, Samsung, COWON and a Motorola design agency working on the M8 Mini One.

Thanks Da_Vinci and davilido!

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observer

They put a GPS receiver in it :-)

DusL

The GPS and the game controller are very interesting indeed :D
GPS would be great, but I think they mean the M8 + GPS extention with that.
TV out is nice of course, what does the keyboard mean?

I wanna see the real deal too dammit, pictures!

sere83

this is actually great news. It has gone a little way to re-instating my faith in Meizu. Particularly knowing that cowon engineers are on board. They have Great skill in both creating extended battery life devices (D2=52hrs) and advanced Win CE programing (Cowon Q5). Also microsoft and samsung too. If I were to assemble a team then these would difinitely be on the list of companies to involve. Meizu might just pull it off...........

Hendrik

Maybe you can plug an USB keyboard to the M8 ... would be nice.

Or they simply mean that you have a whole keyboard on the screen instead of the 1=abc 2=def 3=efg ...

sere83

if it's gonna have DMB, perhaps they will put DVB-T in too, for the euro release. If it does it will be unbeliavable.

Skaton

realy nice, i think the keyboard means that u can connect any usb hardaware, a keyboard a printer, it says USB-Host, i think it is like a pc usb.
in the pic M8 have to audio line in so you could connect your guitar and rec music.
I think M8 will be the first real pocketPC not only a PDA phone, it will be a small PC.

BobbyQ

... no comment, just the smily

Kasaki

Thing is I see the price going up very soon with this plubicity

sere83

yeah we could see a massive price hike up but......at the moment the 16gb is listed at $420 I believe. I will easily pay up to $500 and perhaps even more if it works well. I am the Uk though. That is still less than any high end nokia or sony ericsson model and has more functionality and a bigger screen. Plus all the codec support.

lite

DVB-T + GPS ... Id happily pay the full price for the phone up to $500.. No GPS.. Perhaps. No DVB-T definatly not.

sere83

well. $500/£250 at this current time will only just get you a normal nokia n95 (not the 8gb music version) off ebay. I think $500/£250 for a phone with 16gb!!! of internal memory and a 3.4 inch (720x480) touch screen disply and all the rest of it is still a very very good price. I am only aware of 1 mobile phone in the world that has a built in full DVB-T reciever in it at this current time and it is not even available in europe. I think this phone + DVB-T & GPS for around $500/£250 is asking for a lot.

Skaton

i never have seen dvb-t on a phone, how it work? it got signal easily or not? can u see all channels like in a tv or you only can see some of them ?

sere83

you can view all the channels availlable on the DVB-T service in your country. However it depends on how strong the signal is in the area you are in when trying to view DVB-T. Some areas have a very weak signal and will probably not get good reception for all channels. Portable DVB-T devices are also not likely to have very strong antennae.

Kasaki

Well thing is I wanted to buy this as an alternative for the iphone looks like we will just get the iphone with some updates? for almost the same price?

Hendrik

Are you sure that it will be DVB-T? I guess it will be DVB-H or some crap like that

sere83

We were just speculating about DVB-T support, it has not been listed in any of the recent specs.....the picture from the conference does however show a logo for DMB support.

Kasaki: why get an iphone? just wait for this, the 16gb model is said to the same price an the iphones 8gb model (however the 16gb m8 will be released later on after the 4gb and 8gb models). The m8 will definitely be better value for money than the iphone. Lets just pray it works well.

kobeownz

okay stupid question, well so i just found out from my friend what CE is. chinese edition. he told me yeah he bought a phone from china and it uses windows mobile ce but its not like regualr windows mobile. like yes it is translated into english but you can't use american programs on it because it won't code right. is this correct? someone fill me in.

KinoCode

This is not correct. A compiled Win32 CE program is the same regardless of regional language. Something to keep in mind, all Windows mobile and Pocket PC OS versions are based on CE. CE is the full embedded Windows operating system. It has far more potential than scaled down derivatives like Windows Mobile.

I've developed for CE in the past. It is a real time OS and the OS Platform Builder software is very good. It gives Meizu the option to include (or exclude) all OS features. This includes full versions of Internet Explorer, instead of the next-to-useless mobile versions that come on most PDA phones.

Hendrik

No, CE means CRACKED EDITION :-P