Meizu M9 to be released in October

Well J. Wong (CEO of Meizu) said the M9 should be released in October (2010 that is) at an estimated price of 2380 CNY with an 8GB microSD card. As we know the M9 will be an Android device and Meizu is building their own UI on top of it.
In other news: porting Android to M8 is going very well, check out the thread of the project here, and a video of the current progress:

Source

Androit seems to be lagging.
It's not smooth enough...

As the description reads, it's in a beta state... I'm not sure if it will be better or not, I'm just saying.

I don't think Meizu will be able to start shipping M9s within 4 months, but time will learn

I also dont think that the M9 will be release at october!
We know Jwong and his date ... alway goes month by month

I don't think the M9 will be released this year but we will see! Hopefully Meizu will impress/surprise us.

words words words,the old facts speak for themselves, you can not trust these promises, is just another item to justify the lack of a decent firmware..I'm sorry but this is

Android a little bit laggy... But I just saw a video of android on an iPhone. It was a lot worse! :D
Also seen videos of Android running pretty good on iPhone. That means that it also could be good on Meizu :D

For international users, read on MeizuMi:

The M9 will be traded to HongKong, international operation will be done from there. The M9 will cost 2380 RMB with 8GB card and digital compass included.

Yes, they are also planning to open an office in HK which would be in charge of international market/sales... I'm not exactly sure what he means by that...

Btw, I wish they would focus on finishing FW 1.0 for M8 first, in stead of developing a new phone... I'm afraid that when the M9 is released there won't be any updates for the M8 any more.

Damn, when I read the headlines, I thought it was a video of the M9...Still, good work, guys! Why is everything upside-down? And what happens when Android 2.2 or 2.3 will be released, do you have to port the whole thing again or can you just upgrade 2.1 on the M8 (sorry, Android-noob here

Originally Posted by nice2know_u

Yes, they are also planning to open an office in HK which would be in charge of international market/sales... I'm not exactly sure what he means by that...

I am no expert, but maybe it is easier to export stuff from Hong Kong than from China? Lower taxes, better connections, whatever? Also, HK has a lot of tourists and is known as a shopping paradise, so it seems to be the first step towards the international market.

Hmmm.... Digital compas... wonder where that idea came from . Anyway, haven't heard of that being included before, so I'm going to take a wild guess and say that - in a nutshell - it means GPS.

It seems a little expensive to me, but meh, we'll see what happens.

Originally Posted by d3lt4

Damn, when I read the headlines, I thought it was a video of the M9...Still, good work, guys! Why is everything upside-down? And what happens when Android 2.2 or 2.3 will be released, do you have to port the whole thing again or can you just upgrade 2.1 on the M8 (sorry, Android-noob here

Android 2.2 is already released ^^

The sources Meizu gave to the public are quite messy and are cleaned up part by part. So stuff like the G-sensor with wrong orientation might be one of the lesser problems for the people that now develop with it.
Once there is a clean and well structured build it should be possible to port most of the 2.1 patches to 2.2 so it will not be like starting from zero but you never know what surprises you get when you migrate to a new OS version...

Originally Posted by block58

Hmmm.... Digital compas... - it means GPS.

while (A-)GPS seems to be a mainstream smartphone feature nowadays, it could still be a digital compass. You can use the compass within buildings where gps fails. On the other hand, digital compasses can easily get interfered with by non-shielded nearby electromagnetic sources, so they can be pretty much inaccurate.

Originally Posted by Loonix

The sources Meizu gave to the public are quite messy and are cleaned up part by part. So stuff like the G-sensor with wrong orientation might be one of the lesser problems for the people that now develop with it.

And it is also not an unusual problem, if you look at xda-developers forums most android ports for Wm phones had that in the beginning, and it is usually not solved until the port matures and has to reach more testers..

Originally Posted by spaccapietre

words words words,the old facts speak for themselves, you can not trust these promises, is just another item to justify the lack of a decent firmware..I'm sorry but this is

Valid argument, but lets not lose hope. The m8 is mostly functional, and android is what it is, no more no less. I gotta wonder why you hang around here, you obviously dont like meizu, right?

I think the main reason of exporting to HongKong first is because of the free trade. China has more like an Communistic trade system. For example: Meizu's factory is located in a Free Trade Zone or High-Tech Industrial Development Zone (I'm not sure in which one of the two) in ZhuHai. By the way the distance from ZhuHai to HongKong is just about 100-150KM.

Originally Posted by block58

Hmmm.... Digital compas... wonder where that idea came from . Anyway, haven't heard of that being included before, so I'm going to take a wild guess and say that - in a nutshell - it means GPS.

Most current smart phones do have a digital compass. It doesn't replace the GPS but assist it. For example on Google Maps you can see the direction you're looking at or Apps like Google Sky Map needs it.

Yeah... A compass shows you which direction north is... GPS shows you where on the earth you are. If you combine those you get for example the application "Layar". That apps seems awesome... :O