Meizu Mini One M8 Working Prototype Ready?

Err0r · 11-26-2007

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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11-26-2007

They put a GPS receiver in it :-)

DusL · 11-26-2007

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 · 11-26-2007

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 · 11-26-2007

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 · 11-26-2007

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 · 11-26-2007

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 · 11-26-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skaton

the first real pocketPC.

... no comment, just the smily

Kasaki · 11-26-2007

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

sere83 · 11-26-2007

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.