Meizu M8 miniOne Latest Progress (December 2007)

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Meizu CEO Jack Wong revealed a few days ago that the final Meizu MiniOne M8 will feature three physical buttons instead of one, and that design is currently being patented. Therefore, he says, pictures of renderings of the final model can not be published at this time.

Fans of Meizu have made a mock-up based on three physical buttons, which can be seen in the picture above (bottom left corner).

Earlier today, Jack released a photo (seen above) of what he says is the front cover of the Meizu M8 seen from behind.

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sere83

shame that that 3 button mockup is only fan art, I really like that button configuration. Good to hear meizu is moving away from an applesque design though by incorporating other different design features like this. Hopefully we will see a 16gb version in the first non 3g release.

Unregistered

sorry, please delete!

SteveMB93

It's nice to see real pictures of it. Now I wonder what all the doubters at Engadget will say. They said that this phone was vaporware.

iversonjack

Cool, patent it for good!

Hendrik

China AND patent? ... uhhhhhhhh ... fake news .....

looyea

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it is said that iPhone screen is chinese patent and made in Germeny

Hendrik

No. The company (Balda), which sells the iPhone Displays, is German, indeed, but the displays are made in Singapore by TPK. The dispays are NOT made in Germany.

Borsty

I see it's finally taking shape :D

/me can't wait

Unregistered

This will never amount to anything. Phone part requires FCC approval, Meizu has no history with them so FCC will play hard to get. Chances are less than say 1% they will have something FCC will be willing to approve in 2008. The other issue is OS. iPhone and iPodT are based on OS X, Meizu's only option is MS mobile an outdated horrible clunker from Redmont that will never provide anything remotely close to OS features, functionality and efficiency. Also the essential part of iPhone and iPod/T is their touch interface, I know of no company in Europe or States that could implement anything close to it. Same with intelligent text entry. Took Apple long time to get it usable (remember Newton?). Meizu's and generally Asian software skills are still in software Stone Age and will remain so for a few decades at least. So don't count on this approaching iPhone, this will be another mp3 player, somewhat different format with a crude button like "touch" interface at best.

If you don't believe me try their current mp3 player Meizu-M6, the original s/w stunk really bad, the current is serviceable but nothing approaching the elegance and integration of even the original iPod. Those people weren't even able to write their own video conversion s/w, they give you extremely crummy public domain utility instead. And you want them to compete with iPhone?