Live shots of Meizu miniOne M8 CeBIT Prototype

adamL

it's just a prototype.

DusL

I dont really know how to feel about it....

Engadget didn't lie after all (would be surprised if they did) as there was no working prototype to be shown. The plastic screenshotcanon with rofl mousepointer in the middle was just showing screens I'd already seen, the model also doesn't look pretty in particular as it clearly was a first prototype. The presence of the mobo doesn't really have additional value to me right now and i'm disappointed by the clear lack of 3G. I mean, come on, you buy a phone in august 2008 to use it for a "couple of years" that has no 3G which will gain popularity in the "coming year(s)". 3G iPhone is heavily rumored to come out on the half-year mark this year.

Rofl the buttons look kinda ugly to be honest, don't really understand what there is to patent on 3 buttons next to eachother. It looks okay on frontal view but those 3 circles from an angle look....weard.

EDIT: Forget my comment on the useless mainboard and check Engadget newest video.

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nice2know_u

OS video now available!

Video: Meizu M8 mini One OS looks very familiar - Engadget

kaloer

Nice! Looks pretty good, but it´s clearly that it just is a prototype...

Meizu91

Very cool
I hope the final version will work better.

midsommer

To be honest - I do not like the Iphone style. I really hope they:

- of course: increase the usability (it really s***s)

- but also: make the style highly exchangeable - (ALL) the icons, background and so on
- DO NOT copy the rubbish SMS apple bubbles from i-Chat (as on the i-Phone)
- make even Opera highly theme-able
- make an easy save and export theme feature (glory to the forum)
- make use of the GPU - it's expensive, so use it

Finally - as I already - pointed out elsewhere: make the UI open source!

P.S.: Why not return to the grass background (I hate the world map). I prefer the vistaish style from earlier mock ups. I hope one can also freely move the icon position (even if you have to hard code it with a file).

Only some thoughts...

Pytak

I just can't wait for the final phone, hope they'll fix that 1000ms response time (I think the lag was caused by not yet fully optimised software so the CPU was running 100% all the time).

@midsommer - It said 3D games on the booth's wall, I expect things like smooth texturing, shading and such (graphics like in, say, good ol' NFS II SE)

P.S the cursor really made my day

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adamL

very good news!! thanks

midsommer

I was thinking of GPU acceleration for the Desktop. e.g. Compiz-fusion, Berly, Vista, OS-X

DimaMP4

Looks pretty good, but it's a bit too slow and the browsing is too. Hopefully it's just the prototype.