The Alternative M8 Products topic

Suriv

IRiver

YouTube Video

YouTube Video

TFT LCD WQVGA de 260 colores
3" (480 x 272)
4Gb.
GPS .
TV (DMB?)
cámara de 2MPx
Wifi
navigation.

Operating System: Linux.

DimaMP4

Looks cool, but the GUI is totally copied from iPhone and looks a lot worse.

DusL

The screen looks really strange, with the thicker edge on the left side of the screen in comparison with the right side. Specs look fine, screen res is acceptable i guess (almost same as iPhone), but it's a shame the GUI looks just very cloned.

if it's cheap I could see myself considering it :P

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nice2know_u

i believe this isn't the final version of the phone, just a prototype. if you watch the second video you can see that the GUI isn't finished also. iriver's ceo said that it will be cheaper than the iphone

Skinny101

Well if they're making practicaly a complete copy of the iPhone you'd expect it to be cheaper

sere83

Sopia Nani, released in japan a while back, very serious device:

Sophia Nani: Officially, Windows CE 6.0

samarik

LG Viewty Anyone?
I understand it dosent have everything but damn is it a nice phone!!
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LG Viewty (KU990) - TrustedReviews

chengdude

And that's why we wait and wait and wait....and wait :P

For those living in China, no phone comes close to the features of the M8 for the price Meizu has promised. Meizu still has a big window of opportunity (at least at home) simply because those prices are so reasonable.

Frankly, the more I consider it, I wonder just how Meizu is going to pull off a 16GB phone for less than 3000 RMB.

Err0r

^ One sad thing is that Chinese people never buy Chinese phones because of their extremely low quality, high price and crappy firmware. This might not be the case with Meizu, but most Chinese already have that as a preconceived notion due to their previous experiences.

And it's true. I remember buying a phone from Capitel (company no longer exisits) for 3000 RMB in 2003. The phone played loud and poor quality sounds (and cartoon airplane animations) on startup and shutdown, camera flash was just a toy, there was no way of transferring the low quality pictures you took to a computer and the user interface was ugly and colorful too. Back home everyone was using the super-cool Sony Ericsson T610 which was cheaper than my Capitel! After realizing how I just wasted $400 USD on some crap, I told myself to never buy a Chinese phone again. But this might change now.

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chengdude

It's true that Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung/Anycall, and Motorola are the brands people aspire to, but there's still an enormous market and plenty of Chinese brands to fill all the gaps. The trouble is there are so many brands and their products so undistinguished that no Chinese company seems to be able to rise above mediocrity, establish a really positive brand image, and grab a bigger market share. What's left, then, is exporting to developing markets, which companies like Ningbo Bird do very well. I personally think Lenovo and BBK are capable of producing a phone that stands apart, but beyond them, I struggle to come up with any others.