CNET UK bad taste / unprofessional?

Err0r · 03-30-2007

Meizu M3: Chinatown's video nano rival - Really necessary?

Also, "Forecast US prices..." WHAT? I only converted the Chinese prices into American currency here. Who has even mentioned the word forecast?

Next step is to find out who this competent "NL" guy is.

Looks like an article based on dapreview's M3 coverage (same info, exact same resized picture). Regular gadget blogs usually link to their source, great work on not linking anyone.

What is CNET UK doing? I know they've got a good brand name and all, but this is just... bad.

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic...9288843,00.htm

Job · 03-30-2007

why does this guy complain about the fact it is "just" 8GB?
there isn't any other tiny flash based player with a bigger capacity out there!
The M3 gives you everything the Nano does and more in a better way at half the price...
call it a Chinatown ripoff..whatever... obviously Mr "NL" is still under the impression everything from China is cheap crap per se...

yao · 03-30-2007

i hate cnet. their reviews are useless and their reviewers are about as tech savy as the average joe from the street. if i wanted someone average spouting off advice, reviews, and recommendations, i wouldn't have to go a high traffic site for it.

Job · 03-30-2007

hmmm i partially agree... they DO have "popular" views..
on the other hand... products that sell well are the popular ones so a company that wants to be successful needs to adapt to that

on the other hand... this reviewer was probably an ignorant person who never tried any meizu product before

ambitious · 03-31-2007

Cnet is full of dumb females like Veronica Belmont. James Kim R.I.P

iversonjack · 03-31-2007

I find this funny:

"The only real downside with the M3 is that it only comes in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB versions."

He said that right after he said that "who doesn't consider Apple to be king of MP3 players".

If Apple is the so-called King of MP3 players, tell them to build a 8GB+ flash based MP3. I'd like to see.

marcelo1251 · 03-31-2007

It's pretty much what we have been reading since the M6 started shipping... a lot of brain-washed apple fan boys attacking what is indeed better than their toys.

It's the same all the time, for a simple reason, they feel confortable with their plain-sound pm3 player that everyone else have, they like to pay for a low quality hardware packed in a case with a wheel and a fruit somewhere.

Im wondering what would happened if apple woundnt choose an apple but a banana or watermelon... still successful?

Job · 03-31-2007

Originally Posted by marcelo1251

Im wondering what would happened if apple woundnt choose an apple but a banana or watermelon... still successful?

hahaha the Watermelon iBanana - now in yellow and green!

puffel · 04-01-2007

I don't think this article is unprofessional.
I mean compared to the iPod the M3 "only" has 2GB, 4GB and 8GB (not 60GB or 80GB). Also the American prizes are not certain, are they? So what we calculated certainly is a forecast. So "NL" is actually right.
But I don't like the way the article is written. It somehow gives Meizu a rather negative image :-/

Job · 04-01-2007

Originally Posted by puffel

I don't think this article is unprofessional.
I mean compared to the iPod the M3 "only" has 2GB, 4GB and 8GB (not 60GB or 80GB). Also the American prizes are not certain, are they? So what we calculated certainly is a forecast. So "NL" is actually right.
But I don't like the way the article is written. It somehow gives Meizu a rather negative image :-/

hmm the M3 is compared to the Nano... the nano maxes out at 8Gb just like the M3...

Echo · 04-13-2007

Left a comment on the article. It said it will be live within 24 hours. I highly doubt they'll post it on.
So here it is, my comment left on the site which they may never post:

WOW!!! I never knew the Nano offered memory more than 8GB thats amazing! (sarcasm) Considering all flash players are at 8GB, so how the f*ck is that a downside? Try it before you say sh*t. After you convert an episode of The Simpons the file size only about 50MB, meaning you could store about 150 episodes of The Simpsons on.
The M3 offers more functionality and better sound quality at half the price of a sh*tty Nano. King of MP3 players my a$$. People nowadays look for style and sexiness. Well hey, seems here like the M3 is smaller and sexier than the Nano, so there you go.
Kiss my ass you corporate kiss a$$.

freedirk · 04-13-2007

Calm down echo, I get your frustrated at the obvious apple bias. But anyone with half a brain will realise very quickly that the 60gb ipod's are hard disk devices and so offer grealy reduced battery life. My girlfriend has a creative zen vision(i bought it 2 years ago for her as a competitive alternative to the ipod then and i still think its better than the ipod) and whilst I like the zen, I wanted more battery life.

Which brings us to the unequitable comparison on cnet. Anyone with half a brain will see that a comparison like that doesn't work. 2 people in the last 24 hours have scrutinised my m6 with envious eyes and fingers. The truth will out itself. Dont worry.

Echo · 04-13-2007

The website was specifically comparing it with the Nano, thus the title. So just saying, with facts to back myself up, the 8GB ain't that shabby, all flash players are 8gb nowadays etc...

"2 people in the last 24 hours have scrutinised my m6 with envious eyes and fingers."
Thats me for ya. I bought an iRiver E10 a few months back thinking it was the next best MP3 player. Then I listened to my friends M6...
And then I ended up buying a M3

plg6067 · 04-13-2007

". This isn't nearly big enough for a library of lossless audio or DVD-quality videos," hahaha are you kidding me?!?! why would you want dvd quality on that small screen. The guy from dane elec said that videos for the m6 are 1mb per minute so with the m3 it should be even less and thats plenty. That guy always has to talk about the nano too very annoying...

Echo · 04-13-2007

Originally Posted by plg6067

". This isn't nearly big enough for a library of lossless audio or DVD-quality videos," hahaha are you kidding me?!?! why would you want dvd quality on that small screen. The guy from dane elec said that videos for the m6 are 1mb per minute so with the m3 it should be even less and thats plenty. That guy always has to talk about the nano too very annoying...

are you sure about that??? cos i converted 2 vids onto onto the M3 and it was 50mb each. Family Guy and Simpsons

Job · 04-13-2007

Originally Posted by Echo

are you sure about that??? cos i converted 2 vids onto onto the M3 and it was 50mb each. Family Guy and Simpsons

the size of a conversion depends mostly on the kind of quality you want. Obviously a higher video and sound quality take more space... so the 1mb per minute is just a (rather bad?) estimate

one episode of Family guy for my M6 is about 70MB
So 50MB for the M3 sounds plausible
for a 25 minute show you dont get a 25Mb file though

Echo · 04-13-2007

I used the default settings, so I highly doubt Meizu themselves would set it to high quality.

plg6067 · 04-13-2007

Originally Posted by Job

the size of a conversion depends mostly on the kind of quality you want. Obviously a higher video and sound quality take more space... so the 1mb per minute is just a (rather bad?) estimate

one episode of Family guy for my M6 is about 70MB
So 50MB for the M3 sounds plausible
for a 25 minute show you dont get a 25Mb file though

aaahhh my bad, I guess the guy from dane uses some pretty damn low quality videos. (what I am referencing is this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmSNz1YBzm8)