Meizu M8 miniOne…
Meizu M8 UI Changed, Again – May 24, 2008 – 11:21 AM
A month ago, Meizu CEO Jack Wong announced that the user interface was to be redesigned by eico design, a well-known Chinese design firm that has worked with the likes of Lenovo, Google and Phillips.
Earlier today, Jack confidently released a few photos of the new, redesigned UI for his fans on the Meizu BBS.
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Meizu M8 Project On Temporary Hold – Apr 01, 2008 – 10:30 AM
The reason given for the hold was that Meizu was that quickly loosing market share on the domestic Chinese market, and needed to focus on releasing another MP3 player, Meizu M7, before their mobile phone debut. The Meizu M8 has caused Meizu to fall behind other Chinese brands now adopting large touch sensitive screens, multiple codec on-the-go video decoding, and recently also TV-Out to their MP3 players.
More details will be posted as they become available.
Meizu M8 Has New Interface – March 23, 2008
The Meizu M8 now sports a new interface, coming in an all-black form factor complete with a similar color scheme in the user interface. Targeting a China release this August, many people will still associate the Meizu M8 as nothing but an iPhone clone. It remains to be seen whether this accusation holds true when we actually hold one in our hands, but music addicts who are on the lookout for something fresh and different after a steady diet of nothing but iPods could do well check this out and discover something new.
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Meizu in Trouble – Raided by German Police – Mar 05, 2008 – 4:54 PM
Just hours ago, Meizu’s booth got raided by German Police at CeBIT. Their booth was closed down under a Meizu M8 demonstration and guests were told “the venue is closed until further notice.” The Police also seized equipment and literature.
Tomorrow German Police will release a statement in regards to the action they took against Meizu.
UPDATE: According to forum posts by Meizu CEO Jack Wong, the raid was initiated by Sisvel due to the lack of a Sisvel (patent holder of MP3 format) license. He also said that the booth will be open again at 4 PM.
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Live shots of Meizu miniOne M8 CeBIT Prototype – Mar 04, 2008 – 11:26 AM
The folks over at Engadget have now visted the Meizu CeBIT booth again, and this time taken photos of the Meizu M8 miniOne engineering prototype next to a iPhone for comparison.
We now finally see how the rumored three button layout is going to look like on the M8.
Meizu CEO Jack Wong said earlier that the plastics on the CeBIT prototype were not the final production materials, which explains why there is a white part on the back of the phone that does not fit with the overall design.
Meizu M8 CeBIT Prototype Video
Meizu M8 CeBIT Prototype GUI Video
See gallery for more pictures.
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Meizu M8 miniOne Really Not at CeBIT? – Mar 04, 2008 – 4:04 AM
The Meizu M8 did not make it to CES, but was promised by Meizu CEO to show up at CeBIT. Yesterday, Engadget rushed to the Meizu CeBIT booth only to find the old plastic dummy of the M8 miniOne.
After seeing this, Chinese Meizu fans have created something of an uprising on Meizu’s BBS forum. In response, Jack somewhat unwillingly admitted that a engineering prototype was indeed brought to CeBIT together with two development boards.
In other forum posts, Jack also mentioned that the Meizu M8 will have a multi-touch touchscreen utilizing better technology than the Apple iPhone and that he expects the 8GB Meizu M8 to cost 2380 CNY (approx. $340 USD).
Source: Meizu BBS
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Meizu M8 at the Patent Office – Jan 21, 2008 – 4:12 PM
On the 16th of this month, patent information of the Meizu M8 was made publicly available by SIPO (State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C). The images contained on SIPO’s page seem to be of one of the earlier M8 prototypes.
Apart from the patent page showing that the miniOne M8 patent was submitted on the 7th of February 2007, not other information is available.
More Images (SIPO)
Thanks russarch!
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Meizu at CES 2008 – No Working M8 Prototype – Jan 06, 2008 – 5:07 PM
With International CES 2008 in Las Vegas approaching swiftly here’s a friendly reminder that Meizu will attend the exhibition and will be found at booth 65012, Las Vegas Hilton.
Meizu CEO Jack Wong at CES?
Jack, who is very active on the official Meizu BBS did not login for several days, which caused Chinese fans to speculate that he was traveling to Las Vegas for CES.
No Working Meizu miniOne M8 at CES 2008
Several weeks ago a false rumor on the internet spread about Meizu brining a working prototype of the M8 to CES 2008. However, this rumor was quickly debunked by CEO Jack Wong.
Just one hour ago, Jack once again confirmed that no working prototype of the M8 will be shown at CES 2008, he then apologized to fans and said Meizu will show the world the miniOne M8 at CeBIT (March 4-9, Hannover, Germany) instead.
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Meizu M8 miniOne Latest Progress (December 2007) – Dec 29, 2007 – 3:43 PM
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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Meizu M8 Final Design Dummy Leaked – Dec 14, 2007 – 3:19 PM
The dummy model that we’ve all been waiting for of the new Meizu M8 Mini One in black was released earlier today by a member on the Meizu BBS. This is said to be the final design of the Meizu M8 Mini One that will debut some time in the early 2008.
However, according to postings by Meizu CEO Jack Wong, this dummy phone was mostly hand made in plastic with the purpose of testing the overall feel of the phone and will not resemble the actual build quality. The real Meizu M8 will have an aluminum finish.
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Meizu M8 November 29 New UI Screens – Nov 29, 2007 – 11:05 PM
On November 29, 2007 two new pictures of the Meizu M8 Mini One UI were posted on the Meizu BBS by CEO Jack Wong. One depicts the home screen while the other shows us the “locked” screen with a custom wallpaper.
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Meizu Mini One M8 Working Prototype Ready? – Nov 26, 2007 – 12:56 PM
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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Meizu M8 Mini One Enhanced by Tencent? – Nov 09, 2007 – 11:07 AM
Meizu CEO Jack Wong announced today that Meizu is undergoing talks with Chinese internet portal Tencent, the company behind the software QQ, China’s most popular IM platform.
In a brief message, Jack hinted that the Meizu M8 Mini One might come bundled (similar to what Apple has done with iPhone, Yahoo and Google) with QQ instant messaging, weather, games and music software / services powered by Tencent.
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Update: One new picture of the black Meizu M8 Mini One has been released and can be found at page 12 of this article. (11-09-2007)
It’s official. As it currently stands, the Meizu M8 Mini One is now black. Full renders as well as a real life model has been made, but pictures won’t publicly released without the consent of Mr. J Wong. If history is an indicator, we should see them within a few days.
Apart from sporting a new darker look, the M8 has had its screen updated, now featuring a 3.4-inch LCD, up from the previous 3.3″.
The most recent price for the Meizu Mini One M8 are 1990/2390/2990 CNY (approx. 265/320/400 $USD) for models 4/8/16 GB.
