Meizu M8 interface redesigned yet again, gets all sparkly

by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted May 24th 2008 at 11:41AM

In the latest of what's becoming a long history of tweaks to the Meizu M8 interface, Meizu CEO Jack Wong unleashed some new shots of the upcoming UI to his adoring fans. The new interface is designed by eico design -- who have also worked with Google, Lenovo, and Philips -- and looks to have a visually-satisfying sparkle animation for selected items (unless the battery above is just leaking). Another addition appears to be LED-styled status updates to applications, like number of missed calls and unread messages. Until we see this all in motion, though, we'll quietly speculate and hope the pretty pictures are real.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Filed under: Cellphones

Tags: jack wong, JackWong, meizu, meizu m8, MeizuM8, ui, ui update, UiUpdate

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monik @ May 24th 2008 12:01PM

so what would be the price of this cellphone?
http://etiole.com

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oliver hart @ May 24th 2008 1:35PM

My guess is theyll be 500+ and not available in the US

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TareX @ May 24th 2008 4:27PM

"..worked with Google"?? Perhaps on the Android OS for the Dream? I can only hope...

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derX @ May 24th 2008 11:56PM

Urgh, if they had released this phone when they were supposed to, they would've been great. Now, they've toyed with it for so long, I say screw 'em. As someone pointed out before, their features now don't match up as well to the iPhone sucessor; they were a formidable opponent for 1.0, but not 2.0.

I say, add a freakin' bow. I no longer care.

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Kirk @ May 25th 2008 12:56AM

I think I've now been following this Meizu M8/Mini-one saga for over a year now (close to 18 months), and I'm ready to nominate this for Wired's top-ten vaporware products.

As derX said, if they delivered it a year ago (or anytime in 2007, really), I would gladly have paid for one. Half-way thru 2008, when the iPhone 3G is (allegedly) mere weeks from shipping, the HTC Diamond is in the wild, and Samsung is pushing out its own would-be iPhone killer... well, a tweak to the pretty interface on the non-existent M8 doesn't cut it.

My guess is that this thing either (a) never ships in this form, or (b) ships sometime in 2009 as a mid-range smart-phone that is doomed to be a regional oddity like the Axia A108 was (a touch-screen candy-bar WinCE phone I owned a couple of years ago, out of Singapore).

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polo4455 @ May 25th 2008 9:18PM

Who are they copying this time? Sorry but I couldn't resist :)

PS. At least they shouldn't use only photoshop when copying lol!

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fareed @ May 26th 2008 6:38AM

Meizu CEO had announced the Meizu M8 four days before the announcement of the iPhone, but it was redesigned to be a direct competitor to the iPhone. The current release period is unknown, estimates range from the second to the fourth season of 2008.

The most recent pricing information for the standard M8 version 4GB, 8GB and 16GB models are 2000, 2380 and 2980 CNY respectively. That is approximately 275, 325, and 410 USD.

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polo4455 @ May 26th 2008 12:48PM

Many phones where announced just before iphone's announcement. So what? In Meizou's case however, they suddenly came up with en exact replica of someone else's product that promises technology that the company knows damn well they don't have, nor will they acquire any time soon. How can you take a company like that seriously?

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