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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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).
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!