Meizu M8 miniOne finally caught in the wild - sort of
By Will Park on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pm PST In CeBIT 2008, Devices, Meizu, iPhone
Ahh, the almost mythical Chinese rip-off of the iPhone. We’ve been seeing prototype mock-ups and renderings of the Meizu M8 miniOne ever since the iPhone launched, but we’ve yet to get our hands on one. The problem? There just isn’t a finished version of the Meizu M8 iPhone clone in the wild.
The closest we’ve come to actually seeing the Meizu M8 in the wild is Engadget Mobile’s recent coverage from CeBIT 2008. We missed Meizu at CES 2008 in Las Vegas, but Engadget Mobile spotted a Meizu M8 prototype hanging out at Meizu’s booth and had to good sense to recordify the barely working demo unit. The trademark-flouting Meizu team was passing around a prototype handset that did little more than splash a few interface screens - a strictly “for show” prototype with decidedly “no go.”
Meizu did manage to demonstrate some of the Meizu M8 interface, but it was only up and running on an engineering reference board. These guys have had a lot of time to bring their handset into reality, you’d think they’d be past the reference board stage.
Now, we just wait for Meizu to get their affairs in order and bring the Meizu M8 miniOne to market. And then we wait for Apple’s legal team to have a field-day.
[Via: Engadget Mobile]
March 5th, 2008 at 1:43 am
You’ve officially failed Objectivity 101. This post crossed the line. Now that intomobile allows you to sort posts by poster, I’m gonna have to change the link to all the posts made by Dusan, Ben, and Stefan instead of just intomobile.com. It’s too bad there isn’t an “anyone but Will” link. Sorry dude, but I’m tired of sifting through post after post of mindless iPhone updates, and I don’t use RSS to filter it out.