Jack Wong, why does he tease us so? If you haven’t been following the M8 forums as religiously as you used to, you might have missed the news that our man in Guangdong leaked the definitive blurrycam photos of what appears to be the Meizu M9 Android handset . Not long after leaking the pics he deleted the post and closed all threads, explaining: “sorry, my fault.
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Meizu CEO Jack Wong leaks, pulls M9 pics
Well, what do you know — perhaps there is an M9 in your future (or someone’s future) after all! After hearing the one and only Jack Wong detail the thing earlier this year, Beareyes.com is reporting that the device — with the same 3.6-inch display, 1 GHz (Samsung S5PC110) CPU, HDMI 1.3 out and more — may be out as early as this August. We think this is certainly do-able, although anything can happen — as the drawn-out gestation of a certain Meizu M8 made painfully clear
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Meizu M9 getting Android 2.1, possible August release?
Karry Auto (a phonetic mistranslation of the English word “carry”) is a division of the Chinese car maker Chery, infamous for getting sued by Chevy for knocking off its designs .
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Meizu partners with Karry Auto to sing KIRFer’s Delight
We have some news on the app store that Meizu announced for the M8 a while back . The official name is apparently MStore, and it is indeed open for business with its first paid app, Mr.
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Meizu MStore open for business, Mr. Jelly on sale now for 29 cents
Meizu’s irrepressible CEO J. Wong is up to his teasing ways again with more details on the M8’s successor, the aptly-named M9 — and actually, there’s nothing about the list that doesn’t sound doable for a 2010 release (famous last words, we know). Specifically, the dude’s saying that we can expect a 1GHz Cortex A8-based Samsung S5PC110 core, half a gig of RAM and ROM, a 5 megapixel cam, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS, TV-out, microSD expansion, and a 3.6-inch screen clocking in at 720 x 480 resolution.
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Meizu CEO teases M9 specs, vaporware threat level: orange
Oh, Meizu , how do we love thee? Let us count the ways.
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Meizu’s M8 UI promo video is surprisingly professional, catchy
In his latest routine forum visit, Meizu CEO Jack Wong dropped a couple of teasers about what’s coming up in his fancy Zhuhai-based factory. First is that the M8 3G will need at least another six months to brew, which is slightly off the March release date we last heard . Initial versions will pack W-CDMA (aka, UMTS) and China’s own TD-SCDMA radios, then maybe a CDMA version whenever Jack’s ready to pay “premium license fees” to enter the “narrow international market [of EV-DO].” Next up is word that apparently the infamous Windows CE -based M8 may get a dose of Windows Phone apps in a future firmware update, courtesy of “a project that Microsoft is working on.” Sure, it all sounds great, but given Meizu’s record of underestimating the complexities of manufacturing mobile phones, we’ll believe it when we see it.
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Meizu CEO: M8 3G launch pushed, original M8 getting Windows Phone apps (maybe)
Now that Meizu is setting the M8 up with some new firmware and further turning its back on the handset’s KIRFish origins, how about an app store? Apparently that’s exactly what’s happening, as the following video will attest. Not too many details here — it’s called MyStore, and the company is planning to split revenue with developers 30 / 70.
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Meizu M8 app store to become reality this month?
It’s been almost three years since we saw our first taste of the Meizu M8 , which was at that point a fairly shameless rip of the iPhone, albeit mostly theoretical. In the ensuing years we’ve seen an ever-changing OS and two generations of hardware , but we might be finally coming upon something worth lusting after. The new M8 Firmware 1.0.0.1 beta has been demo’d on video, and seems to be taking some new cues from Android and Windows Mobile — along with some original and sexy UI elements of Meizu’s own devising — that really set it apart from its iPhone-aping days of yore.
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New Meizu M8 beta firmware looking desirable, bordering on original
You could fault the infamous M8 for being eons late; you could fault it for shipping without a quadband EDGE / WiFi / 3G version; you could fault it for dancing in and out of the straight-up iPhone ripoff arena from its very inception; you could fault it for being really hard to find and buy outside of China. Most of that bellyaching can’t be solved with a few tweaks here and there, but that’s not stopping Meizu from whipping up a facelifted M8 SE with a few carefully-planned changes here and there
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Meizu M8 Second Edition rights all of the M8’s wrongs, or not
