Meizu M8
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The Meizu M8 is an Internet and multimedia- capable multi-touch smartphone from the Chinese manufacturer Meizu MP3 Player. Long before its appearance suggested the phone to because of its strong resemblance to Apple's iPhone to controversial discussions. The operating system of the Meizu M8 or MiniOne, is a heavily modified version of Meizu Windows CE 6.0 that is similar to the GUI of the iPhone. The release of the phone was a total of 2 whole years away. As of December 8, 2008, a small number of pieces in the Chinese market was the first time available. This " trial " were missing important for China mobile license sticker. January 14, 2009, however, Meizu has this license. The official release date of the black 8 GB version of the Meizu M8 was the 18 February 2009. Later, a 16- GB version was released on 28 April 2009, and finally, with a China-wide promotional campaign, the white version of the M8. Since Meizu released some hardware drivers, an international software development group working on the project " M8Android ". Some limited functional publications are already available.
Firmware 1.0
A special conversion made the phone with firmware version 1.0. Meizu has developed a complete new surface and extended the mobile to some features, such as direct download from the integrated Opera browser or programs like the messenger QQ. For this purpose, the operating system on which the Meizu based surface, updated on WinCE 6.0 Release 3. This development process is still going on. The new surface was first officially released on 6 February 2010 with firmware version 0.9.6.9.
A first version of the M8 was introduced on 4 March 2008 at the CeBit. It showed a non-functional plastic prototype and a development board with a first version of the Meizu OS including phone function. On 5 March, the Meizu booth was closed by the police. The M8 was contrary to all rumors but not the reason, but allegedly unlicensed support the MP3 format on the Meizu MP3 players.
WLAN / EDGE
Since Wi-Fi is not approved by the Chinese government without WAPI, the function is not available by default. The required hardware is available in some devices, however, so that you can unlock with a simple program -Fi on the M8. Likewise, can now be used instead of GPRS EDGE. However, the official Chinese version of the M8 does not support WiFi. So is advertised on the official Meizu site nor for the wireless LAN function. An international version of the M8 with Wi-Fi is not yet published. However, Wi-Fi versions of the phones will continue to be offered on the Internet.
Dual- or quad-band
On the official Meizu site, the mobile phone is being touted as a dual band phone. However, to at least the first production batch of phones, the so-called test devices will also work with the frequencies 850 and 1900 MHz. This is confirmed by fans in the Fan Forum MeizuMe.com.
Meizu M8SE
On 22 September 2009, the second version of the M8, the M8SE ( Second Edition ) was published. Production of the M8 was set at the same time. New to this version is the official support of Wi-Fi or WAPI and EDGE. Next the sim cover the music button on the right side of the phone has been changed slightly, exchanged some chips and omitted.
Meizu M9
Long before reaching the firmware 1.0 announced company CEO Jack Wong already successor to the M8. The M9 is 3G capable and equipped with a 1 GHz processor, a 3.6-inch multitouch display with a resolution of 960 × 640 pixels, 512 MB RAM, Wi-Fi and GPS and a 5 megapixel camera. On internal memory has been omitted and it is set to a microSD card slot. The operating system is Android 2.2 chose this time with a Meizu 's surface. The Meizu M9 is since December 25, 2010 available in limited pre-order quantities. The price is thanks to this limitation and a huge demand for $ 449 instead of the introduction price of $ 350, which will level off until after the Chinese Neujahresfestende (normal introduction of mobile phones ). The mobile phone is currently on the market.