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Franken(P)review: Attack of the iClones

It’s like that episode of Beverly Hills 90210 when Brenda and Kelly both say they hate that black dress with the big white bow on it, but then they each show up to the dance wearing the thing. And then they had a pillowfight in nothing but their hot pink scrunchies to battle for my…

Tech News Mark Wilson Feb 28

Enemies Line Up to Beat Unreleased iPhone While Jobs Fixes Tofu Pancakes for Breakfast

Just in case you weren’t sick enough of it, Newlaunches has a summary of the top competitors for Apple’s iPhone, all of them previously featured in Gizmodo. They start at number 5 with the Meizu we-swear-we-really-didn’t-clone-it! M8 PMP, the Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphone that really wants to be an iPhone when he grows up. Going…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 27

Meizu CEO Says They Didn’t Copy The iPhone That Much

Despite Meizu’s history of “borrowing” design ideas from Apple (their entire Miniplayer series comes to mind) their CEO is denying that the M8 phone is copied from the iPhone. Seems like everyone‘s denying influence from the iPhone these days. https://gizmodo.com/meizu-miniplayer-reviewed-verdict-your-ipod-nano-is-a-208848 Here’s what the CEO said in a forum post on their website. First, he acknowledges…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 14

Update: You’re right, Meizu M8 Totally NOT iPhone Clone

Here’s more incriminating evidence that the Meizu M8 rips off the iPhone hardcore, which we first noticed two weeks ago. One thing’s for sure: the Meizu dude needs to cut his fingernails. https://gizmodo.com/meizu-m8-pmp-phone-looks-awfully-familiar-232224 iPhone Look A-Like, Meizu miniOne To Make Its Debut [VR-Zone via My iPhone]

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Feb 13

Meizu M8 PMP/Phone Looks Awfully Familiar

Dapreview has—what appears to be—concept renderings of the M8 PMP/cellphone from Meizu. No word if these are real or not, but something about it looks really familiar. I can’t put my finger on it, but this player looks like something we have been covering non-stop for the past month or so. This is going to…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jan 29

Meizu Music Card Design Winner

Remember the contest Meizu had for users to design their next MP3 player? Well, this is the winner. Normally I would begin shouting blasphemy because it looks hell of a lot like an iPod knock-off, but I just don’t care anymore. https://gizmodo.com/meizu-lets-users-design-their-next-mp3-player-223379 Meizu Music Card Revealed [dapreview]

Tech News Travis Hudson Jan 12

Meizu Lets Users Design Their Next MP3 Player

It’s not often fanboys get to design their favorite company’s next product, but that’s pretty much what Meizu is doing. They’re holding a contest to see who can design their next dap. We’ve seen their players before, and they’ve been pretty impressive, beating even the mighty iPod, so this contest idea is a great way…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Dec 20

Meizu MusicCard (M3) in the Works

Meizu has another MP3 player in the works that looks mighty impressive. The MusicCard, or M3, is a small-form-factor dap that appears to be the size of a credit card, but a little thicker. The M3 will support the usual array of audio codecs including FLAC and Ogg, and be available in 2, 4 and…

Tech News Travis Hudson Dec 6

Meizu Miniplayer SP: Cheaper But Still Great

The Meizu Miniplayer review we looked at yesterday is getting an “SP” edition. We think the SP stands for “So Poorpeoplecanbuyit”, because all the features are the same, yet it’s nearly $30 cheaper than the price of the standard edition. https://gizmodo.com/meizu-miniplayer-reviewed-verdict-your-ipod-nano-is-a-208848 The SP should still play back WMV/MP3/OGG/WAV/XviD files, still have the great screen, and…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 20

Meizu Miniplayer Reviewed (Verdict: Your iPod Nano is a Turd)

The Meizu Miniplayer is like the Obi-Won Kenobi of MP3 players—the only hope to go up against the Empire-like iPod. Now that the Nano has gone a Darth Vader-ish black, the white of the Meizu Miniplayer reminds us that good functionality and great design will win over great design alone. So how does this Miniplayer…

Tech News Jason Chen Oct 19

Meizu Miniplayer Available In Black

The Miniplayer, Meizu’s answer to the iPod Nano, is now available in an off-the-rack basic black. It still has the same Meizu stylings, same 1-4GB flash memory, and the same sexy 18FPS DivX playback. The screen’s the same 320×240 and it has the same 20 hours of battery life for audio and 6 for video.…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 30

Meizu Miniplayer 2 and Music Card M3 Coming Soon

Hot on the heels of their Miniplayer being copied, here’s a rumor of the Miniplayer 2 being in development from Meizu. The Miniplayer 2 may have a 2.6-inch VGA screen (the old one had a 2.4-inch QVGA), a 533MHz processor and run Windows CE. https://gizmodo.com/zino-810-clones-the-meizu-miniplayer-then-shrinks-it-195898 The other successor, the M3, has a 1.3-inch OLED screen…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 22

Zino 810 Clones the Meizu Miniplayer, Then Shrinks It

This “Mini Me” version of the Meizu Mini player was made by another Chinese company, proving that Chinese manufacturers have gotten good enough so even they’re getting copied. The Zino looks almost exactly like the Meizu, except with a slightly misaligned scheme and a smaller body. It weighs only 40 grams and comes in 256MB/512MB/1GB/2GB…

Tech News Jason Chen Aug 22

Meizu M6 vs. Oracom UB 890—Battle of the Non-iPods

We have been talking up the Meizu M6 and the Oracom UB-890 for quite some time now. Both look promising, and both make me contemplate ditching the iPod. Our hombres at dapreview got their hands on both of these units and set up a head-to-head, Thunderdome style, battle for non-iPod DAP supremacy. In a long…

Tech News Travis Hudson Aug 8

Meizu M6 Video Preview

We have the tendency to throw around the cliché “iPod killer” more often than I throw dollar bills at strippers, but this time we mean it. Really. We have heard nothing but praise about the Meizu M6 portable media player and if this video doesn’t seal the deal for you, we don’t know what will.…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 5

Meizu Miniplayer M6 Coming to the US

The Meizu Miniplayer we posted a review of yesterday is actually coming to the US. Dreams do come true! Maybe this iPod competitor will have more luck than Creative in knocking the king off the throne—no, we’re not talking about Elvis on the pooper. https://gizmodo.com/meizu-miniplayer-m6-reviewed-verdict-definite-ipod-na-183491 Preorder the 4GB for $219, 2GB for $159, and 1GB…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 27

Meizu Miniplayer M6 Reviewed (Verdict: Definite iPod Nano Competitor)

The internet has been on fire with talk of the Meizu Miniplayer and how it may just knock the iPod Nano off the top spot for flash based players. DAPreview reviewed the M6 and came away all smiles. The player is small and thin, but has an iPod-like metal backing so it won’t snap in…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 26

Meizu Miniplayer: Slick iPod Clone

You gotta hand it to Meizu for taking the iPod look and grafting it onto an otherwise plain PMP. Some of the things they stole: The white/black finish, the grey control area, the metallic backing, the hold switch, and the iPod-like navigation system. Nonetheless, this PMP comes with up to 4GB of memory, a 2.4″…

Tech News Jason Chen May 26

Meizu Mini Player

Looks like this is just a concept device but the good thing is that this should be a reality pretty soon. It has a 2.4-inch screen, voice recorder, FM tuner, OGG support, video support, and up to 4GB of flash memory. It looks uber-tastically thin and should cost about $200 for the fattest model. Meizu…

Tech News Johnb Apr 26

Franken(P)review: Attack of the iClones

Enemies Line Up to Beat Unreleased iPhone While Jobs Fixes Tofu Pancakes for Breakfast

Meizu CEO Says They Didn’t Copy The iPhone That Much

Update: You’re right, Meizu M8 Totally NOT iPhone Clone

Meizu M8 PMP/Phone Looks Awfully Familiar

Meizu Music Card Design Winner

Meizu Lets Users Design Their Next MP3 Player

Meizu MusicCard (M3) in the Works

Meizu Miniplayer SP: Cheaper But Still Great

Meizu Miniplayer Reviewed (Verdict: Your iPod Nano is a Turd)

Meizu Miniplayer Available In Black

Meizu Miniplayer 2 and Music Card M3 Coming Soon

Zino 810 Clones the Meizu Miniplayer, Then Shrinks It

Meizu M6 vs. Oracom UB 890—Battle of the Non-iPods

Meizu M6 Video Preview

Meizu Miniplayer M6 Coming to the US

Meizu Miniplayer M6 Reviewed (Verdict: Definite iPod Nano Competitor)

Meizu Miniplayer: Slick iPod Clone

Meizu Mini Player

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