iPhone case/skin manufacture XSKN listed “iPhone Nano” as one of the categories for cases on their website. This is one of the most obvious evidence of the existence of the new iPhone.
XSKN has a history of leaking info about unreleased Apple products, such as iPhone 3G and iPod Nano 4th Gen.
First to clear things up, I do not mean that Meizu M8 is a better phone than iPhone, because the lack 3rd-party applications and so. Features I listed are what made M8 better iPhone in PARTICULAR areas, so enjoy!
If you don’t what Meizu M8 is, it is a iPhone-like mobile phone made by a Chinese manufacture called Meizu. Unlike other iPhone copycats, Meizu’s M8 is actually a good quality phone with a lot of innovations and is considered a compititive product againt iPhone. It is set to release in China in December 2008 and internationally in early 2009.
1) Innovative Unlock Screen
M8 has a very cool unlock screen. The unlock screen has four icons on the bottom of the screen. You unlock the phone by dragging any one the icon to the top of the screen. If you drag the phone icon, you will unlock the phone and go to the calling interface directly. Other icons work the same way.
2） Multiple Video, Audio Format Support
Unlike iPhone which support only few audio and video formats, M8 supports more than 17 audio and video formats.
Audio: APE, FLAC, OGG, WAV, WMA, MP3, AMR, ACC
Video: AVI, MP4, 3GP, MOV, ASF, WMV, MPEG, MKV, FLV
3) Custom Equalizer
iPhone only has equalizer presets for users to choose from, but M8 has it all.
4) Copy Paste!!!
What can I say, Apple just can’t do it…
5) Built-In Music ID3 Info + Album Art Editing
M8 allows you to edit music info and assign album covers on the mobile phone, so you don’t need to connect it to a computer to do it.
6) USB Drive!
You don’t need to jailbreak M8 to put files on your phone! And the speed is about 6MB/s reading and 4MB/s writing.
7) Better Camera
M8 has a 3.2 megapixels camera compare to iPhone’s 2.0 megapixels. You also have the choice of output formats (BMP, PNG,GIF,JPG,TIF).
Cheaper!!!
The unlocked Meizu M8 is about $400 US. The unlocked iPhone 3G is about $700 – $800 on eBay.
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