Our pals at Journal du Geek finally published their review of the Meizu M8. The phone is only available in India and China for now. The Meizu M8 is not a 3G phone but my hope is that it will be once it gets released in Europe (dubbed Meizu M8 3G or something like that) but it’s no ordinary iPhone clone. The company Meizu was one of the leading Mp4 player manufacturers in China before it went on to focus its limited resources into creating an iPhone rival. It took them a while and after several delays have given us a lot to laugh about but to dismiss the M8 is to be totally unfair to Meizu. The Windows CE 6.0 phone has a pretty good screen, a UI designed by Eico is significantly different from the iPhone UI. That is not to say the Meizu M8 interface is not user-friendly because it is.

What to expect from the Meizu M8: a $400 to $500 price tag is not so bad for this smartphone. The 3.4-inch touchscreen is a crisp 720 x 480 and powered by ARM11 667MHz with 256MB RAM, it’s a speedy hand held. It also compes with a ton of video and audio support, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, speaker and TV Out. Nothing to brag about to iPhone-owning friends but definitely not one of those sorry-looking iPhone clones.

Video review from Journal du Geek after the break.

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