There’s some commotion over the Meizu forum. The controversy was begun by burnfox who claimed - pointed out, that Jack Wong never said he was CEO of Meizu and never claimed his announcements were official Meizu statements. So, does that mean the Meizu M8 will never come?

Note this:M8(mini One) NEVER official announcement
NOTE: THIS IS NOT A JOKE.

Well,we all know M8,aka mini One for a long long time,but all we have know,never Meizu official announced.

As J.W himself said,he never treat him as the CEO of Meizu,but just a very normal forum user,so none of his word posted in the Meizu forum is official announcement.
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Nothing much in the PMP world today except this little bit of rumor… Archos Gen6 will be announced at an upcoming Archos event on June 10th in London. An Archos bigwig named Tony Limrick will be presenting the new series. Is 3G finally coming to the Archos? Now, I having nothing against more features but shouldn’t Archos finally do away with their two-generation-old design and push its PMPs into new frontiers in form factor?

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We’ve heard about Negri Electronics before and their penchant for, er, exaggeration. Their over-excited online retailing techniques aside, they can be relied upon to keep an eye on the most interesting releases. It comes as no surprise to me that besides the 3G iPhone, Negri also has in stock the BlackBerry Bold, HTC Touch Diamond and the Samsung Instinct - all unlocked. You can place orders for these phones now. Negri does not take orders of 16GB “iPhone3G” at the moment but they have listed July 21 as the date when they expect they will have the phones on stock. Now, we know that Apple will be releasing the 3G iPhone in 22 territories come July 11. Has Negri made a mistake? Hm, sure doesn’t look like a typo to me since they have the information in all three 3G iPhone models and it’s posted in red. Interesting…. They have both black (16GB and 8GB) and white (16GB only) versions unlocked.

Update: BoyGeniusReports has unconfirmed information that Apple will be distributing the 3G iPhone thru BestBuy and RadioShack (probably locked to AT&T), just to speed things up to the 10 million iPhone milestone.

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Appleinsider reports that Apple, Inc. has ordered 17 million iPhone, 2 million of these with EDGE-only, 15 million 3G. If this sounds too optimistic, you’d be doubly interested to note that the figure is for Apple phones that are still about to be shipped. It is expected Apple will sell all or most of the 17 million before the end of this year. A staggering number, but when coupled with another rumor of iPhone finally supporting MMS, it might actually make a lot of sense. The source of this rumor is an internal memo passed on to iPhoneatlas and the bloggers there immediately noted that the plans for iPhone 3G does not include text messages, or it was omitted for a very important reason: MMS rates have yet to be finalized.

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Good news for everyone. Nothing official just yet but based on the language of the report it’s highly likely Apple will allow subsidies for the iPhone 3G. The rumor was reported by the Financial Times. The pressure is coming from mobile operators mainly after Apple tacitly accepted the strategy of selling unsubsidized iPhone is no longer sustainable. The subsidy would be significant, around $200, and would put iPhone at $199 with a contract. This, in effect, will allow wireless providers to be the game-changers this time around.

That’s at least one iPhone rumor that is true… almost.

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Not so official yet that it would come directly from Apple, but it’s pretty official nonetheless. Apple will release iPhone 2.0 right after WWDC. Gizmodo’s source says the U.S. will get first dibs then other countries will be receiving their 3G iPhone ten days or so later. Apple will implement “new sales policies,” at least as far as other countries are concerned. Well, all that’s left now is a look at the actual product.

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The Samsung P3 will remind you of Sprint’s Samsung Instinct, although this PMP is an exact copy of the Samsung SCH-W420 TNT phone using metallic buttons instead of touch-sensitive Chocolatey keys below the screen. Like the Sprint Instinct, the P3 will benefit from Haptic feedback on its huge touchscreen. It will probably be promoted as an iPod Touch killer, so for that at least it’s going to attract a lot of interest in the coming months before its official release. The Samsung P2 is one of the best and most popular PMPs out there, and it remains to be seen whether the phone-like P3 will follow in its predecessor’s footsteps.

The Samsung P3 PMP shold be available late this year.

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After RIM announced the BlackBerry Bold for AT&T, a new rumor about the touchscreen BlackBerry has surfaced., the BlackBerry 9500. RIM has dubbed it Thunder. Yes, it sounds like a small step up Bold, but Thunder is a wholly different looking BlackBerry animal. The Thunder will be exclusive to Verizon and Vodafone. It will have strange features such as 4G connectivity, using LTE and GSM HSPA for international 4G connections. Wow! Hope it’s true, though the link below is rarely off the mark.

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If the purported leaked Picture of 3G iPhone nabbed by Apple Insider is authentic, the Philip Xenum 800 may have a competitor on the e2e front. The photo also suggests that the iPhone is moving toward the PDA form factor with a more squarish shape and sharper edges. I’m thinking, they keep increasing the size of the screen everyone has to bring a purse with them just to carry one. I’ll wait for iPhone Nano.

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I know some people who were disappointed when they found out the Apple iPhone was black (take the poll below). They will rejoice if this rumor turned out to be fact. Coming from a Chinese forum, they don’t seem all that reliable but that doesn’t mean we cannot feast our eyes on the elegant new casing, the additional connectors and sensors - from WeiPhone.

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