What Makes Meizu Different
Having served Meizu for over 3 years as one of the forum managers, I always consider myself an "insider". Honestly, I take pride in that fact. And I do feel the urge to say something upon seeing the recent thesis-wanted campaign.
As I see it, what best makes Meizu stand out from the crowd is its full, unreserved, dedication to what it believes is the best thing to do. So dedicated you can call it a craze, or an obsession. It completely tunes out all the noises in the handhelds world. While the rest of the industry are hilariously launching "new" models every few days, for entire two years Meizu, putting all its resources and energy into developing M8, has not released any new models. Now that's something not just anyone can do. But then I guess it's a good occasion to cite the saying, "it takes 10 years to sharpen the sword".
But it takes more than just an obsession to have this unswerving determination, and to do what Meizu has done, I'd say.
Dedication alone doesn't explain well enough, though. Another Meizu trait is its belief, its belief in the idea that multimedia cellphones are the very end of all handheld devices. Today, and for the days to come, people go without anything but a cellphone, which can be said to be something that makes this world a real village. All portable multimedia devices end up going all the way to one thing, the cellphone. You are out without an MP3 player? It's just fine. So is it without your MP4 or even laptops. But you are not going anywhere without money, as well as without your personal, irreplaceable cellphone. This fact accounts for the craze that all manufacturers are racking their brains to come up with something with fancy multimedia capabilities. For this matter, Meizu does look further than most of its home competitors. Actually as one of M8's prototype testers, I have had this novelty in my hand for quite a couple of weeks now, and all looks brilliant. Ingenious design, hefty hardware and user-friendly, sweet-looking interfaces, though I'd love it better if it draws a clearer line from iPhone's. That being said, I'd happily point to the way that Chinese calligraphy is meant to be learned: Imitate first; then learn and digest; and finally come to form your own style. Meizu, raised and emerged from this deep-rooted cultural background, certainly appreciates this "learn before you innovate" principle perfectly well.
But none of this sounds convincing until everyone's got a chance to put their hands on an M8. I mean until its official release. So Let's look forward to that day, which I believe to be very soon.
My best wishes go to Meizu and all its supporters.
Pan.
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