The birth of a legend

What makes something a legend? Good question. In the telecommunication industry those cases are rare, even though not completely absent, when there is a kind of mystic air surrounding a handset already when there are good chances that it doesn’t even exist, so no ordinary human being has ever seen it. We could mention some handsets from the last couple of years that have been highly anticipated – one of these has been Sony Ericsson P990 or Nokia N95. But there has been a case when we’ve been waiting for something that we didn’t know for sure if it exists… yes, I’m talking about iPhone. And then there’s a story that…

…has been going on for about two years now, but it’s still not over. Of course it’s about the subject of our review, Meizu M8, also known as MiniOne. The whole thing began when iPhone has been launched and then the Chinese company called Meizu (known for their MP3/MP4 players) appeared from nowhere with a couple of pictures that showed the phone’s prototype and it look just like Apple’s first phone. We would have probably been laughing hard if this had been done by an insignificant little company, but Meizu is different. The company has launched its media player M6 when iPod nano has been at its highest level of fame, and it has been better from many points of view than Apple’s player and besides that it had a similarly demanding design. So everyone has been amazed when M8 was announced: can they really do it? The thing is that they can. But they are very late.

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I would like to note that the handset we had for testing is still not final, even though it’s more than a beta version. Here in Hungary it will be launched in about three months, but thanks to Infopatika we’ve managed to acquire one of them and I think I don’t have to tell you how happy we were about it. The handset came in a small, black box which had all kinds of white accessories inside, besides the black cleaning cloth. Of course we didn’t get many things with it, just as much that come with the iPhone: data cable, network charger, stereo headset. This latter one happens to look just like the one that comes with the iPhone…

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