Meizu M6 - 4 GB Flash MP3 MP4 Portable Media Player ( Black ) - for Audio Video Photos - FM Radio with 30 preset channels - Text & Games - 2.4 inch TFT-LCD Screen | Discount Price: $77.95
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Brand: Meizu
Features: - The MEIZU Portable Video and Music player reads the most popular formats such as MP3, DRM 9 and WMA for audio, MPEG4 for video and JPEG, DMP and GIF photos.
- Its 2.4-inch TFT high definition widescreen LCD has 262K Colors for high quality display. Its sleek design and compact size lets the MEIZU be slightly larger than a business card and only 55 grams.
- Its intuitive interface and selection button enables you to browse easily from photos to music and videos with up to 20 hours of battery life. The touch pad controls, file browser, built-in microphone, voice recording function, stopwatch, calendar, calculator, games and various others can be loaded via a USB 2.0 port.
- Audio Formats - WMA (VBR) 8-355kbps, OGG, WAV & MP3 (VBR) 8kbps-320kbps Frequency Response - 20 Hz-20 kHz Signal to Noise Ratio - More than 90 dB Image Formats - BMP, JPG, GIF Video Formats - AVI (XVID) 18 fps, Less than 512 kbps
- Operating System - Windows 2000/XP, Mac OS
An Electronics Fan [Posted on 2007-06-10]
I own the 8gb version, had it now for a week. In my collection is the venerable iRiver iHP-140, the iPod 4th generation, iPod 2gb Nano, and I've played around with the Archos 504 80gb and the Iubi Blue.
I decided what I needed was a large-capacity player, for which I don't have a solution yet: the Archos 160gb fits the bill in terms of size, but doesn't support the formats I like (OGG, Flac). The Iubi Blue is fantastic, but is limited by its size (60gb - although I hear there is a 100gb version of something - the s60 maybe - coming soon). The search continues.
But my search for a second, lighter, flash-based player that I could wear while jogging, using an arm-band, that had good sound and that supported the audio formats I wanted, has ended! I'm slightly surprised and happy to say that the Meizu M6 is fantastic in almost every way:
1. Many formats supported
2. Video, though I don't plan on using it much, is surprisingly crisp and easy on the eyes (read that encoding to an acceptable format requires a little bit of tweaking and patience the first time around until you get the hang of it)
3. Good UI with easy-to-operate controls: the touchpad was the right level of sensitivity and I could manipulate it easily while driving. You can also choose what appears on your main menu, if you like it less cluttered
4. Excellent battery life: I haven't charged it in a week, other than connecting it a few times for a few minutes to transfer some additional content (read that others are getting close to the rated 24 hours for audio)
5. Light, but solid: doesn't feel cheap, looks like it could withstand a few drops. With a player of this size, you're bound to drop it at some point, so that's helpful
6. Works seamlessly with MediaMonkey and Windows Media Player, haven't tried it yet with Winamp or MusicMatch, sure it works fine. You can also manage it like a hard drive and update the music library manually if you prefer
7. Records only at 128kbps, 64kbps, or 32kbps in MP3, which is more than adequate for voice, but if I wanted to record concerts and such, I'd probably use my iRiver iHP-140. At 128kbps, you get roughly 2 hours of recording time with 8gb and obviously less with the 4gb and 2gb versions
8. Customizable backgrounds, skins, etc. I really like the highly customizable Rockbox interface for my iHP-140, so being able to natively customize the Meizu M6 is a plus
That's all I can think of right now in terms of features and usability. For those of you who care, there is definitely an envy factor involved, too, as I've been asked what it was and where it could be purchased.
Wonderful portable MP3/Ogg/movie player [Posted on 2007-08-07]
I love my Miezu. Works awesome under linux/windows/mac because it acts as a mass storage device. Just drop your music (mp3,ogg,wav) and you are good to go. It has a file browse based navigation so you can organize your music into folders and take advantage of that when looking to play things.
It also comes with a easy to use movie converter that converts your movies into a native format for the Meizu. Works great. I've watched a whole season of subtitled Anime on the thing.
Worked for 15 minutes [Posted on 2008-04-04]
Do not buy this product!
I was extremely excited to get the so-called "Ipod-buster" in the form of the Meizu M6--it supposedly is the "next big thing."
Unfortunately, it only worked after playing 10 seconds of a song!! This situation was further aggrivated by the fact that the manual clearly was written by someone with a paltry understanding of English (they misspelled "internet" for goodness sake!). Additionally, the Meizu website is awful, with English that is not understandible--and their customer service number is in China!
All told, I made the mistake of spending good money to avoid the big dogs of the mp3 player world. My next mp3 player purchase: from Apple.
Better than an iPod! [Posted on 2008-04-05]
This wonder was my first mp3/mp4 ever and I was amazed of what it could do by itself. 4 months later, I got an iPod and I saw the restrictions of it especially with iTunes. With Meizu, it's totally different; you just have to use their software to convert to their file format and copy/paste to integrate into your machine...that's it!Simple, sleeker, efficient and more complete than an iPod!What are you waiting for? Go get one!
So much potential... [Posted on 2008-05-13]
I've had the M6 for about 6 months and, when it works, I liked it. The problem is that I spent too much time playing with the unit trying to get it to work properly.
It has several Achilles heals, the biggest being the firmware upgrade cycle. You copy one of two files to it and cycle the power to the unit. It's supposed to update the firmware and allow the second file to be copied.
It's always been a dicey process, frequently failing for the first few trys. The most recent try has apparently killed the unit completely. It's dead, and won't complete the upgrade, nor accept a charge to continue trying.
The other problems were sticking keys, and the very difficult method used to delete tracks. I listen to podcasts and remove them after use. It's very difficult to do. It's a shame that their isn't a dedicated key, or key stroke sequence that can be used without looking carefully at the unit.
Would I buy another. No. There are too many in the marketplace that just work.
Good try though.
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