Customer Reviews

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

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The Meizu M6 works with any modern operating system, and does not require any drivers (Windows 98 being the exception). To upload your files, is just a matter of drag and drop. Playback supports various formats, such as OGG, MP3, Wav, FLAC, AVI, etc. It is the perfect companion for any UNIX based operating system such as Linux and Mac OS X; it uses usb-mass storage. The battery is said to last 24 hours, and it is true. If you don't want to purchase a charger, you can use any free USB port on your system to charge the Meizu.

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.

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.

I wanted a mp3 player with similar features to the ipod, but lower price. I have had mine for 3months and everything is working great.

This lil mp4 player is the best right now. I have owned one for over a year now, i use mine every day at college and in my car. The touch pad is sweet, gives it smooth navigation, no clicking and clacking.

PROS- The LCD on here is BRILLLIANT Samsung...i have compared against the 16.7 million color (this has 240,000) creative player and this one wins hands down. waaaay better color representation, and the blacks are black not all gray and blotchy.. and lastly the SOUND IS AWSOME!!! has deeeeep bass not found on others, also has bit expantion and SRS for a full and encompassing sound.

CONS - the only issue it has is the video playback is only 20fps,(though most movies are only 24 fps), so some chop when panning across scenes. also has issues playing some older converted avi's.

all in all has a few video issues, but to be expected since its an music player first. but this is a very great buy, quality built with a metal back similar to the ipod. great great sound, easy interface, plenty of room, FM tuner and recorder, read text files on it, built in mic, and plays most file formats and easy to load, just drag and drop music onto it and your good, no converting audio files, just video... so buy it you should be impressed.

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!

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.

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.