MEIZU MP4 Portable Video & Music Player 4GB (Black)

I am satisfied with what I got. Its video quality is good. I personally found it much better than iPod I used.

this unit has superb sound and video quality.

The supplied ear buds are just fine and you don't need to buy anything else. The sound volume can be adjusted to this side of blowing your brains out.... yeah, with deep bass!~

Software suck big time along with the instructions.
Ignore the software and manual and just play with the unit until you discover how it works. Chinese to English translation by a software engineer is about bad as it can get. I don;t know why they don't spend a few bucks and hire some English person to go over the manual after the translation.

They got the software from the net FREE that's included on the cd disc installation. It's not made for an average person and I guarantee that you don't know what to do with it. The player software did not install and can not be found or any way to install where you could convert video to their format. All you have is a bunch of tools that's useful for programmers and make no sense to any of us. Even so, their conversion section is crippled and the video conversion plays 90 degree offset. I have no idea what was the reason for this. Your video plays sideways! It's soooo idiotic this software that I removed it immediately.
Still trying to find something else to do the convertion, but no luck so far. None is accepted by the player.

Let me say this again; the software for video conversion is sooooo bad and makes no sense at all. It does not convert correctly and there is no help on their site. The entire software is totally idiotic.
If you are interested in videos for this player, either find a convertion software that works of buy a ZUNE player. Seems to me that these mfg, including other name brands are going out of their way to have screwy convertion and difficulty to make a simple convertion to video.

However....
This little unit does everything I need and works flawlessly.... right now.
All music plays pristine clear but I haven't been able to add any video with their software. It's nothing but a nightmare to add a simple video.
Clearly, this product will not accept video by converting well.
I managed to convert with great difficulty some video but I would not recomend it to anyone to go through all that nonesense.

Still, it's a hit an miss to download video and am not able to do a good copy that plays. This is not to say that the video is bad, on the contrary, the promo video is just gorgeous, clean, sharp as a razor blade. So, the potential is there to see great video, but how to get there is a mystery. It would have taken a little effort to write a converter or just play WMV files. It's not that big of a deal.

Company support is zilch.... nada.
They're in China. They really don't speak English and the company is small.
There is a meizu forum of sort, where you can see the struggle of people having a hard time with the unit. Mostly video problem. Go find it and read the problems. Then make a decision if you're interested to fight this thing.

If you want music and still pictures then it's a good deal.
Trasfers are simple drag and drop as mentioned.
Screen colors and resolutions are astounding.
Don;t let the small size fool you.
You can watch movies with great clearity and wall to wall sound... providing it will accept the correct format.


Update: a few days later.
As much as I like this unit for it's great sound and small frame, I think a Zune would have been better for video and the ease of transfers. I think that's going to happen when the new Zune will be available after October 2007.

AS with any Chinese products, the software is really bad. Instructions or manuals are equally bad. For support, don't look to them.
You're on your own.
I still give 5 stars for the function of the unit and three zeros for the software and user interface... that's worthless.

MEIZU'S ARE GREAT! no fuss with new software on your computer, its just a simple cick and drag action to load songs and photos. i have made 2 mistakes with it though...when using it with your cmputer for the first time make sure to turn it on after you hook up the USB, i freaked out thinking it wasnt connecting, but hadnt realised i was just being stupid by not turning it on aswell. also, the screen scratches really easyily so keep it in its little case if your putting it in your pocket or bag. im currently searching for protective carry cases for it but havent yet found one that protects the screen as well, but all in all, the meizu is perfect!

Definitely competes with I pod. Nice sound. Nice stereo effect. radio is also good. ShashidharAM Bangalore INDIA.

Pros: Very compact, sleek very nice cosmetic features. The menu options are fairly straight forward and esay to use. Music and video playback quality is very good. The battery life is quite acceptable. The FM tuner gives a fair receptions indoors and outdoors. Creating a playlist is very easy. All in all this is a very good alternative to an ipod at a much more reasonable cost. This product gets an A.
Cons: The touch pad is very sensitive so you have to be carefull when scrolling through menu and selecting options. There's a slight learning curve in order to adjust volume in the video mode and fast forward/rewind in the music mode. To delete files you have to attach the player to your computer. But with all this said it is still a wonderful product.