News:Meizu App Center reaches 200 million downloads milestone

Meizu has just announced their own App Center has passed the 200 million downloads mark. This happens only three months after the 100 million milestone was reached.

The Meizu App Center is available on all the latest Meizu smartphones including the MX and MX quad-core.

Both the Meizu MX and MX quad-core are already running on Android 4.0 ICS-based operating systems, but since most of their sales are in China, they don’t have access to the Google Play Store. It seems though, that Meizu’s own store is quite attractive for the users and at least partially makes up for that.

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[ROM]Stock Android 4.0 Beta (V1037) for the Meizu MX and M9

Not too many people around these parts are familiar with the name Meizu. Despite making highly popular flagship devices for the China and Hong Kong markets, they haven’t stirred up too much commotion in other parts of the world. This is unfortunate, however, as their flagship MX and upcoming quad-core MX pack some seriously high end hardware.

Normally their devices don a heavily skinned version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread dubbed “Flyme OS.” Luckily for power users, however, this ICS beta update comes in vanilla flavor instead. Going forward, Carl Pei of Meizu (XDA Forum Member caarl) informs me that Meizu plans on releasing joint updates—one with Flyme, one without—so users can choose which they would prefer. Now wouldn’t it be nice if HTC and Samsung could follow suit with Sense and TouchWiz by making them optional?

Official Release Statement:

MEIZU has today released a public beta testing version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the MEIZU MX and M9. The newly released firmware will be based on stock Android 4.0 without any customizations.

The Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade brings an entirely new look and feel to Android on MEIZU MX and M9, with a redesigned user interface as well as new design and usage concepts.

Prior to the public beta testing, MEIZU launched a private beta testing program for Android 4.0, which began mid-February for the MEIZU M9. During the private beta, users were amazed at the speed and responsiveness of the testing firmware. The newly released public beta firmware brings many bug fixes and also the support for MEIZU’s flagship device, the MX.

With the release of the public beta testing stock Android firmware, the company continues supporting the MEIZU M9, a device that has been on the market for more than a year. By doing so, MEIZU once again displays its focused commitment to the user experience and satisfaction of its many customers and fans.

The ICS beta firmware is available as of today for the MEIZU MX and M9.

MX Firmware Official Link: Mirror A | Mirror B - (MD5: 62cab4c71f2f584eb6a361bb49db0024)
M9 Firmware Official Link: Mirror A | Mirror B - (MD5: ccd08891ace5de80e9690c24c21b72c1)

[Official release thread on Meizu Forums]

Mirrors courtesy of Meizume Administrator nice2know_u:
MX: Mediafire
M9: Media Fire
Installation is a breeze. Simply copy the update.bin files to your device, turn off your device, hold down Volume UP + Power, and follow the prompts.

For this particular installation, you may have massive force close issues if you don't clear your data prior to updating. This is due to going from a heavily-skinned 2.x to a bone-stock 4.0. Just be sure to wipe data, but back everything up beforehand.
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Android ICS 4.0 Coming To Meizu M9 March Beta Testing In the Works

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When the Meizu MX launched at the beginning of this year, Meizu M9 owners started to panic at the prospect of drop support for their first generation Meizu Android devices, but Meizu have made it clear they are planning to support the M9 for a little longer and are currently testing ICS on the smartphone.

The Meizu M9 runs a 1GHz CPU with a very attractive HD touchscreen, so it would have been a real shame if Meizu had decided not to port Ice-cream Sandwich to the phone.

According to beta testing, and the video below, Android 4.0 runs very well on the slightly dated hardware of the M9, however there are reports that ICS drains the battery a little faster than normal!

Meizu M9 Running ICS video

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