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Meizu's $1300 'Zero' Smartphone With No Ports Got Just 29 Pre-orders on Indiegogo (androidpolice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the no-thank-you dept.

Chinese smartphone maker Meizu generated some headlines in January after it unveiled Zero, a $1300 smartphone that doesn't have a headphone jack, or a charging port, or a physical SIM card slot, or any buttons, or a speaker grill. The company said it would make the phone available to consumers via Indiegogo crowdfunding platform. Well, the market has spoken. AndroidPolice: Meizu set itself an eminently reasonably bar for the campaign, too, at $100,000. That may sound like a fair bit of cash, but Meizu would only have had to sell 77 phones in order to meet this goal. It managed just 29. It's unclear how many of those were Meizu employees, other than to say "not enough."

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  1. It was very brave of them to remove all ports by GrumpySteen · · Score: 5, Funny

    So brave that they crossed the thin line between bravery and stupidity, in fact.

    1. Re:It was very brave of them to remove all ports by sinij · · Score: 3, Funny

      If it doesn't have a DB-25 parallel port, I am not touching it.

      Get off my lawn.

    2. Re:It was very brave of them to remove all ports by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

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