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

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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Re:Apple will release one

[Anonymous Coward]

A pet rock would sell millions, if it ran iOS and addicted low-esteem faggots could Facebook on it.

Re: Not very brave at all

[rtb61]

I always use the socket, because I bought one pair of earphones and have never lost them, it's the cable, even when they fall out of your ear, they kind of just hang there and do not fall on the ground. Tell me, how many of your stick that earphone back in your ear after it falls on the ground, and the oil from your earth, pick up all the dog and bird shite and you whack that crap right back in your ear. Which is more convenient for ear phones, blue tooth or the cable often with a switch and mic on it, to change tracks, turn it off and make a call and turn it back on again, that cable does far more than just connect the earphones, it keeps them together, stops them falling on the ground and controls them very effectively and you can charge your phone while using them and they never ever need recharging.