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NEW PLAYER FROM TECLAST

This one looks promising
New Teclast M26 with touch screen and tv-out, with 2.6" touch screen (though images below appear bigger???)
Nice looking interface, hope it looks like that when its done

Available in black and white versions and uses the RK2706 and may use the same AMOLED screen as the M30, i would forget the m30 and go straight to this.

Do not know if mp4nation are still of the same opinion about Teclast player but it may be worth a look when it comes out

NO RELEASE DATE AS YET - so no hassling the Admin

but as ever treat this with a pinch of salt, many of these announcements show incorrect details and a mocked up user interface, so watch this space for what this player can really do and what it will really look like




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Check my picture :

But i didn't know it was with tv out.

now i remember where i saw this before, you posted this last time, that was ages ago though

so, was your test model a touch screen one like this then?

No,i didn't test it.The price was too high(much more than a vx747).I only know it will use glass resistive touch screen.I doubt it will use amoled.
Mine however was called M29,i guess it's the same model without TV out

EDIT
Another difference is the UI,the one i saw had icons like the Iphone,and in my opionion they are pretty ugly.I do hope this UI is official and not like the other UI that they usually show.

2.6" screen??? The screen on the first picture is definitely bigger than 2.6". Maybe it's 3.6" in 16:9 ratio... I've compared it with the screen size of my 301 and it's smaller than the M26's.

That is one messed up Photochop job there. Almost looks like they pasted over an iPhone...and that's definitely no 2.6" screen. Hopefully they'll tweak the "stting" before it goes into production. The M30 has a 2.8" screen, so no carryover there.

Still think the M30 is the way to go in Teclast's current line-up. No matter any drawbacks of the Rockchip & firmware, the sleek design & AMOLED are a pretty winning combination. It's also thinner than any other player sold on this website, if that feature happens to hold any attraction to anyone.

You said it yourself,the thickness doesn't attact anyone,i wonder why they still insist with this,it's much better a bigger battery.

i would defnately agree, i would also say to any of these announcements, do not believe what you see as they are usually just mock-ups.
The RAmos RM970 is a good example of pre production mockups, they had a great looking UI with album art etc and many are still peeved that the player looks NOTHING lke that image at all

besides all this i am getting really annoyed at the amount of players these companies are producing without what seems to be much thought at all. Almost all the big guys seem to be putting out new players every week, or at least new proposed players, onda, ramos, telast etc are all guilty of this, and each one with identical features and an added extra like bluetooth or tv-out
surely this practice is gonna evntually backfire on them, they dont seem to be thinking at all and are just desperate to get players out, rather than getting the design and features right and then letting the player mature. and yes i know, this is just the way the chinese do it for their market etc, but surely even the chinee market are gonna get wise soon and get pissed of like the rest of us

rant over - now lets smile and count how many new players are announced before the end of the month

yeah I agree 100%. This idea of releasing numerous players with poor firmware, instead of foucussing on improving a few select models, seems like a very bad strategy to me. I was very dissapointed after seeing the original Renders for the RM970, then reviewing it and seeing the awful looking glitchy firmware. These renders are so misleading. As has already been mentioned, the screen on the above M26 render is a lot bigger than 2.6 inches. I doubt the GUI will looking anything like that either. Apart form Meizu one of the only companies I have seen that focusses on improving a few models is SmartQ. My T5 has improved so much since I got it. However they released a pre release V2.0 firmware which really makes the interface look a whole lot better and added loads of functionality (although still has bugs), but they now seem to have stopped updating the original T5 after the T5 II release. I hope it is just because they are currently focussing on fixing the T5 II problems and they will resume continued firmware updates for the original T5 once they have ironed out some of the T5 II problems. This strategy does seem strange to me though as I hear Meizu are very popular in China, so their strategy of improvement and refinement rather than constantly releasing new models seems to be working, why would other companies not follow their lead? Seems a real shame to me to see so much nice hardware with rubbish firmware, a trend which unfortunately is far to common with Chinese players. Sometimes I feel that buying many of these Chinese players is like buying a nice new puzzle......opening the box up........and then finding out it only comes with half the pieces or that half the pieces don't even fit properly!

The answer is : LONG TERM INVESTMENST.
Chinese don't like this kind of risks,and they prefer this safer and lamer way.Most of them want big money without much hassle.
It's enough to say,that a chinese friend of mine losed much money because she played with stocks because this was the only way to make money fast ....
I couldn't believe it when I heard it.
Developing a player like you say,involve much money and you only know the result after long time,while you can stop a player that don't sell well immedialty
if you didn't invest much on it(see the ramos v80).
Combine it with the poor tech knowledge of 99.99% of chinese factories,and you will understand it's not possible.

Yup the Chinese way is to make a quick buck and not look at a long run plan, they don't want to invest any money is R&D or even staff that know much about what they are selling, can be quite frustrating. Meizu is pretty much the only one that is looking at the long run, but as you can see it takes them forever to release a new player.

Then again you have to feel for a company like Meizu and most Chinese firms that do try to be innovative, its very hard for them to retain talent, once a company starts producing something innovative, the companys entire R&D will be recruited out to a bigger (most likely Western) company.

It will be interesting to see if the firmware actually looks anything like what Teclast shows in their pictures.

@00christian00: Have you played around with the sample yet? Any good? or is that a photo that the factory had sent you?

This was another model,the m29 and i didn't want to try it because i didn't like the interface and the price,the factory sent me the picture.
They said m26 is not gonna be out until after the hk fair,around mid april.
I asked about T50,and it seem there is still a long way before it come out.

Some new picture in more colors:
http://translate.google.com/translate?s ... 661%2ehtml

i really am curious to how this player will perform and if the ui will actually look anything like what they are advertising

Well i didn't get to play with the M26 at the trade show in Hong Kong today, i did get to play with the the M29, and i agree with you Christian, the UI was not very nice looking, definitely nothing looking anything similar to that of the M26 we have pictured.

I did like the touch flow they had, you could flick through you list of music, much like the IPT, the person did try to demonstrate some sort of multi touch with the image viewer....either he was doing it wrong, or the multitouch still needed some work. Video and audio played good, no complaints there. I did like how the touch flow work,l but man, the UI was pretty fugly.

I had originally thought these people showing me the stuff were the makers of Teclast products, we have previously always bought from a distributor. So i was pretty proud for finding these guys, of course this pride went down the flusher, when i went into the next aisle in the trade show and saw about 5 other booths with the same players all claiming to be the guys that made the players for Teclast - anyways all of them were rebranders, but did get to play a fun game of 'Whos gonna give Raz the best price', haha.

But (and this is where we find the world is a very small place), on the bus ride back to Hong Kong main island, i was sitting next to gentlemen and his collegue behind me, i was browsing some of the catalogs i had picked up and then i got a tap on my sholder, and someone asking me for my business card. They then told me they were the actual makers of the Teclast players, i thought geez, here we go again, anyways Christian, it ended up being Ivy and her manager. I figured quickly they were the real deal, of all the people, whats the chances that i would sit next to them on my way back, haha.

BTW Christian, i said i knew a person in Italy that buys from them and runs Pasen, a very big smile crossed Ivys face and one of the first things she said 'Christian, very handsome man', haha

Small damm world.

That's a very nice way to met the guys! but not so nice the UI of the M29 is so bad, but we still have the M26. In a strange way it look Teclast comes with players almost the same, but one that's looking good and the other makes no sece of being there....