We’ve barely had time to digest the fact that real, actual, honest-to-goodness Meizu M8s are now available at the odd retail outlet around the globe, and Meizu’s famously colorful CEO is already spouting off about a successor. Talk about a buzzkill, eh? Jack Wong made an off-the-cuff remark in a forum post today about the M9 in two flavors — M9c for CDMA networks and M9t for China’s 3G TD-SCDMA networks — but beyond that, he’s said nothing about specs or availability. Odds are, we can expect a good 18-24 months of teasers, missed launches, and brushes with vaporware status before either model actually launches, so if you had your heart set on an M8, seriously, don’t feel bad about taking the plunge.

Outfits like Nokia have been just rolling in profits from selling oodles of low margin handsets in developing nations across the globe, so it’s no shock at all to hear that those very countries have propelled the worldwide usage tally well above the 50 percent mark. According to a wide-ranging United Nations report, around six in ten people across the globe now use mobile phones, and as expected, fixed line subscriptions have increased at a much slower pace. If you’re wondering just how significant this figure really is, chew on this: in 2002, just under 15 percent of the global population used a cellie. Impressive, eh?

Better shots and rumored specs have emerged of that mysterious Moto slate we saw a few days back, and if this all checks out, it’s pretty much exactly what Motorola needs to be doing to earn the gadget-loving world’s respect and admiration right now — but there are a few holes in the story that have us concerned. First off, it’s alleged that this monster is going to be called the Touch ZINE HD, and considering the phone’s uncanny resemblance to HTC’s Touch HD, the name seems a little too close for comfort. Secondly, it’s said that it’ll do 1080p video playback via HDMI, but the collection of leaked images shows the phone connected to a composite RCA cable, which isn’t gonna cut it for 1080p — and we’re not buying that the display itself is going to be capable of that kind of resolution. That all being said, let’s suspend reality for just a moment and enjoy this list of monstrous specs: Android, Tegra, 5 megapixel cam with HD video, and 16GB of onboard storage. Moto, let’s put it this way: if this isn’t real, can whatever it is you’re working on right this second and do precisely this instead.

Better shots and rumored specs have emerged of that mysterious Moto slate we saw a few days back, and if this all checks out, it’s pretty much exactly what Motorola needs to be doing to earn the gadget-loving world’s respect and admiration right now — but there are a few holes in the story that have us concerned. First off, it’s alleged that this monster is going to be called the Touch ZINE HD, and considering the phone’s uncanny resemblance to HTC’s Touch HD, the name seems a little too close for comfort. Secondly, it’s said that it’ll do 1080p video playback via HDMI, but the collection of leaked images shows the phone connected to a composite RCA cable, which isn’t gonna cut it for 1080p — and we’re not buying that the display itself is going to be capable of that kind of resolution. That all being said, let’s suspend reality for just a moment and enjoy this list of monstrous specs: Android, Tegra, 5 megapixel cam with HD video, and 16GB of onboard storage. Moto, let’s put it this way: if this isn’t real, can whatever it is you’re working on right this second and do precisely this instead.