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Remember Meizu's hole-less "Zero" phone993 Archives The one we found hidden on one of the stands of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, sad, forgotten and label-less?

Well, it looks like Meizu doesn't want you to remember. The crowdsourcing campaign for the Zero failed, never having reached even half of its $100,000 goal. And answering a query about the campaign on Meizu's official forums (via Engadget), company CEO Jack Wong essentially said the Zero will never see the light of day.

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"This crowdfunding is carried out by the marketing department," Wong wrote, calling the phone a "pre-research project."

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"We never intended to mass-produce this project," he wrote.

That's a bit of an odd thing to say about a phone for which the company had launched an actual crowdsourcing campaign (we hope all backers get their money back), but at least we can appreciate the man's honesty.

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I've had some hands-on time with the Zero and it wasn't actually that bad (though I didn't get to test many of the phone's supposed tech breakthroughs, like ultra-fast charging).

But the exorbitant $1,299 starting price, coupled with the fact that the lack of any ports, while visually pleasing, isn't exactly an advantage, made the Zero a recipe for failure.

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