Meizu is one of China’s top ten smartphone vendors, according to some market reports, and while retaining its skepticism about a large-scale US expansion, as well as showing no interest in following Huawei or Xiaomi’s suit with PC releases, it’s dead set on branching out into wearables and VR hardware before long.In ...
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How could Apple possibly compete against the likes of Xiaomi, LeEco or Meizu in markets where mobile consumers don’t care so much about brand recognition and marketing when you’ve got an onslaught of Android-powered iPhone rivals available twice or even three times as cheap as the SE?And no, the Meizu M3E, incorrectly referred to as ...
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Meizu has another phone planned. No, it’s not going to be a PRO, it’s not going to be an MX, but rather, it’s this “E” phone. What’s a new letter to us? It’s more unique than what we’ve seen from the Chinese manufacturer in a while.The Meizu M1E has been leaked to be an
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The Meizu PRO 6 still feels just about new and it doesn’t seem fair to talk about its successor right now, but the vice president of the company is talking and he’s talking processor power.In a group chat, Li Nan said that the PRO 7 would not be using an Exynos 8890 processor because the ...
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In confirming curved screen smartphones could appear on its product roadmap somewhere down the line and denying laptop entry plans, but dodging questions about an interest in wearable devices, Meizu practically betrayed an imminent smartwatch announcement.It seems this might take place as soon as August 10, i.e. a little over a week after the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 “unpacking” and well ahead of the ...
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Like most self-respecting Android device manufacturers, Meizu has been splitting its high-end models in two separate families for a while now, with Pro-series phones sitting a tier above the MX roster on the mobile hardware totem pole.But it’s getting harder and harder to tell which is which, given the just-announced Meizu MX6 sports a larger display and heftier battery than the April-unveiled Pro 6. It doesn’t help that the two went official so close in time either, or that they share a common ...
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Meizu’s MX line frequently plays second fiddle to its PRO series, but the company isn’t interested in keeping the MX6 far of reach from the PRO 6. A company co-founder hinted at some spec sharing, now we get to see some design sharing in action.That’s if you trust these unofficial renders which have been on Chinese social media. Hey, we don’t blame you if you don’t. We’ll just ...
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Want to know what’s hot? The sun. Fire. Takes. Hot takes.What else seems to be hot for the Chinese developers behind benchmarking app AnTuTu are smartphones and plenty of them. So, the team over there has decided to compile a list of the ten most popular smartphones benchmarked on its app in the first half of the year.Here’s the big view for some major geographies:PopularityGlobalChinaKoreaUS1Samsung Galaxy Note 5Redmi ...
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Meizu is feeling the pressure to give a good whack at its mid-range flagship this season, especially with the bang-up job it supposedly did with the PRO 6. And one co-founder is opening up to those challenges.Bai Yongxiang has posted to his Weibo account that the company is doing its best to export as much power as possible from the PRO 6 to the MX6.“Costs and prices will increase, but I believe there will be nothing like it in terms of craftsmanship in the ¥2,000 range ...
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After many years of drawn-out, highly publicized legal battles between tech companies as diverse and influential as Apple, Samsung, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Huawei and HTC, the patent wars seemed to slowly blow over lately.But that’s not stopping semiconductor giant Qualcomm from filing a complaint against a smaller, on-the-rise smartphone manufacturer in the Beijing Intellectual Property Court. China-based Meizu, which is on the verge of a
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How serious and dangerous is China’s offensive on Korean and Western mobile hardware brands? Extremely, according to research conducted between January and March by IC Insights, which predictably positioned Samsung and Apple atop the smartphone manufacturer hierarchy, only followed by a flurry of handheld vendors based in the Middle Kingdom.Huawei naturally won bronze during Q1 ...
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We can safely say that if you’re a big fan of cheap smartphones, your money isn’t safe, however little of it you have. Sure, you could go for a BLU phone or strain the value knuckles with a Lenovo Blade. And then, there’s the Meizu ...
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A quick follow-up to our story yesterday about Xiaomi topping the market share pie chart in China — apparently, one chart doesn’t tell the whole story. An OPPO representative clarified to us that while Xiaomi did take a win in Sino Research’s April report, OPPO got another one.Xiaomi led the market in online-based sales while OPPO had the most offline sales for the month.Here’s how those numbers stack up:OEMShare ...
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Meizu’s been soaking in more coverage recently with its PRO 6 smartphone (that still hasn’t actually gone to market just yet) and has a lot of buzz about for its next premium smartphone, too.Let’s talk, though, about the value-bombing MX-series that should be arriving sometime — anytime — in the
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