Upcoming Meizu flagship to feature the same processor as the Galaxy S6, claims analyst

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

The Meizu MX5 launched at the end of June but don’t expect to see an Mx5 Pro; according to the company’s VP, Li Nan, there will be no MX5 Pro this year, as the company aims to become a more important player on the market, thus shifting its focus on a new high-end smartphone family.One Meizu flagship smartphone from said high-end family of products could use Samsung’s Exynos 7420 SoC, according to analyst Pan Jiutang. The Exynos 7420 is Samsung’s own system on a chip that is powering the ...

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Meizu M2 announced with decent specs for less than $100

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

What can you buy for $96 now a days? If you’re thinking about smartphones, the most that’ll get you is a cheap Lumia, or a very cheap-looking Android phone in some cases. That last thing you’d expect to buy with it is a full-fledged smartphone that could give the Moto G a run for its money, but that’s exactly what Meizu just did.Meizu has just announced its M2, a smaller sibling to the existing Meizu M2 ...

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Will we see a Nokia-Meizu partnership?

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

Nokia yesterday announced its plans to re-enter the smartphone business and the Finnish company said it was looking for a partner, as the way Nokia wants to get back in the game is via licensing. There were no additional details shared, but it looks like there might be something going on between the company and another OEM, as a Nokia-Meizu partnership could be a possibility at this point.Meizu’s official Weibo account posted a “welcome back Nokia” message, alongside another teaser ...

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Meizu MX5 launches as company’s latest affordable flagship

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Today’s shaping up to be a big one for Chinese smartphone manufacturers. We just saw Huawei go official with its new Honor 7, and now it’s time for Meizu to introduce its own new handset, as the company goes official with the MX5.We’ve been following rumors of this guy for months now, hearing about things to expect like the presence of a fingerprint scanner. That scanner’s indeed present (and boasts 0.48s scan times), joined by hardware like a 5.5-inch 1080p OLED ...

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Meizu MX4 gets a software overhaul, becomes the next Ubuntu smartphone

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Canonical is on a roll this month. We started June off learning about the second commercial Ubuntu-running smartphone, another effort with Spain’s BQ, which also made the first Ubuntu phone earlier this year. But long before this BQ hardware ever arrived, we were talking about Meizu. Canonical confirmed the manufacturer would ...

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Potential Meizu MX5 Pro pictured as MX5’s six-inch big brother

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

For the past few weeks now, the upcoming Meizu smartphone you’ve been most likely to hear about has been the MX5, with early leaks and feature rumors giving way to a possible video hands-on. But the MX5 may not arrive by itself, and this evening we turn our attention to what might be the very first evidence for a slightly larger sibling, the MX5 Pro.All we have to go for the moment is the suggestion that the MX5 Pro will get a six-inch screen and the pair of images you see here, ...

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Affordable Meizu M1 Note Mini tipped for launch later this month

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Arguably the busiest markets for smartphones right now are those in Southeast Asia, where the fortunes of companies are made and lost over their abilities to capture the buying power of shoppers faced with an increasingly attractive array of options. That’s meant a lot of very affordable hardware, and some of it relatively high-spec. Companies like Meizu have managed to do quite well for themselves in this space, and late last month we saw the company introduce its latest handset, the M1 Note. The very ...

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Meizu M1 Note is everything the iPhone 5c should’ve been

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Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5c last year was met with significant complaints and disappointment. Surely, there wasn’t anything that was really wrong with the smartphone as it was, but the fact that it was priced too high made people ignore it and focus on the iPhone 5s at the time. Today Meizu has launched a new smartphone that looks a lot like the iPhone 5c, but fixing some of its quirks.The new Meizu M1 Note is so ...

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Ubuntu-running Meizu smartphone gets an ETA

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Canonical has not had the easiest time breaking into the smartphone market, maybe most publicly failing as it attempted to crowdfund the Ubuntu Edge handset. But even with the dreams of Canonical’s own Ubuntu phone on ice, we had hope that other manufacturers might arrive to bring the platform to market, and earlier this year heard about plans to do just that with the help of OEMs like Meizu. Thing is, we haven’t seen ...

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Meizu goes 2K with MX4 Pro, arriving for sale next month

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Back in early September we saw pre-orders open for the Meizu MX4, a 5.36-inch Android-based handset (Meizu’s Flyme OS) with a 1920 x 1152 resolution (we know: weird), octa-core MediaTek SoC, and 20.7MP Sony camera. Solid enough, sure, but quite a bit short of a bleeding-edge spec powerhouse. Just a couple months later, Meizu is already looking to outdo itself, and this week has revealed its latest flagship, the MX4 Pro.The MX4 Pro shares quite a bit with its predecessor, while also making some ...

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Meizu’s new MX4 brings an aluminum finish to some flagship specs

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We’ve been following Meizu’s MX4 for the last couple of weeks, and there’s actually a reason for that. If you thought Apple and HTC are the only companies that know how to pull of a hot aluminum phone, think again. The Meizu MX4 was rumored to bring one of the most amazing screen-to-body ratios of the market, and the company has delivered.Today the Meizu MX4 goes on pre-order in China, and the spec sheet is rather impressive for a market that prefers mid tiered phones. The MX4 sports a ...

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Meizu MX4 leak shows off some stupid-thin bezels

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Smartphone manufacturers continue to push engineering limits towards the elimination of side bezels for their handsets’ screens. Some of them gave it the old college try, only to run up against seemingly unavoidable physical limitations, like LG with its flagship G3. Some of them might just conquer bezels entirely, like we’ve heard

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Canonical reveals companies behind first Ubuntu smartphones

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Last year’s failed campaign to crowdfund a Canonical-made Ubuntu smartphone left a vacuum of sorts in the company’s plans to present Ubuntu for phones as a viable mobile platform. Sure, we’ve seen the release of installation packages for certain Nexus-series devices, but if this project was ever to get off the ground, it needed some phones of its own. Late last year, Canonical confirmed that one OEM had signed-on to produce Ubuntu handsets, and last month we heard that

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Will Meizu deliver the first Ubuntu phone? OS spotted on MX3

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

If 2013 was the year we saw the arrival of Ubuntu software for smartphones, 2014 will be the year we get some proper Ubuntu hardware. After first getting confirmation that at least one high-end Ubuntu phone was in the works, we recently heard from the company that it’s talking to a number of additional OEMs, potentially setting the stage for the release of multiple Ubuntu-running handsets in the months to come. But just who would be creating this ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 077: countdown to CES 2014!

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Technology trade shows are often a breeding ground for plague and disease, so here at Pocketnow we opted to inoculate ourselves early … by picking up some crazy wintertime head colds just days before flying to Vegas for the 2014 International CES. That’s right: on the first podcast of the year, all three of your humble hosts are suffering from respiratory distress and an overabundance of mucus, all of it glazed over with enough combined medication to drop a Snapdragon dead in its tracks. Or something. On the ...

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