Full Meizu 2016 product roadmap divulged, Pro 6 prices included

After its best year on record in terms of smartphone shipments, China-based OEM Meizu was the protagonist of a fairly awkward unauthorized US distribution situation last month, then an even weirder but also amusing leak episode last week.You don’t often see company executives disprove exposés claiming to be of the competition, and therefore unwillingly confirm the ...

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New Meizu Pro 6 pics surface – and it’s still not an iPhone

Back at the start of the week, Meizu’s Pro 6 was already shaping up to be a pretty impressive handset, as rumors suggested the phone would end up with 6GB of RAM, up to 128GB storage, a pressure-sensitive touch panel, and a top-of-the-line Exynos 8890 SoC – not too shabby any way you cut it. But then all of a sudden the Pro 6 found itself in a spotlight for a very different reason: a leaked pic of the smartphone started making the rounds …

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Meizu busts our leaked-iPhone-7-pic bubble: that’s one of our phones

Ever since word first broke on Monday that the next iPhone was likely to see a big change to the layout of the antenna stripes on its back, we’ve been itching to check out the new design on actual hardware. First one image showed up, purporting to be a hands-on pic of just such a phone, but we had questions about its legitimacy. Then yesterday

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MediaTek Helio X20 out in products next month, Helio X25 in Meizu Pro 6

While Qualcomm prefers to take a step back from the processor arms race, Taiwan’s MediaTek is taking two steps forward.It not only announced that the first smartphones with its tri-cluster, deca-core Helio X20 chipset are almost ready to go, but another Chinese hardware partner is set to take up an even more advanced SoC that the chipmaker didn’t even announce.MediaTek took to a stage in Shenzhen to ...

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Meizu PRO 6 rumored to go after Vivo Xplay 5 with 6GB RAM… someday

Samsung’s reluctance to upgrade its flagship smartphones in the memory department beyond 4GB, as well as every high-profile OEM’s commitment to Full or Quad HD displays, including Sony, will no doubt be taken by many as conclusive proof this has finally stopped being a numbers game.But you’ll always have lesser known manufacturers trying to make a name ...

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Meizu PRO 6 prototype leaked with possible Force Touch support

“You have your PRO 5, I have my PRO 6.”So starts the tale of a Meizu forums user who apparently struck gold while out to dinner. Apparently after striking up a conversation with a young man, that man decided to sell something that would seem to be a Meizu PRO 6 prototype for about $15.

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