Meizu’s Jack Wong had promised us 4 Meizu devices and the 3rd appears to be about ready to go on sale after showing up on GFX Bench flexing its affordable muscles.
Meizu have changed a great deal this year. First they have launched more than one product and their prices have been more competitive than ever. Still Xiaomi do have the more affordable Redmi, and Meizu plan to take a crack at it too!
The next Meizu phone looks like it is aimed squarely at the Redmi and Huawei Honor series and has slipped on to GFX Bench with a 5-inch display, 64Bit Mediatek MT6752 chipset, 2GB RAM, 16GB RAM and Mali T760. Not bad at all for an entry-level phone.
The details also state a resolution of 1920 x 1080 which could mean that Meizu are using a more common screen ratio for this new phone. Other details aren’t mentioned such as what cameras the phone supports and the battery size.
A launch date is rumoured to be before Christmas with a price of around 1300 Yuan or less.
Finally, a true backup phone. Waiting for availability.
1300 CNY would be way way too much. This one would have to be 699-899, bellow that it’s rather hard and above too much.
I believe FHD phone from Meizu, 64 bits and with the rest of specs will go at least near 1000 CNY. 999 CNY to be more precise 😉
With these specs, around 1000-1200 yuan should still be ok. Where can you find a phone with MT6752 chipset, 2GB RAM, 16GB ROM and a full HD screen around 700-900 yuan.
4.6 inch is too small for me, but if the price is good I will consider buying it.
A53 cores are replacing A7, it’s an evolution ,they don’t offer that much. The entire industry will shift from A7 to A53.
Screens are getting cheaper, 1080p is the new 720p and this one is small.They can’t be competitive by pricing it above a 5.5 inch 720p phone with similar specs and you can find plenty of those at 899-999.
A reasonable Redmi 2 would be 5 inch 1080pm quad A53 with 2GB RAM at 699, anything less is too little. Sure this Meizu has 16GB of NAND and who knows maybe 21MP cam but it’s also small and would be a hard sell against such a Redmi 2.Then 5.5 inch-6 inch 1080p will go bellow 1000CNY in the next year.How fast that transition will be depends on when the big players go for it. If Xiaomi does a Noite 2 in january with such specs, everybody will have to follow but maybe they do it 6 months later or more.