Although its the Chinese New Year, there are still some breaking stories such as the possible network approval of the Meizu MX6.
Meizu were once a brand that stuck to just one flagship launch each year, but the past 2 years they have switched gears and worked on growing the range by launching more and more models.
Last year saw the release of the Meizu M2, M2 Note, Metal, MX5 and Pro 5 phones, that’s already quite a few, but Meizu might be on the verge of launching another new flagship.
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According to reports in China today, the new phone will be a replacement for the current MX5 and will boasts a Mediatek Helio X20 chipset. The phone is likely the Meizu MX6 and is referred to in official Chinese documents as the Meizu M681Q.
From earlier leaks the Meizu MX6 will feature the new 10 core Mediatek chipset, full HD 1920 x1080 display, 3GB RAM and Flyme based on Android 6.0. Mediatek are building up to full production capacity of the Helio X20 over the coming weeks, so don’t be surprised to see the Meizu MX6 officially launch very soon.
Be interested to see how this matches up to the Mi5. I have been pleasantly surprised over the 6 months I used the MX5 but it’s going to take something exceptional to keep me way from Xiaomi this year. I love this time of year! Can’t wait to hear all about the new phones.
My favorite time of year too Balco 🙂
You still using the Mi5 then?
I still use the MX5, most of the time a phone doesn’t make six months with me. But I have liked this phone a lot. But my heart lies with Xiaomi.
Boooo!! Meizu all the way!!!!
I have actually enjoyed my time with Flyme and if the MX6 blows me away I could very well stick with Meizu. But I’m leaning more towards Mi5.
We all know you’ll try to steal mi5 from the stand at mwc before the presentation conference ?
LOL. As of right now I have about 2 hours of free time at MWC. The rest I am involved in closed doors meetings with our partners. I don’t even get to experience much of the actual show.
I am confused, you work for MS but use an MX5?!
Yup. I also use Ubuntu and OSX on my two laptops. Just because I work for MS doesn’t mean I am in love with all of their products.
This is a real problem
LOL.
Why would you use a phone for development that will never officially support MS apps. China phones shouldn’t even be of interest.
Chinese phones don’t support Google Play in China, but outside of that many of them either ship with Google Play or have ways to get it. And most Chinese brands these days are being sold officially in countries outside of China, including India which is now the second largest cell phone market in the world. But our Android apps are also available on many of the popular app stores in China
Most of MS devs are in India so they would test it there. Sounds fishy to ship it to some guy in the US were it will never be.
What on earth are you talking about? We have dev’s all over the world in about 85 countries. Microsoft Mobile itself is based in Finland. I work at a Microsoft Research Lab which is the US, one of 8 research labs that exists. Our Lab is focused heavily on online technology and app production. And our apps are used in over 200 countries around the world, not just India lol.
Good, you’ve got the right alibi! ?
“It wasn;t meet who stole the Mi5, I was in meetings….”
That’s the spirit! ?
Mi5 will be VERY hard to beat
For me it will all come down to battery and camera.
Why Xiaomi?
Always been my favorite company. Only company in this industry I am a fanboy of.
Yep same here I am a big Xiaomi fan and I am very much looking forward Mi5
You dirty fanboy!
Very dirty when it comes to Xiaomi 😉 😉
The more it goes and the more I’m into this new Redmi Note 3.
It’s snappy like hell, doesn’t overheat (it runs colder than the MI4) and the camera is very good (I wonder what sensor they use)
Icing on the cake…SD card slot.
The camera sensor is a Samsung ISOCELL S5K3P3 to be precise. Some the S6’s used that sensor, the others used the Sony IMX 240.
Thanks bud.
I’m expecting them selling like crazy this year, between this that can sell in India, the Redmi 3 and the new MI5 it’s going to be epic.
If they open to a couple more if markets they might take the spot of Lenovo/Moto on the worldwide rank
I think this year they will finally enter/expan countries like Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil, Russia and Turkey.
Let’s who wins me over Xiaomi or Meizu?
Xiaomi will probably win because they are a much larger company. Xiaomi will sell almost as many Redmi 3’s as Meizu will sell all of their models.
Now meizu, please, don’t make the same mistake twice… No meizu metal 2 this year, just a mx6 at a low price and a pro 6 at an higher price… You know the competitors will use the x20 on budget phones: go ahead and make the first x20 budget phone, instead of pricing it like a flagship and then make a similar device with a lower price “because letv and xiaomi made so”!
I think there should be a Metal 2 but with a Helios P10.
Mmm probably you’re right, there can be either a metal version of m3/m3 note or they could be made of metal right from the start… Obviously, with “no meizu metal” i meant “no phones similar to mx6 but with a significant lower price”: i found the move overly irrespective for customers last year!
I didn’t really have an issue with it, they were reacting to the market. When Xiaomi released the Redmi Note with X10 that completely threw the market off center. They kind of had no choice.
While I agree about the note 2, I think they had a choice: cut the price of mx5 and offer some kind of refund (like their costy earphones) to previous customers… Probably many didn’t mind about the release of the metal, but I still find they didn’t show the due respect to customers: xiaomi did a trade off with the aging mi2s and meizu couldn’t find anything better than this?!
They couldn’t realistically cut the price of the MX5 to match the Note. A lot of their partners (distributors, resellers) would lose a lot of money if that happened. At the same time the MX5 is most likely more expensive to build than the Note is, meaning Meizu would lose money. The MX5 isn’t any less of a good phone because the Metal came out.
Fair enough, but they recently cut the price to 1399 yuan, meaning they could indeed cut the price to something similar to the competitors (obviously not at the same exact level, but somewhere close)
They cut it now because they want to clear out stock because the MX6 is about to drop soon.
Design looks interesting