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.
Gizchina News of the week
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.
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
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….”
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.
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.