After the revelation that the most recent iPhone 7 leak was in fact a Meizu Pro 6, more renders of the phone have emerged giving slightly more details.
Renders of the Meizu Pro 6 released last night show more detail of the Pro 6 design. Unsurprisingly the Meizu Pro 6 looks fairly similar to the current Pro 5 with a typical Meizu metal body curved sides and those new antenna details on the rear.
The chin of the phone shows that the Meizu Mtouch fingerprint scanner remains a part of the Meizu package with the same oval shape as the current one.
Other than the new antenna the only other notable difference is the bezel design on the Pro 6. The images show a white faced phone with a screen that sits right up to the very sides of the phone. We don’t expect Meizu to opt for the black border of other phones, so we could be looking at a bezel-less design.
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The camera on the rear of the phone shows a large lens and single LED flash, but there isn’t a laser system for the focus.
Apparently the Meizu Pro 6 will be the first phone to use the Mediatek Helio X25, a chipset designed between Meizu and Mediatek and will remain a Meizu exclusive for the first few months after launch.
Meizu Pro 6 Specs
- Processor: 2.5GHz processor 10 core Helio X25
- Screen: 5.5 inches 1080P resolution display
- Memory: 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM
- Camera: Front 500-megapixel camera +2100 megapixel main camera
- Features: Pressure sensitive screen, 3D Touch function, mBack HOME key
Is this the Meizu Pro 6 you were expecting or were you hoping for something a little more? Let us know in the comments below.
Kinda funny that everybody is going with a home button and now Apple is rumored to finally dump it and go with under the cover glass fingerprint sensor.
Meizu could have done that too and maybe include a circle that lights up around it. Wouldn’t make the phone less bulky but would be closer to the old Meizu look.Maybe next year but if Apple does the exact same thing (no rumors on any lights),they would look like a clone.
Meizu had to stop using the round lightup circles as they where sued by ZTE/Nubia for patent reasons (Nubia phones apparently had that circle patented)
Yeah I was about to say that but now that’s not a circle maybe (even if I doubt that, it will be cool)
You can’t patent a circle, there is a lot more nuance to it.
You can patent a round circular fingerprint scanner which is what ZTE did and has won many judgements against others having a similar look.
It shouldn’t be possible to patent such trivial things. It is almost like Michelin would patent that their tires are round and now all other brands needs to make square tires.
It would be trivial if they had patented the concept of a home button, that would equate to your tire example. Michelin actually hundreds of patents on it’s tires for everything from the rubber compounds they use to the tread design.
I don’t know if ZTE has a patent for a circular, lighted fingerprint scanner, but the dispute in question was over the capacitive lighted circle only. Meizu first used it on the MX2 at the end of 2102 and actually beat ZTE / Nubia to market by a month or so. Meizu fans were even (unwittingly at the time) mocking the Nubia at launch. Interesting that Meizu also managed to release the MX3, MX4, M1, and M1 Note before the lighted circle was extinguished.
ZTE has two patents: Appearance Patent – the light up look. and a touch key module and mobile terminal patent – the functions of the home buttons. They are both tied in together.
I’m a little disappoint by the fact that it will have a MTK. Morever I’m not sure of the 21Mpx back camera knowing the fact that they want to do something different in that department as they said on the International Flyme Forum
MTK has good (maybe great) performance for the price but the Pro variant needs premium specs and Mediatek is clearly not but if the price is good maybe I’ll change my mind.
However do you think that Meizu will stop the MX series because the MX6 supposed to have a X20 (which is not that different from the X25) ?
So in your mind the X25 isn’t a premium chip regardless of how it performs? Is it because of the Mediatek name?
As for the MX i think it and the Meizu Metal will be merged into one phone and use a Helio P10. But wity Meizu you never know what they will do.
In both ways because, except if the X25 isn’t just an overclocked version of the X20, the specs are not that great. The X20 doesn’t support LPDDR4 and just support Cat.6 (although in many countries France for exemple, it’s the max category speed you can achieve).
To sum up it will provide great performance but not bleeding edge specs like other chipsets.
However if the phone is 50-100$ cheaper than the Pro 5 at launch, I will seriously consider it.
The X20 has very good specs. But the price of a phone is made up by a lot more than just a SoC, the SoC isn’t even the most expensive part of the phone, the display usually is. The price of the Pro 6 will probably be the same exact price as the Pro 5.
How you getting on with MX5 by the way @balcobomber25:disqus ? You running flyme 5? Hows the displays sunlight visibility? Any notification or gmail bugs? Thinking of buying one for a friend but torn between that and the Mi4C. Id rather go meizu as i’m a flyme fan. He’s coming from a an iphone 5s though so needs to perform well.
Coming from MIUI (previous phone was Mi4), I wasn’t sure what to expect with Flyme, I had heard good and bad things about it. After 8 months with the MX5 I still prefer MIUI but I do like Flyme alot. Sunlight display is terrible, a problem I find with most AMOLED displays. I don’t have any issues with notifications though and battery life/charging has been excellent with each new update. Currently I can get a solid 1.5 days with normal usage and it takes about 55 minutes to charge fully.
I am actually in the market for a new phone sooner than I thought. I dropped my MX5 onto concrete this weekend and the screen is shattered. I don’t like cases and the MX5 is kind of a slippery phone but it had survived hundreds of drops before so build quality isn’t an issue.
Cool, nice one. Are you running Flyme 5? Still torn between MX5 and Mi4C but since i own the mi4i i know what mi4c will be like, same basically just without the shockingly bad performance. I like the size but build is kind of average and plasticky. I expect MX5 will be better, just don’t want my friend to have any fuss really just something that works well. Think Flymes stock apps are better than MIUI, esp gallery.
Yea it’s Flyme 5.1.3
Cool, you flash it yourself? Or you running chinese firmware?
Look at floating point and integer in single core, excluding the memory score.After all the memory speed already has an impact on running those tasks.http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/5747466?baseline=5740637
vs the Exynos http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/5747480?baseline=5740637
The big question is how much it throttles.especially on the GPU side.
They updated it to Android 5.1 and there was a lot of bug fixes and optimization. My battery life has been better with each new update. The camera has gotten better.
Its price gonna be deciding factor of its fate. That specs make it successor of MX5 not Pro 5.
Meizu have one problem
He don’t use all features of CPU Helio x
Like Miravision and Clearmotion
And 480fps for video recording
just 1080p@30fps and 720p@99fps
I believe miravision is there. In fact, sometimes i use miravision on my m2 note. And it does works. Just use activities widget on nova launcher
and then there’s this from Twitter :
@OnLeaks: So,FAKE cause headphone jack on top while yesterday’s official pic by #MEIZU’s VP show it at the bottom ? #DebunkIt http://twitter.com/OnLeaks/status/710796885125152769/photo/1