Recently it sounds like Meizu might finally be killing of the MX range, and instead may launch a new Pro model instead!
This past few days we have seen images of an Ubuntu powered MX6 phone which showed a device similar to the Pro 6 but with the Linux based Ubuntu system instead, but perhaps this phone may never be launched.
Apparently Meizu bosses aren’t very pleased with the current MX6 design, which is said to be around 7.55mm thick, and are even considering to drop the phone and the MX range all together.
This news is going to be a bit of a blow to die hard Meizu fans who have followed the brand since their early Android models and the first MX phone, but it does make sense.
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Recent Meizu phones have tended to overlap in the range and with the MX6 spec rumoured to be close to the current Pro 6 it seems odd to offer both. Instead what might happen is a new Pro range phone could be developed in its place.
To add fuel to the Pro 7 fire, the above images of the phone have been posted on Chinese forums showing a glossy rear panel and curved display. The appearance is much more upmarket to current Meizu phones, and is almost Samsung like in design.
No wording on what specs the Pro 7 might offer in terms of hardware, and what might finally happen to the MX range have been offered yet.
“Recent Meizu phones have tended to overlap in the range and with the MX6 spec rumoured to be close to the current Pro 6 it seems odd to offer both.”
So they made a “pro” model with nothing “pro” aboard and decided that the most convenient way to make it shine was to delete the mx range… That’s dumb!
i agree bro … MX was the STAR of the Meizu brand. it signified an outrageously AFFORDABLE option of an array of flagship-level (or EVEN BETTER) all unified in a single , yet somewhat complete package.
sadly , what Meizu does NOT realise is , that while its busy digging the MX’s grave, its inadvertently ALSO digging its OWN grave !
Affordable translated as cheap price = low profit.
Meaning Vendor need to sell more qty to get a significance profit.
See Xiaomi for example, they sell how many millions unit of cheap Redmi series smartphones, i am quite sure in the end they can earn noticeable profit by selling in those model in very high volume qty.
Selling pro version with higher price can guarantee higher profit for the vendor per unit. But under assumption they can sell enough qty to generate enough profit.
But again somehow the theory above doesn’t apply to Apple and samsung. They sell at huge expensive price and somehow people still buying like crazy. That’s the best in business. High price high Volume = Very high profit. As long as they still got their hardcore fanboys buying, they will still do their selling practice like this forever.
And other big brands already follow, like huawei, Vivo, Oppo, etc
They started humble, then success, then got greedy want to join the premium vendors club. Hopefully Xiaomi will not follow their footsteps as it will be very bad for people with no money like me.
There is no stock definition of what has to be included to be a “Pro” phone. We have seen “Pro” phones from companies like Ulefone and Doogee that were budget at best.
But I would consider the latest Mediatek flagship SoC to be a “Pro” level component.
No of course, but there’s a certain expectation to it. If they keep devaluing the name, then it’s no one’s fault but them when people see it as just another meaningless marketing gimmick and look elsewhere.
The words Plus and Pro in the smartphone market are nothing more than marketing gimmick’s they have no meaning.
Oh good you know that but gimmick is mean to trick the more wider more gullible market and it will stop working if they keep treating it as one without offering any carrot.
Everything these companies do is meant to trick the market. Go to any manufacturers website it’s full of lies and exaggerations about their phones. Camera samples are a prime example they are often either taken with a DSLR or by a professional photographer. That’s why we have reviews and community forums, to sort through the BS.
Not everyone is going to do that. Most will know from buying the phone, finding out that there’s nothing “pro” about it at all and then proceed to never ever buy from the company ever again. GL Meizu.
Meizu has had no problem selling the Pro 6 because outside of people like us, most don’t really care or even know what SoC is in their phone. They buy based on the brand name.
source for that “no problem”?
“According to GSMArena (via MyDrivers), Meizu m3’s pre-order milestone surpassed the company’s latest flagship Meizu Pro 6’s first day pre-sales, which was 3 million”
Pre-sales are more like reservations to buy but they do give a good idea about the popularity of a device. 3 million for a Meizu flagship in China alone (this doesn’t count India or international sales) is strong demand. Two years ago Meizu sold 4.4 million devices in total.
But market normally like the bombastic wording like Super, Pro, Pro Plus, premium, Super Duper extra premium. etc LOL
It makes them feel good to buy a product with those wording.
And probably they think it can make their Pen*s look bigger muahahahahahaha.
The difference stand into the definition they sat last year with pro 5: would have samsung s7 been a real flagship with an helio x20 on board? Pro 5 had the best soc in 2015, and everything around was built to match it… This wasn’t the case for pro 6: while the soc is not bad, and the rest is not bad either (apart from battery), they definitely did not put the same effort to bring to the user the best components the market can get you.
And that’s why I’m so salty: instead of making a true successor for pro 5, they did an mx6 and called it “pro” and, to push it around, they could delete the mx series so the pro6 could shine in their lines… BS!
The SoC on the Pro 6 is better overall than the SoC on the Pro 5. You are salty because they didn’t use the latest Exnyos SoC, which they couldn’t use because it doesn’t support all of China’s networks. If everything else was the same and they had Exnyos instead of Mediatek you wouldn’t be as salty.
Yeah, exactly! Don’t take it as a fanboy acting because I’m one of those always ready to joke about samsung, but exynos is a better soc than x25, and don’t come with the story “x25 has more power than needed”, I know, but if I’m going to buy an high-end phone I want an high-end soc and high-end everything, I’m not sticking with a worse soc just because they can take 10 soc with 1$ so it’s price-effective, especially when they’re the only one saving money!
EDIT: if everything would have been the same, I’d still rant about the battery!
The Exnyos is better in some ways and worse in others. But they are both high end SoC’s one of them just carries the stigma of Mediatek being worse when in real life it’s not even close to true. Battery life is actually very good for how small it is on paper.
According to the response to the Pro 6 I have to say most people don’t agree with your last statement. The Pro 5 earned the Pro, the 6 was inferior even to the previous model.