Meizu need to “innovate or die”

i doubt that they have to change disgn a lot..sure their phones look a like but they got a great build quality on vivo level and ahead of xiaomi in my opinion

the only thing that i dislike is the amount of phones they launch all with the same specs

like how many Helio P10 phones do they have?

I have had 2 Meizu phones. The M2 Note was OK but the screen was a fingerprint magnet. Loved the Pro 5, however. My main comment here is that we can get bored with ANY device brand if we use it too much with little variety. I don’t think Meizu is any more boring or lacking in innovation than any other brand. Using new brands is more exciting for the same reason that anything different is exciting but that isn’t really a criticism of any one type of experience that people choose to stick with for long periods. Some people need more variety. Others are unhappy with change, saying, “It’s not the same.” On the other hand, ALL businesses need to “innovate or die” but I wouldn’t say that this was truer of Meizu than any other business.

I’ve had the Meizu MX 4-core for 3 years now, and the phone still works well. Back in 2012 when it was launched, I believed it was the only phone to natively support FLAC audio files and I was a music lover so I had to have a phone that can reproduce high-quality music. And of course, Flyme. But now, every thing they come up with is just purely run-off-the-mill. Disappointed here.

I too have always been a big Meizu fan, followed them ever since the days of the M6 and m3 mp3 players and remember writing about their windows CE based M8 phone when android was still in its infancy. I agree innovation is important but in general meizu are simply following the trends in the industry and in most respects are keeping up with what most companies are offering although it is true that they are definitely not breaking any ground. But lets face it, neither are apple. The main issue for me with meizu though is more a loss of focus and quality control. When you are releasing large numbers of similar handsets then your quality control is inevitably going to suffer. So it seem their resources are spread too thinly and we end up in a situation where they release 10 mediocre phones instead of focusing on directing resources to refining & bug squashing in their OS, further refining their hardware and most importantly in my opinion their camera processing algorithms.

Around the time of the MX5 it appeared meizu could soon start to challenge the big industry players when it came to mobile photography. Sadly instead they simply started spamming the marketing with handsets and the quality of their camera software and processing algorithms has become mostly stagnant. Even after finally introducing EIS/OIS stabilisation in a couple of the high end models we have still yet to see a really stand out camera experience from meizu in the the low end/ mid range or high end. They are very medicore in this respect in comparison to top flight competition.

This is at odds with other companies like oneplus who while not prefect are consistently refining their OS, focusing on quick updates to latest android versions and improving their camera software and customer service so much so that they have now gained a lot of acclaim in the industry. I also feel the Mediatek investment is hurting meizu. It almost appears they are required to hit certain shipping quotas on specific cpus and end up releasing similar handsets with only tiny upgrades and price tags that are not competitive with phones running more powerful cpu’s (ZUK and Xiaomi good examples).

Xiaomi have stolen headlines recently innovation wise with the introduction of the Mi Mix but sadly while that phone looks quite forward thinking xiaomi too suffer from similar problems to meizu with quality control and handset spamming. So the Mi Mix’s high price tag combined with average camera performance and other issues means that while innovative in certain respects they are still in the same boat as meizu somewhat.

In my mind meizu has all the tools to be a top 5 manufacturer. But because of a lack of focus/quality control their reputation is being tarnished. Would really like to see them taking foreign markets more serious as well by solidifying their distribution channels Instead of outsourcing the handling of sales to local distributors and instead focus on online sales with local service centres like oneplus has done.

my main problem is their locked bootloader..if it’s android,it should be friendly so unlocked bootloader plz

the second problem is their price especially by CPU is overpriced products versus competitors .

the third is of course their unchanged designs like HTC & maybe worse….come on you were once a known big player so please updated designs. different completely each model to another model.