Latest Flyme 5 Beta (International) For MX4, MX4 Pro and M1 Note

The beta version for these 3 models are come out, please read the warnning below before you download them:

when you download and install the firmware, be sure that you ackowledge the beta version is not stable and buggy, it may cause functional problem, you understand the risk and be able to cover those problems

Meizu M2 Note - Now available in Malaysia thru lazada for RM699.00

Meizu's new 5.5 inch smartphone is now available for purchase in Malaysia exclusively for RM699 (USD$164.00) from today. The latest but may not be the better version of Meizu Note series have its own pro and cons if pitted together with the earlier M1 Note. It may not be better in the benchmarking section but the additional support of dual LTE (SIM 1 and SIM 2) and expandable storage was something that the earlier Meizu M1 Note are lacking in a big way.

Honor 7 vs Meizu MX5 - Hardware technical spec comparison

Its 30th June and both of these Chinese manufacturer are launching their flagship on the same day and that is not where the similarity ends because both of these phone would run on overclocked ARM A53 architecture in Kirin 930/935 and Mediatek Helio X10 (MT6795T). When other high end flagship is playing with fire in Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, these two manufacturer opt to play it save with an overclocked slower A53 processor rather than using the faster A57 used in Snapdragon 810. Both of these phone sporting a metal type body shell, heat will be a big issue if it is not dealt properly.

Because these are flagship smartphone, we will look at the comparison between the specification of these two phone and help you to decide which one is better. We will focus at the internal SoC and camera hardware offering as both usually will help in deciding a purchase.

Meizu MX5 - Official release with Helio X10 and 3GB RAM

Meizu has opened the veil on the most anticipated flagship killer of the year with their Meziu MX5. This is the successor to last year benchmark king (MX4) and this new model might also make the grade for the throne. Meizu is hardly a big name in other part of the world except china but they are making great stride in places that matter with the release of Ubuntu phone earlier this year and also the MX4 and MX4 Pro. One thing for sure, Meizu aggressive pricing would surely make other phone maker stand and notice while users all over the world would want to have one.

Meizu M2 Note - Benchmarking MT6753 vs Kirin 620 (Honor 4X)

MediaTek's previously announced MT6753, arrived commercially in the form of Meizu M2 Note. With considerably slower maximum CPU speeds for the eight CPU cores, as well as a lower performance GPU, the newer M2 note is not an upgrade as the name suggest but more of a new option for a different market. The lower cost of the MT6753 platform gave Meizu M2 Note a lower price point and gave Meizu the ability to join the lower priced phablet war.

With the new cheaper SoC used in Meizu M2 Note, its now a direct competitor to Honor 4X, the earlier M1 Note is slightly higher priced. This post will look at how does the latest SoC fare if being put head to head with Huawei's own Hisilicon Kirin 620. Both of this phone are priced at 999 CNY and both is using a lower performance chipset that was made to be more balanced in term of performance while giving better battery life.

Meizu M2 Note - is the M1 Note replacement better?

*update : Benchmarking M6753 vs Kirin 620 (Honor 4x)

Meizu would be unveiling a new phone on the 2nd June that would replace the current Meizu M1 Note. Will teasers of the new phone are now available, Meizu is building the hype for the smartphone in a major way through social media. Now that we have enaough info, we will try to see if the new is better than the old, something that normally is but not entirely true. We've seen how the latest doesn't means better with other manufacturers and is this new phone really is worth the plunge.

Meizu M1 Note was launched just less than 6 month ago, thus having a replacement model would indicate a lot of changes need to be done quickly on the earlier release. We will look at the differences between this new smartphone provide and the former and let you guys decide. All this info are not yet official and at most is a mere speculation so please do take all these info with a pinch of salt.

Meizu k52 - Octa-Core Budget phone launching 11th december

Meizu have been teasing their follower about the latest phone launching this Thursday through social media in China. The phone, reportedly code name Meizu K52 would be sold at a low price of only 799 yuan ($130 usd) and would fight directly with other Chinese smartphone in the same segment.

From a leaked GFXBench test result, the Android Kitkat Meizu K52 phone would be powered by Mediatek's MT6752 64bit octa-core processor, the same SoC that was launched in February this year. The leaks also show a full HD 1080p 4.7 inch screen, 2 GB RAM with 16GB of storage. The MT6752 SoC is no slouch when it came to processing power, with octa-core clocked at 1.7Ghz and Mali T760 GPU.

Miezu's Ubuntu Touch OS - Coming first quarter 2015

The first Canoninal's Ubuntu Touch phone OS is coming next year from Chinese manufacturer Meizu. As reported by gizmochina, Meizu MX4 might be release in the first quarter of next year preloaded with Ubuntu Touch. Earlier this year, Canonical announce that Meizu from China and BQ from Europe will produce phones preloaded with Ubuntu Touch from 2015. In april, Meizu demonstrated Ubuntu Touch vanilla OS running on MX3 phone to show Ubuntu's new OS capability.

The new Meizu phone might not be running Ubuntu Touch vanilla OS but would be installed with Meizu own user interface Flyme OS. It has been reported that Flyme OS on Ubuntu would be similar to their android version and that could be a good thing for user adoption.

Lollipop Update - Will Xiaomi, One Plus, Huawei, Oppo and Meizu get it?

Chinese brands of Android smartphone are now invading the world market with their lower price point and good hardware. But with Android fragmentation is a well known issue even for the big companies, how would these Chinese company fare in providing update to the latest line of Smartphones.

Since the launching of Lollipop (5.0), HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony and LG have all came out publicly announcing that all the current flagship smartphone will be getting the update and some of the brands have already pushing the update such as LG and Motorola.