Meizu’s M3 Note is shaping up to be a budget phone to want to own, but it is also shaping up to be a rival to Meizu’s own Meizu Metal range!
From leaks so far we have discovered that the new Meizu M3 Note will feature a new all alloy body rather than plastic, we have also seen that the budget smartphone could also have a fingerprint scanner in the home button, a 5.5-inch display, and Mediatek Helio P10 chipset plus larger 3500mA battery. All these features sound great, but don’t they also sound very similar to what the Meizu Metal range offers?
Gizchina News of the week
If the current specs hold true then Meizu will be competing not only with the likes of LeTV, Lenovo and Xiaomi in the mid-range smartphone market, but also with their own Meizu Metal and upcoming Meizu Metal 2. This sounds like an odd position to be in but Meizu have been in it before when they launch the original Meizu Metal last year, that shared many of the same features of the Meizu MX5 (including metal body, processor and screen size).
What makes this even more odd is the face a new teaser for the Meizu M3 Note reveals that the price could be just 1099 Yuan! A significant price as its the exact same RRP as the Meizu Metal.
Odd movements at Meizu but perhaps there is a method to their madness?
Hopefully it costs a lot less, it won’t sell at all well ay 1099CNY. ,Anyway, first benchmarks showed up http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/5930866
I think it will still sell reasonably at that price. M2 Note if it wasn’t direct from Meizu was going for a similar price through Tmall, JD etc a few months back, and the Metal seemed to do just fine at that price point. Sure it’s not going toe-to-toe with the most affordable of the Redmi Note 3 variants at that price, but I think Meizu actually, from conversations I’ve had here, has a bit of a better perception around it here in China than Xiaomi. Maybe they are gambling a little on not getting into an all-out race to the bottom.
The Metal got a price cut to 999CNY a while ago and Xiaomi is not the only competitor that matters.
I’m basing things on what I see around me on the streets here. I’ve, for instance, only seen one LeTV device in someone’s hands. Huawei’s bigger devices and the Honor flagships seems to do fine, but the lower cost Honor devices I’ve scarcely seen. Vivo here and there, but really, outside of iPhones, the overwhelming majority of devices I see are Meizu or Xiaomi. Sure, it’s purely anecdotal, but that’s what I’ve seen.
I am guessing you are in China. Because everytime I go to China I see more people using Xiaomi, Meizu and Oppo than any other brands.
Yep, Hangzhou. I completely glossed over Oppo in my head (which is funny, doesn’t seem that long ago I was ogling the Find 5 in all its beauty) but you’re not wrong, the Rs seem to be pretty common.
The problem with oppo is they can build amazing hardware but they charge too much for it in comparison to meizu & xiaomi and colourOS is garbage.
Yeah. The Find 5 way back when was… probably the best looking Android device on the market in its era. It was leaps and bounds ahead of the designs of any of the major international flagships. And the Oppo Find 7, and it’s… half brother the OnePlus One were both very nice phones, though the OPO sort of stole its thunder a bit. The problem is since then it’s all been essentially phones using similar components to the domestic competition, but in pricier packages. Bring me a Find 9 to get excited about again!