The new flasghip Meizu Pro 6 is finally here for real and starting today it’s available in various Chinese retail stores. So there is a glimmer of hope for us not directly in China, that it also means swift availability in the reseller stocks with worldwide reach.
That would inevitably also mean some unfortunate price jump, because i doubt the resellers will match the 2499 yuan (384$) Chinese price for the 32 GB model. Not to mention the first customers buying the phone until April 30th are getting free EP21HD headphones in China. Well a man can dream…
Gizchina News of the week
We have covered the Meizu Pro 6 launch quite extensively including the controversies about the alleged subpar specs in comparison to Pro 5, so for those interested in reading up more about it nothing easier than to follow the links to those articles.
I’m still cautiously optimistic about the phone myself, but worried a bit especially about the battery capacity, because the 2560 mAh battery combined with the Helio X25 processor is pretty sketchy on paper. We should get a sample for a review hopefully soonish so all the questions are going to be answered and until then you can check the detailed specs of the phone here.
So we’ll see EP21HD headphones sell apart from Meizu phones on resellers.
Bad decision to choose MTK with that battery, seems Meizu is copying Apple in making phones without menu and back keys and now crap batteries :/
Meizu hasn’t used menu and back keys for awhile now. The back key is built into the home button and it actually is one of the best features of Flyme.
Specs are not everything. Meizu grew round 400% YoY between 2014 and 2015. Xiaomi struggled to grow.
Alibaba invested heavily in Meizu stocks and so did MediaTek.
But these people don’t know anything, right?
Chico does
Part of the Alibaba investment in Meizu was a deal between Alibaba and China Telecom. China Telecom operates on the CDMA 2000 network. The Samsung Exynos doesn’t support this network without a separate modem, the Helios X25 doesn’t need the extra modem. People here care more about spec sheets than common sense.