Meizu introduced today M6s with an 18:9 tall screen, new Exynos 7872 chipset
with hexa-core CPU and a side-mounted fingerprint scanner that unlocks the
screen in 0.2 seconds.
While the position of the sensor below the power
button is a first for Meizu, the Samsung-built SoC is first for any smartphone.
The Exynos 7872 is coupled with six CPU cores - two Cortex-A73 at 2.0 GHz and
four Cortex-A53 at 1.6 GHz for power efficiency. The GPU is Mali-G71 MP3. RAM
of Meizu M6s is 3 GB. It comes with 32 GB or 64 GB of storage.
The front of the phone is mostly occupied by the
5.7” screen with HD+ resolution (1440 x 720 pixels), sitting under 2.5D glass.
The selfie camera is 8 MP with facial enhancement technology for more beautiful
selfies. The one on the back comes with 16 MP sensor and f/2.0 aperture and is
coupled with an LED flash. The whole body looks splendid because of the sandblasted
metal finish.
The OS is Meizu’s in-house Flyme 6.2. The power cell has 3,000 mAh
capacity and comes with 18W fast charging and USB-C connector. Meizu promises
30% charge in 15 minutes and 52% in half an hour. Meizu also jumped on the hype
train of AI. It introduced One Mind engine that “provides improved performance
and decreased power consumption”.
The physical mBack button on the front may be gone,
but there is now a small circle called Super mBack that supports most of the
gestures we’ve seen in previous Meizu phones and even introduces new ones. It
might sound familiar to hardcore fans, because it is the same as the circle
from the Meizu MX2, launched back in late 2012.
One touch оf the button now gets you back; long
press goes to the home screen, swipe left and right to switch apps and swipe up
to pull all the apps. If that sounds too complicated, the Meizu M6s will also
sport the traditional tri-button navigation bar.
The phone will arrive online on January 19 with
prices starting from CNY 999/US$ 155/€ 126 for the 32 GB option and
CNY 1,199/US$ 186/€ 152 for the 64 GB variant. It will be available in Black,
Silver, Gold, and Blue.
