It looks like Meizu has turned to crowdfunding
platform Indiegogo to finance its port-less and button-less Meizu Zero
smartphone concept.
The Zero's campaign is live on Indiegogo in the US
and the entrance fee (which gets you an Engineering sample Meizu Zero) is US$ 1,299. If you don't know how a crowdfunding campaign works - a company sets a
funding target (in Meizu's case that's US$ 100,000), which it needs to bring a
project to reality and people pledge money to it. If Meizu reaches the target money
it has set then it will manufacture the Zero and those that have pledged above
a certain threshold will eventually receive a unit.
The campaign says the US$ 1,299 Engineering Unit Meizu
Zero's will ship in April of 2019 and there was 1 exclusive Pioneering Unit
(priced at a neat US$ 2,999) that's expected to ship in January that is already gone.
The Meizu Zero has a Snapdragon 845 chip, 4GB of
RAM, a 5.99-inch 1080x2340px Super AMOLED, 12MP + 20MP rear camera, 20MP
front-camera and pressure-sensitive buttons on the side. It has no ports and
can be charged only wirelessly - Meizu has developed a super-fast 18W solution.
There's not even a SIM slot, instead the Meizu Zero uses eSIM.
