While not a well-known name in the global market, Meizu is a popular smartphone brand in the domestic Chinese market. The brand recently announced that it is working on a new flagship smartphone which will be powered by the newly unveiled Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. Information has been scarce on the upcoming device, however, a new report brings some key details to light.
The report comes from PriceBaba citing
tipster Paras Guglani as the source. While there are rumors that the upcoming
series will be called the Meizu 19 series, the firmware data reveals that the
Meizu phones with model numbers M381Q and M391Q will have the Meizu 20 and the
Meizu 20 Pro marketing names, respectively. These are the upcoming flagships
from the brand.
The report also reveals that the Pro model
will be available in two variants: 8 GB of RAM with 256 GB of storage and 12 GB
of RAM with 512 GB of storage. Other than that, a total of three color options
will be available to choose from with the upcoming Meizu 20 Pro. The
configurations of the vanilla model are not known at this time. However, it is
confirmed that it will also feature the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset.
The new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset is
based on TSMC’s 4nm node and comes with a new 1+2+2+3 architecture. It includes
a 3.2GHz Kryo super core based on Cortex-X3, four 2.8GHz performance cores
(2×Cortex A715+ 2×Cortex A710), and three 2.0GHz Cortex-A510 energy efficiency
cores. Comparing the new chipset to the original Snapdragon 8 mobile platform,
Qualcomm claims it offers considerable improvements. The Qualcomm Kryo CPU’s
energy efficiency has improved by 40%, while the performance of the 8 Gen 2’s
enhanced Qualcomm Adreno GPU has increased by 25%.
