Meizu was recently embroiled in a controversy regarding its brand new Meizu 16S flagship. The phone was recently subjected to a teardown by XYZone, a popular Weibo user from China. After taking a look at the internals, he found out that his Meizu 16S unit didn’t have adhesive around the Snapdragon 855 processor soldered onto the board. Considering how most flagships in the market come with this adhesive for the processor, he said that this was probably a cost-saving move by the company.
Meizu initially denied the claim, however, when the issue snowballed, it decided to send a team of engineers down to Shenzhen to investigate XYZone’s unit. The team confirmed that his unit didn’t have the adhesive but added that it was a one-off case. After finding out that his unit had an issue, Meizu decided to compensate him with two new units of the same model.
Meizu further released a new video on Weibo showing the assembly process of the Snapdragon 855 processor in the Meizu 16S. In the video (here), there is a part where we get to see the adhesive being applied around the phone’s processor. Well, it’s good to see that Meizu is taking consumer feedback seriously. The video is a pretty nice way to instill confidence among its fans in China.
It remains to be seen whether this was really a one-off incident. If not, we should see a lot more case in the coming days. Meanwhile, the same user reported that his Xiaomi Mi 9 also didn’t have this adhesive. Xiaomi is yet to comment on this matter.
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