Ever since the Meizu 16S smartphone has been launched, reports and speculations about the new Meizu custom user interface — Meizu Flyme 8 has been making rounds. Now, a new leak related to the update plans of the Flyme 8 reveals that the update will be launched in the fourth quarter of this year.
Several reports indicate that Meizu had started internal testing of the upcoming Meizu Flyme 8 user interface in the second quarter of this year and the testing phase will be concluded in the third quarter.
If the reports from the Meizu Forum are to be believed, then the company has now started testing the upcoming update with a test group. This hints that the arrival of the Flyme 8 from Meizu is not far away.
Earlier this year, Meizu’s product manager Chen Jiaxuan had shared the poster of the upcoming Flyme 8 user interface, which revealed that along with a wide number of features, the company is focusing on making then UI fast and stable.
Some of the core features of the Flyme 8 have already been introduced in the Flyme 7.3. Along with a few new features, what remains to be seen is how fast and smooth the upcoming Flyme 8 will be. To know that, we’ll have to wait until the company releases the update officially.
Flyme 7.3, which is the current version of the custom OS, integrates Meizu Pay app with the Flyme system for touchless payments experience using the bank, bus and other access cards. It also comes with DC Dimming feature as well as the internal apps like Shutdown Wake 3.0, Smart Free 3.0, Resource Manager 2.0, Memory compression 2.0, etc have been optimized for better performance.
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