Meizu has announced that the August 10 launch is for a phone called the Meizu Blue Charm E which is aimed at the younger generation and supposed to take on Xiaomi’s new Redmi Pro.

A leak from a user on Weibo says the phone has a special feature, the ability to control your car; that is if you own the ”internet SUV”, the Roewe RX5. The car which is a product of the collaboration between SAIC (Shangai Automotive Industry Corporation) and Alibaba debuted at the Beijing Auto show earlier this year. The car’s infotainment system is a special version of Alibaba’s YunOS called YunOS for Car.

Owners of the Meizu Charm Blue E will be able to unlock the car, heat up the seats, and control the air-conditioning using their phone. You might be wondering why the RX5 and not other cars. The reason is because Alibaba has a stake in Meizu. The internet giant invested $590 million in the Chinese phone maker last year. This makes things a lot easier for them saving them the trouble of entering into an agreement with another phone maker.

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Reports say the Meizu Blue Charm E will feature a metal body, a 5.5” Full HD display, 3GB of RAM, a Helio P10 octa-core processor clocked at 1.8GHz,  a 13MP primary camera, and a 5MP front-facing camera for selfies. The phone will feature a 3100mAh battery and come with Meizu’s fast charge technology called mCharge.

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Rumors that Meizu and Alibaba were collaborating have long been refuted by both despite the release of the Meizu MX4 Yun OS version. However, it turns out that the rumors were true.  The chief manager of Alibaba Yun OS said in his Weibo account that after meeting with Meizu, they saved their original plan to collaborate with each other at this October’s launch, implying that the Meizu MX4 Yun OS version will most certainly be one of those products launched.

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