Meizu announced its Pro 5 flagship last month with the powerful Exynos 7420 octa-core chip on board. With this chip inside, the phone manages to score more than 70K easily, which is why many of us are interested to see how well the Pro 5 flagship manages to dissipate heat.

Snapdragon 810 has a very bad reputation of overheating, despite being a powerful flagship chipset. On the other hand, the 14nm based Exynos 7420 seems to tackle the problem of overheating quite well. So, some folks over at China decided to perform a heating test on the new Meizu Pro 5 under certain circumstances to see how whether it managed to keep the heat levels under control.

TEST I

In the first test, the Meizu Pro 5 was made to run the AnTuTu benchmark test for about 5 minutes. The test takes care of a number of areas like processing power, GPU etc, which should technically heat up the device. It’s like playing a high-end game for about 5 minutes on the device. After the first five minutes of the test, wherein the phone managed to score about 76K points, the maximum temperature at the front was 39.5 degree Celsius. At the back, the maximum temperature was just 37.3 degrees Celsius with an average of about 35.8 degrees. The phone managed to keep the temperature under 40 degrees which is quite impressive. Not bad for a flagship with such raw power underneath!

TEST II

In the second test, the phone was made to run a full HD 1080p video for 10 long minutes. After the video playback, the temperatures of both the back and the front were measured. The temperature up front was just 34.6 degrees with the average being 32.4 degrees. As for the back of the device, the maximum temperature was just 34.2 degrees with the average being 33.5 degrees.

Both the tests show that Meizu has done a great job controlling heat on its Pro 5 flagship. This does prove that high-end performance is possible without overheating the device to unacceptable levels.

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Meizu’s upcoming flagship code named ME5 has been making rounds on the internet for the past couple of weeks. We have seen benchmarks, leaks as well as a lot more other information about the new device. The most recent one was the leak wherein a Meizu model code named NIUX, probably same as the ME5 scored about 69,000 points on AnTuTu benchmark thanks to the Exynos 7420 chip inside.

Now a new leak via Weibo gives us a look at the Meizu ME5 flagship’s metal chassis. This does reveal some interesting aspects of the device like the placement of the headphone jack. Usually, manufacturers place the 3.5mm jack on top of the phone, which I consider is ideal. However, the leak reveals that the jack on the Meizu ME5 flagship will be located at the bottom, alongside the charging port. Given the high end status, the ME5 will most likely feature the USB-Type C instead of the traditional MicroUSB. Also, the port is said to support fast charge, most likely Meizu’s branded mCharge. We saw that mCharge could get MX5’s juice up to 25% in just 10 minutes. So, we can expect the same tech to end up in its high-end models.

The chassis isn’t too big, which probably means that the display is around 5.5-inch only. According to the previous leak, there were two different versions of the Meizu ME5, one powered by the Exynos 7420 while the other powered by the Helio X20 (MT6797). The latter is expected to be the high-end version. Other specs include 3GB / 4GB RAM, Mali-T760 GPU, 21MP Sony Exmor RS Sensor, 5MP front camera and 3500mAh battery. The ME5 is expected to run on Android 5.1.1 with Flyme 5.0 UI on top.

Overall, it looks like Meizu is targeting the premium high-end segment with its ME5 flagship. Of course, this also means a premium price tag, somewhere up of 3000 Yuan ($500). If these specs turn out to be true, we will have to wait and watch whether Meizu prices its flagship too high.

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After the disappointing Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, everyone’s eyes have turned towards non-mainstream chip makers like Huawei. This Chinese company has come up with decent mid-range chipsets like the Kirin 935 in recent years and according to the latest leak, the upcoming Kirin 950 chipset will be powerful enough to take on the Exynos 7420 that is considered as the best high-end SoC in the market right now.

The Geekbench benchmark shows that the Kirin 950 chipset managed to score 1909 in the single-core test and 6096 in the multi-core test. This is much better than Exynos 7420 which scores about 1486 in the single-core and 4986 in the multi-core tests.

Such high score isn’t surprising given that the Kirin 950 is expected to come with four Cortex A72 power cores clocked at 2.4GHz. The chip is also said to be built using TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process. So, a combination of four such ultra-powerful cores can easily outclass the Cortex A57 ones used in the Exynos 7420.

Of course, Huawei is yet to release full details about its Kirin 950 chipset. So, its best to take this news with a pinch of salt.

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In the past few months, Meizu has made a number of strategic changes, including establishing a brand new Blue Charm lineup. The changes seems to be working for the company, since its smartphone sales are better than ever.

Meizu VP Li Nan recently revealed that the company had decided to scrap the MX5 Pro lineup in favor of a new high-end series. Now, Pan Jiutang, a popular analyst reveals that this new high-end smartphone will use Samsung’s Exynos 7420 chipset. This is the same processor that powers the Galaxy S6 lineup and has received praise from critics as well as customers for its performance. If this turns out to be true, it will also make the new Meizu machine, the first Chinese smartphone to come with a 14nm processor.

The company is reportedly working on a lineup that can directly compete with the Xiaomi Mi Note series. So, its important that the performance is better than competitors. While Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 810 is powerful, its still criticized for its overheating issue. Apart from 810, there’s Helio X10 (available now) and Samsung’s Exynos 7420. If Meizu had to pick from these three options, it would have to be the Exynos 7420 due to its superior performance. Moreover, the 14nm manufacturing process makes the chip even more efficient.

Apart from this info, the new Meizu flagship is said to come with double sided glass design and a metal frame. The pricing is said to be above 3000 Yuan, much higher than what customers are used to paying for a Chinese flagship. So, this device has to be the best in almost all aspects to attract buyers.

When we asked our readers whether they would be ready to buy a Meizu flagship for 3000+ Yuan, many said that if the specs were right, they would consider it. So, if Meizu is indeed using Exynos 7420 inside its newest machine, its most likely going on the right path.

What do you think?

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Samsung is all set to announce its Galaxy S6 flagship phone at MWC 2015. We have seen numerous reports, leaks and rumors about the upcoming device till date and today, we have one more leak which shows off the true power of the Exynos 7420 that comes inside Samsung’s next flagship.

Galaxy S6 with the model number SM-G925W8 was spotted on the AnTuTu benchmark app recently and the device with the Exynos 7420 managed to score an amazing 60978 points. That’s greater than Snapdragon 810, overclocked MT6595 and any other eight-core processor from other companies.

We have been hearing rumors about Samsung shifting completely to its own Exynos chips for its flagship S6 and this could be the reason. The processor will come with Mali-T760 GPU which is quite fast. To be specific, it is said that the GPU will be Mali-T760MP8 instead of the T760MP6 found on the Exynos 5433 SoC.

Also, since with such tremendous power, a lot of heat could be generated, it is said that the Exynos 7420 will use the advanced 14nm process, which if true, will be the first such mobile SoC in the market.

Coming to the Galaxy S6 specs, the phone will come with a 5.1-inch 2K 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution display. This goes against the previous rumors which hinted at a 5.5-inch display. Moving on, inside, the device will have the new Exynos 7420 eight-core processor clocked at 2.1GHz along with 3GB RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage. The rear camera will be of 20.7MP while the front shooter will be of 5MP. The device unsurprisingly will run on the latest Android 5.0 Lollipop version.

Latest reports indicate that Samsung will move away from the traditional plastic design to a metal body in the latest flagship. The phone is expected to come with other features too like fingerprint sensor, Samsung’s own payment system etc.

We are just a few days away from the official launch, so stay tuned for more updates.

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Last year, Samsung announced its Exynos 7 series processors which was said to be the company’s best offering yet. While the South Korean giant has not yet officially shown off the true power of its upcoming Exynos 7420 SoC, it was spotted on Geekbench earlier today revealing the true power of the processor.

According to the listing on Geekbench, the model “SC7 Full Android on avl7420” which could be the new Galaxy S6, scored extremely high in both single core and multi-core tests. Infact, in the multi-core tests, no Android smartphone came even near to its score of 5478. If this is the true Exynos 7420, then the second powerful SoC in the results page will be an octa-core Exynos 5433 processor clocked at 1.3Ghz. But there’s a huge difference between the two, as the 5433 scores only about 4000 (on an average) points which is almost 1500 points below this new 7420.

In the single core test, the Exynos 7420 managed a score of 1520 which is still considered very high. The HTC Nexus 9 still scores 1895, thanks to the NVIDIA Tegra K1’s 2.5Ghz cores.

Other than that, the benchmark result page reveals the phone runs on the latest Android 5.0 KitKat OS and comes with 3GB RAM. All these specs are in line with the configuration for Samsung Galaxy S6, so its more than likely that this phone is the S6.

So, what do you think about the results? Is this the Galaxy S6 with the new Exynos 7420?

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