The Meizu M3 Max launched earlier today and although it doesn’t come with some of the specs leaked in previous weeks such as a Helio P20 processor and a stylus, it still has some impressive features.

The all metal M3 Max features a 6” FHD display, 3GB of RAM, 64GB of ROM, and has a 1.8 GHz Helio P10 under the hood. Its rear camera is a 13MP Sony IMX258 with PDAF and dual LED flash. For video calls and selfies, you get a 5MP sensor.

With a thickness of just 7.9 mm, Meizu has been able to fit in a 4100mAh battery which should get you over 9 hours of on-screen time based on the teaser from yesterday. They’ve also thrown in fast charge, VoLTE, an IR blaster, and a fingerprint sensor all for a price of 1699 Yuan ($255).

The M3 Max comes in a white pack that slides out to reveal a blue box with the name of the phone engraved in silver. The packaging looks really nice and is sure to catch the eyes of lots of folks.

Flip open the top of the box like a book and you are greeted by the large display staring at you. The unit above is the champagne gold variant with white front bezels.

The M3 Max has it’s power button and volume rocker on the right which is the design employed by most manufacturers these days. However, the button placements seems to be too far up, so unless you have large hands/long fingers, reaching for those buttons will be a bit frustrating.

The other items in the box include some paper work, the 24W fast charger, a USB Type-C cord, and a SIM ejection tool. There are no earbuds or additional accessories like a silicone case, but you might be lucky to find a re-seller that will throw in the latter as a free gift.

The Meizu M3 Max is also available in gray (which looks more like blue in the picture above and comes with black front bexels), silver, and rose gold.

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Meizu just unveiled its large screen phablet, the Meizu M3 Max a few minutes ago. The phone comes with a large 6-inch display and is here to take on rivals such as the Xiaomi Mi Max, which has received very good response from customers both in China and India. Unfortunately, there is no stylus with the device, unlike what previous rumors said.

It’s a pretty good large screen smartphone and the entire Meizu M3 Max specs are listed below. The phone is already up for reservation in China and it will go on sale on September 15.

Also, you can check out our launch article from here.

Meizu M3 Max SPECS:

• DIMENSIONS: 163.4 x 81.6 x 7.9mm 189 gms
• DISPLAY: 6-inch IPS LCD, 1920 x 1080p, 368 ppi, 450nits
• CHIPSET: Helio P10 (Cortex A53 x 1.8GHz + Cortex A53 x 1.0GHz), Mali T860
• RAM: 3GB LPDDR3
• STORAGE: 64GB (MicroSD Expandable: YES)
• REAR CAMERA: 13MP f/2.2, 5P, 0.2s PDAF, Color Temp Flash (Burst, Panorama modes)
• FRONT CAMERA: 5MP f/2.0, 4P, Adaptive Beauty Skin Algorithm
• BATTERY: 4100mAh 24W mCharge Fast Charging (45% in 30min)
• CONNECTIVITY: 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi (5GHz & 2.4GHz Support), BLE, Blutooth 4.1, Infrared
• OS: Flyme Based on Android
• PRICE: 1699 Yuan ($255)

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Once again this year, phablets seem to be getting a lot of attention. In the Chinese market, we have already seen two great 6-inch+ smartphones, the Nubia Z11 Max and the Xiaomi Mi Max. Now, Meizu is here to join the party with its brand new Meizu M3 Max phablet.

The Meizu M3 Max comes with a familiar Meizu design, which includes an all metal body with dual CNC processing. The design looks pretty decent (similar to the Meizu M3E) and the availability of four color option is definitely an added plus. You have the option to choose between Champagne Gold, Gray, Silver and Rose Gold colors. It’s pretty thin as well, measuring just 7.9mm in thickness (Full measurements: 163.4 x 81.6 x 7.94mm), however, the Mi Max is thinner with a 7.5mm body. All the ports seem to be located at the bottom of the device, including the USB Type-C port, 3.5mm headphone jack and speakers. Like always, the fingerprint sensor-enabled mBack button is located up front, below the display.

Inside, the M3 Max comes with the Helio P10 octa-core chipset clocked at 1.8GHz. The display is a 6-inch IPS LCD panel with 1080p resolution. Unfortunately, no 2K resolution version available. As for the memory, there will be 3GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. You can further expand this up to 128GB via MicroSD.

At the back, the Meizu M3 Max comes with a 13MP Sony IMX258 camera sensor with f/2.2 aperture, PDAF and dual LED flash. Up front, there is a 5MP shooter.

Inside, the Meizu M3 Max comes with a 4100mAh battery with 24W mCharge fast charging technology. This reportedly charges the phone up to 45% in half an hour. That’s pretty good considering the size of the battery on board. Other features of the device are pretty standard like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, VoLTE, infrared etc. Fingerprint payment is also supported (Alipay and WeChat).

This new phablet from Meizu is priced at 1699 Yuan ($255) and at present, there seems to be just one version (3GB + 64GB). The phone will go on sale from September 15 and the reservations for the sale start today.

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Meizu has posted a new teaser for the Meizu M3 Max which is expected to launch tomorrow. The image which is also a clever play on the launch date shows the phone’s battery usage of 9 hours and 5 minutes. The battery indicator shows that there is still 29% battery left which should still offer close to 2 hours of on-screen time. We still don’t know the battery capacity but should be close to 5000mAh or even more to pull this off.

The Meizu M3 Max is said to launch with a 6” screen, 3GB of RAM, and have a version with a stylus called the mPen. Earlier news mentioned it was going to be the first phone to launch with the Helio P20 SoC but what we saw on Geekbench a few days ago was the M3 Max with Helio P10.

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Since the launch is less than 24 hours away, we should be able to confirm the full specifications of the phone. We are pretty excited to see what Meizu has cooked up with their mPen.

The Meizu M3 Max will cost 1799 Yuan ($269) for the base version with 32GB storage and 1999 Yuan ($299) for the model with the stylus and 64GB storage.

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The Meizu M3 Max is a large screen phone expected to launch on September 5. The phone is expected to be Meizu’s take on the Xiaomi Mi Max.

Earlier this week, we reported that the Meizu M3 Max is going to be the first phone to launch with a Helio P20 SoC but a benchmarking result of a phone with the Meizu M3 Max name instead shows a MT6755M a.k.a. Helio P10.

While this is surprising, we want to believe that there is still a possibility of the Helio P20 chip showing up in the device. First, this benchmark result shows it was updated on August 22 which is about a week before the P20 news. There might have been a major change within a week with respect to the chip.

Another way to look at it is the fact that there are two versions coming out: a stylus-sporting unit and a base version without the mPen. It is possible that the version with the stylus may be getting the new chip. These are the reasons why we are not ruling out the possibility of the Meizu M3 Max launching with the processor. These are speculations though and we can only hope it turns out to be correct.

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The geekbench test shows the phone scoring 785 points on the single-core test and 3041 points on the multi-core test. It also indicates that the phone has 3GB of RAM.

The launch of the Meizu M3 Max is said to be in Beijing on the 5th of September.

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Meizu’s upcoming phone, the M3 Max has been revealed to be the first phone in the world to launch with Mediatek’s Helio P20 processor. The processor which was announced at MWC 2016 has support for all networks and is the first 16nm processor from the chip maker.

The Helio P20 is an octa-core processor (8 x Cortex-A53) with a maximum clock speed of 2.3GHz and a 900MHz Mali-T880 MP2 GPU. Mediatek says it offers a 20% upgrade in performance over the Helio P10.

Meizu’s alliance with Mediatek for the M3 Max appears to want to take-on the Xiaomi Mi Max which uses a Snapdragon 650/652 from Qualcomm. If you remember, Qualcomm and Meizu aren’t best of friends at the moment.

It has also been revealed that the Meizu (M3) Max will have a 64GB version with a stylus called the mPen. This new version will cost 1999 Yuan ($299) while the 32GB version which will not have a stylus will retain the 1799 Yuan ($269) price tag. We don’t know how the stylus will work as no further details have been released. So the question is if it be pressure sensitive like that of the Samsung Note series or if it will just be a regular plain stylus?

Xiaomi’s Mi Max is still well priced at 1499 Yuan ($230) for the 3GB + 32GB SD 650 version, 1699 Yuan ($260) for the 3GB + 64GB SD 652 version, and 1999 Yuan ($307) for the 4GB + 128GB version. If the M3 Max wants to take on the Mi Max, Meizu needs to offer a more competitive price.

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Back in April, Meizu unveiled three new devices in a span of 15 days in three different conferences. Now, the company seems to be following a similar strategy as Meizu has a new event scheduled for September 5, where we will most likely meet the Meizu Max (or Meizu M3 Max). This will make it the third smartphone launch (fourth launch in reality since there were two phones announced in the new U series — U10 and U20) within a month, after the launch of Meizu M3E on August 10.

The latest leak, now, gives us the first possible glimpse of the Meizu Max. This is the first time we are seeing the upcoming handset in real life. The phone does look big, which is in line with the rumors that have been going around. The Meizu Max, like the name suggest, is probably going to be a phablet, coming with a large display around 6-inches. The company’s invites came with the business class Nokia E71 handset, which hinted that the handset would be ideal for business users as well.

There’s not much difference in design as seen in these alleged images as compared to the Meizu M3E that was announced earlier in August. The back is plain, conforming with Meizu’s recent design language. Nothing out of the ordinary. So, it looks like the Meizu Max (or M3 Max) will be an enlarged version of the M3E model. Of course, there is a possibility that the design on the Max could be different. But considering that Meizu has been lazy with its design, using almost the same design language on all its recent phones, this probably is what the Max will look like.

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As for the pricing, we can expect the Max to retail around 1799 Yuan ($270).

In case you are wondering, this is what the Meizu M3E looks like.

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Meizu has a new smartphone launching on September 5 but at this moment, the company has revealed nothing about the product. There have been reports that Meizu is all set to announce the Meizu Max smartphone on that day and it most likely will be a new phablet from the company.

While we may not be sure of the identity of the product launched on September 5, we may have some idea about the pricing. Recently, when users asked the question “What product will Meizu release on September 5” to Meizu’s voice assistant found on its Blue Charm devices, it answered 1799. This could be Meizu’s way of hinting the price of its upcoming device.

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If this turns out to be the real pricing, the Meizu Max would directly compete with the likes of Xiaomi Mi Max and ZTE Nubia Z11 Max.

Stay tuned to gizmochina for more details.

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