A few months ago, Meizu released its first Snapdragon powered smartphone, the M6 Note. A Geekbench listing has revealed that it may have another phone powered by a Qualcomm chip in the works. The Meizu M5X was benchmarked back in August and the site reveals a few details about the device.

The Meizu M5X is shown as running Android 7.1.2. There is a msm8952 chip on board which is the part number for the Snapdragon 617. The Snapdragon 617 was announced back in 2015 which makes us wonder why Meizu would settle for a 2-year old processor?

However, that’s not the only confusing thing. The benchmark site lists the chip as having six cores, which is wrong as the Snapdragon 617 is an octa-core processor. The clockspeed is also 1.65GHz, more than the processor’s 1.5GHz max. clockspeed.

The Meizu M5X has 3GB of RAM. It scored 1409 points in the single core test and 3795 points in the multi-core test which is significantly higher than that of other similar powered phones like the Moto G4 Plus.

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There are a number of issues with this Geekbench listing, so we advice that you don’t get your hopes high about a new Snapdragon phone from the manufacturer. At least until more details about the device surfaces.

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A new Meizu phone has popped up at China’s communication agency, TENAA. The new phone shares a similar design to the Meizu M5 Note released a few months ago.

The phone has model number M612C. Some sources have said the similarity in the model number of this new phone and the M5 Note hints at it being the Meizu M5X.

The listing shows the phone is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core processor. It will also be available in three memory configurations. A base version with 2GB RAM and 16GB ROM; a standard version with 3GB RAM and 32GB of storage; and a high-end version with 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM.

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The Meizu M612C is equipped with a 13MP camera on the rear and a 5MP sensor up front. The phone also comes pre-installed with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. All other specs of the phone remain unknown. The new device is expected to launch later this month, so its no coincidence it is on TENAA’s website already.

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