We have been hearing a lot about the Meizu Metal for the past couple of weeks. Now the company has finally made the device official and its everything we expected it to be. The phone comes in a beautiful metal body with plenty of color options to attract the young generation crowd.

Meizu Metal features a special aluminum body which is made using a number of rare elements like titanium, and cobalt to make it light weight and durable at the same time. The company is calling it the “Crystal Metal”. The phone looks pretty premium and comes in a bunch of colors such as white, grey, gold, blue, pink. The body has gone through diamond cutting for the perfect finishing.

As for the specs, the Meizu Metal comes with a 5.5-inch FHD 1080p display with 2.5D glass front, strengthened T2X Electric Glass and maximum brightness of 450 nits. Under the hood, there’s the 2GHz Mediatek Helio X10 MT6795 processor with 2GB RAM and eMMC 5.0 16 GB/ 32 GB memory options. It also supports MicroSD cards upto 128GB. With these specs, the phone reportedly scores over 51,000 on AnTuTu.
As for the camera, there’s a 13MP shooter at the back with PDAF focus (0.2 seconds), f/2.2 aperture, color temperature flash and gorilla glass protection. Front features a 5MP shooter. Finally, the phone features the same fingerprint sensor as the MX5 MTouch 2.1 with recognition speed of just 0.48 seconds. It comes with dual card dual standby with Flyme 5.0 based on YunOS pre-installed. There’s a pure Flyme based on Android version as well. The battery is also quite decent at 3140 mAh capacity.
Now coming to the best part, the Meizu Metal will start at just 1099 Yuan ($173) for the 16GB model, which is a great price for a phone with these specs. Further, the 32GB version will retail for 1299 Yuan which is around $200. Pretty aggressive pricing I would say. What do you think?

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We have been hearing and also seeing a lot of Meizu Metal in the past couple of weeks. The phone is all set to debut tomorrow, i.e. October 21 and will run on Alibaba’s Ali YunOS based on Android platform. The phone is said to be quite a looker, thanks to its all metal design (with magnesium alloy body) and metallic color scheme. The specs are also quite impressive for the price segment that it is targeted.

The latest leak about the Meizu Metal smartphone has revealed the pricing of the device. While previous rumors said that the phone could be priced below 1000 Yuan ($157), a leaked image reveals that the pricing could be set at 1299 Yuan for the 16GB model. That comes to around $200, which is quite aggressive.

While the company is yet to confirm the official price tag of the device, Meizu VP, Li Nan had earlier hinted that the pricing would be between 1000 Yuan and 1500 Yuan. So, its quite likely that the starting price of the 16GB model could be 1299 Yuan. Moreover, the specifications are also quite impressive to make sure that the phone gives tough competition to the likes of the Xiaomi Redmi Note 2.

According to the TENAA listing, the Meizu Metal smartphone will come with a 2GHz octa-core chip, the MT6795 Helio X10. There will be 2GB of RAM on board along with 16GB of storage. The front features a 2.5D glass 5.5-inch FHD display with a 5MP camera on top. As for the back, you can expect a 13MP shooter with PDAF. Like the recent Meizu smartphones, the Meizu Metal too is expected to come with the mBack home button with different gestures available along with fingerprint sensor incorporated into the device. Finally, the phone will run on Ali YunOS instead of Meizu’s Flyme UI.

Overall, the device does capture our attention with good specs and a refreshing metal design. Moreover, the phone will come in six different color options like blue, grey, white, pink and gold. Now, we just have to wait for its official release on October 21.

So, do you like the new Meizu metal? Would you pick this over the Redmi Note 2. You can also check out the leaked video of the device in action alongside the Honor 7.

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