Recently, it was revealed that Meizi will produce more rear cases for the Meizu MX4 in other colors. So far, some pictures like this one have revealed that Meizu may release rear cases in green and orange. But according to the contributor of the photos, these rear cases are for phones that are still in development. Meizu has not officially announced when they will release them or if they have any plans to do so.

A few days ago, besides launching the YunOS version of the Meizu MX4 in cooperation with Aliyun, Meizu also released a silver version of the MX4. Now, consumers have more choices. In addition, they made some changes to the regular Meizu MX4 such as its craftsmanship.

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Recently, there are some rumors from the Internet, said that Meizu MX4 Pro would featuring a 5.4-inch 2560×1536 resolution display, with Samsung’s Exynos 5430 Processor, 13MP front-facing camera and 20MP rear camera, Hi Fi sound effects, finger scanner embedded in rectangle home button. The smartphone may cost 2,499 CNY (about $408) in China, will be launched on October 28th.

But in this afternoon, Linan, the senior VP of Meizu, pointed out that they are all fake news on his Weibo. He said that the release time is too early for MX4 Pro, customers cannot even buy a smartphone in market with higher specs and low price. Actually, we don’t want our customers put too more expectations in every aspects for MX4 Pro. He didn’t give any specific details for its specification, price and release time. However, we could predict that MX4 Pro may be with a 1920 x 1152 resolution display, it probably has a front facing camera lower than 13MP, the price maybe a little bit higher than 2,499 CNY (about $408). It’s been reported that MX4 Pro would be launched in the end of October or the early of November, but according to Linan, October 28th is too early for the launch of MX4 Pro, then it would be released in November.

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We have confirmed a lot things about MX4. One of which is that there will only be a MX4 standard edition at the annoucement conference at September 2nd.

Here is a list of all the thing leaked so far:

• 5.4-inch display ( resolution not confirmed yet)
• MT6595 CPU
• Not much difference in the font compared to MX3, the circular Home button is still there.
• Bezels are thinner.
• The material of the back is changed.
• It’s running Flyme OS 4.0

What should be noted is that its main camera is gonna be 20.7 megapixels (the highest so far in China).

This afternoon a Weibo user posted some info of a sample picture taken by the font-facing camera of MX4, which says the resolution is 1088×1920 (around 2 megapixels) with aperture f/2.0. It also comes with a beauty mode. Flyme 4.0 is likely gonna add more beauty options.

Besides that, the model number of MX4 is confirmed to be K95V2 which is the same as what the leak said.

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Earlier today Li nan, the vice CEO of Meizu, confirmed on Weibo that there will only be one phone announced on September, 2nd. He also denied the existence of a Meizu tablet during the Q&A with his followers. He also said their developers are still working on the fingerprint recognition function on the MX4 Pro, so we won’t see the Pro edition at the announcement conference.

So without MX4 Pro, then the only phone that’ll be released that day certainly is MX4, the so called standard edition. There are a lot of rumors going on right now. To name a few: the display will be 2K, namely a resolution of 2560 x 1536. and a MTK octa-core CPU (MT6595) on the MX4 standard edition. MX Pro is said run on a Samsung Exynos octa-core CPU. But is the 2K display available for all regular editions? Will all these be true? Guess we’ll have to wait and see what the announcement conference brings us.

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Zhang Heng, the senior tech manager of Meizu was doing a Q&A on Weibo regarding the announcement conference earlier today. He disclosed a lot of information regarding MX4. He also said himself that he’s gonna resign due to all those misunderstandings caused by his failure to deliver the authentic information regarding the announcement.

Below is a list of all the information we got from Zhang Heng:

1. Only MX4 (the standard edition) will be released on September 2nd, along with Flyme 4.0.
2. Both China Mobile edition and China Unicom edition will be available, but there won’t be a Telecom edition this time. We also won’t see it coming in the nearest future.
3. J.Wong won’t be there.
4. No mini edition available for MX4, but there will be a pro edition. Also there will be a slightly difference in the appearances of the two. Pro edition won’t be available this year due to the slowness of its R&D. There won’t be any news related to Ubuntu.
5. There will be two announcement conferences this year.
6. Flyme 4.0 will be available for MX2 and MX3, the 4th quarter of this year, but not the first generation.
7. No tablet plan so far.

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Last night, Li Nan, the vice CEO of Meizu confirmed on Weibo that only the MX4 will be released at the annoucement on September 2nd, which means we’ll have to wait a little bit longer for MX Pro.

He also shared some more info about MX4 today on Weibo at noon.

Li Nan said:”The announcement of MX4 is gonna be huge.” A major overhaul we are talking about here. And MX4 Pro is gonna be a even larger step ahead, so its price is also gonna be on the high end. Don’t be surprised to see a price tag like over 3000RMB ($492).

He also implied that compared to MX3, MX4 is one further step ahead in very aspect, giving users a more pleasant experience overall, but there won’t be a big change with its price.

Let’s wait and see what the announcement brings us.

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Recently, there were so many photos of Meizu new cell phone leaked, after the bottom views of white MX4  leaked, there were another photos for black MX4 leaked in these two days, which is more clear.

　　Viewed from the photos, the design of the black MX4 follows the white version leaked before. The bottom design, rear cover opening without needle pin and the holes for speaker, are almost the same with iphone 6 to be launched.

Dual LED flash is installed below the main camera, and the rounded rectangle button is used for the front cover design, which can be implied that the MX4 leaked shall be the MX4 Pro.

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New rumors was just released by Weibo user @ubuntu, who exposed news of MX4 many times before, including double LED flashlight and photo samples. From the photos of flashlight, the news of adopting white & orange double-color LED flashlight is confirmed. The resolution of the photo samples is 2048×1536, with good overall quality, while the details can not be obtained due to compression. It is acquired that MX4 would be the first cell phone which applies the Sony 2070 Mpi Camera, with Sony IMX147 sensor and supports 0.3 second focusing. 

And according to the information before, there would be two versions for MX4, the standard version and the Pro version, with the detailed configuration uncertain, while it can be sure that there must some difference in the material technology. The standard version would be more like MX3, and keeps the little circle of Home button (the material would be replaced by Mg-Al alloy material, and no longer double plastic casting technology), and the Pro version would be promoted and upgraded, as well pressing fingerprint identification is expected.

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On September 2^nd , Meizu will launch  the new flagship MX4 officially in Beijing. All kinds of rumors about MX4 appeared in the internet, it is said that the price of MX4 might be 2499 RMB（$406.2）.

left is likely to be MX4, and the right is MX3

First of all, the photos disclosed shows that the MX4 will equipped with a screen of 5.4 inches display, made by JDI. And the resolution of the screen might be upto 2k, which means the PPI will be over 500.

Camera Parameter

It can be confirmed that the MX4 will apply the webcam of 20 MP, and mirrorless level sensor, which is the first cell phone with 20 MP level camera from Chinese brand.

For the price, from the MX4 poster disclosed before, the price for MX4 16G version was RMB2499, and by comparing with Mi4, Oneplus One and Huawei Honor 6, MX 4 is better in all aspects, and the price of 500 RMB higher is reasonable, which follows the pricing tactic before. For the MX4 Pro version with high configuration and fingerprint identification, it is said that the price is RMB2998, while it is not confirmed.

From the information of MX4 disclosed, the features are 2K screen and 20 MP camera. MX 4 will use aerospace-grade aluminum material, and adopt new Flyme4.0 OS, which is more creative in design. We expect the performance of MX4.

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One of the proposals given by Meizu’s Marketing Department says “Give every audience millet （another meaning of Xiaomi in Chinese）at MX4 launch event” Millet can be used in Chinese food, and this proposal delivers a message “Think High, Meizu will eat Xiaomi”.

This proposal maybe eye-catching and aggressive, but Meizu would never apply it, cause Meizu’s brand is as soft as MUJI.

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J.Wong, founder and CEO of Meizu, said on his Weibo that  18th August is a splendid day!!!.”Splendid day” may refer to either announcement of flagship Meizu MX4, or an update to their own much talked Flyme OS to 4.o, or both. You will get the answers to all this 18th.

Meanwhile the price of this beast has been leaked . It may cost around CNY 2,499 with 16GB of storage, which translates to $406 or €303. We are not sure if this is the price for the rumoured MX4 Pro or standard edition Meizu MX4. But this looks like the price for standard edition of MX4.

The phone is equipped with a 20.7 MP  Sony IMX147 rear camera.

We can expect the MX4  featuring  4G LTE support, 3GB of RAM, and a high performance SOC either from Mediatek,or Samsung.

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Word came that Mx4’s launch event was expected in Sept. this year. From previously disclosed information, MX4 has a 5.4″ screen in the ratio of 15:9, whose resolution reaches 2K. Though metal frames will be continuously used, great changes will happen to its rear cases and full design.

Earlier, J.Wong announced that MX4 would be integrated with finger-print identifying function, which remains a mystery when it comes to specific realization.

Will you expect Flyme 4.0 OS Meizu is working on? Net users once revealed that this new system performed excellently.

As for configurations, J.Wong once indicated that MX4 would carry Exynos 5430 octa-core processor and 3 GB RAM. Besides, MX4 might be the first smart phone powered with Sony 2000-mega-pixel cameras.

How much will it be? Probably 1,999RMB($340), deferred from Meizu rapidly cutting MX3’s prices to compete with MI3.

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The World Cup’s over and Meizu is holding a summer sale for the MX3, lowering its price from 2499 RMB (402.38 USD) in November to 1599 RMB (257.47) this month. It is not that big of a drop. What is Meizu’s goal in lowering the MX3’s price this time?

Fierce competition between net-surfing phones

Xiaomi and Meizu have been competing with each other since Xiaomi released the Mi 1 with Xiaomi selling more than Meizu, although the latter’s sales are pretty good. As a result, Meizu’ phones have always been a bit pricey.

By the end of 2013, however, Meizu began to experience real pressure as all kinds of internet brands started popping up. Beside Xiaomi, which dominated the market, there was also Nubia and Oneplus whose phones had better workmanship. In addition, cheaper products were entering the market and Meizu could not keep up with them.

Although Zhang Huang’s return brought some changes, none of them were revolutionary.

Hardware for power and software for profit

Zhang Huang had already thought about using hardware to create software as early as 2008 when Android did not even exist yet. He even came up with the Wince system. But with the arrival of Android, he dropped his plans.

This time, Zhang Huang decided to put Meizu’s own Flyme OS into the Nexus O5, beginning the company’s new strategy. Meizu would no longer be restricted to making a profit with their hardware, but increase Flyme’s power and try to earn money using software.

In an earlier essay, “Post-Zhang Huang Meizu, The Price of Growing up,” we said that Meizu’s main competitive strength lies in the Flyme OS. Opening up Flyme and lowering prizes are all for preparing to promote Flyme. Chinese companies that succeeded with this strategy include Xiaomi and Oppo.

Meizu produces hundreds of thousands of phones every month which is not a lot or few. This along with increasing sales by dropping prices can help Meizu finish their software-hardware swap.

Before the MX4 arrives….

       According to rumors, the MT6595 is supposed to be released this month. Originally, MTK planned to target the high-end market because of the MT6595’s powerful specs.

However, Qualcomm recently noticed the threat that the MT6595 posed and pushed the prices of phones that used the Snapdragon 801 far down. It looks like a price war is at the works although the MX3 uses the Samsung processor which does not have great specs. Using the MT6595 would make sense. Meizu’s next phone is coming soon and they should make space for the MT6595 as soon as possible.

Therefore, now is the time for Meizu to come up with a strategy made up of using price drops as competitive pressure, hardware-software switch, and clearing their inventory.

After a long wait, Samsung has finally completed the integration of their baseband. Whether or now Meizu will continue to use Samsung’s processor or switch to MTK, there is still hope for them to solve its signal and overheating problems. We cannot wait for the MX4.

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     June 5, 2014. Jiutang Pan reported in his weibo account that Nan Li predicted in an interview that the “hammer will miss the Great 4G Wave.”

It looks like Meizu may release an MTK6595 version of its 4G phone, the high-end MX4 which was released in the Q4 earning season and is based on the Samsung chipset (high and low versions), at a lower price.

Some netizens have already asked Meizu’s upper management when their new phone will be released and vice president Nan Li said, “at the end of the year.”

Meizu usually launches their new products every November-December so it should not be expected if it was the same this year. What’s probably different though is they release many new products at a single launch event this year.

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J.Wong thinks that the Qualcomm processor is not up to his demand. New Meizu was not introduces for a long time. Because the performance doesn’t meet the requirments. But he stills want to launch the MX4.  As similar to iPhone 5s has also provided fingerprint indentification,Huang Zhang has also  established it. J.Wong has discussed in the forum and confirmed that MX4 has new flagship processor, earlier Galaxy s5 has determined to launch, it has the eight-core Exynos 5430,

Processor is still awful strong, and the Constitutional Cortex-A15 core (clocked 2.1GH) and 4 Cortex-A7 (clocked 1.5GHz), GPU some African countries ARM series T6XX 4, especially core unclear, clocked to 600MHz, in addition to support for video playback 8K UHD (axis hardware decoding), and the processor in addition to providing a co-processor “World Union,” wrote the secret audio decoding and an equal voice.

In addition, exposure, location XMM7260 LTE baseband processor Intel constitution of the state of affairs in the international version. Before Meizu lensman Daniel – WOOOO World Health Organization stone looks MX4 – breaking news in the forum, MX4 seem higher than Apple iPhone6.  Before J.Wong Meizu revealed that in addition to the new master with five.5 inch screen, 2560 × 1536 pixels resolution.

It is really fascinating to think what new feature MX4 will have?

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Meizu, known by their affordable smartphone price have become one of the people’s favorite in China. Recently, rumors had being told that their latest product, MX4, believed to be one of their finest products. Plus, as Meizu had discussed in the past that they will be widening their range market by competing the US smartphone industry market in 2014.

New rumors had been spread that the MX3 will have an upgrade with one of the highest spec but still would be reasonable which are about 2,000 CNY ($320). Furthermore, there are also some leak that the MX4 will come in two version which is 5-inch display support with Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 while the other version will come up with 5.5-inch display and Quad HD resolution of 2560 x 1536. The prices are still a mystery but will be discover soon as it was only thing people are curious about.

Some other sources told about the MX4 are it is built with Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor, 3GB of RAM, 16-megapixel rear camera, 5 megapixel front-facing camera. Plus, an Android app, but still it is not sure whether it will be apply on both model is Android-based Flyme 4.0. The rumors is still just a rumors, but if and only if, it is released on early August. Are you just wanted to let it passed by or grab the opportunity to be one of the earliest brand new, MX4, Meizu’s finest smartphone user?

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