Meizu just unveiled its new flagship, the Meizu Pro 5 at an event in Beijing. The phone comes with top-notch specs to ensure that it stays ahead of the competition. The overall design looks similar to the MX5 which is not really a bad thing since the phone does look premium.

The phone comes with a one piece aluminum body, with a slightly protruding camera at the back. The back features a smooth texture with a three stage design. You will also find the new Meizu logo at the back, which much simpler and modern looking than the previous one. The front features a 5.7-inch display with 2.5D glass and the mBack button below it.

It comes with the new age, reversible USB Type-C port. The Meizu Pro 5 handset is quite thin too, as it measures just 7.55mm in thickness. Also, it weighs about 168 grams.

You can check out the Meizu Pro 5 hands on images from down below. As for the full specs and availability details, you can check out our launch article. 

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After all the hype that we have been seeing for the past few weeks, Meizu has officially announced the Meizu Pro 5 flagship. This is the first phone in the company’s new Pro series, which is targeted at the high-end market. Like promised, the Pro 5 flagship comes with top-notch specs that will put most other smartphones to shame.

The Meizu Pro 5 comes with the powerful Exynos 7420 chipset under the hood. This is a great move from the company since at present, Exynos 7420 is one of the best SoCs in the market. The same chip powers the company’s Galaxy Series which have received positive reviews for their performance. Plus its built using the advanced 14nm FinFet process making it all the more efficient. Further, the phone comes with Mali-T760 MP8 GPU and 16nm UFS Flash memory. There will be 3GB / 4GB DDR4 RAM options and storage starts at 32GB with higher version getting 64GB.

Like the founder Bai Yongxiang revealed a few days back, the Pro 5 flagship will come with a 5.7-inch FHD 1080p Diamond Super AMOLED display with 2.5D Glass. So, we won’t be seeing any 2K smartphones from the company anytime soon.

At the back, there’s a powerful 21MP Sony IMX230 Sensor. The camera module features a new ISP, which supports shooting at 24 fps as well. The company claims that the camera launches in just 0.7 seconds. Laser AF focuses in just 0.2 seconds. Interestingly, the company is yet to announce the specs of the front camera.

With such powerful specs, you need a large battery. While the 3050mAh battery isn’t the largest we have seen in a flagship, its still good enough to last you an entire day. Meizu claims that with 5 hours of heavy usage the phone still has about 43% charge. This is because it comes with a new efficient sensor hub that reduces power consumption by up to 30%. What’s even better is that the phone comes with mCharge 2.0, which charges up to 60% in just 30 minutes. That’s pretty impressive. Plus, you get the new USB Type-C port as well.

Meizu started off as an MP3 player manufacturer. And now the company is using its previous experience in the field to attract audiophiles. The new Meizu Pro 5 smartphone will come with Hi-Fi 2.0. It comes with ES9018 DAC chip and OPA1612 operational amp to make sure that music output is of high quality.

As for the software, like we expected, the Pro 5 comes with Flyme 4.5 out of the box. However, the phone will soon (by Nov 15) be upgraded to Flyme 5.0 based on Android 5.1. The new Flyme OS brings a lot of upgrades like personalized lock screen, new icons, real time, color change with content, split screen multi-tasking, new security center, custom fonts (200+) and over 300+ such features and optimizations. Connectivity options are standard with Cat. 6 LTE support (300MBPS +) and VoLTE support as well.

Also, like the MX5, you get the mBack button integrated with mTouch fingerprint ID.

As for the pricing, the Meizu Pro 5 flagship starts at 2799 Yuan ($438) for the 3GB RAM + 32GB version and 3099 Yuan ($485) for 4GB + 64GB version. The phone goes on sale on October 12.

Meanwhile, if you are interested, you can pre-order the phone at giztop.

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Meizu CEO Bai Yongxiang had earlier said that the company has decided to use a maximum resolution of of 1080p on its upcoming smartphones. This meant that the Meizu Pro 5 flagship that will debut next week on September 23 will also come with a 1080p display. We have already seen a lot of leaks, renders and bechmark results of the Pro 5 handset, however, we still weren’t quite sure about the phone’s display size.

Now CEO Bai has just made things a lot more clear, by saying that the upcoming flagship will come with a 5.7-inch display with 1080p resolution. According to him, anything more than 4.7-inches will not be comfortable to hold. As a result, it becomes necessary to add optimizations to improve user experience. Meizu Pro 5’s 5.7-inch display size will be ideal with the mBack physical home button at the bottom of the display. The company’s mBack button can reportedly understand how hard the user presses the button. A simple touch will take you one step back, while a harder press will take you to the home.

Now that the display size is also confirmed, we kind of know what to expect from the new Pro 5 flagship. The flagship is expected to come in two variants, one powered by the Exynos 7420 and the lower end variant powered by Helio X20 deca-core chip. There will be 3GB/ 4GB RAM options with 32GB / 64Gb of storage. As for the camera, you can expect a 21MP sensor at the back and a 5MP shooter up front. As for the software, the phone is expected to feature Android 5.1 Lollipop OS based on the new Flyme 5.0 UI. Flyme’s Chief Architect had already released a few screenshots of the new OS, which you can check out from this link here.

The Meizu Pro 5 flagship is expected to be one of the costliest handset from the company till date, with the pricing rumored to be above 3000 Yuan. But the phone is definitely turning out to be impressive. So, it would be interesting to see whether customers are willing to shell out such an amount for a Meizu device.

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