Meizu has announced its latest release for the budget segment, the Meizu M6T powered by a Mediatek chipset and dual cameras at the back. The phone is meant to take on the super cheap smartphones that retail for less than 1000 Yuan (~$150) which means the 6T will compete with a couple of popular Xiaomi phones in this segment. Despite its sub-1000 Yuan placement, the phone isn’t all about budget hardware. There are a few features that makes it stand apart from the competition and let’s take a look at them in detail down below.

The Meizu M6T is powered by the MediaTek MT6750 chipset. Personally, I would have preferred something like the SD450 on board, similar to the Xiaomi Redmi 5 but it should still be good enough for powering a budget device. There are three storage variants available: 3+32GB, 4+32GB, and 4+64GB. Further, the back is polycarbonate and looks pretty premium for a low-end device. The dual cameras are arranged vertically at the center with the flash above and the fingerprint sensor below. I believe this is the first time Meizu has decided to go with a rear placed fingerprint sensor. Overall, the M6T is a good looking budget phone and personally, I would prefer it over Redmi 5’s back design. You get three color options, black, champagne gold, and a red one too!

The display is pretty big at 5.7-inches and there’s a decent HD+ 1440 x 720p resolution too, so it conforms to the recent 18:9 display trend. But what makes the Meizu M6T really special among its peers is the presence of a dual camera setup at the back. The setup is just basic with a 13MP + 2MP IMX278 RGBW setup, said to be good for bokeh portraits. The front features an 8MP f/2.0 shooter with ArcSoft beauty algorithms. Overall, the M6T boasts a better camera setup than the Redmi 5.

Another highlight of the Meizu M6T is the presence of the Super mBack button. Its not really a physical button, but this one button can take care of all of your navigation needs. First seen on the Meizu M6S, now it’s present on almost all of the company’s recent phones. Inside, the phone has a 3300mAh battery with 5V 1.5A charging, which isn’t exactly fast charge, but decent enough for a budget device. Other features include infrared sensor, Bluetooth 4.1, Wi-Fi n, and support for TDD-LTE B34/B38/B39/B40/B41, and FDD-LTE B1/B3/B8.

For a starting price of 799 Yuan ($125), the Meizu M6T looks like a winner. If you want better variants, you’ll have to shell out 999 Yuan ($155) for 4GB + 32GB and 1099 Yuan ($171) for 4GB + 64GB variants respectively. Note that the storages are expandable up to 128GB via MicroSD.

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Back when the rumors and leaks revealed that the Meizu M6S was not going to feature the company’s popular mBack home button, many were disappointed. The reaction wasn’t surprising because mBack was often considered one of the best ways to navigate the phone and losing such an important feature was never going to go well with the company’s fans. However, little did we know that Meizu had a big surprise for us. Well, they did tease us that they had a surprise, but we weren’t expecting a next generation version of the mBack, which the company is calling the Super mBack. Some even call it the Halo button.

Regardless of its name, the button incorporates all of the features of the mBack button with the help of a small halo circle on the screen. It looks easy to use and in the first demo that we saw, the usage felt pretty simple and natural.

By implementing a pressure sensor below the display, we are able to offer all mBack features in our new Halo button. pic.twitter.com/rGp8OxydAv

— Ard Boudeling (@ArdCB) January 17, 2018

For making this work, Meizu has added a pressure sensor chip below the display along with a linear vibration motor. The tech seems to be from NextInput, a company focused on force sensing solution for touch displays. Considering there’s a vibration motor below the display, the gestures should give good feedback as well, making them feel more natural.

Meizu’s Head of Global Marketing, Ard Boudeling was kind enough to give us all a demo of the Super mBack halo button on twitter.

Here’s a quick demo. pic.twitter.com/RQmdz7rXrT

— Ard Boudeling (@ArdCB) January 17, 2018

And these are gestures.

Our new Halo button implements all mBack features, and more.

– Touch to go back.
– Press to go home.
– Long-press to sleep.
– Swipe left/right to switch apps.
– Swipe up to multitask.

And one last gesture… Can anyone guess?

— Ard Boudeling (@ArdCB) January 17, 2018

Finally, if you don’t like the new Super mBack Halo button, you can always switch back to the default Android navigation buttons.

Once again, it looks like Meizu has done a fine job in making navigation on its smartphones super easy.

What do you think?

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