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Meizu announces MX Quad-core with Exynos processor

Michael Crider, Apr 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

Just five months after the Meizu MX became official, it's getting the quad-core processor that the Chinese superphone was rumored to get in the first place. But this time there's a surprise: the MX Quad-core is using Samsung's Exynos A9 architecture for its system-on-a-chip, something that should make performance junkies ecstatic even without a given clock speed. Meizu announced the new phone today with a planned release in June, claiming a 60% increase in processor performance and a 50% jump in GPU performance over the previous version. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Meizu MX Review

Chris Burns, Feb 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

While the Meizu electronics brand isn’t that well known outside of China at the moment, they’re certainly a brand to be reckoned with in the smartphone market, and if the Meizu MX is any indication, they’ll be a whole lot more well known in the very near future. The device you see before you is a high-end Android device made for release in China only, but because of its 2G and 3G network bands, we’re able to use it here in the USA with a micro SIM card from T-Mobile or AT&T, whichever we so choose to pop in. Because of this, the review of this device makes for a rather interesting exercise in testing Meizu on a global scale: can this MX smartphone stand up to the rest of the Android devices here in the USA?

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Meizu MX quad-core edition Android coming in May 2012

Chris Burns, Dec 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

It's just been confirmed in the official Meizu forums by Meizu CEO J. Wong that they'd be producing their second big release with the Meizu MX name in 2012: a quad-core version of the handset! This is more than exciting for those of us who've yet to even get our hands on the first version released in Hong Kong late this year, this device running the greatest version of Android out there: Meizu's fully custom interface! Read The Full Story

Meizu MX smartphone official: Pentaband HSPA+ and 1.4GHz dualcore

Paul Fang, Dec 5th 2011 Discuss [11]

Chinese electronics manufacturer Meizu has finally unveiled its next flagship Meizu MX smartphone, though it's not quite the speed-demon we were originally expecting. A dual-core version running a 1.4GHz Samsung Exynos 4210 chip will arrive before the previously-spotted quad-core version, the faster model not expected to arrive until next year, going on sale in China on New Year's Day. What does MX stand for? There's actually a special reason for such a naming convention, since it actually borrows first two letters from the Chinese characters for the word “dream,” or “meng xiang”. And that's most likely what Meizu hopes it will be; China's dream phone of the year. Read The Full Story

Meizu MX may be first quad-core Android phone

Rue Liu, Sep 19th 2011 Discuss [4]

Meizu may soon be launching the very first Android smartphone to feature a quad-core processor. This powerful handset is rumored for a late September launch and will arrive in two versions, one with 16GB internal storage and a dual-core processor and another with 32GB storage an the quad-core processor. Read The Full Story

The Daily Slash: January 3, 2011

Chris Burns, Jan 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

IT HAS BEGUN! We are less than... 12 hours away from the biggest electronics and tech show of the year. Oh man is it CES? Yes it is. We're there, we're all pumped up, and we're about to give you such a coverage as you have never seen. You'd better get just as pumped up as we are about this. On the other hand, it's time to get eternally fearful like Evan, who columns My First CES, & Why I’m Scared Out of my Mind. Next, check out Chris Davies' column by the name of CES 2011: The Tablet Reboot. Don Reisinger brings up a find column point on I’m Bored With Nintendo’s First-Party Games. And take a peek at one gigantoric monster desktop replacement notebook review of the HP ENVY 17 3D Review by yours truly. And just SEE if you can sleep, just SEE if you can get a wink of sleep now that you know CES is tomorrow, starting bright and early. Morning time. CES. Be there. Be here. Read The Full Story

Meizu Mbook 1080p-capable iPad rival detailed

Chris Davies, Apr 12th 2010 Discuss [1]

It's been a while since we've heard from Meizu but it seems the company has been watching Apple's iPad and planning their alternative. The Meizu Mbook is an 8.4-inch touchscreen slate running at 1024 x 768, with an unnamed 1.5GHz processor capable of 1080p output via an HDMI port. Read The Full Story

Meizu M8 gets unofficial Android mod [Video]

Chris Davies, Nov 13th 2009 Discuss [0]

Meizu's M8 started out as a comedy iPhone clone and gradually developed its own - at least partial - identity; now some earnest modders have given it a complete OS upgrade. Out went Windows CE, to be replaced by Google's Android platform, though it's still very early days and you lose more than just the original UI in the process. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Apple, Microsoft, iriver & more face Tsera touchpad patent lawsuit

Chris Davies, Jul 20th 2009 Discuss [0]

Apple, Microsoft, Bang & Olufsen and iriver are among the defendants named by Tsera LLC, a company claiming to own a touchpad patent which has been vigorously infringed. The lawsuit concerns Tsera's patent "Methods and apparatus for controlling a portable electronic device using a touchpad", and basically describes recognizing different touchpad swipes without requiring visual feedback. Read The Full Story

Meizu M8 takes on iPhone in WiFi web browsing video test

Chris Davies, Dec 8th 2008 Discuss [0]

The Meizu M8 may be a dead-ringer for the iPhone's physical and GUI design, but is it still a decent handset in its own right? We've already seen one review, now Chinese site Zol.com.cn has put the M8 through its paces in what most owners will be using it for: full-screen web surfing. Can the M8 render pages as quickly as Apple's smartphone? Check out the video comparison after the cut Read The Full Story

Meizu M8 iPhone-clone gets reviewed

Chris Davies, Dec 1st 2008 Discuss [0]

First the unboxing, now the review. Meizu's M8 wannabe-iPhone still isn't quite within the grasp of buyers, but IT168 have reviewed an early sample and, despite the delay, come away impressed. It might never have been blessed by Steve Jobs, but the 3.4-inch touchscreen handset - with a 3.2-megapixel camera and either 8 or 16GB of onboard memory - seems to have its own charms. Read The Full Story

Meizu M8 unboxed

Chris Davies, Nov 28th 2008 Discuss [0]

Meizu's M8 cellphone is growing to be something of a legend: ostensibly an iPhone clone, a fact hotly disputed by Meizu themselves, its arduous journey to market has taken the best part of a year. Now, PConline have unboxed what we're told is the final retail packaging, in preparation for the M8's mass production on December 8th. Read The Full Story