Meizu announces M6s smartphone with 18:9 screen and Samsung soc

Meizu has announced the M6s, a midranger with an 18:9 screen of 5.7″ and a resolution of 1440×720 pixels. The device contains a Samsung Exynos 7872-soc, which has both fast A73 cores and economical A53 cores. .

The Samsung Exynos 7872-soc is one of the first midrange chips to combine fast ARM Cortex-A73 cores with economical A53 variants. It is a combination of two fast cores at 2GHz and four economical cores at 1.6GHz. The soc is made on a 14nm process and contains a Mali G71 GPU with one core, which has a speed of 1.2GHz.

Samsung puts a soc of the same generation in its Galaxy A8. However, that concerns the Exynos 7885, which has six instead of four A53 cores. The A73 cores in the Samsung smartphone with 2.2 GHz are also clocked a bit higher and the Mali G71 GPU has two cores.

Meizu has announced the device in a series posts on Twitter. The device has 3GB of RAM and there will be versions with 32GB and 64GB emmc flash memory. On the back is a 16-megapixel camera with a Samsung sensor and a lens with an f/2.0 aperture. The battery has a capacity of 3070mAh. Meizu supplies the device with Android 7.0 with its own Flyme OS 6 shell. There is a fingerprint scanner on the side of the device.

In China, the 32GB version is priced at 999 Yuan and the 64GB model costs 1199 Yuan. Converted that is about 127 and 152 euros, although the devices will probably be more expensive after import tax and VAT if they are sold in Europe.