Meizu announces Pro 6 smartphone on April 13

The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Meizu will announce its new top model on April 13. The Meizu Pro 6 will probably get a 5.7″ OLED screen and the Helio X25 soc from Mediatek. That is a slightly faster variant of the existing X20 soc with ten cores.

The manufacturer announced the launch date itself on the Meizu community forum. Meizu’s CEO, Huang Zang, has also posted a photo of the back of the device on Weibo. No information has been given about the specifications yet, but according to rumors, the Meizu Pro 6 will have a 5.7″ OLED screen with a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels.

There would be variants with 4 and 6 GB of ram and 64 or 128 GB of storage. The camera probably contains a 21-megapixel sensor from Sony and the battery has a capacity of 3500mAh. The device probably runs on Android 6.0 with Meizu’s own shell.

In mid-March, a presentation from Mediatek showed that Meizu will use the new Helio X25 soc. That chip has a total of ten computing cores, divided over three clusters. The two Cortex A72 cores run at 2.5GHz, slightly faster than the 2.3GHz in the X20-soc. Furthermore, there are four A53 cores at 2.0GHz and four A53 cores at 1.4GHz. The Mali T800MP4 GPU of the X25 is also slightly faster, with a clock speed of 850MHz instead of 780MHz.

For the Meizu Pro 5, the manufacturer used an Exynos 7420-soc from Samsung: the same chip as in the Samsung Galaxy S6.