Meizu presents metal budget smartphone with large battery

The Chinese manufacturer Meizu has presented a metal smartphone with a fingerprint scanner. The M3 Note runs on a MediaTek Helio P10-soc and has a battery with a capacity of 4100mAh in the 8.2mm thick housing.

This makes the battery almost a third larger than that of other Meizu phones, the manufacturer says. The Chinese phone maker claims that the phone offers up to twelve hours of use on a battery charge. Presumably, the manufacturer means the time that the screen can be on.

The device runs on a Helio P10 from MediaTek, an octacore-soc with eight Cortex A53 processor cores and a Mali T860 GPU. Under the screen is a fingerprint scanner of unknown make. At the front is a five-megapixel camera, the rear camera has phase-detection autofocus and has a maximum resolution of thirteen megapixels.

The screen is an LCD with a diagonal of 5.5 “and a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. The Android smartphone with Meizu’s Flyme OS as a skin has 4G, but it is unknown whether the device supports all 4G frequencies used in the Benelux. There are often missing links on Chinese smartphones. The device has variants with 2GB lpddr3 memory and 16GB storage and 3GB memory and 32GB storage.Meizu has not yet announced prices, but are presumably below 200 euros; online stores in China are currently asking between 140 and 180 euros for the device.