Meizu’s new Pro 6 Plus and M5 Note smartphones land in Malaysia for RM1,999 and RM849
One of China’s most popular phone brands has just landed in Malaysia with the official launch of their premium Pro 6 Plus phablet and midrange M5 Note. Of note on the new phones is their Flyme user interface overlaid on Android that is built around a unique array of gestures and a single home button with different functionality depending on how you press it. A gentle tap returns to the previous screen while pressing the button down gets you to the home screen. Swiping the touchscreen on a Meizu phone running Flyme from the lower left to the upper right gets you to a menu screen of opened apps. Depending on which apps you have onscreen, a hard press triggers haptic feedback and opens up a set of alternative menus. It offers a learning curve but it’s an interesting take on an Android UI overlay.
In Malaysia, users get to acquire the Meizu M5 Note and the Pro 6 Plus phablet. Both phones are now exclusively available from Meizu’s authorised Malaysia distributor Dynamics at www.dynamic.com.my
Meizu Pro 6 Plus
The Meizu Pro 6 Plus is a huge phablet with an aluminium chassis, a crisp 5.7-inch Super AMOLED 518ppi display with a razor sharp 2,560 x 1,440 pixel resolution sourced from Samsung paired with a Samsung Exynos 8890 2.0GHz processor, making it one of the first examples of Samsung’s eponymous processors appearing on a phone outside of their brand in Malaysia.
The phone comes 4GB RAM and 64GB of expandable storage up to 128GB SD cards. The rear 12-MP camera has a new Sony IMX386 processor, optical image stabilisation, PDAF and an F/2.0 aperture as well as a novel 10-LED ring flash for more pleasing pictures. The front-facing selfie camera has a 5-MP sensor with an F/2.0 aperture and a relatively larger 1.4um pixel size for better selfies.
The base of the display comes with a fingerprint reader and the 3,400mAh battery supports 24W fast charging with a 60% charge in 30 minutes from dead zero. Other interesting refinements including an ‘always on’ display akin to the recently launched Galaxy S7 that displays the time and other notifications. The Meizu Pro 6 Plus phablet ships in your choice of gray, silver and gold for RM1,999 which makes it compelling proposition seeing as you’re getting a vibrant Samsung issued Super Amoled display and a high-end display for under two grand.
Meizu Note 5
Built from the ground up as a midrange phone, the M5 comes with an aluminium chassis, a 5.2-inch 1080P touchscreen, a Mediatek Helio P10 64-bit octacore processor, 3GB RAM and 32GB of expandable storage.
The rear comes with a 13-MP camera with an F/2.2 aperture and PDAF/ The front camera comes with a 5-MP selfie snapper with an F/2.0 aperture. Other interesting mod-cons include a fingerprint sensor at the base and a 4,000mAh battery with mCharge fast charging tech. The phone ships in your choice of gray, silver or ‘champagne gold’ for RM849.
