Meizu recently introduced its latest smartphone — Meizu Note 8 in China last month, which is an affordable different to the company’s Meizu X8. The phone was announced in 4 colour features — Dark, Gray Blue, Smoke Purple, and Flame Red.
Although the Black, Blue, and Purple colour models went on sale on 1st November, the Flame Red colour is currently all set to be in the world for buy from tomorrow. The phone has been offered at 1,298 Yuan in China, which roughly converts to $188.
It options a 6-inch Full HD+ panel with 2160 x 1080 pixels present resolution, 18:9 aspect ratio, 450-nits peak brightness, and 403ppi pixel density. Under the hood, the product is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 632 cpu, clocked at 1.8GHz, coupled with Adreno 506 GPU and 4GB of RAM.
The cameraphone sports 64GB internal memory with expandable support of up to 256GB. Approaching to the camera department, the product options a dual sensor option on the back, consisting of a 12-megapixel key scanner digital camera with dual PDAF and a 5-megapixel secondary camera camera with f/1.9 aperture.
On the front facet, there’s an 8-megapixel selfie scanner with f/2.0 aperture. For added security, it arrives equipped with a facial recognition technology-based unlock function as nicely as a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. Connectivity options in the smartphone have 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2 LE, and GPS/ GLONASS.
The cameraphone runs on Android Oreo-based company’s own Flyme Operation system custom interface with support for full-screen gesture support. It is fuelled by a 3,600mAh battery with 18W fast charging (mCharge), what still uses the micro USB port.
Meizu Note 8 competes against the likes of Xioami Redmi Note 6 and Lenovo S5 Pro, among others. We’ve in comparison how the product stacks up against the RN6 and Lenovo S5 Pro and against Huawei’s Honor 8C in terms of specs.