Meizu Releases The 16s: 48MP and Snapdragon 855

Meizu is likely one of the Chinese distributors that we had lined early on over the previous few years. One of the early points with the corporate’s flagships is that they most frequently lacked the correct frequency bands for western networks, notably the dearth of B20 for European carriers, although the corporate’s mid- and low-range merchandise are very a lot prevalent in some European markets reminiscent of France. The firm final yr regarded to  tackle this challenge, in coincidence with the change from Samsung’s Exynos SoCs to Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragons, and launched the Meizu 16 and 16^th with the Snapdragon 710 and Snapdragon 845 with devoted abroad fashions.

Today’s announcement is in regards to the new Meizu 16s – a full {hardware} refresh of final yr’s fashions together with the brand-new Snapdragon 855 and a brand new digital camera sensor, in addition to an inside redesign to accommodate a notably larger battery.

Powered by the brand new Snapdragon 855 SoC, the brand new Meizu 16s permits the corporate to be among the many first to make use of the brand new era SoC on this yr’s merchandise. Qualcomm’s new SoC this yr impressed lots and will definitely be a strong basis for the 16s.

The telephone comes with both 6 or 8GB of LPDDR4X with 128GB or 256GB of storage, nonetheless the 8+256GB mixture received’t be accessible outdoors of China.

Although the brand new 16s looks as if a {hardware} improve to the 16^th, it’s additionally very a lot a design improve, should you look intently sufficient. Meizu nonetheless maintains a 1080 OLED show, nonetheless the display has grown larger to six.2”. This improve nonetheless didn’t come at a price of an even bigger telephone although, because the 16s retains the largely the identical form-factor as its predecessor. Instead Meizu was in a position to additional scale back the highest and backside bezels of the design and elongate the display aspect-ratio. 

The display continues to be AMOLED and the panel is provided by Samsung. Meizu advertises that it calibrated the display of the 16s all the way down to an accuracy of 1.5 JNCD and says it’s forward of the competitors on this regard.

Also launched within the 16 and now upgraded within the 16s, is the brand new under-screen fingerprint sensor which is claimed to have doubled its unlocking velocity.

A key a part of reaching this new design was the brand new front-camera which is a brand new 20MP Samsung 3T2 sensor module which is claimed to be the primary of its sort employed in a telephone and distinguishes itself by being extraordinarily small, with a purpose to match into the small prime bezel.

Further design adjustments are apparent when flipping the telephone round, right here we see that the cameras have shifted over from the center of the telephone to the aspect. I’m not too large fan of this new setup because it’s fairly too widespread amongst different distributors, nonetheless that is simply my subjective opinion.

Among the {hardware} adjustments is the primary digital camera sensor: Here Meizu has swapped within the 12MP unit of the 16s in…