More than better

The MX4 redefines "better"

A larger display. A better-performing processor. Increased battery life. Faster data connectivity. Class-leading screen-to-body ratio. A thinner, lighter design. You will get them all with the MEIZU MX4. We have pushed the boundaries of design and technology to show the world how a big-screened phone can be easier to use. The MX4 redefines "better".


Specifications


Rear Camera
•20.7 megapixels
•SONY premium IMX220 Exmor RS sensor
•4X digital zoom with 300°panorama
•Blue glass IR filter
•Five-element lens, F/2.2 aperture
•0.3s AF motor, burst mode up to 25 photos per second
•Lens-protective Corning® Gorilla® Glass3
•Nightlight stabilization (ISP built-in multiframe noise reduction stabilization)


Front Camera
•SONY IMX208 (2MP)
•Sharp 4P lens with blue glass filter
•F/2.0 aperture
•Smart picture enhancement



Display


Tonal range

85%


Dimensions

5.36-inch Sharp/JDI


Resolution

1920 x 1152


Contrast ratio

1100:1


Brightness

500cd/m2 max brightness with 2048 levels of brilliance control


Texture

Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3


Display technique

New Mode2/ IPS


Craft

OGS



Processor

True eight cores CPU (MediaTek 6595, Meizu customized version)

A17 2.2GHz x 4 + A7 1.7GHz x 4 (8 cores can be turned on simultaneously )

PowerVR G6200 GPU (Meizu customized version)

2GB dual-channel LPDDR3 memory, 933MHz

Dual ISP chips, 4 channels processing, speed up to 6Gbps




Network Type

TD-LTE / FDD-LTE / TD-SWCDMA / WCDMA / GSM




Wi-Fi[/font]

802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi

Dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4G/5G)



Bluetooth

Bluetooth 4.0

Support BLE




[font=Arial]Sensors

Ambient Sensor, Gravity sensor, Hall Effect sensor, Infrared proximity sensor

Gyroscope, Ambient light sensor, Touch sensitive, Digital compass




Positioning

GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, QZSS, BDS, Digital compass, Inertial navigation




Image

JPEG/ PNG/ GIF/ BMP



Audio

FLAC/ APE/ AAC/ MKA/ OGG/ MP3

MIDI/ M4A/ AMR/ WAV




Video

MP4/ 3GP/ MOV/ MKV/ AVI/ FLV/ MPEG

M2TS/ TS




Blue Kor Sdn Bhd, the official distributor for Meizu smartphones in Malaysia, will be officially launching the MX4 smartphone in Malaysia at a retail price of RM1099. The smartphone, made from “aircraft-grade” aluminium, will be available online via Lazada and gogomobile.com.my.

To be available in three colour options (Grey, White and Gold), Blue Kor will only be bringing in the 16GB variant to Malaysia. We’ve also been told that stocks will arrive in batches, and for that reason stocks may be limited. The first wave of stocks will arrive on 28 November, and will be available online via the two retailers.

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Review of the MX4 by PhoneArena

MX4 is a like an Iphone 6 with big ambitions.



MX4 PRO coming to Malaysia in the first quarter of 2015

The MX4 Pro has 3GB of RAM and is powered by the Samsung Exynos 5430, an octa-core processor which has four 2.0GHz Cortex-A15 cores and four 1.5GHz Cortex-A7 cores. The display is a 5.5-inch 1536 x 2560 IPS display that has a 5:3 aspect ratio, much like the aspect ratio of the MX4′s display.

It will come in choices of 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. Other specifications include a 20.7MP rear camera with double LED flash, 5MP front camera, 3350mAh battery, Android 4.4 KitKat with Meizu’s Flyme OS ROM, and a fingerprint sensor that doubles as the home button.


Antutu ranked the Meizu MX4 as the BEST PERFORMING phone for Q3 2014




Comparision of Specs Between the MX4 and MX4 PRO

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Flyme 3.x Tips and Tricks For MX4 USERs

Credits to GreyGhost of Meizufans EU



Flyme 3.x: Tips and Tricks

FlymeOS is unique and has quite a few features which are not so obvious to new users. Let us make a collection of ones we know or have found. If needed feel free to use screenshots to demonstrate Big Grin

Hopefully people who are new to Flyme will find this thread useful!!

Note:
Avoid posting "Thank you" posts and post only tips and tricks. Instead use "Like post" button. (To keep the thread clean and easy to find stuff in it)

1. Unlock with home button:
Touching the home button and sliding up lets you unlock the device.

2. Lock with home button:
Long press home button to lock the device.

3. Back gesture:
'Swiping up from home button' in any app will act as a "back" key gesture.

4. Recent tasks:
Slide up from bottom bezel anywhere other than home button brings up "Recent Tasks"

5. Killing recent tasks:
a. Kill individual task by holding down icon of the task and sliding up.
b. Kill all tasks by holding down any task icon and sliding it down.

6. Locking Particular recent task from getting killed:
1. Bring up Recent Tasks.
2. Long press icon of task you want to lock. (When locked a lock will appear below it as in screenshot)
3. Long press locked app icon to Unlock it.
4. Locked apps will have following features:
a. Will NOT EXIT if you use down swipe to exit all recent apps. (Even if you down swiped the locked app)
b. Will EXIT if you select the locked app and up swipe (Individual app kill)
c. When you restart a locked app that you killed it will restart with a locked status.


7. "Full Screen toggle":
Present in quick toggles in Notification area. When active will let you pull down (swipe down from top bezel) status bar in full screen apps like games etc.

8. Open Developer Settings and Root:
How to Root and Unlock Developer Settings.

9. Calculator - Resized Hover mode:
Clicking the button with two arrows at bottom right of calculator app gives moveable hovering window mode to calculator. (Total of two sizes are available)


10. Stock Video Player Shortcuts:
(In Horizontal orientation)
a. Swiping Up/Down (Vertically) on Left controls Volume
b. Swiping Up/Down (Vertically) on Right controls Brightness
c. Swiping Left to Right (Horizontally) anywhere in middle controls Video time seek.
d. Long press anywhere on screen to enter 'Lock mode' and lomg press again to Unlock.

11. Brightness and quick apps:
Swipe up to bring up Recent Apps and then swipe the Recent Apps bar to the Right. This will bring up Brightness control and quick apps shortcut.
a. You can have up to 5 different shortcuts here.
b. Add apps using the '+' sign
c. Apps can be removed by either swiping the app icon Up or Down.

This post has been edited by TOMEI-R: Jan 9 2015, 11:59 AM

The is already a mx4 thread available, no point to open multiple topic on the same phone

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3375390

It seems to me that thread is not maintained properly. A proper thread is needed for this phone.

I'm still waiting for the official launch in Malaysia. Initially it was Oct, then end of Nov...now if you read their FB post, today it said probably early Dec.

more like a 3GS to me

Its just a thread to ask if the MX4 is "Gooding or not". Doesnt look like a proper thread to me. Please post constructive materials only. Thank you.

2gb ram is abit wat la. and the screen size.. wouldn't some apps will have compability issue?

'looks' like iPhone 3Gs;
since the phone is not out yet so hopefuly they are coping with better specs (in paper)

If you think the default aint appropriate, you should just pm the mod to merge it, instead of creating multiple topics. If everyone also think like that, there will be multiple similar topic to make it messy enough to view

Besides what you are posting are just specs and review from those review sites only. There no much discussion going on bout the phone because there only a handful owner of the phone

This post has been edited by sniperwolf: Nov 19 2014, 07:20 PM

Well at least I some effort to make a proper thread for this model rather than complaining once others had done so.

Btw, tell me which thread on phones doesn't have specs and reviews from other sites? Unless you want me to make out my own specs for this phone.

This post has been edited by TOMEI-R: Nov 19 2014, 09:53 PM

thread maintained by a phone accessories seller. hehehehehe

You mean Mediatek processor powered Android device is least likely to receive OTA updates? Why is that so?

Ah...just noticed they are bringing 16GB model only! Without microSD card slot... 16GB is definitely not enough for most people.... Especially this is a mid high end phone. What are they thinking?

they will bring in 32gb further on. can check at their fb

Guys, Lazada starts taking pre-order for MX4 16GB already.

Hmmm...this is new to me! I thought ARM instructions are compatible across all ARM, especially same version number. Probably mediatek is missing out several crucial instructions?

This post has been edited by davidletterboyz: Nov 20 2014, 10:41 AM

You have a point there. Hopefully with the latest flagship model and their reputation on the line, Mediatek and Meizu will be quick in coming out with new updates especially with the new Android 5.0 Lollipop rolling out now for android devices.


They will surely bring the 16GB to "test market" first and being the cheapest model of the three, to command some market share first. Pure marketing strategy.

Looking good. Saw a few sellers on marketplace already selling this phone. Should be Ap sets though.

I'm waiting for MX4 Pro

Just annouced only yesterday..

The PRO will feature

- 5.5' Screen
- Samsung Exynos 5430 Chipeset (Same as the Galaxy Alpha's)
- 3GB Ram
- 3350 Mah Battery
- 5 MP front camera.
- Fingerprint Sensor

No word on international launch and pricing though.

64gb RM1.7k

cons of it is the 2k display.

Abit on the high side no? Even for this kinda specs?

Surely drop one,look at Note 4 now

but note 4 selling method and this is diff
this is mostly pre order or online sales like xiaomi does which the price will be fix until the main company drops the price.

as for note 4, they are sold by shops and online as well. so the profit margin that sellers get is more. therefore they are able to reduce the price whenever they wan. and this demand vs supply.

So the retail price should be over RM1.7k than

i mean if mx4 is compare for note 4
but mx4 should be cheap as it is direct like xiaomi
as it say free shipping in their web

Agreed. But what I meant to say was that the selling phone of China Phones like the Mx4 would be of course its high specs and lower price bracket for everyone to own one.

love mx4 front exterior, hate mx4pro square-samsung-alike button, but why the hell mx4 no nfc !!! Such a deal breaker for me !

Ya agree completely with you! The inclusion of that square home button completely screwed up the overall design.
BTW, what do you use NFC for?

my camera works perfectly with nfc, after link with nfc i can use my phone to take pictures, transfer pictures to handphone, all in one nfc touch.

and of course transfer pictures with friends.

any1 preorder mx4?
if anything happen, is there any service center that handle this phone?

This post has been edited by noien: Nov 20 2014, 07:27 PM

I bite the bullet and preordered. Hopefully won't regret. Lol

Having high end phone with 16gb of storage? You'll need otg drive for sure

hope to get some review from user

i asked and there will be a service centre no worries.

Haha if you read my earlier post, that was exactly what I thought. 16GB is ridiculously small for a 2014 mid-high end phone. But then I checked my current phone and found out I only used 3.1GB. So it's still fine for me because I'm not really into mobile gaming nor using lots of apps but of course I'm very sure it's inadequate for normal users. Plus I am impatient to wait any longer. Hopefully I will not regret later.

Haha see how it goes. It will only arrive sellers on 28th and then will take a few days to ship from them. To be honest, the dimension, design, mag alloy frame and price are the things I like the most regarding this phone. The Mediatek SoC may not be able to compete with other flagship chips but it's more than enough for me.

I do have a few concerns. One reviewer (forgot where the source is) mentioned the video shot by this phone will be 15:9 resolution as well, and will have issues playing the video on other 16:9 phones. CNET reviewer gave a mediocre score for this phone mentioning it's buggy. He said the 15:9 display has compatibility issues with some apps. Another concern for me is the non-standard one home button UI. Not sure if I will get along well with that.

Meizu MX4 Review - A Very Different Android (In 4…: http://youtu.be/KLX5GKzHGmk

His reviews more or less helped me decide whether to get the mx4 or not..

If using mastercard to buy at lazada today got 10% discount !!! RM 989 !!! OMGGGGGGGGGGGGG,should i buy it !?!?!?!

i like the whole phone except for no nfc................

Wah..good price! Go for it?

about the battery performance, i read through many reviews, some said great (1.5day at least), 2 said poor, like the link u provided. dont know what happen though

argggg

and another thing is now im using nexus 4 lollipop 5.0, if buy this phone means have to downgrade to kit kat

This post has been edited by Ah hao: Nov 21 2014, 12:09 PM

iphone 6 plus look alike..

go for it?

in the end, i lose to my desire

土豪金 here i come !

RM989 sure is tempting

Yeah. Not sure why there is a big difference in terms of batt. performance in their reviews. Anyway a forummer here used to have this phone told me the battery consumption is better than HTC and iPhone equivalent. Just not as good as OnePlus One.

Welcome abroad.

For almost 1/3 of Iphone 6+ price, How is the performance of MX4 ?



havent get the phone yet but i feel proud

Wow that is gooding

Put it this way... for rm989 what have you gotta lose?

Did lazada pulled off the link, dont see the preorder on lazada now.

This post has been edited by TOMEI-R: Nov 21 2014, 11:32 PM

yes.pre order stop.
will continue 5th of december.
can check from meizu fb

as stated before, limited stock, now stock finish dy i guess. Wow, im in the first batch !

Maybe mx4 sales is more than that of xiaomi. Thats why they had to take preorder off the site.


Do let us know when u receive the phone.

But Lazada mentioned we will receive our phones 4-6 days after it arrived on 28th? That's like two weeks to go.

ya, ETA at our hand is 3rd dec onwards... and i have a hunch it will delay

I bought two lucky me! this phone surely wont regret judging by the youtube reviews.. cant wait haha

This post has been edited by FatHuntresS: Nov 21 2014, 11:24 PM

3rd buyer reporting in ! welcome !

How many people have actually preordered?

You mean in this thread or overall?

This thread of course.

Learnt from another review saying thr Meizu's camera performs better than Z3's own camera even though its the same camera.

all reviews result are different, i saw (almost) all the review in english and chinese, some said good, some said bad for camera and battery... Many users in china complain that camera is very very slow, nothing like what it advertised, but almost all review didnt mention this problem at all.

what i saw from china forum:

1. camera very bad, focus and shooting take a long time, very easily blur.
2. phone speaker when listening to music will have a noise, like "electric" noise, a firmware issue.
3. random reboot always.
4. screen flickering/jumping

But none of this mention in reviews at all, not sure what is happening. Maybe is "competitors" spy to wreck meizu reputation? im not sure about that.

reli that bad? was thinking of rekomen to my fren either this, mi4 or 1+1

I think it would be fair to try the phone out yourself. For that price for such hardware, you could root or flash with other fws of your choice.

IINM there are three of us here who preordered

I'm not surprised with that because the same thing happened in DSLR scene. Sony has a fantastic sensor team but an underperforming JPEG team. Not sure why.

Ya. Seems to me there are two extreme of reviews ratings out there.

ya, only try myself can know what is really happening.

got 2 possibilities:

1. enemy spy create rumours to break meizu reputation,which is highly possible due to recent dispute with their competitors in Weibo.

2. meizu paid those oversea's reviewers to only report positive side, which is possible too.

I wont conclude anything before my phone arrive

screen on time anyone?

mediatek everywhere. haiihhh. why mediatekk!!!!

alright den. i will keep an eye on the thread for your review soon lel

phone is not here yet but Phone Arena stated 7hour 25 minutes,which is amazing to me.

http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Meizu-MX...w_id3809/page/4

Cheap ma...lol
Anyway quite a lot of Intel engineers joined them recently.

if they use snapdragon,intel or exynos. i will sell my ip5s and buy it laahhh

The latest mx4 pro ia using exynos but meizu didn't gave it exynos 5433 probally because of note4... so performance no as great as it could have been..

The mx4 pro is running on exynos. No excuses this time.

dont care,lol. at least not mediatek

ikr? heck yeeeahhhh . any info when it will arrived in malaysia?

WTS: ip5s gold 16gb. pm me lel

from meizu fb is around jan or feb but it is not confirm
it better reach here before gst kicks in

its Meizu MX4 i think. not Meizu MX4 Pro. am i right?

meizu mx4 already can be bought online. next ETA is 5th Dec
meizu mx4 pro should arrive around jan or feb

oohhhh got it. thanks .

but the UI soo ugly,just watch the review on youtube

ugly or not is ok. as long it does support AOSP or others. but currently not

lel . maybe ill take g3 .

y not 1+1 when the price around the same

because g3 have better spec and alot of great features

For rite now, the Mx4 pro is only available in China. Not sure when they are going to launch for other countries yet.

direct d will bring it to malaysia

Probablly...You have news of that?

nnoop. if mx4 pro got high demand. fer sure direct d will bring it like vivo and xiaomi and nexus 9 tab

I thought the UI looks OK. Samsung is far more uglier lol.

I was attracted by its gestures and slim bezal.

Something to 'motivate' you all further.
The MX4 pitted againts the G3 and Z3.

This post has been edited by TOMEI-R: Nov 24 2014, 02:25 PM


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To be honest, I'm not interested with synthetic benchmark figures at all. I don't play games with my phone and it's already fast enough for normal browsing etc. As long as the UI can run smoothly (which current synthetic benchmarks cannot measure) it's already good enough.