The Meizu M3 Max is a

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designed and produced by the

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manufacturer

Meizu ‌Meizu (sometimes stylized in all caps) (Chinese name: 星纪魅族集团) ‌ is a technology company registered in Zhuhai, China. Its predecessor, Meizu Technology, was founded by Huang Zhang in 2003 and was famous for its MP3 player and s ...

, which runs on

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, Meizu's modified

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operating system. It is a current

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model of the M series. It was unveiled on September 5, 2016, in Beijing.

History

In August, rumors about a new phablet Meizu device appeared after the company released some teasers for a new device mentioning that it will be a device containing “Max” in the product name. At the same point, invitations containing a

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device for a Meizu launch event on September 5, 2016, had been sent out. On August 26, 2016, several leaked photos of the upcoming phablet device had been released.

Release

As announced, the M3 Max was released in Beijing on August 10, 2016. Pre-orders for the M3 Max began after the launch event on August 10, 2016.

Features

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The Meizu M3 Max was released with an updated version of

, a modified operating system based on Android Marshmallow. It features an alternative, flat design and improved one-handed usability.

Hardware and design

The Meizu M3 Max features a MediaTek#Octa- and deca-core, MediaTek Helio P10 system-on-a-chip with an array of eight ARM architecture, ARM Cortex-A53 Central processing unit, CPU cores, an ARM Mali, Mali-T860 MP2 Graphics processing unit, GPU and 3 GB of Random-access memory, RAM. The M3 Max is available in four different colors (grey, silver, champagne gold and rose gold) and comes with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage. The Meizu M3 Max has a full-metal body, which measures x x and weighs . It has a Form factor (mobile phones)#Touchscreen/slate, slate form factor, being rectangular with rounded corners and has only one central physical button at the front. Unlike most other Android smartphones, the M3 Max doesn't have capacitive buttons nor on-screen buttons. The functionality of these keys is implemented using a technology called mBack, which makes use of gestures with the physical button. The M3 Max further extends this button by a Fingerprint recognition#Fingerprint sensors, fingerprint sensor called mTouch. The M3 Max features a fully laminated 6-inch IPS panel, IPS multi-touch capacitive touchscreen display with a Graphics display resolution#Full HD (1920x1080), FHD resolution of 1080 by 1920 pixels. The pixel density of the display is 296 ppi. In addition to the touchscreen input and the front key, the device has volume/zoom control buttons and the power/lock button on the right side, a 3.5mm Phone connector (audio), TRS audio jack on the top and a USB#Mini and micro connectors, microUSB (Micro-B type) port on the bottom for charging and connectivity. The Meizu M3 Max has two cameras. The rear camera has a resolution of 13 Megapixel, MP, a ƒ/2.2 aperture, a 5-element lens, phase-detection autofocus and an LED flash. The front camera has a resolution of 5 Megapixel, MP, a ƒ/2.0 aperture and a 4-element lens.

References

External links

Official product page
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