Geely-owned Meizu 20 and Meizu FlymeAuto leak forward of debut

After a latest reshuffle, Geely develop into the only real proprietor of Meizu, the as soon as main smartphone maker, that has struggled previously few years and disappeared from the map. Now that it has some critical backing once more the corporate is getting ready to launch its newest Meizu 20 smartphone and we get a primary glimpse of it by means of a leaked picture.

A blurry video turned up on Chinese language social media exhibiting off the upcoming Meizu 20 and the up to date sensible cockpit answer known as FlymeAuto. The blogger who posted the video claims it was taken on the Meizu 20 telephone. We see an individual testing the FlymeAuto on a bigger display screen with the Meizu 20 related.

Meizu Flyme in Zeekr 001

It appears this can be a verification stage the place an engineer goes by means of all of the capabilities of each the system and the telephone and easily is ensuring that all the things works because it ought to. From the video FlymeAuto seems to be quick and responsive and the connection between the telephone and the massive display screen seems to be flawless.

The telephone itself clearly has a big flat display screen, nevertheless it’s encased in a design-concealing field to forestall leaks similar to this one from telling us an excessive amount of. The telephone is meant to launch within the spring and it has already been given the CQC approval (China High quality Certification), its battery obtained the 3C certification which revealed its capability as 4,600 mAh. In keeping with that certification, the Meizu 20 helps 80W charging which is sort of a step up from Meizu 18 and its 36W.

Again to FlymeAuto. The brand new system is the follow-up of the prevailing Flyme answer and it continues the “Alive Design” idea launched by Meizu. The thought is pretty simple – seamless connection and communication between a number of units to supply a unified expertise. Not so easy to execute. Fragmentation of our digital world means fixed points and sometimes abysmal expertise – cue present VW leisure system, which the corporate claims has been already revised. We’ll wait and see.

Geely’s curiosity in Meizu makes a number of sense. Whereas Volvo, Polestar, and Sensible lean in the direction of Android options, the corporate has an enormous portfolio of automobiles within the Chinese language market the place Google’s providers aren’t functioning correctly. Taking cost of a nicely established telephone firm provides Geely a number of experience in the case of growth and implementation of fluid software program.

For Meizu to make monetary sense to Geely, all it has to do is promote sufficient telephones to offset the prices of the in-car sensible cockpit growth. That method Geely finally ends up with a (hopefully) nice system and nice expertise for its prospects at zero value. And if Meizu turns a revenue – even higher. We will count on to see a car-centric telephone from Meizu or probably a brand new sub-brand, if Geely takes a web page from Nio’s ebook of concepts. Will we see Volvo and Polestar branded telephones in close to future?

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