Meizu Huang Zhang: 5G mobile phones will be released next year

While Huawei, OPPO and others are planning to launch 5G mobile phones this year, Meizu has not made any moves. For this reason, many people are curious about when Meizu's 5G mobile phone will appear.

Recently, a netizen asked in the Meizu community, "When will Meizu release a 5G version of the phone?" Meizu founder, chairman and CEO Huang Zhang replied, "Don't rush for 5G. The initial 5G phones are bulky and heavy, and even if they only use 4G, they consume more power. We will launch 5G phones next year, but I personally think that 5G phones will be basically mature for consumers the year after next."

According to Meizu's official announcement, the 5G project will be launched in the second quarter of this year, the 5G signal will be connected in the third quarter, 5G prototypes will be produced in the fourth quarter, and a true 5G mobile phone will be launched in the second quarter of next year.

Meizu has not had a good time in recent years, with frequent internal personnel changes and its market share falling outside the top 5, with only about 1% of the market share.

Now, Meizu's style is no longer radical, but has become more stable. In the second half of this year, Meizu's focus will be on the new operating system.

On July 11, a picture suspected to be the Meizu Flyme 8 system progress chart was exposed online, along with a screenshot suspected to be Flyme 8.

Judging from the exposed pictures, Flyme 8 has started internal testing in the second quarter of this year, will enter the system sealing stage in the third quarter, and will eventually be launched in the fourth quarter of this year.

It can be inferred from this that the Flyme 8 system will be officially released as early as September, perhaps accompanied by a new Meizu phone.

Judging from the system screenshots, the system version number of this Meizu 16s is shown as Flyme 8.9.7.9 daily. This should be the version that was just compiled on July 9, and it seems that there will be updates every day.

Compared with Flyme 7, the interface of the new version has changed significantly. It can be seen that Flyme 8 has greatly reduced the "dividing line", which means that the new version is expected to introduce the concept of "wireless" and reduce the visual impact of lines.

Flyme 8 will have several main core functions. First of all, it is a set of system tools to squeeze out the performance of Snapdragon 855. Meizu's masterpiece - OneMind 3.0, integrates several core functions such as Cut-off Wake-up 3.0, Only Freeze 3.0, Resource Hosting 2.0, Memory Scavenger 2.0, Memory Compression 2.0, Process Cutter 3.0, and Abnormal Automatic Repair 2.0.

Whether the launch of Flyme 8 can give Meizu a shot in the arm remains to be seen.