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Meizu MX5 Rumors: 2K Screen and 41MP Nokia Cam!

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December 4
by chris eilers

Xiaomi is at the moment the clear Number 1 Smartphone Seller in China and Number 3 Worldwide. For sure China has quite strong competition for Xiaomi with Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE. Up till Meizu launched the Meizu MX4 and MX4 Pro, we did not have the feeling that anyone could come close to Xiaomi’s Price and Spec Level though.

Meizu MX5 Render

Meizu is competing fiercely with Xiaomi. In newest reports the low-cost Meizu K52 will compete directly with the Xiaomi Redmi 1S and Redmi NOTE Series, which are selling like hotcakes globally. 2015 will be sure very interesting with intense competition in the chinese market.

Xiaomi--Mi5-render

A few days ago Chinese Analyst Sun Changxu, shared some very interesting details about an alleged Xiaomi MI5 coming up. According to him the Xiaomi MI5 will come with 2K QHD Display, Snapdragon 810 Octa-Core CPU with Adreno 430GPU. All of this awesome specs for 1999 yuan as the current Xiaomi Mi4. This is a bit hard to believe, but after all it’s Xiaomi!

After that it did not take long till we heard first rumors about the Meizu MX5, the direct competition of the Xiaomi Mi5. The first Concepts of the MX5 appeared on the chinese news-site Weibo and were posted by the Android Engineer @Deelie. According to this reports the MX4 will sport a 2K display, Fingerprint Scanner, and wait for 41 Megapixel Nokia Rear Camera!

What do we make of these news? While we know that the Meizu MX4 and MX4 Pro are very camera centric, a 41MP Nokia Camera on the Meizu MX5 seems a bit hard to believe. But then again who thought Meizu could be serious competiton for Xiaomi before the Meizu MX4? Lets sit back and wait for more news on the launch!