Meizu presents Pro 6 Plus smartphone with Galaxy S7 soc

The Chinese manufacturer Meizu has presented its Pro 6 Plus smartphone. The phone has an Exynos 8890-soc, the same system-on-a-chip developed by Samsung as the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge have on board.

Samsung makes the Exynos 8890 in the Pro 6 Plus on its 14nm finfet process. The 8890 is also the first Samsung soc with self-designed cores. The M1 microarchitecture is based on ARMv8 and has a special element of industry prediction. That industry prediction should predict which instructions will follow the first in a series, so that they can already be prepared. The M1 cores run at 2GHz in the cheaper variant of the phone and at 2.3GHz in the more expensive variant.

In addition to the four M1 cores, the Exynos 8890 has four regular Cortex A53 cores for lighter work and an ARM Mali T880 GPU with, depending on the variant, ten or twelve cores for the graphics tasks. The memory is 4GB in both variants, but the capacity of the UFS storage varies. The cheaper one has 64GB on board, the more expensive one has 128GB.

The screen also comes from Samsung. It is a 5.7″ OLED screen with a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels. This corresponds to the characteristics of the screens of the Note 4, 5 and 7, all three of which also have a 5.7″ screen with that resolution. . The screen is pressure sensitive. Below the screen is a fingerprint scanner with built-in heart rate monitor.

The camera is an IMX386 from Sony, which can also be found in previous Meizu models. It is a twelve-megapixel camera with 1.25 micron pixels and a sensor size of 1/2.9″. Lighting comes from a ring-shaped flash with ten LEDs.

The Meizu Pro 6 Plus is currently only available in China. The cheaper variant costs 2999 yuan, currently converted about 410 euros. The more expensive variant with 128GB storage currently costs about 450 euros.