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It's been a while since a Meizu smartphone last caught our attention, but in a twist of fate, the freshly announced Pro 7 flagship series manages to pack some surprises. Most notably, these devices are the work of legendary design studio, Frog, and they feature a tiny 1.9-inch 240 x 536 (307 ppi) AMOLED touchscreen on the back. This display lights up automatically when you flip the phone over, and it serves as a weather clock, a simple notification area, a music player and a mirror for taking selfies using the main camera.

Meizu is offering the Pro 7 in two flavors: the namesake base model comes with a 5.2-inch 1080p Super AMOLED screen, and the Pro 7 Plus features a 5.7-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED screen which also happens to be brighter -- 430 nits instead of 350 nits. Both versions come with the same set of cameras: a 16-megapixel f/2.0 front camera, plus a 12-megapixel f/2.0 dual camera on the back (based on Sony's IMX386 sensors with 1.25 um pixels; one for capturing color and another for just black and white).

Both models come in at 7.3 mm thick, but the Pro 7 Plus packs a larger 3,500 mAh battery -- an extra 500 mAh than its smaller sibling. The Plus also features Meizu's new mCharge 4.0 fast-charging tech, which uses a high-power charger at 5V and 5A. With this feature, a depleted Pro 7 Plus can reach 67 percent charge in just 30 minutes.

Sticking to its roots as a former MP3 player manufacturer, Meizu is throwing in a dedicated audio DAC, Cirrus Logic CS43130, into both the Pro 7 and the Pro 7 Plus. And yes, they still feature the conventional 3.5 mm headphone jacks, leaving your USB-C port available for more important uses such as charging and data transfer. As you'd expect, the phones support lossless music formats like FLAC and APE out of the box.

k00l

 

[slider]

That's incredibly gimmicky in my opinion. But I love it!

 

[YoungFa]

Anything about the price?

 

[CaviarMeths]

Hmm seems kind of pointless to turn the phone over to see information that could be displayed on the lock screen of the main screen? Not really seeing the point of two screens if you can only look at one at a time.

 

[Sesuadra]

as someone from germany, the name really confused me lol.

looks interesting.

 

[ponpo]

Anything about the price?

Sorry it's Chinese only atm and I figured most people here didn't give a shit about anything besides the photos but:

As the phones themselves, there are four prices. The Pro 7 with 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB UFS 2.1 storage is asking for 3,380 yuan (about $500), though it also has a more affordable option featuring the mid-range Helio P25 chipset and just 64GB of slower eMMC 5.1 storage for 2,880 yuan (about $430). Color options include black, gold and red.

The higher-end Pro 7 Plus with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of storage costs 3,580 yuan (about $530), or you can opt for the 128GB version for 4,080 yuan (about $600). The color options are slightly different here: you get matte black, space black, amber gold and crystal silver, though the 128GB version is only available in matte black or space black.

All four variants will be available for purchasing on August 5th, but since there's no word on global availability just yet, you'll have to get help from a China-based friend.

 

[sohois]

Anything about the price?

Guessing from typical Meizu flagship prices I would say 2500-3000 RMB
Edit: seems I underestimated a bit

 

[Dynomutt]

Hmm seems kind of pointless to turn the phone over to see information that could be displayed on the lock screen of the main screen? Not really seeing the point of two screens if you can only look at one at a time.

At least an indicator light. Blackberry ruined me. Convenient to look across the room see a led blinking a certain color and knowing what type of message.

 

[ascii42]

Hmm seems kind of pointless to turn the phone over to see information that could be displayed on the lock screen of the main screen? Not really seeing the point of two screens if you can only look at one at a time.

Right, this sort of thing made a lot of sense on flip phones, but I'm struggling to see a point here.

 

[ponpo]

At least an indicator light. Blackberry ruined me. Convenient to look across the room see a led blinking a certain color and knowing what type of message.

I love the light on my Nexus 6P and am sad my next phone probably won't have one.

 

[Frodo]

At least an indicator light. Blackberry ruined me. Convenient to look across the room see a led blinking a certain color and knowing what type of message.

This means my Nexus 6P can always be on silent mode.

 

[whitehawk]

Only real benefit I see is taking a selfie with the superior rear camera easily.

 

[Kyzer]

Hmm seems kind of pointless to turn the phone over to see information that could be displayed on the lock screen of the main screen? Not really seeing the point of two screens if you can only look at one at a time.

Selfie vision

 

[ElMexiMerican]

Hmm seems kind of pointless to turn the phone over to see information that could be displayed on the lock screen of the main screen? Not really seeing the point of two screens if you can only look at one at a time.

Its only useful if you typically set your phone face down when you're done using it. I suppose their thinking would be like business meetings, and if you set your phone face down you can still get notifications and stuff while in a meeting? Seems like a pretty small case use, but I'm not sure what other reasoning they'd have.