Meizu just announced E3, the company’s latest smartphone in the ‘E Series’ in China, as it had promised. It has a 5.99-inch Full HD+ 18:9 display, is powered by Snapdragon 636 with 6GB RAM, but it still runs Android 7.1 (Nougat) with Flyme OS 6.3 on top. It has a 12-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, Dual PD full-pixel focus for 0.026s fast focus along with a 20-megapixel secondary camera, to capture depth information for portrait shots and 2.5x loss-less zoom. Both have Sony sensors and are protected by sapphire glass.

It has a 7.6mm slim metal unibody design, has a Super mBack fingerprint sensor on the right side that can unlock the phone in 0.2 seconds and is also customizable to perform several actions with pressure sensor offering comfortable on-handed usage. It packs a 3300mAh battery with mCharge fast charging that can charge the phone up to 53% in 30 minutes using 20W charger.

Meizu E3 specifications

5.99-inch (2160 × 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 18:9 2.5D curved glass LTPS In-Cell display with 83% NTSC Color Gamut

1.8GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 636 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 509 GPU

6GB LPDDR4x with 64GB / 128GB storage, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD

Android 7.1.2 (Nougat) with Flyme OS 6.3

Hybrid Dual SIM (nano+nano/microSD)

12-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, 1.4μm pixel size, Sony IMX362 sensor, f/1.9 aperture, secondary 20-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX350 sensor, f/2.6 aperture, 2.5x loss-less zoom

8-megapixel front-facing camera, f/2.0 aperture

Fingerprint sensor

Dimensions: 156.8 × 75 × 7.6mm; Weight: 160g

4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS + GLONASS, USB Type-C

3360mAh (typical) / 3300mAh (minimum) battery with fast charging

The Meizu E3 comes in Black, Champagne Gold and Blue colors, is priced at 1799 yuan (US$ 284 / Rs. 18,528 approx.) for the 6GB RAM with 64GB storage version and the 128GB storage version costs 1999 yuan(US$ 315 / Rs. 20,585 approx.). It will be available for order from March 26 and goes on sale in China from March 31. This directly competes with the recently-launched Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro.

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