Official launch of Meizu 21.

Meizu 21 debuts in China

At last. After a series of announcements, Meizu 21 has been released. It took place, of course, in China. Let's check if the phone is worth as much interest as the manufacturer claims...

Meizu 21 is not ugly, and the manufacturer eagerly praises the narrow, quite symmetrical frames around the display. They are 1.74 mm wide, and the screen itself is flat, OLED, 6.55-inch, with Full HD+ resolution, 120 Hz refresh rate, 1920 Hz PWM dimming and 1,800 nits brightness. There is an ultrasonic fingerprint reader under the screen, and at the top there is a hole for a 32-megapixel selfie camera. The main camera on the back is a 200-megapixel Samsung HP3 matrix with optical image stabilization, and next to it there is a 13-megapixel wide-angle camera and a 5-megapixel portrait camera. There is also a ring RGB LED on the camera.

Meizu 21
photo: Meizu

The heart of the Meizu 21 is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor supported by LPDDR5x and UFS 4.0 memories, while the whole is powered by a 4800 mAh battery with 80-watt charging . the smartphone also has stereo speakers, an infrared transmitter, X-axis vibration, and the interior of the housing is protected against moisture at the IP54 level. The smartphone runs on Android 14 with the Flyme 10.5 interface. The system offers integration with the Flyme Auto car platform, used, among others, by Geely, the owner of Meizu. Meizu 21 has dimensions of 156.7 x 75.3 x 7.9 mm and weighs 198 g. There are four housing colors to choose from, and the price list and memory versions are as follows:

8+256GB: 3,399 yuan, USD 480
12+256GB: 3699 yuan, USD 525
12+512GB: 3,999 yuan, USD 565

In addition to the smartphone, Meizu also presented ecosystem products - the MYVU Ring smart ring and the MYVU Discovery and MYVU AR glasses. Like the smartphone, they are unlikely to cross the border into China.