MX4

Overview

Meizu’s 2014 MX4 combines a 5.36-inch 1920 × 1152 IPS display, custom MT6595, 2 GB RAM and 20.7 MP Sony rear camera. Its detachable plastic cover, embedded battery and capacitive circular Home remain distinct.

Period and variants

Meizu launches the MX4 on 2 September 2014 in the original event report, checked against maker specifications. An independently established earliest worldwide retail date remains open. Its 5.36-inch IPS panel is 1920 × 1152, despite loose 1080p wording in some prose. Sharp/JDI panels, Gorilla Glass 3, a metal frame and matte plastic rear accompany 144 × 75.2 × 8.9 mm dimensions and 147 g weight.

The custom MT6595 combines four 2.2 GHz Cortex-A17 and four 1.7 GHz Cortex-A7 cores. Original maker PowerVR G6200 naming is retained without the unconfirmed MP4 suffix found in reviews. Two gigabytes of dual-channel LPDDR3 is RAM; 16/32/64 GB is flash, with 64 GB historically difficult to find. Android 4.4 KitKat and Flyme 4 describe the launch period, while 4.4.2 is the November review sample and Flyme 5 a later webpage footer. MX4 Pro, the older MX four-core and Ubuntu Edition remain separate.

Maker IMX220, 20.7 MP, f/2.2 rear and IMX208, 2 MP, f/2.0 front specifications agree with contemporary tests. Dual-tone LEDs and manual/HDR modes are documented; a 0.3-second maker focus claim does not prove PDAF. The tested 4K-labelled mode produces 3840 × 2176, H.265 at 30 fps, with 1080p30 and 720p100 slow-motion capture exported at 25 fps. Capture and playback rates remain distinct.

The removable cover exposes Micro-SIM but does not make the 3100 mAh battery routinely swappable, and microSD is absent. The circular Home is capacitive, with top power/3.5 mm, left volume and bottom Micro-USB 2.0/mono speaker. Original dual-band ac, Bluetooth 4.0, OTG and Miracast remain period features. The reviewed phone lacks NFC, IR, FM and wired TV-out. Mobile, Unicom and international radios stay regional; ambiguous CDMA wording in a review is not proof of CDMA2000 support.

Sources

• TechNode — Tracey Xiang’s original MX4 launch-event report, 2 September 2014
• Meizu — original MX4 specification content preserved by web retrieval
• GSMArena — own MX4 review introduction, 7 November 2014
• GSMArena — own MX4 hardware and controls
• GSMArena — own MX4 display, battery and connectivity tests
• GSMArena — own MX4 camera and capture tests
• Android Authority — Brian Barbosa’s own MX4 review, 12 December 2014

Image credits

Original photograph of white Meizu MX4 and packaging, original desktop, icons and background retained; launch firmware not inferred — E.vildyaev, CC BY-SA 4.0; source file unchanged by this archive.

Meizu MX4 front illustration by the source author; not a photograph — Ut tbkbob, CC BY-SA 4.0; source file unchanged by this archive.

Optimized display images on this page have been proportionally resized (maximum dimension 1600 px) and compressed to WebP, without cropping or retouching. Statements above about unchanged files refer to the preserved collected originals; attribution, sources and original licenses still apply. Originals: 1, 2.

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