Today at Meizu’s event in China the company presented their new flagship phone, the MX5. The MX5 is the successor to the MX4 released last year, and while I haven’t been able to review that unit yet, I did take an extensive look at its bigger brother, the MX4Pro.
The MX5’s biggest characteristic is the change in display technology. Meizu has now adopted Samsung’s AMOLED screen in place of the traditional LCD technology. This also leads to a change in form-factor as now Meizu had to abandon its 16:10 aspect-ratio for the more conventional 16:9 resolutions. At 1080p and 5.5″ diagonal, the screen isn’t as high resolution as one might have expected and thus regresses in terms of DPI in comparison to the MX4.
