Review: Meizu Pro 7 Plus - dual-screen smartphone will change how you take selfies, and makes sure you don’t miss a thing
Make-up and skin smoothing filters for selfies the best we have seen yet, and AMOLED display is superb, but it’s the second screen on the back that sets this phone apart, showing notification alerts, time, step count, and weather
Last year, phonemaker Meizu learnt that young adults in China tend to leave their phones face down on tables during dinner or meetings out of common courtesy. The consumer research suggested that this reluctant act of self-restraint often led to “anxiety” over missing notifications.
Meizu isn’t trying to fix this generation’s screen addiction, of course, but it believes its 2017 flagship, the Pro 7 Plus, has a compromise solution: a small second screen on the device’s back.
Design and hardware
The two-inch rectangular secondary display sits discreetly in the upper left corner of the Pro 7 Plus’ metal back, under the dual 12-megapixel cameras.
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Currently, it can display the time, step count, weather, and notification alerts (future software updates should bring more functionality). More interesting, though, is the second screen that can also serve as a viewfinder for the back cameras – that means you can take selfies with the main dual cameras on the back of the device, instead of the front-facing camera.