Is the Meizu Zero the smartphone of the future?
- Phone has no holes, no ports, no wires and no buttons, but we are still waiting to hear when it will be available
The Meizu Zero doesn’t have any holes – even for the speaker. Instead, the phone features Meizu’s “mSound 2.0” technology, which lets the sound come from the screen itself.
Speaking of the screen, the Meizu Zero features a 5.99-inch OLED display that has a built-in fingerprint scanner directly underneath the display, as well as a selfie camera for facial recognition.
Since the phone has no ports, you can’t charge this phone with a cord – wireless charging is the only way to go here. Thankfully, the Meizu Zero supports “super fast” wireless charging.
Meizu’s 18-watt wireless-charging solution, if delivered as promised, would provide a much bigger power boost than the wireless charging methods from Apple and Samsung, which use 7.5- and 9-watt speeds, respectively.
This ought to translate to faster charging times, but we’ll have to see Meizu’s final product to know for sure.
The Meizu Zero has a water-resistance rating of IP68 against water and dust – the same as Apple’s iPhone XS and Samsung’s Galaxy S9 – so you can submerge it safely in up to two metres of water for about 30 minutes. But the phone is not “waterproof”, despite the lack of ports and holes on the device.