Meizu beats Vivo to the 'Zero' button phone
Meizu introduces a phone no buttons, no speaker and no charging port.;
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Over the past few weeks, Vivo has been in the news as they are preparing to launch the APEX 2019, a smartphone without any physical buttons, ports or even a speaker grille. From the looks of it, Meizu has just swooped in and stole a significant portion of Vivo’s thunder as they have announced a handset called the Meizu Zero that comes without any physical buttons, no speaker or even a charging port for conventional wired charging.
The Meizu Zero makes use of capacitive panels on the sides as a substitute for physical buttons for the power and volume rockers. This is a similar design what HTC used in their U12+; but HTC had protruding buttons on their handset. In place of a conventional speaker, the Meizu Zero utilises a piezoelectric transducer under the display, something similar with what Sharp and Xiaomi have done in the past with their Aquos Crystal and Mi Mix.
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Since the Meizu Zero foregoes the traditional USB charging port, it makes use of a wireless charging facility. The handset features a Meizu-developed 18W charging and in the process making it the world’s fastest wireless charging handset. Data transfers are carried out only via Wi-Fi and cellular data. The Meizu Zero also doesn’t have a SIM slot and it uses an e-SIM feature that’s found on Apple devices like the new generation iPhones and Apple Watches.
The Meizu Zero features a 5.99-inch AMOLED display and not surprisingly it comes with an in-display fingerprint scanner. The face of the handset also comes with a 20MP camera. On the rear, there’s a 12MP + 20MP dual-camera setup that features Sony’s IMX 380 and IMX 350 AI-enabled sensors. The Zero comes with a Snapdragon 845 chipset and as of now, no word on RAM and onboard storage have been detailed. Lastly, the Meizu Zero will come in two colour options — Black and White.
The year 2019 appears to feature an innovation where button-less, port-less and speaker-less phones will be all the rage. After the Meizu Zero, Vivo is the next smartphone manufacturer to come out with a similar handset but with further shrunken bezels.