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A man uses a smartphone to perform various tasks in New York. Reuters/Natalie Behring

Chinese smartphone maker Meizu introduced the successor of its M1 handset, Meizu M2. The Meizu M1 smartphone was unveiled in January and was later launched in April. The Meizu M1 and M2 smartphones are the smaller versions of the Meizu M Note series.

Meizu M2 sports a 5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) resolution display covered by AGC Dragontrail protective glass with pixel density of 296ppi. The device is packed with 2 GB of LPDDR3RAM. The new Meizu M2 64-bit quad-core MediaTek MT6735 processor clocked at 1.3GHz clubbed by Mali T720 GPU, NDVT Gadgets reports.

The smartphone runs the firm’s proprietary Flyme UI 4.5 on top of Android 5.1 Lollipop. The device offers dual SIM, but the second SIM shares its slot with the microSD card. The smartphone has an internal storage of 16 GB which can be expandable up to 128 GB via microSD card. It also houses a Sony-made 2500mAh battery.

The battery is expected to deliver up to 23 hours of talk time on 2G, 10 hours of Internet surfing on 4G and 680 hours of standby time. As for the connectivity, the handset supports 4G FDD-LTE, TD-LTE networks on both SIM cards; GPS, A-GPS, dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Micro-USB; and Bluetooth 4.0.

As mentioned earlier, the device sports a 13-megapixel rear camera with f/2.2 aperture and LED flash. The 5-megapixel front camera includes FotoNation 2.0 smart selfie enhancement and Face AE face light boost functionality. A report by GSM Arena states that the entry-level smartphone has been launched in China and will cost CNY 699 (AU$AU 155) in blue, pink, grey and white variants.

Meanwhile, earlier this month, Meizu also released its brand new MX5, which sports a 5.5 inch AMOLED display with capacitive touchscreen and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The handset is powered by Mediatek MT6795 coupled with Octa-core 2.2 GHz Cortex-A53 and PowerVR G6200 MP4. It features a 20 MP rear camera and houses 3GB of RAM as well as a non-removable Li-Ion 3150mAh battery.

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