Chinese smartphone maker Meizu today released the world’s first true “Holeless” smartphone, dubbed Meizu Zero.
The Zero is a smartphone without any openings, or “holes”: no buttons, speaker grilles, charging port, or even a SIM card slot.
Meizu’s marketing team is calling this “the world’s first seamless, uninterrupted phone,” and the first two words are important, because rumor have it that Vivo is unveiling something similar next month at Mobile World Congress.
Meizu Zero Key Features
The Meizu Zero features a 5.99-inch sized flexible OLED display with an In-display fingerprint sensor and a 2.5D glass layer on top. Apart from the In-display fingerprint sensor, the Meizu Zero comes with a 20MP front-facing camera with facial recognition technology as well.
Under the hood, Meizu’s latest smartphone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 octa-core processor and not the newer Snapdragon 855 7nm chipset. The amount of RAM has not been confirmed yet, although the company did confirm that it is using LPDDR4X memory.
Since there is no charging port, the Meizu Zero utilizes the company’s self-developed 18W wireless fast charging technology. For data transfers, users will need to rely on the Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy standard.
The phone uses eSIM technology, which means there is no physical SIM card slot. Moving on to the camera hardware, the smartphone features a 12MP Sony IMX380 + 20MP Sony IMX350 dual-camera setup at the rear with Meizu’s One Mind AI Smart 2 engine.
The volume button is being replaced with a virtual pressure-sensitive power and volume control buttons on the side. users get the same feel as a traditional physical button when pressing on the virtual buttons on the handset.
The missing speakers are compensated by a piezoelectric transducer underneath the display that is capable of pumping sound through the display via vibrations.
Meizu Zero boasts a precision-crafted ceramic unibody construction with IP68 water and dust resistance.
Availability, Pricing and full spec hasn’t been announced yet.
“The missing speakers are compensated by a piezoelectric transducer underneath the display that is capable of pumping sound through the display via vibrations”
Oga Yomi take am easy na
Haba the English here is too much
technology will not kill us.
the price alone will pursue you
e-SIMs, at this stage, are not tech that’s supported by most carriers — it’s flat out unavailable in some parts of the world still — and even those who are using it would concede it has drawbacks, such as an inability to swap between phones easily.
It is a good smartphone but at this stage, not recommend.
A lot of drawbacks. The device really does not fascinate me
It will take while for those features to become common in smartphones
I don’t think I will dis phone…even the explanations of the features is confusing me
hun hun….this people are super crazy…
I love the physical appearance, every other thing is confusing
seamless and uninterrupted. I really like those words. Maybe this is what the phone’s of the future will look like
e sim card is a no for me…
Oya na. Technology…… This is just the beginning
E-sim, am sure this cant work in Nigeria for now
Wonderful technology, but am yet to understand the no speaker side. Moreover the
e-sim is not friendly.
Another twist to mobile technology
Everything is been replace… Chinese guys can produce things….
Not ready for a “holeless” phone.. I wonder about mic or i will use a Bluetooth device for my audio?
E sim is still thousand years away from being accepted in Nigeria.
We haven’t gotten the stage of using a device like dis in Nigeria