Meizu 15, 15 Plus, and 15 Lite hands-on review

Performance

We managed to run a few quick benchmarks on all three Meizu phones. The phones we used were most likely pre-sale units, so we won't be comparing the benchmarks results to other phones. The numbers look promising though - the yielded results are close to retail units from other manufacturers with similar specs.

GeekBench 4.1 (multi-core)

Higher is better

• Meizu 15 Plus
  6122
• Meizu 15
  5893
• Meizu 15 Lite
  4464

GeekBench 4.1 (single-core)

Higher is better

• Meizu 15 Plus
  1863
• Meizu 15
  1613
• Meizu 15 Lite
  923

AnTuTu 6

Higher is better

• Meizu 15 Plus
  160718
• Meizu 15
  111782
• Meizu 15 Lite
  67206

Basemark X

Higher is better

• Meizu 15 Plus
  40494
• Meizu 15
  20836
• Meizu 15 Lite
  10490

Basemark OS 2.0

Higher is better

• Meizu 15 Plus
  3169
• Meizu 15
  2571
• Meizu 15 Lite
  1521

Wrap-up

Managing to stay in the game for 15 years is truly a success for Meizu and we have to give them a hat tip for that. The Chinese market is a specific one and the company has to do something different to stand out. That's where the introduction of the more conventional screen ratio comes along combined with above average camera specs.

Meizu is aiming to revolutionize the way market segmentation is done and the new 15 series appears to be a nice attempt at feature segmentation.

We are always excited to see new phones and hopefully the Meizu 15 Plus, the Meizu 15 and the Meizu 15 Lite will bring a fresh whiff to a stagnating market. Just maybe.