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now it's not every day that we get to see Chinese manufacturers bring their flagship devices to the western states but when it came to CES 2014 it became clear to us that they're all coming we saw offerings from alcatel from Huawei and we are already big fans and Friends of OBO as you seen with their fine 5 in there and one but one particular phone at the show floor really caught our eye and we got our hands on it so it's josh Vegard from android authority what's going on everybody and it's time to unbox and give our first impressions on the meizu mx3 well as you know how I do no scissors need it over here just going to go ahead and cut through the plastic over here you know how I do here and slowly bring up the lid now this should obviously come as a little surprise that we're seeing the instructions in Chinese language here obviously I cannot read that but essentially what they're saying is you can pop out the back cover and it is from there that you can insert your sim card so we're going to do that a little bit later and have that ready for the full review but here it is a very nice simplistic and colorful packaging we have a large flap right here that does house kind of a snapshot of what the phone can offer in English thankfully and from there we have the phone right underneath so let's go ahead and take this phone out and there it is the MX three with the booklets right underneath and here it is a nice black slate look at the front with the little home button at the bottom here that will allow you to go back and forth it's a nice white circle right over here that does look quite nice and of course the back with the camera right centered and meizu MX right here like I said at CES this kind of looks like what an iphone 3 would look like if Apple finally decided to adopt larger screens and this is a 5-inch screen that we're seeing on the front with 1080p resolution and a lot of power underneath so the fly me OS as we found out at CES 2014 did have some unique features to it in the sense that meizu kind of put their own type of navigation into it it's not necessarily like a stock Android build made to look like mazes general feel but you know as you can see here we already have as we were getting into the phone the notification drop-down does not come all the way down unless you have anything there and kind of coming through right here just the operating systems so that's just sort of the quick setup here and like I said it does look nice and as you saw there down here we have the soft keys made for all that you need and if you want to take a look at the multitasking you swipe from away from the home button and up to up to the screen and that allows you to take a look at the different ones that you have of course you can swipe up to get those out of the way and swipe back down if you want to go back to the homes if you want to go back a screen then you swipe up from the home button up to the screen and that allows for you to go back to the previous screen which in this case was just the home screen if we go through here and just kind of take a look at a couple things we have the menu button here on the right side that gives you the general menu we can always go to in the phone app here that's one of the buttons then of course the back button which brings us back so after that it's really just a matter of you know little swipes here and there that kind of give it a unique feel in terms of the operating system itself but of course this is Android underneath as far as first impressions ago we really do have to give it to mizzou for creating a pretty attractive product our thoughts from CES 2014 still hold up here as the simplistic look with the white on the back and the black slate look up front like they're really do still hold up it's only been a couple weeks but we are super excited to have this phone in our hands because of how it looks and the other reason why it is great as you can see plainly right here is because of that bezel it's a very very thin bezel on the right sides there might be a little bit of real estate on top and bottom but it does not detract from the handling of this phone one it's a very very nice phone to have in the hand and with this nice very nice looking screen right here the colors just look really nice and it's a very very good way of expressing the fly me OS which has a bit of a flatter look that really kind of exudes from this display so overall we are still excited this home button down here with the led around it is also a very nice touch and gives this phone a little bit of a different outlook in terms of navigation and looks in the Android space so that is the meizu mx3 this is the phone coming out of China that should be coming to the US a little bit later this year perhaps but it has been selling like crazy over the last few months in Asia so we wanted to get our hands on it because it really got our eye out at CES 2014 keep it tuned to android authority for all of 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