Gadgetory

hi I'm Brian Bennett for seen it and we're taking a first look at the meizu mx3 smartphone this device is mainly sold in China but you can find it unlocked right here in the US for about four hundred and sixty five dollars through Amazon or other online retailers it features a big 5.1 inch LCD screen that's not quite full HD resolution but sharp and colorful nonetheless it also is powered by a homegrown eight-core processor paired with two gigabytes of RAM and can be had decked out with 16 or 32 gigabytes of internal storage what's really wild about the MX three though is it's heavily tweaked version of Android jelly bean called fly me OS the custom skin the MX three runs looks suspiciously similar to Apple's iOS complete with side scrolling home screens which double as the app tray a capacitive button under the screen also helps the mx3 do some interesting you I tricks you can long press it to put the phone to sleep and hold then drag it upwards to unlock sliding up from the bottom of the screen on either side of the button pulls up what apps are running in the background sliding an app icon upwards here closes its associated application dragging an icon down closes out of everything currently running also touching the key then sliding up serves as a back button the MX three is also decked out with an eight megapixel camera and LED flash the camera app offers plenty of features and shooting modes too including HDR filters and panorama I'm not exactly a fan though of the MX threes plastic chassis which while thin is slippery to the touch the phone doesn't support 4G LTE either and is strictly a 3g gsm handset i'm brian bennett for cnet and you've just taken a first look at the meizu and x3 you