If you had a quad-core chip in your phone late last year, you were pretty much on the cutting edge in terms of SoC’s. Those chips are standard in most handsets now, but octa-core chips are slowly pushing them aside. Meizu is no stranger to the processor game, and their latest smartphone with an octa-core chip, the Meizu K52, has just gotten benchmarked.

You never know what you’re going to get when you come across new benchmarks from a Chinese manufacturer, and the Meizu K52 is a bit of a surprise in a few areas. The company decided to steer clear of phablet territory with the K52 as it comes with a 4.6-inch display of the FHD variety. It’s a nice surprise as we’re used to seeing smaller devices with poor resolution or 720p displays.

The rest of the Meizu K52 specs include an octa-core chip clocked at 1.7GHz, an ARM Mail-T760 GPU, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage. The benchmarks show the front and rear camera as “unsupported” but we know that won’t be the case. The usual array of sensors are present with NFC and the Barometer being the only exceptions. Again, this could change before primetime.

The Meizu K52 is expected to give customers a top-notch handset that won’t break the bank with a rumored price tag of around $160. If they can stick to that price, the K52 smartphone will be very popular, especially when you consider it’s an LTE device running Android 4.4.4.

Would you like to see the Meizu K52 go global or will you just import one if the priced properly?

via – Phonearena   source: GFXBench