Huawei launched a new folding screen mobile phone yesterday afternoon - Pocket 2, this machine is equipped with Kirin 9000S chip, 12GB 256GB storage combination starts, the starting price is 7499 yuan; As a small-sized folding screen mobile phone, Kotaku believes that the starting price is relatively high, but considering that most of the Huawei mobile phones equipped with Kirin 9000s chips are in short supply, this pricing is in line with the needs of the market; But in all fairness, the premium level of this machine is still very high.
Xiaomi launched the annual imaging flagship phone last night - Xiaomi 14 Ultra, this machine not only uses the strongest one-inch lens at present - Sony LYT 900, but also introduces AI functions into the image module, Xiaomi AISP is a big killer of the machine; Xiaomi 14 Ultra is equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, starting with a 12GB 256GB storage combination, with a starting price of 6499 yuan; The starting price of the Xiaomi Mi 14 Ultra is 500 yuan more expensive than the previous generation machine, but with upgrades in all aspects, Kotaku thinks the price increase is justified. **10,000 Fans Incentive Plan
After Huawei and Xiaomi launched new products, Meizu CEO Shen Ziyu said that after watching the press conference of friends, he felt that Meizu 21 Pro has a lot of advanced AI concepts, and it can beat Xiaomi 14 Ultra and Huawei Pocket 2;The press conference originally planned for February 29, he will ask the team to strive for the implementation, give an explanation to all Meizu friends, and also give Meizu's smartphone era a perfect end.
Prior to this, Meizu announced the cessation of new projects for traditional smartphones, including the Meizu 21 Pro, Meizu 22 series and Meizu 23 series, and many consumers thought that Meizu would no longer launch smartphones; But judging from the statement of the Meizu CEO, Meizu will also release the Meizu 21 Pro, but the machine may be the last Meizu mobile phone in the traditional sense; Of course, this machine may not be a smartphone, or an "AI device", after all, Meizu has announced "All in AI", and the smartphone project is estimated to have become part of the AI project.
Li Nan, a former Meizu executive, also took the real device of the Meizu 21 Pro on the Internet, and he participated in the planning of the Meizu 21 Pro; After the Meizu 21 Pro, Meizu may completely abandon traditional smartphone projects; Li Nan said that there is a contradiction between smartphones and apps, and the API is very open to LLMs, so AI mobile phones are limited, so manufacturers can only make AI devices and large models from the source; If nothing else, the Meizu 21 Pro will have some built-in AI features, but what exactly is the function, maybe only wait for the press conference.
It is worth mentioning that the Meizu 21 released at the end of last year has now been reduced in price**, the original price of Meizu 21 started at 3399 yuan, the official price has been reduced by 200 yuan, and now it starts at 3199 yuan, but considering that Meizu will give up the traditional smartphone business in the future, the machine may not be so powerful in terms of follow-up maintenance, and consumers will indeed have some worries when buying the machine.