[2] In February 2015, Alibaba invested US$590 million in Meizu, acquiring an undisclosed minority stake.

[4] Jack Wong (Chinese: 黄章; pinyin: Huáng Zhāng) established Meizu in 2003.

The Meizu M8 ran on the Mymobile operating system, based on Microsoft Windows CE 6.0.

The phone was produced by Foxconn and went on sale in mainland China, Hong Kong, Russia and Israel.

Later that year, the Meizu MX4 Pro was announced, featuring a Samsung Exynos octa-core processor and a 2K+ screen.

The M-series of Meizu devices focus on bringing powerful features for a relatively low price.

Although the company has not put a word about this mobile, the alleged upcoming smartphone has been spotted on TENNA certification.

On 3 July 2022, a majority stake in Meizu was acquired by Chinese automotive corporation Geely.

[13] On 30 November 2023, Meizu announced their venture into electric vehicles (EVs) with the DreamCar MX.

On the same day, Meizu shared a brief Weibo post teasing the Dreamcar MX as well as the launch of a new DreamCar co-creation programme arriving in Q1 2024, allowing users to express many customisation aspects such as exterior paint, interior colour matching and Flyme Auto themes.

On 18 February 2024, Meizu announced their decision to exit the traditional smartphone industry in an effort to move towards an "All in AI" centric focus over the next 3 years.

Meizu's android flavour "FlymeOS" will also transition to focus on terminal devices such as vehicle infotainment systems for Geely.

Flyme is a stock and aftermarket firmware developed by Meizu for smartphones based on the Android operating system.

Some of its key features are completely redesigned apps, one-handed usability and performance optimizations.

The current version of Flyme features distinguished flat design, various optimizations for performance.

The overview of recent application, which is on regular Android devices usually triggered by touching or tapping a dedicated button, can be viewed by swiping upwards from beneath the display.

Since Flyme 3.0, Dirac HD Sound is integrated, bringing an improved audio experience through a certain number of ear and headphones.

Flyme 8, based on Android Pie, launched alongside the Meizu 16s Pro on 28 August 2019.

After the lack of sales they quit Indian Market by releasing their last smartphone Meizu Pro 7.

During this market period, Meizu was having an official dedicated Flyme OS firmware for India.