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Many companies in China are getting into the smartphone business. Meizu is one of the top 10 smartphone manufacturers in China. Nothing much is known about the company that manufactures the IUNI U3. The U3 is the second smartphone to be manufactured by IUNI, but it is packed with enough features to be compared with the Meizu MX4. Both phones are almost the same when it comes to specifications and price. They are aptly pitted against each other.

Display

The MX4 has a display of 5.36 inches and the IUNI U3's display is 5.5 inches, but the display of MX4 is 1,920 x 1,080 IPS LCD with 418 pixels per inch while the U3 sports a 2,560 x 1,440 sharp LCD with 538 ppi with so many pixels packed into this smartphone making its display crystal clear.

Processor

Apart from the display the processor of the phones are very important and the Meizu which uses Samsung processors for its smartphones has gone ahead and used MediaTek MT6592 octa-core processor with 4 x 2.2 GHz of clock time. The IUNI U3 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor clocked at 2.3 GHz. Considering the fact that MediaTek octa-core can be used together or a single core could be used for a simple task which increases the battery life. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 can decode more instructions per clock (IPC) making it a superior processor.

Size of the RAM

The MX4 has 2GB of RAM and the IUNI U3, 3GB of RAM. The size of the RAM can affect the speed and performance of the handset making it faster especially during memory intensive tasks and if the size of the RAM is more lags will be less or nonexistent and the U3 has more RAM size. This will make it faster than the MX4. The operating system of MX4 is Android 4.4.4 KitKat with Flyme 4.0 ROM and the U3 runs on IUNI ROM and Android 4.4.4 KitKat. Both have simple interfaces that are clean and flat.

Battery

The battery of the MX4 is 3,100 mAh non-removable, the fact that it uses the MediaTek octa-core processor it needs to have a large capacity battery to be able to last longer to perform tasks. U3 runs on a 3,000mAh battery.

Camera

MX4's rear facing camera is 20.7 mega pixels Two Tone, dual LED flash and the front facing one is 2 mega pixels. The IUNI U3 has a 13 mega pixel rear facing camera and 5 MP front facing camera. The two tone dual LED flash combines LED lights in white and yellow to deliver better color balance to photos. Here the MX4 beats the U3.

Storage

The MX4 has three storage capacities to choose from 16, 32 and 64 GB. U3's storage capacity is 32 GB. Both handsets do not have expandable memory.

Price

MX4 is priced at $449 off contract internationally for 16 GB free shipping and tax included and IUNI U3 is $449 nothing is known about the charges on shipping and tax