Like the company's flagships to date, the Meizu 17 will probably offer great specs at a great price, but its best feature may actually be the clever user interface elements built around the camera punch hole.

I wish Samsung's Galaxy S20 and other Android phones with this type of display had adopted this smart graphic element. It's the slickest user interface trick I've ever seen.

What a smart and now obvious decision!

Meizu, a Chinese company known for making striking and beautifully designed phones at really good prices, has long shied away from both. Instead of adopting the aesthetics of Apple and Samsung, Meizu has always opted for symmetrical designs with minimal bezels. Meizu's new flagship, however, eschews the philosophy of keeping its hardware design as uncluttered as possible, and that philosophy is expressed to the fullest in the Meizu Zero, which has no holes or buttons whatsoever.

But since the latest push to create the maximum expression of a minimalist phone failed to gain any traction, perhaps helped by a $1,300 price tag, the company decided to go with Samsung's punch hole display.

But instead of trying to "hide" the hole with a pretty wallpaper, Meizu embraced it and turned it into part of a circular battery indicator; Meizu turned the jarring hole into a seamless part of the phone's user experience by directing users' attention there, and in the process Invisibility. It's a clever trick. I'm not a big fan of punch holes or notches of any kind, but if you must have them, this is the way to go.

Beyond that, according to Gizmochina, the Meizu 17 is rumored to feature a 6.4-6.5" FHD+ AMOLED display with a refresh rate of 90Hz and a size ratio of 19.5:9. It will be powered by a Snapdragon 865 processor with new LPDDR5 RAM and will be powered by a 4500mAh battery with 30W wireless fast charging.