Meizu Lucky 08 Review: Quad-Equal Bezels for Max Aesthetics, Plus All-Round AI Experience

The Meizu Lucky 08 smartphone focuses on high aesthetics and practicality. It not only continues Meizu's industrial design standards but also introduces a larger battery, improves durability, and offers over 100 practical AI features, delivering a comprehensive performance. Let’s take a look at how it actually performs.

A Unique High-Aesthetic Design

For many years, aesthetics have been a signature selling point of Meizu phones. As a budget-friendly product, the Meizu Lucky 08 doesn’t cut corners in design, especially with its 1.75mm quad-equal bezel screen on the front—narrower than the standard iPhone 16—paired with rounded body corners, making the front look harmonious and visually appealing.

Moreover, the Meizu Lucky 08 also offers a white front panel, a unique feature in the industry, further enhancing its front-facing aesthetics.
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The screen measures 6.78 inches with 1.5K resolution, supports 144Hz high refresh rate, 8T LTPO, 1600nits global brightness, and 5000nits peak brightness, placing its display quality among the best in its class. The screen also features 2160Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, Meizu’s Natural Eye Care, and SGS low blue light and flicker reduction technology, ensuring comfortable viewing. Additionally, it supports wet-hand touch functionality, ensuring precise touch control even in rainy or sweaty conditions.

Our review unit of the Meizu Lucky 08 comes in Meteor Black, appearing low-key and steady, with a smooth back cover that resists fingerprints.

Surprisingly, Meizu has also joined the circular rear camera module trend, but with a distinct design. It adopts a "Stellar Track" tech aesthetic, where the main camera resembles a star pupil gazing into the universe, serving as the visual focal point, while the secondary camera and flash are arranged like satellites, complemented by radial textures.

Meizu also employs watch-grade precision craftsmanship here. From the side, you can see the two cameras and flash are independently layered, creating a sense of depth and dimension, with high recognition—this attention to detail is classic Meizu.

The frame has subtle curves on both sides, improving grip comfort. Below the volume buttons, the power button is red and doubles as an AI key with customizable functions. A double-tap activates AI-powered one-tap search, music recognition, or audio chat, addressing the pain point of users not knowing where to access AI features.

The Meizu Lucky 08 also improves build quality with its Titan Shield structure, using high-strength composite materials for enhanced durability. It has passed 500 tumble tests, 10,000 micro-drop tests, 20,000 USB plug/unplug tests, and 200,000 button endurance tests, ensuring user confidence.

Flagship-Level All-Round AI Experience

Meizu announced it would stop traditional smartphone R&D to fully embrace AI, treating phones as AI terminals. The subsequent Meizu 21 Pro and Meizu 21 Note follow this philosophy, as does the Meizu Lucky 08, which runs the new Flyle AIOS system supporting comprehensive AI features.

First is the most common AI search. Flyle AIOS excels in natural language understanding, going beyond simple search results to infer based on queries and seamlessly connect context for deeper interpretation.

The native Notes app also supports AI writing, allowing users to specify content type, tone, and length for quick copy generation, useful for product promotions, meeting agendas, and more, boosting productivity.

Long-pressing the navigation bar summons the smart assistant Aicy for screen recognition, enabling quick image searches while browsing Weibo or Xiaohongshu, or one-tap jumps to Taobao for price checks. It also supports on-screen text translation for convenience.

Flyle AIOS also offers AI-assisted input. For example, when posting on WeChat Moments or Xiaohongshu, AI can quickly generate copy. It can also auto-recognize WeChat/SMS content and generate replies.

These are just glimpses of the Meizu Lucky 08’s all-round AI experience. It supports over 100 practical AI features and will keep evolving, adding skills like AI price comparison and task robots in future updates.

Performance for Daily Needs, Longer Battery Life

For performance, the Meizu Lucky 08 packs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (4nm), with four 2.4GHz A78 cores + four 1.95GHz A55 cores and an Adreno 710 GPU, delivering stable performance. It scored 630K in AnTuTu, handling daily tasks effortlessly.

For gaming, we tested Honor of Kings. The phone supports ultra HD at 90FPS, averaging 90FPS with a flat frame rate curve, no stuttering, and minimal heat.

For battery life, the Meizu Lucky 08 has a 6000mAh high-density battery with 33W fast charging. Combined with the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2’s efficiency, it offers solid endurance—lasting a full day with ease, or a day and a half with light use. AI further optimizes battery life by analyzing usage habits.

Practical Imaging Experience

For cameras, the Meizu Lucky 08 has a dual setup: 108MP main + 2MP macro. The main camera features a 1/1.67" sensor, f/1.67 aperture, and 9-in-1 pixel binning (1.92µm equivalent), improving low-light performance.

In practice, the phone leverages high resolution well, with sharp details and pleasing yet natural colors. Despite lacking a telephoto lens, the high-resolution main camera allows decent 2x/3x zoom and even usable 8x shots.

Night shots show high purity, preserved shadows, and controlled highlights.
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The phone also supports AI tools like object removal and AI image expansion.

Though a mid-range device, the Meizu Lucky 08 delivers a well-rounded package—strong aesthetics, display, battery life, and smooth OS, with performance and imaging meeting daily needs. Its flagship-level AI experience is a standout. If you want a stylish, long-lasting phone with advanced AI in the budget segment, the Meizu Lucky 08 is a great pick.