Alibaba places China smartphone business bet with $590m Meizu deal

MEIZU has recently released the Meizu MX series of Android smartphones and is in one of best selling Chinese smartphones. [Photo/meizu.com]

Established in 2003 and headquartered in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong province, MEIZU designs and produces smartphones created to provide a simple, intuitive mobile experience for people whose time is expected to be simply spent in using their devices, instead of figuring out the way of using them.