Content
- Unpacking
- Design and Procurement
- Software
- Camera
- Benchmarks and Performance
- Conclusions
A few days after the announcement of the company Meizu M2 Note hastened to announce that the number of those wishing to become an owner of new items exceeded 10 million. Certainly not all pre-orders will be eventually confirmed, but personally I have no doubt that the novelty is waiting great success (the predecessor to face M1 Note (review) has sold more than 5 million units in the first 50 days). On the strengths and weaknesses of your smartphone – in our detailed review.
Specifications Meizu M2 Note:
- Network: GSM / GPRS / EDGE (900/1800/1900 MHz), WCDMA / HSPA (900/2100), FDD-LTE (1800/2100/2600 MHz)
- The platform (at the time of the announcement): Android 5.1 Lollipop, firmware Flyme 4.5
- Display: 5.5 “, 1920 x 1080 points, Sharp IGZO, 403 ppi, contrast ratio of 1000: 1, brightness of 450 cd / m2, Dragontrail-X
- Camera: 13 megapixel, autofocus, dual LED-flash different colors, f / 2.2, the sensor Samsung
- Front camera: 5 megapixel, OmniVision 5670, f / 2.0
- Processor: 8 cores Cortex-A53, 1,3 GHz, 64-bit, MediaTek MT6753
- Graphics chip: Mali-T720MP3, 450 MHz
- RAM: 2GB
- The internal memory of 16/32 GB
- Memory card: microSD (up to 128 GB)
- Navigation: GPS, GLONASS
- Wi-Fi (802.11a / b / g / n)
- Bluetooth 4.0
- microUSB
- 3,5-mm jack
- Two slots nano-SIM
- Battery: non-removable 3,100 mAh
- Dimensions: 150.9 x 75.2 x 8.7 mm
- Weight: 149 g
Unpacking
Design and Procurement
The box in M2 Note different from anything that had previously Meizu. The design reflected the name of the line Blue Charm (Meilan – «bewitching blue” in Chinese, it’s, like, “reply» Xiaomi on its “red rice”). Though, probably, it would be more fun if the band was under the cap color, of which only four: blue, white, pink and gray. Let me remind you, M1 Note is available in five colors: white, blue, pink, green and yellow. The two least popular color solutions are gone, and one came. And the gray cover Features – Matt, like gray MX4 and MX4 Pro. Other colors, respectively, glossy.
Live, I saw only white and gray M2 Note and I strongly advise you to pay attention on a gray machine. It looks solid (as MX4 Pro, which is several times more expensive), it is better in the hand and eventually should show a more practical. Components, as usual at the Meizu, modest: cable microUSB, charging (2A), documentation, and cool-looking needle to eject the SIM and microSD.
Design M2 Note has undergone several changes. Above the screen we see a light sensor and distance, 5-megapixel camera, earpiece and the LED, which works only for notifications of missed events (of the charging process does not signal that knocked me Stolk and I managed to mislead some people – excuse me). The vacant place in the display after the departure of the touch circle took the advanced mechanical touch keys with a metal ring, called mBack. Fully repeating function buttons MX4 Pro, except the fingerprint scanning, it may include an action “home” for single clique, “back” with a light touch sensor layer and “block” when pressed with a short retention. Did not touch the circle M2 Note MX4 Pro and look less recognizable, but I believe that the rejection of this control element has benefited model. Still, a hardware button is very convenient to use and are accustomed to return to the circle already do not want (action “back” in the circle still does not always work the way you want).
The left side has received volume rocker and the power button on the right – the multi purpose tray that can accept any two cards nano-SIM, or a nano-SIM and memory card microSD. Upstairs – audio jack and a microphone. At the bottom – microUSB, microphone and multimedia speaker, who plays flat and has a volume of below average (and the location at the lower end with the reflection of sound on surfaces not very help). On the back of the eye looking at us 13-megapixel camera and dual LED-flash different colors.
The design is not collapsible (more precisely – is not expected that it will parse the user), and the official specification is known that the capacity battery is 3100 mAh. The test sample was obtained from the demo party, not commercial, but complaints to assemble almost no – nothing is forced and does not creak but the volume rocker (if you press in the middle).
Display characteristics barely changed: with a diagonal 5.5 “and a resolution of 1920 x 1080 dots per inch pixel density of 403 ppi, the contrast is 1000: 1 and the brightness is limited to 450 cd / m2. No air gap, nice color, good readability in the sun, and highlights a diagonal slopes can endure, because we are dealing with byudzhetkoy, and her behavior is excusable. The M1 Note was glass Gorilla Glass 3, and used in M2 Note Dragontrail-X. Micro-scratches without the use of protective films or the glass will appear and there and there, but the panel in M1 Note wins oleophobic layer. At M2 Note it either does not exist or it is ineffective, or I got a sample of an experimental batch, which forgot to put oleofobku (find out exactly when the phone goes on sale).
Software
program basis at the time of the opening acts branded firmware Flyme 4.5I-based Android 5.1 Lollipop. Russian translation of her not final, the stability did not cause big problems (reboot, I have not met departures). Visible changes between interfaces M1 Note to KitKat and M2 Note on Lollipop I have not noticed. Most likely, they will have to wait until the release Flyme 5 with MX5 Pro.
In the shell Flyme I like a few things. Firstly, the gestures. And I do not mean useless management eyes and head, and about the possibility of a convenient swipe unlock devaysa glass, double tapom activation screen, switching tracks side scrolling. Secondly, the company takes into account that a wide screen can be difficult to communicate with one hand. Therefore, the shutter can be omitted notification swipe from any height, and a list of icons of open programs put forward by swipe from the bottom edge. Third, the interface is not overloaded elements icons are cute and have a theme (in some firmware M1 Note they disappeared, and then returned). I know that all of the above there are many interfaces, but not everywhere all together looks organically and works as expected.
Let’s look at the settings. The order of items changes. In the management of SIM-cards simok selected operating mode is indicated card for Internet (with 4G LTE in Russia in M2 Note affairs better than the M1 Note – there was a range of Band 7, although 20 is still not enough for more coverage). At the “Personalization” deactivated drawn icons for designers of popular programs are selected and downloaded wallpaper themes (there are both free and paid). Account Flyme advise to get hold of, since it can be one tap to open the Root access and use the search devaysa if you have lost it. Screens even from one party often have a different color temperature, and with the corresponding function in your phone settings, you can adjust it to your liking – make warmer or colder. The “battery” can view the statistics of energy consumption and choose the mode of operation of the processor (and there are three of them below). Management gestures housed in special opportunities.
Programs preinstalled few screenshots and, in principle, it is clear that they represent. But if you want the details, the Wellcome to review M1 Note.
I did not find proof that MediaTek MT6753 puts in the same audio solution that in the MT6752, but as close to the line of chipsets and sound M1 Note and M2 Note in conjunction with headphones Denon D600 exactly the same way, suppose that in the MT6753 includes DAC WM8281. All I said earlier about the sound M1 Note typical for M2 Note: High-detail, low frequencies are balanced, the stock of a small volume.
Camera
M2 Note got similar M1 Note Camera – compare them in a separate article. The main 13-megapixel sensor module has Samsung, 5-lens optics with aperture f / 2.2, dual LED flash and autofocus different tones. Eye covered by a piece of glass Gorilla Glass. In the chamber a number of filters and modes. Most Valuable – manual. He can change the shutter speed (the maximum – 10 seconds), ISO, exposure (step bolshevat – 1) and focus. In the settings appeared separate metering – a very useful thing. If this option is active, the tapas place on the screen appears inscribed in a square and a circle. The square indicates the area of focus, and the circle – in place Metering (drag it to the white area to darken the picture or the dark to make the picture brighter). Automation of all modern smartphones are not always able to properly fulfill complex images and manual exposure eyeliner is a useful tool to improve the picture. However, I still prefer the implementation of exposure control in iPhone – near where the focus slider appears, and we just drive up and down without a spear to another location – a quick exit. Apple has already borrowed the idea Huawei and Samsung. I do not know why, but the interface is sharpened by the use of vertical. I hope that the user will not even shoot vertical video.
I was able to shoot a lot on the phone and in general I like the results. In particular, M2 Note quality photographs in good light in the street – pointing accuracy, speed, focus, color reproduction please. In conditions of low light conditions (dusk and night) will have a little strain to make a digestible frame – tame autofocus, as well as adjust the exposure separate guidance or lower it manually. For some reason, manufacturers believe that users want to receive more light night shots than it actually is (Nokia Lumia with the first to promote it, turning night into day). And since small sensors, optics is not always good, and the algorithms are far from ideal output produced frames with unnatural lighting and terrible noises. And to make the picture a little prettier, and I advise you to adjust the exposure. Adjusting the exposure can not hurt, and in the afternoon, on the situation.
The front camera has a resolution of 5 megapixels. She also several modes, but the most curious – portrait. He can be in real time to pull the person’s eyes to increase, make the skin smooth and whiten them. The above example is made without the use of effects. Good detail, in my opinion. But by color – Green.
With video all expected – not terrible, and it could be better. Somehow all Chinese producers (in Vivo with Xshot more or less, but the AF tracking it has not yet mastered) video calls stupor. At M2 Note no stabilization, touch focus only on the (adjustable exposure), and the sound, though written in stereo, but the separation of the channels strange – no sense of presence. Detailing, meanwhile, is good for Full HD, the frame rate is not sags, colors are correct. See the examples in different conditions:
tests and performance
Legend of fresh chips MediaTek cause confusion. Models M1 Note got SoC MT6752, and M2 Note – MT6753. However, despite the larger number and a later output, weaker development MT6753 MT6752 – they will be compared in a separate material. The composition of the 64-bit MT6753 includes 8 Cortex-A53 cores at up to 1.3 GHz and a graphics accelerator Mali-T720MP3 with a peak frequency of 450 MHz. The amount of RAM is 2 GB. Look how the device pulls the game:
Pulls, in my opinion, not bad, though lags in the coolest titles inevitable (if not reduce the schedule). On the other hand, we must remember that this is a budget smartphone. It is believed that the MT6753 sharpened by HD-resolution, but Meizu decided to beat all, besides choosing not the fastest version of MT6753 with a maximum frequency of 1.3 GHz (it can be, and 1.5 GHz). That is trying to turn the trick a la Meizu MX4 Pro with 2K-screen processor for HD-screen.
The results in benchmarks: AnTuTu 5.7.1 – 31877, Geekbench 3 – 585/2667, Basemark OS 2 – 785, GFXBench 1080p – 2,8 / 12 fps (Manhattan / T-Rex), 3DMark Unlimited – 6853, Epic Citadel Ultra – 26,6 fps.
Meizu does not cease to offer users multiple modes of operation processor. As mentioned above, M2 Note three power management modes: energy-efficient, balanced and productive. In previous models, the manufacturer is the difference between them was significant, but due to the fact that the novelty and so is not a very fast processor speed is slightly different. Operating frequencies were calculated using the half-hour run under heavy load in Stability Test and fixing them in the CPU Spy Reborn. In the Performance mode are located as follows: 1.14 GHz (85% of time), 1.3 GHz (9%) and 1.23 GHz (4%). A balanced: 1.04 GHz (44%), 1.23 GHz (25%), 1.3 GHz (21%) and 1.14 GHz (9%). The power saving: 1.04 GHz (44%), 1.14 GHz (30%) 1.23 (24%).
energy saving mode
Interestingly, in Performance mode the phone to heat up to 40 degrees on the battery for a long time not worked on the maximum frequency of 1.14 GHz and a high temperature switched to 1.3 GHz, although, logically, should be the opposite. Well, as you realize, switching the weather does not – the peak frequency of the CPU is too small, and the minimum is too high to make the transition between the user could see. So in all modes of the device functions about the same (interface melts and quickly, the game goes, well, okay – see the video above). In short, you can simply rely on a balanced mode.
after the game test
The battery capacity of 3100 mAh provides comparable to M1 Note time. So watching the film with vykruchennoy screen brightness and active wireless modules, the device lasted about 5.5 hours. A bit in the game Asphalt 8 with a comfortable brightness was 11% for half an hour. In normal mode, you can focus on the 2-3 working days at 4-6 hours of screen. Heated phone is not very strong, which follows from the low frequency of the processor and are used in housing materials.
Conclusion
Meizu came outside the box, firing to consolidate the success follower M1 Note that weaker and less pioneering, but at the same time offers some tempting chips – normal support LTE, a slot for memory cards and a convenient touch-mechanical key. Byudzhetok from China is now very much, but Meizu M2 Note has all chances to become the most prominent. The machine impresses both proprietary software and a pleasant design, balanced performance. The price in China for M2 Note younger version with 16 GB of memory is 799 yuan (7 th. Rubles), sales will start in June. In Russia, because of the characteristics of the market, the cost can be as low as 13-14 thousand. Rubles (and even for the money to pick up an interesting alternative in the Russian retail will be quite difficult). According to Meizu Russia, the device will appear in our latitudes in July.
I Points of choosing between M1 Note and M2 Note, we will put in a detailed comparison. Do not miss out!
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