Three months ago, we met with the Meizu M1 Note. Smartphone we liked, it was mentioned as a “best buy” in its price category. Moreover, a couple of weeks, I decided to confirm his words with deeds – bought a brand new white M1 Note 32 GB, which took the place of a personal smartphone. From that moment took 2.5 months, has accumulated enough experience to share them in the form of operating experience.
As a reminder, I note that any operating experience – this is a personal opinion of the author, based on the continued use devices.
Why Meizu?
Last my smartphone Moto G was the first generation – one of the best vehicles the end of 2013 – the middle of 2014 in the price category “$ 200″ (and the Droid Razr M in front of it). Faithfully he served more than a year, it has not been any complaints, but wanted to change it to a new device.
The list of requirements for the future Smartphone been prepared in advance: FullHD screen, the actual 64-bit platforms, 2 GB of RAM. Grown dollar has added to it the price factor, since the end of 2013 for 6-7 thousand hryvnia you could buy the flagship, and in early 2015 – is that middling. Plus, I wanted to find a new thing in Ukraine, without delivery of anxious waiting, questionable experiments with unfamiliar brands or stores.
In fact, M1 Note was the only candidate who meets all the requirements, and a desire to experience Xiaomi or Meizu on itself was a long time.
Design, comfort, accessories
About the smartphone design to say something especially hard – it is, albeit relatively secondary. Another thing – ease of use. Slippery body, I noted in the survey, of course, that my smartphone it has remained in place and the first time was the fear of accidentally dropping the unit. It was therefore decided to get cover, even though I do not like them.
The search gave the expected result – known companies (Ozaki, Griffin, OtterBox, and others.) Covers a “Chinese” do not let, you need to choose from a range of AliExpress . I opted out of the ordinary linings that cover the back and sides.
The best choice from an assortment of Chinese sites can be considered as products Nillkin – good quality, imputed Price. But the ordinary silicone TPU Case not satisfied because the plugs covering the connectors and plastic Super Frosted Shield makes the smartphone is much larger and heavier.
As a result, chose supposedly original Silicone Case Meizu, the photographs he looked better than most proposals, and cost almost $ 10 – a relatively expensive for AliExpress. Unfortunately, he did not live up to expectations. Case did uhvatistee body, but an increase in size is clearly felt, and the material was just a tough rubber without the “soft touch” what you would expect looking at the pictures.
Therefore, the use of cover eventually abandoned that you can check the behavior of the body. As expected, the glossy body gradually covered with small scratches, even without a drop onto a hard surface. Below are more, they are “a handful” closer to the rounding of the lid. Consider them only from a distance of 10 centimeters, they usually can not be seen, and the look is actually not spoil.
In the body itself a little bit different sticks grease and other contaminants with it, so it has to be cleaned periodically .
The increase in diagonal screen an inch, compared to the previous smartphone, it was a bold move. Get used to the size of the body I have more than a month in a thin cover smartphone it seemed particularly large. Gradually the discomfort passed, and the body seems not so slippery, but phones with screen 5-5,2 inches still in the hand somehow cozier. Perhaps in the future will be able to seamlessly move to a smaller unit, for reading Twitter, Pocket and view YouTube lacks 5 inches.
Screen
With respect to cost, quality installed in the smartphone screen. Naturally, the more expensive smartphones, displays put better, there the picture is even more intense in a direct comparison can see the difference. But in terms of levels of brightness, color, viewing angles, the readability of the sun to the screen no complaints.
An open question is the quality oleophobic coating . In the Moto G is completely erased in about 9 months, the screen quickly spoiled, prints become difficult to remove. It helped solve the problem of Chinese safety glass Moloco – questionable decision in terms of stiffness, because she quickly covered with small scratches, but reduces the number of prints. Who is going to Meizu prints faster than in the first week of use, but still easily removed. At the same time during a vacation on the sea I saw that the screen is completely clean for a couple of days. Resting, less you use a smartphone, but maybe just need to frequently wash their hands.
As a protection screen can advise Nillkin glass with rounded edges – is stuck to your M1 Note colleague says that is happy, looks neat.
Another feature revealed in the summer, along with the use of glasses with polarized. Auto Glass, and many smartphones tempered because of the polarization lens points may darken the image. The effect can be shown in a horizontal orientation, in diagonal, and M1 Note he is swept up in a vertical position of the smartphone, so the street glasses are not comfortable using a smartphone, readability drops sharply.
Hardware
MediaTek MT6752 – good solution Taiwanese. In addition, this SoC Meizu met me in a pair of smartphones, which have left a good impression in terms of speed. Competing solutions Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 for personal subjective feelings is less productive, but it is worth to clarify – this was the test samples without the final firmware. “Relics” enough for me, especially in games almost play.
The lack of NFC little upset, because this module is found primarily in high-end smartphones, but it would be useful “in reserve”, in addition, one device with NFC home already appeared. Built-in memory (32 GB), enough with the stock, and the lack of memory card slots originally not a problem.
at 3140 mAh Battery also satisfies my requirements. Usually the smartphone actively used, but for simple tasks – messengers, and communication in social networks, music, reading, does a bit of talk, sometimes navigation, two active SIM-card, one of which works in 3G, included Blutooth, Wi-Fi. From 8:00 to 24:00 hours and two nights spent 70-90% charge, while the screen is on average 4:00. In fact, certain day or days of work without a “voodoo” optimizations always includes all the necessary modules in anything does not deny, and in a backpack is paverbank for hedging.
Features ustaivayte cameras, special requirements for them are not presented. Flash mode flashlight bright. The only thing missing in the chamber – it is possible immediately to indicate the point of focus, and shoot. It is necessary to point or point and click on the “descent” or keep your finger on the object a few seconds. The second method sometimes leads to “blurring”, and on redefining the exposure of a new point, because of which the frame can get overexposed or too dark.
Although the overall picture made up of rainbow, there are other notes.
Problem
Before purchasing looked into the profile branch forum 4pda, there is found a list of problems that can occur in the smartphone. Part was found in my unit, all of which relate to defects in the software. Flyme OS, running on all Meizu is heavily reworked version of Android – Chinese (Meizu and Xiaomi) Climb love deep inside, much change, sometimes it leads to unpleasant consequences, is incompatible with third-party programs.
The M1 Note for three preset keyboard: own, Fleksy and TouchPal, they all work fine. But with SwiftKey favorite smartphone is not friendly – in an already typed words can not install the cursor in the middle of a word to correct the error, glitch loop, we have to completely retype the word. Keyboards Google, Swype work well, but I finally settled on TouchPal.
The only governing body of the smartphone is the touch-screen under the circle, he often It works from the second half. This bug wanders from firmware firmware bit annoying. The button itself looks beautiful, because it is an indicator of missed events and carefully lit, but requires getting used to. First Meizu, whom I met was MX4 Pro – a method of controlling it I liked, it is easier to get used to less confusion – well, that new models (M2 Note, MX5) the company moves to a mechanical key mTouch touch layer.
Another detail – background noise in the headphones. He heard a noise as the substrate during the pauses and the first few seconds after turning off the music, swept up in a quiet room using a sensitive gags.
One of the latest fixes – rapid discharge from 10 to 0 percent, the smartphone may turn off a couple minutes.
In addition, you can complain to the average speed of the GPS. Visibly it was after traveling to New York and Athens. Local “Sims” I did not buy, so was out of the mobile Internet and thus A-GPS, used only at hardware GPS and offline maps MAPS.ME. Upon arrival at the new place of the smartphone sought my location up to 5 minutes for the first time and 30 seconds later. At the same time in Kiev, where you can specify the approximate coordinates of the base stations, no such problems.
I had to say good-bye and with any tracker sleep who refused to work with the screen off. On the “Motorola” program worked fine in normal mode, the tracking phase of sleep with the screen on the Meizu – only included at the minimum brightness muted. This problem no longer delivers the inconvenience, because his hand settled Xiaomi Mi Band. In addition to tracking the sleep he solved the problem of dynamics of average quality, because of which could occasionally miss a call in a noisy street.
The quality of firmware I have also appeared observations. For example, on the last Flyme OS 4.2.0.6I little sensor operates on the edges of the screen (about 2 mm), there was heat, a couple of times a week the machine may hang tightly. Due to the redesigned Flyme curtain in the notification can not be both “expand” on the two-lane a couple of notifications, such as Gmail, from your player, the camera can not be used to show just footage sided gallery, in the 3G network is only the first Sim and others.
If you compile all the problems as a whole, except for a little stability lacks flexibility, which is peculiar to pure Android.
What do you like?
While I found a mountain of roughness , there are good moments. Meizu devices only in my memory, come with administrator (root) «out of the box.” By default they are disabled, but are included in a couple of clicks in the settings.
This eliminates frequent headaches, it gives more freedom. For example, I should blocker advertising AdAway, which removes the ugly banner ads in many programs, besides using Xposed module Flyme Tools.
The latter allows you to customize the firmware. The most demanded feature for me – to change the behavior of a single softkey. Instead turn off the program and use the single touch swipe up for “back”, set up as single press as “backward”, double – “home”, and swipe up unfold the notifications panel.
In addition, the smartphone conveniently implemented updating procedure – you just need to select the firmware file via the built-in explorer, refresh the air too. I have the international version of M1 Note, which works fine in our 2G / 3G networks in the firmware immediately have the Russian language, the application store from Google.
More like convenient menu options, and especially – the list of fast switches. The first of them takes place – you can quickly connect to the network need to adjust the brightness. Second, the panel takes notice only one screen as Android Lollipop, while the KitKat switch is on the right.
Results
His choice I’m still happy, but with some reservations. Before buying a thought that I have to put up with the slippery body and a lousy speaker, but in practice it turned out that these features deliver a minimum of inconvenience and roughness attract attention, advanced users will notice them. Especially sad that they can not self-correct, we can only wait for the reaction products. In theory, some of the shortcomings correct about a month with a yield of Flyme OS based on Android Lollipop, important to avoid the emergence of new.
Thanks to the M1 Note got to change some of their views. I used to think that the Meizu and Xiaomi phones is primarily suited for advanced users, and people “not in the theme” better to avoid them. But I have not even a representative sample of the entire two users. The first – advanced, as I do, and impressions of the device we have virtually identical. The second user – a normal girl that smartphones in general not interested in the problems in M1 Note does not see and almost completely satisfied, because everything you need is right out of the box.
In the end, you can add that I do not see alternatives Meizu M1 Note for the same cost and price declined in Ukraine remains attractive device, so it remains in many ways the “best buy”. One of the candidates may be Moto G third generation, if it receives comparable characteristics and keep the old price. My experience suggests stability “scooters”, is captivating and pure Android without superstructure manufacturers. And with the Meizu for happiness lacks only the stable firmware, or perhaps simply time to move on to more expensive phones $ 200-250.
The models in the line: 9
Price Range: 4710 – 7300 UAH
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