Investment Alibaba Group did not pass unnoticed for the Meizu. The company quickly expanded its line of smartphones, expanding it as an almost uncompromising (MX4 Pro), so available models with good price-quality ratio (M1 / M1 Note). According to rumors, PHABLET Meizu M1 Note in Ukraine has become the best-selling smartphone in its price segment. In the 8 months since the date of its announcement, it has not lost its relevance, but the company has prepared a replacement. At first glance, Meizu M2 Note looks similar predecessor, has very similar characteristics and more drawn to «M1.1 Note», than for a full update. Let’s compare the two models and examine whether the new smartphone to repeat the success of the original.
The models in the line: 3
Price Range: 4575 – 4799 UAH
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Meizu M2 Note comes in pretty cardboard box. It is little grown in size, there was a blue stripe, refer to the original Chinese name line (Blue Charm), but the content remained. Inside you will find your charger, cable, clip and documentation.
Design and usability
On the front of the majority of modern smartphones look alike. Industry declined from physical keys below the screen, and displays are taking most of the front panel. Therefore, manufacturers try to allocate their smart phones from the competition design backs. But this is true only for models of different companies within the lines of the vendor is usually no difference (recall LG).
Therefore, the rear of M1 and M2 Note look almost identical, and the front side is easy to recognize who is where. Corporate circle, who is also a single key management systems and indicators have replaced physical button mBack.
We have already met with her in Meizu MX4 Pro, just Now it was removed from the fingerprint reader. Diode notifications moved to habitual – for earpiece.
I think the right decision, it made management easier. We have buttons capacitive layer works as a simple touch the “Back” and pressing as “Home.” The list of running applications called swipe from the bottom edge of the screen. When the screen is turned off by pressing the button, you can turn on the display, while the retention mBack blocks smartphone. As usual, the screen can be turned on by double tap or swipe right to unlock the bottom up.
Power key moved to the top of the left end to the volume buttons, which has become a traditional rocker. There is a noticeable step back, at least in the test were the key smartphone with a very short stroke and slightly above the surface. Given the fact that they, like the rest of the body, slippery, inconvenient to use them.
The physical dimensions changed to a millimeter, or feel it is impossible to see the difference. But change the shape of the sidewalls there, M2 Note fits comfortably in the palm of your hand.
The last change is the reduced color gamut for Meizu M2 Note left only popular colors. They appeared to be glossy and slippery white, blue and pink, and they added a matte gray, similar to older models (MX4, MX4 Pro).
Summing up a little, we can say that in M2 Note slightly improved ergonomics by key mBack, minimum body shape changes and adding practical gray body.
Display
Meizu M2 Note, in fact, received the screen predecessor. Used IPS-matrix Sharp IGZO on a diagonal of 5.5 inches and a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels (403 ppi). The only change – the simplification of the protective glass, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 replaced by a simpler AGC Dragontrail or NEG T2X-1. On personal feelings, it pulled a slight deterioration oleophobic coating, screen M2 stronger collects fingerprints.
The objective characteristics have remained at a comparable level – brightness varies from 1 to 452 cd / m2, contrast ratio measured – 1: 675 (M1 Note: 2 to 480 cd / m2, 1: 718). Since different smartphones can stand screens from different vendors or different parties, a small variation in the measurements is not critical. Calibration accuracy is comparable to its predecessors – traditionally a wide color gamut, smooth gamma curve close to the standard color temperature.
The display natural color rendering, good viewing angle, a wide range of brightness makes it comfortable to use your smartphone in bright sun or in darkness.
Hardware Platform
The smartphone is based on the chipset MediaTek MT6753. It includes 8 core Cortex-A53, clocked at 1.3 GHz and GPU Mali T720 MP3 (450 MHz). At M1 Note «stuffing” was productive – MediaTek MT6752 (8 x Cortex-A53 1,7 GHz + GPU Mali T760 MP2 700 MHz).
The volume of RAM and non-volatile memory remain an old 2 GB of RAM and 16 or 32 GB of internal memory. M2 Note received a slot for a memory card, it is installed in place of one of the Nano-SIM.
Despite the less productive filling, the overall speed of It remained at an excellent level. Applications run and run without a hitch, the animation smooth, feels M2 Note «flies”, as the previous model. But easy chipset affected demanding games, such as in NOVA 3, the frame rate noticeably sags. The toys with simple graphics problems, of course, there is.
It’s hard to understand why the Meizu have taken such a step may M1 Note was too good and the reduced sale older models, the new chipset or better support LTE, I do not know. Meanwhile, it became easier to work with two SIM-cards. Now in networks 3G / LTE can operate both the first and second “Sims” in M1 Note card with the Internet need to be inserted into the first slot.
The multimedia smartphone functionality has not changed. M2 Note plays good music, he has a good earpiece and tangible vibration alert. Upsets only calling speaker. It has an average volume and the same mediocre quality, it is easy to overlap and muffled arms in horizontal hold the phone (playing games, watching videos).
The operating system and shell
Meizu M2 Note runs on management firm Flyme OS 4.5.2I (test firmware), based on the Android 5.1 Lollipop. About the shell itself we told earlier, for example, in this review. With the transition to the latest version of the Android system has not been visible changes, with its beautiful Lollipop Material Design is nowhere visible.
From the functional changes it is worth noting the appearance of power system manager. In addition to the previously existing “diet” processor, now the behavior of your smartphone you can customize more subtly, for example, disable the wireless modules, reduce the brightness of the night.
C extension model does not manage the company until the end of optimized firmware. The Meizu M1 Note were minor glitches that may annoy experienced users can replace them. The sad fate is not spared M2 Note. While the smartphone is very noticeable “floats” automatic brightness control, the first time after an unlock button under the display react to pressing the second time, in some applications the lower part of the screen takes a big band with a “Menu” button. In addition, the smartphone can not work with memory cards exFAT, which many are formatted microSD up from 64 GB, although the company says support for cards up to 128 GB.
hours
Built-in battery has a capacity of 3100 mAh. New works much the same way as M1 Note. With two SIM cards, one of which works in 3G, with respect to the active use of different social networks, instant messengers, smart confident working day time screen activity is about 4 hours. If you do not use the 3G and swept away the wave activity of the rest of the battery will squeeze more.
Camera
As with most points, M2 Note was the first camera model. The main camera has a resolution of 13 megapixel lens with an aperture of f / 2.2 consists of five lenses have blue infrared filter module protects the glass Gorilla Glass 3. The front facing camera is 5 megapixel lens with f / 2.0 from 4 lens wide-angle (69 degrees).
In the camera the opportunity to specify a separate point of focus and exposure, it makes it easier to obtain a great shot. All other changes are reduced to small changes in the image processing algorithms. In terms of photo opportunities M2 Note smartphone remains good.
Results
Meizu M2 Note – this is a simple facelift M1 Note. Company slightly improved body shape and control, added the ability to use memory cards, but less productive platform set. Both smartphones perceive identical in direct comparison can only see the difference in the results of benchmarks and demanding games, but it is unlikely this feature can be considered fundamentally important. M2 Note surely repeat the success of the previous model, because even with the save costs, it looks attractive in terms of price / quality.
likes:
+ Good screen
+ Fast work
+ bad autonomy
+ Camera
+ Grey body color with a matte plastic, the ability to insert a memory card, a mechanical button mBack
Do not like:
– The average quality of the ring dynamics
– The decrease in performance compared to the Meizu M1 Note, worse oleophobic coating , uncomfortable volume keys / inclusion
– Minor bugs in the firmware
Issue thanks online store “Citrus” for the provision of smartphone review
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| Type | Smartphone |
| Type SIM-card | Nano-SIM |
| Standard | GSM 850/900/1800/1900; WCDMA 900/2100, FDD LTE, TD-LTE |
| High-Speed Data | GPRS, EDGE, HSPA +, LTE |
| The number of SIM-cards | 2 |
| operating system | Android 5.0 (LolliPop) + Flyme OS 4.5 |
| RAM, GB | 2 |
| Built-in Memory, GB | 16 |
| Expansion | microSD / SDHC up to 128GB, a second SIM-card |
| Dimensions, mm | 150,9 × 75,2 × 8,7 |
| Weight, g | 149 |
| Protection against dust and moisture | – |
| battery | Li-Ion, 3100 mAh battery (non-removable) |
| Time (manufacturer’s data) | unknown |
| Diagonal inches | 5,5 |
| Resolution | 1920 × 1080 |
| Type of matrix | IGZO |
| PPI | 403 |
| Sensor dimming | + |
| Touch Screen (type) | + (capacitive) |
| CPU | MediaTek MTK6753 + GPU Mali-T720MP3 |
| Type the kernel | Cortex-A53 |
| Number of cores | 8 |
| The frequency GHz | 1,3 |
| The main camera, MP | 13 (f / 2.2) |
| AF | + |
| Movie | + |
| Flash | + |
| The front camera, MP | 5 (f / 2.0) |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11 a / b / g / n, Wi-Fi hotspot |
| Bluetooth | 4.0 BLE |
| GPS | + |
| IrDA | – |
| NFC | – |
| Interface Connector | USB 2.0 (micro-USB) |
| In Audio | 3,5 mm |
| Type of housing | candy bar (molded) |
| Case Material | Plastic |
| Keyboard Type | input screen |
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