In Beijing one month Meizu company managed to show as much as two smartphones: the budget and top-end M3 Note PRO 6. Presentation of the second device I was able to look with my own eyes (news about the smartphone you can read on our website), and the first – just twist hands simultaneously with the flagship innovation. About the personal impressions of the smartphone will be discussed in this material.
About positioning Meizu PRO 6
In general I do not like to write about how to run the presentation smartphones. Interesting to talk about their impressions, pricing opportunities. But Meizu presentation was a series of remarkable detail that I would like to share. Firstly, the “Chinese” for the first time so much focused on the fact that their flagship – is not just a smartphone for every occasion, but also a fashion accessory. All employees of the company has been or is completely black or partially black clothes (you remember this picture uplyvshy network’s flagship in black? In my opinion, this is the most stylish version of the flagship). The presentation took place in the Beijing art zone called D-Park. This is a very unusual and daring place by the standards of China. Here, on the territory of the former factory, produces equipment for the army, and now is an oasis of Chinese arts and almost an island of free thought. Filled with expensive designer clothing and accessories, Crushing installations, sculptures psychedelic, loft-style institutions for hipsters. In general, everything in this presentation intended to yell that we are all gathered here for the sake of stylish things.
The origin of the new flagship in the Meizu explain uncomplicated and logically. The company argued that the demand for smartphones study found 28% of people are dissatisfied with their size. So users do not need the “shovel” Give them a compact device (remember, exactly the same thing said in his presentation of Apple?). Compact 5.2-inch smartphone can be called only Chinese. The Beijing subway common smartphones with a diagonal of 5.5 inches, all less – is an iPhone older versions, because even the old iPhone – this status. Compact “androids” the afternoon with fire not find. If we talk about flagship with a “compact” screen, like Meizu PRO 6, the passage that the demand is not satisfied, – pure marketing. Is Samsung Galaxy S7, is, in the end, Huawei P9. Yes, these are expensive. But there Xiaomi Mi5, with which the new flagship Meizu will compete for purses of buyers. Meizu PRO 6 will be the new flagship of the company, it will be optional, compact and slightly more affordable. Olden PRO 5 with our counters will not disappear until the new favorite.
If you read our news about the announcement and know the technical characteristics of new items, then you are probably wondering about its position in the line producer. I, too, with all the PRO, MX and M was the first mess in my head. Employees Meizu specify: M and M Note – this budget segment, the company sees it. MX – the middle, again, in the eyes of the Meizu. PRO – is a celebrity. Total, PRO 6 – This is the second unit of a top half (the other manufacturers also do). The second, but not last, the company promises to surprise us even a single time to the moment when the chimes will be notified of the arrival of 2017.
Meizu PRO 6 with my own eyes
From a design standpoint, materials of the case and the camera on the device is not changed anything since the days of PRO 5. But completely changed feeding device during the presentation. It was a lot of Apple’s ( “people need a small flagship”, “people important stylish accessory”) and from the Samsung ( “this smartphone so much memory that you can throw into it the whole season House of cards», and something else about memory and House of Cards, is a clear allusion to mention that on one charge Samsung Galaxy S7 user can otsmotret whole season, “Game of thrones»).
After the presentation, we had the opportunity to listen to one of the tops company and ask him questions. So, the question that will be the next big idea in their smartphones and where they plan to develop, he said that the company has a lot of technology and a lot of developments. It can not be called each of them separately a key, but all together they are very good and make the user experience better. In my view, this suggests that the Meizu and do not understand where the curve of evolution will lead the smartphone market (in the same Samsung and LG are confident that in the direction of the virtual reality and to access it from your smartphone in Huawei – that the cameras in photographic equipment and unrealistic autonomy) and try to give their all user-that give the market leaders, but at an affordable price. So they will definitely be popular and will be sure to have your piece of the pie. For greater certainty all the Meizu is doing right in all popular segments, now updating the range of each line on a couple times a year. The company does an excellent skin, selects and optimizes the attractive “iron”, adds kakie-to opportunities that are in demand in the market or can be claimed (as 3D Press, for example), it packs all the geeks in your favorite metal, giving it excellent value for money and receives good sales. But there is a feeling that the revolution no one seeks to Meizu. The best the enemy of good – apparently, the idea is as follows. This year, to technology for their money and added more colors are not unusual, and is already proven by the market, and the camera, which is no longer “sticks” (an extra millimeter on the body geeks terribly annoying). This once again confirms the feeling that cautious people who walk the beaten paths and know their audience well in the Meizu. But risks are not ready. Perhaps I’ll have sounded once stamp, but it seems to me that in such a strategy, there is a lot of the Chinese mentality.
The new smartphone in the new colors. There are gold, black, silver. Not brilliant. Beautiful accessories and mobile phone in one. Cool, that departed from the standards of despondency, but your pet in the colors I have not found.
The body and the truth became dearer as compared to PRO 5. But to be honest, I want to see the new design. I like that the front panel of gray and golden white smartphone. Black only Black PRO 6.
There is still more metal. According to the Meizu, in the antenna smartphone occupy 48% less space than the iPhone 6s. And then the metal is 98% more than its predecessor. This means that the model is less likely to look scratched a couple of months of use.
The smartphone perfectly in the hand. It has a border around the screen is comparable with a compact Samsung Galaxy S7. Like Galaxy S7 and Apple smartphones – 2,5D display. Rounded hardware key – it is right that a cross between the flagship of Samsung and Apple. Visually, in the front panel still a lot of iPhone, although in fact no longer exists. It is the same with the back side.
The feel of the interaction with the screen lock keys, volume control and “Home” are the same. Noble. With the right sound and speed, despite the fact that this is a sample. Meizu say for greater nobility button “processed diamond»
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The screen is still a FullHD resolution. Apparently, the company is cool to the idea of virtual reality (I support it in this in a moment), let the other players in the market is stuffed bumps, but the screen with a lower resolution better impact on the battery and performance.
The Meizu also reflect on the problem of using a smartphone in bed before going to sleep (remember how Apple rasperezhivalas and added to the new version of iOS the ability to change color on a schedule), on the history of the harmful light. The insertion of this model also has the ability to remove blue from the backlight manually. A minimum screen brightness – 3 nit. Of course, the technical possibilities check is not there, but the visual feel of the use of the device in the dark, I can say that the minimum brightness is comfortable.
During the presentation, Meizu is not mentioned on the battery capacity. 2560 mAh are not able to surprise someone today. Because I not mentioned. I think we can expect a day of intensive work.
But the fast charge mCharge there is already the third generation, promise that the smartphone will be charged 2.4 times faster than “normal smartphone” (I think, it is a pretty old devices, new smartphones this level models already support fast charging). A full charge for an hour, the first 26% of the device makes up for 10 minutes. As you know, the faster the charge, the battery life is worse. It seems to me that the Meizu PRO 5 is already felt the effects of rapid charging, but here I can not be 100% sure, because I have a sample on hand, and exploiting smartphones’m pretty ruthlessly. The PRO 6 manufacturer promises three battery protection instrument, the description of which failed to understand is that near the connector Type-C set temperature sensor that makes a device from overheating (remember Google studs towards Chinese manufacturers Type-C on the quality of cables? I seems to be a response to them).
Because of the importance also stands out that the Meizu promises its flagship operation in all networks in the world. There is support for Cat 6, in the mobile internet speeds of up to 300 Mbit / s, ie 6 PRO supports the fastest 4G-Internet. Ukrainians to such speed that is possible except to pray. The Russians had better luck with the development of high-speed mobile Internet in the country.
About processor Mediatek Helio X25 Meizu proudly declares that they have optimized in the work of the 70 parameters, such no one. Helio X25 – this desyatiyaderny processor with three types of clusters: low, medium and high, are triggered depending on the type of tasks performed. It is interesting from the point of view of optimizing the operating time of the device. I do not know whether it makes sense to pay attention to benchmarks in the device firmware, which is far from final, but – two screenshots of Vellamo, the only test that I could get rid of your smartphone. Further at least should not be worse. And maybe it’s better to be
The only change in the camera -. This is what it has become 14% smaller, so almost no bulges. Using your phone at the time of the announcement was clearly not the final software. At first sight, nothing has changed in the chamber since the days of PRO 5. That is a weak point of the machine. Noisy pictures in low-light conditions, difficulties in the macro. At the presentation were shown photographs taken by the camera PRO 6. They are excellent. But the thing is that in the manual settings of the smartphone camera can shoot much better than in automatic mode, which is used by the majority. And she seriously lost as in a bad light. Focus speed – 0.07 seconds
But the flash -. This is something new! There used 10 diodes, some of which are white, some – yellow (You can verify this by running one of the three operating modes flashlight). I have not been able rasprobovat charms (or vice versa, uselessness, is difficult to judge) outbreak in action. But the fact that it looks interesting, I noticed at once.
Meizu would not be the Meizu, if not podshamanila again something with the sound. Here is the DAC Cirrus Logic CS43L36, there is support for Hi-Fi, which marketers have dubbed Hi-Fi-Lite, there is a loud speaker and a high-quality microphone for recording sound at concerts, for example. All this, too, can be checked later when the gadget will come to review (and this will happen very soon). And another important thing for music lovers – say they have reduced energy consumption by 55% during playback of Hi-Fi-Music
3D Press -. This screen that discriminates force pressing as in Huawei Mate S or iPhone 6S / 6S Plus. While working with 19 built-in proprietary applications and the 20th Chinese. I did not use 3D Touch from the Apple smartphone, but then the logic is that the touch-sensitive screen replaces the mTouch. With this function, I do not use, it is inconvenient to me. But 3D Press, as soon as I emboldened enough to press a finger to the screen (yes, it should be done, it’s unusual, but function works this way), I realized that it reduces the time to perform any cases of supported applications. It’s a good news. The bad is that probably more support for the new possibilities of the local Chinese business services is unlikely. The Meizu themselves realize that their Flyme version for the local market at times more convenient and clever than global. Promise immediately start to do something with it. But you know … While SDK is available for developers.
The smartphone is already available for pre-order. Home sales in the Chinese stores – 23 April. Later, the device will appear in other places. In Ukraine, start of sales should occur relatively quickly, in about a month (so much time is spent on the certification of normal). Interest for: Meizu PRO 5 is still not appeared in all countries. Its still not on the market, not only in Indonesia but also some progressive France. We start with a speed Meizu very lucky. Approximate price in Ukraine “Citrus” – 10.5 thousand UAH for the version with 32 GB.. And 12 thousand. USD for 64 GB version. The exact price and launch sales in Ukraine will be known during the day.
Meizu M3 Note with your own eyes
Meizu M3 Note promises to be a hit with its price about 4500 hryvnia in Ukraine at the start of sales. Excellent fingerprint scanner, battery 4000 mAh, metal housing, good and too dopilennuyu Meizu processor Mediatek P10 – all this is unique (for your money) at this time
The body Meizu M3 Note on. design closer to the Meizu PRO 6 than previous models. Here, too, more metal, the camera is not bulging. In his hand is a native, though PRO 6 is still dearer. Given the fact that the previous line of M and M the Note grind like hot cakes in Ukraine (then things Meizu are much better than in his native China, and it is better than in Russia), this unit has all the chances to catch the fancy of users even more. Because of weaknesses (at first glance) it has a camera, and it is weak in any devices for the same money. The closest competitor in the smartphone there is. In Xiaomi their Redmi 3 very different and screen sizes, and chips, and the specific design of the case
The bottom line
Meizu M3 Note -. It’s just a bomb for their money, it’s not posomnevaeshsya . Even if some of the parameters it would have been worse, he would still have remained the most pragmatic choice for lovers of large diagonals and owners of small budgets. I doubt that in the course of operation of the smartphone will be able to get out into the light some glaring weaknesses. In Meizu PRO 6, I feel that things are not so obvious. Much will depend on the price of its nearest competitor and Xiaomi Mi5, and his behavior in life. First impressions of the pleasant device. But I have a suspicion that the flagships of any manufacturer’s hard to take seriously, as long as he does not bring to mind the camera software. But with this, Meizu is a problem. The rest for the upcoming flagship seems not to find fault with.
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