Meizu is one of the most interesting China-based smartphone manufacturers in the last couple of years. This company is one of the fastest-growing smartphone manufacturers in the world, they"ve sầu sold 4.4 million devices bachồng in 2014, and have sầu managed khổng lồ ship out trăng tròn million last year. Their growth rate is quite staggering, & there"s a good reason for that. Meizu tends khổng lồ release quite affordable, and yet great devices. Every single Meizu-branded device I"ve sầu encountered was extremely well built, offered great performance and simply did not feel cheap in any way, shape or form, và this time around we get to lớn kiểm tra out the best of the best Meizu has to lớn offer, the company"s PRO 5 flagship. This device was announced a while baông xã, & we"ve sầu had it for a while, but were waiting for the final Flyme 5 OS update (international version) to become available before we đánh giá it, considering that"s the software version that was introduced alongside the device. The update arrived quite recently, & we"ll talk more about it later in the Review. That being said, let"s see what Meizu PRO 5 has to lớn offer, read on.
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Specifications
Meizu PRO 5 is an all-metal phablet which features a 5.7-inch fullHD (19đôi mươi x 1080) 2.5 chiều curved AMOLED display with Corning"s Gorilla Glass 3 on top of it. The phone is available in 3 or 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM & 32/64GB of internal storage (expandable up khổng lồ 128GB via a microSD card). As a disclaimer, I"ve tested the 3GB RAM variant of this device with 32GB of internal storage on the inside. Samsung"s Exynos 7420 14nm 64-bit octa-core processor is fueling this handset, & is the only điện thoại thông minh aside from Samsung"s four current flagship device khổng lồ sport that SoC.
This handphối comes with two SIM thẻ slots on the inside (2 x Nano SIM), one of which you can use as your microSD thẻ slot. The 21-megapx shooter (Sony"s IMX230 sensor, f/2.2 aperture, 6-element lens, PDAF) is located on the back of this handset, và below it you"ll notice the dual-LED, dual tone flash, & the Laser Autofocus. The 5-megapixel snapper (f/2.0 aperture, FotoNation 2.0 smart selfie enhancement) is placed on the front-side of this device, & a 3,050mAh battery is available on the inside of this device, và is not removable. Speaking of the battery, you bởi vì get Meizu"s mCharge 2.0 fast charging here, 30 minutes of charging will basically give sầu you 65% of battery.
The PRO 5 is also quite capable in the audio department, it packs in ESS ES9018K2M và OPA1612 chips, which are used in Hi-Fi systems. The NXP PBSS transistor is also packed in here, và the phone"s loudspeaker is located on the bottom of the phone, flanking the Type-C USB port. Android 5.1 Lollipop comes pre-installed on the Meizu PRO 5, và on top of it you"ll find Meizu"s very own Flyme 5 skin. Keep in mind that some versions might ship with Flyme 4.5, but the Flyme 5 is already released, so you should get the update as soon as you power on the device và connect to lớn a Wi-Fi network. The Meizu PRO 5 measures 156.7 x 78 x 7.5milimet, while it weighs 168 grams. The device is available in Blaông chồng Gray, White Gold, Blaông xã Silver & White Silver color options.
As mentioned in the specs section, Meizu PRO 5 features a 5.7-inch fullHD (1920 x 1080) AMOLED display, & it looks really, really good. If you love OLED panels & the saturation / contrast they offer, you"ll love this display. The colors are not too saturated, but just enough for you khổng lồ know that this is the AMOLED display & enjoy its vividness. The display is also sharp enough, it"s quite pleasing lớn use quite frankly. You vì chưng have some options in the software to lớn tweak colors of this panel, if you want, of course. There"s basically a slider for color temperature included in there, và you can mix the colors to be colder or warmer, whichever you prefer, I simply used the default selection.
Now, as far as touch responsiveness goes, this is one of the best displays I"ve ever used. The digitizer is great, và the responsiveness of the display is just right, at least it was for me. You"ll get the same unique here, as you"d get with pretty much any other pricier flagship out there, both in terms of sheer display performance & general looks of this panel. It is also worth mentioning that Corning"s Gorilla Glass 3 protection is placed on top of this AMOLED panel, which is always a good thing.
Hardware And Build
The Meizu PRO 5 is a beautiful device, especially when you actually get to see it in person. Do keep in mind that it"s quite slippery though, the metal is gorgeous and feels great lớn the touch, but it"s extremely slippery, you might want to think about getting a case for this phone. The rear-facing camera protrudes on the baông chồng ever so slightly (a case might help with this as well), and the mcảm ứng physical button is located below the display of this device, as it is in other Meizu-branded devices released lately.
The button itself actually serves as a capacitive sầu back button, hardware home page button & a fingerprint scanner. It didn"t take me long to get used lớn it, và once you vì chưng, it"s quite a joy to lớn use. The button itself is quite tactile, & I believe sầu that most of you will lượt thích it. The power / loông chồng và volume rocker physical buttons are placed on the right-hand side of this phablet, and they"re made out of the same material as most of this device, metal. The PRO 5 offers a unibody toàn thân metal design, and two SIM card slots on the left side (2 x Nano SIM), one of which you can use as your microSD expansion slot. The bezels on this handmix are also quite thin, but nonetheless, this is a rather large device.
Meizu"s newest flagship is fueled by Samsung"s Exynos 74trăng tròn 14nm 64-bit octa-core processor. This SoC has been used in only 5 devices in 2015, và 4 out of 5 are Samsung"s flagships. This SoC is considered to be one of the faschạy thử chips on the market at the moment, and in combination with 3/4GB of RAM (3 in our case), and Meizu"s Flyme UI, it provides an incredibly smooth performance.
The general performance was silky smooth, no matter if we talk about web browsing, heavy multitasking, YouTubing, messaging… I really pushed this phone lớn the limit. The phone was phối khổng lồ "Balanced" mode as far as performance goes, which is the mặc định option. As far as gaming goes, you"ll be able to run pretty much anything on this phone và enjoy it khổng lồ the fullest, as already mentioned, the Exynos 74trăng tròn pushes anything without a hitch, including 3D intensive games lượt thích Modern Combat 5, Asphalternative text 8, Dead Trigger 2 and a couple more titles I"ve tried out.
Benchmarks
As I"ve already mentioned, the Meizu PRO 5 features Samsung"s Exynos 74trăng tròn 14nm 64-bit octa-core processor on the inside. This is one of the best best chips around at the moment, và as far as benchmarks go, only Kirin 950 and Snapdragon 8đôi mươi are above it. As far as Meizu PRO 5"s benchmarks go, the device managed lớn score 82,042 on AnTuTu, in my particular case, you"ll see that the PRO 5 mã sản phẩm is actually 2nd placed on AnTuTu, right below the Huawei Mate 8. Geekbench results were also great, the phone scored 1,527 in a single-core benchmarks, và 5,393 points in a multi-core test. Results were also admirable in a 3DMark kiểm tra, which you can kiểm tra out in the gallery down below.
This is a phone, first và foremost, so phone calls are kind of important. Well, you"ll be glad to know that this handset does really well in this department. The earpiece provided clear sound, và it was just loud enough when you turn the volume all the way up. The people I"ve sầu talked lớn said that they can hear me really well, which led me lớn demo the microphone myself (on the other end), and the sound was quite good, no complaints here. Same can be said for 3G và 4G connectivity, both of which I"ve tested separately. Wi-Fi also provided stable connectivity, I did not experience any significant issues here, though keep in mind that the phone has a built-in idle mode for Wi-Fi which sometimes tends to bloông xã notifications from apps which are set to go to sleep while the phone is in idle mode.
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Battery Life
Battery life is, for me personally, one of the most important factors when it comes to lớn smartphones, và I"m glad lớn say Meizu PRO 5 doesn"t disappoint in this section either. The phone will always provide at least 4 hours & 30 minutes of screen-on time during your day, presuming you"re not a heavy người chơi or something similar, in that case it might go slightly below that number. I"ve been using this handphối for quite a while with Flyme 4.5 on it, and over a week with the official Flyme 5 installed. The phone performed almost identical in both versions as far as battery life goes, it was capable of producing over 4:30h of screen on time.
I"m what you"d consider a heavy user, even though I don"t really play that many games, I tover lớn play chess và some arcade games occasionally, but nothing too graphically intensive. I did load some 3D games on the phone simply for testing purposes và did play them as mentioned in the "performance" section of this đánh giá. The phone was still able khổng lồ produce around 4:30h of screen on time, though if you throw some gaming inkhổng lồ the mix, and play those games for a while, the battery life might go below that mark, which was khổng lồ be expected.
In a gallery down below you"ll get to see the battery results from one regular day of use for me. There are four screenshots there because in Flyme 5 you can kiểm tra out screen-on time for the last 12 hours, so I had to take more screenshots. Anyhow, I unplugged the phone at 7am in this particular example, và at 11:55pm I still had 15% battery left. The total screen on time at that point was 4:26 minutes, as you can see in these images. Overall, I was very pleased with battery life on Meizu PRO 5, as I"ve used plenty of phones with awful battery life lately, and Meizu PRO 5 is definitely not one of them.
Meizu PRO 5 ships with Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box, but this is definitely not stoông chồng Android. Now, some of you might not prefer skins on Android, which is completely understandable considering OEMs tover to put tons of bloat on it, but Flyme is actually quite good. The phone ran incredibly smooth, & the UI looks really good as well, as you can see in the images down below. You vị get another layer of customizability here, while you keep some of Lollipop"s benefits. lockscreen notifications, heads-up notifications and similar features are built into lớn Flyme as well.
Now, you vì get tons of gestures in this OS, from double tap khổng lồ wake và swipe up to wake & unlock, khổng lồ various other gestures. You can basically write a letter on the display when the screen is off and Hotline upon an app of your choice. Keep in mind that all of these gestures are customizable, và they work great. Now, there"s also a feature the company calls "SmartTouch". SmartTouch is essentially a hovering on-screen key which can be set khổng lồ perkhung various tasks. For example, you can swipe up on this key in order to go lớn your trang chủ screen, or you can swipe down to lớn Gọi upon the notification shade. If you tap on it, it will act as a back button, and if you swipe left or right it will multitask for you, take you to lớn apps you"ve used before or after the ứng dụng you"re using at the moment. This button can be really useful as you can place it wherever you want, and I actually use it.
One more important thing you should know about Flyme, is the fact that you don"t get an tiện ích drawer here. Apps are placed on your home page screens, though you can use widgets as well và group apps inkhổng lồ folders, of course. This is not the most fortunate solution, but the UI works great và the design is also significantly improved in Flyme 5. There are, of course, some additional additions to this software, & if you check out the images in the gallery down below you"ll get a much better idea of what I"m talking about.
Sound
The loudspeaker located on the bottom of the device is good, though it"s not as good as some front-facing speakers out there, looking at you BoomSound. That being said, the phone does offer really good audio chất lượng, and especially after you plug in your headphones. You"ll get a balanced và crisp sound, even though every smartphone has limitations in this area. I"ve sầu really enjoyed listening khổng lồ music on the PRO 5, and after I looked at more details specs of the device, I noticed that the company really did focus on improving audio capabilities of this phone, read on.
Meizu has used the ES9018K2M & OPA1612 chips in this phone, which have been used in its predecessor, the MX4 Pro as well. Now, on top of this, Meizu has included a Solo amp circuit, and also four pairs of NXP high current transistors This might not mean much to lớn you, but in the end, I did notice somewhat improved audio output when plugging in quality headphones in here. As I"ve sầu already mentioned, smartphones, in general, are somewhat limited in terms of audio output, & you can"t expect the same quality sound you get out of hi-fi stereos, but compared khổng lồ other handsets, Meizu PRO 5 does really well in this department.
Camera
The PRO 5 differentiates in plenty of ways compared to its competition, from software and the use of its hardware button, all the way khổng lồ sound unique. Well, on top of all this, the phone also has a great camera. The PRO 5 ships with a 21.16-megapixel CMOS shooter (PDAF included), this is actually Sony"s IMX230 sensor Meizu used, which comes with f/2.2 aperture. On top of this sensor you"ll find the LARGAN 6P.. lens which has been adapted especially for this camera according lớn the company. On top of all this, Meizu has included sapphire glass over the lens in order khổng lồ protect it. The phone can focus in và take a shot really fast (0.17s), & the Laser Autofocus is also available here, & surely helps with shot tốc độ as well. The dual channel 14-bit Samsung ISPhường algorithm optimization has been implemented within the software, và the dual-LED, dual tone flash is available on the baông chồng of this phone as well.
Now, that"s a lot of tech talk, but is the camera any good? Well, yes, it is, really good. The lens itself allows quite a bit of light lớn enter the image, even though not as much as some other shooters we"ve seen out there. Now, this is not a problem whatsoever considering the fact that it doesn"t overexpose an image in low light, but it allows just enough light khổng lồ enter the shot for the kết thúc result khổng lồ be really, really good và well-balanced. We"ve sầu included some low light samples in the gallery down below, & we haven"t used the LED flash in any of the images. The pictures are well balanced in daylight as well, và the phone does a really great job indoors as well, no matter whether there"s enough light or not. I was quite surprised with the end results of this camera, if I"m being completely honest, the images turned out better than I expected, which is a testament to Meizu. Keep in mind that the vast majority of sample images were shot in bad conditions on purpose in order to really chạy thử out this camera"s performance.
Conclusion
What is there left khổng lồ say? Meizu PRO 5 is one of the best devices I have reviewed to date. The phone has lots khổng lồ offer in terms of build, performance, camera & sound output. Its display is really great as well, especially for those of you who appreciate OLED panels. Keep in mind that Flyme offers a somewhat different approach to stoông xã Android, và as long as you"re comfortable with it, chances are you"re going to lượt thích this phone. The device comes in both 3 and 4GB RAM variants, & is significantly more affordable than other similarly specced offerings out there. So, vị I think this device is worth it? Yes, definitely.
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