Meizu released its first product PRO 5 under the brand new flagship brand PRO on September 23, as well as Flyme 5 and Meizu router mini. What is the difference between Meizu's brand new products in product positioning, design and performance? We also went to the press conference to experience:
The front panel of the PRO 5 is somewhat similar to that of the iPhone 6 we are familiar with 2.5D glass There is no product logo on the front, but the physical Home key of PRO 5 is not circular.
The earpiece is level with the front panel, and there is one on the right 5 megapixel Front camera of.
There is an entity Home key below, with Touch, entity keys and fingerprint recognition Meizu calls it the combination of mTouch and mBack. Compared with the MX5, the touch of keys has been greatly improved, which will not appear so abrupt, and the key feedback is also more convenient.
The antenna partition strip is well hidden.
The design of the back of the fuselage is very similar to that of the MX5. There is a large metal material in the middle, which has been sandblasted. In addition, we can see that the PRO 5 has replaced Meizu's new logo.
PRO 5 uses Sony's new generation IMX230 Sensor, sensor area 1/2.4 Inches, pixels 21 million 160 thousand ， F2.2 Aperture. There is a dual color temperature fill light under the camera, and a laser assisted focusing module. Unfortunately, PRO 5 does not add optical anti shake.
The back of the fuselage is not all metal, and the rear cover is handled in almost the same way as the MX5.
There is a 3.5mm headphone connector and a noise reducing microphone on the top of the fuselage.
There is one at the bottom of the fuselage USB Type-C Interface. This design is also used by more and more high-end mobile phones. On the left side of the interface is a call microphone, and on the right side is a speaker. Seeing such a design will inevitably make people blurt out a word: iPhone 6。
On the left side of the fuselage is the SIM card slot, which can be pushed out by the card pin.
The PRO 5 uses an "AND or CART" design, Card 1 supports TF card or microSIM, and card 2 supports nanoSIM , supporting dual cards, dual standby, dual 4G (China Mobile, China Unicom).
On the right side of the fuselage are the volume key and the power key.
The frame of the PRO 5 is not too narrow. Compared with the MX4, it is a little "horse racing", and its size is close to that of the iPhone 6 Plus.
Compared with the Galaxy Note5, which is also 5.7 inches in size, it is better than the Note5, which uses an ultra narrow border design, so it is smaller than the PRO 5.
Galaxy Note5 (left) and PRO 5 (right) border contrast.
Galaxy Note5 and PRO 5 use the same SoC, RAM and flash memory chips, and also use a 5.7 inch Super AMOLED However, due to the large difference in resolution, it can also be seen from the naked eye that PRO 5 has a disadvantage in screen fineness.
At the press conference, Meizu claimed the "diamond pixel arrangement" of Super AMOLED used by PRO 5. In addition, from the perspective of naming, Meizu's screen panel is from Samsung (Super AMOLED is a registered trademark of Samsung).
The above figure shows the layout of sub pixels on the screen of Samsung Galaxy Note3. It can be seen that the arrangement is completely consistent with that of PRO 5. Therefore, from the perspective of parameters, the screens of Galaxy Note3 and PRO 5 are almost the same.
Unfortunately, PRO 5 did not use the new Flyme 5 system released with it, but still used the Flyme 4.5 system, so the system did not give us too many surprises. The launcher is still in the traditional style of Flyme, removing the traditional secondary menu of Android.
The drop-down bar displays shortcut switches and notifications.
Slide up to call up the multi task management interface.
PRO 5 uses Flyme 4.5.4A, based on Android 5.1 It can be seen from the baseband version that it uses the Samsung Shannon 333 baseband , this baseband uses 28nm HKMG technology.
PRO 5 supports NFC functions.
The PRO 5 is equipped with an independent HiFi module, and there are several different mode options in the system settings, such as automatic, low gain, high gain and line output.
The test machine we got on site is a low configuration version, which uses the combination of 3G Ram and 32G Rom.
PRO 5 uses Samsung's top SoC—— Exynos 7420， It consists of four core Cortex-A57 2.1GHz and four core Cortex-A53 1.5GHz . And unlike Samsung's scheduling mode, the four cores of PRO 5 will have Directly dormant On Samsung mobile phones, eight cores are fully open for a long time.
The graphics processor is Mali-T760mp8 , frequency up to 772MHz , supports OpenGL ES 3.1.
Due to the "violent stacking" of Exynos 7420, LPDDR4, UFS2.0 and other hardware, the score of PRO 5 is also very high. Due to the "advantage" of resolution, it is even more powerful than Galaxy Note5 using the same SoC. Seeing this, someone might say that it is time for Anthare to update and fix the "bug" of excessive run points of PRO 5.
PRO 5 has made great progress in terms of camera hardware, and its photographing function has also made a big leap. In manual mode, it supports the highest 420 seconds Compared with ordinary mobile phones, the long shutter time of.
ISO can be as low as 50 and as high as 1600.
We also took two samples of PRO 5 on the site. Due to the complex lighting environment and limited location, they are only for reference:
In addition, we also experienced the upgrade on site Flyme 5 Of MX5 (PRO 5 to November 15th The new system is not the first to adapt to the new flagship, which seems to be launched in a hurry):
The launcher of Flyme 5 is similar to the past, but many icons have been redrawn.
The drop-down list has been changed to a row of four icons, which can also display system notifications.
Multi task management has become more loyal to the card design of native Android, and it is full screen display, with the function of closing all with one button. It can be seen that Meizu has abandoned many unnecessary persistence and returned to better usability.
The system settings have also changed a lot. The left and right split screen design is no longer used, and the logic is close to that of native Android.
The system is based on Android 5.1, and the system version is Flyme OS 5.5.
The operation of Flyme 5 has changed a lot logically. The navigation bar and menu of the application are concentrated on the top of the screen to form a "T" structure, which can further improve the readability. However, for third-party applications, the amount of work for this change will be large, and more third-party manufacturers need to adapt to achieve the unity of experience.
Flyme 5 supports split screen operation. After calling out the multi task manager, the application with split screen on the top right corner of the card can support split screen operation. For example, the video and file manager of the system.
However, there are not many applications supporting split screen, and even fewer third-party applications.
In addition, Flyme 5 also supports fast batch processing icons, which can greatly improve the efficiency of the organizer.
From the simple start of this press conference, the PRO 5 brings us more from the powerful hardware performance. The screen, SoC, Ram, Rom and even baseband provided by Samsung give the PRO 5 a certain advantage over high-end mobile phones from friends in terms of hardware. Flyme 5, on the other hand, abandons many of Meizu's previous unnecessary persistence in interaction design in exchange for an easier way to operate. This is indeed a good thing for most users, but it seems to be a bit "humiliating" for Meizu's previous persistence. Since the new Flyme 5 does not adapt to the PRO 5, we cannot experience many details. This time, the PRO 5's photography and HiFi system are the main functions, which have their own characteristics in terms of hardware and optimization. Please pay attention to our next detailed evaluation for their more in-depth experience.
