Meizu released the Meilan note3 、 EP51 And other products, the former is undoubtedly the focus of attention, and how is its actual performance?

The package of Meilan note3 adopts the design of white paper box, and the product name is on the front of the package.

There are relevant information about the product on the back of the package. We got the silver 16G Sample, which is a low configuration version with a price of 799 yuan.

Open the first layer of the package to see the phone. There is a protective film on the front of the phone.

Take off the mobile phone. The second layer is a stylus with the logo of Flyme, which is the same as previous products.

In particular, the paper holder of the card needle is integrated with the manual.

The accessories of the mobile phone are very simple. The data cable, power adapter and card pin. The data cable is estimated to be limited to the cost. The Type-C interface is not used. The power adapter does not support high voltage fast charging. The charging standard is 5V 2A 。

The front of Meilan note3 has obvious family characteristics of Meizu products. There is no logo on the front, but there is an entity home key.

The front camera and distance/light sensor are on the left and right sides of the earpiece, which adopt a symmetrical shape, showing a bit of pettiness. It can also be seen from this that the "forehead" of Meilan note3 is relatively wide.

Meilan note3 entity home key with pressing fingerprint identification, with mTouch and mBack This is also the "standard configuration" function of Meizu mobile phones. The keys are not loose, the feel is hard and tight, and the elasticity is slightly poor.

Meilan note3 uses 2.5D front panel glass, but the edge radian is relatively gentle, which brings little touch change. However, it is better to have something than nothing. Meizu also complained about the cancellation of the 2.5D front panel glass design of the flagship product of its friends at the press conference (no accident is that Xiaomi 5).

There are volume keys and power keys on the right side of the phone.

There is a card slot on the left side of the phone, which supports two nanoSIM cards and adopts the design of "and or card holder". One card supports nanoSIM or TF card, and supports the expansion of up to 128G capacity. Meilan note3 supports all Netcom, and both cards can support telecom cards (the so-called "blind plug"). The function of the card slot is very perfect, but the workmanship of the card holder is a little rough.

There are microUSB ports at the bottom of the body, four holes on the left and four holes on the right, and they are very symmetrical. In fact, there are microphones on the left and speakers on the right.

6000 series aluminum magnesium alloy rear cover is used on the back, which looks very similar to MX5, PRO5 and other products, and has family characteristics. However, only the middle part of the back of the fuselage is metal, and the upper and lower sides are injection molded, which will cause slight color difference.

The rear 13 million camera with phase focusing and dual color temperature led fill light are also a "standard" configuration for mobile phones at this price.

In terms of appearance, Meilan note3 can only be said to be standard, but it can still maintain 8.2mm and 163g in the 4100mAh battery configuration, which is quite good. The phone itself does not use the design of an ultra narrow frame. In addition, the sleek body gives you a fuller sense of grip, and there is some pressure when you hold it with one hand.

Meilan note3 uses Meizu's brand Flyme 5 There is no difference between the system and other Meizu mobile phones in use.

The system version before the deadline was Flyme 5.1.3.0A, based on Android 5.1 System.

The drop-down bar still has 12 grid shortcut switches.

Pull up on the lower left corner of the phone to call up the multi task menu, and the shortcut button of "Close All" is still placed on the top of the top that is hard to understand.

Meilan note3 uses the new Helio P10 Compared with the previous MT6752, the processor uses more advanced technology and has its own baseband, which will have more advantages in power consumption and cost. Specifically, Meilan note3 uses MT6755m In the low-frequency version of, the CPU is an 8-core Cortex-A53, a combination of 4+4, and the frequency is 1.8GHz+1.0GHz. The single core performance of this combination is better than the MT6752 (eight core 1.7GHz), but the multi-core performance is even worse. The CPU performance of the MT6755m is also significantly lower than that of the MT6795m on Meilan Metal.

The GPU uses Mali-T860mp2 550MHz We need to conduct more tests to judge the actual performance. The one on OPPO R9 Mali-T860mp2 700MHz The performance of is better than that of MT6752 Mali-T760mp2 , but it is not as good as that on Meilan Metal PowerVR G6200 550MHz 。

We also monitored and tested the CPU frequency of Meilan note3. It can be seen that only three large cores are turned on under the starter, and the frequency is also very low.

When it comes to third-party applications, the frequency is slightly more positive, but the core aspect is that there are only three large cores running at full frequency (the performance mode has been turned on during the test). It can be seen that in order to control power consumption, this set of tuning of Meilan note3 is very negative in terms of CPU core startup and frequency, and the official long endurance estimation has a lot to do with this CPU tuning. From the perspective of actual fluency, Meilan note3 is not very smooth. There is even obvious frame drop when the multitask menu pops up, which can be understood as Meizu Sacrificed some performance for endurance 。

However, on some projects that require multi-threaded score running, Meilan note3 was not so "stingy" and finally opened all eight cores, which of course also enabled the performance mode. In addition, because the system is still in the testing phase, Meilan note3 will automatically return to the standard operating mode after the screen is locked, and the performance mode needs to be reset once before it takes effect. It seems that Meizu engineers have been focusing on the point of extended endurance when designing the kernel.

In terms of the objective performance score, as the MT6755m itself is not a high-end product, there will not be too many surprises on the score.

Finally, put some photo samples of Meilan note3 (click to view the original picture)

Self portrait proof (click to view the original picture)

From the product positioning of Meilan note3, the prices of fingerprint identification, metal body, All Netcom and 799 yuan are relatively lethal. Its appearance makes the market of 799~999 yuan full of gunpowder again. however Meilan note3 The price of its own 3G+32G high configuration mobile phone is 999 yuan, which is the same as the products of the same company Meilan Metal There seems to be competition. For the same 999 yuan product, Meilan note3 has more memory and storage capacity, and has full network support, while Meilan Metal has a stronger SoC, which will inevitably make consumers confused. Compared with the products of other brands, Meilan note3 has a high cost performance. We will introduce more tests and comparisons in the subsequent evaluation.