On June 13, Meizu not only released Meilan 3s, but also brought a small surprise to everyone: Meizu Router Speed Edition Is this 199 yuan gadget competitive in today's Red Sea market?

1: Appearance introduction

Meizu Router Speed Edition is quite simple in terms of the outer packaging. It is white on the whole. The front is an ID photo of the product, and the back is the relevant parameters of Meizu Router Speed Edition. It is small and grand.

After opening the package box, you can see the Meizu router's fast version. After taking out the router, you can see the three pack certificate and the power adapter. Meizu router has few accessories for the fast version. In addition to the router itself, there are three things in total.

Meizu router speed version uses a 10w power adapter, and the overall appearance and wire material also use white color matching to cater to Meizu router speed version.

Meizu Router Super Speed Edition can be said to bring the minimalism to the extreme in appearance. It is made of polycarbonate and has a half moon shaped appearance design, without unnecessary outline. There is a two-color LED indicator on the front, and on the back, from left to right, there are USB2.0 interfaces, two 100 megabyte LAN interfaces, one 100 megabyte WAN interface, power socket and wps adapter key. It can be seen from the micro USB interface used in the power port that the Meizu Router Extreme Edition is mainly portable and easy to use. In addition to using its own power adapter, the Meizu Router Extreme Edition can also use mobile power to provide power for it. This may be a good solution for some students living in school. You know why.

There is only one Meizu LOGO on the top of Meizu Router Express Edition, and some details of the router are on the bottom. Both sides are made of anti-skid ground glue.

The Meizu router extreme version adopts a rotatable antenna design, which can support a maximum of 180 degrees of rotation, and can meet the placement needs of most users. Four 6dBi gain omnidirectional antennas are integrated in the left and right antenna poles, which are simple and elegant;

As a rookie router, Meizu Router Super Speed Edition can be said to be quite bright in appearance without too many lines. The simple white half moon shape plus two 180 degree rotating antenna poles are quite competitive in the price range of 199 yuan.

2: Introduction to system and hardware.

Meizu router extreme speed version adopts the MT7628AN+MT7612EN scheme on hardware, of which the 2.4G channel is mainly in the charge of MT7628AN of MediaTek, which integrates 2T2R 802.11n Wi Fi radio frequency and 580MHz MIPS24KEc central processor. In the 5G band, another MT7612EN chip of MediaTek supports the IEEE802.11ac standard, integrates the 2 × 2 dual band Wi Fi radio frequency module, and the maximum transmission rate can reach 867Mbps.

The client of Meizu Router Express is relatively simple on the computer side. It can only perform some basic settings and firmware updates on the router. It is similar to traditional routing in this respect, without too many highlights.

Meizu Router Extreme Edition is much more functional and playable than the computer terminal on the mobile phone client, but most of them are displayed in the form of plug-ins, which is a bit of catching up with the first generation router. In addition, although there are many types of plug-ins, their functionality is very simple. Most of them only have switch settings, but they cannot further set specific content. This is far from smart routers such as Xiaomi and Huawei. It can only be said that Meizu router extreme speed version has done well in ease of use, but it still needs more efforts in intelligence.

3: Summary

Meizu Router Express Edition is very suitable for the price of 199 yuan in terms of performance and functionality. The excellent appearance design and simple and easy client operation can make many small white users easy to get started and set up their own home routers. However, in terms of intelligent expansion, it is still slightly rough. The experience of many plug-ins is not good, and the relevant settings are relatively simple. But after all, it is just starting. Let's wait and see how the future development will be.