preface:

With the increasingly fierce competition in the domestic smart phone industry, the market share of the smart phone has gradually become saturated. In addition to the continuous release of annual flagship phones, mobile phone merchants have also launched low-cost mid and low-end mobile phones, which are also an important part of the emergence of a new force. The Meilan series, which focuses on youth products, is the main force of Meizu in controlling the mid and low-end market, From the shipments in recent years, we can see the market share of Meilan series in the middle and low-end markets. In addition to its cost performance, Meilan series is also popular in terms of hardware functions, and the NOTE is the main hot selling product in Meilan series. Today, Meilan Note has been updated to 5 generations, Both the appearance technology and the hardware configuration have been greatly improved, and the only thing that remains unchanged is the impressive cost performance. In this issue, the author will discuss the uniqueness of the new Melanie Note 5, which is "faster and more beautiful, thinner and more durable", and also see whether it is worth replacing the previous generation as a new product?

Packaging design: simple and classic

After several generations of products continue to lay the foundation, today's Meilan packaging has begun to have a high recognition. The white hard simple box design is the symbolic packaging of Meilan series. The packaging text adopts the blue and gray tone, the front uses the simple "Meilan Note5" text introduction, and the side uses the "youth good products" as the collocation. The whole packaging is mainly simple and refreshing, In terms of packaging box materials, both texture and compression resistance are excellent. In addition, through the information on the back of the packaging, you can clearly understand the parameters of the Magic Blue Note5.

The package of Meilan Note5 is designed with a heaven and earth cover. The package can be opened with a gentle pull to see the overall appearance of Meilan Note5. When picking up the machine, it can be realized by pulling the arrow label on the bottom liner, which eliminates the tedious and unsafe process of turning over the machine to pick up the machine. In terms of accessories, Meilan Note5 has continued the past, including chargers, Micro USB data cables, card picking pins and warranty cards.

Product details: craftsmanship with materials and high appearance

As a new product of Meizu, Meilan Note5 still follows the unique style of Meizu in its appearance design. Its front face is covered with 2.5D curved glass, and it is equipped with a 5.5 inch full HD screen. On the top of the screen, there are light distance sensors, earphones, and front facing cameras. Although Meilan Note5 is very similar to Note3 from the front, However, there will be slight differences in detail design. Compared with the "big white" front face of the previous generation Meizu Note3, this Meizu Note5 sensor design uses an asymmetric rectangular design. The front face of the two is quite different. At the bottom of the screen is Meizu's landmark round waist key, which integrates m-back and m-touch fingerprint recognition functions.

The back of Meilan Note5 adopts the classic three-stage process design, and the whole back is made of an integrated metal body. The metal back cover surface has undergone 12 spray guns and double-layer 3D sand blasting treatment, which significantly improves the comfort of holding after being extremely oxidized. The seamless process of nano injection antenna is used at the junction of paragraphs, which can not only ensure the stability of signal transmission, At the same time, it also brings more beautiful and exquisite visual sense. In terms of color selection, Magic Blue Note5 caters to the young people's fashion taste needs, providing four colors of star grey, moonlight silver, champagne gold and glacier blue. Through the extension of color selection, it better shows the characteristics of the main youth products.

The Meilan Note5 camera basically follows the configuration scheme of Meilan Note3. The only difference is that the software algorithm has improved. The front camera of Meilan Note5 is 5 million pixels, with a large aperture of f/2.0. At the same time, it supports the ArcSoft beauty algorithm favored by female users, and the intelligent adjustment technology of face AE facial brightness.  

Meilan Note5 is equipped with a 13 million pixel rear camera with an aperture of f/2.2, which can support high-speed PDAF phase focusing for 0.2s as soon as possible. The camera surface is made of Corning gorilla scratch resistant glass and treated with blue coating, which has obvious effects on abrasion resistance and scratch resistance. At the same time, it is equipped with a classic dual color temperature flash below the camera. In terms of process treatment, the camera and flash outer ring metal adopt the high light chamfer cutting process, which not only takes into account the aesthetic sense, but also the back cover design with slightly higher plane can play a good role in protection.

Meilan Note5, based on the characteristic principle of the metal material of the fuselage, adds a highlight chamfer cutting process to the edge of the fuselage, which not only reduces the fuselage's melting feeling, makes the lines look more rigid and clear, but also brings different hand feeling performance for holding. In fact, it is not very different for use, but it is different from the previous generation Note3 in appearance, Meilan Note5 is more eye-catching.

Meilan Note5 function keys are integrated in the upper right groove of the fuselage. From top to bottom, there are upper and lower volume keys and power keys. The keys are made of metal materials with strong compression resistance and durability. At the same time, the edges are highlighted and cut, effectively improving the recognition of keys. During operation, the pressing feel of keys is moderate, and the feedback rebound effect is also excellent, Compared with the 3rd generation Meilan Note5, it has really improved significantly in detail processing and operating touch.

Meilan Note5 has a built-in hidden card holder design on the left side of the fuselage, which can be taken out through the card taking pin. Meilan Note5 not only has the full Netcom (6-mode 18 frequency) dual card dual standby function, but also supports TF expansion mode (dual Nano SIM card or Nano SIM card+TF card). The card slot outer frame uses a fool proof device to distinguish the size, and can be installed simply by identifying the card slot position, The combination of the two can better meet the daily needs of users, especially for the Beggar version to expand memory (up to 128GB expansion is supported).

  Compared with the previous generation of products, the most significant change of the Meilan Note5 is the bottom interface layout. Instead of the original symmetrical opening design, it is replaced by the headphone interface and the rectangular speaker hole position (three segments). Based on user considerations, there is a trade-off in the design. Although the asymmetric visual beauty is slightly missing, it can effectively improve the convenience of listening to music, This is also the mainstream interface layout of most smart phones at present, but Meilan Note came relatively late. In addition, the bottom of the Meilan Note5 is also equipped with noise reduction MIC and Micro USB interfaces. As a new product, it does not carry the popular Type-c interface, which is relatively regrettable.

Flyme system: easy to use and operate

Meizu Flyme OS is an early Android localization system in China. After years of development, Flyme OS has now become quite perfect. Simple interface and user-friendly are the usual features of Flyme OS. This time, Meizu Note5 is still equipped with Flyme OS 5.2, which is deeply optimized based on Android 6.0. Flyme OS has always focused on simplicity, humanity and ease of use, which not only makes the system smooth and optimized, At the same time, the humanized experience is also very prominent. Among them, various gesture recognition functions are the biggest highlight of Flyme OS. Through the combination of up and down pulling, pressing the screen and m-Back, the fun of simple operation is more reflected. Later, Magic Blue Note5 will also adapt to the new Flyme OS 6 system.

Compared with other domestic systems, the Flyme OS 5.2 interface style is simple and fresh. The crisp flat icons with rich interface colors can better meet the needs of young people nowadays. In addition, many practical functions are added to the software. From the layout of desktop icons, the main and secondary menus are clear, The notification bar and shortcut keys can be selected by pulling down the top. In addition, multi task management can also be read by pulling up the bottom. In multi task management, you can see the common card style interaction features of Android system. For multi task management operations, you can not only slide left and right to delete, but also open split screen and other functions, From the overall operating characteristics, Flyme OS 5.2 is very convenient.

Although all kinds of domestic mobile phone systems are optimized and developed based on Android, from the perspective of user experience effect, localized mobile phone systems are more in line with the needs of domestic users. After all, localized mobile phone systems are deeply customized based on the operating aspirations of domestic users, and Flyme OS 5.2 also covers many outstanding localized features, For example, the function of China Yellow Pages added in the call, combined with China Yellow Pages, has brought convenience of one-stop query; In addition, the most popular red envelope assistant has been added, which not only has the red envelope push prompt tone, but also can enable the quick red envelope grabbing mode. The importance of the red envelope assistant for the upcoming New Year is conceivable; For going abroad, it is very troublesome to change the mobile phone card and number. Flyme OS 5.2 integrates the international roaming function required by users going abroad. It can realize the international roaming function without changing the card and number, and the price is cheaper than that of operators; In fact, Flyme OS 5.2 also covers many well localized functions. The biggest common point is that it not only has high practicability, but also can bring users a more convenient operating experience.

One hand control is a headache for large screen mobile phones. In Flyme OS 5.2, in addition to simple sliding switching, it can also achieve more convenient interactive experience through auxiliary functions such as featured levitation ball and gesture wake-up. The levitation ball can move freely and be placed in any position, and auxiliary operation can be achieved by pressing and sliding. In gesture wake-up, It can be seen that the application direction of wake-up function covers a relatively comprehensive range, and it can also customize the wake-up function required by gesture.

When using Android phones, people should be most worried about the security risks brought by the open system. In this regard, Flyme OS 5.2 is designed to be quite humane. It can prevent the security risks coming from the outside through the built-in mobile phone butler application, which includes the one button optimization function that can quickly deal with the problem of stuck cleaning, as well as garbage cleaning, mobile phone acceleration, traffic management Various practical functions such as harassment interception, authority management, power saving mode, cell phone slimming and virus detection. In Flyme OS 5.2, there is no need to install other plug-ins, and the standard configuration of mobile phone butler is sufficient to deal with daily problems. In the era of spam SMS flooding, especially the role of SMS interception is indeed timely and effective.

In terms of short message push, Flyme OS 5.2 has the feature of humanized short message classification management. Through the classification management of short messages, notification messages and personal short messages are classified, which makes it easier for users to read short messages. In addition, notification messages also have a special operation interface, such as entering the bank short message interface, In the drop-down list, you can directly access the bank management system. The convenient features extended from the SMS interface can better meet the daily needs of users.

Powerful ease of use is the unique symbolic feature of Flyme OS. When you use Flyme OS, you will gradually like it. Flyme OS can help you very well whether it is a new phone or not. Through cloud backup in Flyme OS account function, when users change a new phone, the data on the previous phone can be restored to the new Meizu phone without reservation, Even the layout of the main interface and the Wi Fi password are effectively restored. Although the new phone has been replaced, the experience performance is still the same as before. In addition, for users who do not lose their mobile phones very much, they can also find the lost mobile phones through the function of finding mobile phones in Flyme OS, and then realize the functions of remote positioning, taking photos, locking, card changing and number issuing, Flyme OS is comprehensive in both ease of use and security.  

Fingerprint recognition function was once used as the endorsement of high-end mobile phones. Now many middle and low-end mobile phones in China have gradually been equipped. Of course, there are still uneven residuals between different mobile phones in terms of experience. Magic Blue Note5 inherits the m-Back waist interactive button of the previous generation Note3, and realizes interactive operation by tapping back and pressing recognition. From the perspective of use, Meilan Note5's fingerprint keys are fast and highly recognizable. In addition to simple unlocking and returning operations, it also integrates m-Touch fingerprint identification in functions, which can realize encryption of document applications and fingerprint payment through fingerprints. As a 1000 yuan machine, Meilan Note5 really performs well in fingerprint entry and identification and unlocking speed.

Screen feature: Brightness improvement, more visual

Meilan Note5 is equipped with a 5.5 inch 1080P full HD screen, and the contrast is still 1000:1. At the same time, it uses the GFF full fitting process. Compared with Note3 (400 nits), the brightness is increased to 450 nits, and the performance of screen display transparency is also obvious. Due to the GFF full fit process, the color gamut of the screen is not attractive enough (slightly deep). Fortunately, the improvement of brightness slightly makes up for the dark gray problem of the color gamut. At the same time, it can also make appropriate adjustments through the built-in color temperature function of the screen, so as to achieve a better display effect.

Through the author's simple test, it can be found that the screen performance of Magic Blue Note5 is quite good. From the perspective of tricolor and grayscale performance, both the reducibility of color system and the saturation of color are quite good. From the perspective of visualization, some color deviation can be seen on the death diagonal, but the brightness has really improved, Although the overall color gamut is relatively deep, in addition, with its own 403 PPI effect characteristics, it indirectly amazes the display control of the entire screen, and there is no obvious sawtooth problem from the enlarged text.

Hardware performance: continuity remains unchanged, but highlights are insufficient  

Meilan Note5 is still equipped with MediaTek's Helio P10 eight core (4x1.0GHz A53+4x1.8GHz A53) processor. The GPU model is Mali-T860 MP2. As a midrange processor of MediaTek, the performance of Helio P10 is not superior from the perspective of running experience. However, for the subjective reasons of cost, as well as the objective problems such as power consumption and endurance that needs to be faced, Miracle Note5 is actually the best choice to match MediaTek's Helio P10 before the birth of a successor processor. Although the hardware processor of Meilan Note5 has not changed, it is equipped with 3/4GB LPDDR3 memory, which is also a very good start for a thousand yuan computer. On the premise of matching the same processor, the running memory can better improve the smoothness of mobile phone operation. In addition, Meilan Note5 is also equipped with 16/32/64GB flash memory version for selection.

As a 1000 yuan computer, the hardware configuration of the Magic Blue Note5 is standard, but the 3/4GB LPDDR3 memory is its biggest highlight, which is suitable for daily experience alone. Due to the hardware of the processor, it is a little difficult to run a large game experience. The author simply uses NBA2K16 and King Glory to test. The number of frames to run the NBA2K16 game is 29, and the smoothness of the game is not high. Occasionally, the game will get stuck when switching; When running King Glory, the number of game frames is controlled at about 28, and the overall fluency is very high, which can meet the needs of supernatural users. Although the performance of Meilan Note5 is slightly insufficient in large-scale games, it can still meet the needs of watching videos, brushing Weibo, chatting on WeChat and some low equivalent games for daily use, For a thousand yuan machine, it is more powerful for Meilan Note5 to perform like this.

In addition to the game experience, heating is also a major concern for pen users. The temperature of the back cover is controlled at about 38.6 degrees Celsius, while the temperature of the screen is about 21.2 degrees Celsius. The temperature control performance of low-power processors is quite good.

Charging and endurance: highlighted, time-saving and continuous

Since the birth of smart phones, the problem of battery life has always been concerned by users. For the 1000 yuan mobile phone, easy use and high battery life are the most important highlights. Meilan Note5 is equipped with a 4000mAh super capacity lithium battery, which is slightly less than Note3's battery capacity (4100mAh). It is still quite good for the actual battery life performance. From the measured results, There is no difference in endurance caused by capacity reduction. The normal use of the low-power Helio P10 processor can meet the two day endurance requirements.

The fast charging function of Meizu's 1000 yuan mobile phone can be said to come out in a thousand calls. The biggest highlight of Meilan Note5 this time is that it supports the mCharge fast charging technology, which makes the in-depth experience more complementary for high-capacity mobile phones. In addition to large volume and strong heat dissipation, the fast charger standard for Meilan Note5 also supports 5/8V=3A or 12V=2A output. The measured time from 0% to 100% is 108 minutes, which saves about 50% of the time compared with Meilan Note3. In addition, in the current input test, the author found that although Meilan Note5 is standard equipped with a fast charger, its cooling performance during charging is still well controlled. Even under full load (room temperature 9 ℃), the charger has only 38.2 ℃ heat, while the body temperature is only 28.9 ℃.

Photographing experience: full and brilliant, regular

In terms of shooting, Meilan Note5 is equipped with a 5 megapixel front camera and a 13 megapixel rear camera, and supports the PDAF phase focusing function. You can see many practical functions in the camera interface, and can better meet the needs of different shooting users. In the actual experience, the focus speed of Meilan Note5 phase is relatively satisfactory. The focus is smooth in the case of sufficient backlight, while the focus is blurred in the case of backlight, and the exposure control during shooting is not superior enough. It can be said that "the image is clear in the daytime, and the paint is obvious at night", In terms of photo saturation and reducibility, Meilan Note5 is impressive. Although the details are not good enough, the overall performance is remarkable. Especially for Qianyuan, the camera performance of Meilan Note5 is quite ahead.

Mordor has recently continuously turned on the rain mode, mainly focusing on lighting and cloudy photography. Finally, several shooting samples are presented for reference. The color of Miracle Blue Note5 is bright, the focus is slightly blurred, and there is a certain sense of smearing. The daytime image is slightly overexposed, and the night image is not clear enough. (Due to the relationship between the screen, the actual output is quite different from the display on the phone screen, and the phone display is more colorful)

Comparative performance: little difference, but some highlights

As the successor of Note3, Melancholy Note5 basically inherits the previous generation in terms of hardware configuration and shape design. Of course, the details of each item have improved slightly. One year later, for users holding Melancholy Note3, whether the newly released Melancholy Note5 is worth updating is believed to be the most important thing many old users want to know, Next, the author will make a simple comparison between the new and old Meilan Notes.

In terms of size (top: NOTE5, bottom: NOTE3), Meilan Note5 (153.6x75.8x8.1mm) is thinner than Note3 (153.6x75.5x8.2mm), and Meilan Note5 (175g, Note3 163g) is slightly heavier due to the body material; In terms of fuselage technology, the main line of Meilan Note5 is light cutting, and the main line of Meilan Note3 is round arc frame, but the handle is slightly different, but the author prefers the line technology of Meilan Note5 in terms of my preference. The main reason is that the appearance and feel are very unique. Of course, there is still a slight hand scratching phenomenon when Meilan Note5 is holding, Because everyone has different preferences, we need to really get started before we can understand; Glacier blue is added to the color of the Magic Blue Note5, and the optional color matching is more comprehensive and fashionable.

In terms of appearance design (top: NOTE5, bottom: NOTE3), the biggest change of Meilan Note5 is the design of metal integrated body and nano injection antenna technology. From the back of the body, Meilan Note5 is obviously more comfortable in terms of higher appearance and feel; There are also significant changes in the interface hole position. The symmetrical (● - ●) face on the front has been changed to an asymmetrical round moment design, and the headphone hole has also moved from the original top to the bottom, which is easy to operate. In addition, the hole position of the speaker has also changed significantly, and the sound raising effect has indeed been slightly improved relatively; As for the function keys, although the positioning position remains the same, the cutting process and stability have improved a lot. The hand feel is comfortable and the shaking of the Note3 keys is reduced; It may be due to the thinning of the fuselage or the process. I found a slight protrusion in the waist round key. Although there is no obvious hand cutting problem, the details need to be strengthened.

In terms of screen (left: NOTE5, right: NOTE3), Meilan Note5 is also equipped with a 5.5 inch 1080PGFF full fit screen, and the contrast is still 1000:1. At the same time, based on the Note3 screen, the brightness is increased to 450 nits. At first glance, Meilan Note5's visual sense is not obvious enough, but when the brightness is sufficient, Meilan Note5 has a clear sense of color, which is more beautiful than Note3's, At the same time, Meilan Note5 also supports the intelligent eye protection mode, which is a rare humanized function for users who like to read books. Not only that, but also it can draw up the highlights that need to be opened according to the user's own needs. In the default brightness mode, Meilan Note5 is cooler than Note3, and Meilan Note5 has more comfortable visual sense.  

In terms of hardware, Meilan Note5 basically inherits the configuration of Note3, and still carries MediaTek's Helio P10 eight core (4x1.0GHz A53+4x1.8GHz A53) processor. The GPU model is Mali-T860 MP3. The biggest difference is that the memory is slightly changed, from the original 2/3GB upgrade of Meilan Note3 to 3/4GB memory. At the same time, Meilan Note5 is also equipped with 16/32/64GB flash memory version for selection, From the score alone, we can see that the hardware performance has indeed improved slightly.

In terms of shooting function (left: NOTE5, right: NOTE3), Magic Blue Note5 also uses Note3, with a 5 megapixel front camera and a 13 megapixel rear camera, and supports the PDAF phase focusing function. The only difference is that the software algorithm has been improved. In addition, on the flash, Magic Blue Note5 converts the original Note3 strip dual color temperature flash into a circular dual color temperature flash, However, from the perspective of visual performance, the effect is really more beautiful and inconsistent. In addition, in the actual photos taken, we can find that there are still differences between the two, especially in terms of color reducibility and saturation, Magic Blue Note5 has greatly improved.

In terms of endurance, although the capacity of Meilan Note5 (4000mAh) is nearly 100mAh less than that of Note3 (4100mAh), from the perspective of endurance performance, it can not be said that there is no impact, but it is only negligible. In addition, due to the increase of the screen brightness of Meilan Note5, there will be an indirect impact on the daily endurance. Compared with Note3, the endurance time will be slightly reduced. The slight impact of improving the visual effect is acceptable to the author, and the difference between the endurance time is not particularly severe. In terms of charging, the addition of fast charging function is undoubtedly the biggest highlight of Meilan Note5 (5/8V=3A or 12V=2A). In the actual charging test, compared with Note3 (5V=2A), the time is reduced by nearly 50%, and the heat dissipation is also relatively good. Large capacity batteries complement each other with fast charging, which can effectively reduce idle charging time and bring better and longer daily utilization, Especially for heavy mobile phone users, the integration of fast charging function can more effectively and quickly solve the dilemma of endurance.

In terms of price (the official price of the low standard configuration of Meilan Note5 is increased by 100 yuan), Meilan Note5 is divided into three versions: low configuration (3GB-16GB), standard configuration (2GB-32GB), and high configuration (4GB-64GB). According to the configuration version, the price is (original 899) 999 yuan, (original 999) 1099 yuan, and 1499 yuan, while Meilan Note3 is divided into two versions: standard configuration (2GB-16GB) and high configuration (3GB-32GB), The price is 799 yuan and 999 yuan, but from the price point of view, the difference between the two is quite large, especially after the price increase. Of course, for Meizu's previous price increase, the author thinks that this is understandable. After all, the current currency devaluation is obvious to all, and manufacturers will not do business at a loss no matter how rich they are, The key is to increase the quantity while raising the price. It is still difficult to rush to buy at present.

Summary:

Through a few days of comparative experience, the author thinks that Meilan Note 5 is "green from blue, but better than blue". Although it inherits most of the previous generation in all aspects, it can not ignore its own unique characteristics, especially in terms of material, which has improved significantly, so Meizu Note series is really getting rid of plastic shells and entering the high-end metal era, while combining polishing Injection molding, cutting and other processes have greatly improved both hand feel and appearance; In terms of hardware, although Meilan Note5 is standard, its starting running memory has also improved significantly. Although the hardware is basically the same, it has improved significantly in terms of computing. For daily operations, the operation switching is very smooth. Of course, it is still difficult for some large games to run; Among the many functions of Meilan Note5, charging and endurance are the highlights. In addition to the large capacity battery with 4000mAh, it also supports the fast charging function, which not only meets the endurance required for daily experience, but also reduces the waiting time during idle charging; In terms of the system, the localization function provided by Flyme OS 5.2 is grounded. It is not only simple to operate, but also easy to use. It is especially suitable for the tastes of young people. At the same time, it is also looking forward to the arrival of the new Flyme OS 6 system.  

This time, as the successor of Note3, the Charming Blue Note5 has many highlights, especially in the aspects of process materials and charging. Although there are some fluctuations in the positioning, it is still worth the price in terms of comprehensive performance. Compared with the performance of Note3, it is obvious that if you are a high-end version of Note3, The author thinks that it is not significant to change the phone. After all, the 3GB memory is just short of fast charging, and it is self-sufficient for daily use. Of course, there is still a slight lack of hand feel and process details. But for users who hold a low configuration version of Note3 or are preparing to buy a thousand yuan machine, the Magic Blue Note5 is really worth paying attention. After all, it has a large screen, high endurance, fast charging It is rare to see a thousand yuan machine with a face value. From the comprehensive performance, Meilan Note5, a "youth good product", is very attractive as the last product of Meizu in 16 years.

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