Meizu is much more daring this year. It is no longer like other manufacturers who blindly learn from Apple. They say that it depends not only on the configuration but also on who learns from Apple. For example, the OV Blue and Green Factory. The Pro7 released by Meizu last month seems no longer to follow the trend. The bold design of the back secondary screen also shocked the industry, In particular, Meizu of the secondary screen cooperated with Flyme to create a new interactive function for the secondary screen, which is also quite bright.

OK， This time, I (GK Star) will give you a hands-on experience of Meizu Pro7 high configuration version. Here, I will answer the two points that most people complain about, and use data to tell you. Because this article is long, you can choose what you need to know to read.

From Meizu Pro 7, the flagship of Meizu's dual screen dual camera

[Unpacking: Is Pro7 ugly or beautiful?]

Well, let's open the box. First of all, Meizu has adopted an asymmetric design in its previous packaging box design, which should be related to the design of the back of the product, creating a beauty of asymmetric design.

The overall packaging style is black theme, and the thick plastic material feels particularly high-end and grand. Of course, Meizu's packaging design is also as always carefully seen from the mobile phone packaging boxes released in previous generations.

Indeed, from MEIZUDESIGN, we always feel aesthetic design.

When I opened the box for the first time, I felt a little different. The usual mobile phone is a pull up box cover. Meizu has adopted a composite pull out design this time, which makes it fresh and ingenious to open the box.

It can be seen that the mobile phone is placed in the interlayer, which is also very easy to take out. There is an extra plastic sheet on the back film, which can be pulled out.

By the way, the interior design of the box is quite innovative. A ring of shockproof sponge pad is used, and everything inside the box is taken out. Let's explore:

Take a look at the internal packaging accessories. There is a black card, a Meizu VIP member, which can be ignored by registered users. Of course, in order to protect the back secondary screen, Meizu specially presented a soft plastic protective sleeve. To be honest, this protective sleeve is not so good. It's a bit stiff. You can buy a soft rubber one from a treasure.

At this point, we have to say that Meizu has made great efforts in this year's flagship packaging box. The highlights of the packaging box are enough for me to watch for a while. Secondly, the small interior design is also worthy of this year's Pro7 flagship.

Let's take a look at the appearance of Pro7

In the past, we have always discussed the width of the black edge, and now it is the same. Fortunately, the manufacturer has continuously optimized and improved the process level through the update iteration of previous mobile phones, and the black edge has also been well controlled. This time, Meizu Pro7 (2.98mm) is 0.04mm narrower than the previous generation Pro6 (3.02mm).

The top is still asymmetric: the earpiece and front camera are on one side, and the breathing lamp is on the left

Now many manufacturers are no longer supporting SIM card to expand the card slot. That is to say, it used to be two out of three, but now it has become two out of two. Maybe it is also to consider the internal space cost of mobile phones to make such a design.

The top noise reducing microphone has no extra openings. It is always for the sake of beauty. I believe Meizu can make a compromise for the ultimate appearance.

The SIM card slot position of the Pro7 is much higher than that of the previous Pro6.

Now many mobile phone manufacturers start to learn from Apple and abandon the headphone interface, but others have AirPods wireless headphones, so it is natural to abandon them. Domestic manufacturers will not have to follow the trend. Sending Type-C headphone interface instead increases the user experience cost. Fortunately, Meizu has not retained the 3.5mm headphone interface like some manufacturers. After all, many users use the 3.5mm headphone interface at a relatively high frequency, Meizu Pro7 did not follow suit, which is commendable. (Author GK Xingchen)

The use of 2,5D curved glass and metal chamfering process, plus the 5.2 inch screen size, makes the grip feel good, and there is no pressure for single hand operation.

The back is the windowing sub screen that most people talk about. Meizu beautifies it with a very elegant and pleasant name: Paintscreen. As for how this screen will be tested later.

Of course, in addition to the asymmetric design of the packaging box, Meizu's back has deliberately changed the Meizu logo into a symmetrical design for the beauty of symmetrical design, which is very elegant, just like a gentleman making a concession.

The antenna strip is still at the bottom edge of the fuselage like everyone else.

In fact, we can see from the front that the change is not as big as that of the previous generation, and there is no change in aesthetics. As for whether the window opening on the back is really so ugly, let's take a look at the secondary screen.

First, let's take a look at the main parameters of the sub screen

Many people say that the Meizu Pro7 sub screen has no practical significance. As long as the wrist has a smart bracelet, the function can be achieved only by opening a window on the back. What's more, most people do not hold their mobile phones when exercising, which is a bit awkward. Of course, many people are used to placing the screen facing up, so this picture screen seems dispensable.

[Sub screen design]

But then again, since the homogenization of mobile phones is so serious now, Meizu has to admire its boldness and courage in this year's flagship operation in order to make a good start. Is the function of the screen really what we see? Come down and experience it for yourself. (Author of this article: GK Xingchen reprinted the source)

Here are some back appreciation pictures

Back time display

gas show

Step count display

The secondary screen operation is quite smooth, and the switching is very casual

The above are the main highlights of the time display, running step recording, weather display and screen wallpaper of the secondary screen.

Of course, in addition to the online wallpaper, you can also change the wallpaper as you like the main screen and lock screen of your phone. (Author of this article: GK Xingchen reprinted the source)

Other functions, such as incoming call, SMS prompt, secondary screen photo taking and power-off MP3, are also very prominent. All the functions that this secondary screen can achieve are added.

The secondary screen displays when answering and making calls. Of course, if you don't like the status displayed on the secondary screen at this time, you can remove the SMS prompt for incoming calls in the settings to avoid embarrassment. (Author of this article: GK Xingchen reprinted the source)

When charging, the back will display the current power

This time I joined the secondary screen photography, but I used it in a very different way. At present, the mobile phone is working hard on the front camera, what lights up your beauty, and how to take a self portrait. This secondary screen photography directly uses the rear dual 12 million pixels to take photos. Click the secondary screen to enter the countdown 3s to take photos, which makes the photography more stable. At the same time, the back photography supports beauty, virtualization and other photography effects.

The most innovative feature of the secondary screen is the sleep MP3 function. Everyone knows that the mobile phone on the plane needs to be turned off. At this time, you can use it to listen to music, which is also a good choice. A long press of the shutdown key will bring up the sleep MP3. Selecting the MP3 to enter the sleep state means that the system will shut down. The service of the base station and related systems will be suspended, leaving only the secondary screen system display.

In addition, this scene can not only be used on the plane, such as students who read books in the library or sleep at night and put their mobile phones beside their pillows to listen to music. There are many scenes that can be used in life, so you can use your imagination.

In general, the functions of Meizu's secondary screen still need to be improved and explored, such as games suitable for small screens, shortcuts such as flashlights and masquerading calls like hammers. Meizu should spend more time developing these. Now that the hardware has been developed, the software cannot be lost. So here, you also want to ask whether this sub screen is meaningless. I can only say that there is always one function you will use!

[Confusive performance test]

For Meizu's new flagship, I think the focus is still on performance. At the press conference, we announced the price of its high configuration version equipped with MediaTek Helio X30 and finally the price of its high configuration version 3380. I don't know whether you felt like I could sell MediaTek so expensive at that time, except for OV and Meizu. This time, I don't know who gave it the confidence to sell MediaTek X30 to 3000+, so it seems that OV Blue Green Factory has a conscience, Watching the people eating melons, they estimated the price in their hearts.

For the question of whether the price of Meizu Pro 7 is higher than 3380 yuan and whether it is worth it or not, the evaluation in this small section is the most important, and the purchase is not the most important. You will have an answer by looking at the test results in this small section.

Let's take a look at the configuration first

Score running test of each software

Although the score run of Anthare has become the score run of Thunderhare, it is only when using Xiaomi's mobile phone to run the score that the virtual height will appear (don't beat me with rice noodles). Now let's see how many points the Meizu Pro with Helio X30 can run. You may think that the score is very high. In fact, the Helio X30 of MediaTek uses the 10nm process from TSMC, and its core frequencies are 2.6GHz (dual core), 2.2GHz (large quad core), and 1.9GHz (small quad core).

Of course, Meizu Pro 7 uses the new processor of MediaTek this time. What's the advantage over the previous generation processor? Compared with other mobile phones at the same price, which one is better in performance? Presumably, this is also what you want to see. This time, we borrowed two mobile phones, one is LeEco Pro3 dual camera Ai version, which uses MediaTek Helio X27 processor, and the other is Huawei Mate9, which uses Kirin 960, the latest Kirin, to see what the differences between these two processors and Helio X30 are.

First, let's take a look at the general parameters of these three mobile phones

The other two will have a rabbit to run the points

Then compare the 3D mark scores.

Summary of comparative data of three mobile phones

From the above score results, Helio X30, as the first flagship chip manufactured by MediaTek with a 10nm process, has a 35.28% performance improvement compared with the previous generation HelioX27, and 1.9% performance reduction compared with Kirin 960, which is almost negligible. From the above score, the progress is very obvious. For the consumption of Helio X30, please check the endurance test at the end of the article directly

It has to be said that the excess performance of smart phones has become popular. No matter how high the performance is, it doesn't mean much. In other words, consumers only agree with high-performance mobile phones. Now, it seems that everyone likes Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, which is obviously higher than Helio X30 in performance, Helio X30's single core CPU performance is only equivalent to Qualcomm's flagship chip Snapdragon 821 last year, slightly better than Apple's iPhone 6sPlus A9 processor, but its multi-core performance is about equal to this year's Snapdragon 835. As for the GPU, it is roughly the same as Adreno530 of Snapdragon 820 last year. It's hard to say whether consumers will buy it or not, so Meizu is also taking risks for the high-end of MediaTek this time.

Comments on Helio X30: I have to say that the distance between MediaTek and Qualcomm is still very different. Compared with the domestic Kirin chip, MediaTek seems to be about half a dozen. From the score score, we can see that MediaTek has been trying to run hard, but this time, the price of Meizu Pro 7 seems to be a bit radical. In China, only the big blue and green manufacturers dare to sell MediaTek so expensive, Meizu has also participated, which is not bad, but from the current score, MediaTek still needs to work hard!.

You should not worry about the performance of Helio X30 processor. It's easy to play large games. As for the advanced version of Meizu PRO7, which is equipped with LPDDR4X memory and UFS2.1 flash memory, I have to say that the results of many tests are not as good as I expected.

After passing the AndroBench professional test software and testing for many times, I was shocked by the results. The reading and writing speed is only slightly better than UFS 2.0, and is still a little short of UFS 2.1. At present, no netizen has disclosed it on a large scale. I don't know whether it is the reason for my appearance.

Let's take a look at the test results of the UFS2.1 flash memory equipped with Mate 9 (don't spray it if you don't like it)

The following is a summary of the flash memory scores of the two. The official UFS2.1 flash memory chips are both claimed to be used. You can see how different they are

Pro7 is lower than Mate9 in reading and writing: 32% and 26%, which is still a large gap.

This has not been reflected on a large scale by netizens at present. Of course, the speed is not too slow. It's OK to say everything. If you don't mind, you can continue to watch our game performance test.

The performance of the previous processor has been tested, and the performance is comparable to that of Huawei Mate 9. From the game performance, we can see that there is no big difference between the two in the game performance.

Game Test One: First, test the King's Glory

As a global game, King Glory is indispensable for our test. Now let's test the time of launching King Glory and the time of entering the game.

Test the time to enter the King's Glory game.

The first test state: after multiple shutdowns and restarts, it takes only 8.2s as fast as possible to turn on the stopwatch to open the King Glory and enter the main interface of the game mode.

The second test method: open 10 APPs to run, clear all background programs, exit the phone from the power-saving mode, open the game mode (including game acceleration optimization), and enter the main interface in the fastest time of 9.4s.

Considering that the user will not deliberately shut down and restart to enter the program when playing King Glory, we will take the second test scheme as the criterion and conduct a duel between three mobile phones (Meizu Pro7/Mate9/Le Pro3 dual Ai version).

Through the second test scheme, we conducted five data tests and summarized the data as follows:

From the above, we can see that Huawei Mate9 has the best performance, followed by Meizu Pro7, and finally LeEco Pro3 Ai. It is not difficult to see that although they are all 4GB mobile phone memory, the X30 performance of Meizu Pro7 is relatively stable.

Average game frame rate Frame rate

The loading time is fast, but the frame rate of the game is really something that many players are more concerned about. Generally, the frame rate of the King's Glory screen is good at about 30FPS. Below 30, you will notice that the screen is not coherent, and frame dropping occurs. What is the frame rate of Meizu Pro7? We turn on the high frame rate mode. At present, the Royal Glory team has repaired the high frame rate mode of Meizu Pro7, which can be turned on in the settings

After several tests, it is shown as follows (the upper left corner is the frame rate of the system test: 59.67 frames/the upper right corner is the frame rate calculated in the game: 61 frames)

Current measured results: Meizu Pro7 can open the high frame rate mode up to 61 frames, which is a very high level at present. At the same time, the frame rate is basically between 58-61, and the smoothness of the full frame is great.

Game Test 2: Shooting King

For the experience of the Gunfight King game, the green FPS display in the upper left corner can also reach about 55 frames. Therefore, in this game, the game player does not need to consider Kabuka, and the smoothness of the screen is also 66 smooth, so the player just goes ahead.

Game Test Three: Top Gear Racing

It seems that the frame rate of our small games is not bad. Because the fast movement of racing games is also a great test of GPU computing ability, we will find that the frame rate is about 50 frames during the test, and the picture is basically smooth without any drag.

Although the frame rate has gone up, don't forget the mobile phone fever. The next thing to say is that the Meizu Pro7 fever is much higher than I expected, which is a bit unacceptable.

The whole game lasted about 45 minutes (one class time) to see the fever on the front and back of the phone.

You can feel the slight fever of the mobile phone during the game.

The truth is as high as 37.4

The back is even scarier, reaching 43. This temperature is absolutely hot when you hold it in your hand, unless you play against the downwind of the air conditioner.

See, under the high-performance operation mode of MediaTek's CPU, its heating capacity is also absolutely the first among many CPUs, and it is also the highest temperature for three mobile phones to play King Glory. Fortunately, the metal body has a fast temperature rise and fall, but its large heating capacity definitely affects your performance in the game.

[Charging and endurance]

Meizu Pro7 is equipped with 3000mAh battery, which is similar to the previous generation of Meizu Pro 6s battery. If a 1.9-inch sub screen is added, will the battery life be greatly reduced? I believe that this issue is not just my concern. (Author of this article: GK Xingchen reprinted the source)

First of all, let's test how much it takes to turn on and off the secondary screen. Is there a 1.9 inch screen that costs extra power. First, test the power consumption of the painting screen.

The test scheme is as follows: no card is inserted during the test, all application notifications are turned off, no power saving mode is turned on, and the screen is not lit.

The test item lasts for 5 hours: 1 hour for the secondary screen to light up, 1 hour for the secondary screen to take pictures without interruption, 1 hour for the picture screen wallpaper to light up, 1 hour for music playing, and 1 hour for the motion sensor.

The test results are as follows

According to the above data, the power consumption of taking pictures is still high. How about the power consumption of taking pictures before using the front screen? Please continue to see the following test. As for the AMOLED screen used for the secondary screen, according to the screen material feature of almost no power consumption under the pure black condition, Meizu is reasonable to use it, and the power consumption of sports is also expected.

Let's turn off the secondary screen display and see how the main screen lasts. This time, Meizu Pro7 still uses 3000mAh batteries. If there is no secondary screen, it will take more than 50mAh. Anyway, let's test the standby and regular 5-hour endurance.

The test results are shown in the figure below

Compared with the front camera, the front camera consumes 6% more power than the secondary camera. So it seems that the secondary camera does have an advantage. As for some people who ask why the game power consumption is not tested, because the Meizu Pro7 focuses on high performance this time, so I have conducted several separate tests on the game power consumption. The test game is mainly about King's glory.

The power consumption test of the 5-hour game (in order to avoid the occasional, the power consumption statistics of the endurance are carried out in three days) is shown in the figure below. (Author of this article: GK Xingchen reprinted the source)

In the high-performance mode, the power consumption of the MediaTek Helio X30 is still modest, not big, but not much better. We just hope Meizu will continue to optimize its endurance.

Meizu's mCharge still leads the way in charging.

The output power of the charging head is 5V/8V==3A or 12V==2A. The high power is scary.

The measured power is as follows

It only takes 65 minutes to fully charge, and the average charge per minute is 1.6%. This speed is still very fast. The heat of the charger is not very hot between 39-45 degrees.

On the whole, Meizu's mCharge fast charging performance was satisfactory. After drinking tea, Meizu charged most of its power to keep the phone alive.

[The first dual camera - single high-rise building]

Before taking the sample, let's see how the color of this 1080P 424ppi screen behaves. Meizu Pro7 uses IPS material ("Super TFT") Screen, as children's shoes familiar with this screen all know, this screen has the advantages of high color saturation, wide color gamut, black does not emit light or display dark colors, and has the advantage of power saving. Here is a sample. In order to show the advantages of this screen color, we specially found a TFT screen for comparison. (Author GK Xingchen)

Color contrast of screens made of different materials

Sample sheet 1:

First of all, we can see that the color contrast of Amoled screen is higher than TFT.

Sample sheet 2:

The grayscale coefficient of TFT material screen is also larger than TFT, but the Amoled screen is too bright compared with the original image, and the overall exposure is high

Sample sheet 3:

Compared with this picture, the original picture is bright, but the TFT screen displays the color of the picture more pleasing to the eye, not as bright as Amoled. (Author GK Xingchen)

The following figure is the same as the three pictures. The TFT performance is more pleasing to the eye. Although the color performance is not correct, I still prefer the TFT material display.

Sample 4:

This picture shows that the color saturation is higher than that of TFT material, especially that the yellow and green seem to be a little more rich than the original image, which is also shown by the wide color gamut of Amoled.

This 5.2 inch Amoled display screen is too rich and unattractive in some places, but in fact, if you don't like it, you can adjust the cold and warm colors in the settings. Now mobile phone manufacturers have screen color adjustment options, so the screen material display color is not so important in a sense (author GK Xingchen).

After talking about the screen, let's take a look at the specific demo performance of Meizu Pro 7. First of all, look at Meizu's camera's own functions. I dare not say that there are many, but basically all that should be.

Outdoor samples:

At present, the imaging quality of mobile phones has improved a lot compared with the past. This time, PRO 7 is equipped with a color+black and white dual 12 megapixel IMX386 sensor, with an aperture of F/2.0. Because of the black and white/color dual photography scheme, black and white CMOS has removed the color separation filter, so photos taken in the daytime have more light input, The color photos synthesized by the algorithm can also obtain better picture quality and tolerance. From the outdoor samples, we can see that the exposure is slightly high, but the overall image quality is satisfactory. (Author GK Xingchen)

Indoor sample sheet:

The indoor performance is satisfactory. The light is not bright, and the details in the dark can not be seen

Night sample:

For mobile phone photography, it is the biggest test for night photography. Either there are too many noise points, or the picture is blurry and poor in purity, and details are lost.

The above nighttime samples were taken at random, which is actually good, not as bad as I thought. The picture purity is good, and the details in the dark are shown carelessly. However, the imaging algorithm still needs to be optimized after all. Oh, I forgot to say that the above is actually HDR shooting enabled, so the details in the dark will be improved. At the end of the article, of course, we have to say that Meizu's dual camera background imaging is virtual.

See the following background falsification sample

In the above background virtualization sample, I can only say that the matting algorithm is OK, but it seems that Meizu still needs to improve its virtualization algorithm in detail amplification, at least from the sample, there is no obvious unnatural.

Professional mode is also a function I often use

Of course, there are also beauty models that girls like (comparison of self portraits and ugly photos), among which Meizu cameras have all declined due to the beauty model of beauty self portraits software.

In general, this double photo is good for beautifying the face, and the background of the characters is empty. (Author GK Xingchen)

[Suggestion for purchase reference]

Conclusion: For the first dual camera dual screen of Meizu Pro7, Meizu is confident enough to improve the sales of its flagship product this time. However, as mentioned at the beginning of the article, those slot points are still the pain that Meizu is hard to choose. If you don't buy them, you still feel that Meizu's mobile phone appearance system and other aspects are still reluctant to leave. For Meizu Pro7, I personally think it is worth noting.

The main performance of Meizu Pro7 this time, as I mentioned in the performance section, the MediaTek X30 can compete with the Kirin 960. Secondly, the current price of the products equipped with the Kirin 960 is more than 2500. Therefore, the value of this secondary screen can be seen as 1000. Of course, some people would like to wear a smart bracelet or watch, but I don't think this secondary screen is inferior to the smart bracelet watch, Maybe at some time in the future, Meizu will develop it into the second screen of the mobile phone, as well as the front and back full screen. It is possible. This time, the Pro7 should also be Meizu's first test, just like the original key phone developed into a smart touch screen. The market will decide the later matter. However, Meizu Pro7 only has performance and dual camera besides the dual screen.

If you are very interested in Meizu Pro7 and don't know whether to buy children's shoes, you can look at the following points before making a decision:

1. Consider playing King Buka or even Man Frame. If you don't think it's hot, it's worth starting;

2. I have been used to using Flyme for many years. I think the secondary screen on the back is bright, distinctive and not bad for money;

3. I have been using Meizu's flagship before and this time I also want to try to use Meizu's first dual camera flagship.