▲ Charm Blue E evaluation
As we said before, Meizu PRO 6 has started a new round of brand adjustment and transformation of Meizu. In order to achieve the double promotion of sales volume and profit, Meizu is more radical in product strategy and marketing than before, in order to achieve the goal of rapid growth at home and abroad. Charm Blue E will be the continuation of this brand adjustment and transformation of Charm Blue. It can be seen that the Helio P 10 processor used by Meizu E has been used in Charm Blue note3. Although the fuselage is brand-new, Meizu is very familiar with this metal processing technology. Mature technology and a large number of recognized mature high-quality components have created this charm blue E, which is believed to bring good sales and increase profits to Meizu. Looking back at the channel, there is no price increase on Charm Blue E-line, and the first batch of 500,000 units are in stock. Meizu also left a lot of space for the channel. Compared with the previous Charm Blue product channel, I may be more willing to recommend Charm Blue E.
▲ Charm Blue Series
Throughout the products released by Meizu this year, we can see that there is a big product gap between Meizu MX6 and Charm Blue note3, that is, the gap between 899 yuan and 1999 yuan. Meizu now has Meizu MX5 and Charm Blue metal support, which is really a bit difficult. If these two products are discontinued, it means that there is no product to sell in this price segment, and Meizu must add a powerful product in this price segment. In addition, Xiaomi released Red Rice PRO at the price of 1499 yuan, which happened to be in the price fault position of Meizu. In addition, 360, LeTV and other brands are subdivided in the price range from 1.000 to 1.500 yuan, and heavy products are launched. For Meizu, the pressure is still quite great. If Meizu is not in 1, 000 to 1, 500,
▲ Charm Blue E
To put it bluntly, Meizu launched Charm Blue E mainly to fill market vacancies and boost product sales. Charm Blue E, Meizu has opened the market from 1 0,000 yuan to 1 0, 500 yuan, filling the gap in this price segment, making the distribution of Meizu's products in each price segment more reasonable, which has a very positive effect on Meizu's product sales and market share. In addition, Charm Blue E also reflects a certain brand premium, which is a good thing for Meizu, indicating that Meizu not only relies on high-end products for profit growth, but now it can also boost the profit of products through thousands of products.
The positioning of Charm Blue E is still a good product for young people. At the press conference, it was said that "young people are upgrading their consumption" and the purchasing power of young people is improving. Charm Blue and Charm Blue note can no longer meet the needs of these young people. This part of young users pursue high-value products and require products with certain quality. Under this premise, it is also a factor in the emergence of Meizu e.
"Charm blue E parameter
Mobile phone model
Meilan e
screen size
5.5 inch IPS
resolution ratio
1920x 1080
processor
MediaTek MT6755M(Helio P 10)
frequency
Eight nuclear 1.8GHz
Body memory
32GB
Random access memory
3GB
Main camera
13 million IMX258 5P lens f2.2
front-facing camera
5 million 4P lens f2.0
Fuselage size
153.6×75.8×7.9 mm
Fuselage weight
172g
battery
3 100mAh
Fuselage color
Silver/gray/gold/blue/pink
operating system
Flyme 5.2(YunOS5. 1)
Network standard
Mobile Unicom Telecom 4G/3G/2G
"Price: 1299 yuan.
In terms of hardware configuration, Charm Blue E is equipped with MT6755M eight nuclear 64-bit processor, with eight A53 cores, and the core frequency is 1.8GHz. This CPU is exactly the same as that used in Charm Blue note3. In addition, it uses 3GB of memory and 32GB of body storage. From these two points of view alone, this configuration is the configuration of Charm Blue note3, but these configurations do not represent everything of the mobile phone. On the screen side, Charm Blue E adopts a 5.5-inch 1080P screen made of IPS material, which is also recognized as a screen with good quality, and the screen is also covered with 2.5D glass. In terms of network support, Charm Blue E supports dual-card dual standby function, full netcom and China Mobile Unicom's 4G/3G/2G network.
In terms of hardware configuration, Charm Blue E does have a distance from the same price mobile phone. Why can Meizu sell Charm Blue E to 1299 yuan? The following is a detailed evaluation of Charm Blue E for everyone to answer.
"Charm Blue E Appearance: New metal body design.
Charm Blue E is a continuation of Charm Blue Metal product line, so we can also see some shadows on Charm Blue Metal in it. In addition to the all-metal fuselage, the most significant thing is that Charm Blue E inherits the colorful fuselage design in the brand concept of "Good Youth". The metal body shows that the sandblasting coloring and anodizing process need high process cost, so most metal mobile phones with a price of around 1,000 yuan only offer gold and silver colors. Charm Blue E*** has five colors: gold, silver, gray, blue and pink, which is especially popular among young users who are pursuing individuality.
The front of Charm Blue E is still the standard Meizu face, the top light sensor is symmetrical with the front camera, and the bottom is the mTouch button, which contains three functions of fingerprint recognition, mBack and Home button, which is also the user experience upgrade point that Meizu mobile phone is proud of. As for the screen, Charm Blue E uses a 5.5-inch IPS display with a resolution level of 1080P. Compared with ordinary TFT, the arrangement of liquid crystal molecules is improved and the horizontal conversion technology is adopted.
Therefore, the display effect is more delicate and the viewing angle is better.
In terms of design, the most striking thing about Charm Blue E is that the upper and lower parts of the middle frame have been treated by CNC technology, which is the first time Meizu mobile phone has adopted this design scheme. Although compared with the past
It's just a circle of high-gloss metal wires, but it has brought a lot of changes in vision, perhaps because Meizu was too static before. Because the upper and lower ends of the middle frame adopt CNC technology, the transition between the middle frame and the front and rear panels is more natural. Let the original smooth and round Meizu mobile phone add some tough styles, and the metal texture of the whole machine has also been improved. Viewed from the side, it will also make the mobile phone look slimmer in visual perception.
On the back of the fuselage, Charm Blue E has adopted a brand-new design compared with the previous metal Charm Blue mobile phone. As we all know, before the release of Charm Blue E, both Charm Blue 3S, Charm Blue Metal and Charm Blue Note3 adopted a three-stage design, that is, the upper and lower ends of the back of the fuselage are made of plastic and the middle is made of metal, which will lead to the weakening of metal integration and color difference. Charm Blue Metal, although the color of the backboard is uniform, is essentially a three-stage fuselage, only painted on the back. This practice makes the phone lose its original metallic texture.
Charm Blue E adopts nano injection molding process, but only two injection tapes are left on the back plate. The metallic luster is retained to the greatest extent, and the CNC process of camera, flash and middle frame significantly improves the quality of Charm Blue E, even comparable to Meizu's flagship product.
Charm Blue E has a body circumference of 153.6*75.8*7.9mm and a weight of 172g. Compared with most mobile phones with 5.5-inch screens, this figure is basically the same, but slightly heavier. The overall mobile phone is not as good as Meizu MX6, mainly because a CNC process is added under the middle frame, unlike Meizu MX6. There are gains and losses. The CNC process of the middle frame part improves the metal texture, but also adds some feel.
Meizu has always claimed to be a mobile phone manufacturer driven by industrial design and user experience. Since Meizu's first all-metal mobile phone MX5, the polishing of metal is close to perfection. The three-stage+high-gloss T-slot design, which was widely used in high-end models, has sunk to a thousand yuan machine. Nowadays, the nano injection molding process has also sunk from PRO6 to MX6, and then to Charm Blue E, so when we see the gradual improvement of the quality of Charm Blue mobile phones, we can't help but look forward to the design of Meizu's flagship model.
Charm Blue E Performance: Balance between Power Consumption and Performance
This year's mobile phone processor market is obviously showing a trend of diversified competition. It is not the Opteron processor that stands out. MediaTek, Huawei and Samsung are also thriving in the mobile phone processor market. Especially in MediaTek, since last year, MediaTek has released the Helio X 10 series processors, trying to get rid of users' general impression of MediaTek. This year, Meizu PRO6, as the flagship model, is equipped with Helio X25 processor, which is very helpful for MediaTek to enhance its product image. Helio P 10 focuses on low power consumption and cost performance. For this year's 1500 yuan model, it has become the standard SOC of mobile phones in this price segment.
This year, MediaTek Helio P 10 processor has been equipped with Charm Blue Note3 and OPPO R9. In fact, Helio P 10 is also available in overclocking, standard and down-conversion versions. Charm blue e uses down-conversion chip MT6755M m. Meet this processor.
Helio P 10 adopts advanced 28nm HPC+ process technology, and adopts the combination of quad-core high frequency A53 and quad-core low frequency A53, in which the highest frequency of high-frequency core is 1.8GHz and the highest frequency of low-frequency core is 1. 1GHz. The GPU model is ARM Mali-T860, and the highest frequency is 700MHz. Its biggest advantage lies in power control. Therefore, MediaTek officially listed Helio P 10 as a lightweight mobile phone product. Charm blue e is equipped with 3 100mAh battery. With Helio P 10 processor, it will have a good performance in battery life.
Another advantage of Helio P 10 lies in the integration of the third-generation baseband chip supporting LTE Cat.6 standard, including 300/50Mbps uplink and downlink rate and dual-carrier aggregation aggregation, which fully supports the 4G+ technology vigorously promoted this year. And realize the whole netcom, making MediaTek get rid of Qualcomm's monopoly on the whole netcom network and have the ability to compete with Qualcomm's whole netcom chip.
In addition, after the chip is integrated with full netcom technology, Charm Blue E can not only allow domestic users to change mobile, Unicom and telecom cards at will, but also avoid the patent problem of Qualcomm baseband in the international market, avoid high patent fees, further reduce hardware costs, improve cost performance and enhance product competitiveness.
Next, let's take a look at the actual performance of Charm Blue E, and test Ann Bunny first.
In the actual running test, the score of Ann Bunny of Charm Blue E is 468 18, which lags behind Xiaomi 4S and iPhone 5s equipped with Xiaolong 808 processor three years ago. Specific to the actual experience, in some daily use scenarios, the processor can cope smoothly, but it can't cope with large-scale games that require a lot of calculation. In the price range of around 1,000 yuan, in fact, many models have been equipped with MediaTek Helio X20 series chips. In terms of comprehensive performance, the mobile phone equipped with Helio X20 chip can basically reach 90,000 Ann Bunny running points, which can basically reach twice the performance of Charm Blue E. Obviously, Charm Blue E is not dominant in performance. Charm Blue E chose this processor, on the one hand, it still values the performance of this processor in terms of power consumption, on the other hand, it further reduces costs and improves profit margins. Remember what Huang Zhang said at Meizu annual meeting at the end of last year? "create profits, compete for sales, and advance into IPO."
GFXBench is mainly used to test the GPU performance of the processor. The performance of GPU directly affects the experience of playing games and entertainment. This mainly refers to the scores of 1080P under the screen of Tyrannosaurus Rex and 1080P under the screen of Manhattan.
The GPU model of Helio P 10 is Mali-T860. After testing, Charm Blue E scored 768.5 and 34.6 in the off-screen tests of 1080P Tyrannosaurus Rex and 1080P Manhattan respectively. This year, MediaTek's sub-flagship chip Helio X20(GPU is Mali-T880MP4) scored 2098.7 and 657.6 respectively, which is very obvious, not to mention comparing it with the flagship chip Xiaolong 820 of 20 16. Dealing with large and medium-sized mobile games will be stretched.
It can be seen from the actual test that the overall performance of Charm Blue E is not satisfactory. Charm Blue E chose this processor, which is somewhat conservative compared with the same price model. But it also has the advantage of low power consumption. It is more suitable for light and moderate users of mobile phones and users interested in battery life performance.
"Charm blue e endurance test:
Meizu adopted MediaTek Helio P 10 processor when it launched Charm Blue note3, because this processor can achieve a good balance between performance and power consumption. Now Meizu has applied this CPU to Charm Blue E, and it can be seen that Meizu is still more confident than this CPU. Combined with the optimization of Flyme system and 3 100mAh battery, Charm Blue E can provide excellent endurance performance.
▲ endurance test
The endurance performance of Charm Blue E is quite reliable. It can be seen that 15 minutes of telephone conversation consumes only 2% of battery power, while connecting to wifi to watch online video consumes 9% for 30 minutes, and 1080P video decoding consumes 8%. The most power-consuming 3D game consumes 20% power in 30 minutes, and the machine is not seriously hot. On the whole, the endurance performance of Charm Blue E has brought good performance with 3 100 mAh battery and Helio P 10 processor. For moderate users, 1 day will not be a problem without charging. For heavy users, the battery can also be used for most of the day.
"Fast charging test.
Charm Blue E is Charm Blue's first mobile phone equipped with fast charge, which supports mChange fast charge, provides 9V2A fast charge, and can support the charging power of 18w at the highest. Charm Blue E doesn't need 24W fast charge. The fast charge of 18w is enough for 3 100 mAh battery. Meizu charm blue e official data 1 hour can charge 90% of the electricity. Let's take a look at the charging speed of Meizu MX6.
▲ The whole charging process takes 1 hour and 32 minutes.
▲ If the temperature is overheated, the pressure and flow will be automatically reduced.
According to the test results, the 3 100mAh battery on Charm Blue E * * is fully charged after 1 hour for 35 minutes. The charging current hovers between 1.5A and 1.6A, and the charging voltage is basically maintained at 9V. It can be seen that the charging power of Meizu MX6 has been maintained at around 14W. At the same time, in order to ensure safety and stability, both the charging head and the mobile phone have built-in security chips. From the chart, we can clearly see that in the fast charging stage, the phenomenon of automatic voltage reduction and current reduction frequently occurs. The main reason for this phenomenon is overheating, and the protective chip of mobile phone has played a role.
The charging speed of one and a half hours is basically the same as that of mainstream mobile phones that support fast charging. The charging voltage is kept at 9V, but the maximum charging current is only 1.6A, which is a little different from the theoretical value of 2A, and the conversion rate is a little low, but this charging specification is enough for Charm Blue E, and the charging protection mechanism of Charm Blue E is also reassuring in safety.
"Charm Blue E System: Flyme at the bottom of YunOS.
Now Meizu mobile phone products have become popular, and they are increasingly catering to the habits of mass consumers. It seems that there is a lack of some unique insistence on "small and beautiful". The appearance homogeneity between various products is serious, which has also caused some charm friends' dissatisfaction. But in the system software, Flyme still insists on the original design language and style. Especially up to now, after several generations of updating iterations, Flyme has evolved to version 5. 1. The overall function and practicability have been improved, and the interface is unified. It is a masterpiece of domestic customized Android OS.
Charm Blue E runs Flyme 5. 1 system based on Android 6.0. With the release of Charm Blue E, Flyme has not been greatly refined, so in this part, we mainly make a simple introduction to Flyme and summarize the characteristics and highlights of Flyme 5. 1
Flyme 5. 1 The overall tone is very refreshing, with more color components, which is more in line with the aesthetics of young people. Officials have also done a lot of icon redrawing for third-party applications to keep the icon style of the UI interface unified to the greatest extent. Flat icons and UI interface can give users a brisk operation experience. Since version 5.0, Flyme has introduced some native Android design styles, such as card-type multitasking interface and integrated setting interface. In other words, since Flyme 5, there have been refreshing changes in interactive logic and UI design, and the aesthetics and fluency have been greatly improved. The sliding damping is moderate, the animation transition is natural and smooth, and mBack is simple and easy to use.
Up to now, mBack has become the iconic feature of Meizu mobile phone. No matter what causes Meizu to give up dots and use mBack instead, we have to admit that mBack is revolutionary in the interaction of Android phones. The simple operation logic of "touch back, press back to the desktop" has been borrowed and learned by many mobile phone brands. MBack's one-button design makes the front of the fuselage as simple and beautiful as possible. Compared with the traditional Android three-button design, I don't know where it is.
The reality of floating ball is an optimization to solve the one-handed operation of large screen. When it is inconvenient to operate with one hand, click the button at the bottom of the screen or at the side of the screen, and the same operation can be achieved through the floating ball, which can be placed at any position on the screen. In addition to clicking and long pressing, the floating ball also realizes the functions of sliding left and right to switch multi-tasks, sliding up to return to the desktop, sliding down to expand the notification bar, and supports action customization, which greatly expands the application scene of floating ball.
As the main representative of domestic Android UI, Flyme, which has been deeply involved in user experience, has done quite well in local optimization. In application, Flyme not only provides common T9 pinyin dialing, but also integrates the life yellow pages function. Charging phone bills, checking express delivery and booking hotels can all be done conveniently. Moreover, it is worth mentioning that the merchants provided in Flyme are all screened, such as hotels, which are brand hotels, which are safer and more worry-free.
The mobile phone housekeeper of Flyme 5.2 is also more perfect. In addition to virus killing, traffic management, mobile phone acceleration, harassment interception, authority management, power saving mode and other common functions. In standby power management, intelligent application freezing is also added, and the system will automatically identify applications with abnormal standby power consumption and then "freeze" them, so that the applications will not be awakened repeatedly and cause unnecessary power loss. With the MediaTek MT6755M processor with excellent power control, Charm Blue E will have a good overall endurance performance.
Objectively speaking, at present, the function gap of most domestic Android UIs is very small, and similar functions are basically "you have me, I have you". What I like most about Flyme 5.2 is its "small and beautiful" UI and interactive experience (transition animation, sliding damping, etc. ), and its various interfaces are very unified, and the UI details are handled in place, which is very exquisite and reflects a rare sense of quality. So far, Flyme has updated and iterated several major versions. Lightness, exquisiteness and fluency are my most intuitive feelings about Flyme 5.2.
"Charm blue E photo: mature IMX258
Regarding taking pictures, the sensor model of Charm Blue E main camera is Sony IMX258, which
Support maximum13 million pixel shooting, with PDAF phase focusing technology, maximum aperture of F2.2, equipped with dual color temperature flash, without optical image stabilization. This sensor has appeared in both new and old models, such as Xiaomi 4c, Red Rice PRO and 360 mobile phone N4. Moreover, in terms of debugging, the industry is very mature, and Meizu has always maintained a positive research and development attitude in the imaging effect of mobile phones. Let's take a look at the photo performance of Charm Blue E through proofs.
▲ 100% detail enlarged sample
Charm blue e has average resolution. After we enlarged and restored the outdoor sample to 100%, there was obvious smearing feeling in the picture, the advertising text on the roof was blurred, and the lightning rod on it even disappeared. In fact, this is related to the debugging direction of engineers. You can really reduce the influence of noise on the picture by dragging. Overall, the picture is relatively transparent, but the details are slightly lacking.
▲ Comparison of imaging effects in ▲HDR mode.
Simply put, the principle of HDR is to obtain multiple photos by increasing exposure, and then synthesize the photos. The advantage of this is that it can improve the performance of the dark details of the proof, and at the same time, the picture is brighter and sharper. Because the camera function in the mobile phone is very advanced, the imaging speed and computing power have changed greatly compared with the previous two or three years. Even if HDR mode is turned on, the camera experience will not be affected by the long calculation time. Turning on HDR mode can effectively improve the shortcoming of blurred imaging of Charm Blue E, and the film yield is also relatively high. It is recommended that you turn it on for a long time.
▲ Night imaging effect display
In the low light environment at night, due to the lack of optical image stabilization, the film production rate of Charm Blue E decreased slightly, and the photos were easily blurred by hand shaking. However, it's easy to take good photos when you pay close attention to them. Judging from the night proofs, Charm Blue E performed fairly well. 100% magnification, the pattern on the plaque can be clearly restored. Although the lanterns in the distance are slightly blurred, they are still at an acceptable level.
Let's take a look at the imaging performance of Charm Blue E in multiple scenes (click on the sample to view the original picture).
▲ Shooting in backlight environment
▲ Outdoor macro shooting
▲ Indoor self-luminous object shooting
▲ Indoor display shooting
▲ Indoor food shooting
▲ Indoor close-up shooting
The sample taken by Charm Blue E is very popular with users. Macro fuzzy transition is soft, the image is bright and the noise is well controlled. It seems to give people the impression of transparency and high color saturation. This performance is mainly because the IMX258 sensor has been debugged very maturely. Although the technical parameters are slightly insufficient compared with the IMX298 sensor popular this year, it is enough to meet the needs of our daily photography. Compared with competing products at the same price, Charm Blue E's comprehensive performance in taking photos is in the middle and upper reaches.
"Test summary: flagship youth product
Meizu's launch of Charm Blue E is a part of Meizu's brand adjustment and transformation this year. It is not difficult to see that Meizu e should surpass the previous charm blue series products in design, and of course the price is also the highest in the current charm blue series. Charm Blue E, as the main product of Meizu in the price range of 1, 000 yuan to 1, 500 yuan, has brought many bright spots, high value and adopted a brand-new design. Compared with other products of Charm Blue, Charm Blue E has improved a lot, not only in appearance, but also in other aspects, making Charm Blue E the flagship of Charm Blue.
▲ test summary
"Charm blue e highlights:
"Charm Blue E Brightness 1: Newly designed fuselage.
Charm Blue E's fuselage design does not adopt Meizu's classic high-gloss T-groove design back cover, but adopts a brand-new three-stage design, one-size-fits-all back cover and injection molding process. Meizu is already familiar with these mature crafts. This design changes the appearance of Charm Blue metal body mobile phone, and the design of Charm Blue E gives you a refreshing feeling. Charm Blue E still maintains the colorful characteristics of Charm Blue series, providing five colors of silver, gray, gold, blue and pink, as well as a 2.5D glass screen. , and still maintain a high value.
"Charm Blue E Highlight 2: Charm Blue series' first mobile phone supporting fast charging.
Charm Blue E is the first fast charging mobile phone in Charm Blue series. Charm Blue E is equipped with 9V2A fast charging support and a 3 100 mAh battery, which can be fully charged in about 1 hour for 30 minutes. Fast charging has become very important for current mobile phones. Fast charging can not only fully charge the mobile phone battery in a period of time, but also charge it for a few minutes in an emergency, so that the mobile phone can be used for a long time. Fast charging is becoming more and more important for mobile phones nowadays.
"Charm Blue E Highlight 3: IPS screen
Charm Blue E is equipped with a 5.5-inch 1080P IPS screen. Charm Blue E, as the flagship of Charm Blue, has really made great progress on the screen. The IPS screen used by Meizu this time has a better display effect. Compared with the screen of Charm Blue note3, Charm Blue E is really much better.
"Charm blue e is insufficient.
"Charm Blue E is less than one: Helio P 10.
Meizu e uses the same Helio P 10 processor as Charm Blue Note3. This processor has eight A53 cores, which is enough for daily use and has a good balance between performance and power consumption. However, Helio P 10 is a little different from other products at the same price. Meizu may pay more attention to the balance between power consumption and performance when adopting this CPU.
"Charm Blue E is not enough: the camera needs further optimization.
Charm Blue E uses Sony's IMX258 sensor this time. This sensor has been used in many mobile phones and is quite mature. After using IMX258, Charm Blue E has a much better imaging effect than Charm Blue note3, belonging to the middle and upper reaches. However, the performance of IMX258 has not been fully utilized, and there is still room for further optimization.