product background
compared with the market strategy of releasing more than a dozen models last year, Meizu will obviously reduce the number of models launched this year and tend to be high-quality. Affected by external factors such as the strong US dollar and the continuous price increase of mobile phone parts, Meizu's product structure will be extremely careful. Charm Blue E2, the first product released after the spring of this year, not only undertakes the great mission of sales and profit, but also further impacts the domestic and overseas markets and stabilizes Meizu's basic market.
judging from the positioning of products within Meizu, the E-series is mainly aimed at the thousand-yuan market with the demand of "consumption upgrade". Previously, this machine also verified Meizu's thinking. With an adequate supply of 5, units, it broke through the sales of 2, units on the first day of launch, and achieved surprising results in the operator market. With the successful feedback of the first generation products in the market, Charm Blue E2 will still lock in the open market and operator channels, and with the settlement of the patent dispute case in Qualcomm, it will face more international regions and become the epitome of Meizu's product ideas throughout the year.
so it is not difficult to see that although the launch of Charm Blue E2 seems to be a regular update of Meizu's E series, it actually contains Meizu's sales vision for the open market and specific channels, and increases its overseas export strategy, striving to achieve sales breakthroughs and profit growth.
Focus on products
From the product level, Charm Blue E2 is indeed in line with Meizu's state of "striving for victory in stability". The appearance continues Meizu's consistent thinking. The metal integrated body, 2.5D curved glass, thin and large screen, etc. are all in line with the product characteristics of this main open channel and operator market, while the back LED running water lamp design not only brings Meizu a differentiated design idea, but also its unique lighting special effects can visually attract many users and differentiate functions from similar products. Of course, the most important thing is the price of 1299
yuan. Although there are many products to choose from online channels, they still have good competitiveness in view of the main markets where they are sold, achieving a win-win situation for consumers, distributors and enterprises.
before we start the evaluation, we might as well compare the differences between Charm Blue E2 and Charm Blue E.
charm blue e, Comparison of charm blue E2 parameters
Mobile phone model
Charm blue E
Charm blue E2
Screen size
5.5 inches
Resolution
192×18
192×18
Processor
MediaTek HEL. > 2.3GHz+4
x
1.6GHz
body memory
32GB
32GB/64GB
running memory
3gb lpddr3
3gb/
4gb
lpddr4x
main camera
. F2.
8 million pixels
, F2.
body size
153.6 * 75.8 * 7.9mm
153.7 *
75.7
*
7.5mm
body weight
172g
155g
battery
. Obsidian black
operating system
Flyme 6
network standard based on Yun OS
full netcom
price
1299 yuan
1299 yuan
From the comparison table, it is not difficult to see that after eight months, the hardware configuration of Charm Blue E2 has been upgraded by a span. The performance and power consumption of Helio P2 with 16nm process technology have been greatly improved compared with P1. In addition, Charm Blue E2 also uses LPDDR4X, which is only available in flagship machine. Compared with the standard LPDDR R4, it has lower power consumption with the same performance.
▲ Charm Blue E2 on the left and Charm Blue E on the right
In addition, it is worth noting that Charm Blue E2 has achieved a battery capacity of 34 mAh, which not only has a stronger battery life than the previous generation, but also controls the body to be thinner. It is foreseeable that Charm Blue E2 has a comprehensive upgrade compared with the previous generation products, regardless of performance, battery life or face value.
industrial design
Meizu and Charm Blue mobile phones have always maintained a simple and exquisite style in appearance. But it has been used for many years and remains unchanged. Especially in last year, Meizu's mobile phone was once dubbed as "doll machine". This time, Charm Blue E2 continues the design style of the previous generation Charm Blue E as a whole. However, some changes have been made in the back of the fuselage. In this part, we will analyze the design of Charm Blue E2.
Looking at the back of the fuselage, the "all-metal fuselage" and "nano-injection antenna" are generally similar to the back of the previous generation Charm Blue E, and the back of the fuselage has maintained a high degree of integration. Although there is nothing new and surprising on the whole, the overall appearance and workmanship are satisfactory, which reflects the standard that mobile phones in this price segment should have.
Before this conference, Meizu's official poster "Who do you choose to delete" aroused everyone's interest. The receiver? Flash? Home button? Camera? The answer was announced at this conference, "Flash". Charm Blue E2 adopts the integrated design of flash antenna. Four LED flash lamps are embedded in the antenna injection molding strip at the top of the fuselage, and the camera is also moved to the injection molding antenna in the upper left corner. Doing so makes the metal fuselage area on the back more blank, which is more visually integrated. It is another embodiment of Meizu's minimalist aesthetics.
in addition, Meizu has added the function of "running light" to these four flashlights, which has five special effects: streamer, star shift, flying, breathing and Qi Hui. For Charm Blue E2, a mobile phone with a positioning of 1, yuan, it is commendable to be able to make such a differentiated highlight in the design. In fact, it can be regarded as an upgraded version of breathing light. You can feel the function of this running water lamp by moving pictures.
the bottom of the front of the fuselage is also the iconic mBack button of Meizu. The preheating poster of this conference, "Who do you choose to delete?" It is also a hot topic. Everyone expects Meizu to make a big fuss about mBack, but in fact it is still the same as the previous design and operation logic "touch back and press back to the desktop". This operating logic has been adopted by major Android manufacturers at present, and once it is used, it can never go back. The arrangement of the receiver and sensor at the top of the fuselage is still in the traditional style, and it is quite satisfactory.
around the fuselage, Charm Blue E2 also used CNC technology to process two circles of bright oblique trimming, which outlined the outline of the whole machine and played a decorative role, making the whole machine look more stereoscopic and tough.
Summary: In terms of appearance design, Charm Blue E2 still follows the design style of Charm Blue mobile phone, maintaining a consistently simple design language. Although it doesn't seem to use some big breakthroughs, its overall workmanship and texture are completely worthy of its product positioning of around 1, yuan. The integrated design of the newly added flash antenna reduces the opening of the metal area on the back of the fuselage, further improves the integrity of the whole machine and plays a decorative role, which is a small breakthrough in appearance for Meizu, which is not at the top of the industrial chain pyramid.
user experience
When it comes to user experience, software optimization must be the first thing that comes to mind. But to be exact, software optimization needs to be based on hardware after all, otherwise no matter how clever the algorithm is, it will be difficult to land. For Flyme 6, which has been deposited for five years, the memory of MediaTek Helio P2 and LPDDR4X standards carried by Charm Blue E2 gives it plenty of room to play.
MediaTek Helio P2 is known to everyone. This chip was first launched in Charm Blue X, and it uses 16nm process technology and 8-core A53 architecture. The frequency of four large cores is 2.3GHz, and the frequency of four small cores is 1.6GHz, which is greatly improved compared with P1, which means that it can minimize power consumption and save electricity while ensuring smooth system operation. However, MediaTek's choice of GPU has always been conservative. The GPU of P2 still uses Mali-T86 MP2. Although the core frequency has been raised to 9MHz, the actual performance is still flat. So for friends who are keen on playing big games with mobile phones, I still don't recommend you to choose this mobile phone.
Having said that, the author tested the glory of the king and Hearthstone with Charm Blue E2.
▲ Screenshot of Charm Blue E2 running the glory of the king game
▲ Screenshot of Legend of Charm Blue E2 running Hearthstone
From the test results, Under the default conditions in the glory of the king (the character is drawn off, the picture quality is high, the high-definition display is off, and the particle quality is high), the frame rate of 3fps can be maintained throughout the game, and there is no phenomenon of jamming or frame dropping in the team battle. Hearthstone legend, though the game data is large, doesn't eat mobile phone hardware, so it is also very easy to run without being stuck.
In other words, Charm Blue E can easily cope with games like the glory of the king and Hearthstone that don't eat GPU very much.
in addition to the game experience, the Flyme 6 system itself is also commendable. Meizu officials call its design concept "content design", which means to let users return to content by weakening the framework layer of UI. Among them, the introduction of Action View animation system impressed me deeply, and its appearance made the contents in the UI not only exist in the form of words and pictures, but also be vividly displayed in front of you through dynamic effects. To put it simply, Flyme 6 is less rigid and more spiritual than before.
when it comes to the spirituality of mobile phones, we have to talk about the recent popular artificial intelligence systems. Artificial intelligence is attached to big data, which can analyze and learn according to users' usage habits, and finally help users improve some problems. For example, OneMind of Flyme 6 is not a visual APP, but it is an electronic brain that optimizes the user experience, which can make your mobile phone more and more easy to use.
OneMind can improve performance in these three aspects by analyzing users' usage habits. One is that it can increase the opening speed of common applications by up to 2%; Secondly, the scheduling efficiency of CPU can be improved by 2% compared with before; The third is to ensure that users can get the best game experience in the game situation, which includes not popping up windows and finely cleaning up the background cache.
in addition to artificial intelligence and UI redrawing, Flyme 6 has also improved its functions, among which parallel space and children's space are the most important.
Children's space, as its name implies, is designed for those Xiong Haizi. Parents can set their own anti-addiction time, children can access applications and low battery lock screen. In addition, in the children's space, Meizu turned on the anti-SMS deduction function by default to prevent children from playing games in the wrong place and causing money deduction. In this mode, the eye protection mode will also be automatically turned on to minimize the damage of the screen to children. Meizu is still very thoughtful and careful about the setting of children's space.
parallel space is actually a privacy mode. In this mode, users can hide their contacts, applications, photos, videos and files. And in the screen lock interface, you can enter the privacy space through a specific fingerprint or password. In fact, this function can also be seen in other domestic systems, but Flyme 6 can switch between normal mode and privacy mode seamlessly, and the switching process is not stuck, very fast and even less noticeable.
imaging quality
In terms of taking photos, Charm Blue E2 uses a 13-megapixel camera with a single pixel size of 1.12 μ m.. Charm Blue E2 has redesigned the flash, but more emphasis is placed on its "running light" function, which has little to do with the imaging effect in dark environment. Take a look at the hardware parameters of the camera first.
charm blue E2 main camera parameters
pixel
13 million
lens group
5P lens
focusing mode
PDAF phase focusing
aperture
f/2.2
single pixel size
1.12μm
from hardware parameters. Let's take a look at the actual photo performance of this phone through the sample.
outdoor proofs. The environment was cloudy when the proofs were taken, and the light and shade levels of the sky were well displayed. Regardless of the details, the look and feel of the whole picture is quite impactful. It is completely sufficient for recording application scenarios such as life and social platform sharing.
We can roughly see the camera tolerance of Charm Blue E2, and observe the brightest and darkest places in the proofs through the proofs in this backlight environment. The sample shows a good sense of layering, and the transition from dark to bright trees is also natural.
In the indoor dark environment, Charm Blue E2 is also ideal for exposure control of luminous objects in the picture, and the picture brightness is also relatively high. In this dark environment, we can see that the ISO value has been increased to 716, which still maintains a good picture purity. In most well-lit environments, the performance of general mobile phone cameras has a good picture expression, but the dark environment really tests the ability of a sensor. Charm Blue E2, as a product with a price of 1, yuan, has a dark performance that is enough to compete with products with the same price.
macro proofs, the main camera aperture of Charm Blue E2 is f/2.2, which is used to shoot macro proofs, and can also highlight the subject. Clear focus, Jiao Wai blur transition naturally.
The expressive force of details, Charm Blue E2 camera has 13 million pixels, which is the mainstream level of mobile phone cameras at present. Through the observation of 1% enlarged proofs, the edge of the font at the focus is clear and sharp, and the furrow and texture of the car lock are reflected.
1% detail enlarged sample. At present, mobile phone cameras are no longer blindly pursuing high pixels, and the number of pixels has dropped from more than 2 million in the past to 13 million-16 million now. In fact, there is not much gap between the details of various mobile phones. Charm Blue E2 can reach the upper-middle level in detail expression, which can fully meet the needs of social platform sharing or partial snapshot scenes.
summary: by taking photos.