Review of the smartphone Meizu M5 Note

Once the company Meizu produced only expensive devices with top-end filling. It later became clear that to seriously compete with other brands, having only flagship smartphones, will not work. The company is switching to the production of telephones in the middle price segment. One of them is the Meizu M5 Note phablet. The price for entering the device on sale ranged from 11 to 17 thousand rubles, depending on the device's memory.

Specifications

Meizu M5 Note is an inexpensive, but rather serious smartphone with average technical characteristics. The model is made in a metal case, available four colors - gold, silver, dark gray, blue. In all cases, except for a dark gray smartphone, the front side is made in white. Features Meizu M5 Note presented in the table below.

Maze M5 Note has combo slot for sim cards, instead of one of them you can add memory up to 128Gb, ​​this option is relevant for a device with a memory of 16Gb. Connector for connecting a microUSB charger, there is support for OTG, that is, a USB drive can be connected via an adapter.

The device may be different and random access memory. For models with 16 or 32Gb memory, RAM can only be 3Gb, the 4Gb version is available only for devices with 64Gb memory.

Smartphone Meizu M5 Note 32GB

Design

Meizu M5 Note is sold in a traditional white cardboard box. Inside, the user will find the warranty card, instructions, device, key for the tray, cable and power supply for 2 amps. Above mentioned that the device is available in four colors. In general, the design is quite standard. Located in the middle of the back camera and two-color flash below it. Both have a round shape, look concisely on the metal case, there is an edging that underlines them.

The front side traditionally has mTouch branded button with different mechanisms of pressing and recognizing svayp. It is also hidden finger scanner. Above the screen is a camera, a notification LED, a light sensor, and immediately a speaker. The sound quality is very decent.

All control buttons are assembled on the left side - volume and power. On the right is a slot for a SIM card. The buttons are plastic, the slot is metal. Headphone, charger, speaker and microphone jacks are on the bottom. The top edge has no connectors.

Important! The device has excellent build quality and ergonomics. Getting used to its size is quite simple, the phone does not seem too bulky in hand.

The screen has FHD resolutionThe picture is pleasant, the white color does not roll into blue or gray, the black is not very deep, but it looks good. The viewing angles are large, although distortions are noticeable at the maximum tilt, however, in practice this does not interfere with the work. Maximum brightness makes it possible to view the image in bright sunlight, and at a minimum it is quite comfortable to watch the screen at night. Oleophobic coating high quality, prints are erased without any difficulties.Multitouch is designed for 10 touches.

operating system

Meuse M5 Note works under control of the Android system and with Firmware firmware Flyme 5th version. By the time the device was released, an update of the branded shell to the 6th version was announced, but the 5th version is still out of the box. Visually, it is not too different from the usual Android or shells from other Chinese manufacturers. However, it has its own characteristics, and one of them is associated with the mTouch button.

Despite the fact that the control button is one, it supports gestures and different pressing mechanisms, which makes it multi-functional. With it, you can switch between applications, go back a step, go to the desktop and take a lot of action. At first glance, this may seem complicated, but numerous reviews agree that button learning is intuitive and very fast.

On a note! Before Meizu, other Chinese manufacturers tried to create a smartphone control with one button, but they failed to implement the idea with high quality.

In addition, the phone has a number of special features. In the settings you can choose:

• switch tracks directly on the lock screen;
• enable unlock by writing a letter on the display;
• Turn on the screen by double clicking on the display.

Due to several functions of the smart button, the phone is very convenient to use according to its size. Often, fablets cause users difficulty in trying to reach with their finger to some kind of icon or button. Most often, phones with a diagonal of 5.5 inches are used with two hands. In the smartphone Meizu M5 Note this really do with one hand. The device has three power modes, and you can get access to Root rights with just one click.

Camera

The camera Meizu M5 Note has 13 megapixel resolution, optics of five lenses, phase focusing. There are lights with two tones - warm and cold. The application installed in the phone has 10 modes. Even in auto mode, the device copes well with photos. Macro photography gives detailed photos, portraits are also good. The weak part of the device - shooting long-range plans. Here the picture begins to float.

Important! In Maze M5 Note, the standard disease of any budget phone is night shooting. Even in a special mode, the pictures are very mediocre, if the lighting is not enough.

The phone Meizu M5 Note has the ability to make gifs, their duration is 6 seconds, but the resolution is funny - 320 * 320 pixels. An interesting moment - selective focus. Even with one camera, the device can focus on different objects, and if you shoot the same picture with different tricks, then after all the pictures can be glued together. Very decent device makes a panorama, it is worth noting that it turns out much better than other budget devices.

The video can be shot in FHD, frame rate - 30 per second. The sound level on the video is decent, but the focus automatically works poorly. there is Slow-motion mode, the slowdown is carried out four times. Selfie camera size of 5 megapixels, the pictures are good. Traditionally there is an image enhancement mode (retouch).

Performance and autonomy

Meizu M5 Note works on the base MediaTek processor with eight cores. The company liked this processor so much that the M5 Note is already the fifth brand phone on this platform. This is not surprising, due to the frequency differentiation of the cores, the phone works comfortably in any tasks: if it is not loaded, then four weak cores work, if the user is going to play,then more efficient cores are included. Due to this, the phone keeps charging well enough, it does not heat up and works quickly.

Important! The installed processor will not cope with heavy games, more precisely, it is able to reproduce them, but at the same time it will start to warm up very strongly, which is uncomfortable with regard to the metal case.

In the reviews of the Meizu M5 Note a lot of attention is paid to the battery. Her Capacity is 4000 mAh. Many still believe that it is very much, but in fact such a battery allows the smartphone to work with loads of the day, but nothing more. For the test on the device, silent video was launched, and all wireless interfaces were included. The result is 8 hours.

During games, the battery averages 20% per hour. If we talk about a more mundane use, then the device will be enough for a couple of days of work. In the description of the phone, you can see that there is fast charge support and comes bundled with just such an option. Plus - it charges 100% in 1.5 hours, minus - it’s almost impossible to use the phone at this time, as it gets very hot.

Conclusion

Meizu M5 Note is a high-quality smartphone with a good build, nice display, user-friendly interface and interesting camera modes. Minuses:

• the device can not be called very powerful, and for avid gamers it will not work;
• the phone gets very hot while charging;
• The camera shoots well in certain conditions.

You can buy a model, but you should understand that the phone is a good alternative to its competitors, but it is not considered a leader among them.

Smartphone Meizu M5 Note 16GB