Meizu Pro 6 Plus - a successful flagship or an attempt to wishful thinking?

The Chinese brand Meizu, like all competitors, with enviable regularity launches smartphones on the market, which are proudly referred to as flagships and should outshine counterparts. As practice shows, the company does not succeed too well, and their phones do not fit in either one parameter or another. Correct the situation should Meizu Pro 6 Plus, which is already referred to as the first uncompromising phone from a Chinese brand. Is this really so - a review of the Meizu Pro 6 Plus will help sort out.

Specifications

The main features of the smartphone are a large high-quality screen from Samsung and a high-quality camera, which took into account all the wishes of customers and made the optical stabilization desired by many. Everything will be discussed in detail below, and the technical characteristics of the Meise Pro 6 Plus are listed in the table:

The device is made of glass and metal, controlled by Android 6 under the Flyme 6 shell. The device supports two SIM cards of the nanoSIM format.

Important! Attentive users may have noticed that the device has finally received the NFC module, that is, now the owners will be able to use the device to pay for purchases, as well as carry out fast switching of different equipment.

Meizu Pro 6 Plus

Design

Meizu is one of those brands that does not want to change anything in the design of its devices. For all those who thought that the smartphone Meizu Pro 6 Plus will get at least some change, it will be bad news to find out that the appearance here is completely standard for company devices. Traditionally, the camera is located in the center above and under the flash. Front Panel:

• top speaker, proximity sensor, camera;
• bottom mTouch mechanical-touch button.

Important! This time, the mTouch button hid not only a finger scanner, but also a heart rate monitor. Due to this, manufacturers promise even higher accuracy of its work.

The end of the top is a microphone, the bottom is a power connector, a headphone input, an additional microphone and an external speaker. The left side is a SIM card tray, the right side is a volume button and sound adjustment. Both buttons are made of metal, bulging.

The model is sold in three colors: gray, black and gold. The build quality is very good, the phone leaves an exceptionally pleasant impression, it looks monolithic and personable. All wireless antennas are hidden under a plastic seam, which is visible only visually.

If we talk about the characteristics of the Meizu Pro 6 Plus, namely, its size, they are somewhat large. Device turned out wide enough, and many reviews already say that it is not too comfortable to hold. Most likely, in future devices, the company will have to make thinner frames or pull the device in height to maintain or increase the size of the display.

Screen

At the beginning of this article it was said that in the Meizu Pro 6 Plus smartphone one of the features is the display. Consider its parameters.

1. The diagonal is 5.7 inches, the actual dimensions are 70.5 * 125 mm.
2. The frame on the sides is 3 mm, the top and bottom - 15 mm.
3. The surface is protected by glass coated with oleophobic and anti-reflective coating.
4. Screen technology - Amoled.
5. Viewing angles have the maximum value, the brightness is very high, the color reproduction is as accurate as possible.
6. QHD resolution, pixel density is 515 per inch.

The display can be configured for different wakeup options. there is SmartTouch, when you touch the screen, a point is fixed on it that allows you to perform some actions, for example, scroll back or forward, go through the menu and perform similar actions. Taking into account the screen size, the function shows itself well. In addition, from previous versions has been moved 3D Press function - the phone understands the force of pressing the display.

Important! This feature in Meise has some flaws, but they are eliminated as new firmware releases.

Also from the Samsung company was introduced Always on Display functionThat is, when locked, the time, day of the week, number and percentage of the battery capacity is displayed.

Battery and performance

Despite the fact that the Maze Pro 6 Plus phone has a rather big battery capacity,The numbers here are quite typical for an expensive device. 15-17 hours of active useIf you treat more economically, you can stretch the battery for a day. When listening to music, the device works 60 hours, games - 4 hours, movies - 12 hours.

Important! Charging is done through Type-C, there is a fast mode.

In the new device, Meizu used a powerful processor from Samsung. For Meizu Pro 6 Plus 64 Gb, the version with eight cores with a frequency of 1.5 GHz for the first four cores and 2 GHz for the second four was used. For the 128 GB version, the frequency will be 1.6 and 2.3 GHz respectively. In addition, in a more expensive graphics device will have 10 cores. The performance of the phone shows excellent results: it is able to quickly cope with both small tasks and heavy processes, it easily starts the games. At this time there is heat, but it is very insignificant.

Camera

Camera Meizu Pro 6 plus - this is the thing that turned out the second significant element in the new model. It was created by Sony. There are 6 lenses, phase autofocus, laser focusing. But the most important thing that users have been waiting for so long, and for which they scolded all previous devices - optical stabilization appeared. Now the phone shoots well during the day, makes slightly soapy, but not nonetheless high-quality pictures at night. Optics stabilization improves the quality of shooting on the go and compensates for hand shake.

Front-camera is an OmniVision OV5695 module, 4 lenses. Photo quality is excellent, white balance is reasonable, clear transitions between colors. The video can be shot in 4K format with 30 or 43 frames per second. On the front camera video is available only in FHD format. The quality in both cases is very good.

Conclusion

Smartphone Pro 6 Plus - this is really a very elaborate device, which took into account almost everything.

• for those who need performance - a powerful processor and graphics;
• those who love big screens - 5.7 inches QHD;
• the camera is great;
• for music lovers there is a special audio processor, which improves the quality and volume of both speakers and headphones.

You can buy a phone both in Russia and on Aliexpress.In the latter case, there is a possibility that the firmware will have to customize under the Russian language. In Russia, the price of the device at the time of release was 35-40 thousand rubles.

Meizu Pro 6 Plus