[IT168 evaluation] 2016 Meizu has released a lot of charm blue products, charm blue product line looks like has become the main force of the Meizu this year, in addition to the traditional charm blue and charm blue noite two product lines, the Meizu has launched the U series, E-series, MAX, etc. Charm blue mobile phones, and Meizu continue to enrich the charm blue product line, launched the charm blue X. Charm Blue X is the latest product of Charm Blue. It used the Helico P20 processor from MediaTek for the first time, and the Helio P20 uses a 16nm manufacturing process to bring better heat and power control, resulting in better endurance performance.
â–² Charm Blue X detailed evaluation
Meizu's positioning of Charm Blue X is still young and good, targeting high-end products for the young people's market, with excellent design, while providing excellent performance and endurance performance. Charm Blue X uses two-sided glass design is a Meizu change, charm blue addition to the U series, the Meizu X is the second mobile phone series with double glass design, Charm Blue series now from the polycarbonate to the metal body to double Face glass, almost covering the mainstream design of the current mobile phone.
Charm Blue x more than always is the use of MediaTek Helio P20 processor, Helio P20 is the starting model, MediaTek Helio P20 using 16nm manufacturing process, has eight A53 core, the core frequency of 2.3GHz, support for LPDDR4 memory, native support The dual camera, Helio P20 specifications in the terminal mobile phone processor is quite powerful, and the use of 14nm manufacturing process Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 for the midrange mobile phone market.
Charm Blue X parameters mobile phone model Charm Blue X screen size 5.5 inches sharp screen TDDI technology resolution 1920x1080 processor MediaTek Helio P20 frequency eight nuclear 2.3GHz body memory 32/64GB running memory 3/4GB main camera 12 million IMX386 6P lens f2. 0 front camera 5 million 5P lens f2.0 body size 153.8×76.6×7.4mm body weight 165g battery 3200mAh body color black/white/blue/gold operating system Flyme 5.2 (upgradable Flyme6) network standard mobile Unicom Telecom 4G/3G/2GPrice: 1699 yuan / 1999 yuan
Charm Blue X uses the LPDDR4 memory in addition to the Helio P20 processor. LPDDR4 memory has lower power consumption while providing higher memory bandwidth than LPDDR3. Charm Blue X offers 3GB+32GB and 4GB+64GB versions, priced at 1699 yuan and 1999 yuan respectively. Charm Blue X uses a 5.5-inch 1080P screen. The screen uses a Sharp TDDI high-quality screen. The front and back of the phone are covered with 2.5D glass. In addition, Charm Blue X also supports mCharge fast charge, up to 18w of the charging power, and the use of 3200mAh battery, large battery plus low-power CPU and Flyme system optimization, so that the charm blue X is better Life performance.
â–² Charm Blue X used Helio P20 processor
Camera, the charm blue X used IMX386 sensor, this sensor has 12 million pixels, is now mainly used in Meizu MX6, Meizu PRO 6s and Meizu PRO 6 Plus, Meizu IMX386 will be used in the charm blue X Meizu can also be seen Charm Blue X goes on high-end. The front camera is still dead front 500 million pixel camera, also supports ArcSoft beauty algorithm and Face AE face brightness intelligent adjustment. The network also supports full Netcom, supports LTE Cat6, and can provide download speeds of up to 300Mbps.
Charm Blue X design: double-sided 2.5D glass
Charm Blue X, as the high-end representative of the Charm Blue series, has made new attempts in terms of appearance, including double-glazed glass, glare and dark lines, and black stone color matching, which are significantly different from the previous Charm Blue products. In this part of the article, we make a certain interpretation of the appearance of Charm Blue X.
The front of Charm Blue X is still the front face of the Meizu symmetry family. It has a sense of order and is covered with a layer of 2.5D glass, and an extra layer of pottery crystal coating makes it even more brilliant. The Charm Blue X in our hands is a pearl white version. This color matching is a perfect match for the girlfriend in Li Nan's eyes. This white is just like the name. Due to the shining light pattern, it looks like a pearl-like luster. With the concise design of the Charm Blue X front panel, it is full of quality.
Charm Blue X is equipped with a 5.5-inch full HD screen provided by Sharp. This is the thinnest LCD screen in the world. With the help of a full-fitting process, the perception is more transparent. Meizu's mBack is a unique inheritance of Meizu products. It combines functions such as tapping, tapping, and fingerprint recognition, and brings great convenience to interaction.
Charm Blue X uses an integrated metal middle frame with a curved transition to choose a matte finish and a high-gloss diamond trim. It is worth mentioning that, at the seam between the glass and the middle frame, Meizu adopted a nano-injection process to achieve the convergence of the two, and to some extent reduced the risk of falling and disintegrating screens.
The biggest highlight of the machine is the back, unlike the previous metal body, Charm Blue X is still a 2.5D glass, the bottom of the glass is still shining against the bright lines, at a certain angle can show a special luster. Meizu also revealed that the process of realizing this perception is the same as that of Glory 8, Samsung S7, and it is the first time that it is decentralized to 2,000 yuan or less.
Unlike Meizu's habitual mid-mounted camera, the Charm Blue X camera and dual-color temperature flash are arranged in the upper left corner. The main camera is 12 million pixels, using the Sony IMX386 sensor, the same with the MX6, PRO 6s and released with the PRO 6 Plus, has a good imaging experience.
As a charm blue high-end product, Charm Blue X also adopted the USB Type-C interface for the first time, supporting up to 18W mCharge fast charge. Headphone holes, speakers, and separate openings for the mic are all at the bottom.
Thanks to the full Netcom attribute of the Helio P20, Charm Blue X is also a dual SIM dual standby mobile phone, but the card slot does not support storage expansion. It is recommended that users with large storage requirements directly choose a high version.
On the whole, Charm Blue X has a guaranteed value through the trial of the new technology, and has a phantom blue, streamer gold, black stone, pearl white and four colors to meet the individual needs.
Charm Blue X Performance Experience: Balance of Performance and Power Consumption
Charm Blue X first used the Helio P20 processor with a 16nm manufacturing process. The Charm Blue X is also the Helio P20 starting model. The Helio P20's biggest selling point is the 16nm manufacturing process that brings low power consumption performance and can directly improve the battery life performance. Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 and the formation of a competitive relationship, Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 using 14nm manufacturing process, the same 8-core A53 architecture, is also the main low power consumption.
â–²Helio P0/P20 specifications comparison
Looking at the Helio P20 product specification, we can see that the Helio P20 not only uses a 16nm manufacturing process, but there are many improvements in the Helio P10 from the previous generation. The Helio P10 uses a 28nm manufacturing process, while the P20 is upgraded to 16nm. The process upgrade not only allows the CPU's power consumption to decrease, but also contributes to the CPU's frequency increase. It can be seen that both the P10 and P20 CPUs use the 8-core A53 architecture. The CPU core is the same, but the CPU frequency is increased from 2.0 GHz in the P10 to 2.3 GHz in the P20. The frequency increase in the CPU directly brings better performance. The GPU also uses the Mali-T860 MP2. The GPU core frequency of the Helio P20 has been increased to 900MHz. The same dual-core GPU architecture only improves the GPU frequency, which is really limited for the improvement of 3D performance, and may also be considered by MediaTek in terms of power consumption. The GPU performs a major upgrade.
â–² Helio P20 has a higher core frequency
In terms of memory support, the Helio P10 and P20 also support a single-channel LPDDR3 933MHz, which supports up to 4GB of memory. This is also the memory specification currently supported by most midrange handsets. The Helio P20 adds support for dual-channel LPDDR4 1600MHz, a 70% increase in bandwidth compared to single-channel LPDDR3, and also supports 6GB of LPDDR4 for memory capacity, supporting larger memory.
â–² Helio P20 native support dual camera
Another additional upgrade is the camera support. The Helio P20 supports up to 24 million pixel camera, using dual ISP, compared to P10's 21 million pixel camera support has improved a lot. More importantly, the Helio P20 provides dual camera support. From the Helio P20's hardware specifications, you can see that the P20 supports mainstream color + black-and-white dual-camera solutions, and uses the ISP's own ISP, eliminating the need for a plug-in ISP, allowing handset manufacturers to manufacture Dual camera phones cost less.
The network Helio P20 also supports full Netcom, supports FDD and TDD LTE networks, supports LTE Cat6, with a high speed 4G network of 300Mbps, and supports dual card dual standby. Wifi has added support for 802.11ac, providing a faster wifi network, and Bluetooth, FM, GPS, Glonass, Beidou satellite navigation are all available. There is CPU video encoding and decoding added to the support of 4K video, using P20 processor mobile phone can play 4K video smoothly.
â–² Ann rabbit test
â–²GeekBench
â–²3Dmark
In terms of performance, there is a big gap between Helio P20 and Helio P10. We use Charm Blue U20 contrast Charm Blue X. We can see that Charm Blue X Bunny score is 63436 points and the score is about 20% higher than Charm Blue U20. In addition, GeekBench's test has a very significant improvement in single-core or multi-core performance, in which multi-core performance increased by nearly 40%. In terms of 3D performance, both mobile phones use Mali-T880 MP2 GPUs, but Charm Blue X's GPU frequency has been increased to 900MHz, directly allowing Charm Blue X's 3D performance to be greatly improved. It can handle everyday games smoothly. Now.
Here can not fail to mention the Helio P20 competitors Qualcomm Xiaolong 625, Qualcomm Xiaolong 625 using 14nm manufacturing process, the same A53 eight-core architecture, the same market position, and now a lot of mobile phone manufacturers 1000 to 1500 yuan The mobile phone in the price segment uses this CPU, because this CPU has a good balance between performance and power consumption.
â–²Comparison of Qualcomm Snapdragon 625/Telecom Helio P20
Qualcomm Xiaolong 625 uses a 14nm manufacturing process, and MediaTek Helio P20 uses a 16nm manufacturing process. Both CPUs have reached the highest production process currently in production. Both CPUs use the public version of the A53 architecture. They all have eight A53 cores. The Xiaolong 625's core frequency is 2.0GHz and the Helio P20's core frequency is 2.3GHz. The same architecture has the same number of cores and higher frequency brings better performance. performance. For memory support, the Helio P20 supports LPDDR4 memory and supports up to 6GB of memory when using LPDDR4 memory, so the Helio P20 is superior to both memory specifications and memory capacity support.
â–² Xiao Long 625 contrast Helio P20: An Tutu
Through the security Bunny test can see Helio P20 performance slightly ahead of Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, this is mainly because Helio P20 has a higher CPU core frequency, directly improve the performance of the CPU, but the Helio P20's GPU although the frequency is raised to 900MHz, but the dual-core architecture is a big pity, so the gap between the test results of the security Bunny has not been greatly increased.
â–² Xiao Long 625 contrast Helio P20: An Tutu
3D performance As mentioned above, the performance of the Mail-T880 dual core is insufficient. We can see that the Helio P20 in the 3Dmark test is behind the Qualcomm Snapdragon P20, but in the ES3.1 part Helio P20 goes beyond the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, this is mainly The Maili-T880 has updated API interfaces and instructions for better 3D performance under the new API interface.
Life test:
â–² life test
Charm Blue X uses Helio P20 processor, 16nm manufacturing process allows the processor's power consumption is well controlled, Charm Blue X uses 3200mAh battery, and Charm Blue U20, Charm Blue U20 using P10 processor, probably can be seen as charm Blue X is an upgraded version of Charm Blue U20, so we will find Charm Blue U20 for comparison. The screen brightness was adjusted to the highest during the test and the equalization mode was turned on.
You can see that after the test we set, the remaining power of Charm Blue X is 78% e, and the remaining power of Charm Blue U20 is 71%. The Charm Blue X's various test items Charm Blue X's power consumption is less than Charm Blue U20. Charm Blue X uses Helio P20 core clock at 2.3GHz, Charm Blue U20 uses Helio P10 clock at 1.8GHz, Charm Blue's CPU core clock speed increases, but power consumption drops. This is also a benefit. In the 16nm manufacturing process.
Charm Blue X System Experience: Still Flyme5
As one of the best domestic Android UIs, Flyme has evolved to version 5.2 after several major iterations of updates. From the very beginning, Flyme has countless new and simple interface designs. Flyme gained a lot of praise in the era that is generally based on native Android UI design. To this day, Flyme's simple, fresh interface design style has been preserved, and has been optimized in terms of functionality, ease of use, and more. Although Meizu introduced the new Flyeme 6 system at this conference, Charm Blue X is still equipped with the Flyme 5.2 system. It takes a while to upgrade to the latest system, so this review will focus on some functional features of Flyme 5.2.
Clean, refreshing system interface
Among the many domestic mobile phone brands, the best combination of software and hardware style may be Meizu. "Simple, fresh, literary" design style is always in Meizu's products. Starting with the Flyme 5 system, Flyme caters to the trend and uses a flat design language to perform drastic changes to the system interface. This is the biggest change in its system interface. But no matter how it changes, the style of “small and beautiful†style is well preserved. Flyme 5.2's color scheme is very refreshing and it is rich in color, which is in full compliance with the tastes of young users. The flat icon design makes the system more simple.
In the interface design, Flyme 5.2 uses a large area of ​​color blocks in some applications to highlight the most critical information, helping users to complete high-frequency operations faster. The Flyme 5 is a milestone upgrade in terms of systems and has been greatly improved in fluency and aesthetics. Moderate sliding damping, smooth animation transitions, and easy use of mBack. In addition to the in-depth optimization of Flyme engineers, on the other hand, the current Flyme 5.2 is based on the underlying Android 6.0. In Android 6.0, Google officials have further optimized the memory management. For non-social apps, Android 6.0 will enable the "tombstone mechanism" and will no longer use memory when running in the background. After upgrading to Android 6.0, the 512M memory device It can also run smoothly.
Excellent localization optimization
Suspension ball. At first, this was a special optimization for large screen phones. Inconvenient to operate with one hand When pressing the key at the bottom of the screen, clicking the levitating ball can achieve the same operation, and the levitate ball can be placed anywhere on the screen. Currently, in addition to single-clicking and long-pressing, the function of switching between multi-task sliding to left and right, sliding back to the desktop, and sliding down the notification bar is realized, and actions can be customized. This is very useful for large screen mobile phone users, no need to adjust the gesture to tap the button at the bottom of the screen.
Long screen shots. Flyme 5.2 has a long screen capture function and supports long screenshots on screens and web pages that can slide down. With this feature, there is no need to repeatedly take a single screen shot to share longer information content. And, after continuous optimization, the long screen shot in Flyme 5.2 can also be dragged up and down during screen capture to adjust the position of the screenshot. Unnecessary content is not intercepted. It is practical and efficient.
Excellent localization optimization
Yellow pages of life. As a major representative of the domestic Android UI, Flyme 5.2 has also done a good job in localization optimization for practical habits of domestic users. The phone applications of smart phones today are no longer limited to basic operations such as dialing and finding contacts. The addition of the Yellow Pages feature brings more convenience to the user's actual use. It can quickly find information such as hotels, service calls, and provide a one-stop lifestyle service information solution.
Traffic management. In the Flyme 5.2 mobile phone housekeeper, in addition to integrated functions such as junk removal, harassment interception, and virus killing to ensure mobile security, traffic management can also be performed here. By setting a monthly traffic limit, real-time monitoring of daily traffic conditions is used to prevent background traffic sneaking. While Internet access charges are not yet very low, this is basically an essential feature.
Simple and easy to use mBack
The mBack button is an iconic feature of the Meizu mobile phone, and the Meizu has this patent. The operation logic of “touch feedback, press back to desktop†is very simple, easy to use, and zero learning cost. Although the design of the waist and round keys does not seem to be more concise, the single-button design is already a very good design compared to the traditional Andrews three buttons, and it still meets the fresh and simple design of the Meizu phone as a whole. temperament. mBack also integrates a fingerprint recognition function, which can be used to unlock the screen, but also supports document locking and Alipay, WeChat fingerprint payment, in daily life is very practical.
System section summary. As the homogenization of smartphones has become more and more serious, and even the system software experience has gradually become more and more similar, Flyme is still one of the most outstanding Android UIs. It pays attention to listening to user requests and solving users' actual needs. It does not simply stack up popular features like some domestic Android UIs. The software experience is simple and practical. The interface is fresh and beautiful. It should be the simplest and most direct summary of the current Flyme.
Charm Blue X photo experience: IMX386 excellent picture quality
Because the Charm Blue X is positioned in the high-end products of the Charm Blue series, and it is mainly for young consumers, the promotion of photographs has become even more important. Charm Blue X's rear camera uses the same CMOS as the Meizu MX6, which is the Sony IMX386 sensor. This CMOS effective pixel is 12 million, a single pixel area is 1.25μm, and the maximum aperture is F 2.0. This allows the camera's incoming light volume to have a qualitative leap compared to the previous Charm Blue mobile phone, and the imaging quality is comparable to the flagship mobile phone. In addition, Charm Blue X also has a 6P lens module and dual color temperature flash for the camera.
In terms of actual experience, since Charm Blue's camera supports the PDAF phase focusing technology, it is rare for the camera to repeatedly pull the bellows. The focus is basically a one-time, fast and accurate. Also worth noting is that Charm Blue X supports dimmed automatic noise reduction (it needs to be turned on in camera settings). In other words, when the external light is insufficient, Charm Blue X will continuously take multiple photos in a very short period of time, after the algorithm synthesis to achieve the purpose of increasing the screen purity. Since the pixel speed of the current mobile camera is already very fast, turning on this feature will not affect the camera experience.
â–² outdoor scene performance
In the outdoor shooting scene, the white balance performance of Charm Blue X is still more realistic. The color of the sky in the photo is not intended to please people's eyeballs like some mobile phones, and is deliberately closer to the blue tone. It is infinitely close to the color of the real scene itself. In addition, it should be mentioned that due to the large wind in the photo shoot, the tree shrew fluctuates with the wind. The charm blue X shutter speed reached 1/1213s, so the branches did not appear a clear shadow.
Whether it is back light or smooth light, Charm Blue X has a good performance. Its greatest feature is its accurate white balance and stable exposure. At the same time, in brightly lit outdoors, the focusing speed is very fast.
â–²Close-range performance
In the close-range performance, Charm Blue X is still very good. The proofs are well controlled regardless of color or exposure. The details of the photos are very sharp. After the enlargement, there is no noticeable smearing on the edges of the leaves.
It is worth mentioning that, thanks to the F 2.0 large aperture lens of Charm Blue X, it can produce a clear background blur effect when shooting macro photos. At the same time, the edges of the shooting subject and the background are clearly divided, the subject is displayed with sharpness, and the background is blurred and milky, which makes the photo sense more distinct.
In addition, from the point of night proofs, the noise control of the Charm Blue X is still in place, and the purity of the overall picture is also relatively high. When shooting self-illuminating objects, good exposure is also guaranteed without making the picture brighter or darker.
In general, the Charm Blue X still continues the Meizu MX6 outstanding photo level. Meizu has also recently changed its product strategy for cameras, from the pursuit of high-pixel, high-resolution, to the pursuit of high image quality and stability. The Sony IMX386 this COMS equipped with Charm Blue Series mobile phones, which shows that the Meizu Charm Blue X this phone's look forward to.
Charm Blue X Test Summary
Charm Blue X as the Helio P20 starting model, in terms of performance is indeed a great improvement compared to the P10, especially the CPU budget improved significantly, and in the CPU frequency to 2.3GHz mobile phone battery life does not fall, but rose, This is entirely due to the Helio P20's 16nm manufacturing process. Charm Blue X design is also bold use of double-sided glass design, and add glare bright lines under the glass, so that the mobile phone's face value has been improved. Charm Blue X has a high-value appearance, has a Helio P20 processor with excellent power consumption control, and a camera with an IMX386 sensor, as a mobile phone for young people to bring quality products to young people.
Meizu has released multiple Charm Blue products this year, from the traditional Charm Blue series, Charm blue note series to Charm Blue E, Charm Blue U, Charm Blue Max, to the current Charm Blue X, from the lowest entry to the high end Quality products have been covered. Meizu is not a product that previously helped Meizu to go. Now the Charm Blue Series is to help Meizu develop more young users, bring better configuration and excellent experience.
â–² Charm Blue X Test Summary
Meizu X advantages
Helio P20 Outstanding Performance and Power Control
The Helio P20 in the 16nm manufacturing process brings even better performance. The 2.3GHz core frequency plus the 900MHz GPU frequency directly boosts the overall performance of the Helio P20, while also reducing the CPU's power consumption and bringing even better life. which performed.
Double-sided glass design
Charm Blue X uses a double-sided 2.5D glass design, and adds glare and bright lines under the glass. The Charm Blue X's face value has been improved. It is attractive for young users who pay attention to the appearance and value.
5.5 inch sharp screen
Charm Blue X uses a 5.5-inch Sharp TDDI screen, is the best screen for Charm Blue series, has excellent display, lower power consumption, higher brightness and contrast.
IMX386 camera sensor
Meizu uses the IMX386 sensor on the MX6, PRO 6s and PRO 6 Plus. This time, the Meizu will use this sensor on the Charm Blue X. The Charm Blue X's camera effect is very guaranteed.
Charm Blue X disadvantages
Heavy body
Because Charm Blue X uses aluminum alloy frame with double-glazed glass design, the body weight has reached 168g, a relatively large amount of body design weight has increased a lot, 168g weight does have a certain impact on the feel .
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