OVERVIEW: Meizu M3s mini - too steep a smartphone for its price
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Where to buy Meizu
Meizu purchase and specifically M3s mini There are two basic ways:
- On AliExpress.
- The official online store Meizu Russian offices.
Smartphone that is in my hands, was booked on AliExpress and came directly from China. Then the seller offers white Meizu M3s mini with 2GB of RAM and 16 GB of permanent storage for eight kopecks thousand. Firmware Chinese phone, but the Russian language there. Simply put, no problem using this version of the smartphone has not arisen.
At the time of writing the same seller offers white Meizu M3s mini with 2GB of RAM and 16-gigabyte storage since the international insertion and costs 7620 rubles. Black smartphone worth 7957 rubles, gold - 8221 rubles. Pink on sale it was not.
The cost of the older models Meizu M3s mini with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of permanent storage was 10 097 rubles for the black version and 10,493 rubles for a white or gold. Pink was not there.
The Russian official online store MyMeizu.ru white and black M3s mini cost the same, namely, 11,990 rubles for a model 2/16 GB and 13 990 rubles for the model 3/32 GB. Gold and pink variants absent.
For that such overpayment in the official Russian store? Firstly, for the time savings. Choosing free delivery on AliExpress, you need to mentally prepare for a month waiting parcel. Bought in Russia will have to wait a lot less.
Secondly, Meizu have no international warranty. Buying a device for China's domestic market, you remain without any consumer rights and will do to resolve any problems with the smartphone. When you purchase in the official Russian store you get a warranty and service.
I'm not going to paint every little detail of the tested devices. Read long tedious surveys with a bunch of useless for the average user information you can on other sites, and then all of the case.
Design and performance
M3s mini - it is the only topical at the moment the metal Meizu smartphone with 5-inch screen. Followed by the recently tested Layfhakerom melomansky desyatiyaderny flagship Meizu Pro 6 with a diagonal of 5.2 inches.
All other Meizu models including M3 Note, Pro 5, the MX5 and MX6 recently announced, equipped with screen a diagonal of 5.5 inches or more, there are PHABLET a pretty impressive size and liking is not everything.
According to good tradition Meizu engineers have done for M3s mini is incredibly similar to the iPhone Aluminum Case.
From an aesthetic point of view to the execution did not find fault. smartphone weighs only 138 grams at a thickness of 8.3 millimeters. Neat refined lines with rounded corners look great. If you like the design of the iPhone, so the appearance of Meizu is also likely to appeal.
From a technical point of view, to the body M3s mini complaints either. Not only that, Meizu engineers this byudzhetku chained to the metal, so they may not shalturili and precisely fitted parts. Surprisingly, superdeshovy M3s mini collected as well as the flagship Pro 6.
For the sake of cheapening went under the knife aluminum corners of the body and subtle covers that hide the antenna. The upper and lower portions of the rear panel M3s mini made of plastic.
The photo shows that the difference between plastic parts from metal is difficult. The colors are identical, the difference in the texture is not felt even when touched, and only shiny decorative metal boning issue of transition in plastic.
The front panel is the only one mechanical button, which is also a fingerprint scanner mTouch 2.1. Touch the button is equivalent to the action of the "Back" and pressing returns the user to the home screen or duplicate power button switched off display.
Front scanner location is certainly convenient if you frequently refer to your phone lying on the table. The scanner receives the fingerprint at any angle and is activated for a fraction of a second.
The power button and volume rocker are located on the right. If you do not press them, and only a little to touch them, will be swept up the tiny gap. In general, the buttons have no complaints.
On the left is a hybrid slot into two nanoSIM-cards, one of which can be replaced by microSD-cards with capacity up to 128 GB or less.
External speaker, microphone and microUSB-port located at the bottom.
The only thing screwed up designers and engineers Meizu M3s mini, - this is the position of the socket for headphones.
Well, why do it from the top? After we ship the smartphone in your pocket is the upper part forward. With this arrangement, an additional socket mechanical load on the connector and wire, which means that the inevitable and premature fractures headphones out of service.
Another disadvantage, common to all smart phones Meizu, is the lack of protection against water. It is time to catch up with Samsung and release technique, corresponding to at least the standard IP67, IP68 or better immediately.
Screen
Meizu M3s mini equipped with a 5-inch IPS HD-resolution display with 1280 × 720 pixels.
If you think that the lack of Full HD 2016 can not forgive even a budget smartphone, then just look at the value-ppi, which here is 296 pixels per inch. Jobs said that the 300 ppi pixel already can not seeAnd hardly a shortage of 4 ppi strong influence on the picture quality. At least, my eyes have not been able to detect the pixels on the M3s mini screen.
Using IPS gives typical for this type of display the accuracy of color without the wild, unnatural shades of white and distortion. It is clear that rely on a top-end smartphone in a matrix of 8000 it would be naive, but the picture looks acceptable, even with a strong inclination of the screen, the colors are only slightly distorted in the direction of the yellow and purple.
The presence of anti-reflective coating makes it comfortable to work with a smartphone in the bright summer sun, and the use of fashionable now 2.5D-glass hull adds even more streamlining.
I did not find information about the used in the M3s mini type of safety glass. But it is precisely there, and good, because two weeks of active use on a smartphone screen, not a single scratch.
Filling
Inside M3s mini worth eight-MTK MT6750 (four Cortex-A53 at 1.5 GHz and four Cortex-A53 at 1 GHz) and graphics Mali-T860. MediaTek chips are not well suited for heavy three-dimensional games, but perfectly manifest themselves in terms of performance and smooth operation of the system, especially when installed instead of Full HD less resource-intensive HD-display.
In combination, even with 2GB RAM brisk LPDDR3 smartphone shows impressive results in synthetics, and the sensation level operating from the device.
The system flies, fly applications. No friezes, any slowdown.
I have not had a chance to look at the high-end model with 3 GB of RAM, but it is logical to assume that increased memory capacity manifest itself during simultaneous operation and switching between multiple weighty applications. However, even younger M3s mini copes with everyday scenarios.
The presence of slots for memory card is actually invalidates any argument about the size of the built-in storage, and because to choose between the older and younger M3s mini model need only based on the number and the resource intensity used applications.
Unfortunately, the Meizu M3s mini is not the NFC, but it has the support of all other relevant forms of communication, including the 5 GHz Wi-Fi, 4G, and Bluetooth 4.0.
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac.
- 2G GSM / GPRS / EDGE (900/1 800/1 900 MHz).
- 3G WCDMA / HSPA + (900/2 100 MHz).
- 4G FDD-LTE (1 800/2 100/2 600 MHz).
- 3G TD-SCDMA.
- 4G TD-LTE.
- Bluetooth 4.0, BLE support.
- GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS.
camera
It is obvious that there are no prominent sensors in such a cheap smartphone is not expected. But those that are, provide an acceptable quality of shooting in automatic mode, under favorable conditions. A lack of light can compensate for the manual mode, HDR and firm circular two-color flash Meizu. With powerful stuffing cameras work very quickly.
The main camera is exactly the same as in Meizu M3 Note13 megapixel, f / 2.2, a powerful flash, there PDAF. The quality of the photos you can appreciate yourself.
The front 5-megapixel camera with an aperture of f / 2.0 and software improvement of images produces wonderful selfie and writes video Full HD.
System
M3s mini runs on Android 5.1, which is installed on top of a proprietary shell Meizu Flyme 5.1.
Flyme almost completely changes the default interface of Android, but you get used to it fairly quickly.
In Flyme no extra software, only the most essential pre-installed applications and utilities to optimize and support system in the normal state. You can use it in one tap to start a comprehensive diagnosis of the smartphone, to clean up the memory, debug power consumption to be checked for viruses, and so on.
At the beginning of this review, I was talking about just one button on the system front panel, which takes over the function of the "Back" and "Home." You wonder how in such a case, an application manager? It's enough to make a swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Why is Google up to this not guessed?
Flyme perfectly optimized and combined with a powerful stuffing turns extremely nimble system, which is a pleasure to use.
Battery
In M3s mini installed nonremovable battery with 3020 mAh. With moderate use battery lasts for two days. The more active scenarios with a visit to YouTube, Play Music, frequent paging browser and smartphone sotsialok lives 18-22 hours.
Best budget-2016?
I hope that reading this review you keep in mind the cost of M3s mini, that is, all described above can be obtained in less than 8000 rubles. Meizu M3s mini - a compact and beautiful aluminum smartphone with an excellent screen, fingerprint fingers, powerful filling and expansion of memory, all current modes, a decent camera and debugged system. Do not you think that Meizu M3s mini looks like the best budget-2016?
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