Overview Maze Alpha - frameless smartphone with a 6-inch screen and great battery

Whether you like it or not, but frameless smartphones continue to advance. Almost all active Chinese manufacturers have announced the imminent release of a device resembling its appearance triumphant Xiaomi Mi Mix.

Maze Alpha It stands out among competitors in screen size. Its diagonal is as much as 6 inches. Due to the slim frame it looks just fine on three sides. However, the smart phone has impressed us not only with its bold design. There are in it, and other features.

Specifications

Filling Maze Alpha is typical of the Chinese middle-class smartphone in 2017. The combination of 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of non-volatile memory, more recently, the former domain of the flagship gadget, today it is quite commonplace.

No complaints and the processor. The device has a modern MediaTek Helio P20, whose performance will be enough to perform a wide range of applications. With such a filling can not only surf or listen to music, but also comfortable to play almost any game.

Packaging and appearance

Smartphone came in a strict black box on the top cover engraved with the company logo and the model name. Within the substrate is black at the black smartphone. All this gloom violates the charger and USB-cable, which for some reason turned out to be white.

In recent years, Chinese manufacturers are spoiled consumers a lot of extra accessories. It has already become a good tradition to sell smartphones at once with covers, protective films, extra glasses, coasters.

Maze Alpha, unfortunately, can not boast of such. In the box of optional accessories are found only protective glass. Under the transport film naked screen, so we advise you to look immediately after purchase suitable film and cases in online stores. Do not worry, of course, but a little annoying.

Sam smartphone looks great. Six-inch bright screen is surrounded on three sides by thin frame size of about 3 mm, making it visually more. The bottom of the front panel is a main button with integrated fingerprint and the front eye chamber.

Facets smartphone semicircular, made of metal. On the left side is placed a tray for SIM cards, and on the right - the power button and volume. Headphone jack traditionally at the top and there was a place for the microphone on the opposite face, the external speaker and the USB-C port.

The rear surface of the smartphone is locked with black glass, which although it collects fingerprints, but not as clearly as it was in the Maze Blade. However, take care of a good cover for smartphone can not hurt.

smartphone assembly does not raise any problems. All parts fit tightly, no creaks or loose. And for the design of the device in general can put a perfect score. Maze Alpha looks strict, stylish and at the same time very modern.

Display and Audio

The main advantage of this smartphone - Display. Due to the absence of the upper frame manufacturer has put a large 6-inch screen in the same housing on the largest, which has a 5.5-inch device.

The Maze Alpha uses quality IPS-matrix, which shows bright, juicy image with showy flowers and the correct white balance. Limiting the brightness level is sufficient to use the machine outdoors, the viewing angles are also excellent. The only remark concerns the minimum brightness level, which seemed to me somewhat inflated. Lovers of night reading will experience discomfort.

The audio subsystem is also not brought discomfort. Yes, the sound of the external dynamics could be more qualitatively, but the volume is good. But the sound quality of the headphones do not find fault with - the right signal beautiful with a good margin of gain.

Performance

Used in the Maze Alpha processor provides decent performance in all everyday tasks. We can say with certainty that you will not experience any difficulty in browsing the Web, communicating, working with documents, editing, graphics and video playback. A large amount of RAM allows you to run multiple applications simultaneously and easily switch between them if necessary.

This gadget on the shoulder, not only surfing and phone calls, but also almost any modern games. In this case, you do not have to limit yourself to just puzzles, arcade and puzzle. With three-dimensional racing, shooters and «Tank» Maze Alpha also cope perfectly well.

autonomy

Capacity Smartphone battery is 4000 mAh. This is enough to light the device lasted the whole day. Because of the 6-inch screen, which is a major consumer of battery charge is consumed faster.

At rest, the minimum flow rate, indicating good system optimization. During the night, the smartphone consume no more than 3-4% of the charge.

Camera

Camera - the weak point of many Chinese smartphones. But this does not apply to the company's products Maze. This producer pays attention to the quality of images, what we have already seen in the example Maze Blade - previous smartphone, visit us on the survey.

The picture quality Maze Alpha is consistent with its cost. This means that you at least do not be ashamed to show pictures on a computer screen or television, friends and acquaintances.

As you can see, the camera shoots well. The photos are sharp enough, the correct white balance and true colors. In low light conditions it looks, of course, much worse. So that night scenes owners of this smartphone is not necessary to get involved.

Software

Maze Alpha smartphone runs on Android 7.0 Nougat. The manufacturer did not make significant changes to the original image, so that the operating system has remained almost intact. This is another advantage of the device.

The only difference from the stock Android is the presence of several additional functions in the device settings. It is about awakening smartphone dual tapom, playback control capabilities tracks gestures and the activation of a special compact mode, which is convenient to operate a smartphone hand. Many users of these features seem useful, everyone else can simply be turned off.

results

At the time of writing Maze Alpha price at different stores is from 190 before $ 225. For the money you get a well-assembled smartphone, which has a spectacular design, large screen and productive iron.

First of all, this device may be of interest to those users who are reading books, watching video, editing documents, and do other tasks that perform better on the big screen. Do not feel offended as mobile photography enthusiasts and gaming.

However, the large size of the device has a downside. We do not recommend to buy this smartphone for people who like a more compact devices. They get used to the Maze Alpha will not be easy.

The author expresses his gratitude to the company Maze for providing the test device.