Overall
The Meizu M1 Note is a device that offers a lot for relatively little money. So it has a large and sharp screen, which also looks nice. The camera is a device in this price range just fine, as it is with the battery life is good. It is not all roses. The biggest problems are in the software, which is made clear to Chinese characters and Chinese users. That the power button is on top of the unit, is not convenient, while it seems the device on a iPhone 5c, which makes the design very original.
Price for publication: € 249, –
Meizu slips everywhere in between. The manufacturer was not with the first-generation Chinese smartphone makers who were big around 2010, Huawei was the largest in the west and ZTE also achieved some notoriety. Of the newer Chinese brands seem especially Xiaomi be successful, just like the famous Lenovo laptops, with the strongest card in the Netherlands Motorola, Lenovo last year bought by Google
Meizu in 2007 achieved some notoriety as a builder of one of the first iPhone clones, which ultimately took almost two years to hit the market. Meanwhile, the Chinese manufacturer more known than copying someone else’s products. So Meizu has created the first high-end phone with Ubuntu and with its high-end phones as virtually the only 15: 9 screens, where the rest of the phone builders choose 16: 9 screens
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The first Android smartphone Meizu we reviewing the M1 Note. It is a device such as various manufacturers make them: a large and relatively inexpensive smartphone
Design
Although Meizu so now is beyond the counterfeiting of iPhones, it is clear where these Chinese Abraham. Mustard picks. M1 Note does have very much like an iPhone 5c with the size of an iPhone 6 Plus. The colored plastic housing, the curves and the way people do it to think. It also helps to associate the M1 discs with an iPhone is the round icon of the capacitive buttons below the screen. The bottom gives it all away, because that looks almost the same.
Now that the iPhone 5c is a curious example, because other manufacturers just follow the iPhone 6 or iPhone 5s because of the upgraded metal housings. However, it remains a little original design, and that’s a shame because Meizu has already proven that it can make original devices.
The M1 discs with 15×7,5cm quite large and also not with 8,9mm thinly. It’s nice to hold, though you can use with one hand obviously forgotten.
The power button is on the top and that is such a big phone very inconvenient. Turning off the screen can also hold long by the capacitive home button. Turning can then again with a double-tap the screen or with user-defined gestures on the screen.
Hardware
The M1 Note is the first phone we reviewed with a MediaTek MT6752 with eight Cortex A53 processor cores at up to 1.7GHz. The GPU is a Mali-T760 ARM itself. With a memory of 2GB he is well endowed for a phone in this price range.
The M1 Note does support Dutch 2G and 3G networks, but with 4g is limited. He supports 4g not the commonly used 800 MHz band and the 900MHz and 2600MHz bands lack. He does have support for 4G at 1800MHz.
The phone has Bluetooth 4.0 on board for wireless connections, while he supports WiFi with the a / g / b / n standards. Wifi ac missing so, but he can receive Wi-Fi signals at 5GHz. This makes him a phone in this price range fully equipped.
Screen
The screen has a diagonal of 5.5 “and a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. It’s an IPS LCD from the factories of Sharp. It looks sharp and is often in direct sunlight for at least another kind to read, but it does not excel in it.
The screen on our review sample turned out to bottom to have some of backlight bleeding. No huge problem burden, but it does not provide a polished look. Apart from that detail, the screen is fine, with good viewing angles and enough detail to impress.
Software
The software is remarkable. It is made by Meizu custom variant of Android called Flyme OS and clear for Chinese speaking users. It is not available in Dutch and English labels often not fit for the purpose, booths. The settings menu is a splitscreen. With Chinese characters undoubtedly all fits, but in English is gambling what some settings.
Flyme OS has also gained some inspiration from the skins of Huawei and Xiaomi . It has support for themes, including as usual the most hideous and some nicer. Pink Hello Kitty theme for example something that will appeal to some people, but because it replaces all the icons, it makes the interface is not clear. However, the distinctive features such as the ability to “pin” apps in the multitasking overview, a feature that Android itself has only been 5.0.
But there are things missing. So we looked in vain in the software to airplane mode. There is only a toggle, but no mention in the Settings menu, where you would expect it. Nevertheless, it works after some getting used to though. Once there however, a custom ROM with stock Android would become available, we would install.
Camera
The camera is easy to start with a gesture on the screen off when the appliance, a function that includes the OnePlus One and other Chinese phones too. That makes starting the camera quite fast.
The camera module is probably a Samsung S5K3L2, a 1 / 3.06 “sensor with a maximum resolution of thirteen megapixels. That sensor is including in the Galaxy S4 Samsung itself. The front camera is a OmniVision OV6570, with a maximum resolution of five megapixels and an f / 2.0 aperture.
There will be excellent pictures for a phone in this price range, even with something less light. It is a camera that can capture great detail in good light and, moreover, less light is not equal completely worthless, partly of course because it is a bright f / 2.0 camera.
Battery life
The M1 Note has no small battery: with 3140mAh is that quite large Battery life in daily practice is good, but not spectacular; it is what we have come to expect from major smartphones in the tests he performed well.. . The test of PCMark he scored higher than many high-end appliances in our video test came to nearly nine hours and that is sufficient. The browsing test has crashed four times and we therefore can not do.
All in all you can say that you have good day with this unit can survive, but will be a challenge for many people a second day .
Finally
The M1 Note is our first Meizu phone liked it, but we had expected more from a company that has been working for years with smartphones. The screen is fine, but the backlight bleeding on our copy looked sloppy. Flyme OS gives the device a unique identity, but if labels do not fit into boxes, it looks not well thought out.
The Meizu phone will probably cost around 250 euros, although he probably for something will be less to get. For that price you through import similar devices from other Chinese brands. Those who prefer to go for a known brand, for example, choose a Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 4g, HTC Desire 816 or Sony Xperia T3.
Meizu will not be easy to distinguish from other brands in this busy market, where major manufacturers have noted that Chinese companies make smaller impression with larger, cheaper devices. M1 Note will not convince many people at once, but all in all it offers more than enough value for money.
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