Meizu 16S Hands-On: No Notch, Snapdragon 855 For US$450 By ben's gadget reviews

Hey everybody so I have here on meet the maid u16s. So this is the new flagship from the Chinese phone company and for this price, I think you're getting a pretty good deal. So this one starts at 3,200 RMB, which is about four hundred and sixty US dollars for the base model. Six gigs ram, 128 gigs of internal storage, and it goes up to about six hundred US dollars for the eight gig ram, 256 gigs of internal storage version. Also, for that much money. You also get a Snapdragon, a 55 chipset in there and a 6.2 inch OLED display with an N display fingerprint readers, an optical fingerprint sensor that works very fast and very accurately it's from the same company that made the fingerprint sensor for the quality very pro and the opal Reno. So you notice that the major u16s doesn't have a notch or cut out.

Instead, it has a traditional forehead. Bezel I mean other than Sony phones. This might be the only phone left in the entire world that still has a four head bezel, but you know what I actually don't mind because check out how thin the top bezel is. I only think if you can get your bezel this thin, then I don't mind having distance Nova notch. In fact, if you put this side-by-side with phones that supposedly have no top bezel like an iPhone 10 or a Samsung Galaxy has ten plus you see that the major 16 s has top bezel is actually just slightly thicker.

So it's not really that bad, and instead you get a much more symmetrical. Look. So I think it's pretty impressive! That made you manage to make the top bezel with that thin and still crammed a 20 megapixel selfie camera on there I mean it's kind of a pretty impressive craftsmanship and that's been a trademark of main sheet brands, because even though it's a relatively small brand, its craftsmanship huffs has always been very good like years ago these to make these really cool metal phones and this one's construction. It's very nice, so you have a glass back. It's very sturdy.

Everything feels very nice in one piece, and I'm also happy to report that this is like an epic of mine. This part of the phone work the screen ends and where the chassis begins on a lot of mid-tier Chinese phones such as the one +16 VIVO Nicks, you know VIVO dual display, whatever opal Reno OPPO r7 control. This part of the phone is always a little up, grow up a little sharp and that's the case with the Xiaomi meme extreme, showing me 90 only on flagship phones from the huge names like Samsung Apple LG. Do you get a corner? That's actually smooth, and you cannot Marie to list now. This phone actually has a pretty smooth edge right here like this is not abrupt and sharp that you would find on a 1 plus 60, it's hard to show on camera, but just take my word for it.

Man I test every new phone that comes out- and you know I'm nitpicking right here, but that's the point of reviewing phones right like this is a $450 phone, but it has a build quality of something closer to like 800 bucks.900 bucks- and it feels weird to say this, but because this phone is a 6.2-inch screen, which is smaller than a lot of what other phones often out. This phone feels tiny in the hand like I, when I use this phone one hand. Now it feels a lot easier for me to move about then, on my heart, I paid thirty thrills, the display looks great. Viewing angles are excellent, although overall brightness is a little dim. Okay, now moving on to the cameras, the major 16s has a 48 megapixel sensor with an F 1.7 aperture that secondary lens right here, it's a telephoto lens at 20 megapixels. This is not new.

Maybe's happens for past couple flagships. Now, basically, how it works is the 20 megapixel will take a really large image that will allow you to zoom in more and then the image signal processor will combine that data with the main sensor to produce what they call lossless zoom. So this one offers up to three times: losses OOM and from my testing I think two times: Zoom is just about flawless, but three times zoom is slightly. You see a little of digital manipulation, digital processing, right there, but still a relatively clean zoom. But of course something like a hallway people.

You pull an opal Reno, it's completely razed the zoom game, so having a three times losses: zoom, isn't that impressive anymore, but still for a phone. A four hundred fifty bucks I think the zooming capabilities on this is pretty nice. The camera app is very easy to use ?, it's a swipe heavy interface and um. Unlike on of all my people in pro everything can be reached by one hand like I can zoom, but just tapping the button right at the bottom. I can switch to the selfie camera down below its just a very smart, app easy to use.

Okay, so now in terms of a photo camera quality, I would say in general, the major 16 SS camera is good, pretty good, but not spectacular. No, you play this way. If you're someone who doesn't upgrade phones a lot, and you just buy the 16 s, I, don't think you can have any problems or any complaints of the camera image just come out very sharp. To show the speed during the day is fast and snappy. Colors are accurate, and you know you get a very punchy shot, but if you nitpicked you get someone who uses a lot of flagship phones or a tech review her like me, then you pixel peep, that you can see that the dynamic range of the major 16s is not that good.

Sometimes the shadow areas are a little too dark and the HDR just doesn't kick in that intelligently like see this shot right here again, the plants are a little darker than how I saw my own eyes like with a better camera at this shot will be a little more vibrant, like the leaves may actually be green, know at night. I think the camera performs admirably in fact I'm more impressed by the night camera than today. Camera I think color balance it's very nice. The cameras cannot generate light on. Nowhere like a Samsung Galaxy has 1000 RP 3 flow, but still you're able to get a pretty nice pretty punchy shot.

That's not completely drenched in shadow. Now you do need to know what you're doing a little believe you, a real fix exposure a little in the camera viewfinder, and you have a study hand you're, able to get some really, really nice night shots. Now, there's one major weakness to the major 16 SS camera: it's the bouquet portrait mode. So in general, if you stick with shooting portraits of one person on one subject, you'll be fine, but you child shoots of two subjects like what I'm doing here, you will have a problematic image in which you see that the blur kind of I got confused and it is blurry part of this, this female statues body and that's not ideal- and you know, with a full-length one plus sixty or Samsung Gaussian 10 or a YP toy Pro. Those cameras are smart enough to identify both subjects and do they're.

You know the depth of field blur accordingly, but not the major 16 s. Economist is up to blur quite alive you're, shooting more than one object, but I'm nitpicking him you're, taking a portion mode of just one subject, then I think edge. Detection is on point, and it's a pretty pleasing image, but that's only if the main camera he takes portrait with the selfie camera I find out to be fake, as here hold this for the interruption by I'm back home now, editing the video and I think I just saw a rat run by in the freaking corner. Something definitely just ran by in the corner. I mean look at it.

That's pretty crazy because that place I shot the video in that's a new high-speed railway system that connects Hong Kong to China. It's its super new. It costs like hundreds of millions of dollars, and it's a really nice fancy place. Furthermore, it looks like an airport in there, so I can't believe, there's a freaking rat in them and or maybe it's not bad I, don't know what that is, rush that shit'll pretty huge right. Okay, back to the video I check out this shot right here, like I, almost doesn't look natural I almost looks like I will seat like my head with CGI into like a computer-generated graphics.

Just does not look like a natural selfie there for you at all, but you know that's just for selfie portraits if you turn that off, and you just take normal selfies I think you'll get some pretty nice selfies so overall for 450 bucks, I, don't I, don't know that much to complain about with the main camera I'm talking about the still photography. It's a decent b-plus camera now I'm quite impressed by the video capabilities of the camera. So, as you can see here, these are 1080p footage. It's really, really smooth! That's me as a major 16's has. Oh, is an EIS.

I mean check this arm, walking pretty fast and the footage is really impressive. This is better stabilization than on the hallway main 20 of the wipe each one teen. Those forms cost twice as much now. Even at night, you see that stabilization takes a slight hit. Dynamic range, it's decent, but still pretty impressive.

Video now, as for overall performance, this film is a snapshot, a 55 in size. So do I even really need to talk about performance. It can run every app. Just fine I've encountered no lag. No! Nothing, the software experience is pretty nicely.

This one runs on Android 9 wolf made use software, which is called fly me on top. This is version seven-point lead, so the biggest gripe that I have- and you probably will have team will fly me- is that it doesn't have an app tray. So this annoys the hell out of me, but other than that I really like doing to active swipe gesture of this phone. It's really easy to use is a lot better than the Gaussian stent swipe gestures, and you also have useful features like double tap to wake the screen and the always-on display also shows third-party notifications, so in terms of battery life, there's a three thousand six hundred million-hour battery inside, and it's enough to last me all day. Yesterday, I start using this phone at 12 p.

m. ? smart afternoon, I used the phone all day. I went out had dinner with a girlfriend and a family on that I got home at midnight and the phone start 27 or 28 percent battery life. So definitely will last you all day, and I've used enough major phones over the years that I know that the battery love it's gonna, be good. Oh, you know what we have to.

Do we have to do a video speaker test, so I'm happy to report that the major 16's has stereo speakers? You have sound coming from the bottom, fine speaker and this relatively large earpiece. So its sound is pretty impressive on this phone. So we'll start at 50% volume so sounds coming up, involve, and now we're up 100 percent so yeah. This is a good screen for watching movies and music videos because it's not it's an uninterrupted display. So no notch cut out- and you have good speakers so ultimately, I like this phone, a lot I think made you have done a good job of finding a specific niche market to cater to.

So these are the people who might be interested in this phone. If you hate the notch, if you just want a screen, that's uninterrupted, but you don't want to deal with stuff like pop-up cameras in the second screen, then this is the phone to get, because it's the only game on the market when others have a notch, and it still has a traditional top. Bezel I mean Sony phones do too, but the Sony Xperia phones are not that good and also at a falling price of 450 bucks. This is a good value. I mean you get a snapdragon 855 at 450 bucks.

This is why I always frustrate me when I watch us tech reviews, and they would just recommend a Samsung Galaxy s like s device or a Google Pixel and be like oh yeah. It has the newest chipset as if that's like the biggest selling point, but I mean you're, paying like one line on your bucks for the newest chipset and a Google Pixel. When you have Chinese bands on major you Xiaomi that give you the same chipset for like half the price, but I feel like US tech sites, never cover that I have seen a PC Mag. They never look at it. From that point of view, they just think.

Oh, you want a flagship chipset. You have to pay $900. No, you did not 450 bucks snapdragon, a 55 and over all of your big fan of like clean minimalistic, industrial design. I think it means you will impress you this phone like, so you got this phone. The design doesn't grab your attention right away, but it's very nice and when you use it, I think you'll admire all their little attention to details.

That means you has put into the phone now see. I wish that I got in the Black Widow unit B check out how slim these bezels are, but because this was white, you can still notice it. Imagine of this. The bezels here's black, and then I have a dark wallpaper. This one look a lot more sleek.

So if you think you're getting this I was just getting a black phone, and you're going to have yourself a really awesome, sleek cloaking device. So this is the major 16 s. That's it for now, I'm going to have more videos coming up on a bunch of other phones actually, including that Lenovo z6 pro and probably a full view, a Tulsa. We know and a couple of other surprise devices. So if you're interested please subscribe to my channel and follow me on Twitter to ant mix, gadget of I treat a lot on there.

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