Meizu 16S Review (Official Global Version) By TechTablets

Everyone back with another mobile phone review, so it's another value flagship. This is the Miku 16s iPhone. There has a snapdragon 855, six gigabytes of ram and a Sony I mix for the megapixel sensor on the rear. My particular model has 128 gigabytes of storage. It has a global version, so it's got all your languages on there play stores there as well. It's running fly me, which is their own UI over the top of android 9 and as a 6.2-inch screen, and it doesn't have any notches, but it does have bezels top and bottom, but it's a very nice screen. Furthermore, it's an AMOLED panel, where they very decent, 820, Lux, brightness and overall, it's quite a good phone, but it has those typical shortcomings that I've come to expect really from the Chinese brands inside the box, we'll find a Quick Start Guide our M charge charger, which is 22 watts.

Now this only works with the phone and charges it in one hour and 55 minutes, which is okay. It's not the fastest I've seen out there, but the phone itself does not support Qualcomm, quick charge, 3 or 4. It doesn't support power delivery, so you have to carry this charger around with you everywhere in order to get that faster speeds, otherwise we're Qualcomm quick charge 3 at least when I charged, using that it's only at about 6.5 watts, and it takes a real long time. The phone is 164 grams and seven point: seven, nine and millimeters thick, so good weight and nice and thin. So if a camera is on the back of the 16 s here, we have a 48 megapixel, Sony, AMX 586, it's now a very common flagship sensor, but this one has optical image.

Stabilization, which you'll see later on does work and 4k video, but there's no electronic image stabilization. At least at the time of this review. We have a 20 megapixel sensor, which is our telephoto lens below it, and then a 6 LED, dual tone LED flash. So the back of the phone like pretty much every single flagship nowadays is made out of glass. It has curved edges, and this is the carbon-fiber black version and I do like what they've done with it.

It's got a nice look to it now, there's no texture. Furthermore, it's still smooth slippery glass, the textures below it and just imitating carbon-fiber and on the bottom we have one of two loudspeakers. So the front earpiece also doubles as a loudspeaker type C slot. That does not support video out microphone and then our SIM tray slot here. So this will take two NATO Sims, no micro, SD card support, and it doesn't have a rubber gasket around it either up the very top of the phone.

We have two more antenna lines and a secondary mic here for noise cancellation in calls and video. It is lacking a 3.5 millimeter, headphone jack. Sadly, looking now at the front of the phone, so yes, we do have top and bottom bezels. In the top bezel, you will find a 20 megapixel camera with an F 2.2, aperture and L earpiece, which also acts as a secondary loudspeaker. There will be a sample of it later on in this video and that just leaves the right side of the phone where you'll find our buttons.

So the power button volume up and down both made out of metal both do not rattle around and have a good feel to them and easy access to that power button as well, so the build of the phone I really do like, and it does feel very nice in hand. It's thin. Its lightweight and I do like the location of the buttons as well, so just demonstrate face unlocking there. You can see how quick that was I. Do that one more time so lock it unlock, look at it, and it unlocks really quick works very well, and I'll just do the fingerprint reader too.

Okay! So that's about a second to unlock, and it works about 9 out of 10 times for me a little slower. Just then taking a look at our screen now. So the resolution is 22 32 by 1080, it's an AMOLED panel and has a maximum brightness of 830 Lux, which is very good. It is quite legible and sun-like. No real problems with it whatsoever.

The gamma is approximately 2.3 here which isn't bad for a mobile phone screen. So as you'd expect that real-world images they do look very good. Now, the white balance out of the box is a little off, but that can be adjusted through the settings. The same as the scaling and the font size touch responds very, very good as well. No complaints.

This is a really nice screen. They've gone with in this phone. All right I did want to go through some benchmarks here. So the wireless, if you saw my review of the Milano 9 I, had a problem with 5g wireless performance. Thankfully it's not happening here.

There are actually no bugs in four days of using this phone now, no bugs whatsoever. The speeds are fine, I mean they're, not the fastest I've seen for the snapdragon 855, but overall good 4G is well working out here. So all good for Spain I'm, not having any issues with the band's, our band three bands, one working for me battery life because I've had the phone for days. I can give you my exact battery life here. So this is now the third discharge of the phone here doing my own battery test, so it was 40% on data 60% on wireless screen, calibrated to 200, Lux and I got 10 hours and a half here, a very good score, considering that this doesn't have the largest battery its 3600 William hours, but because it's an AMOLED screen and the efficient 7 nanometer Snapdragon 855.

It performs much better than expected and to score here. So this has a decent score: no real problems, it's a little lower than the other scores I've seen from other Mobile's like the K 20 Pro, because it's running 2 gigabytes of RAM less. If you have an 8 gigabyte, RAM paired up with snapdragon 855, then you'll see three thousand eight hundred thousand sorry 380 thousand there so Geek bench for score good for the chipset, no problems there GPS works fine. It sees a lot of satellites and locks on to them. You get about 4 meters, however, it's only using a single frequency, so it's not a dual frequency GPS, the likes of which you'll find in the 9 in the quasi p30 prone.

Other mobile phones, which could be a little more accurate but overall I'm finding it to be fine, no problems. Camera API support is full, not liberal tree, but full is still good. I'll. Take that, and here is El internal storage, so it does have UFS.2.1 storage, good speeds, no problems here. This is certainly not going to bottleneck this system and unfortunately, like most Chinese phones.

We are missing wide vine security level, 1 here, so no Netflix in Full HD, just in standard definition- and this was the very large update I got for fly me to point 0, 2 gigabytes, a super painfully slow download from their Chinese servers. They need to improve this speed for international customers because it took, and I'm not joking here about two hours to download the damn update. It was so slow. Even on my fast fiber line here, free storage, we get approximately 114 gigabytes here on the 128 that I have, and this is the bloatware that was pre-installed on the ROM. So we got all of these Game loft games.

So there must have made a deal me Zoo to have those pre-installed and under Google as well. There are a few extra apps that we might not actually need, but overall the ROM doesn't have that much bloat compared to other Chinese manufacturers. So let's talk a little about the U. S. performance and the u-ace so fly me is not going to be for everyone, but I have some good news.

So if you're not happy with the limitation of only having four of your apps down the bottom there, the shortcuts, then you can go in and of course, install this nova launcher. You can run third-party skins, they allow it. They allow you to override it as home as well, so you can use it as the default launcher. I found that performance has actually been a little better when I was using nova here, but because I haven't set it up as default. Its reverted to fly me because that's what I was doing my reviews, I run this stock skin or the UI that they're using so the performance of it is good at long times, are good multitasking I'm doing a little at the moment quite heavily, so you need to swipe up and hold to bring up your recent apps, but for some reason that is not staying, see that so there are these little kinds of bugs.

Here there we go. Maybe there was an accidental touch here from me, which shouldn't really be an issue with this. You can see that performance is good swiping there between the apps, but there's a little tiny bit of stutter that I'm seeing here now and then this is Google Play, and that is what you'd expect there for that and just swipe up and hold this as well go into I. Think I have it already running Twitter. This is a good test of the speed here to refresh so that scrolling.

That is good, that speed and really not actually as bad as I thought. It was going to be fly me. It is improving and getting slightly better here, which is good to see it's just the tiny little micro stutters down there and that I'm saying when using the full screen gestures, that's about it and on to audio quality. So this, sadly, does not have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack I would have loved. Do I have that on this, so using an adapter I've got okay quality out of there? No complaints voice calls sound good fine.

They do have noise cancellation. Of course, this being a flagship you'd expect it to have that as well. So no problems with that the loudspeaker for ringtones is very loud as fine for that, but it's not quite the loudest when you hear it now, I've certainly heard louder and higher quality. I'd read it as slightly above average, so we have most of the sound output comes from the downwards firing and up the top here we get mostly just treble and mid coming through that speaker, but here's a sample of it now Pusey, of course, with this hardware as expected, runs well no real problems. A few little stutters, maybe now I've used GFX tool that song Google Play Store to set a 40.

Sorry 60 frames per second up from I think it was the 45 was the highest I could get just by default. Now. I'm, probably going to die real quick here, because there are a lot of other players around I. Don't think this particular match. Now my level has actually any BOTS, yep I told you I would die quick.

This is actually the third time I've filmed this, and I just tend to die straight away, but it's pretty straightforward, stating the obvious their performance is very good and does the phone get warm? It does ok, so just around here you will get a little of heat from it, but really no problems and the performance is just like any other snapdragon 855. You know taking a look at the stock camera app before I show you my sample, so we've got HDR on. You know your typical kind of options: control of the flash beauty modes which I've disabled on all my samples, but I have kept HDR on auto because I think that's what most people will use. So you can swap over between the secondary lens here by tapping this, so you got two times and then the three times digital as well portrait mode which will use, of course, both of the cameras to get the blurred background there, and you can swap over to the front-facing camera, simply tapping that and video modes. So we've got all the way up to 4k, buts, no 4k, 30, Hertz, image, stabilization, sorry, 30 frames per second and no 60 frames per second 4k I feel it's just lacking a little and features now we do have a night mode, at least here, but it is really quite disappointing, as you'll see later on, for my samples, I expected more considering the fact that this does have optical image stabilization, which normally helps out for low-light photography.

But here it doesn't seem to do much at all. There is a pro mode, and you can control the ISO shutter rate exposure, focus and white balance. So this is the front-facing camera we get to NADP maximum. Only it doesn't have any electronic image stabilization, which is a real shame. So that's what it really is: not that usable audio quality as well could be improved a bit.

It's only 96 kilobytes per second, that's why it sounds a little scratchy and not exactly the best. So this is 4k with the rear camera. Now it does have optical image stabilization, which you can see rocking about, but for video of course, the best combination is using electronic image, stabilization, which the snapdragon 855 can do very well, as we've seen on other phones that use this combination with the Sony. I MX 586 sensor that it has now the focus tends to work. Fine I haven't really noticed too much of a problem with that.

I just would like to see electronic image stabilization with 4k as well, and an improvement with the audio quality. Now, if you shoot in 1080p, you can at least get electronic image stabilization, but only with the rear camera. The quality of the stabilization you can see is fine, it's good, but that audio definitely needs improvement. It sounds just far too scratchy and sharp to my ears, so hopefully, with some firmware updates, they can add electronic stabilization to 4k and improve upon this audio quality, which is quite poor. Alright, I'll try not to drag the end out, so low light performance of the camera is quite poor, terrible I expected so much better.

Considering they have optical image stabilization on this, they really could have taken advantage of that to give us better low-light, still performance, video performance, I hope they add, electronic image, stabilization, and I'm crossing my fingers as well for Wide vine level. One support, hopefully they'll, bring that through and front facing electronic image stabilization for video. They could also increase the nitrate on audio too. It sounds like I'm a broken record with these Chinese flagship phones because they all seem to have and suffer from the same problems. The hardware is definitely there.

It's a very nice phone, I love the build that love the size quality is there does take good date/time photos. Performance of it is very good, as expected, great battery life, with about 10 hours on screen time with my own personal testing, it's just the software, the software so fly me. It's not going to be for everyone, okay, so some people weren't going to like that use, Nova Launcher. That will help get all your at least global languages on here. It's a proper global version that I have Google Play stores on there.

Of course, quick fast, very snappy phone there's a lot of things to like about it now. One thing that also annoys me as well is the charging ok. So you need to take and lug around the charger with you. If you want the fast charge times, if you use a power delivery or Qualcomm quick charge, 3 or even 4 chargers, it won't work, I mean it'll charge. It then it'll charge it at a very slow rate.

In my testing Qualcomm quick charge, 3 chargers is only working at about 6.5 watts or 6 watts, which is very slow compared to the 22 with a supply charger. And if you happen to not have an M charge, car charger, then you'll be lucky to keep up with the power demand of the screen on full brightness running GPS, running Google, Maps, you're, lucky then to actually get a charge. So that's a little annoying there as well that I wish they would drop that and just use Qualcomm quick charge. Spec would be a lot better and support power delivery. Another really.

This is just a good phone. That's just marred, of course, by the software experience and if they can fix it, it's going to be great. Thank you so much for watching this review and I do hope to catch you back in the channel. Please like and subscribe for more reviews from me bye for now.

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