Meizu MX5 Review By PhoneArena

Chinese smartphone manufacturer maze came up with an unusually strong proposition last year, went launched, DM, x4 and now, a year later, Mesa is ready to follow this up with its successor, the mx-5. The company has shaken things up considerably with this phone, but overall the formula has remained pretty much unchanged: the same design, language, the same software, but now accompanied by an even larger display and the continued emphasis on what is once again a class-leading screen to body size ratio. The mx-5 seems to have it all on paper, more than decent hardware, big screen nice design, but it's perfect enough to make us want to use it day in and day out. Let's find out, the overall appearance of Mesa phones has always gravitated around a single design concept, one that is very iPhone 3gs, like that's, not really a bad thing. Slimming bezels all around the company reached an impressive 74% screen to Paulo size ratio with the mx-5. That's very important, because this phone has a massive 5.5 inch display and if it's to be comfortable to hold slimming down the bezels around the display is a top priority. All we are pleased with the enhance feel of the mezzo mx-5.

The phone even manages to feel surprisingly light. The metal backplate also adds to the premium look and view of the handset, as do the shiny, chambered edges surrounding the front. Sadly, the mx-5 continues to be heavily inspired by the iPhones design, which is now most evident by the arrangement of the bottom side, where the microphone charging port screws and speakers look in an almost identical way to those of the iPhone 6. We are most pleased with how the buttons react. The volume and power lock key, which is conveniently situated here in the mid right hand, side, have terrific response that makes you want to press them again and again.

Sadly, the same thing cannot be said about the one button which now also incorporates a fingerprint scanner. The problem with it is that it seems to have too much of a click sound, and it's also a bit on the wobbly side. So, as a result, it makes it defined an audible sound upon being pressed, but it also has so much presence that it comes off as cheap rather than satisfying. There's one thing that we like about the maser mx-5s display it has to be its size at 5.5 inches. Its green will wholeheartedly enjoy considering this reasonable footprint of the phone due to a combination of its impressive 74% screen to size ratio and thoughtfully, rounded backplate.

The mx-5 allows us to work with a giant screen at little cost in the way of comfort resolution wise we're grateful to Major for being too level-headed and sticking with 1080 by 1920 pixels, delivering the outstanding 410 one PPI density. What we're not so grateful for is its decision to switch to an AMOLED screen which has compromised some crucial aspects of the display, such as color balance and brightness output, maximum brightness his suffered greatly. Is it now peeks at the very modest 335 nits, which is quite insufficient in comparison? Last year's mx4 reach 535 minutes so making matters worse. Is the inaccurate color balance, which throws way too much green in there taking the life out of whatever comes out on screen. The over saturated colors help negate that to an extent, but really the effect is similar to kind of trying to balance out a salty dish with sugar.

What's more automatic, brightness control is definitely not up to snuff in the mx-5. It cannot keep brightness at an optimal level, is you're going through different environments of various lighting. Most of the time it defaults to a brighter display state need it. So if you're, not okay with that, you have to constantly adjust it manually on one hand, we like the fast response and simplicity of the latest flame user interface. That's found on the mx-5 on the other.

The number of issues that we've encountered thus far has ass, worried as it hints at the software's underdeveloped status. Running on top of Android 5 is a so-called Fly mo S 4.5, probably due to the lollipop foundation. This latest fly inversion, exhibits a very fast and fluid response, which is a bit faster than its predecessor, so performance is good, but how about the rest of the experience? Well, things mostly work well, but aren't really so Joel. Once you look beyond the surface, for example, there are some options in the settings, the titles of which are not displayed in full. Another strange software issue is that you can't simply dismiss calendar notifications, unlike all other types of notifications.

Meanwhile, there is no landscape view in the messages and email applications, which means no landscape typing, and it simply because memo hasn't designed landscape versions of its apps, because in other programs such as the Google Play Store, the phone easily switches to landscape and presents you with the larger keyboard. The new physical home button incorporated touch fingerprint scanner which can be used for quick device, unlocking a protection and making payments in mesas virtual stores, the fingerprint registration processes into user-friendly, but it works once you get your fingerprint registered on the mx-5. The scanner works. Well, it's super quick and mostly accurate in recognizing your fingerprint, although it's not the best we've seen keeping its partnership with media tech going Mesa has equipped the mx-5 with the company's latest and greatest chipset the Hello x10. This chip features a 64-bit CPU which can reach the impressive clock rate of 2.2 gigahertz. As with other MediaTek CPUs, this one is a killer in multi-core performance benchmarks, but doesn't come off as impressive in single core and real-world scenarios still benchmark numbers paint a pretty competitive profile for the Hello x10, and with the power VRG 6200 GPU on hand, the configuration does manage to deliver more than decent frame rates.

Most of the time. For the most part, we have to say that flame zone browser works rather well. Scrolling can panic around with. It is very efficient in fluid, while consuming tends to be nimble enough. Sadly, flames browser suffers from incompatibility issues with some websites proving to be unreliable in some situations, which is why we would advise you to go with some other Android browser.

The megapixel ray seems to be alive and well following the example of Big Boy's, newer companies such as maze don't hesitate to equip their handsets with camera sensors that are packed with many megapixels. This seems to be the case here, as well as the main, so mx-5 arrives with a twenty point. Seven megapixel camera sensor that produces images that are mediocre at best. The center itself is a 1/2 point, 3-inch one with a pixel size, F 1.2 microns. So far, so good.

The camera application has an interface, that's mostly easy to get around, but there are some issues here as well. For example, as we're holding the phone in landscape mode tapping, the three dot button brings up the settings that we can tweak. However, the settings pop-up doesn't appear in landscape view. Everything there is in portrait, so we're required to rotate the phone in our hands change the settings that we want and then turn it back into landscape again. In order to take our pictures on the plus side, there are many modes and settings to work with outdoor image.

Quality with takers the latest flagship is decent, but nothing impressive. There are relatively good detail levels and slightly over saturated colors, but the amount of noise we observe is somewhat alarming. As a matter of fact, noise becomes an even more noticeable issue in indoor or lower light scenarios. Exposure isn't too good, as well with some images exhibiting too much overblown highlights. Speaking of exposure, the built-in HDR mode is quite unsatisfying, and while overall image quality with major mx-5s camera could come off as okay.

Video recording quality is terrifying.1920 by 1080p video is very low on details, so much so that it makes it a rather unpleasant experience. On the other hand, 4k video, which we recorded with the handset, appear to be pretty much unplayable on a normal computer. The 5.5-inch AMOLED screen is mostly a fine acid when it comes to watching video with the mx-5 because of the sheer size of it. The experience is good, but while the extra saturated AMOLED colors do make for a punching image, we just like the greenish tone. That's given to everything due to the inaccurate color balance in terms of loudness.

We can't complain of the integrated speaker, but we can't complain of its quality. It sounds as if there's too much mid-frequencies and so making for a multi audio that lacks depth, clarity and brilliance, and, unfortunately, our observations of the earphones that come with the box are very similar. To this call. Quality is decent on the mx-5, at least as far as volume goes, incoming sound quality is about average, with slightly unclear voices and good strength on the outgoing side, colors will be treated to a relative year if somewhat sharp, sounding again with satisfying volume, the main zero mx-5s one to two day battery life tends to be aligned with what the majority of mid to high range smartphones demonstrate. Nowadays, Mesa State is the proposition scored, seven hours and five minutes on our custom battery test, which is not bad but not great either.

This actually puts it slightly below its predecessor as well as handsets like the Xiaomi moon, 4 and the OnePlus one. At the same time, it elevates it above some other popular phones like the OnePlus 2 in the LG g4. We wanted to like the mx-5 for the undeniable charm of the series, but Mesa isn't making it easy for us game x5, you see well-designed phone, it looks and feels good, and it's also a decent size, considering it packs a massive 5.5 inch display. However, there are just too many compromises here with this phone as much as we like. The design the displays a really subpar affair, it's riveting punching whatnot, but maximum brightness is not high enough, while color balance is markedly off.

It really is more of a step back from its predecessor in this respect than anything else. Then come all the issues that we have with the half-baked film user interface, which may run into decent pace but ultimately comes off as somewhat underdeveloped. At the end of the day, Mesa seems to be looking for ways to build upon its tried and tested formula, but this year's switch to AMOLED screen, as well as the unconvincing camera performance. It really compromised. Its product through mezzos' flagship, comes at an affordable price, which ranges from around three hundred and thirty dollars to four hundred dollars, which is a decent price, but keep in mind that you get what you pay for, if not less.

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Source : PhoneArena