Meizu Note 9 Review & Unboxing (Global Version) By TechTablets

What I have with me here today is a direct competitor. You could say to the Redmi Note 7, so the medial note 9 is a very similar phone, spec wise when you take a look at it, so we have a 20 megapixel, front-facing selfie cam, a 48 megapixel sensor on the rear, which is the exact same sensor as the Redmi Note 7, and that being the Samsung GM one, and it also has a secondary 5 megapixel camera there too. Now it has a teardrop, not display on this one. So it's six point two inches an IPS panel with a resolution of 2244 by 1080 and the interesting part and where it does really better they're, really not 7 is the chipset. So this is gonna, be the first phone I'm checking out that has the Qualcomm snapdragon 6 7 5. So this should perform very similar to the Snapdragon 805, which is a couple of generations old, flagship chipset.

So it does pack a very reasonable amount of power in here, a four thousand William hour battery. It has 18 watt charging type-c port, dual NATO SIM and yes, this is a global version, so global wrong with all your languages and LTE band 20 supports. So, let's check it out. Okay, so I'll start out with what we get first in the box, so you can see. We've got some of the key specs that are listed on this transit screen protector.

They are also now on the right of the screen for you. If you want to check that out, so my version is the black color. It has the four gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of storage. Here we have a sim tray tool, as you can see, and it's got that fly me OS a logo to it. There now inside we've just got some warranty cards instruction manual and whatnot.

Here we have our type-c USB, cable in white and our power supply. Now this power supply is an 18 watt, quick charge. Three power supply it's rather big a little longer than your typical power supply, so the phone being a global version with the global ROM on here we've got all those Android 9 languages. You can think of there now, at the top, we have a teardrop notch and I can see that it does have a little of shadowing just below it. Just give you a close-up of it now, so you can see what I mean so just where that is, and at the top you see a little of like a shadow, that's appearing around the top of the screen.

You don't really see it on the sides, and it just tends to be on the corners and around that water drops tile notch up the very top you will see. We do have the slit at the top, that's where our earpieces, and we do have an ambient light sensor, which you can see located right here. What is missing on this phone is no status LED, but I also wanted to point out that when you're looking at the screen straight on that, you don't really see that shadowing around there and see at the bottom that we do have still a little of a chin here and lip along the bottom of the phone. You will find a security microphone, the type C port loudspeaker and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, which is perfect to have on here. It's great that they did not end up dropping this on the right volume up and down buttons and the power button.

These to me feel like they're made out of metal. The same goes for the frame around the outside here and then the little frame that goes around the screen. So this part around the screen here, which then makes with the rear housing. This to me feels like an outside metal frame, and you often find with some manufacturers. They use plastic there, but Miku hasn't the sim tray is located on the upper left-hand side, and it doesn't have a rubber gasket around or anything like that.

So it's not with any IP rating. You wouldn't expect it. Of course, at this price point it takes two NATO Sims and sadly, no micro SD card support here so 64 gigabytes. That's all you've got up the top you'll find just a secondary mic here, which is used for noise, cancellation and video on the rear. We've got a fingerprint reader, dual tone: LED flash, the main camera, which is a 48 megapixel, Samsung gm1 sensor, and then an axillary 5 megapixel sensor.

Now the thickness of the phone is eight point, six millimeters and that's without the camera bump with the camera bump. That brings it up then, to nine point: six and down the bottom of the back here. You'll find me Zeus logo here, and it just states LTE mobile phone assembled in China, designed by Mizzou and here's the weight of the phone so 168 grams. This is not bad at all, making it a relatively light phone, so the phone in hand. It feels good, easy access to those buttons on the right hand, side and the of it is glass.

So yes, of course it is slippery, but overall I think the build is decent. It's not super high-end, but for the price of this phone I feel it is definitely adequate with the build have gone with and the finish of it. There's no sharp edges and no faults that I can see it all. So you can see at the moment I have full screen. Just your mode enabled with the ROM and I will quickly just go through it to show you that what kind of bloatware you can expect before I later show you with all my apps and games and everything installed.

So we've got obviously Google's blows in here. You can call it bloat, but I'd. Rather they give us the option to possibly just download and install what, if you want Google Play Store, of course, is there this being the global ROM? That's the whole kind of point of it! Isn't it and they have some pre-installed games. So this is our true bloat there. So they've got a couple of games on the night, asphalt Nitro and others that maybe you might like, but again I, don't think they should pre-install them and files go whatever that is, so I'll display at 6.2 inches with a resolution of 22 44 by 1080 as a maximum brightness of just over 400 Lux, which is okay, certainly not the brightest screen that I have seen, but again for the price point of this phone. That's actually, okay, one thing that checks up perfect here is the gamma, so gamma is spot-on, 2.2, which you often don't see so overall I think this is a nice screen. Apart from that little of shadowing that I pointed out at the top and a long where that water drop notch is besides that it does look good.

The touch response here is fine, so overall, a decent IPS panel that Miku has selected for this phone. Now, let's take a look at the face, unlocking, so I've already set it up. I won't go through all of that with you, but I'll just tap it now, and it's looking at my face, you get the tick, and then you need to swipe up, and it unlocks it works. Fine. The speed is fast, but I wish it would just go directly straight into the UI without having to swipe up I haven't found the sitting to be able just go directly in there, maybe it's in there, but at this stage I've looked around, and I can't seem to find it so fingerprint reader on the back here.

It is quite quick and I'll touch it. You can see there we go to unlocks it takes only about a second and the accuracy seems to be good. I'd say it works about 90% of the time, so the best fingerprint reader I've come across, but it certainly isn't bad and now just to run through a couple of things. So fortnight I know a lot of you younger guys in the comments can ask me: will it run fortnight? It will once they finally add support for the snapdragon 675, which does not seem to be supported at all here, which is a shame, so I cannot show that now here is the 4G speed, so it all depends on your carrier. So that's getting okay kind of speeds, LTE.

It does support LTE band 20, which is a perfect thing, there's being a global version, of course, and it doesn't have Wide vine level, one security surge, so level three means you're stuck with Amazon, Prime, Netflix and standard-definition, which is a real shame. Now standard definition on a mobile screen at 6.2 inches is okay, but even so, I would really love them to update this to security level one, so then we get at least HD. Now, I have a bit of a problem here with the wireless there seems to be some sort of bug affecting 2g and 5g bands, so you can see here different spots around the apartment. This is the furthest away right here. Actually, this one right here, 141 meters per second I- was all going fine, and you can see then, even when I got really close to the router.

The speeds started to absolutely plummet, and I noticed that sometimes I was having this problem downloading pub G, which is one point, eight gigabytes. It was taking absolute is forever, and this is the reason why, because I started to connect at such super low speeds to my router now no other phone is experiencing this problem. I tested out my Huawei P 30, Pro I tested out my Samsung Galaxy s, 9 plus my me 9. They were all good. They were connecting and getting around 200 in something commits per second.

So there's a definite bug here in the ROM, with the wireless that they need to address and hope. Do they do that ASAP now, once I connected back up to it, the speeds went up against? You have to disconnect reconnect and maybe even reboot the phone, so I'm not good to see that at all, so there's once I rebooted actually know this is after disconnecting the wireless connecting back up again speeds then went back to well almost normal. There was still a little slow there, and I am on. The latest fly me version. So to me this is a bit of a beta global ROM seems, and they definitely have a few things to patch there.

So here's the internal storage speed, so it does have eMMC 5.1 spec, and these speeds are perfectly fine here. So sequential read of almost 300 writes of over 200. That's fine! That's not going to cause any bottlenecks within the system, and it's understandable for the price of this phone around 200 us that they're not going to be using UFS, 2.1 storage and the geek- sorry not geek bench, but to score here. So this one comes out quite good, considering on my Redmi Note, 7 worth the snapdragon 660. I think I've got about two hundred and twenty-eight thousand or 130 thousand here.

So you see it is quite a bit of a boost to that. We are getting GPU scores. The CPU scores from the cry 460 faster cause. There is definitely noticeable, so it is a performance boost. It will be better at gaming and I will show you some gaming shortly just after this, so I'll start out with pub g now I have use that GFX told to sit the extreme 60 frames per second for our frame rate, and it's on HD and also set 1080p as well now you'll notice that we've got a little of a border here because of the notch.

Now this is a software thing and I can almost barely close this window because of the rounded edge right there. But anyway, let's see how the game performs. So even with the 1080p resolution, this is looking very playable and to me, it feels faster than the Ruby note 7. If I had this X same settings here, because he's scrolling around that's relatively smooth, I can see a little of jerkiness, but I think it's more to do with the touch for some reason here, and I just go in there and zoom in a little look down the sights, and you can see that that's perfectly fine there. In fact, I'll move over to my crossbow, where I have a scope on it.

Just to demonstrate to that you're not gonna, have any problems, I believe aiming as you can see that moves around just fine, and I'll just do a little of a run forward here you can see good-looking graphics, it looks sharp and that frame rate the main thing. Of course, it's keeping up so performance with pop G you're not going to have any problems, I, don't think at all. You can probably run this, of course on a lower resolution run it in 9 60p would probably be a lot smoother. In fact, it would be- and in this title here this is shadow gun, legends, I've, set it to the 60 frames per second sitting and on medium I tried it on ultra-high, and it was just a little laggy and on high. It seemed okay, but a few stutters so here on medium I, think, is the best sitting for this particular mobile and still looks perfect as graphics.

You will get the occasional little stutter, but overall gaming performance does seem very good on this snapdragon 675. Now, let's take a look at the audio, so I first wanted to comment on the call quality that it seems fine to me, the earpiece at the top. No problems, no real issues there, 3.5 millimeter, headphone jack quality, is okay, it's not the best of her, but I think for the price of the phone that it's fine, most people should be happy with it. The volume output from it could be a little higher now the loudspeaker, depending on the content you're watching so right now YouTube here, I'll give you a sample of it that the loudness is okay, certainly with ringtones. It's fine and in games.

Shadow gun Legends is very loud, but here it could just definitely be a little louder, but I'll give you a sample now of that single loudspeaker on the bottom. I wanted to briefly touch on the wrong performance is something that I always cover in my reviews here so fly me: OS I'm, not a big fan of it, and we've got okay, the drawer here, that's not an ant's drawer, so you've got all your apps and your widgets all there at once and I have noticed that when you are multitasking, for example, got a couple of games or one game they're running in the background YouTube and a few other apps that you will see their performance definitely does degrade a little once you start to multitask and where it is very obvious to me, you can see right there's a couple of little stutters. This animation just doesn't seem to be as smooth as it could be, especially considering the chipset. So if you go into Google Play Store, and then you decide to okay, I'm going to go along and start to load up a bunch of different apps at the same time. Well, while you're installing that's when you see some noticeable lag in the UI, so optimization is needed, because if I was then to swap over to Nova Launcher, which I have right here now go over to our apps' drawer, you see their performance here.

It just seems to be so much better to me, so it could be the fact that we have maybe a bit of a beta ROM on here at the moment and moist differently as far as I can tell needs to optimize this ROM and especially focus on that Wireless issue that I talked about earlier on, and this is the stock application for our camera. So we've got portrait mode which takes the bouquet blurred background photos, video mode up to 4k without any electronic image. Stabilization, there's no electronic image stabilization as you'll see for my samples on the front-facing camera, either now right here under more, we have the super night. So this is their night shot mode which, as you'll see from the samples is not really that good. It does make a bit of a difference.

I think it's more or less increasing the exposure, but I, don't think it seems to be stitching together, various different photos, or at least they need to tweak the software Miku now Pro Mode here as well. We have just a few controls here, so you got shutter rate, ISO exposure, your focus and the white balance, and here's where you'll find the option to take a photo in 48 megapixels, so enabling that it says open, 48, megapixels and when I compare it side-by-side with the 12 megapixel default shot, it's actually really, no better. In fact, it has a little more noise, depending maybe on some circumstances. In some situations it may take a slightly sharper image while a little more detail, but overall I wouldn't really ever use the 48 megapixel mode, because it's actually interpolated software and not a true 48 megapixels. You will notice that the image lacks any optical or electronic image stabilization, which is a shame that's also in 1080p.

In fact, none of the video that I've recorded on this has any form of stabilization, including the front-facing camera, and you'll notice. It definitely when I start to walk now. There's never look at the focus. I've got my hand up, I mean the focus, does a reasonable job. It's not as fast as the dual pixel face.

Detection autofocus just face detection autofocus, not a brilliant day here, a little overcast, but overall they need to add some form of stabilization. Electronic, of course, is all they can do to this phone. So video quality at least thing can be actually usable and if you're wondering 1080p, video also lacks electronic image. Stabilization so means you need to get their act together, and this is the front-facing camera. So the audio when you shoot 1080p for some reason, then become stereo again without that horrible, terrible nitrate, but overall, especially a 4k video, the audio is just awful, so here you can see, the quality is OK, it's not too bad, but the problem and the issue again, of course, is the lack of any electronic image stabilization.

Alright. So there we go. It has a nice screen on it, brightness about 400 Lux, a good gamma and overall I feel for the price of this phone you're getting a good package in terms of hardware. Definitely that's! Their performance is faster than it's never again, 660, as we can clearly see it's getting an tutu scores of about 180,000 and the 660 gets about 130,000 maximum really scores. You can get from this so performance wise, especially if you're gaming.

This is perhaps one to look at in the future, because at the moment there are some performance issues, there's some optimization. That is definitely needed to me with the ROM that if you start to multitask in not even heavy multitasking, you just download something in Play Store get out of it load up, say Twitter and you notice, then that hang on the scrolling performance has a bit of stutter to it a little of lag and then there's that problem with the wireless performance that it will drop off at times. Sometimes it's perfectly fine, but then out of the blue for no apparent reason. It will start to really drop those speeds and if you disconnect and reconnect, then the wireless will get back up to its normal kind of speeds that you would expect, so there's definitely a few bugs and this ROM it seems to be a global beta. So once Miku can improve on that and prove their performance, then I figure we're going to have a perfect phone.

Now the other thing is -. Okay, you could run Nova Launcher, which runs fine. You can set it as the home launcher as well. They're, not blocking us off from doing that, so that if you're not happy we'll fly me OS I, don't particularly like it myself that much either then run Nova Launcher. The other thing to point out with the camera, so front-facing camera yeah I mean, can take an okay photo.

The rear cameras well can't take good daylight photos. Low-Light performance doesn't seem that great, even using their night mode, it does make a difference, as you can see from my sample that I showed you with a normal, auto photo and then with the night mode that you can see. It's a little brighter, but it's still got a lot of noise. It's lacking detail, and it's certainly not the best that I have seen there I'm, not to sure where they Google camera might be able to run on this. If you can find a port that works and, of course, then you'd be able to take a lot bit of photos because I know you can get Google camera with the Redmi Note 7 for nitrite photos, and we should be able to do it on this I believe, but we'll have to test that out and see if it's going to support that at all so overall I think it's a decent phone, but the software needs fixes and needs optimization improvement, but the snapdragon 675 my first time with this chipset and I, do like it definitely in gaming.

You see the difference. You can feel it. It's smoother, it's a lot faster than the snapdragon 660 or even the 672. Now that's in the Samsung Galaxy Tab s5 that I've just is 5e that I just reviewed as well, and I can definitely see and notice the improvement there. So thank you.

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