Original title: Meizu 15 evaluation: the mixture of classicality and trend
With slogan's promotion of "carving time", Meizu has ushered in its 15th anniversary. It has chosen to hold a press conference in Wuzhen to add some artistic flavor to this slogan. However, in sharp contrast to the quiet Wuzhen, it is the turbulent situation of Meizu. From 2003 to now, Meizu has gone through 15 years of ups and downs, but this year may be one of the lifelines of Meizu.
From a product point of view, the poor sales of pro7 series last year cast a shadow on Meizu. In addition to commemorating the anniversary and publicizing feelings, Meizu 15 is more responsible for stabilizing the morale of the army and finding its own market.
Before the press conference, a lot of News revealed that this new machine is a 'connecting link' product, returning to the original design, and setting a benchmark for future products, but whether it can come true is a 'gamble' of Meizu.
Appearance: like old but not old bottle, like new but not new wine
When I first met Meizu 15, my mood was very complicated. If we can use a few words to summarize this mobile phone, then 'reasonable, unexpected' is the most appropriate.
In 2018, when Liu Haiping, 18:9 full screen and glass fuselage flooded, when Meizu 15 returned to MX4 in appearance design, it adopted a 5.46 inch FHD display with a screen ratio of 16:9, a screen proportion of 83.6%, and a very narrow frame. If this design appeared a few years ago, Meizu 15 might be a popular mobile phone. But now it seems that the times have changed.
This time, Meizu 15 adopts snapdragon 660 processor with 4GB + 64GB storage; Meizu 15 plus adopts Samsung exynos 8895 platform with 6GB + 128GB storage. In the running score software, we can see that their running scores are 134654 and 187869 respectively. Meet the normal use of users, basically no problem.
Run points display
The front camera is on the top of the fuselage, the earpiece and breathing light are on the top, and the regression 'small circle' is on the bottom. The small circle uses a pressure sensing chip, and has the smallest front fingerprint module in the world. It has excellent appearance and operation. The recognition of this key is very high, and the speed is very fast, the area is only one third of the pro 7 fingerprint recognition module.
It is worth mentioning that a transverse linear motor moengine is built into Meizu 15, supplemented by a global tactile feedback system. Its experience is similar to Apple's taptic engine, simulating the feedback effect of physical home key. When taking pictures, typing and sliding, the tactile feedback is excellent, and the actual pressing feeling is the same as that of iPhone 7 Series home key.
Fuselage top design
Small circle at the bottom
In terms of interaction, this button still keeps the design language of light touch back and long press back to the desktop, which has not changed much compared with the virtual key.
The back of Meizu 15 fuselage is made of stainless steel and aluminum composite material, which has a strong metal feeling. The transition part of the fuselage edge is very natural. The fuselage is thin, which fits the palm well and has an excellent holding feeling. The antenna parts at both ends adopt the 'one size fits all' classic shape, and there is 3D printing pattern design inside the antenna. You can also see Huang Zhang's careful thinking in the design in the details. It's a little surprise.
The vertical double camera part in the middle of the back is the most fashionable design at present. There is a ring flash at the bottom and the logo of Meizu at the bottom. Compared with the MX4, you can clearly feel the changes time brings to Meizu: more and more sense of technology, more and more mature.
In addition, Meizu 15 also retains 3.5mm headphone interface and adopts type-C charging interface to support mcharge flash charging and 24W fast charging. In terms of fuselage color matching, there are four colors: Yajin, Ruyao white, inkstone ink and Dai blue.
Meizu 15 plus, released at the same time as Meizu 15, is no different from Meizu 15 in appearance. It only adjusts the screen size. 15plus is 5.95 inches, accounting for 84.4% of the screen. There is not much difference between them in appearance, but Meizu 15 is better in holding sense.
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In general, the appearance design of Meizu 15 is very good, small, light, almost borderless design, classic small circle, and some careful thinking of Huang Zhang, but this is just the feeling of being an experiencer. Due to the popularity of Liu Haiping, 18:9 full screen, under screen fingerprint and other designs, Meizu 15 is more or less embarrassed in the current mobile phone market, because it has almost no popular elements.
If this is a 'commemorative machine' built for the 15th anniversary of Meizu, I believe many users will accept this design. After all, it pays homage to the previous generation and returns to the classic. But if this machine is really released for the sake of sales and market opening, Meizu may not be far away.
Flyme 7 first experience: make the experience better, it's done
Meizu 15 series mobile phones are also equipped with a new flyme 7 system, and slogan is changed to 'make the experience better'. Flyme 7 has not made much change in UI design, it is still a simple Meizu style, but there are many updates in function.
&Personal assistant
The first thing to talk about is the personal assistant function. This time, the menu bar is hidden. You need to slide or long press the home key on the interface to call it out (as shown in the GIF Figure). As you can see, there are many options in the personal assistant, such as common functions, schedule, to-do items, and exercise step counting. Users can also sort and add them in the settings bar in the upper right corner.
Desktop and personal assistant
The personal assistant function relies on Meizu's one mind artificial intelligence engine. In the update of flyme 7, one mind is connected with more functions and services, which can help users meet their needs faster.
&Middot; intelligent screen recognition
Intelligent screen recognition is similar to the association search function. Long press the text or picture in the application, the user will analyze the text part and extract the key content, such as movie name, restaurant name, celebrity, etc. the corresponding association page will pop up below for easy viewing. However, because we got the engineering machine of Meizu 15, although this function can be turned on, it is not applicable. It may be reflected on the official machine.
&Middot; face recognition
In fact, face recognition is no longer a new function. In the second half of 2017, most Android machines have started to carry this function, and Meizu can only catch up with the last bus. On this Meizu 15, face recognition has not been added a new way of playing, but has been optimized in the adaptation. At present, it has been adapted to 12 models, including M15, 15, 15plus, pro 7 plus, pro 7 high configuration version, pro 7 Standard Version, Pro 6, Pro 6 plus, pro 6S, Pro 5, mx6 and Meilan Note 6. In short, it gives old users a little comfort and freshness.
Bubble notification and small window display function, initially only used in the game, to ensure that users are not disturbed when playing the game. But this time flyme 7 applies this function to more scenarios. For example, when browsing news, wechat messages can be opened and replied in a small window, reducing the complexity of user operation and increasing portability.
Bubble notification + small window display
&Desktop Search
Desktop search is a very interesting and practical function in flyme 7 update. Users can turn on the desktop search function as long as they slide from top to bottom on the edge of the desktop. All apps will appear in the order of subtitles, which is very convenient to find. This is also one of the most eye-catching features of flyme 7.
In addition to the above several key functions, flyme 7 has been improved in terms of safety, startup optimization and power consumption, but the overall change is not big, which is a change in details. For flyme 7 alone, it has achieved the goal of 'making the experience better', but it is a bit late. Combined with the nostalgic nature of the design, Meizu 15 will be a product that makes users' pain and happiness'.
Take a picture: maybe the most fashionable piece of this mobile phone
Meizu 15 is full of nostalgia. Only on the camera can people see the design that is closest to the current trend. This machine uses a 20 megapixel camera in front to support self portrait and background virtual shooting; a 12 million wide-angle + 20 million long focus dual camera in back, and equipped with Sony imx380 sensor to support OIS optical anti shake, large aperture shooting, zoom shooting and dark light shooting.
Meizu official said that the imaging effect of Meizu 15 in dark light shooting, zoom shooting and other conditions is very excellent, so how about the effect? Let's show it with the sample.
In the environment with sufficient light source, such as sunny outdoor or bright indoor, the imaging effect of Meizu 15 is very good, the color restoration degree is very high, the photos are clear-cut, and the outline of the details is also satisfactory.
In dark light shooting, the water source and light are relatively bright, and the imaging effect will be better, but the details are not sharp enough, and the noise is still a big problem, but the situation of mass production machine may be better than that of engineering machine.
When the overall shooting environment is relatively bright, the effect of the sample will be much better, the picture will be hierarchical, and the transition between the scenes will be smoother.
In the case of zoom shooting, there will be little noise in the case of 2 times zoom, which basically does not affect the visual experience. However, in the case of 3 times zoom, the imaging effect is worse, and there will be more noise. If there is not enough light in the environment, the problem will be more serious.
In terms of self portrait, the beauty effect and thin face effect are excellent. Combined with the optimization of one mind, the best beauty scheme is provided according to the user's gender, age, skin texture and other characteristics. The overall effect of the sample is satisfactory.
In general, Meizu 15 has a very good photo effect in the mid end market. Dark light shooting is not as amazing as advertised, but it is enough for users to use in daily shooting; triple zoom shooting has a gimmick, but it is not optical zoom after all, so it is acceptable. As for self shooting and shooting under normal conditions, I believe that they are also the best among machines with the same price.
At the end:
In fact, it is quite difficult to evaluate Meizu 15. Meizu 15 is a tangled product. On the one hand, it has the configuration that belongs to the current mobile phone market: vertical double camera, face recognition, borderless design, etc., but on the other hand, it is too 'classical': it uses non full screen, metal body, front 'small circle', etc.
If you want to "carve time" to pay homage to the classic, it should not only have the design essence of MX series, but also cater to the taste of current mobile phone users, with feelings and trends. This is a bit harsh for a mid-range flagship.
Huang Zhang once said that Meizu 15 is just a 'trial of the ox' after his return, and the future Meizu 16 is the key point. All the designs and functions not appearing on Meizu 15 may be realized on Meizu 16, and Meizu 16 may be released in August this year.
Therefore, we should be more tolerant towards Meizu 15. Its more function is to "reassure" everyone that the classic Meizu has come back and has not gone far. As for its actual sales volume and market significance, it may be time to tell us. But it has to be said that 2018 is still an attractive year