The pursuit of detail achieves pure flagship, Meizu 16s quickly get started

In 2018, it may be the best year for Meizu. The 16th series led by Huang Zhang won the recognition of the market with outstanding comprehensive quality, and pulled the Meizu at the bottom of the valley again, but in 2018, for Meizu. Probably the worst year, the loss of talent and the lack of capacity have cast a shadow over the future development of Meizu.

It can be said that the road of Meizu in the mobile phone market has indeed suffered setbacks in recent years. However, for the majority of Meizu fans, the brand “Meizu” itself has a unique charm: independence, individuality and self-pursuit. In this way, even if Meizu’s previous products have been criticized, everyone is still looking forward to the new Meizu products. The Meizu 16th series is the first node in the history of Meizu products. As the first flagship model with a comprehensive screen design, the Meizu 16th series has achieved balance in all aspects, retaining Meizu’s own product tonality and keeping up with The design trend of the mobile phone market at that time.

However, the Meizu 16th series still has some minor problems. For example, in my previous article, “In my eyes, some advantages and some slots of Meizu 16th Plus”, I mentioned such things as lack of NFC, system optimization, and fingerprint recognition. There are shortcomings such as room for improvement, and these are also the direction for Meizu to further carefully polish mobile phone products.

After more than half a year, Meizu brought its new flagship model, the Meizu 16s series. As can be seen from the model, the series was further polished and optimized based on the previous Meizu 16th series. As for the actual experience, I want to share these with you after I quickly get started with Meizu for 16s.

▎Familiar front, strange back

If you have used or played Meizu 16th, then you will have a familiar familiarity with the Meizu 16s, the excellent transition of the middle and front glass of the mobile phone, the rounded corner design and the back. The curved arc of the board, the excellent body design elements that exist on the Meizu 16th are still reserved on the Meizu 16s.

In the details, Meizu 16s further shortened the “forehead” and “chin” parts on the front of the fuselage. The width of the “forehead” was 4.5mm, the width of the “chin” was 4.2mm, and the proportion of the screen was increased to 91.53%. The look and feel is quite good. Even though Meizu does not follow the comprehensive screen solution adopted by most mobile phone brands, in terms of aesthetics, such persistence is quite a bit of Meizu’s unique “pose”.

It is also because the upper and lower borders are further narrowed, so the Meizu 16s AMOLED screen size is 6.2 inches, slightly larger than the previous Meizu 16th, the resolution is 2232 x 1080. In addition, Meizu 16s body thickness is slightly thicker than Meizu 16th, the size reached 151.9 × 73.4 × 7.6mm, due to the increase in battery capacity, this Meizu 16s battery capacity reached 3600mAh, also has more battery life For outstanding performance. Speaking of the battery, it is a pity that the Meizu 16s does not support wireless charging, which may be related to the limited internal space structure.

In fact, from the front, Meizu 16s basically maintains the Meizu 16th design, and further narrows the frame to achieve a more extreme visual effect, in line with the meaning of the “s” in its model. However, when we turned it to the back, this moment of joy from the frontal extreme turned into disappointment, the reason is very simple, Meizu 16s camera mold is actually located in the upper left corner.

Those who are familiar with Meizu should be aware that except for the Meizu Pro 7 and the initial M8 and M9, the flagship models of Meizu are centered on the camera module. You can even say that this is Meizu itself insisted on the aesthetics of the fuselage design, but today’s Meizu 16s has broken this insistence. Naturally, the change of camera position will not affect the mobile phone itself, but it is Meizu, more or less not used.

In addition to the change in camera position, the Meizu 16s backplane is slightly different than before. Take the black version of the Meizu 16s as an example, there is a layer of carbon fiber material under the glass back plate, facing the light source. Look, this faint carbon fiber adds a lot of texture to the fuselage.

If you want to describe Meizu’s 16s body design in one sentence, then this “familiar front, strange back” is really suitable, I really hope that Meizu’s freshness on the flagship model is more Breakthrough, not because of compromise and give up some persistence, after all, such Meizu is too “Meizu”.

▎ 100% effort, for the one percent choice,

the slogan of the Meizu 16s series is: “100% Efforts for 1% Selected”, the Chinese translation means: “For a one percent choice, Pay 100% effort, emphasizing the further optimization and polishing of the Meizu 16s series in the details. Considering that the comprehensive quality of the Meizu 16th series itself is already quite high, the Meizu 16s series should be further developed in the details. Since the time of getting started is really limited, here I will simply say that the two Meizu 16s have improved compared to the previous ones:

1. NFC

is, this Meizu 16s series has finally joined the much anticipated NFC function, the previous Meizu 16th series The lack of this aspect has made many Meizu users feel sorry. Although Meizu thinks that NFC is not a function that everyone uses, but everyone has always expressed this demand, Huang Zhang is also satisfying everyone’s wishes. It is a good one. An example of “100% Efforts for 1% Selected”.

Thanks to the NFC function, the Meizu 16s series can also realize all functions in Meizu Pay, such as adding a bank card. Be aware that in addition to the Meizu 16s series, Meizu’s Pro 6 Plus and Pro 5 models now support the full-featured Meizu Pay, so the NFC feature is still necessary in today’s mobile payment era.

2, Flyme’s system ease of use and smoothness is

no accident, Meizu 16s series should be the first to use the Flyme 8 model, of course, the current Meizu 16s series will still be equipped with the latest Flyme 7.3, but Flyme 7.3 already has the Flyme 8 shadow in the function and optimization section, so compared to the previous Meizu 16th, Meizu 16s is more mature at the software level. In the short experience, the improvement of the fluency of this Meizu 16s in my hand is sensible, but since it is still in the engineering internal testing stage, the details will not be discussed here.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of the year, Flyme added a “simple gesture” option to the full screen gesture. With the three modes provided before, there are already four full screen gestures to choose from. . The newly added “simple gesture” is basically the same as the previous scheme used by Xiaomi: the sides slide back and forth, the bottom slides back to the desktop, and the slide-up pauses the multitasking interface. It can be said that this full screen gesture should be the most direct and easiest to operate at present, and I personally highly recommend users to use this navigation method.

There is no three-camera scheme. Only the dual-camera

Meizu 16s series under the OIS blessing does not follow the trend of the current three-camera scheme, but further polishes the dual-camera scheme. Huang Zhang also said in the Meizu Forum: the so-called three-photographing, Four shots are more suitable for gimmicks. Multiple cameras are just an additional auxiliary function. If you take a photo, you still have to rely on the main camera.

It is precisely because of this obsession that the Meizu 16s is equipped with a dual camera combination of 48 million + 20 megapixels, of which the 48 million pixel main camera is Sony’s IMX586, with a unit pixel area of 0.8 μm, supporting OIS optical image stabilization, sub-camera For the Sony IMX350. In the zoom mode, the Meizu 16s also supports 1x, 2x and 3x, and the 3x zoom mode is the 2x zoom mode cropping, which is the same as the Meizu 16th. Let’s first look at a set of proofs:

▲1x zoom mode shooting

▲ 2x zoom mode shooting

▲ 3x zoom mode shooting

What needs to be affirmed is that the overall proof of Meizu 16s is excellent in white balance, and in the dark light environment, Meizu 16s can still maintain good details. In addition, the “Handheld Super Night Scene Mode” and “Foottop Super Night Scene Mode”, which debuted on Meizu Note 9, have now been further optimized for the Meizu 16s, which can be played in the process of handheld shooting night scenes. No small help.

Without the earphone hole, Meizu also gave you these choices.

From the previous Meizu official online line “Meizu HIFI decoding amp”, I believe most people have guessed that this Meizu 16s has a great chance to cancel the earphone hole. But what is even more tragic is that not only the headphone hole of the Meizu 16s has no headphone jack, but also the patch cord is not included in the box, which means that if you want to use the 3.5mm interface headset on the Meizu 16s You also need to purchase a separate patch cord. Of course, Meizu thinks that canceling the earphone hole and HiFi-level decoding amp is a really good audio solution, but I think that a patch cord is included in the box for the average consumer. It is worth mentioning that Meizu 16s only supports digital signal patch cords, and the analog output is not available. This also means that the general patch cord cannot be used on it, so be careful.

In addition to the cable, Meizu also released two wireless earbuds to match the Meizu 16s. They are POP2 true wireless earbuds and EP63NC neck-mounted noise reduction earplugs.

Among them, the POP2 true wireless earphone is naturally a continuation of the previous POP true wireless earphones. The overall design has not changed. The total battery life has been upgraded to 20 hours, and the Bluetooth has also been upgraded to 5.0, which has improved in stability. As for the EP63NC neck-mounted noise reduction earplugs, you can think of it as the noise reduction version of the previous Meizu EP52, which is aimed at the noise reduction requirements in sports scenes.

The flagship work for a few people

can be said that Meizu 16s is a mobile phone with a Meizu personality. You can hardly see the elements that are popular in the mobile phone market, and some of them are more Meizu brands. What you have always been and what Meizu users have always loved, you can’t even list it as a mobile phone product with “fans”.

@林十兄 This is the evaluation of Meizu 16s:

• Today, I don’t want to talk about the industry, and I don’t want to talk about feelings. I just want to talk about the experience of Meizu 16s as a user.
• - The feel is still very good, and the connection between the screen, the middle frame and the back is handled very well, and it fits the palm of your hand when you hold it on your hand.
• - Meizu is still sticking to the real white phone, which is commendable and must be a thumbs up!
• - Extremely narrow frame, shortened forehead and chin, the entire front is visually comfortable. On the other hand, the back is disappointing. Not only does the rear camera arrangement change, but the material and texture are no longer as crystal clear as the previous generation. I always feel that something is missing.
• - mEngine works well at the system level, but in the performance of third-party apps, Meizu should actively optimize the touch of third-party apps, and even open relevant interfaces or actively adapt to high-frequency touch-sensitive apps or games such as input methods. Especially for third-party input methods, the tactile experience is seriously poor, even worse than other “longitudinal linear motors” products.
• - The Flyme system input method has disappeared. Now it is the Sogou input method. This is the third-party input method that I use by default on the iPhone. However, on Android, it is my most disgusting input method. There are three reasons. The first is The full keyboard layout of the Android version uses the “word-separation key” instead of the “capital key”, which seriously affects the efficiency of mixed-input between Chinese and English. The second is that the input method lacks the “text replacement” function, which cannot achieve efficient custom phrase input. . The third is that compared with the Flyme system input method, the Sogou Pinyin input method needs to be improved in the tactile sensation. For example, when the input text is deleted, the tactile feedback is not adapted, and the input process can be slightly perceived to have a delayed tactile sensation.
• - The glare and night scenes are quite good, and there is no room for improvement under low light. It is not enough to have an excellent hardware foundation. Meizu still needs to work hard on the camera algorithm and camera experience to get into the first echelon.
• - The system has done a good job, and some third-party apps are very fluent. It seems that the 100Hz touch sampling rate still has some effect.
• In other respects, I will have time to talk to you again. I am still very happy to use this product as a main Android machine for a while.

As a new flagship Meizu 16s for routine hardware upgrades, its details in the polishing and brand personality, let us understand the unique understanding of mobile phone products. Perhaps, Meizu 16s does not have a particularly refreshing surprise in some parts, but it is more perfect in the overall ability of the whole machine. For today’s Meizu, making a truly flawless flagship model may be what they want most and what they need most.

Obviously, Meizu 16s is the best pure flagship in their hearts.