Farewell to the "big hand circle" The brief comment function of Meizu's first smart watch is a comprehensive benchmark.

Judging from the sales volume and market share of wearable products in recent years, it can be said that it is on the rise. Especially compared with the smart phone field that has entered the Red Sea for many years, it shows its vast blue ocean space. In this regard, many domestic smart phone brands have also set foot in the field of smart wear, and have successively launched their own smart watch products. However, due to system differences, uneven functions and other factors, many smart watches are called magnifying bracelets. Recently, I experienced the first smart watch product of @ Meizu Technology. I feel that it is not only outstanding in value, but also can definitely bid farewell to the "big hand circle", and its comprehensive functions can be called a benchmark.

Unique face value

Meizu watches adopt a square dial and the mainstream rounded rectangular design. There is only one button on the right side of the watch, which is used to wake up the watch, open the function list and return to the desktop. On the back is a sensor wrapped in a whole piece of glass, which gives consideration to simplicity and texture. The whole watch is available in ink rock and sky blue, with a fluororubber strap. Specially customized dials of various styles, including surreal series, new era series, travel twilight series and other artistic dials.

Overall appearance, in terms of ID technology, Meizu smart watch adopts the design of glass cover+aluminum alloy middle frame+ceramic bottom cover. The overall size of the watch is 46x38.4x 12.97mm (including heart rate bump), and the weight of the strap is 69g, which is acceptable, and it will not cause too obvious drop feeling if worn for a long time.

The side of the middle frame is the only button on the fuselage, and the function of the button can be customized in the settings. The button slightly protrudes from the middle frame of the fuselage, and the microphone opening is below. There are two long speaker openings on the left side of the symmetrical middle frame, which are used for talking, playing music, notifying and reminding, etc.

On the screen side, Meizu Watch customized Corning Gorilla Glass and customized AMOLED display, reaching 326PPI. The display effect is extremely delicate, and it can present the best visual effect with the fourth generation polar full screen. In order to display more content on the screen, Meizu watch adopts a 46mm dial with a screen size of 1.78 inch, brightness of 450nit and PPI 326, which is properly matched.

From the actual wearing experience, the strap is made of fluororubber, which supports quick disassembly and assembly, and the wearing method is a bit like Apple Watch. 46mm dial size can be said to be just right, but for some female users with thin wrists, 46mm dial may cause a certain burden.

The application icons of Meizu Watch are vertically arranged in three columns, and five large icons will be displayed in the center of the screen at the same time. Other icons will be displayed in trapezoidal form. Sliding the screen up and down will make the icon animation change very smooth, beautiful and easy to use.

System experience

In terms of system interaction, sliding left and right is to switch different styles of dials, sliding down is a notice, and sliding up on the dial is a shortcut control bar, including WiFi, data, flight mode, power saving mode, sleep mode, brightness, looking for a mobile phone, and drainage. The function is more comprehensive, but the switch of "setting" is missing. Therefore, every time you make relevant settings, you need to enter the App interface to find the settings button. If you can add a shortcut bar,

On the function interface, Meizu smart watch irregularly presents all the functions on the dial in the form of three rows of icons, with the middle icon slightly higher and the icons on both sides slightly lower. When paddling quickly, these icons will appear on the dial in the form of "small-big-small" with transitional animation, which is very dynamic. By the way, the screen refresh rate of Meizu smart watch reaches 60FPS, 30FPS does not lock the screen, and the interactive experience is very smooth. Whether you open the App, return to the desktop or switch dials, you won't feel stuck at all.

Although Meizu Smart Watch is its first smart watch, Meizu has prepared various styles of dials for consumers to choose from, including numbers, hands, Hua Lun, pixels and planets. Various styles, dial widgets can be matched at will, which can basically meet the aesthetic needs of users. Meizu watch dial market has a variety of built-in dial styles, and all of them support free download. You can download and use your favorite dial directly. In addition, Meizu customized the dial for this watch, users can choose specific functional modules independently, and also allow the pictures in the mobile phone to be set as the background style.

Of course, users can also use their own pictures as dials. To this end, Meizu smart watch also brought two different styles of photo dials, one is a custom widget, and the other is to display the time directly on the photo. Because of the advantage of "intelligence", Meizu smart watch itself has built-in more than ten dials with different styles. Select another dial on the App side, and the watch can also be "synchronized in seconds".

As far as healthy exercise is concerned.

Meizu has a clear goal when building the health monitoring system of Meizu smart watch, that is, to achieve all-weather health monitoring capability, which requires a set of powerful detection hardware and health algorithms. To this end, Meizu found Maxim as a partner and built a health monitoring system for Meizu smart watches together with * * *.

Oxygen saturation is an important index to measure vital signs, which can reflect the level of cell metabolism. Meizu smart watch supports users' all-weather oxygen saturation monitoring through the built-in blood oxygen sensor and blood oxygen algorithm.

In addition, blood oxygen monitoring, heart rate monitoring, pressure monitoring and sleep monitoring all support all-weather monitoring, and when the heart rate is abnormal, it can automatically enter the SOS emergency contact interface. Similarly, pressing the side key five times in a row can also automatically call the emergency contact.

On Meizu Wear App, users can view their own data, including steps, activity consumption, exercise duration, standing activity, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, pressure, breathing and so on. But they just lack sleep records and can only view them on the watch. I hope that I can quickly access sleep data in the later App update.

In terms of sports health, Meizu smart watches support more than ten kinds of active motion recognition, including running, cycling, walking, table tennis, badminton, skipping rope and mountaineering. More sports modes will be introduced in the future. For sports enthusiasts, Meizu smart watch can also realize outdoor navigation through the built-in multiple navigation system. On the watch side, users can view their real-time exercise status, such as exercise duration, steps, distance, calories and other data, and the App side will also record them synchronously. Meizu smart watch has built-in independent GPS (including GPS, GLO, BDS, QZSS), so it can also achieve positioning when moving without a mobile phone. In terms of App, Meizu Wear currently only supports Android phones, and the iOS App has not yet been developed. It is recommended that Android phone users start with this product.

It is more convenient to improve the function.

The above functions can only be said that Meizu Watch has reached the passing level of smart watches at present, and the real difference is mainly reflected in independence. Meizu smart watch provides an app store. Although Flyme for Watch has just met with consumers, there are not a few third-party apps in the app store, including Hanglv Zongheng, Baidu Map, QQ, Alipay, Netease Cloud Music, Yuepao Circle, Tencent Translator, Texingneng and other apps, which also support the upgrade and uninstall of apps. To be clear, there is no WeChat in the Flyme for Watch app store (you can't blame Meizu, you have to find Tencent).

Take QQ and Netease Cloud Music as examples. Although it is a watch version of the App, it is good that "the sparrow is small and complete" and has complete functions. For example, after QQ enters the app, you can see that its interface layout is very similar to QQ on mobile phones, and contacts will be displayed in the form of lists, such as adding friends, building groups, finding people you may know, etc. , can be done directly through the watch, very convenient. You can not only chat, but also watch the space, send messages, add friends and so on; Netease Cloud Music can search songs, listen to songs, know songs, my collections, my downloads and local music.

Netease Cloud Music's watch client is the same as what we have experienced on other smart watches before. After scanning the code, you can synchronize the song list collected by the mobile phone client to the watch, and other functions such as private FM, listening to songs and searching are also reserved. By the way, the watch itself provides 8GB of storage space, so it is not a problem to download your favorite songs directly to your watch.

Meizu Watch also supports remote control of mobile phones to take photos or videos, and the camera viewing interface synchronizes to the watch screen, which is quite useful when many people shoot or go out to play and shoot Vlog themselves. At present, the watch can only control the start and stop of shooting, and can't switch the front and rear lenses and shooting modes. In addition, at present, the watch only supports shooting, and a video button is missing, so the mobile phone manually switches to the video mode. At this time, the watch also displays video, which is obviously an interactive logic problem. However, considering Meizu's powerful OTA capabilities, these later stages should be improved.

hardware performance

Meizu has made a lot of efforts in payment, and users can directly use their watches to brush buses and access cards. At present, Meizu Watch has supported more than 300 kinds of interconnected city bus cards, which is enough to meet the needs of most people. It is worth mentioning that if the user has previously opened a virtual bus card or access card on Meizu mobile phone, it can be directly migrated to the watch, which is very convenient to operate.

Speaking of the independence of the watch, this beautiful watch supports eSIM communication, and the opening process is relatively simple. You can follow the app prompts step by step. However, the coverage of eSIM in China is well known. Before departure, it is recommended to confirm with the official whether your area supports opening up, so as to avoid unnecessary trouble later. Based on eSIM card, Meizu smart watch can realize independent internet access and call. Users can also send and receive messages such as QQ, listen to songs, send and receive short messages and make phone calls outdoors. Of course, in the indoor environment, users can also use Wi-Fi network to achieve a better networking experience.

Let's go back to the core hardware configuration. Compared with other smart watches that are positioned as "big hand rings", Meizu Watch adopts Snapdragon Wear 4 100 platform, which is the latest generation flagship platform in Qualcomm, and has a good performance in terms of performance and power consumption. At the same time, the performance of Snapdragon Wear 4 100 platform can also ensure that we can use the major apps smoothly on our watches. In addition, match 1GB RAM and 8GB ROM. What is very special is that Meizu stuffed a linear motor of mine engine in this watch, and at the same time "invited" its own mobile phone mine engine team to make adjustments. The vibration feedback is very crisp, which greatly improves the use texture of the watch.

In terms of battery life, Meizu Watch has a battery capacity of 430mAh, which can be fully charged in 45 minutes with a magnetic charger. According to official data, Meizu smart watches have a battery life of up to 36 hours when fully charged. According to the actual experience, under normal circumstances, it takes almost one and a half days to charge once. If the user's application is a little more complicated, such as often taking photos with a watch by remote control, the battery life will be shorter, but fortunately, charging is faster and the whole watch can be filled in 45 minutes.

In order to ensure better battery life, the system will automatically turn off WiFi (only supporting 2.4GHz band) after 3 minutes without using wireless network. Of course, this is not a problem after the user opens the eSIM service. In these days' tests, WiFi was turned on frequently because eSIM was not turned on. If you can give users an option to decide whether to turn on WiFi automatically within 3 minutes, so much the better.

Generally speaking, Meizu watch is the first truly "all-smart watch" in Meizu. In terms of appearance, the design of its square dial and detachable charging base also show us Meizu's pursuit of product details when making watches, which also proves that Meizu will continue to polish this product series and create a more friendly experience for users. In terms of application, its rich sensors and the blessing of Flyme OS on Watch make Meizu Watch enough to meet our daily use scenarios. In addition to the above, Meizu Watch can also have a dream link with its own Lipro. When the watch detects that the user has fallen asleep, the Lipro light will automatically go out, providing a better sleeping environment for the user. However, this function needs OTA to be realized later, so you can look forward to it.