Detailed review of Meizu 16s Pro: Let’s leave no regrets in the 4G golden era

IT168 Review With the launch of Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus, we can see that a new wave of flagship mobile phone releases has also begun. Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus improves the CPU based on Snapdragon 855 The frequency brings more extreme performance and also makes the mobile phone gaming experience better. This time, Meizu also quickly followed up with the Snapdragon 855 Plus. Four months after the launch of the Meizu 16s based on the Snapdragon 855, it immediately released the Meizu 16s Pro based on the Snapdragon 855 Plus. Meizu 16s Pro continues the excellent design of Meizu 16s, and also adds three cameras, which also makes Meizu 16s Pro more "perfect".

Meizu 16s Pro can be said to be an upgraded version of Meizu 16s. It uses the Snapdragon 855 Plus processor and has a three-camera design. The performance of this phone is better than that of Meizu 16s, and it also adds a wide-angle The overall strength of the camera should also be improved a lot. The price of 2,699 yuan makes Meizu 16s Pro the cheapest Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus flagship phone currently.

Meizu 16s Pro parameters

Mobile phone model

Meizu 16s Pro

Screen size

6.2 inches customized Samsung OLED non-notch full screen

Resolution

2236x1080

Processor

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

Frequency

2.96GHz, 1

Kryo 485 Gold+3

Kryo 485 Gold+4 Kryo 485 Silver

Body memory< /p>

128/256GB USF3.0

Running memory

6GB/8GB LPDDR4

Main camera

48 million +20 million+16 million, IMX586+IMX35IMX481, optical image stabilization

Front camera

20 million, AI face recognition unlocking, ArcSoft beauty algorithm

Body size

151.9 × 73.4 × 7.6mm

Body weight

166g

Battery

3600mAh

(Super mCharge 24W fast charging)

Body color

Twilight Forest, Fantasy Unicorn, Black Mirror, White Story

Operating System

Flyme 8 (Subsequent Upgrade)

Network Standard

Full Netcom

Launch Price

Starting from 2,699 yuan

From the hardware configuration, Meizu 16s Pro uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus processor. Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 has a Qualcomm independent processor with a frequency of up to 2.96GHz. The Kryo 485 Gold core of the architecture, as well as three Kryo 485 Gold cores and Kryo 485 Silver cores, form a three-slave architecture. It uses TSMC’s 7nm manufacturing process and has better performance than the Snapdragon 855. In addition, Meizu 16s Pro comes standard with 6GB/8GB large memory, and provides 128GB/256GB UFS3.0 body storage version. These configurations can be said to be the current flagship configurations.

In terms of screen, Meizu 16s Pro uses a 6.2-inch full-screen OLED screen with a screen resolution of 2232x1080. It is still a non-notch design and is still a screen customized by Samsung. The screen used by Meizu 16s Pro can reach 403PPI, and has a high brightness of 430 nits and a high contrast ratio of 100000:1.

As for the camera, it is still a three-camera combination, using Sony's IMX586+IMX35IMX481 sensor. The IMX586 has 48 million pixels and a CMOS unit pixel area of ??0.8μm. It can arrange 4 pixels of the same color adjacently. This achieves a shooting effect of 12 million pixels and 1.6μm ultra-large pixels. The camera has a large aperture of f/1.7, supports OIS optical image stabilization, supports PDAF phase focusing, and uses Meizu’s classic ring-shaped LED fill light. In addition, the newly added 16-megapixel wide-angle camera supports a 117-degree ultra-wide angle and also supports 2.5 super macro. The front camera is a specially customized smallest front-facing 20-megapixel camera module that supports AI face recognition unlocking, ArcSoft beauty algorithm, and FaceAE facial brightness intelligent adjustment.

The battery uses a 3600mAh battery, supports 24W Super mCharge fast charging, and uses a USB Type-C interface. In addition, Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus supports full Netcom and dual-SIM dual standby. In terms of system, the Meizu 16s Pro series will be adapted to the Flyme8 system. Flyme8 brings a number of updates and provides a better user experience.

Meizu 16s Pro appearance details:

Meizu 16s Pro continues the narrow bezel design of Meizu 16s. The non-notch screen and ultra-narrow bezels allow Meizu 16s Pro to have a screen-to-body ratio of 91.53%. . Meizu 16s Pro uses a 6.2-inch full screen with a resolution of 2232x1080, continuing the symmetrical design. Meizu 16s Pro adopts an 18.6:9 screen, which makes the body proportions longer, but the width remains at 73.4mm, so it brings an outstanding feeling of holding.

Meizu is still very persistent in the matter of ultra-narrow bezels. The width of the chin position of Meizu 16s Pro is 4.2mm, and the width of the forehead position is 4.5mm. The upper and lower edges are narrowed by 27% compared to the previous generation Meizu 16th. % and 21%. This ultra-narrow bezel allows Meizu 16s Pro to increase its screen-to-body ratio.

Meizu 16s Pro uses a 20-megapixel front camera. Meizu specially customized the smallest front camera module for Meizu 16s Pro, customizing the design from hardware and optical components, so that Meizu 16s Pro’s The forehead position can have an ultra-narrow design like now. In addition, the sensors on the forehead of the mobile phone are designed to be hidden, making the entire mobile phone more concise.

Meizu 16s Pro continues the stereo speaker design on Meizu 16th. Without affecting the appearance, two new generation super linear speakers are placed above and below the phone. In addition, Meizu 16s Pro has canceled the 3.5mm interface. Users need to purchase an additional USB Type-c to 3.5mm adapter. Meizu integrates the HiFi chip into the adapter to achieve high-quality audio output without occupying the machine. Precious space within the body. This time, Meizu also brought the PRO version of the HiFi decoding amp. The new HiFi decoding amp Pro has been upgraded with a more advanced decoding chip and a more professional secondary operational amplifier. Officials say it can provide real and delicate sound, with rich layering and a wide sound field, and the price is only 299 yuan.

Meizu 16s Pro still uses a 3D four-curved glass body and is available in four colors: Twilight Forest, Fantasy Unicorn, Black Mirror, and White Story. The camera position on the back of the phone is in the upper left corner, which allows the internal design of Meizu 16s Pro to gain a lot of space. After all, Meizu has packed a 3600mAh battery and three cameras into the 7.6mm-thick body.

Meizu 16s Pro has a thickness of 7.6mm, supports under-screen fingerprint recognition, and has a large 3600mAh battery and NFC antenna. Meizu uses a more compact motherboard stack design, customized screen, left-shift camera, and ultimate structure Designed to compress the phone to 7.6mm, the body weight is only 166g.

The camera of Meizu 16s Pro slightly protrudes from the back of the fuselage. The camera and LED fill light are located in the upper left corner of the back, and the ring-shaped LED fill light surrounds the last camera.

Meizu 16s Pro adopts a 48 million + 20 million + 16 million pixel camera design, with a newly added ultra-wide-angle camera. At the same time, 16s Pro uses Sony IMX586+IMX35IMX481 sensors. IMX586 can take 48-megapixel high-definition photos and synthesize 12-megapixel photos through four-in-one pixels.

Meizu Flyme8 system experience

Meizu 16s Pro is the first to adapt to the Flyme8 system. Flyme8 brings a number of updates, redesigned icons and animations, upgraded OneMind3.5, and Come to a new game mode and so on to make the system more simple and beautiful, and at the same time improve the user experience.

Flyme8 brings smart wallpapers, which make the entire unlocking process progress step by step, conveying coherent and comfortable visual changes every second. At the same time, Flyme8 has redesigned the icons. The icons are simple but also take into account the details. The 4x6 icon arrangement makes the desktop more efficient without causing visual congestion.

Flyme8 adopts a design that removes lines and leaves white space, changing from lines to surfaces, reducing the sense of fragmentation and allowing users to focus on the content itself. The white space design in the interface can relieve anxiety and make the displayed interface cleaner and more comfortable.

Flyme8 upgrades the night mode and brings night mode 2.0. Night mode 2.0 adopts Meizu’s self-developed color conversion body, which can perfectly adapt to third-party applications and can also be used for dark color conversion for wallpapers. , not only the built-in wallpaper, but also the ordinary wallpaper set by the user.

The small window mode of Flyme7 has been widely praised. Flyme8 brings small window mode 2.0. The small window mode can be opened in any interface, and one-click full-screen switching can be achieved through the settings button. At the same time, in order to solve the problem of difficulty in replying to multiple people's messages, Flyme8's small window mode is designed with a bubble notification function. As long as you click the bubble under the window, people can quickly switch to improve the effect.

Flyme8 has added the new aicy intelligent assistant, which provides aicy voice, aicy screen recognition, aicy overview, aicy suggestions and other functions. aicy Voice is an upgrade to the original voice assistant, making it more intelligent. Through aicy Voice, you can set alarm clocks, make calls, etc., and at the same time open the APP to realize Taobao shopping, WeChat sending messages, etc.

Flyme8 named the negative screen aicy overview. aicy overview brings together previously scattered messages and content, covering more than 20 categories and content, which greatly facilitates daily operations.

Flyme8 brings simpler elements in UI design, making the interface better-looking and smoother in operation. The addition of new functions allows Flyme8 to have a better experience and make the details better. Of course Flyme8 also has OneMind3.5, a new game mode 4.0, a newly upgraded night scene mode 2.0, and more security features. We will explain the experience of Flyme8 in detail in subsequent articles.

Meizu 16s Pro performance experience

Meizu 16s Pro uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus processor, which is also a rare Snapdragon 855 Plus model on the market. Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus is currently the best-performing mobile phone processor, with better performance than Snapdragon 855.

▲Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus architecture

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus uses the new Kryo 485 processor architecture, which is different from the previous 4+4 core architecture. The three-server architecture of 1+3+4. One Kryo 485 Gold Prime core clocked at 2.96GHz and three Kryo 485 Gold cores clocked at 2.42GHz are responsible for high-load tasks. The 1+3 high-performance configuration will achieve better performance and efficiency. At the same time, 4 Kryo 485 Silver efficiency cores with a main frequency of 1.80GHz are responsible for low load scenarios, and 8 cores are flexibly scheduled to bring better energy efficiency control.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus integrates the new Adreno 640 graphics processor, which brings powerful graphics processing performance. The new architecture design improves performance by 20% compared to the previous generation, and supports the Snapdragon Elite Gaming platform. , bringing many new features such as true HDR, PBR, Vulkan 1.1, etc., allowing Meizu 16s Pro to easily control major popular mobile games. The new generation Hexagon 690 DSP chip, Kryo 485 CPU, and Adreno 640 GPU form Qualcomm's fourth-generation artificial intelligence engine. The AI ??performance is 3 times that of the previous generation. It works together with the One Mind 3.5 smart engine to bring more intelligence to Meizu 16s Pro. usage experience.

Performance test:

The performance of Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus is already quite good. Meizu 16s Pro’s AnTuTu score reached 480,000 points, which is also inseparable from the optimization of Meizu engineers. . GeekBench's single-core score is 3636 points and the multi-core score is 10262 points. Such scores are quite sufficient for daily computing. The performance of Snapdragon 855 Plus is indeed excellent. In terms of 3D, 3Dmark ES3.1 scored 6206 points and Vulkan scored 5426 points. In theory, such results can easily handle current mainstream mobile games.

The entire Meizu 16s Pro series is equipped with USF3.0 storage chips, which greatly improves the storage performance of mobile phones. It can be seen that the average reading speed of Meizu 16s Pro reaches 1436.17MB/s, and the performance is improved compared to UFS2.1 Quite a few.

Game test:

Meizu 16s Pro provides the latest game mode 3.0. Game mode 3.0 adds a "full firepower" mode. After it is turned on, it automatically starts the high-performance mode and allocates system resources. Upgrade again to ensure a smooth gaming experience. In addition, Meizu 16s Pro has Hyper Gaming, an intelligent graphics scheduling technology. Hyper Gaming can automatically identify the size of game load and allocate resources reasonably. This technology can also accurately predict high-load scenarios in games (prediction accuracy is as high as 100%), and schedule core resources in advance to improve the smoothness of the game.

We use Kuaifu to record the number of frames in the game. We can see that after "Honor of Kings" turns on high frame rate mode and multi-core support, the average number of frames in the game reaches 60 frames. The number of frames recorded by Kuaifu The curve shows that Meizu 16s Pro can maintain 60 frames, with a frame rate jump of only 0.94 frames. Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 can provide sufficient performance support for the game "Honor of Kings" and can run smoothly in high frame rate mode.

In addition, we also used "PUBG Stimulating Battlefield" for testing. We can see that when the high frame rate mode is turned on, the average frame number of "PUBG Stimulating Battlefield" reaches 60 frames, and the frame number jumps by 2.15 frames. The "full fire" mode allows the performance of Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus to be fully utilized.

Battery life test:

The battery of Meizu 16s Pro has been increased to 3600mAh, and with the support of One Mind 3.5, not only does the Snapdragon 855 Plus have better performance, but also the Meizu 16s Pro Have better battery life performance. We also conducted a 4-hour high-intensity battery life test on Meizu 16s Pro. First, we played 1080P video on the Internet for 1 hour. After an hour, 11% of the battery was consumed. After that, we played a game for 1 hour and consumed 10% of the battery life in full power mode. 20% battery, MP3 playback for 1 hour consumes 2% of battery, call test for 1 hour consumes 2% of battery, 4 hours total consumption of 35% battery, remaining 65% battery. Overall, the battery life performance of Meizu 16s Pro is satisfactory. After all, there is still 65% of the power remaining under such a high-intensity test. The support of One Mind 3.5 brings a more power-saving effect. Meizu 16s Pro can be used for a day under medium to high intensity. It shouldn't be a problem either.

Meizu 16s Pro photography experience

Meizu 16s Pro uses Sony IMX586 sensor, 48MP + 20MP + 16MP rear dual cameras, and is equipped with the newly upgraded Spectra 380 ISP (Image Signal Processor) and advanced algorithm architecture bring better photography experience and shooting effects. At the same time, the addition of a 16-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera gives Meizu 16s Pro more powerful shooting capabilities.

48 million pixels

As the flagship sensor in 2019, the IMX586 has a maximum number of pixels of 48 million, a unit pixel area of ??0.8μm, and a "Quad Bayer" 4-pixel same-color color filter. Under low-light shooting conditions, four pixels of the same color can be arranged adjacently to achieve a shooting effect of 12 million pixels and 1.6μm ultra-large pixels.

The 48-megapixel shooting mode of Meizu 16s Pro can capture more details. After enlarging the picture, you can see that some details are still clearly visible. After enlarging, the picture quality is still sharp. After all, this 48-megapixel Pixel photography not only requires the support of the sensor, but also requires algorithmic participation for later optimization.

Super wide-angle:

The 16-megapixel wide-angle lens has an equivalent focal length of 16mm and a viewing angle of 117 degrees. Wide-angle shooting can bring better picture tension. Reasonable composition and wide angle You can take very good photos at any time

Macro:

The wide-angle lens of Meizu 16s Pro also has a macro function, which can achieve a minimum focusing distance of 2.5cm, and in macro Supports autofocus when shooting, bringing better macro shooting effects.

Night Scenery:

Meizu 16s Pro Super Night Scenery *** has two modes, namely handheld Super Night Scenery and tripod Super Night Scenery. Handheld Super Night Scene does not require the assistance of a tripod. You only need to hold your phone and wait for a few seconds to take a night scene photo with even highlights and shadows. The tripod is a super night scene. The tripod is used to fix the camera position, and long-exposure photos are intelligently synthesized through algorithms, completely eliminating the need for cumbersome PS post-production synthesis.

Meizu 16s Pro is still very good at taking photos in sufficient light. The sharpness of the entire picture is quite high, the details are excellent, and although the color saturation is not too high, the color reproduction is realistic. Overall, the photography performance of Meizu 16s Pro has reached the flagship level of current mobile phones, especially in terms of night scenes. It can be seen that Meizu has not only polished the appearance of the Meizu 16s Pro series, but also invested a lot of energy in the camera.

Meizu 16s Pro evaluation summary

Meizu 16s Pro starts at 2,699 yuan, becoming the cheapest Qualcomm sales 855 Plus flagship phone. This time, Meizu brings 16s Pro as Meizu 16s The upgraded version is not a simple upgrade, but brings many real updates. Not long after Qualcomm released the Snapdragon 855 Plus, Meizu immediately followed up. Although it was not the first product to launch the Snapdragon 855 Plus in the industry, it can be regarded as a first-tier manufacturer. In addition, Meizu 16s Pro has added a wide-angle camera, which also meets the public’s demand for camera configuration. This time, Meizu also uses a USF3.0 storage chip, which greatly improves the storage performance of the phone, making Meizu 16s Pro a A true flagship of the year.

The basic experience of Meizu 16s Pro is already excellent, and coupled with the adaptation of the Flyme8 series, the mobile phone experience is further improved. In addition, the addition of NFC function, game mode, OneMind3.5, night mode 2.0 and other functions make Meizu 16s Pro better and better in some details.

Meizu has brought a true flagship this time, which makes up for some shortcomings of the previous Meizu 16s and makes the Meizu 16s Pro more complete. Meizu 16s Pro is better than many flagships on the market in many aspects. At the beginning of the 5G era, mobile phone manufacturers have successively launched 5G mobile phones, and Meizu will also launch 5G mobile phones next year. Before the launch of 5G mobile phones, For a while, Meizu may need a powerful product to support it, and perhaps this powerful product is Meizu 16s Pro.

And when the golden era of 4G is coming to an end, the launch of Meizu 16s Pro also makes this era leave no regrets.

Let the products speak for themselves.