Who is the last generation of mobile phones with Meizu X series? It is the Meizu 16Xs released on May 30, 2019. After more than two years, Meizu finally brought the new flagship Meizu 18X.
This generation of Meizu 18X has a clear market orientation. Its configuration and appearance design are all aimed at market sales. The right-angle frame design, the straight screen, and the 64-megapixel triple-camera lens combination, you can be in many Similar combinations are seen on mobile phone products of other brands, because their market attributes are the same. Even though Meizu once had very refined and industry-standard design capabilities, you cannot see these on the Meizu 18X.
The 18 and 18 Pro in the first half of the year are already the best works that Meizu can bring. Coupled with the Flyme of the three-zero system, this is the performance of Meizu’s best efforts, but the performance of the market is still unsatisfactory, so, since If you can’t be born, you can join the world again.
The specific configuration parameters of Meizu 18X are as follows:
2. Appearance
Like its predecessors, Meizu 18/18 Pro, Meizu 18X does not come with a charger, so it is very small in the box. If the plastic film is also cancelled like this year’s iPhone 13 series, then it is really a matter of environmental protection. Make it home.
The Meizu 18X currently on sale on the official website can choose two versions, one with a charger and one without a charger. The charger package will cost an extra 59 yuan, and it is equipped with a Meizu 45W fast charger. Seriously, according to Meizu’s current In this case, it is indeed a bit risky to give users a choice on the charger.
On the front screen, Meizu 18X adopts the design of straight screen + straight edge and rounded corners. The screen size is 6.67 inches. The screen supports 1.07 billion color display, supports 120Hz adaptive refresh rate and 360Hz touch sampling rate, and is customized according to the scene. The four-speed refresh rate can be switched intelligently, reducing the battery life burden.
There is also mMotion high brush compensation to double the frame rate, and the look and feel is significantly improved. Meizu 18X is also equipped with DC dimming, which coexists with the highest refresh rate.
On the rear lens, the machine uses a combination of three-camera lenses. The three lenses are the 64-megapixel Samsung GW3 main camera + 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle + 2-megapixel depth of field, which supports 8K ultra-clear video recording and also supports Dark Vision. Night scene enhancement mode, in addition to super night scene 5.0, super night video and streamer shutter and other photo functions.
The front lens is a 13-megapixel back-illuminated sensor with Ruran Beauty 2.0 function.
Because of product positioning, Meizu 18X has a relatively obvious lower frame, which is commonly known as the chin, which is acceptable from the perspective of pricing, but it is slightly wider from the perspective of competing products at the same price.
The official said that the Meizu 18X has a new ID design, and the rear shell is a two-stage progressive color change design. 30%, the thickness of the whole machine is 7.99mm, but it has a 7mm grip.
Meizu’s products have always been well-known in terms of appearance and feel, and the 18X is no exception this time, but unfortunately it is not the pure white color scheme that I received, so I can’t show it to everyone.
2. Taking pictures
The parameter configuration of the Meizu 18X lens has just been mentioned above, so I won’t repeat it here. The three lenses are arranged in a triangle shape, which is also a very popular design this year. The lens module also has the logo of 18X. The brand is often blessed by Leica and Zeiss, which is a little lonely.
But when it comes to taking pictures, the whole thing depends on the proofs. The daytime proofs of Meizu 18X are as follows. The photos are only compressed in size, and the pictures are not adjusted by any modification.
A 64-megapixel main camera lens + an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens + a 2-megapixel depth-of-field lens, Meizu 18X brings some different camera effects with this combination that is common in the market.
The lines of buildings, the dark clouds in the sky, and the texture of plants are all displayed on the screen of the mobile phone in a very restored state. Zhengzhou has always been gloomy these days, so the overall picture is dark. But when I saw the emerald green plants on the screen, it still brought me a trace of comfort, and the performance of the Meizu 18X in the background blur outside the main body of the plants was also remarkable, which is inseparable from Meizu’s software. Tuning and optimization.
The telephoto of Meizu 18X supports up to 10x digital zoom. Let’s look at its sample performance at different focal lengths.
0.5x ultra wide angle:
2x zoom:
10x zoom:
Because Meizu 18X is not equipped with a telephoto lens, it is cropped out of the picture in the case of 5x and 10x zoom. Naturally, it cannot be compared with the mobile phone brought by light change and hybrid zoom in terms of details, but even if In this case, the proofs in the case of 2x zoom have actually exceeded the author’s expectations.
Night view:
Although Meizu 18X is positioned as the flagship, its software configuration in night scene photography remains at the same level as the flagship product. It also supports Dark Vision night scene enhancement mode and Super Night Scene 5.0, which can bring brighter night scene photography. Let’s take a look at the comparison proofs in the picture below, the picture above: the night scene mode is not turned on, the picture below: the night scene mode is turned on.
The first thing most mobile phone products do in terms of night scenes is to increase the brightness so that you can see those things that you can’t see, and the second is to suppress noise. The 18X also does the job well.
3. Performance
On the processor, the Meizu 18X is equipped with the Snapdragon 870 platform, which is also the second flagship mobile phone that Meizu has rarely seen in the past two years. The performance of the Snapdragon 870 is similar to the Snapdragon 888, but the power consumption and heat dissipation are better, and the price is higher. It is much cheaper, so it is very suitable to use it as a sub-flagship product, which may be the reason why Meizu will bring a new sub-flagship phone this year. After all, it is possible to make a little more money by making a cheaper mobile phone.
Meizu’s Snapdragon 870 is paired with a combination of LPDDR4X and UFS 3.1. Once again, it has made its own choices. These will be converted into the final price, but most people still do not feel the difference in daily use.
Everyone is already familiar with the Snapdragon 870, so I won’t go into details about the parameters. Let’s go directly to the running points to see how the results are. After the actual measurement of the AnTuTu V9, the 8+256G version of the Meizu 18X in the author’s hands is running. The score is 682,676 points, which may be due to the factor of LPDDR4X, so its final running score is lower than that of some mobile phones that use LPDDR5.
In terms of sub-scores, the CPU score is 180,485, the GPU score is 241,107, and the storage test score is 42,617. The read speed reaches 1447.8MB/s and the write speed reaches 664.5MB/s.
In addition, Meizu 18X also adopts memory fusion technology on the system this time, which can use up to 7GB of mobile phone storage space to expand the storage space and use it as RAM, so that some background applications basically do not occupy the real storage of the system, giving users a good In order to achieve a smoother user experience, the author did not enable this skill in this running score, because the content fusion can still improve the running score, we will only follow the most standard.
4. Games and Battery
Meizu 18X uses a 4300mAh battery in terms of battery, and supports 30W wired fast charging. After 30 minutes of “Peace Elite”, the remaining battery power dropped from 33% to 19%. Meizu 18X The battery consumption is 14%.
The game picture quality currently only supports HDR HD + extreme, and the system will automatically open the game mode when opening the game APP, but the game mode of Meizu is different from other brands that can adjust the GPU and even insert the game frame, etc. For high-end enjoyment, Meizu’s game mode is not very helpful to the game in some conventional aspects such as screen brightness maintenance, mobile phone acceleration, and screen-free operation.
Snapdragon 870, as Qualcomm’s sub-flagship processor this year, controls the heat much better. The game process of “Peace Elite” is very smooth, and the heat is really well controlled. Coupled with the right-angle frame design of Meizu 18X, It also helps in the grip.
In another game “Genshin Impact”, after 30 minutes of game time, the picture quality is all turned to the highest and the limit and the 60Hz refresh rate, the Meizu 18X consumes 13% of the power, which is also the normal level of the Snapdragon 870, but this machine is rare At first sight, the power consumption of “Yuan Shen” is smaller than that of “Peace Elite” under the same time and game conditions. It seems that it should have a certain relationship with Flyme’s system optimization.
In the charging test, Meizu 18X only supports 30W wired fast charging, which is indeed a bit slow even as a mid-range phone at the moment, but according to the current situation of Meizu, it is very difficult to bring more mobile phones. Still have to keep a positive attitude.
In the actual charging test, the remaining power consumption of the battery is 0%, and the charging is started using the 40W original charger set of Meizu 18 series. It takes 68 minutes to fully charge the entire phone, and it can be charged to 47% in 20 minutes. , charging to 82% in 40 minutes, in fact, according to the power of 30W, it is not too slow, even if there is a temporary emergency in the case of low power, it can quickly recover blood.
However, this phone also adheres to the Meizu 18 series’ strategy of not sending a charging head, so if you want to achieve such a charging speed, you still have to buy Meizu’s 40W charger separately.
V. Summary
Since Meizu started to switch its strategy and only released one mobile phone a year, its presence in the market has become more and more rare. The reputation of the Meizu 18 series in the first half of this year was so good that many people shouted that they only need to change to a mid-range processor. With the appearance of the 18 standard version, it must be supported.
But Meizu’s approach is to use a new design and then replace it with a sub-flagship processor, which not only guarantees performance but also brings a refreshing visual experience, especially the pure white color matching. A sought-after product that has been extremely scarce in the market in recent years.
Meizu is absolutely capable of making good products, and the 30 system is also the benchmark that the industry should have, but now this responsibility is obviously not something that Meizu can pick up. The utopia, and used 18X to return itself to the mass market, dream and reality, even if it is helpless, you have to make a choice.
