Meizu Zero smartphone - advantages and disadvantages

More recently, images and parameters of a new smartphone from the Meizu brand without a single button and connector appeared on the Internet. The device is called Meizu Zero, and the developers themselves have announced the approximate price of the device: about $ 2,000. At the moment, the gadget has no analogues. For this reason, it is distinguished by such a considerable price. The unique gadget does not contain mini-jacks for recharging and headphones, a tray for sim cards. All elements have been replaced with modernized counterparts.

About the manufacturer

The manufacturing company has always been famous for the fact that it never tried to "jump above its head." It has never depended on capital investments, so there was no way for it to fear global failure. However, at the same time, the brand was never able to achieve dizzying success and earn a reputation in the world. But the motto of the general director of the concern to this day is the expression: "Slow, but persistent advancement is a hundred times better than the rapid recognition of consumers."

Thanks to its creative approach, Meizu is known for producing mobile gadgets that can be appreciated by different categories of users. And at the end of 2012, the company entered the top of the best smartphone manufacturers in the Middle Kingdom, where it holds its place to this day.

Usually, mobile devices of this brand are quite difficult to obtain in general electronics stores. However, they can be easily ordered from online stores. When the question has arisen about whether to buy a device of this brand, many users fall into doubt. The company itself is not popular enough in Russia. Therefore, potential buyers very often doubt the quality of devices from this manufacturer.

Just three or four years ago, nobody in Russia heard of the company. However, at the moment, the products from the manufacturer are rapidly saturating the Russian market. By the end of 2018, more than 72 million phones from Meizu had been sold in Russia. And many users have managed to appreciate the purchased devices. Given the multiple advantages of smartphones, the owners began to confidently recommend them to their friends.

The company itself was born in 2003. Since its inception, the company's engineers have worked on the creation of mobile electronic devices for playing digital music compositions. After three years of operation, the company has become the most famous manufacturer of digital music players in China. In those years, there was an increased demand for such devices among consumers, so the company's affairs "quickly went up the hill."

The very first device for listening to musical compositions was named MX. A few years later, the developers gave this name to one of the smartphones. This brainchild gained sufficient popularity, the company started talking about as a serious manufacturer of not only music players, but also high-quality phones.

At that time, the young company had not yet been sponsored by anyone, it was completely dependent on its own income. Three years later, the company became one of the leaders in the sale of music players. The devices differed from similar gadgets with a body without any seam and a touchscreen monitor. At that time, such parameters were not very common.The released seamless new player could become a real competitor to a similar one from the "apple company". However, the latter pulled ahead in terms of the number of sales, and did not concede the “palm”.

The rapidly developing market of mobile gadgets in the Republic of China gave the manufacturer an impetus to reconfigure its activities. The company's management understood that it was necessary to react with lightning speed to changes in the electronics market. Start building your own smartphones. In September 2007, the brand released its first-born - Meizu M8 with a high-quality screen and a fashionable aspect ratio of 18 to 9. The gadget had a huge similarity with Apple's devices, causing bewilderment and respect among buyers all over the world.

Even in spite of the fact that each time, releasing a new product, the manufacturer makes an analogue for the product of competing firms, the quality of the product surpasses the copied one. So, in 2008, the company released a smartphone that surpasses Apple, Samsung, LG. After that, the attitude to the brand changed dramatically all over the world for the better. To this day, the company has a reputation as a brand that produces quality and productive products.

In just a decade, the company has successfully combined the most innovative developments and unique stylish design in its devices. In addition, most of the devices are offered to the consumer for a relatively low price.

• build quality;
• multifunctionality;
• performance.

• minor interface flaws.

Review and specifications Smartphone Meizu Zero

The main highlight of the new product from Meizu is the lack of any keys and connectors on the case. The device lacks mini-jacks for charging, a sound emitter, a cell for a SIM card and other elements. The device received a solid ceramic body. The presence of a protective option IP68 avoids damage when actively using the smartphone. The body is covered with a dense plastic shell with rubber inserts to cushion impacts. There are also special plugs here to prevent moisture ingress. According to the manufacturer, the smartphone can lie under water at a depth of 60 cm for about half an hour without consequences.

To replenish the charge, it is proposed to use inductive branded stations with an intensity of 18 watts. According to the developers, it took 24 months and more than seventy patents to create this unique station. The device also lacks a headphone jack, so you can listen to music only with a wireless headset.

Screen

Zero is distinguished by a screen with a diagonal of 5.99 inches, made using AMOLED technology. One of the main advantages of such a display is that its overall power consumption depends on the brightness of the image. Therefore, the monitor requires much less power to display dark colors. Due to this option, a deeper black tint is achieved, since the pixels of this color are not highlighted at all.

Sound is also generated using 2.0 surround technology. The speakers consist of two speakers, each of which has both high and low frequencies. When using, you do not have to press the display to your ear, since the sound in the smartphone is quite loud. The developers have replaced the usual side power and lock buttons with touch-sensitive capacitive elements that are simply sensitive to pressure. Control of other icons is standard - by clicking on the desired application or program.

The management slightly opened the "veil of secrecy", announcing that the new product will have an integrated electronic SIM card. And also a video camera similar to the predecessor of the Zero - Meizu 16.

Memory and processor

The smartphone is built on the platform of the Snapdragon 845 chip. The flagship processor features the latest architecture with 4K video capture. The chipset uses an Adreno 630 graphics processor and a Spectra 280 signal graphics chip. This processor improves color accuracy. The chipset is able to solve machine learning problems three times faster than its predecessors.However, according to the CEO of Meizu, the smartphone will be based on the more advanced Snapdragon 855 processor in the future.

Zero will work in tandem with the Flyme operating system. The system implements mechanisms for navigation and viewing of web pages with live animation. And the innovative intelligent engine of the system automatically tracks the preferences of the owner. This makes using the smartphone as convenient as possible. Unfortunately, the manufacturer does not specify the Android version. To provide mobile communications, engineers have built in smart SIM cards, which, unfortunately, are useless in Russia. The novelty features six gigabytes of RAM. And also 64 gigabytes of internal memory.

Autonomy

An important point to pay attention to is the battery charge. Since the device does not have any connectors, the only option for recharging it is using a wireless charger. The principle of operation of such "recharging" is based on the use of two induction coils. One of which is a conductor, the second is an electric current transmitter.

With 18 watts of charging intensity, the Zero charges very quickly. As electrolysis, a polymer with a gel-like lithium conductor-filler is used here.

Camera and multimedia

According to the manufacturer, the main dual camera Zero will not differ from its predecessor Meizu 16. The device also received Sony IMX sensor modules with a resolution of 20 and 16 megapixels. At the hardware level, it supports Slow Motion Video shooting up to 480 frames per second at 720p resolution. The modules provide higher quality photos and videos in low light conditions. A twenty megapixel front camera makes up to sixty frames per second.

There is optical stabilization and an option of 3x optical zoom. And according to the developers, the photos taken with this smartphone will score more than 100 points in the DxOMark tests. There are no examples of Zero photos on the Internet at the moment. However, Sony IMX sensor modules with a resolution of 20 and 16 megapixels take such photos:

This is how a picture taken with a similar camera at night looks:

Navigation

The antenna of the device was originally created by designers to support the 5G network. Has wireless interfaces: Wi-fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi direct. GPS system: A-GPS, GLONASS.

Sound

Design engineers initially abandoned the use of standard sound emitters when creating Zero. Instead, they used the innovative 2.0 Surround Surround Technology. Thanks to this function, the spatial sound effect is increased and the desired acoustic atmosphere is created. In this case, the sound just comes out of the monitor.

The manufacturer claims that in the case of a telephone conversation, it will not make any difference how to put the phone to your ear. It can be approached either side or sideways. Redesigned elements thought out by engineers, using high-quality materials in the creation of a smartphone, made it possible to increase the volume and sound quality on the device.

The unique novelty has the following technical parameters:

Average price: from 135,000 rubles.

• uniqueness;
• stylish design;
• protection IP68;
• quality from the manufacturer;
• introduction of innovative technologies.

• high price;
• lack of eSIM support in Russia.

At the moment, the manufacturer has not disclosed all the characteristics of the smartphone, as well as its future retail value. This action is due to the fact that in the near future the device is thought to be transferred to a more efficient chip. After that, not only some characteristics of the smartphone will change, but also its cost.