After solving patent issues with Qualcomm and after years of using Samsung and Mediatek processors, Meizu finally start to using Snapdragon SoC series. With the Meizu M6 Note they started to use the Snapdragon 625, this is like the market standard for medium level smartphones. This are good news, and we’ll talk about later, keep reading.
Design
The M6 Note has the classic design from Meizu, even the colors, made from metal body, which weights 176 grs, with corning gorilla glass in the screen to avoid scratches. The overall look and feel is excellent as usual Meizu.
Hardware
As we introduce earlier, Meizu M6 Note sports Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 @2.0GHz octa-core CPU paired with the Adreno 506 GPU in addition with 3Gb/4Gb RAM. For user memory, depends of configuration, 16Gb/32Gb/64Gb.
For screen; comes with a 5.5-inch LCD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and a front oval finger print reader. For connectivity, the processor brings on Cat. 7 full Netcom, first time Qualcomm gives Meizu a truly international device. Dual band Wi-Fi a/b/g/N/ac are present, Bluetooth 4.2 with BLE support are present.
Review
Camera
A 16-megapixel selfie camera with an f/2.0 aperture sits above the display, and has a beauty mode along with other fun software features. As far as the Dual cameras go, the M6 Note features a camera setup which would perhaps become the main focus of the device in the coming days. The rear camera consists of a 12 MP Sony IMX362 sensor with f1.9 aperture, 1.4um individual pixel size, and 6P lens, teaming up with a Samsung 2L7 secondary sensor. Meizu gave the M6 Note to two professionals photographers who captured a couple of sample photos with the camera and their reviews were all positive. The rear camera comes with Dual Phase Detection, Full pixel Dual-core focus, up to o.o3s fast. Check the quality below, looks promising:
Battery
Thanks to the efficient Snapdragon 625 chipset and Android 7.0, this will make the device a strong performer in terms of battery life. It should be great, as Meizu has put a large 4,000mAh cell inside the phone, with QuickCharge from Qualcomm. We can consider the Meizu M6 Note like a BatteryPhone.
With all the features we have mention this phone will compete with Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X, the Huawei Nova, and the Motorola Moto G5 Plus, the fight is gonna be great at medium level range phones.
Conclusion
The Meizu made a great step forward thanks that Meizu M6 Note will use the Snapdragon 625, this means global network coverage and community ROM support, also other nice features from Qualcomm. At this moment you can find this smartphone on LightInTheBox e-store, and it looks like they have the premier, check the flash-sale and grab this beauty ASAP!