Meizu 15 Plus Review: Self-respecting but not lonely return flagship

In the fiercely competitive mobile phone market, 'fast' is undoubtedly the core selling point of many mobile phones. Not only is performance required to be 'fast', but also the new design has to be 'fast' on the line, what Liu Haiping is, vertical dual camera, double-sided glass design And so on, as long as Apple has adopted it, the following mobile phone manufacturers will immediately pay tribute to Apple. Such 'fast-food' designs often cause many mobile phones in the market to 'hit the face'. Quietly thinking about the design of mobile phones There are not many manufacturers now. It may take a long time to grind a mobile phone. It may be more attractive to have a truly 'designed' mobile phone.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus

Meizu may be one of the few mobile phone manufacturers who are eager to polish the product. Polishing a mobile phone is not only a design, but also the internal configuration of the mobile phone and the use experience. The Meizu mobile phone should be polished from the Meizu MX3. Speaking of that year, Meizu MX3 can be said to be the 'small and beautiful' to the extreme, Meizu MX3 personally polished by Huang Zhang, brought a very good feel. Meizu MX3 after everyone is also very much looking forward to Huang Zhang once polished an ultimate After many years, the Meizu 15 that Huang Zhang personally polished has finally appeared.

▲ Meizu 15

Meizu 15 series is divided into 5.16-inch Meizu 15 and 5.95-inch Meizu 15 Plus, there is also a lower configuration Meizu M15, Meizu 15 is the flagship product, 5.46-inch screen with ultra-narrow frame, and well-polished The fuselage, it is indeed impressive. Meizu 15 meets the needs of many mid-end users, but for some of the more demanding users or the pursuit of users with larger screen sizes, Meizu 15 may seem a bit inadequate, and Meizu 15 Plus It is for this part of the user.

Meizu 15 Plus parameters
Phone model	Meizu 15 Plus
screen size	5.95 inch custom Samsung OLED screen
Resolution	2560x1440
processor	Samsung Exynos 8895
frequency	2.5GHz Exynos M2 x4+A53 1.7GHz x4
Body memory	64/128GB
Run memory	6GB
Main camera	12 million + 20 million, IMX380 + IMX350, 4-axis optical image stabilization + EIS electronic image stabilization
Front camera	20 million, rainbow soft AI smart beauty algorithm
Dimensions	153.8 x 78.25 x 7.25mm
Body weight	177g
battery	3500mAh (mCharge 24W fast charge)
body color	Xuanwu gray
operating system	Flyme 7 (based on Android7.1)
Network format	Netcom
Listing price	From 2999 yuan

From the hardware configuration point of view, Meizu 15 Plus uses Samsung Exynos 8895 processor, Exynos 8895 has four Samsung self-contained M2 cores and four A53 cores, using Samsung's own 10nm manufacturing process, has excellent power control. In addition, Meizu 15 Plus comes standard with 6GB of large memory, and provides 64GB/128GB The body storage version, these configurations can be said to be the current flagship configuration.

The screen, Meizu 15 Plus uses a 5.95-inch OLED screen, screen resolution of 2560x1440, is commonly known as 2K screen, is a custom screen from Samsung. Meizu 15 Plus 5.95-inch screen, can be 2K resolution Reached 494PPI, the screen display is absolutely better than 1080P, and has a high brightness of 430 nits and a high contrast ratio of 10000:1.

▲ Meizu 15

In terms of camera, using dual camera combination, using Sony's IMX380+IMX350 sensor, IMX380 has 12 million pixels, CMOS size is 1/2.3 inch, single pixel area reaches 1.55um, camera has f/1.8 large aperture, supports four-axis optical protection Shake + EIS electronic image stabilization, support PDAF phase focus and laser focus, use the classic ring LED fill light. Front 20 million pixel camera, support rainbow soft AI beauty algorithm, FaceAE face brightness intelligent adjustment.

Battery uses 3500mAh battery, supports 24W mCharge fast charge, using USB Type-C interface, In addition, Samsung Exynos 8895 supports Netcom, this is still very pleasant. System, Meizu 15 series is the first to adapt Flyme7 system Meizu Mobile phones, Flyme7 bring a number of updates, have a better experience.

Meizu 15 Plus Appearance: Feel improved

▲ Meizu 15 Plus

The front of the fuselage, the Meizu 15 Plus uses a 5.95-inch screen with a resolution of 2560x1440. The top and bottom borders are symmetrically designed, and it has an ultra-narrow frame design, allowing the Meizu 15 Plus screen to account for 84.4%. It has a very good visual effect. The Meizu 15 Plus uses a 5.95-inch screen, allowing the body to reach a width of 78.25mm, so it will feel slightly inferior to the Meizu 15.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus has an ultra-narrow frame design

Meizu is very persistent in the ultra-narrow frame. Starting from Meizu’s MX, Meizu mobile phones have the design of the narrowest frame at that time, to the Meizu 15, so that the “traditional” continues, this ultra-narrow frame plus 2.5D glass, Brings a similar borderless visual effect.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus HOME keyboard

You can see this Home key is a tribute to the classic dot, this Meizu 15 Plus uses a round HOME key design, and supports Meizu's mBack operation, with fingerprint recognition, may be the world's smallest fingerprint recognition module At the same time, Home button built-in independent pressure sensor chip, still has the original touch to return to the previous operation, pressure back to the main interface mBack experience, and HOME key behind the horizontal linear motor is the essence of the place.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus uses 20 million pixels front camera

The Meizu 15 Plus uses a 20 megapixel front camera. The camera is centered on the forehead of the phone. The HOME key on the chin of the mobile phone forms a symmetrical design. The sensor on the forehead of the phone adopts a hidden design to make the phone more mobile. For simplicity.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus earpiece

Meizu 15 Plus has built-in handset and band-shaped breathing lamp in the small gap at the top of the fuselage, reducing the front opening of the fuselage, maintaining the minimalist, symmetrical design language of Meizu, and also making the entire machine visually integrated. More strong.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus on the back

The back of the fuselage, Meizu 15 Plus for the all-metal body, but this is not an ordinary aluminum alloy material, Meizu 15 Plus uses a stainless steel aluminum composite material. This is a kind of high-strength aluminum alloy shell plating on the basis of A layer of ultra-thin stainless steel material, using one-piece molding process, in order to maintain a perfect touch of stainless steel metal, while keeping the weight of the phone at 177g, while the Meizu 15 because the body is smaller, weighs only 152g.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus on the back

The stainless steel surface technology also brings better looking colors. The Meizu 15 Plus uses a new physical vapor deposition coloring process, allowing the Meizu 15 series to have Yakin, Yen Kiln white, Yan ink, indigo, Xuanwu gray (15Plus) and other colors.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus antenna injection belt

Meizu 15 Plus uses a one-knife antenna design to maintain the integration of the back of the metal, and for the first time added a line design on the antenna injection belt.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus camera

The Meizu 15 Plus's camera slightly protrudes from the back of the camera body. It uses a 12 million+20 megapixel camera and uses a ring LED to enhance the photo experience. At the same time, the 15 Plus features a Sony IMX380+IMX350 sensor. 3x lossless zoom and large aperture blur effects, and IMX380 sensor is also used in Huawei's latest release of P20 body, showing Meizu full of sincerity in the photo.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus is only 7.25mm thick

Meizu 15 Plus has a thickness of 7.25mm, coupled with a sleek body design, brings a touch like MX3, plus 177g of weight, greatly enhance the Meizu 15 Plus feel, after getting started will have a feeling of love.

Meizu 15 Plus Touch Engine:

Meizu 15 first proposed the concept of 'tactile engine'. After accurate simulation of engineers, it created a unique touch feedback system belonging to Meizu, built-in horizontal linear motor mEngine, to achieve a more abundant vibration effect. Right touch feedback, with To better human-computer interaction.

▲mEngine

At present, there are mainly two kinds of vibration motors used in mobile phones. One is an ERM eccentric rotor motor, which is the most commonly used motor on mobile phones, and the other is a LRA linear resonant motor. The advantage of a linear motor relative to a rotor motor is low noise. Can be less than 40db, linear motor also has a large acceleration, is a strong sense of vibration, and low attenuation, response time and shock time can reach tens of ms level, rolling rotor motor. Linear motor is divided into Z axis longitudinal linear motor Lateral Linear Motor with XY Axial Vibration. The horizontal linear motor used in the Meizu 15 is larger than the longitudinal linear motor and can achieve a richer vibration effect. This is also the same as the motor used on the iPhone.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus HOME keyboard

The smart phone has a larger screen field of view and a more intelligent operating experience, but it loses the real tactile feel of pressing the physical buttons when using traditional function machines. In view of this, Meizu 15 series built-in horizontal linear motor mEngine, after Meizu's Repeatedly groping the actual tactile sensation in different real scenes, through the mEngine brings a precise analog physical key feedback sensation. Meizu 15 series has a set of global tactile feedback system, in the 45 kinds of scenes have better tactile feedback, including photographing When typing, you can experience a more realistic tactile experience when you slide the time wheel.

Meizu 15 Plus on the dot can be achieved through the pressure sensor screen HOME key function, but also retained the touch back to the function, so that the dot retains the mBack good operating experience. Meizu 15 Plus's HOME type pressure Sensing, although it is not a real physical button, but with the physical feel of a similar physical button after pressure sensing, and there will be vibration feedback after a strong press, providing a more realistic analog button feel effect.

Meizu 15 Plus photo experience

The Meizu 15 Plus uses the same IMX380 global top-level light sensor as the Huawei P20. It uses 12 million wide-angle cameras, 20 million telephoto rear-mounted dual cameras, large sensor, large pixels, large aperture, four-axis optical image stabilization and other hardware configurations. With software such as multi-frame noise reduction and ArcSoft HDR algorithm, the Meizu 15 Plus's camera also supports 4-axis optical image stabilization and EIS electronic image stabilization. This greatly enhances the screen brightness, purity and detail in the Meizu 15 Plus dark scene. Supports PDAF phase focus and laser focus, using the classic ring LED fill light.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus camera

IMX380

Meizu 15 Plus uses 12 million wide-angle + 20 million telephoto dual camera, the IMX380 sensor has comparable to the 1/2.3 inch size sensor and 1.55μm large single pixel size, allowing the Meizu 15 Plus to take more light when taking pictures The clarity and purity of the photos taken are higher, and the texture of the overall picture has also been significantly improved, especially in dark light environments.

▲ Large pixels bring more light

The IMX380 sensor is currently not used in many mobile phones, and is used in the flagship phone, 1/2.3 inch outsole, has indeed reached the level of digital camera sensors. IMX380 has 12 million pixels, which means a single IMX380 Larger pixel area, 1.55μm large pixels bring more light, suggesting that the camera shooting in low-light environment. IMX380 supports PDAF phase focus, relative to the full-pixel dual-core focus, focusing speed will be slower, But the Meizu 15 Plus added a laser focus, to a certain extent, make up for the lack of focusing speed.

Triple lossless zoom:

▲ Triple lossless zoom

Meizu 15 Plus dual camera support 3 times the lossless zoom + 8 times the digital zoom, 3 times lossless zoom allows the phone to shoot farther, allows users to take a better telephoto end of the photo, but also to ensure the telephoto Side photo quality.

More natural blur:

Meizu 15 added a new 'Portrait Mode', a new upgrade of the blur algorithm. When photographing, the blur effect of the edges and background is more natural and natural, avoiding the 'snapshot'.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus virtual proofs

Through the proofs, we can see that Meizu 15 uses the upgraded soft algorithm to greatly increase the blur effect. First, the blurring algorithm is improved, and the edge of the camera body is more accurate, followed by the focus. The blur effect is more natural, more closely to the camera lens blur effect.

Night shoot proofs:

The Meizu 15 Plus is equipped with a rainbow soft multi-frame noise reduction algorithm. Under night or low light conditions, the camera captures multiple photos or images when pressing the shutter to image, finding different noise-like properties under different frame numbers. Pixels, a relatively clean, pure night scene or dim photo with weighted synthesis.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus night proofs

▲ Meizu PRO 7 Plus night proofs

▲100% magnification

▲ Meizu 15 Plus night proofs

▲ Meizu PRO 7 Plus night proofs

▲100% magnification

▲ Meizu 15 Plus night proofs

▲ Meizu PRO 7 Plus night proofs

▲100% magnification

These three groups of proofs have already illustrated the problems. By comparing with the previous generation of Meizu PRO 7 Plus, it can be seen that Meizu 15 Plus's night scene proofs are cleaner, thanks to Rainbow soft multi-frame noise reduction algorithms that greatly reduce noise. , To ensure the details of the night view of the camera performance, while using the IMX380 sensor, into the light is greater, so the entire screen brightness, color, details than the Meizu PRO 7 Plus to upgrade a grade, as a main dual-camera dark light For the mobile phone, the Meizu 15 Plus's powerful night-viewing ability is vividly displayed. More night proofs can be viewed at the end of this page.

20 megapixel front AI beauty

▲ Shallow beauty and depth beauty

Meizu 15 Plus uses a 20-megapixel front camera to use the rainbow soft AI smart beauty algorithm. Through the collection of user's facial information, intelligent analysis of the user's gender, age, skin and other parameters, and use the corresponding beauty The effect is to make the front camera self-learning, so as to bring a more natural beauty effect. Meizu 15 Plus provides two modes of shallow beauty and deep beauty. Both modes are made by Rainbow Soft AI smart beauty. Yan, through the proofs can see the self-timer ruddy complexion, more natural.

Photo proofs:

▲ Meizu 15 Plus proofs

Meizu 15 Plus is still quite awesome when it is well lit. The sharpness of the entire picture is very high, and the details are excellent. Although the color saturation is not too high, the color reproduction is true. In the case of backlighting, the details remain. Perhaps this is thanks to ArcSoft's HDR algorithm. Overall, the photo performance of the Meizu 15 Plus has reached the current flagship level of the mobile phone, especially in the night scene, you can see the Meizu in the Meizu 15 series polished not only Is the appearance, the camera also put a lot of energy.

More proofs:

▲ Meizu 15 Plus proofs

Flyme7 system

Meizu 15 series became the first mobile phone equipped with Flyme7. This time, Flyme 7 has continued its simple and beautiful design style in the UI, and brought more new features. For example: personal assistant, smart screen, face unlock , Bubble notification + Small window reply, People album, AI Makeup, Global night mode, etc. Meanwhile, with the upgrade of One Mind intelligent thinking engine, Flyme 7 performs better in terms of performance, safety, operating efficiency, etc. Better use experience.

▲Flyme7

Flyme7 also optimizes the performance and power saving of mobile phones. In response to the memory occupied by malicious acts of third-party APPs, Caton and fever, as well as the power and traffic consumption issues of users, Flyme 7 launched a package including bombshell hosting, and audio. Lock management, bright screen lock hosting, broadcast optimization, wake-up alignment, process freeze and a series of solutions to make Flyme's experience better and also reduce the power consumption of APP. Flyme 7 new exception reset mechanism, will Automatic recognition of abnormal phenomena in the background allows the APP to be reset and self-healing without human intervention.

The Flyme 7 specifically designed the VIP operation channel when the large-scale application starts up and uses a lot of resources. Once the startup time is detected, the system temporarily freezes other parallel processes. The entire system resources are used to accelerate the startup. , And learn, memorize. When the app starts next time, the system will immediately open the VIP channel, so that the start-up speed of large-scale App is increased by 20%.

Simple interface:

▲ Flyme7 interface

Flyme7 keeps the Flyme system's concise design as it is. The appearance of the Flyme6 is not much changed. It is mainly the redrawing of some icons. It makes the icons flatter and simpler. The color is still very fresh and the operation logic is basically Flyme6 is the same, so Flyme7 for users who are used to the Meizu system does not need to re-learn.

Personal assistant

▲ Personal Assistant

The personal assistant is a newly added function of Flyme7. Press and hold the Home button or slide from the desktop to exhale. It integrates the quick information and services of 16 common scenes in the form of a card, such as to-do list, commute traffic, sports step count, Scene service, parking navigation, takeaway ordering, stock quotes, express delivery, etc. Among them, parking card, takeaway ordering, scene service is a special feature of Flyme 7 personal assistant.

▲ Personal Assistant Card

When you arrive at a business district, airport, station, etc., the personal assistant will produce a scene card based on your current location and provide floor map information of the place so that you can know in time. The parking lot is too big to be found This happens in cars. Flyme7's parking card solves this problem very well. When you book a ticket/train ticket/hotel, the personal assistant page will automatically generate ticket cards, travel time, location information at a glance, and According to the traffic conditions, the current location and the distance from the airport (or train station) and other information will be intelligently reminded to do a scientific trip planning for you. There are also cards for ordering meals, stock quotes, express delivery, etc. After a detailed introduction, we will describe in detail the use of various cards for various assistants in the Flyme7 special experience article.

Smart screen

▲ smart screen

Smart Screen is a new function of Flyme7. Press and hold the text or picture in the application. Smart Screen Recognition will intelligently analyze the text and extract key content, such as movie name, book name, restaurant name, and password. Celebrities, etc., and the corresponding cards appear to quickly present the information and services that need to be understood. Flyme 7 smart screen function can not only identify the key content in the text, but also can recognize the text in the picture.

Face unlocking:

Flyme 7 brings a new way to unlock the phone - face unlocking. This is the first time that Meizu has unlocked the face. The recognition process takes only 0.1 second. Currently it has been adapted to include M15, 15, 15Plus, PRO 7 Plus, PRO 7 models with high version, PRO 7 standard version, PRO 6, PRO 6 Plus, PRO 6s, PRO 5, MX6 and Charm Blue Note 6, and the old user can experience face unlocking without having to change the machine. .

Bubble notification + small window reply

▲Bubble notification + small window reply

The Flyme6 game mode's bubble notification and small window reply function is very practical. Now Flyme7 extends this function to more scenes. In full screen mode such as reading, video, etc., the message notification will be intimately presented in lighter air bubbles. , Minimize the content of occluded screens. And on Flyme 7, no matter you receive a WeChat, QQ or TIM message notification in any interface, you can choose to open in the small window mode, in the current interface for message viewing and reply. Significantly reduced because of frequent APP jumps.

Desktop index

The desktop application index is a very useful interaction. On any screen on the desktop, slide your finger up or down on the left or right edge of the screen to exhale these index letters, follow the index letters, and accompanied by vibrations, so that you can quickly find and Open the corresponding application, this operation can greatly shorten the search speed of the APP, especially when there are a lot of APP installed in the mobile phone, this function can greatly improve the efficiency of the operation.

Global night mode

▲ Global Night Mode

Many mobile phones now offer night mode. However, these night modes can only be used in system applications and cannot be implemented by third-party applications. Flyme 7 is the first operating system to launch global night mode on Android phones and applies to all APPs. After the setting - the laboratory turns on the global night mode, the entire system will automatically switch to night mode, minimizing the nighttime eye irritation to the eyes and making the experience of using the mobile phone more comfortable at night.

Meizu 15 Plus performance experience

In terms of processors, from the earliest MX series to PRO 6 Plus, Samsung is used. Meizu has a tradition of using Samsung Exynos processors in its flagship products. Meizu 15 Plus has become the domestic model of Exynos 8895. In this part we have made a certain interpretation of this Exynos 8895.

▲Samsung processor

Exynos 8895 is Samsung's flagship processor. Compared to the previous Exynos products that relied on ARM's public-version architecture design, Exynos 8xx requires a plug-in baseband, and Exynos 8895 fully integrates its own architecture and self-developed baseband. It is a true sense of power. The SoC of mobile terminals, starting with Samsung's annual flagship Galaxy S8/S8+ (European version), to some extent also reflects Samsung's accumulation in semiconductor design and manufacturing in recent years.

Samsung Exynos 8895 main parameters
CPU	4Samsung Mongoose 2 + 4Cortex-A53
Process technology	10nm FinFET
Frequency	Samsung Mongoose2: 2.5Ghz,Cortex-A53: 1.5Ghz
GPU	Mali-G71 MP2o
RAM	4-channel LPDDR4X
Flash memory	UFS 2.0
modem	Supports 1Gbps downlink/500Mbps uplink

Returning to the parameters, Exynos 8895 uses its latest 10nm FinFET process technology, with 4 Cortex-A53 small cores, clocked at 1.7GHz, and 4 self-developed architectures, Mongoose 2 cores, clocked at 2.5GHz. Formed the common big.LITTLE design, according to different tasks to allocate different core work, taking into account the performance and power consumption. Supports LPDDR4 memory and UFS 2.0 flash memory, integrated Mali-G71 MP20 graphics processor, brings better 3D performance.

Performance Testing:

▲ Ann rabbit test

▲ GeekBench test

▲3DMark test

Samsung Exynos 8895 is theoretically required to communicate with standard high-pass Dragons 835. Currently, most of the phones on the market and Meizu 15 Plus are equipped with only Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processors. The performance of Samsung Exynos 8895 is higher than that of Qualcomm Snapdragon 660. How big is it, look at the comparison to know. It can be seen that the overall performance of the Meizu 15 Plus using Exynos 8895 performance has exceeded the Qualcomm Snapdragon 660, Ann Bunny test score exceeds nearly 40,000 points, the CPU's computing power Exynos 8895 Better, and the Exynos 8895 built-in 20 core Mail-G71 GPUs have brought 3D performance far beyond Qualcomm Snapdragon 660.

Fast charge test:

▲ Meizu 15 Plus charging test

Meizu 15 Plus uses a 3500mAh battery, which is currently the more mainstream configuration. Meizu 15 Plus supports mCharge fast charging, and the maximum charging power is 24w. It can be seen that the battery is full of 3500mAh in 85 minutes, and the speed is very fast. It can be charged 18% after 10 minutes of charging. The amount of electricity is approximately 630mAh, which can also be used for a longer period of time for charging under emergency conditions for 10 minutes.

Test summary:

After nearly a year of waiting, the Meizu finally brought Meizu 15 series mobile phones personally polished by Huang Mei. Meizu 15 is just a product of Huang Zhangxiao’s chopper, but this is not a small knife. Although it is positioned in the mid-range market, it has been equipped with A lot of flagship configuration. Meizu's dedication to the product created a classic product of the MX series, MX3/MX4 will push the MX series to the top, and Meizu 15 can be seen as a continuation of the MX series, the pursuit of the ultimate feel, the pursuit of exquisite Ultra-narrow frame, the ultimate system experience, these are the highlights of the Meizu MX series. The success of the Meizu MX series, especially the MX3, is inseparable from the grinding of the product by Huang Zhang, Meizu 15 as another product polished by Huang Zhang. , It really makes people see the shadow of MX3, but whether Meizu 15 reproduce the brilliance of the MX3 series still needs the market to verify. But it is certain that if the processor is still used to determine whether the Meizu mobile phone is worth buying, he Obviously not Meizu 15 series target audience.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus

In the ever-changing era of technology, mobile phone products are updated faster, and only new technologies and new designs can make consumers pay for them. The new technology and new design that can be readily obtained may be a contradiction with intentional polishing. Meizu is more adept at Take time to polish the new technology and new design into Meizu's own things, and bring a better experience.

▲ Meizu 15 Plus

Returning to the product itself, the Meizu 15 Plus boasts a larger screen than the Meizu 15, plus a carefully polished stainless steel aluminum composite body, which brings a very good touch, but it is still slightly inferior to the Meizu 15. The Meizu 15 Plus saw Many new things, such as round HOME keys, horizontal linear motors, etc., are all designed to enhance the experience. The authors are surprised that the Meizu 15 Plus's photos, especially in the night scene, are indeed better than Meizu’s. All products should be outstanding, it should be the words: 'This is the last camera phone Meizu history'. Samsung 8895 performance is quite enough, plus Flyme7's optimization, performance is further enhanced, so Meizu 15 brought the flagship In general, the Meizu 15 Plus, as a flagship product, has reached a flagship in many aspects, plus the appearance of the design system, etc. It is indeed better than the same price of the product, Meizu 15 Plus is also the most worthwhile product in the same price phone.