Meizu V8 high version evaluation: Huang Zhang personally created the basic models

As a product of Meizu's predecessor market, Charm Blue not only has high cost performance, but also has excellent design. Xiaomei Blue is a basic product of Meizu. After many updates, it now has a very good hardware configuration. Meizu's new product launch conference not only brought Meizu 16X, but also brought a basic product - Meizu V8, although the name of the product changed, but still can see the basics of Charm Blue The series. And Meizu V8 will also bring the basic body of the metal body, with the yellow chapter personal design, as well as the CPU upgrade, so that this basic product maintains a very high cost performance.


▲ Meizu V8 high with version evaluation

According to Meizu's product layout, Meizu V8 is the continuation of the charm blue basic model positioning, for the thousand yuan market, and the basic models are more 'going' products, so the price is also more important. Meizu V8 not only used Metal body design, a change in the basic use of polycarbonate tradition, bring higher value, and hardware upgrades, cost-effective plus high value allows more low-end users to pay.

This brand has already had a certain time. This time, Meizu chose to rename the charm blue product into Meizu brand. It may be the result of the previous Meizu business unit and the charm blue business unit. However, the charm blue brand is still another The form exists. This Meizu V8 may be a new beginning. We also saw that the V8 still maintains the charm of the blue line, and further enhances the cost performance, harvesting the market below 1,000 yuan, and on the other hand shouldering the development for Meizu. The task of the overseas market.

Meizu V8 parameters
Phone modelMeizu V8 Standard EditionMeizu V8 high version
screen size5.7 inches
Resolution1440x720
processorMTK MT6739MTK Helio P22
frequency4xA53 1.5GHz4xA53 2.0GHz+4xA53 1.5GHz
Body memory32GB

64G B

Running memory3GB4GB
Main camera 13 million, dual color temperature LED fill light12 million + 5 million, two-color Warm LED fill light
Front camera5 million, face recognition unlock, ArcSoft Beauty algorithm
Dimensions148x73x8.4mm147.5x72.7x8.1mm
Body weight145g159g
battery3200mAh3100mAh
body colorBlack, whiteBlue, gold, purple, black
operating systemFlyme 7 (based on Android 8.1)
Network standardFull Netcom
Listing priceStarting from 799 yuanStarting from 1099 yuan

From the hardware configuration, you can see that the Meizu V8 is a new generation of small charm blue, divided into standard version and high version, high-end version of the eight-core processor from MediaTek, the new upgraded Helio P22 processor brings better Performance, the biggest highlight of this processor is the 12nm manufacturing process, better power control. The standard version uses MT6739 quad-core processor for the lower price market. In addition, the standard version comes with 3GB, high version 4GB memory With more memory to make the phone run more smoothly, there is a 32GB version of the standard version of the body storage, a 64GB version of the high version, a larger storage space, and SD card expansion storage.


▲ Meizu V8 high version

On the screen side, the Meizu V8 uses a 5.7-inch screen with a resolution of 1440x720. The glass covered on the screen becomes 2.5D glass, using the popular 18: 9 full-screen design. For the camera, the Charm Blue V8 is equipped with 12 million+. 5 megapixel rear dual camera, Charm Blue V8 standard version with 13 million pixel single camera, the other is to use 5 million pixel camera, support the latest beauty algorithm. Also Meizu V8 standard version has 3300mAh battery, high with The version provides a 3100mAh battery.


Meizu V8 appearance


▲ Meizu V8 high version

Meizu V8 high version with metal integrated body design, also brought the metal body to the basic models, and Meizu V8 standard version uses polycarbonate body. Meizu V8 uses a 5.7-inch 18: 9 full screen, resolution For the 1440x720, it is also a popular full-screen configuration. The comprehensive screen design not only improves the proportion of the screen of the mobile phone, but also enhances the value of the mobile phone, and also makes the positive visual effect better.


▲ Meizu V8 high with the back of the version

Meizu V8 high-profile version uses a metal one-piece body design, the body weight is only 159g, Meizu V8 uses a sleek body design, after many times carefully polished, feels small and exquisite, more fit palm. Meizu V8 delicate coloring process, bring 4. Black, Yajin, gray blue, smoke purple four colors.


▲ Meizu V8 high version fingerprint identification

Meizu V8 uses a comprehensive screen design, the front chin position can not accommodate the mTouch HOME button, and this Meizu V8 uses the same back fingerprint design as the Meizu 6T. Meizu V8 uses 12 million + 5 million pixel camera, using 6P lens lens design, bringing f2.2 large aperture, camera configuration is also quite good for the hundred yuan machine.


▲ Meizu V8 high version with 5 million pixel front camera

Meizu V8 high-profile front camera is a 5 megapixel camera with f1.9 large aperture, supporting ArcSoft beauty algorithm, bringing better self-timer effect to Meizu V8, making the self-timer skin more natural and the details more soft.


▲ Meizu V8 high with version of the chin position

Due to the comprehensive screen design, Meizu uses the Super mBack Home button on the front of the screen. The Super mBcak of Meizu V8 adopts the bottom horizontal line design similar to Meizu 16th, which makes the HOME key occupy less screen position. Super mBack can realize mBack Tap back, long press is the function of the HOME button, the operation experience is equally excellent.


▲ Meizu V8 high with the bottom of the hole

Meizu V8 high version of the headset interface and USB interface at the bottom of the phone, Meizu V8 still uses MicroUSB interface, the old user upgrade does not need to replace the data cable. Meizu V8 has 3100mAh battery, the body thickness is 8.1mm.


▲ Meizu V8 high with dual card dual standby full Netcom

On the network side, Meizu V8 high-profile version supports full network communication, supports 6-mode 18-band, supports dual-card dual-standby function, mobile phone provides or card slot design, supports SD card storage expansion, can insert 2 NanoSIM cards or one NanoSIM at the same time. And SD card.


Meizu V8 interactive experience

Unlocking the back fingerprint


▲ Charm blue V8 high with the back of the fingerprint to unlock

Meizu V8 canceled the front-end mTouch due to the comprehensive screen relationship. The Meizu V8 adopts the back fingerprint recognition scheme. Currently, the back fingerprint identification scheme is adopted by many mobile phones. Compared with the front fingerprint recognition, the back fingerprint recognition experience will be more Inferior, of course, the cost and manufacturing process requirements are also lower.


▲Back fingerprint unlock

The back fingerprint identification scheme is also quite mature. It also brings a good experience on Meizu V8. The back fingerprint recognition of Meizu V8 can also bring very fast recognition speed, and support WeChat, Alipay fingerprint payment, function and front. There is no big difference in fingerprints. The back fingerprinting scheme is not the fingerprint scheme that Meizu wants, but Meizu mblu V8 does use the back fingerprint because of cost and design, etc. This compromise scheme may be used by low-end users. Accepted.

Face recognition unlock


▲ Charm blue V8 high version version of the face to unlock

Flyem7 brings a new way to unlock the phone - face unlocking, Meizu 16th uses front camera and AI algorithm to unlock the face, the recognition process takes only 0.1 seconds. Meizu 16th also added the function of raising the screen. With the face recognition unlock function, the system unlocking speed can be greatly improved, and the unlocking operation steps can be simplified.

Super mBack:


▲Super mBack function

Meizu V8 adopts the newly designed Super mBack. Although the HOME button is on the screen, it can realize the function of HOME button by long press, and also retains the function of tap back, let the small dots in this screen have and before. The same operation mode as mBack, retains the good operation experience of mBack.

Meizu V8 provides 3 kinds of background switching modes, which are based on gesture operation, and the gesture operation is another mode of Meizu Flyme system that brings good interaction in addition to the HOME button. The operation of sliding up the application background is Meizu user. Familiar, and the newly added horizontal sliding bottom bar switches background tasks and long presses the blank area of ​​the bottom bar, following the finger swipe.

Gesture navigation

The gesture navigation provided by Meizu V8 mainly implements the HOME key, return and application background functions. After gesture navigation, the screen horizontal line on Meizu V8 will disappear, and all operations of the navigation bar will become gesture operations. The Meizu V8's under-screen horizontal line has excellent operating experience, but it will occupy the screen space. Now gesture navigation just solves these problems one by one.


▲ gesture navigation settings


▲ gesture navigation

Gesture navigation on Meizu V8 mainly provides three functions. It can be turned up and down at the bottom of the screen to realize the return function. The left button slides up at the bottom of the screen to realize the HOME button function. After the long slide at the bottom of the screen, the app background function is paused. The original screen of Meizu The function of the application background in the bottom slide has been canceled, so the user needs some time to get used to the new operation.



Performance: Performance meets everyday use

Hardware configuration, Meizu V8 high version uses MediaTek Helio P22 processor, this processor uses 12nm manufacturing process, has 4 A53 large core and 4 A53 small core, large core core frequency is 2.0GHz, performance can meet The daily use of the user. Meizu V8 Standard Edition uses MediaTek MT6763 processor, this processor has four 1.5GHz A53 core. Memory, Meizu V8 high version with 4GB of memory, the standard version comes with 3GB of memory.


▲Helio P22

MediaTek Helio P22 chip is built with 12nm FinFET technology, adopts Cortex A53 eight-core architecture, and the highest frequency is 2.0GHz. GPU part uses PowerVR GE8320, clocked at 650MHz, supports 20:9 HD picture output, resolution is 720×1600 MediaTek Helio P22 also provides 13MP+800MP dual-camera native support with built-in hardware-level blurring. It can achieve AI face unlocking. Memory compatible with LPDDR3 and LPDDR4X, flash memory supports eMMC 5.1 standard. Helio P22 uses full Netcom baseband, supports dual card Simultaneous 4G standby, highest Cat-7 downlink rate and Cat-13 uplink rate. Supports 802.11ac Wi-FI and Bluetooth 5.0 standard wireless transmission. Although it is an entry level processor, Helio P22 also joins the artificial intelligence computing framework. Support, artificial intelligence applications based on TensorFlow, TF Lite, Caffe, and Caffe2 frameworks can run efficiently on the Helio P22.


▲ Meizu V8 high with version of the rabbit bun running points


▲PCmark running points


▲3Dmark running points

Judging from the running scores, the Helio P22 used by Meizu V8 has certain advantages in performance. Ann Bunny runs 77,773 points and PCmark has 5009 points. The overall performance is satisfactory for everyday applications. This CPU Plus the optimization of the Flyme system, the performance is basically enough for a hundred yuan.


▲ "King of glory" default quality can run smoothly

Game performance, Meizu V8 is still enough, for the current popular games can still run basically smooth, Meizu V8 in the "King of Glory" game, in the default quality can be maintained at around 30 frames, but group wartime frames The number will be reduced to about 25 frames, the number of frames will be large, and the game will run smoothly.


Meizu V8 high version photo experience

Meizu V8 high version with a dual camera with 12 million + 5 million pixels on the back, which is also a big selling point for Meizu V8 as a hundred yuan machine, 6P lens for lens, with a large aperture of f2.2, plus 5 million pixels The camera brings a hardware-level blur effect. For the front camera, the 5 megapixel front camera uses the f1.9 large aperture lens to support the ArcSoft beauty algorithm, providing a more natural beauty effect.


▲ Meizu V8 high version with 12 million + 2 million pixel dual camera

The Meizu V8 high-end version uses a dual camera of 12 million + 5 million pixels, a 12-megapixel camera is responsible for imaging, and a 5 million-pixel camera is responsible for measuring distance, bringing a very good blur effect.

Large aperture blur


▲ Meizu V8 high with large aperture blur sample


▲ Meizu V8 high with large aperture blur sample


▲ Meizu V8 high with large aperture blur sample


▲ Meizu V8 high with large aperture blur sample


▲ Meizu V8 high with large aperture blur sample

It can be seen through the proofs that the Meizu V8 high-profile version of the dual-camera camera is very effective, and it is quite rare for the hundred-yuan machine to have such a blur effect. The first is that the imaginary map algorithm is improved, and the photo body edge position map is more Accurate, secondly, the blur effect outside the focus is more natural, closer to the camera lens blur effect, and the blur effect is more natural, better looking.

Meizu V8 proofs:


▲ Meizu V8 high with version proofs


▲ Meizu V8 high with version proofs


▲ Meizu V8 high with version proofs


▲ Meizu V8 high with version proofs


▲ Meizu V8 high with version proofs


▲ Meizu V8 high with version proofs


▲ Meizu V8 high with version proofs


▲ Meizu V8 high with version proofs


▲ Meizu V8 high with version proofs

In the case of sufficient light, the Meizu V8 high-grade version of the camera is quite guaranteed, the picture is clean, there is no obvious smear, the color reproduction is not bright, close to the natural color. Thanks to HDR technology, let the Meizu V8 high version in the backlight It has excellent performance when taking pictures. After opening HDR, it can make the details of the picture more abundant, and the light and dark performance is more in place. It is really rare for a hundred yuan mobile phone to have such picture quality performance. After all, many of the hundred yuan machines are only pursuing configuration. Often the photo is ignored. Meizu V8 night light low-light shooting effect is more general, metering, color can be accurate in all aspects, but noise control and detail of the smear needs to be improved. Meizu V8 positioning is a hundred yuan class The mobile phone, of course, has a certain gap with the high-end products, but the overall photo quality is still in the middle and upper reaches of the same price.


Test summary: International explosions Meizu good products

Meizu V8 may be Charm Blue 8, Meizu and Charm Blue brand fight for the low-end market to follow the Meizu brand, but a lot of design, hardware configuration and even some system things still have a lot of charm blue shadow. Charm blue The slogan is 'Youth Goodness', the spot may be called 'Meiliang Good', the Charm Blue brand is aimed at young people, and the Meizu brand may be more extensive.


Charm blue V8 high version

Returning to the product itself, the charm blue V8 is aimed at the entry-level market, and the price is quite powerful. Maybe the Meizu V8 high-end version can be regarded as an upgraded version of the charm blue 6T, but it has been upgraded in the work materials and hardware configuration. A better experience, plus the price of a thousand dollars does bring this very high cost performance.


Charm blue V9 high version

Meizu V8 also shoulders the heavy responsibility of exploring the international market. Meizu has always launched products for overseas markets. Meizu has cut through the low-end entry-level market. The charm blue series has become the main product of the offshore, and this time the charm blue V8 It is also aimed at overseas markets. We may not know much about overseas markets, but such a cost-effective entry-level product will become a product of concern to everyone, both at home and abroad.

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