Meizu 16s Pro review: We see Huang Zhang's sincerity in creating an artistic flagship phone

Only four months after the release of Meizu's flagship in the first half of the year, Meizu has once again surpassed itself and brought us the annual summary flagship that "makes passion more passionate" - Meizu 16s Pro.

After several generations of product iterations, the Meizu 16s Pro can be regarded as the culmination of Meizu's full-screen era. Its front screen has a screen-to-body ratio of up to 91.53% by compressing the surrounding borders, achieving a sci-fi feel of almost a whole piece of glass. The large curved edges of the back shell of the body maintain the consistent comfortable feel of Meizu phones.

I believe everyone is also very curious about the specific usage of the Meizu 16s Pro. Let's experience it together today.

The appearance is a work of art in mobile phones

The first feeling you get when you get the Meizu 16s Pro in your hands is the strong "Meizu style". Its neat screen, integrated body, and large curved back cover that fits the palm of your hand all reveal Meizu's uncompromising craftsmanship. Therefore, the Meizu 16s Pro shows a natural sense of purity.

From the front, the Meizu 16s Pro is equipped with a 6.2-inch AMOLED customized extreme edge full screen without bangs. By squeezing the frame, the screen-to-body ratio of the Meizu 16s Pro reaches 91.53%. In comparison, the screen-to-body ratio of the larger 6.5-inch Meizu 16th Plus is only 91.18%, which shows the efforts Meizu has made in improving the screen-to-body ratio.

On the back of the body, the Meizu 16s Pro continues the Meizu family design. The large arc edge makes the curvature of the back shell of the body complement the curvature of the palm, thus bringing a very comfortable one-handed grip.

In terms of details, the Meizu 16s Pro puts the camera in the upper left corner of the back of the fuselage. In order to avoid the abruptness of the flash, the Meizu 16s Pro also specially makes the flash into a ring shape and puts it outside the third camera, thus increasing the sense of design of the three cameras.

The middle frame of the Meizu 16s Pro adopts a minimalist design. Only the volume button and power button are placed on the right frame, and the SIM card slot is placed symmetrically with the speaker. Coupled with the high-end metal material, the metal middle frame of the Meizu 16s Pro is integrated with the body.

In order to save space in the body of Meizu 16s Pro, Meizu has also specially designed a double-layer SIM card tray, so that Meizu can accommodate a 3600mAh battery while maintaining a thickness of 7.65mm.

Overall, the simple appearance of the Meizu 16s Pro stands out in the crowded mobile phone industry and has the style of a work of art.

Flyme 8 is worth a year's wait

The Meizu 16s Pro is also equipped with Meizu's new Flyme 8 system. Since more than a year has passed since Flyme 7, I believe many Meizu fans are looking forward to Flyme 8.

In terms of design, Flyme 8 adopts a fresh design language, coupled with the new Alive bubble dynamic wallpaper, making Flyme 8 quite spiritual, complementing the elegant appearance and presenting a strong sense of integration.

In terms of functions, Flyme 8 has added a new night mode. Through Meizu's deep customization, the night mode is no longer limited to system-level applications, but has been expanded to all software. After actual testing, it can be found that Flyme 8's night mode is very complete, and both system applications and third-party applications can be well adapted, which means that we will no longer be blinded when using the phone at night.

In addition, Flyme 8 also adds small window mode 2.0 - no matter what task we are doing in the foreground, we can select the software we want to temporarily call out and operate it with just a swipe.

For example, if we want to reply to WeChat while playing games, we only need to bring up the WeChat small window to reply quickly without disturbing the game process. Therefore, this function greatly enhances our sense of happiness when watching TV series and playing games.

In addition to functional upgrades, Meizu also brought its first voice assistant Aicy - the Aicy voice assistant can complete corresponding operations by talking to us.

In actual testing, Aicy can quickly recognize our voices and give corresponding feedback immediately. Whether it is checking the weather or setting an alarm, you can trust Aicy to do it. It can be said that Aicy is definitely a caring little secretary given by Meizu to users.

Meizu 16s Pro can be called a night vision device

Like the Meizu 16s, the Meizu 16s Pro also uses a triple-camera combination with a combination of 48 million + 20 million + 16 million pixels. The main camera is a Sony IMX586 sensor with an ultra-large aperture of f/1.7 and a 1/2-inch large bottom. It supports four-in-one pixel technology. Therefore, the camera of the Meizu 16s Pro is very powerful in terms of hardware parameters.

In addition, at the software level, Meizu 16s Pro also supports super night scene mode, portrait background blur, AI scene recognition and other functions, which greatly improves the phone's photo-taking experience.

Judging from the daytime samples, the color reproduction and white balance performance of Meizu 16s Pro are very accurate. Whether it is the red of the car or the blue of the sky, Meizu 16s Pro accurately reflects it. In addition, combined with AI intelligent scene recognition and automatic adjustment of parameters, the photos taken by Meizu 16s Pro are also more pleasing to the eye.

In terms of night scenes, the f/1.7 ultra-large aperture, 1/2-inch large bottom and super night scene mode of the Meizu 16s Pro come into play. If you look closely at the dark part of the photo, the Meizu 16s Pro takes very clear photos without any noise. At the same time, the Meizu 16s Pro also ensures that the exposure of the highlights is not overexposed, making the final night scene look excellent.

In addition to the main camera, the Meizu 16s Pro is also equipped with a 117° ultra-wide-angle lens and a 55mm telephoto lens, which can make the photos present a wider field of view.

Normal focal length photo

Ultra wide-angle photos

Compared with photos taken with normal focal lengths, the ultra-wide-angle lens of the Meizu 16s Pro can accommodate more information, and in terms of picture details, the Meizu 16s Pro does not have the distortion problem that is often seen in ultra-wide-angle photos.

Top performance level in the Android camp

As it is positioned at the flagship level, Meizu 16s Pro is equipped with the top processor in the current Android camp - Snapdragon 855 Plus. The processor uses 8 Kryo485 architectures, and the main frequency of the large core reaches an astonishing 2.96GHz. In addition, Meizu 16s Pro is also equipped with the latest UFS3.0 flash memory. From the hardware point of view, the configuration of Meizu 16s Pro can be said to be a small mountain.

At the software level, the Meizu 16s Pro is also equipped with Hyper Gaming technology, which can intelligently identify game loads and make full use of the machine's resources through unified coordination. For example, when playing a group game, the Meizu 16s Pro can schedule core resources in advance to avoid the situation where ordinary mobile phones drop frames when encountering a group battle.

The actual AnTuTu score of Meizu 16s Pro reached 458248 points, GeekBench single-core score was 3636 points, and multi-core score was 10152 points. Judging from the scores, Meizu 16s Pro is undoubtedly at the top of the mobile phone industry.

In order to test the actual gaming performance of Meizu 16s Pro, we chose to let Meizu 16s Pro run the popular online game "Honor of Kings" and turn on the high frame rate mode.

In actual testing, the Meizu 16s Pro can always run at 60fps. Even in complex scenes, the Meizu 16s Pro does not drop any frames.

Overall, thanks to the hardware foundation of Snapdragon 855 Plus and UFS3.0 flash memory, coupled with Meizu's exclusive Hyper Gaming technology optimization, the Meizu 16s Pro can run large-scale games and handle multiple tasks with ease.

In terms of battery life, the Meizu 16s Pro is equipped with a 3600mAh battery. After running the game for 1 hour, the battery only loses 16%, which is enough for a day of intensive use.

In addition, Meizu 16s Pro also supports 24W mCharge fast charging, which can charge half of the power in just half an hour. Even if you run out of power, you can quickly restore power through the mCharge fast charging library.

Summarize:

On August 6, 2019, IDC released the 2019Q2 China Smartphone Tracking Report. The report showed that China's smartphone shipments in the first half of 2019 were approximately 180 million units, a decrease of 5.4% compared with the same period last year. This is the seventh consecutive quarter of year-on-year decline.

Faced with a shrinking market, Meizu has been fighting harder and harder. Starting from Meizu 15, it has repeatedly refreshed consumers' perception of full-screen smartphones.

All of this stems from Meizu's understanding of the spirit of craftsmanship - only by being consumer-oriented and adhering to its own aesthetic concepts and product strategies can a mobile phone worthy of the name "Meizu" be created. After nearly two years of accumulation, we finally saw the integrated explosion of Meizu's integration of all resources on the Meizu 16s Pro.

The popularity of Meizu 16s Pro can also be seen from the market - on August 31, Meizu 16s Pro was first sold on the entire network. It was reported that only half an hour after the sale, Meizu 16s Pro was all sold out.

Therefore, I believe that with Meizu 16s Pro as a stepping stone, Meizu will bring us more surprises in the 5G era.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.