Meizu M3s mobile phone review: Is it worth upgrading to fingerprint + metal shell for 100 yuan?

Two months after the release of the Meizu Blue 3, Meizu quickly launched the Meizu Blue 3s, once again making Meizu appear in the headlines of mobile phone-related news.

The Meizu Blue 3s released this time is basically based on the Meizu Blue 3. The difference is that the Meizu Blue 3s has added a fingerprint recognition function, a metal body, and a battery capacity increased by 150mAh.
These upgrades and changes have increased the price of Meizu Blue 3s by RMB 100, and it will be priced at RMB 699 in the future.
Officials claim that the Meizu M3s has been upgraded in terms of material, encryption, and battery life. So can the actual performance of the Meizu M3s clearly reflect these performance changes?
Metal body creates "higher appearance"
The basic shape of Meizu M3s is not much different from that of Meizu M3. It has the same three-stage design, the same 2.5D glass-lined 1080P screen, and even the width of the BD area in the screen is almost the same.

The headphone jack, card slot, amplifier port and camera on the back have not changed in shape or layout.

Of course, the shape of the flash under the camera has changed from square to round, which is a change.

The metal body is the most obvious difference of Meizu Blue 3s in appearance. At first glance, the metal edge connecting the metal back cover and the body is the biggest difference from Meizu Blue 3. In terms of hand feel, in addition to the difference in touch feel of the metal body, the completely flat back shell of the metal body is also different from the curved back shell of the plastic body.

Although the arrangement of the mBack button has not changed, the button is different from the Meizu M3. The mBack button of the Meizu M3s integrates the fingerprint recognition function, which is one of the core items of the Meizu M3s upgrade.
With fingerprint recognition, Meizu M3s has made some functional upgrades in terms of security and confidentiality. In addition to fingerprint unlocking, popular functions such as document area encryption, application encryption, and fingerprint payment are also available.

Of course, the fingerprint recognition of Meizu M3s is a pity in terms of recognition speed. The average unlocking time of 0.68s is not slow, but in actual experience it is slower than the fingerprint recognition of thousand-yuan phones. However, at the price of 699RMB, you can experience the fingerprint recognition function, so don't worry too much about this shortcoming.

In terms of color, Meizu Blue 3s is available in four colors: white, gold, pink and gray. Compared with Meizu Blue 3, it lacks the blue color.

Meizu Blue 3s is more sophisticated
Without changing most of the performance of the same generation of products, many manufacturers have followed Apple's lead in optimizing and upgrading some functions and adding the "s" suffix, and Meizu M3s is no exception.
The following is a comparison chart of the similarities and differences between Meizu Blue 3s and Meizu Blue 3. From the chart, we can see that there is no difference in the main phone attributes such as hardware core configuration, screen and camera selection, and capacity between Meizu Blue 3s and Meizu Blue 3.
The standard versions of both are: 5-inch 2.5D screen, 1080P resolution, equipped with octa-core 1.5GHz MediaTek MT6750 processor, 2GB RAM and 16GB memory, 1300W pixel main camera + 500W pixel front camera.

Only the body weight and battery capacity have increased to a certain extent, and the dimensions have slightly increased to 141.9*69.9*8.35mm. It can be speculated that the changes in weight and size below the millimeter level may be changes made to expand the battery capacity.
According to official statements, the 150mAh capacity increase, combined with the power management mechanism and background application allocation system, will increase the battery life of Meizu M3s by 15%. So can it actually reach this level? We will test the phone with and without battery management.

Of course, battery management may sometimes affect the user experience. This test will select the power saving level as appropriate, based on the premise that it does not affect the user experience.

According to the actual test data, compared with the previous Meizu M3 evaluation, both consumed 18% of the battery under the condition of 1 hour of 1080P movie watching. Although the difference below 1% cannot be counted, it can be said that without turning on power management, the Meizu M3s cannot reflect the upgrade of battery life.
The actual comparison of Meizu Blue 3s with battery management turned on/off is quite obvious. Under the same viewing conditions, the battery life increased by 12.5%. In the test with multiple daily software running in the background, the battery life increased by 18.1%. It can be seen that the battery management function featured in Meizu Blue 3s is not bluffing.
Another difference is that although the system name is Flyme 5.1, Meizu M3s is not deeply customized based on YunOS, but returns to Android 5.1.

Meizu builds a pyramid in the 100-yuan price range, with Meizu 3s as the brick in the middle <br /> Counting Meizu's new products in the 500-1000 yuan price range this year, the standard and high-end versions of Meizu 3, Meizu 3s and Meizu note3 have neatly divided the market in this range with one phone per 100 yuan.
With a metal body and fingerprint recognition, it is close to the Meizu Note 3 in terms of grade, but the core hardware is still based on the Meizu 3. At the same time, the capacity upgrade and power optimization system give the Meizu 3s a performance advantage. These three features make the Meizu 3s stand out in the middle layer.
Of course, with similar appearance and functions, but better hardware configuration, Meizu Blue Note 3 is obviously the most worthwhile product in the Meizu Blue series in the 100 RMB range. If you really care about the 100 RMB price difference, it is also a good choice to downgrade and buy Meizu Blue 3s.

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