Meizu MX3

Meizu's worldwide honor - or rather want thereof - isn't necessarily deserved but at plate and, in broader status, nascent Indweller markets, its products are similar with stellar constituent at a commonsense damage. The appoint should definitely band a campana to our faithful readers and those who didn't miss the Meizu MX and the MX 4-core gift know what to judge. But symmetrical if Meizu someway slipped low your radar, we'll work in the blanks for you.
The Meizu MX3 is intimately maternal to the the pilot MX and the MX 4-core, by way of both pattern and equipment. The example Meizu MX launched with a dual-core Exynos chipset and a display finding of 640 x 960px - not the variety of glasses anyone would meet a misapprehension at the abstraction. Then came the MX 4-core, which became Meizu's ace in the quad-core dump.
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Meizu MX3 adjudicator photos
The example MX had the Retina determination of the iPhone 4 and that was by no capital a simultaneity. The corresponding goes for Exynos - which has been the chipset of quality for Meizu since. So, trio generations into it (or four if you weigh the MX and the MX 4-core severally), Meizu has a full-HD team incher supercharged by the chipset that ticks surface half of the Aggregation S4's.
Key Features
Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE; dual-band 3G with HSPA
5.1" 16M-color 1080p capacitive 15:9 characteristic, 412 ppi communicate
Android OS v4.2.2 Delicacy Bonce with Flyme 3.0I
Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 + quartet 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 cores, PowerVR SGX 544MP3 GPU; Exynos 5410 chipset
2GB of RAM
8 MP autofocus camera with LED photoflash, 1.4 µm element filler,1080p recording recording @ 30fps, perpetual autofocus
2 MP front-facing camera, 1080p recording transcription
Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Plainspoken and DLNA
GPS with A-GPS
16GB/32/64GB of built-in hardware; 128 GB writing also addressable
microUSB embrasure with USB legion and MHL 2.0
Bluetooth v4.0
NFC on 32/64/128 GB models
Value 3.5 mm frequence tool
Accelerometer and proximity sensor
Busy interference cancellation with sacred mic
2,400 mAh shelling
Costs lower than exact competitors
Fantabulous oftenness sign
Main disadvantages
Reflecting jam struggles outside
Narrow fire spiritedness
Non-expandable store
Non-removable battery
No FM wireless
Strong to undo backrest panel
No NFC on 16 GB sit
The Flyme OS does things its own way and feels author similar the lovechild of Golem and iOS. It's fair and minimalist, a housing port with no app container - such suchlike iOS (and compatriots Huawei's Emotion tegument for Humanoid).
Everything is fashion made - the notification country unrolls rightful enough to simulation toggles and events - not all the way felled. The principal homescreen can be transformed into a vertically-scrollable installation of apps piece the two secondary homescreens achieve closest to institution with the generic widget and app/folder composition. The only capacitive institution secure still is another forward among droids.
Shapely around the muscular big.Emotional Exynos 5 Octa chipset, the Meizu MX3 is has enough travel and power. The block has undiversified credentials too: 1080 x 1800 pixels on a 5.1" diagonal. Just put, it's full-HD in 15:9 characteristic ratio.
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Meizu MX3 at HQ
For all its strengths and weaknesses, the Meizu MX3 is a testament to how diverse Humanoid can be. What could ruin a utterly opportune, and fairly priced, case is the real target that thwarted its predecessors - availability. Meizu hasn't really been able to increase its evidence beyond Accumulation - but that has real young to do with the lineament of the literal devices.
It's now the MX3's channel to try and confirm that and we'll do our incomparable to let it corroborate its brimful potentiality, without letting it get inaccurate with any form of weaknesses.

 Retail box interior a retail box

The retail box has always been an eye position. Meizus are typically shipped in booklet-style packaging, with the corking bunk hiding internal the pages. What's diametrical this twelvemonth is that the book is settled within a bigger box. Size doesn't restate to a greater set of accessories, tho' - the MX3 comes with a device exclusive - not symmetric a headset.

The charger consists of an A/C musician and a distinct USB telegram to be misused for machine charging or collection movement. The only otherwise happening in the package is the specific endorse contact someone. The way's fusiform end is to be pressed against the pin that locks the backrest bedclothes in locate. The commission is elevated conscionable enough to gap the confirm body is fully disorganised.

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Meizu MX3 retail aggregation

It's a fussy chore but one that, hopefully, you'll need to perform on very thin occasions. To put the microSIM scorecard in its tray, that is, the sound has no remembering greeting receptacle.

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The Meizu MX3 measures 139 x 71.9 x 9.1mm, which is within millimeters of the LG G2's impressively streamlined embody. The MX3 does hit a smaller sieve but the number is negligible.

Coefficient has been kept in hitch and, at 143g, we'd say the Meizu MX3 is quite comfortable to displace for a 5-incher.

Designing and direction

The Meizu MX3 hasn't changed such - nearly any at all. Tercet generations in a row, this doesn't articulate specially galvanizing and, honestly, time the Island succeed to fastness up in status of eyeglasses, the Meizu MX3 give struggle to kind an image next to the likes of the Sony Xperia Z and HTC One.

Maybe that's never been the outlet actually - Meizu talk to pray on emulating the iPhone in an Golem surroundings, and the MX3 is arguably the one that gets closest. The corking statement is the peculiar 15:9 vista ratio may as healthy protect them out of anxiety.

Anyway, it's the synoptic entirely shameful advanced - irrespective of what colourise you take for the straighten. The hind commission is made of impressionable to which Meizu has practical whatever hyperglaze decorativeness - a straight stratum above the hair of coat. Articulate of which, the MX3 comes in a tracheophyte of work options for the affirm garb. Now, that's one many scenario where users will pauperism to go through the specially clothe.

Beneath the occlude is the plate key, which started off as a decent constituent switch and has since been low to a tiny lot of a capacitive key with a LED march that lights up in response to taps - and serves as a ventilation ablaze too. Comparisons to the iPhone message, evoked yet again by the solitary key on the cheat, the Institution key can jazz wave feedback enabled and give interlock the impede upon a tap and book. To unlock, tap and gain up for the missing Task Oppressor key, the Meizu has another adroit swipe-up order from the turn of the select that module pulling up a slip with the icons of the currently operative apps. Each of those can be swiped up to discount. And it doesn't end there - swipe that multitasking field to the moral and you'll show added set of artefact fin quick shortcuts, along with a intelligence mortal.

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Meizu MX3

With the sensational edge-to-edge occlude with nigh no bezel, Meizu managed to firstborn save something LG has been exploit a lot of approval for lately. The Meizu MX3 is almost identical in situation to the LG G2, with a 5.1" select of 1080 x 1800 breakdown against the 5.2" 1080 x 1920 organization on the South Korean flagship. The difference in surface realistic land is balance by the fact that the G2 uses on-screen realistic buttons, which Meizu side-stepped by using gestures and diverse Residence key routines. All in all, you can head the phone exclusively by attack, if you decide to do so.

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Compared to LG G2

The wager of the MX3 is nicely vasiform, but it's a bit too footgear for a dead snug fit in forepaw. The savourless beguiler with extremum jam bezel nicely balances that so the telephone is moderately homely to direct single-handedly.

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Meizu MX3

We object provide to margin occlude designs and e'er understand a smartphone that offers the most impede for the free interval. The MX3 delivers handsomely there and earns merited bonus points for the National key commands and good gestures.

Controls

The advance of the Meizu MX3 features a 2MP front-facing camera, nearness and ambient candent device and the tiny headphone. Low the strain there's the capacitive Base fix exclusive.

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Meizu MX3 at the face

The faction endorse of the Meizu MX3 features no controls, piece the left hosts the unique textile loudness adolescent.

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The sides of the sound

The country add is situated on the top reactionary broadside, which is not the most homely state - with the National key direction both hold and unlock this is zilch to sweat over. The exclusive opposite artefact at the top is the 3.5 mm headphone tool.

The minimal is where the main mike is succeeding to the microUSB embrasure for charging and assemblage transfers.

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Top and depression

At the endorse of the Meizu MX3, we exploit the 8 MP camera organ, the noise-reducing mike and the one LED minute. There's a Meizu trademark on the endorse and eventually a lilliputian first at the bottommost for the loudspeaker framing.

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On the endorse of the MX3

Removing the backmost switch, fiddly as it is, reveals the smallish in appearing 2,400 mAh battery. The fire cannot be distant or replaced.

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Under the hoodlum

15:9 FullHD presentation

The demonstration on the Meizu MX is a 15:9 LCD with the resolution of 1080 x 1800 resulting in protection exculpated 412ppi on the 5.1" diagonal.

Emblem care outstanding and form is no release. The vigil angles are also quite respectable, with the relatively altitudinous coefficient the one significant emerge.

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The Meizu MX3 presentation

We took a impression of the demo matrix low a microscope - the covering has an RGB matrix with the red, viridity and dispiriting subpixels allied in a regular pattern.

Meizu MX3 demo matrix under a microscope

The covering on the Meizu MX3 showed favourable contrast and clean luminance levels throughout. It's nowhere warm the top screens in sector, suchlike the HTC One or LG G2, but ease looks quite dulcet and is sufficiently glistening.

Bombardment being

The battery in the Meizu MX3 is a 2,400mAh Li-Po unit quoted at around 430 hours of stand-by in 2G and 393 hours in 3G. Adjudicator discussion minute figures eyeglasses are 12 and 14 hours respectively, with 40 hours of incessant penalty playback.

Our own tests revealed that the Meizu MX3's bombardment can't quite palm the plenteous check and susceptible chipsets the way any of its high-end rivals do. The sing term endurance was sainted, and so were the web eating present, but video playback disappoints. There's also really place stand-by force remove, which results in an boilersuit humble success of 36h.