Meizu Pro 5: First Impressions

Meizu launched its latest flagship, the Pro 5 in Beijing yesterday. The 5.7-inch smartphone is powered by the same Exynos 7 Octa processor found on the Samsung Galaxy S6 and will be available in two variants. The 32GB 3GB RAM variant is priced at 2799 RMB (approx Rs. 28,000) and the 64GB variant with 4GB DDR4 RAM is priced at 3099 RMB (Rs. 31,000). This makes the Pro 5 one of the best smartphones in the specs to price ratio. While the phone won't be coming to India till next year, Meizu will try to create hype around the phone as well as the brand itself in the meantime. We had the chance to fiddle around with the new phone at the launch and here are our first Impressions.
 

From the looks of it, Meizu hasn't changed its design much. The phone looks quite similar to the M2 Note and the MX5. The 1080p resolution is also the same as its previous phones, but the display itself looks slightly better and now has an increased display size of 5.7-inch. The construction is all metal and Meizu says that it has used a new manufacturing process. It's hard to tell the difference on first impressions though.

Coming back to the gorgeous display. The display is bright and offers well balanced colours. The contrast ratio is also very good thanks to the Super AMOLED display, while the viewing angles are also quite good as well. The UI hasn't changed much and the phone runs on Flyme 4.5, which will be updated to Flyme 5.0 (unveiled today) by November 15. The new UI will bring new animations and a new layout among other things. It's worth mentioning that the new UI will be available for the MX5 by next week.

The new processor is the newest and most talked about entry in the spec sheet though. Meizu chose the Exynos 7420 from Samsung and on the demo devices, it seems extremely fast. We tried to run AnTuTu on the phone, and the benchmark produced a 75K+ score. We will know more about the performance once we get the device for review though and the same goes for the new HiFi 2.0 supporting audio output. 

The Pro 5 also supports Quick Charge 2.0 technology. Meizu claims that the phone can be charged upto 65% from 0 in just 30 minutes. We would love to see it work in a real life scenario and will hold our judgement till we do.

The 21MP rear camera is the other selling point for the phone. The camera, which is using the Sony IMX 230 sensor, seems to be promising. The colour reproduction seemed quite good, as did the dynamic range, but we won’t comment on other things before we're through with the review. 

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