▲ Charm Blue S6 evaluation charm
At present, all full-screen mobile phones on the market have the same feature, that is, they use the screen of 18: 9, and so does Charm Blue S6. Literally, the full screen means that the front is full of screens, and the four border positions of the mobile phone are borderless, and the screen ratio close to 100% is pursued, but the current technology is impossible. At present, the full-screen mobile phone mentioned by everyone refers to the mobile phone with high screen ratio of 18: 9. Some manufacturers call it full screen as long as the screen ratio is 18: 9, regardless of the screen ratio. Perhaps we can learn Meizu's understanding of full screen from the design of Charm Blue S6. Of course, Meizu can't produce a perfect product with the first full-screen mobile phone.
▲ small dot regression
Meizu's first full-screen mobile phone is not a high-end product. Charm Blue S6 is a thousand yuan comprehensive screen for the low-end market, which may disappoint some charm friends, but Charm Blue S6 has brought many changes and innovations, especially in interaction. Meizu went from dot to mBack, and this time Charm Blue S6 returned to dot. The new interactive experience brought by the full screen and the new gesture operation may be Meizu's exploration of the full screen interactive experience, so Charm Blue S6 can hand over a satisfactory answer sheet in the interaction?
Charm blue S6 parameter
Mobile phone model
Meilan S6
screen size
5.7 inches 18: 9 full screen
resolution ratio
1440x720
processor
Samsung Exynos 7872
frequency
Six cores 2xA73 2.0GHz+4xA53 1.6GHz
Body memory
32/64GB
Random access memory
3GB
Main camera
160,000, Samsung 2P7 F/2.0
front-facing camera
8 million, F/2.0, support beauty
Fuselage size
152 x 72.5 x 8.0 mm
Fuselage weight
160g
battery
3000mAh(mCharge 18W fast charge)
Fuselage color
Frosted black, moonlight silver, champagne gold, light cobalt blue
operating system
Flyme 6 (based on Android7.0)
Network standard
All netcom
listed price
From 999 yuan
Charm Blue S6 is not only equipped with a full screen of 18: 9, but also brings "surprise" in hardware configuration. As early as Charm Blue released Charm Blue Note6, the author predicted that Meizu would launch products in Qualcomm, MediaTek and Samsung at the same time. Five months later, Charm Blue S6 used a Samsung Exynos 7872 processor, which is a CPU for the low-end market. Charm Blue mobile phone not only uses MediaTek processor, but also uses Qualcomm processor, and now uses Samsung processor. It can be said that it is a rare mobile phone brand that can win the three mainstream SoCs. What kind of processor is Samsung Exynos 7872 used by Charm Blue S6? We will introduce it in detail later.
▲ Charm Blue S6
On the screen, Charm Blue S6 adopts a 5.7-inch 18: 9 full screen with a screen resolution of 1440x720. It integrates LTPS/IGZO/α-si technology and is a high-quality screen panel. In addition, the screen supports pressure sensing. As for how to use this kind of pressure sensing, we will introduce it one by one in the interactive experience section. In terms of storage, there are 3GB+32 and 3GB+64GB versions, which are quite enough for entry-level users. The battery is 3000mAh battery and equipped with 18w mCharge fast charge. It is also a fine tradition of Meizu to provide fast charging for thousand yuan machines. The Samsung Exynos 7872 processor used in Charm Blue S6 can already support full netcom, and the baseband does not need to be plugged in. Charm Blue S6 supports full netcom dual card dual standby, and supports SD card expansion up to 128GB.
Charm Blue S6 Appearance
▲ Charm Blue S6 Front
Charm Blue S6 conforms to the industry trend and adopts a 5.7-inch 18: 9 full screen, which continues the narrow bezel design of Meizu mobile phone and further increases the proportion of mobile phone screens. Charm Blue S6 put down a 5.7-inch screen in the original 5.2-inch body. The increase in screen ratio not only improves the face value of the mobile phone, but also makes the positive visual effect better.
▲ The back of Charm Blue S6
▲ The back of Charm Blue S6
Charm Blue S6 adopts integrated metal body design and integrated nano injection antenna, which makes the whole mobile phone look more integrated and beautiful. Charm Blue S6 back cover is made of aviation aluminum alloy and anodized, which is familiar to Meizu mobile phone. The belt with this design is not only beautiful, but also brings a better feel. The back cover of Charm Blue S6 is also sandblasted several times with a certain type of zirconium sand, providing four colors of matte black, light cobalt blue, champagne gold and moonlight silver.
▲ Charm Blue S6 Side Fingerprint Recognition
Charm Blue S6 adopts a full-screen design, and the front chin position can no longer accommodate the mTouch HOME button, and Meizu is not willing to regress the rear fingerprint, and adopts a brand-new side fingerprint sensor. The side fingerprint scheme of Charm Blue S6 takes into account the grip and operation experience of the mobile phone, which can bring very convenient operation for both left and right hands. At the same time, Charm Blue S6 side fingerprint recognition also supports Alipay and WeChat fingerprint payment. The unlocking speed of the mobile phone is as fast as 0.2s, which supports information screen unlocking. There is no difference between the operating experience and the pre-fingerprint operation.
▲ Charm Blue S6 adopts12 million+5 million pixel dual camera.
Charm Blue S6 adopts16 megapixel main camera. The camera adopts Samsung's 2P7 sensor and 5P lens design, which brings a large aperture of f2.0 These configurations are also the mainstream configurations of the thousand yuan machine at present. Charm Blue S6 adopts LED flash with double color temperature, but it does not adopt running water flash design. Because Charm Blue S6 is positioned as a thousand yuan mobile phone, there is nothing wrong without these designs.
▲ Charm Blue S6 adopts16 megapixel front camera.
Charm Blue S6 front camera is an 8-megapixel camera with 1. 12μm pixels, f2.0 large aperture and iridescent beauty algorithm, which can intelligently adjust the facial brightness of Face AE.
▲ Charm Blue S6 supports fingerprint recognition.
Meizu's m-Back has become the family face of Meizu mobile phone, but Charm Blue S6 has been unable to put down the front M-mBack HOME button because of the comprehensive screen design, and has been replaced by Meizu's classic dot design, but this dot has become a dot in the screen. The return of the point and mBack are merged once. The position of the dot at the bottom of the screen is pressure sensitive, which can realize the touch return of mBack. Pressing hard is the function of the HOME button. Meizu named this point Super mBack. Charm Blue S6' s dot HOME keyboard can not only realize the operation mode similar to mBack, but also add gesture operation to the bottom bar of the mobile phone for the first time to realize multi-dimensional interaction.
▲ Charm Blue S6 interface
The headset interface and USB interface of Charm Blue S6 are at the bottom of the phone. Charm Blue S6 still uses the MicroUSB interface, so old users don't need to change the data cable when upgrading. Charm Blue S6 battery is 3000mAh, which supports 1.8w m charge fast charging at maximum, bringing faster charging speed.
▲ Charm Blue S6 supports dual card dual standby full netcom.
On the network side, Charm Blue S6 supports full netcom, 6-mode 18 frequency, dual-card dual standby function, and the mobile phone provides AND or card slot design, supports SD card storage expansion, and can simultaneously insert two NanoSIM cards or one NanoSIM and SD card.
Charm Blue S6 Full Screen
▲ Charm Blue S6 adopts a 5.7-inch full screen.
Full screen is the trend now. Charm Blue S6 also uses a 5.7-inch full screen. After using the full screen, you can see that the body of Charm Blue S6 is slightly larger than Charm Blue 6, but the screen size has increased from 5.2 inches to 5.7 inches, and the screen ratio has greatly increased. Compared with the screen of 18: 9, the screen of 16: 9 has more daily display contents. The screen resolution of Charm Blue S6 is 1440x720. Although it did not reach the level of full HD, the 5.7-inch size also brought 282PPI resolution. With the display technology of LTPS/IGZO/α-si, the screen of Charm Blue S6 has a high brightness of 450cd/m2 and a high contrast ratio of 1000: 1.
▲ Weibo reading
First of all, in some social applications, because the full screen is longer, more content can be seen on one screen, and the vertical resolution of the full screen is improved from 1280 to 1440. The extra length can display more content, and you can read one or two messages in social software such as WeChat and QQ. The dot of Charm Blue S6 can be hidden in some full-screen applications, but it will occupy the bottom of the screen for general applications, so it would be better if it can be hidden automatically.
▲ game
In terms of games, the full screen is also longer, and you can see more scenes than the 16: 9 screen and see more content than others, which is conducive to making better judgments during the game.
▲ 18: 9 video playback
▲ 2 1: 9 video playback
Due to the adoption of the screen ratio of 18: 9, the full screen is between the ratio of traditional movies and TV. When playing a traditional movie with a ratio of 2.35: 1, the screen with fewer black edges is larger, and the screen area that really displays the movie content is larger. But when playing some movies with the ratio of 18: 9, it is almost full screen.
Charm Blue S6 Interactive Experience
Full screen faces two important experience problems that need to be solved. The first problem is the location of fingerprint identification, and the second problem is the interactive experience of full-screen operation. These two problems also stem from the design of full screen and high screen ratio. There is no room for physical keys and touch keys in the chin position of the mobile phone. However, the general full-screen mobile phone has changed the front fingerprint recognition into the back fingerprint recognition, and the interaction with the full-screen has also changed from physical buttons to virtual buttons in the screen. This solution is only a compromise solution for full-screen mobile phones, not the final solution.
▲ small dot regression
Charm Blue S6 launched a full-screen experience scheme of 0. 1 for the pain point of full screen. Charm Blue S6' s full screen 0. 1 includes side fingerprint recognition, super mBack and pressure sensing. The dot that was once designed by Meizu family Facebook once again returned to Charm Blue S6, and with the full screen, it created a brand-new full screen experience of Charm Blue S6. (The following GIF animation is large, please wait patiently for loading. )
Side fingerprint unlocking
▲ Side fingerprint unlocking
Charm Blue S6 cancelled the front mTouch due to the full screen. When the off-screen fingerprint identification technology is immature, Meizu is also looking for the most suitable fingerprint identification scheme, but it is impossible for Meizu to use the back fingerprint because it is a retrogression of the experience. On Charm Blue S6, a side fingerprint identification scheme is adopted. At present, there are not many mobile phones using side fingerprint identification scheme. Compared with the back fingerprint identification, the side fingerprint identification experience will be better, and of course the cost and manufacturing process requirements are higher.
▲ Fingerprint identification on the right-hand operation side is also convenient.
The fingerprint identification of Charm Blue S6 is located under the power button on the right side of the mobile phone, in the middle and upper part of the mobile phone. The fingerprint recognition position of Charm Blue S6 is dug on the side of the fuselage, which continues the classic waist design of Meizu, but this fingerprint recognition has no mBack function. The side fingerprint design is very easy to operate with left or right hand. Use your index finger when you use your left hand and your thumb when you use your right hand. There is no discomfort in any operation, which is not much different from pre-fingerprint recognition. The fingerprint identification of Charm Blue S6 continues most of the functions of the previous positive fingerprint identification, supporting fingerprint unlocking and supporting fingerprint payment of WeChat Alipay.
▲ Side fingerprint unlocking
Maybe you will wonder, why not put fingerprint identification and power button together? I can tell you that as long as the fingerprint is input, there is no difference between the fingerprint identification position and the power button, and the user experience and operation convenience are definitely better than the power button, because Charm Blue S6 has added the screen-off unlocking function to the fingerprint identification module, which supports waking up the mobile phone and unlocking it by fingerprint in the screen-off state, and the unlocking speed is as fast as 0.2s.
Super mBack: pressure sensing mBack
▲ Touch back.
▲ Press hard to realize the HOME button function.
Meizu experienced the key interaction change from physical key to point and then to mBack. Meizu has not stopped on the road of finding the best mobile phone interaction experience. Charm Blue S6 uses a newly designed polka dot HOME button. Meizu named the dot on Charm Blue S6 Super mBack. Although this dot is in the screen, it can realize the function of the HOME button through pressure sensing on the screen, and at the same time, it still retains the function of touching the back, so that the dot in this screen is the same as the previous operation of mBack, and it retains the good operation experience of mBack.
▲mBack and Android navigation bar switch.
The dot position in Charm Blue S6 screen is specially added with pressure sensing. Although it is a virtual key, it can achieve a similar operating feel as a pressure-sensitive physical key. There will be vibration feedback after strong pressing, but there will be no vibration feedback after light pressing. In addition, for some users who are not used to dot operation, Charm Blue S6 also provides three virtual buttons native to Android, which also provides convenience for some users who are new to Meizu Flyme system.
New full-screen interaction:
▲ Long press the HOME button to close the screen.
Charm Blue S6' s navigation bar at the bottom of the screen can realize some brand-new interactions in addition to the dot's super mBack. Click the HOME button to close the screen, and swipe left and right in the navigation bar to switch the mobile APP. These operations appear from time to time for full screen. Some of these interaction methods are the evolution of previous interaction methods, and some are brand-new interactions, with the same purpose of improving the interactive experience of mobile phone operation.
▲ Swipe up to bring up the application background.
▲ Press and hold the blank area in the bottom bar, and slide your finger to switch background tasks.
▲ Slide the bottom bar horizontally to switch background tasks.
Charm Blue S6 provides three suitable background switching modes, all of which are based on gesture operation. Gesture operation is another operation mode that Meizu Flyme system brings good interaction besides the HOME button. Meizu users are familiar with the operation of swiping up to start the application background, and the newly added two switching modes, namely, horizontally swiping the bottom bar to switch the background task and long pressing the blank area of the bottom bar and swiping the finger to switch the background task, are unique to Charm Blue S6, which can improve the switching speed of the background application, and two adjacent background applications can be quickly switched, thus simplifying the switching operation of the background.
The way to switch the background horizontally reminds me that there was a beta version of Flyme6 that provided a horizontal sliding operation to switch the background application, but it was later cancelled because of the conflict between the operation mode and desktop sliding. Meizu has been looking for a better way of background switching. It provides three background switching modes at one time on Charm Blue S6, which may be testing water. Perhaps Flyme wants to let users know the future operation mode of Flyme system through Charm Blue S6, and find a more suitable, faster and better interaction mode.
Charm Blue S6 Performance Experience:
Charm Blue S6 uses Samsung Exynos 7872, which really brings many surprises, and this surprise is no less than the first full screen of Charm Blue S6. After the reconciliation between Meizu and Qualcomm, Charm Blue Note6 uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor. Meizu's high-end products have always been loyal fans of Samsung, and the low-end Charm Blue is also MediaTek's "iron powder". Meizu has realized that the world's three major SoC manufacturers are using it. Now Charm Blue S6 uses a Samsung product as a low-end product, which is the first time. What is the performance of Exynos 7872?
Samsung Exynos 7872
Information about Samsung Exynos 7872 is very limited. Even official website of Samsung Semiconductor doesn't have this product. What is the origin of Exynos 7872?
▲ Samsung Exynos 7872
Samsung Exynos 7872 adopts 14nm FinFET process, which is also produced by Samsung Semiconductor itself. The process of 14nm brings better power control, and the heating power consumption can be reduced by 30% compared with the manufacturing process of 28nm. Samsung Exynos 7872 adopts sub-flagship 14nm FinFET process. After years of iteration, the process of 14nm is quite mature, which makes Charm Blue S6 achieve better performance in power consumption and performance.
Samsung Exynos 7872 adopts the public architecture of ARM, and has two A73 cores and four A53 small cores. The core frequency of A73 is 2.0GHz, and the secondary cache is 5 12KB. Four A53 core frequencies are 1.6GHz, and the secondary cache is 256KB, which is mainly responsible for some low-load work. The A73 core adopted by Samsung Exynos 7872 provides excellent computing power. Based on the A72 architecture, it improves the integer computing and floating-point computing power, greatly reduces the energy consumption of data transmission, and saves energy by at least 20%.
▲ Samsung Exynos 7872 architecture
On the GPU side, Samsung Exynos 7872 adopts Mali-G7 1 display core, which is used in many high-end SoCs. According to official data, the default core frequency of Mali-G7 1 is 850MHz. At the default frequency, the triangle filling rate is 850Mtri/s and the pixel filling rate is 27.2Gpix/s, and the performance is already quite strong. However, Samsung is still quite confident in its SoC, and has raised the core frequency of Mali-G7 1 to 1.2GHz, further improving the 3D performance of Exynos 7872. Perhaps due to product planning, Mali-G7 1 on Exynos 7872 has only one core. Although it is the core, its performance cannot be ignored.
Samsung Exynos 7872 realized full netcom for the first time, and Exynos 7872 added CDMA baseband, so Charm Blue S6 can realize full netcom without inserting CDMA baseband. Samsung Exynos 7872 baseband supports downlink dual-carrier aggregation aggregation, with a downlink peak rate of 300Mbps and an uplink dual-carrier aggregation aggregation peak rate of 150Mbps. In addition, Exynos 7872 also supports Authorized Spectrum Assisted Access (LAA) and LTE-Wi-Fi Link Aggregation (LWA), which can provide high-definition and ultra-high-definition voice (EVS).
Charm Blue S6 Performance:
Charm Blue S6 not only uses Samsung Exynos 7872 processor, but also is equipped with 3GB LPDDR3 memory and provides 32GB/64GB body storage, which is quite good for a thousand yuan full-screen mobile phone.
▲ Ann Bunny Test
Ann Bunny's test shows that Charm Blue S6 can run a high score of 965,438+0,480, which is similar to Qualcomm Snapdragon 653. Thanks to Exynos 7872' s dual-core A73, the performance is improved, which is quite enough for daily operation.
▲GeekBench test
GeekBench's performance shows that Exynos 7872 adopted by Charm Blue S6 has a very good performance. Although it is a low-end processor, its performance has been improved by two A73 cores, and the performance of a single core has reached 13 18. However, its multi-core performance is limited to two cores, only 3 168 points, but the performance of this processor has surpassed that of Qualcomm 4 series.
▲PCmark test
In terms of comprehensive performance, it can be seen that Charm Blue S6 got 4852 points in PCmark test, which has reached the level of many mid-to high-end mobile phones, and this score is above Qualcomm Snapdragon 653. According to the test curve, Exynos 7872 is not as efficient as Qualcomm processor in performance scheduling during the test. If the efficiency of performance scheduling is improved through post-optimization, the performance of this CPU will be better.
▲3Dmark test
Exynos 7872 adopts Mali-G7 1 display core, and Samsung's latest flagship Exynos 98 10 also adopts this core. However, due to the positioning of Exynos 7872, only one core mail-G 71is used. Through the theoretical test of 3Dmark, we can see that the 3D performance of Exynos 7872 is quite satisfactory, with no outstanding points and no major defects. 425 points is also a lot of 1, 000 yuan to 1, 500 yuan price mobile phone should have performance.
▲ the glory of the king Game Test
Let's take a look at the game experience. The glory of the king running Charm Blue S6 turns on the high frame rate mode. We can see that the frame rate of Charm Blue S6 is kept at around 60 during the test, and the frame rate can still be kept at not less than 50 in the multiplayer scene. The game keeps a very high fluency, and there is no jam. Samsung Exynos 7872 has been able to provide enough 3D performance to support the latest large-scale games.
A low-end entry-level CPU with a positioning similar to Snapdragon 450 has the computing power of Qualcomm Snapdragon 653. The only drawback is that the GPU has only one core, but this GPU locates the flagship level and is overclocked to 1.2GHz by Samsung. Therefore, as a low-end entry-level processor, Samsung Exynos 7872 has no doubt about its performance, and it also provides sufficient performance for Charm Blue S6, bringing a better performance experience. It is the only one in the same price that can provide A73-core CPU.
Charm Blue S6 photo experience
▲ Charm Blue S6 adopts16 megapixel main camera.
Charm Blue S6 has a16 megapixel camera on the back. The camera adopts Samsung 2P7 sensor, the pixel size is 1. 12μm, and the ISP image signal processor is built in. The lens adopts 5P lens, with a large aperture of F2.0. As for the front camera, it adopts an 8-megapixel front camera, and also adopts 1. 12μm large pixel CMOS, with a large aperture of F2.0.
Daytime proof:
▲ Charm Blue S6 proofs
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In the case of sufficient light during the day, the photo effect of Charm Blue S6 is quite guaranteed, the picture is clean, and there is no obvious smear. Although the color is not very bright, it is actually restored. Thanks to the HDR technology, Charm Blue S6 performs well in backlighting. After HDR is turned on, the details of the picture can be more abundant, and the light and dark performance can be more in place.
Night view proofs:
▲ Charm Blue S6 proofs
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▲ Charm Blue S6 proofs
Charm Blue S6' s low-light shooting effect at night is relatively general, and the metering and color can be very accurate, but the noise control and the smearing feeling of details need to be improved. Charm Blue S6 is positioned as a thousand yuan mobile phone. Of course, there is a certain gap between the photo experience and high-end products, but the overall photo quality is still in the middle and upper reaches of the same price mobile phone.
Charm Blue S6 Test Summary: Opening a New Chapter of Meizu's Full Screen Experience
Meizu made many new attempts in the past 20 17, using screen painting, Qualcomm processor, dual cameras, signals with flash, etc. At the beginning of 20 18, Charm Blue immediately brought the first full-screen mobile phone Charm Blue S6, which is also a big new attempt of Charm Blue. In the middle of 20 17, major manufacturers began to make full-screen mobile phones, and everyone was very much looking forward to the birth of Meizu full screen. This is the general trend of the market. It's not that you follow the trend, but that the waves behind push the waves in front. With the arrival of the full screen, Meizu must also follow the trend. Charm Blue S6, as Meizu's first full-screen mobile phone, is no longer a simple installation of 18: 9 screen on the mobile phone, but enhances the interaction of full screen, bringing new interaction methods such as side fingerprint and super mBack, bringing a better experience.
▲ Charm Blue S6
What is even more surprising is that Charm Blue S6 uses Samsung's Exynos 7872 CPU, which is of great significance. After the reconciliation between Meizu and Qualcomm, there are three platforms to choose from: Qualcomm, MediaTek and Samsung. It is also a rare mobile phone manufacturer with three platforms at the same time in China and even in the world. If we give full play to this advantage, the competitiveness of Meizu products will be greatly increased. Charm Blue S6 is the first non-flagship mobile phone with Samsung processor besides Meizu's high-end products using Samsung platform.
▲ Charm Blue S6
From Charm Blue S6, we have seen many new things, such as full screen, Samsung's processor, side fingerprint recognition, the return of dots, brand-new application background switching mode and so on. In my opinion, Charm Blue S6 is a full-screen test product, which also provides a reference for Meizu to launch more full-screen mobile phones in the future. Meizu's delay in launching a full-screen mobile phone may have his consideration, but more importantly, how to improve the full-screen experience. It is difficult for Meizu to make a "easy to use" full-screen mobile phone when fingerprint identification under the screen is still immature and everyone has not done a full-screen interaction. Charm Blue S6 just provides an important reference for Meizu's comprehensive screen experience in the future. Meizu may make adjustments according to the user feedback of Charm Blue S6 to create a full-screen mobile phone with a better and more comprehensive experience.