Charm Blue E Review: What does the most expensive Charm Blue phone bring?

Meizu has held its sixth product launch this year through August. This conference will bring new products of Charm Blue E. This new product belongs to Charm Blue series. Charm Blue E is a brand new model and is now the Charm Blue series. The highest price of the product inside can be seen as the flagship product of the Charm Blue series. Charm Blue is aimed at young people's series. The price of the products brought before is all under RMB 1,000. In addition to the Charm Blue Metal launched last year for more than 1,000 yuan, the Charm Blue E is the second Charm Blue Series mobile phone with more than 1,000 yuan. . So why should Meizu launch such a product?


We previously mentioned that Meizu PRO 6 launched a new round of Meizu brand adjustments and changes. In order to achieve both sales and profits, Meizu is more radical in product strategy and marketing than ever to achieve rapid growth at home and abroad. . The Charm Blue E will be a continuation of Charm Blue's brand adjustment and change. You can see the Helio P10 processor used on the Meizu E. This processor has been used on the Charm Blue note3, although the body is a new design. , but this metal processing technology for the Meizu has been very familiar, mature technology and a large number of well-recognized mature and high-quality components, created a charm blue E, I believe it also brings good sales for the Meizu also increased profit. Return to the channel, the charm blue E does not increase the price online, and the first batch of 500,000 units of the spot, Meizu also left a lot of space for the channel, compared to the previous charm blue product channels may be more willing to recommend Charm Blue E.

Charm blue series

Look at the products released by Meizu this year. You can see that there is a big product break between Meizu MX6 and Charm Blue note3. This is the break between 899 and 1999 yuan. Meizu now depends on Meizu MX5 and Charm Blue. Supported by metal, it seems to be a bit difficult. If these two products are discontinued, it means that there is no product to sell in this price segment. Meizu must add a powerful product in this price segment. The other is Xiaomi released red rice PRO, priced at 1499 yuan, just in the Meizu price fault position, plus 360, music as the brand in the price segment of 1000 to 1500 yuan market segmentation, the introduction of heavy products, pressure for the Meizu Still quite large, if Meizu don't launch products in the price range of 1,000 to 1,500 yuan, it means that Meizu will lose the market for this price segment, which will inevitably affect sales promotion and profit improvement.

Charm Blue E

To put it plainly, Meizu launches Charm Blue E mainly to fill market vacancies and drive product sales. Meizu uses charm blue E to open the market between 1,000 yuan and 1,500 yuan, filling the gap in this price segment and allowing Meizu's products to be distributed in various price segments. More reasonable, this has a very positive effect on the sales volume and market share of Meizu’s products. The other is the charm blue E body also reflects a certain brand premium, this is a good thing for the Meizu, Meizu in the profit growth point not only depends on high-end products, and now can also be used to increase the product through thousands of products profit.


Charm Blue E is still positioned as a youth product. At the press conference, it said that “young people are escalating in consumption”. Young people’s purchasing power is improving, and Charm Blue and Charm Blue note can no longer meet the needs of young people in this sector. Some young users pursue high-value products, and require products with certain qualities. Under this premise, Meizu E is also a factor.

Charm Blue E parameters phone model Charm Blue E screen size 5.5 inches IPS resolution 1920x1080 processor MediaTek MT6755M (Helio P10) frequency eight core 1.8GHz body memory 32GB running memory 3GB main camera 13 million IMX258 5P lens f2.2 front camera 5 million 4P lens f2.0 body size 153.6×75.8×7.9mm body weight 172g battery 3100mAh body color silver/gray/gold/blue/powder operating system Flyme 5.2 (YunOS5.1) network standard mobile Unicom Telecom 4G/ 3G/2G
Price: 1299 yuan

Hardware Configuration Charm Blue E is equipped with an MT6755M eight-core 64-bit processor, has eight A53 cores, and has a core frequency of 1.8 GHz. This CPU and the Charm Blue note3 are exactly the same. In addition to the use of 3GB of memory and 32GB of body storage, from the point of view of these two is the configuration of Charm Blue note3 high version, but these configurations do not represent the phone's everything. On the screen, the Charm Blue E uses a 5.5-inch 1080P screen, IPS material, is also recognized as a better quality screen, the screen is also covered with 2.5D glass. Network support: Charm Blue E supports dual-card dual-standby function, full Netcom support, and support for China Unicom Telecom's 4G/3G/2G network.


In terms of hardware configuration, the Charm Blue E does have a distance from the mobile phone of the same price. What can the Meizu sell to the Charm Blue E for 1299 yuan? The following detailed evaluation of the charm blue E for everyone to answer.

Charm Blue E Appearance: New Metal Body Design


Charm Blue E is a continuation of Charm Blue Metal's product line, so on it we can also see some shadows on Charm Blue Metal. In addition to the same all-metal body, one of the more significant is that Charm Blue E inherited the colorful body design of the “Yield of Youth” brand concept. In the metal body shows that sandblasting color, and the anodizing process is a higher process costs, so most of the thousands of metal mobile phones are mostly provided only gold, silver two color. The Charm Blue E has gold, silver, gray, blue, and pink colors, which is particularly pleasing to young users who are pursuing their own personalities.

Charm Blue E's front is still the standard Meizu face, the top of the light sensor and front camera is symmetrical, the bottom is mTouch key, it contains the fingerprint recognition, mBack, Home key three functions, which is Meizu mobile phone that Proud of the user experience upgrade point. About the screen, Charm Blue E uses a 5.5-inch 1080P resolution level IPS display. Compared to ordinary TFTs, the arrangement of liquid crystal molecules is improved, and horizontal conversion technology is used, so the display effect is more delicate and the viewing angle performance is also better.

In terms of appearance design, the most dazzling aspect of Charm Blue E is that CNC processes are performed on the upper and lower parts of the middle frame. This is the first time Meizu phones have adopted this design scheme. Although more than just a circle of high-gloss metal lines, but it has brought a lot of visual changes, perhaps Meizu is too immutable. Since the upper and lower ends of the middle frame use the CNC process, the transition between the middle frame and the front and rear panels is more natural. Let the original smooth and smooth Meizu phone add some tough style, the machine's metal texture has also been a certain increase. From the side, it also makes the phone appear thinner in the visual perception.

In the back of the fuselage, Charm Blue E uses a new design compared to the previous Metal Charm Blue phone. As we all know, prior to the release of Charm Blue E, whether Charm Blue 3S, Charm Blue Metal, or Charm Blue Note3 all use a three-stage design, that is, the upper and lower ends of the fuselage are made of plastic material, and the middle is metal. As a result, the integrity of the metal becomes weak and a chromatic aberration phenomenon occurs. Although the back panel of the Charm Blue Metal is uniform in color, it is essentially a three-piece body that is thrown away on the back. This approach caused the phone to lose its original metal texture.


The Charm Blue E uses a nano-injection process, compared to the back panel, leaving only two injection belts, it retains the maximum degree of metallic luster, blessing camera, flash, part of the middle of the CNC process, so that the charm of blue E The sense of quality has been significantly improved, even comparable to the Meizu flagship product.

Charm Blue E's body measurements for the 153.675.87.9mm, weighs 172g, this data in the comparison of most 5.5-inch screen mobile phone, the size is basically the same size, but the weight is a little heavy, some hands in the hands, the whole Mobile phone is less than Meizu MX6, mainly due to the addition of a CNC process under the box, unlike Meizu MX6 transition so natural. There are bound to be some losses. The middle part of the CNC process improves the texture of the metal, but also increases some of the blemishes.

Meizu has always called itself a mobile phone manufacturer driven by industrial design and user experience. Starting from Meizu's first all-metal mobile phone MX5, the polished Meizu has been close to perfection, and the three-stage + high-light T-slot design that was widely used in high-end models has sunk to thousands of machines. Nano-injection technology is now sinking from PRO6 to MX6, to the charm blue E body. Therefore, when we see the gradual improvement of the quality of the charm blue phone, we can not help but look forward to the design of the Meizu flagship model.


Charm Blue E performance: power and performance balance


This year's mobile phone processor market is clearly showing a trend of diversified competition. Not only did Xiaolong's processors stand out from the crowd, but MediaTek, Huawei, and Samsung all took a hit in the mobile phone processor market. In particular, MediaTek, starting last year, MediaTek released Helio X10 series processors, trying to get rid of MediaTek's general impression of low-end users. This year's flagship model of Meizu PRO6 equipped with Helio X25 processor, to a large extent, helped MediaTek to increase its product image. The Helio P10 features low power consumption and cost-effectiveness, and is the standard SOC for this price segment handset for this year's 1500 yuan model.

This year has been equipped with MediaTek Helio P10 processor models Charm Blue Note3, OPPO R9, etc. In fact, Helio P10 also provides overclocking, standard, down-converted three versions. The Charm Blue E uses the MT6755M this chip. Learn about this processor below.

The Helio P10 adopts a more advanced 28nm HPC+ process technology and uses a combination of a quad-core high-frequency A53 and a quad-core low-frequency A53. The highest frequency of the high-frequency core is 1.8GHz and the highest frequency of the low-frequency core is 1.1GHz. GPU model is ARM Mali-T860, the highest frequency is 700MHz, its biggest advantage is still in the power control. MediaTek officials have therefore classified the Helio P10 as a product for thin and light mobile phones. Charm Blue E is equipped with a 3100mAh battery, with Helio P10 processor, will have a good performance in life.

Another major advantage of the Helio P10 is the integration of the third generation of baseband chips supporting the LTE Cat.6 standard, including 300/50 Mbps uplink and downlink rates and dual carrier aggregation, which fully supports the 4G+ technology that has been aggressively promoted this year. And the realization of the entire network, which allows MediaTek to get rid of Qualcomm's monopoly on the entire network, has the ability to compete with Qualcomm full Netcom chip positive.

In addition, after the chip integration of the entire Netcom technology, in addition to enabling domestic users to use mobile phones, Unicom, and telecommunication cards, the Blue E-E avoids patent issues in the baseband area in the international market, eliminating high-level Patent fees further reduce hardware costs, increase cost-effectiveness, and increase product competitiveness.

Next, let's take a look at the actual performance of Charm Blue E. Let's first test the security Bunny.

In the actual running test, the score of Ann Bunny of Charm Blue E is 46818, which is behind the Xiaomi 4S equipped with Xiaolong 808 processor and the iPhone 5s three years ago. Specific to the actual use experience, the daily use of the scene, the processor can do a smooth response, but the face of large games that require large amounts of computing, etc., will be powerless. In the thousand yuan or so price segment, in fact, many models have been equipped with MediaTek Helio X20 series chips. In terms of overall performance, mobile phones equipped with a Helio X20 chip can basically reach 90000 points of security Bunny running points, and can basically achieve twice the performance of Charm Blue E. It is clear that Charm Blue E is not dominant in performance. The reason why Charm Blue E chose this processor is to emphasize the performance of this processor in terms of power consumption. On the other hand, it is still to further reduce costs and improve profitability. Remember what Huang Zhang said at the Meizu annual meeting last year? "Create profits, compete for sales, advance into IPO."


GFXBench running points, here is mainly used to test the GPU performance of the processor, GPU performance of the most direct impact on the game and audio and video entertainment experience, here we mainly reference 1080P off-screen and 1080P Manhattan off the screen two points .

The Helio P10's GPU model is the Mali-T860. After testing, Charm Blue E scored 768.5 and 34.6 respectively in the 1080P T-Rex off-screen and 1080P Manhattan off-screen tests. This year MediaTek's sub-flagship chip Helio X20 (GPU Mali-T880MP4) scored 2098.7 and 657.6 points respectively in these two categories, the difference is very obvious, not to mention compared with the 2016 flagship chip Snapdragon 820. Responding to large and medium-sized mobile games can be overstretched.

Through the actual test, you can see the overall performance of Charm Blue E is unsatisfactory, Charm Blue E uses this processor, compared to the same price model, it seems a bit conservative. But there are also advantages that are low power consumption. More suitable for light and medium-sized users, and users who watch the performance of life.

Charm Blue E Endurance Test:


Meizu used the MediaTek Helio P10 processor when it launched the charm blue note3, because this processor can achieve a good balance between performance and power consumption. Now Meizu will use this CPU in Charm Blue E. It can be seen that Meizu is more confident than this CPU. Combining the optimization of Flyme system and the 3100mAh battery, Charm Blue E can provide excellent battery life.

Life test

Charm Blue E's battery life performance is still more reliable, you can see the phone call 15 minutes battery power consumption only 2%, when connected to watch wifi network video power consumption, 30 minutes consume 9% of the power of the 1080P Video decoding consumes relatively more power, and there are also 8%. The most power-consuming 3D games spend 20% of the battery power for 30 minutes, and the machine heat is not serious. The battery life of Charm Blue E as a whole has a good performance with a 3100 mAh battery and a Helio P10 processor. It is also not a problem for moderately used users who do not charge for 1 day, and can be used for heavily used user batteries. Most of the day.


Fast charge test


Charm Blue E is Charm Blue's first mobile phone with fast charge, supports mChange fast charge, provides 9V2A fast charge, and can support 18w charging power. Charm Blue E does not use 24W fast charge, 18W fast charge for 3100 mAh battery is enough, from the Meizu official data Charm Blue E use fast charge can be 1 hour full of 90% of the electricity, let's take a look Meizu MX6 charging speed in the end how?

The entire charging process takes 1 hour 32 minutes

Temperature overheat will automatically reduce pressure and flow

From the test results, the 3100mAh battery equipped with Charm Blue E has been fully charged for 1 hour and 35 minutes. The charging current is between 1.5A and 1.6A, and the charging voltage is basically maintained at 9V. It can be seen that the charging power of the Meizu MX6 is maintained at around 14W. At the same time, in order to ensure safety and stability, the charging head and the mobile phone have built-in security chips. From the chart, we can clearly see that in the rapid charge phase, there have been frequent automatic pressure drop and flow phenomenon, the main cause of this phenomenon is the temperature is overheated, the protection chip of the mobile phone has played a role.


One-and-a-half hour charging speed is basically similar to mainstream mobile phones that support fast charging. The charging voltage is maintained at 9V, but the maximum charging current is only 1.6A, and the theoretical value is a little larger than the 2A, the conversion rate is a bit low, but for the charm blue E Saying such a charging specification is sufficient. In addition, Charm Blue E charging protection mechanism is also reassuring in terms of security.

Charm Blue E System: Flyme on the bottom of YunOS

Now the Meizu mobile phone products have become popular and more and more cater to the habits of the mass consumers. They seem to lack some original insistence on “small and beautiful”. The serious appearance homogeneity among various products also caused dissatisfaction among some charismatic friends. But in system software, Flyme still insists on the original design language and style. Especially now, after several generations of update iterations, Flyme has evolved to version 5.1. The overall function and practicality have been improved, and the interface has a strong uniformity. It is a boutique product made in the domestic custom Android OS.


Charm Blue E is running Flyme 5.1 system based on Android 6.0. With the release of Charm Blue E, Flyme did not usher in much more detailed, so in this part, we mainly make a concise introduction to Flyme. Flyme 5.1 features and highlights.

Flyme 5.1's overall color is very refreshing, more color composition, more in line with young people's aesthetic. The official has also done a lot of icon redrawing for third-party applications, maximizing the UI style of the icons. The flat icons and UI interface can give the user a light operating experience. Starting from version 5.0, Flyme introduced some native Android design styles, such as a card-based multitasking interface, an integrated style setting interface, and so on. That is, starting from Flyme 5, there has been a refreshing change in interaction logic and UI design, and there has been a significant increase in aesthetics and fluency. Moderate sliding damping, smooth animation transitions, and easy use of mBack.


At present, mBack has become a major feature of the Meizu mobile phone. No matter what the reason was Meizu's abandonment of the dot, and changed to mBack, we must admit that mBack is in the interaction of Android phones. Revolutionary. The simple operation logic of “touching back and pressing back to the desktop” has now been learnt and learned by many mobile phone brands. mBack's single-button design makes the front of the body as simple and beautiful as possible, compared to the traditional Andrews three button design does not know where to go smart.

The appearance of the levitated ball is an optimization made to solve the large-screen one-handed operation. When one-hand operation is inconvenient, press the key below the screen or the side area of ​​the screen. The same operation can be achieved by floating the ball, and the floating ball can be placed anywhere on the screen. In addition to single-clicking and long-pressing, the levitating ball also implements the function of switching between multi-task sliding to left and right, sliding back to the desktop, and sliding off the notification bar. It also supports customization of actions and greatly expands the application scene of floating ball.

As a representative of domestic Android UI, Flyme, who has been deeply cultivating user experience, has done a great job in local optimization. In terms of applications, Flyme also integrates the Yellow Pages feature, in addition to the common T9 Pinyin dialing. Call charges, check express delivery, hotel reservations, etc. can be easily completed. And it is worth mentioning that the businesses provided by Flyme have been screened, such as hotels, are branded hotels, and they are safer and less worrying to use.

Flyme 5.2 mobile phone butler is also more complete, in addition to the usual virus killing, traffic management, mobile phone acceleration, harassment interception, rights management, power-saving modes and other common functions, in the standby power management, also added smart application freeze, The system automatically recognizes an abnormally high standby power application and then freezes it so that the application is not awakened repeatedly causing unnecessary power drain. With the excellent power consumption control of MediaTek MT6755M processor, Charm Blue E this phone will have a good overall life performance.


Objectively speaking, at present, most of the domestic Android UI gap in functionality has been very small, similar to the basic function is "you have I have everyone." And I like the most important point of Flyme 5.2 is its "small and beautiful" interface UI and interactive experience (transition animation, sliding damping, etc.), and the consistency of its various interfaces is very high, the handling of UI details is in place It feels very refined and reflects a rare sense of quality. Flyme has been updated and iterated with several major versions. Light, refined, and smooth are my most intuitive experiences with Flyme 5.2.

Charm Blue E Photo: Mature IMX258


About the camera, Charm Blue E main camera sensor model for the Sony IMX258, it supports up to 13 million pixels, with PDAF phase focusing technology, the maximum aperture of F2.2, with dual color temperature flash, not equipped with optical image stabilization function. This sensor has appeared in the new and old models, such as millet 4c, red rice PRO, 360 mobile phone N4 and other models. And in debugging, the industry is already very mature, and Meizu has also maintained a positive R&D attitude in the imaging effect of mobile phones. Here we look at the picture of the Charm Blue E through the proofs.

100% detail magnification proofs

In terms of resolving power, Charm Blue E performed generally. After we have 100% zoomed out of the outdoor proofs, there is a noticeable smear on the screen. The ad text on the top of the building has been blurred, and the lightning rod at the top of the building has even been smeared and disappeared. In fact, this is related to the direction of engineers' debugging. The smearing method can effectively reduce the impact of noise on the screen. The overall picture is more transparent, but the details are slightly lacking.

HDR mode imaging contrast

The principle of HDR is simply to increase the exposure to obtain multiple photos and synthesize the photos. The advantage of this is that it can enhance the performance of the details of the dark parts of the proofs, and the picture is also brighter and sharper. Because the camera function in the current mobile phone is already very advanced, the imaging speed and the computing power have changed dramatically compared to the previous two or three years ago. Even if the HDR mode is turned on, the camera experience will not be affected because of the long computing time. Turning on the HDR mode can effectively improve the disadvantages of the Blu-ray E-blur imaging, and the filming rate is relatively high. It is recommended that you open it for a long time.

Imaging at night

In the low-light environment at night, because there is no support for optical image stabilization, the print rate of Charm Blue E is slightly reduced, and photos are easily blurred due to hand shake. However, taking pictures attentively can still easily take good pictures. From the night proofs, the charm blue E's performance is still good, after 100% magnification restore, but also a clear reduction of the pattern on the plaque. Although the lantern in the distance is slightly blurred, it is still at an acceptable level.


Let's take a look at the imaging performance of Charm Blue E under various scenarios (click the sample to see the original image).

Shooting in backlight

Outdoor macro shooting

Indoor self-illumination shooting

Indoor display

Indoor food shooting

Indoor close shot

The proofs taken by Charm Blue E are very appealing to the user's eyeballs. The soft transitions of the macro blur are soft, the image is bright and the noise is well-controlled, and it looks like it gives the impression of transparency and high color saturation. This performance is mainly due to IMX258 this sensor has been very mature debugging, although in terms of technical parameters compared to this year's popular IMX298 sensor slightly less than enough, but enough to meet our daily camera needs. Compared to competing products with the same price, the overall performance of the Charm Blue E in the camera is in the upper and middle position.

Test Summary: Flagship Youth Products


Meizu launched Charm Blue E is Meizu brand adjustment and change this year, one of the rings, it is not difficult to see the Meizu E in the design must go beyond the previous Charm Blue series products, of course, the price is currently the highest in the Charm Blue series. Charm Blue E as the Meizu flagship product price of 1,000 yuan to 1,500 yuan, brought a lot of highlights, with high face value, and the use of a new design, relative charm blue other products, the charm of blue E is not a lot of improvement , not only the appearance, there are other aspects, so that Charm Blue E has become the flagship of Charm Blue.

Test summary

Charm Blue E highlights:


Charm Blue E brightness one: the new design of the fuselage

Charm Blue E's body design does not use Meizu's classic high light T-slot design back cover, reuse the new three-stage design, one coverall back cover plus injection molding process, these mature processes for Meizu is already very familiar. This design changed the appearance of the charm blue metal body phone, the charm blue E design gives everyone a fresh feeling. Charm Blue E still maintains the colorful features of the Charm Blue series, offering five colors of silver, gray, gold, blue and pink, and a 2.5D glass screen, etc., which still maintains a high face value.

Charm Blue E highlight two: Charm Blue series first support fast charge mobile phone

Charm Blue E is the first Charm Blue series equipped with a fast-charged mobile phone. Charm Blue E is equipped with a 9V2A fast charge support. It is equipped with a 3100 mAh battery and can fully charge the battery in about 1 hour and 30 minutes. For current mobile phones, fast charging has become very important. Fast charging can not only fully charge the mobile phone battery within a certain period of time, but also can be used for a few minutes in an emergency to allow the mobile phone to use for a longer period of time. The significance of mobile phones has become increasingly important.

Charm Blue E highlights three: IPS screen

Charm Blue E is equipped with a 5.5-inch 1080P IPS screen, Charm Blue E as the charm of the blue flagship in the screen area has indeed made great progress, this Meizu IPS screen, has a better display, compared to the charm blue note3 Screen, Charm Blue E is really better.

Charm Blue E is not enough

Less than one Charm Blue E: Helio P10

Meizu E adopts Helio P10 processor which is the same as Charm Blue Note3 this time. This processor has 8 A53 cores, which is enough for daily use performance, and Helio P10 has a better performance and power consumption. The balance, but relative to the same price of the product is indeed a bit of a gap between Helio P10, Meizu using this CPU may be more focused on the balance between power and performance.

Charm Blue E less than two: camera to be further optimized

Charm Blue E this time using Sony's IMX258 sensor, this sensor has been used in many mobile phones, has been quite mature, after using the IMX258 charm Blue E imaging effects relative to the charm blue note3 has a lot of improvement, The upper reaches of the level, but has not yet fully played out the performance IMX258 should have, there is room for further optimization.

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