Meizu X8 detailed evaluation: 1598 yuan can experience the screen technology of iPhone XR.

IT 168 Evaluation Last month's Meizu 16 X conference not only brought Meizu 16 X and Meizu V8, but also suddenly released Meizu X8. On the one hand, Xiaomi released Xiaomi 8SE on the same day, and on the other hand, Meizu made further efforts in the mid-end market. Meizu X8 adopts Snapdragon 7 10 processor, which is different from Meizu's earlier 16 and16 x. Meizu X8 adopts bangs screen and COF LCD screen, further reducing the bangs position on the screen. Perhaps it is Meizu's "compromise" to the market, but it doesn't want to go with the flow. Meizu's persistence can be seen from the $2 million customized screen.

▲ Meizu X8 evaluation

Meizu X8 is a mobile phone with Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10 processor. Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10 is an upgraded version of Snapdragon 660. Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10 has reached an ideal level in performance and is equipped with the same AI chip as Snapdragon 845, which makes this processor have the characteristics of flagship products and become a quasi-flagship product. The price of Meizu X8 is 1.598 yuan, which pushes the price of mobile phone from Snapdragon 7 10 to 1.500 yuan. Meizu X8 is also a Snapdragon 765,438+00 mobile phone with high cost performance, but many mobile phones with the same price in the market are using Snapdragon 660 processor, and even competitor Xiaomi 8SE is also using Snapdragon 660 processor.

▲ Meizu X8 bangs are smaller.

Liu Haiping is a transitional product of the development of full-screen mobile phones. Meizu 16th and 16 X use non-Liu Haiping, Meizu X8 uses Liu Haiping, but it is also a customized Liu Haiping. The screen of Meizu X8 adopts the same COF packaging technology as the LCD screen of iPhone XR. Although it is Liu Haiping, Meizu spent $2 million to customize the screen, which made the bangs of Meizu X8 smaller and narrower. This is also one of the better mobile phones for handling bangs in Liu Haiping.

Meizu X8 parameter

Mobile phone model

Meizu X8

screen size

6.2-inch custom COF packaging process LCD full screen

resolution ratio

2220x 1080

processor

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10

frequency

2.2GHz, 2xKryo gold+1.7GHz 6xKryo silver

Body memory

64/ 128GB emmc

Random access memory

4GB/6GB LPDDR4x

Main camera

120,000+5 million, IMX362/ Samsung 2L7, f 1.9, double PD,

Dual color temperature LED fill light lamp

front-facing camera

20 million, f2.0, AI face recognition unlocking, red soft beauty algorithm.

Fuselage size

151.2x74.6x7.8mm

Fuselage weight

160g

battery

32 10mAh

(mCharge 18W fast charge)

Fuselage color

Bright black, jade white, magic blue

operating system

Flyme 7 (based on Android8. 1

Network standard

All netcom

listed price

From 1598 yuan

As can be seen from the configuration, Meizu X8 can be regarded as a simplified version of Meizu16 X. It uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10 processor, and its performance is also a quasi-flagship. The manufacturing process of 10nm brings better power control, and integrates new AI products like Snapdragon 845. In addition, it is equipped with 4GB/6GB LPDDR4X memory, which is faster and more energy-saving. The fuselage is equipped with 64GB/ 128GB fuselage storage, which is also the mainstream storage configuration at present. The price of 1598 yuan is also one of the cheapest mobile phones using Snapdragon 7 10 processor at present.

▲ Meizu X8

Meizu X8 adopts a 6.2-inch full screen with a screen resolution less than 2220x 1080. The screen adopts COF packaging technology. Although it is Liu Haiping, the position of the bangs on the screen is further reduced, which also continues the ultra-narrow bezel design of Meizu mobile phone, bringing up to 89.6% of the screen.

As for the camera, Meizu X8 is equipped with a dual camera with12 million+5 million pixels. The main camera adopts IMX362/ Samsung 2L7 sensor, which is lower than the IMX380 on Meizu 16 series, but IMX362 is also the mainstream CMOS, which is also adopted by many flagship machine. As for the front camera, it uses the same 20 million front camera as Meizu 16 series, which is the smallest 20 million front camera module in the world.

Meizu X8 has a 32 10mAh battery, supports mCharge 18W fast charging, supports dual card dual standby, supports SD card to expand mobile phone storage, and adopts Meizu's latest Flyme7 system, which brings a better use experience.

Meizu X8 Appearance: Meizu Design

▲ Meizu X8 front

Meizu X8 is Meizu's first Liu Haiping mobile phone. The front of the mobile phone uses a 6.2-inch screen. Although it is Liu Haiping, this screen has also been optimized, which makes the position of Liu Haiping smaller and reduces the influence of Liu Haiping's position on the use. The COF screen brings a narrower width, and the left border of the mobile phone is only 1.7mm, which also continues the ultra-narrow border design of Meizu mobile phone.

▲ Meizu X8 bangs are narrower.

The customized screen of US$ 2 million allows Meizu X8 to bring smaller bangs, and at the same time, it has an earpiece, a 20-megapixel front camera, an infrared emitter, a light sensor, an LED breathing light and other components in the bangs position of the mobile phone.

▲ Meizu X8 chin

COD technology also makes the border of mobile phone screen narrower than that of general bangs screen. At the same time, Meizu 16 series also adopted the HOME button with horizontal design at the bottom, which supported Meizu's classic mBack operation, and realized the function of HOME button by pressure sensing and strong pressing. It still has the original mBack experience of touching back to the main interface, and the design of the bottom horizontal line avoids the problem that small dots occupy screen space to the greatest extent.

▲ Meizu X8 back

The back of Meizu X8 adopts a glass back cover. In order to make the mobile phone feel better, Meizu X8 adopts bright porcelain stacking technology. Through the superposition of multi-layer coated glass, the mobile phone not only has glass texture, but also has purer color and clearer texture.

▲ Meizu X8 camera

On the back of Meizu X8, a dual camera with12 million+5 million pixels and a Sony IMX362 sensor are adopted, which is also the mainstream configuration at present. In addition, Meizu X8 adopts back fingerprint design. Due to the cost, Meizu X8 did not adopt the front screen fingerprint design. Meizu X8' s back fingerprint supports Alipay and WeChat fingerprint payment.

▲ Meizu X8 top

▲ Meizu X8 bottom opening

Meizu X8 adopts USB Tpye-C interface, while retaining 3.5mm headphone interface. Meizu X8 has a built-in 32 10mAh battery, which is larger than Meizu 16 series. The power consumption performance of Snapdragon 7 10 can bring longer battery life.

▲ Meizu X8 supports dual card dual standby dual 4G.

Meizu X8 supports dual card dual standby, dual 4G dual VoLTE, full netcom, SD card, and expanded mobile phone storage.

Meizu X8 Custom Screen: Don't go with the flow.

▲ Meizu X8 adopts a customized screen.

Nowadays, many mobile phones are designed by Liu Haiping. Liu Haiping is only a transitional product in the development of full screen, and the final state of full screen is infinitely close to the screen 100%. Liu Haiping of Meizu X8 also made a special customization, and customized Meizu's own Liu Haiping with $2 million.

▲ Meizu X8 bangs become narrower.

▲ The bangs of Meizu X8 are narrower than ordinary bangs.

The bangs of Meizu X8 are shorter and shallower than the popular models. The interior of the bangs of Meizu X8 has also been redesigned. At the same time, add elegant arcs on both sides of bangs. In the limited position of bangs, the receiver, front camera, I-mirror, optical sensor, breathing light and other components. They were all put in. The front 20 million camera still uses the smallest 2000 front camera module like Meizu 16 series.

▲ Meizu X8 has an ultra-narrow bezel design.

At present, the screen of Liu Haiping mobile phone on the market adopts COG packaging technology, and the COG packaging chip is integrated on the glass substrate, so that the glass panel and the chip are on the same plane, resulting in a wide chin of the mobile phone. However, Meizu X8 adopts COF packaging technology. The chip on the back of the glass is placed on a flat flat cable, and the chip is placed directly at the bottom of the screen, which can be narrower than the COG technology. Apple's latest iPhone XR also uses COF packaging technology. Meizu X8' s technology is more mature than the previous generation. It reduces the chin position of the mobile phone to 4.8mm, and the left and right borders are only 1.7mm, and the screen ratio reaches 89.6%.

▲ Meizu X8 screen text reading experience

▲ The system handles the position of bangs.

The resolution of Meizu X8 is 2220x 1080, the resolution of male model Liu Haiping is 2280x 1080, the width occupied by Meizu X8 Liu Haiping is 60 pixels, and the width occupied by male model Liu Haiping Liu Haiping is 120 pixels. Whoever looks at the data better will know. In addition, the system also optimizes the position of avoiding bangs when reading text or browsing the web, so that the impact of bangs on reading is minimized.

▲ 2 1: 9 movie playback

▲ 18: 9 movie broadcast

Whether Meizu X8 plays 18: 9 or 2 1: 9 movies, it avoids the position of bangs on the screen, reduces the influence of bangs on video playback, and the viewing experience is quite excellent.

▲ Meizu X8 Game Experience

▲ The game screen avoids the position of bangs.

Many Liu Haiping mobile phones will have bangs blocking the screen when playing games, and generally display some unimportant content in the position of bangs, while Meizu X8 directly deals with bangs with black edges when playing games. After all, the bangs of Meizu X8 are relatively small, which has little influence on the game.

Meizu X8 performance experience: Snapdragon 7 10 quasi-flagship performance.

Meizu X8 uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10 processor, which is rarely used in mobile phones with the same price. After all, Snapdragon 7 10 is a quasi-flagship product, and Meizu X8 uses 4GB/6GB LPDDR4 memory, which brings higher memory speed, which is really very cost-effective for the price of 1598 yuan.

▲ Features of Snapdragon 7 10 Platform

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10 adopts 10nm manufacturing technology, and has two gold cores and six silver cores built in. The highest frequency of Kryo Gold's high-performance core can reach 2.2GHz, which brings a better performance experience. The new Adreno 6 16 GPU brings better 3D performance. Compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 660 processor, the overall performance of Snapdragon 7 10 is improved by 20%, and the graphics processing performance of GPU is improved by as much as 35%.

Snapdragon 7 10 is equipped with Hexagon 685 DSP, which provides more powerful AI computing capability. Compared with Snapdragon 660, it can achieve up to twice the overall performance improvement in artificial intelligence applications. Snapdragon 7 10' s Kryo processor core, Adreno vision processing subsystem and Hexagon DSP digital signal processor work together to make AI applications run quickly, intuitively and efficiently. Compared with Snapdragon 660AIE, Snapdragon 7 10 AI application can achieve an overall performance improvement of up to 2 times.

Theoretical test:

▲ Ann Bunny Test

▲GeekBench test

▲PCMark test

▲3Dmark test

Through the test, we can see that Meizu X8 Ann Bunny's performance is 16 1940, which is better than Xiaolong 660. GeekBench's single-core score 1839 and multi-core score 538 1 are quite enough for daily operation. The performance of Snapdragon 7 10 was really excellent. In 3D, the score of 3Dmark ES3. 1 is 1770, and the score of Vulkan is 1404. Theoretically, this achievement can be easily achieved by current mainstream mobile games, and 3D performance is the biggest performance difference between Snapdragon's mid-range products and flagship products. In terms of comprehensive performance, PCmark can run out of 765,438+038 points, and Meizu X8 calls system resources in place, which makes PCmark score higher.

Game test:

▲ the glory of the king frame number record

▲ Jedi survival stimulates the battlefield frame number record.

We use GameBench to record the number of frames in the game. We can see that after the glory of the king started the high frame rate mode and multi-core support, the average number of frames in the game reached 60. The frame number curve recorded by GameBench shows that the average frame number of Meizu X8 is around 60, but the number of frames in the team battle is reduced to 47, and the game can run smoothly. Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10 can provide sufficient performance support for the game "the glory of the king" and can run smoothly in high frame rate mode. In addition, we also use the Jedi Survival Stimulation Battlefield to test, and we can see that the average frame number of the Jedi Survival Stimulation Battlefield reaches 30 when the high frame rate mode is turned on, and the frame number does not jump much, which fully shows the performance of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10 in the game mode.

Meizu X8 photo experience: IMX362 upgraded again.

Charm Blue Note6 equipped with IMX362 sensor has won unanimous praise. As a thousand yuan mobile phone, Charm Blue Note6 is equipped with a high-quality Sony IMX362/ Samsung 2L7 sensor, and combined with a 5-megapixel sub-camera, combined with a depth-of-field dual-camera scheme, which is also the best dual-camera scheme for the current thousand yuan camera hardware configuration. Meizu X8 further polished this CMOS, matching the large aperture end of f 1.9 and the large photosensitive area of CMOS itself of1.4um. The customized 6P end brought better photo-taking effect.

▲ Meizu X8 adopts12 million+5 million pixel dual camera.

Sony IMX362/ Samsung 2L7 sensor, dual PD full pixel dual-core focusing technology. According to official data, Charm Blue Note6 focuses as fast as 0.03s, and full-pixel dual-core focusing allows IMX362 sensor to have 24 million photodiodes to support phase focusing. The focusing speed of Charm Blue Note6 is 4 times faster than that of traditional phase focusing and 7.5 times faster in dark light.

▲AI scene recognition

In addition, due to the addition of Spectra 250 ISP to Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10, users can take higher quality photos by supporting dark light shooting, noise reduction, high-speed focusing, anti-shake and instant special effects. With the help of AI engine of Snapdragon 7 10, it can support smooth and high-speed transition effect, deep selfie, and Face ID face recognition unlocking function of Gong E who actively perceives depth. Meizu X8 still uses rainbow soft algorithm with built-in functions such as HDR and portrait blur. Rainbow soft algorithm can bring natural background blur effect and ensure the accurate recognition of shooting objects.

Two-shot blur:

▲ Dual-camera fuzzy portrait mode

▲ Dual camera blur effect is more natural.

▲ Dual-camera blur brings better photo effect.

▲ Meizu X8 double-shot blurred proofs

▲ Meizu X8 dual camera blur proofs

Meizu X8' s ArcSoft-based algorithm: firstly, the fuzzy matting algorithm is improved to make the edge position matting of the subject more accurate; Secondly, the blur effect of Jiao Wai is more natural and closer to the blur effect of camera lens.

Daytime proof:

▲ Meizu X8 proofs

▲ Meizu X8 brings excellent photo effects.

▲ Meizu X8 color is true.

▲ Meizu X8 brings better photo effects.

▲ Meizu X8 photo sample

▲ Meizu X8 supports automatic HDR.

▲ Meizu X8 photo sample

Based on the excellent performance of IMX362 sensor, Meizu X8 is quite guaranteed in the case of sufficient light, with high picture definition and sufficient color saturation, and can support automatic HDR, and can still retain the details of the picture when taking photos with backlight.

Night view proofs:

▲ Meizu X8 night scene sample

▲ Meizu X8 performed equally well at night.

▲ Rainbow soft algorithm brings a cleaner night scene.

▲ Meizu X8 night scene sample

Meizu X8 also performed well at night. AI night scene recognition makes night scene shooting light processing better, reduces noise to a certain extent, and keeps the picture clean. Of course, there is still a certain gap between IMX380 and Meizu 16 series, mainly in noise control.

Meizu X8 Evaluation Summary: The Ultimate Pursuit of Screen

The release of Meizu X8 is really a bit sudden. Although Huang Zhang also discussed this phone in the forum before, Meizu X8 obviously comes from Xiaomi 8 Youth Edition, and its configuration and design are better than Xiaomi 8 Youth Edition. Meizu X8 adopts Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10, which has better performance and smaller screen bangs. The dual cameras adopt rainbow soft algorithm. The price is 1598 yuan, which is the cheapest Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 10 mobile phone. It ranks among the 7 10 mobile phones in Snapdragon, and Meizu X8 is very cost-effective.

▲ Meizu X8

At present, the bangs position of Liu Haiping's mobile phone does have a bad image for the aesthetics and experience of the whole mobile phone. With the continuous update of full-screen mobile phones, the bangs position of Liu Haiping mobile phones has also begun to be optimized. Meizu X8 adopts Liu Haiping, which may be a "compromise" to the market, but the screen of Meizu X8 is not the "bangs" of general full-screen mobile phones. The screen of Meizu X8 is a customized LCD screen, and the position of Liu Hai is optimized, which makes the position of Liu Hai narrower and has less visual impact, and also continues the ultra-narrow bezel design of Meizu. This cannot deny that Meizu has been pursuing the ultimate mobile phone screen.

▲ Meizu X8 Customized Liu Haiping

Meizu's recent performance is still quite courageous. Since the release of Meizu 16 in August, new products have continued. Meizu X8 positioned itself in the mid-market and filled the price range from 1500 yuan to 2,000 yuan. With the release of products such as 16th, 16 X, V8, and the upcoming Meizu NOTE E8E8, Meizu will soon complete the whole project. 65,438+0, 500 yuan to 2,000 yuan is also an important price segment in the mid-end market. Meizu X8 shoulders the heavy responsibility of developing the mid-range market, and also delivers satisfactory answers for consumers.