Shulou(Shulou.com)12/24 Report--

Hi, this is Shuishui. Exactly half a year after the release of the Meizu 20 series, Meizu 21 officially met with you, and it has been exactly two and a half years since Meizu rejoined the mobile battlefield.

As a regular user of Meizu, my expectations for this phone are naturally full. After all, who doesn't love the four-edge full screen + white panel + pure white body + Flyme? However, after returning to reason, let's take a look at the performance of this phone.

The happy thing about the design is that Meizu is very obedient. Meizu 21 finally has a four-sided, ultra-high screen proportion of Samsung OLED straight screen, 1.74mm ultra-narrow frame, in front of small and medium-sized digging holes, whether it is equipped with black panel or white panel, the front face is impeccable.

This 6.55inch screen supports 120Hz high refresh rate, 1500Hz instantaneous sampling rate, 1800nit peak brightness, and 1920Hz PWM high frequency dimming, as well as SGS low blue eye protection certification, so you no longer have to look for the deep hidden DC dimming switch in developer options, even for strobe-sensitive users.

Although Meizu chose to continue to cooperate with Samsung, not using the popular domestic screen, so the resolution is FHD+, but because of the Samsung diamond arrangement, the screen clarity need not be worried at all. With unlocked frame 120Hz adaptive high brush, whether it is browsing CTOnews.com, Weibo, bilibili, or playing a game, it is very smooth.

What surprises me most about this screen is the adjustment of color style. Take the Meizu 20 PRO I am using as an example, there are adaptive, standard and bright color styles, but regular users should know that no matter how you choose the screen color temperature is the same, it seems that you can only see the difference between contrast and saturation.

However, Meizu 20 has added the professional mode of the D65 standard, that is, the color temperature of 6500K, and the screen display is softer and closer to the paper display effect, which is just the right time for people like me who work in front of the computer screen every day.

In terms of screen quality and display effect, the screen of Meizu 21 surpasses Meizu 20 in an all-round way, even better than Meizu 20 PRO in some respects, which can be said to be the biggest upgrade this time. After all, the screen, as one of the core components of the phone, is also the most obvious place for users to use.

Then there is the vibration motor that Meizu friends are concerned about. Meizu 21 uses a large horizontal linear motor known as mEngine Ultra. As soon as you get started, you can obviously feel the familiar "charm" vibration feedback back, the vibration is tight and powerful, and the feedback is clean and not procrastinating. It looks like it's really adjusted. Not only that, Meizu also added the function of adjusting the vibration intensity level for the system vibration feedback, so that we can better choose the comfortable vibration level we use.

And Meizu's traditional art can definitely not lose fingerprints under the ultrasonic screen, and the unlocking experience is as fast, accurate and stable as ever, and wet hands can also be solved casually.

The back design of Meizu 21 is basically further adjusted and optimized on the tone of the previous generation. After all, the back design of Meizu 20 series is already very good-looking. The vertical arrangement of the three-shot ring lens Deco inherits Meizu's pursuit of simplicity and freshness. The difference is that Meizu 21 replaced the same color metal edge of the outer ring of the previous generation lens with a black ultra-thin edge.

The all-black lens will make the Deco part feel more integrated, the ring flashing light of the third lens will further grab the user's visual center of gravity, and the ultra-thin edge means it is not prone to scratches and appearance damage. So what's the price? Of course, there is a lack of a sense of advanced.

The official makes the iconic ring flash more eye-catching, and naturally has its own abacus, because now it is not only a flash, but also an Aicy smart ring that can display colorful lights. As long as you call Aicy voice assistant to ask questions, or in notification, incoming calls, charging, games and other scenarios, Aicy smart ring will intelligently recognize and play various color light reminders, and have animation effect, simplicity is not simple.

Most of the time, the Aicy smart ring is monochromatic. For example, the green light in the image above is the lighting effect of the phone when it is charged. The blue aperture on the other side represents the proportion of the phone that has not yet been charged. The green represents the current charging progress of the phone, that is, about 50% of the battery is charged. For specific scenarios, you can find them in the Smart Ring option in the system appearance settings. Currently, only incoming calls and notification lights support color customization, and other scenes are fixed colors. From the white circular breathing light around the front hole-digging camera to the colorful Aicy smart ring flashing in the rear, Meizu has always been innovative in interaction, which is worth encouraging.

CTOnews.com got the "Ruiyiqing" color match this time, to be honest, this color match is more picky, because it actually looks a little more yellow, a bit like the buds that have just grown in early spring, and the chlorophyll has not yet completely covered the leaves, so it is very dynamic. The other three colors are unbounded black, enchanted white and smart purple. To be sure, under the all-black lens Deco design language, black and white are the most attractive, and smart purple is more suitable for female users. I hope Meizu 21 can launch a cement gray, warm and white high-level back shell, and fierce male fans had better be arranged.

On the back shell material, it still continues the AG frosted glass material of Meizu 20 series + boundless star flash technology, which feels delicate and intimate to the skin, neither cold nor cold. Uppercase MEIZU LOGO from the previous generation of vertical row to the bottom center horizontal row, but visually extremely diluted Logo design, it is difficult to produce much sense of existence, Meizu is still pursuing the most pure and simple design aesthetics.

As for the feel, the size and weight of Meizu 21 have been fine-tuned. The 73mm of Meizu 20, the width of the fuselage, has been changed into 75mm, and the weight has increased from 190g to 198g (bare metal, the actual weight with factory film is 200g), so the grip feel is close to Meizu 20 PRO.

Fortunately, the side middle frame part, as always, uses matte sandblasting texture of aluminum alloy material, do not have to worry about sticky fingerprints and prone to scratches and other problems.

The top of the middle frame of Meizu 21 is equipped with infrared sensors, which can be used for remote control of smart home devices, as well as peripheral configurations such as NFC. Although the middle frame and rear shell are straight, the edges are beveled a little to make sure they don't hold too hard.

There are a group of loudspeaker openings on the bottom of the middle frame at the bottom of Meizu 21, which together with the top handset form a double superlinear stereo dual loudspeaker, which is better than Meizu 20 PRO in terms of sound quality and volume.

Performance charging Meizu 21 this time comes with a standard three-piece set of flagship phones, including the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile processor, 12GB memory and 512GB storage. At present, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 flagship phones released by competitors have excellent performance, and as long as manufacturers are willing to take the time to optimize and FM, they are unlikely to turn over.

Here we give you a brief run of the CPU test project of GeekBench 6. You can see that in the default balanced battery mode, Meizu 21 has a single core score of 2285 and a multi-core score of 6674, which is in line with the level of the third generation Snapdragon 8.

Let's use the 3D Mark mobile version to test the stability of CPU. After 20 rounds of continuous running, Meizu 21 has a best score of 16901, a minimum score of 13801, a stability of 81.7%, and a temperature rise of 41 degrees from the initial 29 degrees. This is not bad for a device with a small fuselage, after all, there will not be such a high load scene for daily use.

In the actual combat, let's not talk nonsense, just start the "original God". In the indoor Wi-Fi environment of 26 degrees at room temperature, the battery keeps the default balance mode and does not open e-sports mode. The original god game is set to the highest picture quality, 60 frames, turn off dynamic blur, then run a fixed route in Xumicheng for 30 minutes, the final average frame rate is 59.2 frames, and the frame rate curve remains in a straight line.

At this time, the maximum temperature on the front and back of the Meizu 21 fuselage is 43.8 degrees and 44.8 degrees respectively, and the frame temperature is 38.7 degrees-39.8 degrees.

It should be noted that the "Arena of Valor" has not yet adapted to the high frame rate of 120Hz, and the image quality options are not complete. And Miha Tour another popular mobile game "collapse: star Dome Railway" UI also does not adapt, left and right UI elements directly attached to the edge, so the current test of the performance of the two games is unfair and meaningless, the official should push a new firmware solution when it is released, players with rigid needs can wait and see.

In terms of charging, Meizu 21 is equipped with a 4800mAh battery, and the maximum output power of the standard charger is 80W. Measured by CTOnews.com, the charge is from 5% to 100%, the peak power is 66W, and the charging power in the first half is between 40W-27W. The final full power consumption of the front desk is 40 minutes, and the full charge time is 42 minutes. The charging optimization option is not enabled in the system. (delay charging over 90% of battery charge)

System experience Meizu 21 this factory pre-installed system version is Flyme10.5.0.0A, there is no update log, should be the exclusive version of the engineering machine. Judging from the experience of Meizu 20 PRO in the past six months, Flyme 10 is still an excellent system in today's Android camp, whether in terms of animation and system fluency, UI aesthetics or the freshness and simplicity of almost no advertising.

The update focus of this system is mainly on the car-machine interconnection and Flyme AR, so the old charm friends may not have much novelty, but Flyme 10 will still be updated continuously in small details, and the humanization will not be disappointing.

For example, after the Flyme10.3 update, when you install App in a third-party store or browser, you can install it without waiting for security testing, regardless of whether the app is included in the official app store. In case you click wrong or do not want to install, you can close the page with a stroke down.

For example, if you click on a picture in the gallery, as long as there is text information on it, a gray translucent scanning icon will appear in the lower right corner of the screen. Clicking on the icon will automatically identify and mark the text information in the picture. It is convenient for users to extract, translate, add notes, share and other operations without having to press the screen for active recognition. If the scan icon is not clicked within 2 seconds after clicking on the picture, the icon will disappear by itself.

For example, when we record a screenshot, we usually have to face the interference of sudden message reminders and tones. As long as we press the screencap shortcut icon in the control center and turn on the switch of the screencap do not disturb and the perfect status bar, we can block all notification banner reminders and prompt tones, and automatically help us generate a perfect status bar full of blood signals, which greatly improves the screenrecording experience. There are many intimate and practical features like this, but you don't know it's good until you use it.

Finally, let's take a look at the image. Meizu 21 uses the flagship 200-megapixel background camera + 1200-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens + 5-megapixel depth-of-field lens. CTOnews.com simply took some sample photos for your reference.

To sum up, the pace of this upgrade of Meizu 21 is relatively steady. After all, it has been only half a year since the release of Meizu 20 series, which has made up for the shortcomings and regrets of the previous generation in some places that Meizu friends are concerned about, making the overall hardware quality and experience more bucket and balanced.

For example, the quad-edge Samsung drill screen, better vibration feedback, better sound quality, faster ultrasonic fingerprints, and regular hardware upgrades such as the third-generation Snapdragon 8. In some ways, Meizu still maintains its own persistence, such as white panels and pure white body, circular flash, and even the introduction of Aicy smart ring innovation. What I am looking forward to next is Meizu's efforts in software and systems. After all, Flyme 10 is easy to use, but the potential for improvement is still huge.

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