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Meizu PRO 5 Review

    See other variants reviews Score: 66.2 / 100

Meizu PRO 5 is a fascinating cellphone released in September 2015, counting with a big size 5.7-inches screen, a very powerful 2.1 GHz processor, and two cameras, a 21 mega-pixels back side camera and a 5 MP front facing camera.

Meizu made this device in 2 different colors, gray and gold. Meizu did a very good optimization job making the Meizu PRO 5 weight just 5.93 ounces. Regarding its body materials, this device is mainly created with stainless steel. This phone is just 6.17" long and 3.07" wide, but it manages to hold a 5.7" screen. The Meizu PRO 5 is thin, being just 0.3" thick.

Meizu decided to equip this device with a Exynos 7 Octa 7420 chip, including an extremely powerful 2100 megahertz processing unit and a big 4 GB RAM memory. A good point of this phone is its big 64 GB internal storage memory and an external memory slot, which allows you to install hundreds of applications and even the largest games available nowadays without thinking about how much storage capacity is left.

Meizu designed the Meizu PRO 5 with a high-tech 5.7 inches display, and a 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) resolution, providing this cellphone with a high level graphical experience. This display uses Super AMOLED capacitive technology, with a brightness of 350 candela/m2 and is multi-touch enabled.

This phone has two cameras, a 21 megapixels back camera and a 5 megapixels front facing camera. the Meizu PRO 5's back camera has an aperture of F2.2 so it can take great pictures even in dark situations. It can also film videos in 4K 3840x2160 at 120 fps. This camera also has a few nice characteristics like flash, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

The Meizu PRO 5 has WiFi capability (but it can't share it with other devices acting as a hotspot), LTE-A (4G) ultra fast connectivity and 3G fast data connection, supported by HSPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. This phone supports dual SIM cards so it's able to use two different phone lines at the same time.

This cellphone also features a handful of interesting characteristics like Bluetooth (4.1) and GPS, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

The Meizu PRO 5 comes with a 3050 mAh great removable battery that provides the Meizu PRO 5 an incredibly long battery duration.

This phone costs around 249 dollars, very expensive for this type of device. If you you love taking photographs, will use it as a social cellphone, want it to play games or want it for work, you will definitely love this device.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:Meizu
Operating System (OS):Android Flyme 5.0 UI
Variant:See other variants reviews
Dimensions:6.17 x 3.07 x 0.30 inchesMetric15.67 x 7.8 x 0.76 cmImperial
Weight:5.93 ouncesMetric168.11 gImperial
Colors:Gold and Gray
Materials:Stainless steel
Scratch Resistant Glass:Yes
Release date:2015-09-23
Price:$ 249.00

Display

Screen Type:Super AMOLED (16M colors)
Size:5.7 inchesMetric14.5 cmImperial
Resolution:1080 x 1920 pixels (Full HD)
Pixel density:386 pixels per inchMetric151.97 pixels per cmImperial
Brightness:350 cd/m2
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Exynos 7 Octa 7420
Processor:ARM Cortex-A57 and ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit (Single-Core 2100 MHz)
RAM Memory:4 GB (1552 MHz)
Graphics Processor:ARM Mali-T760 MP8
Internal Memory:64 GB
SD Card Slot:microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC (up to 128 GB)

Battery

Removable:Yes
Capacity:3050 mAh

Camera

Back camera:21 megapixels
    Aperture:f/2.20
    Sensor size:0.42 inches (1/2.4")
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:5 megapixels
Max video resolution:3840 x 2160 (120 fps) (4K)
Camera features:Face Detection Shooting and Geo Tagging

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
SIM Card Type:Nano SIM
Dual SIM:Yes
Technologies:LTE-A (4G), HSPA, HSUPA, EDGE and GPRS

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.1
GPS:Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor