1. Preface: The new Meizu 20 PRO continues to write a new course of 20 years
Crossing 19 and heading straight to 20, we waited for two years for the Meizu flagship and finally ushered in the update.
In mid-February this year, Meizu opened a month and a half of new product warm-up, which is enough to see the official attention to Meizu 20 series products.
Ultrasonic fingerprint recognition, SMA memory alloy optical image stabilization, these first-release technologies in the Meizu 18 series have been inherited in the Meizu 20 series, and continue the most classic design and function of Meizu mobile phones in the past.
On the occasion of Meizu's 20th anniversary, from hardware to software, we strive to create a generation of "most Meizu" Meizu mobile phones, which is Meizu's strongest flagship today, Meizu 20 PRO.
1. A new look
Meizu 20 PRO and previous generations of mobile phones have earth-shaking changes, abandoning the previous double-curved screen design elements, the most intuitive feeling is to become particularly square, the R angle of the fuselage and the direct combination of the screen frame, Meizu named this generation of design "unbounded", representing the romance of Meizu aesthetics.
The new design of this generation of Meizu has brought a new look to the 20 PRO, and it also indicates that Meizu is about to start a new journey.
2. Ultrasonic fingerprint + SMA OIS classic has been inherited
Under the new look, but also inherited the classic function of Meizu, ultrasonic fingerprint by Meizu 18 series first launched, has been used so far, in the latest Meizu 20 PRO has been inherited, expanded the area of fingerprint recognition, we no longer need to accurately align the fingerprint recognition module when the screen is unlocked, casually touch can be easily unlocked, but also has the ability to unlock with wet hands, truly achieve the pleasure of "capacitive" fingerprint unlocking.
SMA OIS has also been Meizu's vigorously publicized function, its full name is Shape Memory Alloy Optical Image Stabilizer, that is, memory alloy optical image stabilizer, memory alloy this substance has a shape memory effect, when the shape of the alloy is changed, once heated to a certain jump temperature, it can return to the original form.
Therefore, combined with 4 shape memory wires, the autofocus and anti-shake functions achieved by controlling the temperature to deform the wire, its biggest advantage is that the size of the anti-shake module is smaller, and the anti-shake structure is enough to produce a more stable anti-shake effect, of course, the cost is higher.
Meizu 20 PRO once again inherits the ability of SMA OIS, which can be shot during the day and stable at night with long exposure, and Meizu has never been special in terms of images.
3. Double the 80W wired charge and skip the 50W wireless charge
The charging specifications of the Meizu 20 PRO have also gone further, doubling the wired fast charging power from the previous generation of 40W to 80W, and supporting the industry's highest specification 50W wireless fast charging, with wireless reverse charging.
Here are the detailed parameters of the Meizu 20 PRO:
| Meizu 20 Pro parameters | |
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| performance | The second generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform |
| storage | Up to 12GB+512GBLPDDR5X + UFS4.0 |
| screen | 6.81-inch extreme edge color full screen, Samsung E6 Super AMOLED flexible straight screen, 3200×1440 resolution, 1800nit peak brightness, 8000000:1 static contrast ratio, LTPO substrate, 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate |
| camera | 50 million pixels super sense main camera, 50 million pixels 129° ultra-wide angle lens, 50 million 50mm gold focal length portrait lens |
| fuselage | It is 7.8mm thick and weighs about 209g |
| Battery life | 80W Super mCharge (support QC4+, PPS) equivalent 5000mAh (typical) |
| other | Ultrasonic mTouch Ultrasonic Screen Fingerprint 2.0X-axis Linear Motor Dual · Ultra" linear speaker, "ice boundary" frame cooling technology, unbounded antenna system, support NFC, support infrared remote control |
Second, the appearance: unbounded star flash process The ultimate comprehensive straight screen
The Meizu 20 PRO is equipped with a 6.81-inch Samsung E6 Super AMOLED screen, which has a resolution of 3200×1440 and an equivalent PPI of 420.
This time, Meizu finally supports 2K resolution and 120Hz refresh rate, combined with the characteristics of LTPO substrate, compatible with 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate, thereby further reducing the power consumption caused by high brushes.
Secondly, this Samsung top screen has a static contrast ratio of 8 million:1, with HDR10+ hyper-dynamic display and DCI-P3 color gamut, it has a very excellent viewing experience when watching movies and pictures.
The biggest difference between Meizu 20 PRO and previous generations is that the previous hyperbolic screen is changed to a straight screen, and the moment the screen is lit, the visual impact of the three sides of the same width suddenly comes up.
The centering front camera avoids image distortion caused by shooting angles when video chatting or selfies.
The gesture navigation bar at the bottom of the phone integrates Meizu's classic mBack gesture, tap back, press back to the desktop, long press the screen, instantly recall the memories of old Meizu friends, even new users can quickly get started, when you really experience, you really can't go back.
This generation of Meizu 20 PRO is equipped with a tough metal middle frame with a high-gloss gold treatment, which raises the texture of the mobile phone to a higher level.
The thickness of the mobile phone is only 7.8mm, and the weight is 209 grams, which is relatively light in the flagship mobile phone, and it will not feel particularly heavy in the hand.
The unbounded star design used on the back of the fuselage can absorb most of the light, when you pick up the mobile phone, the light diffusion brought by diffuse reflection is so smooth, smooth and not greasy to touch with your hands, and the biggest advantage of this design is that it is not easy to stain fingerprints.
The rear three-camera layout adopts a new arrangement scheme of left portrait, which is more in line with the aesthetics of the public, and the classic ring flash is also retained, and the dToF laser focus sensor is integrated in the center of the flash.
The Meizu logo, which is arranged in the same direction as the lens, integrates the background color of the fuselage, showing the boundless integration of technology and aesthetics.
As far as the overall design of Meizu 20 PRO is concerned, it not only takes into account the previous simple style brother, but also perfectly integrates the new unbounded design into it, which also represents a new beginning for Meizu's flagship.
The Meizu 20 PRO became the first model to be equipped with an infrared remote control sensor, located at the top of the fuselage, with a noise-canceling microphone in the cutout next to it, and symmetrical antenna breakbands on both sides.
The bottom of the fuselage has speaker cutouts, Type-C and headphone 2-in-1 connectors are located in the bottom center position, and on the right side are the main microphone and SIM card slots.
The power button of the Meizu 20 PRO is located on the right side of the fuselage as the volume button.
This time, Meizu 20 PRO supports a wired fast charging power of up to 80W, which is double the power of the previous generation, and the included fast charging adapter adopts the C port solution.
Third, performance: the second generation Snapdragon 8 performance Audio-Technica Antutu running score of nearly 1.3 million
As a flagship mobile phone, Meizu 20 PRO is equipped with the strongest performance audio-Technica, the second generation of Snapdragon 8, LPDDR5X and UFS4.0, the version up to 12+512GB is also the version we tested.
Next, let's run a set of theoretical performance tests.
1. Antutu
The total score of AnTuTu comprehensive test reached 1.3 million +, which is about 84% improvement compared with the Meizu 18 PRO equipped with Snapdragon 888, of which the CPU score is close to 280,000 and the GPU score is 575,000, which is 51% and 93% higher than the previous generation.
2、GeekBench
In the GeekBench5 single test, the single-core score reached 1418, and the multi-core score was 4315, which was nearly 25.7% and 20.6% respectively compared with the Snapdragon 888.
We also tested with the latest GeekBench6, which scored 1974 for single-core and 5264 for multi-core.
3、Androbench
In terms of storage testing, in the Androbench test, the sequential read speed is 3.5GB/s and the sequential write speed is 3.0GB/s, which is nearly 2 times higher than the previous generation of standard UFS 3.1 flash memory.
4. Memory test
In the memory test, the 12GB LPDDR5X specification memory ran a copy speed of 1.97GB/s and a write speed of 5.42GB/s.
Fourth, the game: the first polishing of the 4nm core Genshin can also approach the full frame
The running score is only a test of theoretical performance, and the performance release of hardware optimization and extreme load depends on the performance of the game.
In this regard, in the game test session, we selected 3 mobile game masterpieces that can represent low, medium and high load in an office environment with an indoor temperature of 25 degrees Celsius, namely Honor of Kings, Peace Elite and Genshin for testing.
During the test, we adjusted the brightness of the mobile phone screen to 50% and turned off the automatic brightness to ensure the accuracy of the test, used the highest image quality + highest frame rate in the game to test, and recorded the performance of the frame rate, temperature and power consumption in the game.
1. Glory of Kings
The first is the lower load of the King of Honor mobile game, in the turn on the ultimate picture quality with a very high frame rate test, the game runs at a maximum of 120FPS, after a round of nearly 10 minutes of testing, the average frame rate of the game is stable at 120.4FPS, although there is a slight frame drop during the game, but this does not affect the overall smoothness of the game, the average fluctuation is only 2FPS.
In terms of power consumption, the average power consumption is about 4.2W, and the frame energy consumption is 35.5mW, which is considered to be the middle and upper reaches of many Snapdragon 8Gen2 models.
In terms of temperature, it is slightly high, 40.2 degrees Celsius on the front of the fuselage, 39.8 degrees Celsius on the back of the fuselage, it is estimated that it has a lot to do with the design of Meizu 20 PRO, the straight side of the middle frame is not very conducive to heat dissipation, resulting in high heat of the overall body, and it is slightly hot during the game.
In this regard, we also measured the temperature of the border, 39.1 degrees Celsius, in the process of holding the mobile phone to play games, you can clearly feel that the border is getting hotter and hotter.
2. Peace elite
Peace Elite mobile game, under the extreme frame rate + HDR HD picture quality, a game of nearly 15 minutes of battle, the average frame rate is stable to a full 60 frames, the game's frame rate curve has hardly changed, and the frame rate fluctuation is only 0.7FPS.
Although it is 60 frames, HDR+ high image quality also brings a higher load to the phone, with an average power consumption of 4.055W and a true energy consumption of 67.6mW.
Although the power consumption is lower than that of King Glory, the temperature is higher, with 41.9 degrees Celsius on the front of the fuselage and 40.3 degrees Celsius on the back of the fuselage, which is also relatively related to the duration of the game.
The Meizu 20 PRO's midframe also soared to 39.7 degrees Celsius, a heat close to 40 degrees Celsius, making it difficult to maintain a posture for gaming.
3. Genshin
Finally, the high-load Genshin mobile game, in the extremely high picture quality + 60 frame mode, while running the picture while fighting monsters, a 16-minute game test, the average frame rate is stable at 59.9FPS, a look at Meizu is to spend a lot of effort to optimize the performance release, in the game process, the average fluctuation is only 1.5FPS, even better than most Snapdragon 8Gen2 mobile phones.
With high stability, power consumption must also be higher, the average 5.5W high energy consumption, frame energy consumption has also come to 91.8mW, in many Snapdragon 8Gen2 models, it is also relatively high, can only say that high performance and low power consumption can not be both.
So in terms of temperature, the front of the fuselage soared to 43.3 degrees Celsius, and the back of the fuselage also reached 42.3 degrees Celsius.
The part of the middle frame of the mobile phone has also reached 41 degrees Celsius, at this time, it is very difficult to continue to hold the same part of the mobile phone, and you have to change the direction and part of the mobile phone.
5. Image: 50 million pixels conventional three-camera SMA OIS blessing The film output rate is extremely high
Meizu 20 PRO rear 50 million pixels high-specification three-camera module, of which the telephoto camera has an equivalent 50mm golden focal length, 50 million pixels ultra-wide angle camera, with a field of view of 129 degrees.
At the same time, the main camera combined with SMA OIS can bring a stronger stabilization gain effect, which greatly improves the film yield when shooting night scenes.
- Main camera
In the daytime scene, the picture is very clean, and Meizu's strategy for image tuning is high saturation, which will make people fall in love with taking pictures, and even in backlit scenes, it can show enough bright colors.
At night, using the long-exposure night mode, the shooting picture has good control of glare, the light and dark between the light and the building are clear, and the details are restored in place, especially there are no optical defects between the adjacent light signs, making the picture more rendering.
Moreover, with SMA OIS optical image stabilization, no matter how to shoot the picture, it will not be pasty, and it has a very good performance in stability and optical control.
- Telephoto
Using the Meizu 20 Pro's 2x optical zoom telephoto lens, samples without loss of detail are taken, and color restoration is relatively accurate.
- Ultra-wide angle
The picture under the 129-degree ultra-wide-angle lens can show the tension of the building day and night, the 50 million pixel large aperture lens, integrated with Meizu's latest computational photography algorithm, optimizes the anti-distortion ability of the lens, the wider the angle, the more it can show the grandeur of the picture, the color reproduction is very real, and it is very suitable to record the beautiful scenery around the place.
6. Charging and battery life: double the 80W wired charging 45 minutes full charge in exchange for 7.5 hours of battery life
Meizu 20 PRO has a built-in 5000mAh large-capacity battery, and its charging power has also been doubled, from the original 40W to 80W, and supports 50W wireless charging.
- Charging test
After testing, the Meizu 20 PRO charged 36% in 10 minutes, charged to 56% in 20 minutes, and charged to 75% in half an hour, and it took a full 45 minutes to fully charge, basically the mobile phone can quickly return blood in half an hour.
- Battery life test
For battery life, we use a professional endurance test tool - battery dogs produced by Fast Technology for testing.
In the test items, we selected the limit battery life test, checked all test items including CPU high voltage, CPU multi-threading, AI recognition, picture browsing, video playback, and web browsing, simulating user usage scenarios, restoring the real load to the greatest extent, and infinitely close to the real power consumption.
WE ADJUSTED THE POWER OF THE MEIZU 20 PRO TO 50% AND TURNED OFF AUTO-BRIGHTNESS, AND ADJUSTED THE REFRESH RATE TO ADAPTIVE AT 2K RESOLUTION.
After testing, it takes 7 hours and 27 minutes to consume power from 100% to 2%, which is still enough for daily use for a day, and if users have extreme demand for power, you can appropriately reduce the resolution or refresh rate to use.
7. Summary: The original intention of creating the ultimate user experience remains unchanged
After 1 and a half years, Meizu has reappeared with a new look, with a rounded middle frame and a tough metal border, making it difficult to think that this is Meizu Technology's latest flagship mobile phone Meizu 20 PRO.
However, when you play with it, you will feel that the classic design of Meizu is still there, such as the X-axis lateral linear motor that created the ultimate vibration of Android, the mBack that can't go back after use, the ring flash that has been passed down from generation to generation, and today's Meizu 20 PRO flagship mobile phone, old Meizu friends can still see the appearance of Meizu back then.
1. Subversive boundless design Meizu's new beginning
The Meizu 20 PRO opens a new 20 journey with a tough straight edge center frame + rounded four corners, spanning the number 19.
Although this design is different from other mobile phones, the grip and texture of the whole machine are instantly full, and it will not feel particularly heavy in the hand, and it also takes into account the design aesthetics of Meizu, inheriting 20 years of ultimate craftsmanship pursuit, and also indicates that Meizu Technology is about to open a new chapter.
2. The second-generation Snapdragon 8 performance audio-Technica high-load mobile game is easy to control
The second generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, LPDDR5X specification memory, UFS 4.0 specification flash memory, in Meizu 20 PRO we can see the strongest hardware at the moment, in our game test, Genshin easily ran 59.9FPS, easily controlled high-load mobile games, and coped with mainstream mobile games without any pressure.
Meizu's first use of 4nm chips can optimize the strongest core on the surface, which is enough to show Meizu's determination and perseverance to do a good job in products.
3. Double the wired fast charge and full wireless fast charge
The previous generation of Meizu 18 Pro is still 40W wired fast charging, spanning 19 Meizu 20 PRO, wired fast charging directly doubled, 80W fast charging for the mobile phone to bring 45 minutes of fast full blood ability, with the industry's highest specification of 50W wireless fast charging, in the ranks of flagship mobile phones, Meizu 20 PRO charging specifications no longer have regrets.
In the past two decades, Meizu has always regarded "user experience" as the core standard for testing products, but this generation of Meizu has ushered in great changes in history, but the original intention of Meizu "pursuit from love" has not changed.
Combined with the experience of Meizu 20 PRO, we believe that Meizu is still the same Meizu it once was, and has been using "pursuit from love" as the driving force for research and development to create this unique Meizu 20 PRO.
If you are an old coal friend who is waiting for Meizu's new products, or a new user who pays attention to Meizu for a long time, the new flagship mobile phone of Meizu 20 PRO can fully meet all your needs for daily use and entertainment.