Meizu Pro 5: Best And Worst Features of The Smartphone

By Vijaykumar

| Published: Saturday, September 26, 2015, 16:11 [IST]

Meizu has launched its next high-end smartphone dubbed as Meizu PRO 5 at an event in Beijing, just a few days back. This device comes with mBack touch-sensitive home button similar to Meizu MX 5 along with mTouch 2.1 fingerprint sensor technology.

Meizu Pro 5, sports a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels along with 2.5D glass, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Protection, 88-degree viewing angle.

It device is clocked at Octa-Core Samsung Exynos 7420 processor with Mali T760 GPU on board. The Meizu Pro 5 comes in two variants which are 3GB LPDDR4 RAM with 32GB in-built storage/4GB LPDDR4 RAM with 64GB storage, where both can be expandable via microSD card slot.

The Meizu Pro 5 comes in Gray, Silver, Silver Black, Golden colors at a price of 2,799 Yuan (approx Rs. 28,900) for 3GB RAM variant and 3,099 Yuan (approx Rs. 32,000) for the 4GB RAM version.

To provide a better perspective on the Meizu Pro 5, we have jotted down the best and worst features of the smartphone. Take a look at the slider below.

The Best:

The Meizu Pro 5 sports a 5.7 inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels along with 2.5D glass, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Protection, 88-degree viewing angle.

The Best:

The smartphone features a premium all-metallic arc design which closely resembles Apple iPhone 6. The smartphone measure just 7.5mm and weights 168 grams.

The Best:

It comes with mBack touch-sensitive home button similar to Meizu MX 5 along with mTouch 2.1 fingerprint sensor technology.

The Best:

The Pro 5 flaunts a 21.6 megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED Flash, Laser Auto focus, 4K video recording and comes with 5 megapixel front snapper on board.

The Best:

Meizu Pro 5 is clocked at octa-core Samsung's Exynos 7420 processor with Mali T760 GPU on board. The Meizu Pro 5 comes in two variants which is 3GB LPDDR4 RAM with 32GB in-built storage/4GB LPDDR4 RAM with 64GB storage, where both can be expandable via microSD card slot.

The Worst:

The smartphone comes with a bigger 3050mAh battery. But, octa-core processor on board takes maximum battery power. The battery life is not as expected.

The Worst:

The smartphone comes with dual-SIM support, but there is no slot for microSD card. However, Meizu has shared the SIM 2 slot with the MicroSD card. Meaning, you can either use two SIM cards or one SIM card along with microSD card.

The Worst:

While, many do not consider the FM radio as the must have features, as many apps music streaming apps are available in the App market that also stream FM from all over the world. However, it would be great if the smartphone comes with native FM radio app.

The Worst:

At the moment, almost all flagship smartphone are featuring the non-removable battery. But with the non-removable battery, users will not have freedom to fix their own battery problem.

The Worst:

The smartphone has a great design made with all-metallic body. But, it feels uncomfortable to hold in hand as the back is made of full metal and feels slippery.