Meizu 18s Review: specs and features, camera quality test, gaming benchmark, user opinions and photos

Meizu 18S is a ghostly bestseller

The popularity of the Chinese company Meizu in the countries of Europe and the CIS is no longer as high as it was several years ago. Excellent in design smartphones with an abundance of competitive advantages are now sold exclusively in China with the appropriate software due to financial problems of the developer. But models like the hero of today's review could disperse in millions of copies.

It's hard not to fall in love with the appearance of the novelty. Many original color solutions of the glass and metal case will attract the eyes of others, leave pleasant emotions and a block of three photomodules, which passes to the side face of the display. The use of a relatively small 6.2-inch AMOLED panel helped to achieve excellent ergonomics of the gadget and its compactness. The huge resolution of 3200x1440 pixels for the diagonal, coupled with a refresh rate of 120 hertz, creates an incredibly clear and smooth image, but such screen parameters have a bad effect on autonomy. As a result, a 4000mAh battery will only last for 6-7 hours of active screen time, but the situation is partially saved by a quick charge of 30W. It is unlikely that there will be any complaints about brightness and contrast indicators.

The technical characteristics are top-notch, but the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+ processor managed to be criticized even before the release of the Android smartphone in question. The chipset with 8GB / 12GB of RAM and the Adreno 660 video adapter at first easily deals with resource-intensive gaming applications with maximum graphics presets, but literally after 15-20 minutes, serious throttling appears and freezes and jams appear. In everyday life, of course, such problems are not observed, the Android 11 interface functions with lightning speed. It is a pity that the proprietary FlymeOS shell does not differ in increased functionality. The amount of internal memory has been brought up to 128 / 256GB of UFS 3.1 format, there should not be a shortage of ROM.

The main 64-, 16- and 8-megapixel cameras, led by the Sony IMX682 sensor, hold the bar for quality thanks to optical stabilization and high-quality lenses. Daytime photos do not lag behind those of the best camera phones in terms of color accuracy and detail, only in the evening you can notice a lag due to the appearance of a noticeable amount of noise. Stereo speakers , NFC contactless payment, a responsive sub-screen fingerprint scanner and support for 5G networks add to the list of advantages, making software imperfections less conspicuous. But is it worth working on buying a device from abroad in the presence of analogues with a similar price and performance in place - the question is more complicated. But if the gadget was sold locally, its acquisition would become significantly more logical and attractive.