Meizu 16XS Review: $245, Triple Camera From Meizu By ben's gadget reviews

So, this video is sponsored by Squarespace from websites and online stores and marketing tools and analytics. Squarespace is the all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business. Hey everybody so about two months ago, I reviewed the made u16s and that phone proved to be very popular, at least according to my YouTube comments, a lot of people like the phone, because it was a great value. You got a snapshot in a 55 for 350 bucks, but also because the phone had a very symmetrical design it made. You didn't achieve the symmetrical design by using pop-up cameras or a second screen on a bag. None of those gimmicks instead made you just simply make the top and bottom bezel very, very thin and kept them symmetrical and who knew that's really all you needed to have a good-looking device like this well, this here I have on me, it's not to meet you 16s.

In fact, this is made using the newest update. This is the made you 16 XS, so, as you can see, it keeps virtually the same design as a Master 16 s, but it's even cheaper at $245. So here's why I made you 16 XS is $100 cheaper than it made you 16 s. So the first thing is this: one runs on a snapdragon 670 instead of the snapshot 855 family in the previous media device. The second thing is this phone has a plastic back, so it doesn't feel as premium as the glass back seen in the major 16 s, but it still looks pretty nice, and it still fits in the hand pretty nicely and third the happening engine on this is nowhere near as good as the happening engine.

Seen in the made you 16s now, that's not necessarily a bad thing. That's just because I made you 16 s is happening engine. Is that good? If you used a made you phone before, and you use other smartphones, you know that made use haptic engine, at least in his flagship phones or on par with apples and LG's, meaning they're the best of the best. So of all these shortcomings, I think the only area that most people will care about is the chipset Snapchat 670, it's more than a year old. It's definitely inferior to the snapshot in a 55 and also inferior in a snapshot in 730.

That's seen in the Xiaomi me 90, and I have found that you know. For the most part, the phone is not slow per se, but sometimes there's a little of study here and there like when I try to swipe up. Sometimes the action doesn't register as fast, not to be fair. Maybe it's because I've been using a 1/4 seventh row and that forms just zips around, but this phone just feels like a beat slower like everything. It's not it's not super laggy, but it's just sometimes it feels a little slow to me, and you know, I didn't have this issue to me to you, 16s, which runs on a snapshot in 55, so I'm inclined to believe that it's a combination of the chipset and also the fact that this only has six gigs of RAM, but it's just a little slow.

Now, ironically, the meet you 16 X s may have a more capable camera than they're made u16s. So, as you can see here, this is made use first triple camera set up ever so the main sensor, it's a 40 megapixel lens, which we've seen in them in like 12 other budget phones now and then accompanying the folio, a megapixel sensor. It's a 5 megapixel def sensor and an 8 megapixel F 2.2 wide-angle camera. So this marks the first time is using a wide-angle camera, and it's phones and I think for the first time attempt it's pretty good. So major you software, the camera app will automatically in real time, fix the barrel distortion and in fact it's a little slow.

So you can see it in action as soon as you switch to the wide-angle camera, you see the corners of the frame kind of get fixed a little like it was this little warping action. It's a little weird to see the image warp like that, but the fact that the camera app is fixing distortion in real time. It's good! Now, previous major phones, you get a telephoto lens that offers three times losses zoom, so you don't get that here. Instead, you get that def sensor. So yeah, you don't get to shoot, lossless zoom photos, but to be honest, if you ask me and I think a lot of other people, we'd rather have the wide-angle, then a telephoto lens anyway, and a depth sensor here actually does the job.

As you can see here, it actually can detect the object in real time, whether it's in the foreground or background you can switch back and forth to, and you can see the depth of field blur in real time and I like that. It's a real def sensor, not like the ones scene, like the Boogie phones. Now, looking at the rest of the hardware, not much has changed. You still have a headphone jack at the bottom of the phone along with an is it focusing yep. You still have a headphone jack in the bottom of the phone, along with a USB-C and a single bottom, fine, speaker grille.

So the left side of the phone is mostly clean other than a sim tray. This SIM tray houses, two sims, but no SD card. So that means when you buy the phone, you have to make sure there's enough storage so on the right side of the device, you have a power button right here. It's pretty click and volume rockers. You see there's a little of a camera bump here, but not too bad, but the phone does wobble.

When you put a flat on the desk and on the top, you have a mic and that's it. It's pretty clean and I'm. Even the edge is the screen it's still relatively smooth, which is something major does well because on some other budget phones like a Xiaomi device or even OnePlus, before the seventh roll, a beholder one plus six or one plus five. The edges right here, a little rough, so I'm happy to report that major did a pretty good job of kind of chambering the edges here to make it blend more seamlessly into the device. So again, this is a plastic back, so it doesn't feel as premium but other than that pretty nice looking phone and 6.2 inches after using phones with six point, four and six point, six inches six point: two just feels tiny. So now I can, I feel like, and we'd use this from one hand easily, and it fits into the hand very nicely and of course made you software and lets me bring down notification shade by swiping anywhere and that really just improves one hand usability okay.

So let's talk about the wide-angle camera again, since that's some talk about the only new thing, this phone, so in general, in daylight, with good lighting, you're going to get a pretty good shot. But if you pixel peep, that's when the flaws pop up is. This is an 8 megapixel wide-angle camera. So this is now op megapixels to Play land, not a lot of pixels. So if you look at this picture on a phone screen or an Instagram, it looks great.

But if you transfer this to a computer, and you blow it up, then you see that details are very, very soft. In the middle and then the edges, you get little of just comm machinist, it's very soft details, and that's only during the day when you have good lighting at night, the wide-angle camera, it's pretty bad I would say almost unusable. So this is a nighttime wide-angle shot, and they see it's completely noisy it's completely blurry now. But in contrast, if you swipe here now, this is a normal photo. It's a lot sharper right.

It's a lot sharper a lot cleaner. But when you go to the wide angle, it's it just loses so much detail so yeah the wide-angle camera, it's pretty bad at night, but if you're shooting during the day, and you're not trying to blow up the picture to put it on a frame on a wall it'll be fine. I mean the fact that this one's 250 bucks, and you get a wide-angle camera I think is huge, and I'm not really going to complain, because it still allows you to get a lot of perfect shots when, when you're traveling during the day like in Europe with LA, beautiful architectures or in Hong Kong tall buildings, you want to get the whole frame, then the wide-angle camera will be able to get that. So, as I mentioned, the def sensors legit, so you get some perfect bulky images right here you get a really creamy blade effect that looks pretty good and again, like I said you can see the effect in real time. So that allows you to kind of check the framing, not the main 48 megapixel sensor is pretty much the same story with all other budget Chinese films that tested meaning during the day it's great you're gonna capture, some really sharp, spotless, which is I, think color temperature tends to be a little warm coming from this camera.

But for the most part, these images are great. At night, it's when you start seeing like visible noise, visible grain and a loss of details, but the good news is that made use introducing a night mode with this film for the first time too, so it's kind of buried under setting. So you have to jump into the camera app, and then you have to swipe to the right go to more, and it's at the bottom. It's called super night mode. So from here then, at this point you just have to take a picture, and it'll take like a second to a second and a half, and then, after that, it'll stitch together, multiple images, and you'll get brilliant.

The big difference there's a lot better lit than the one without. Let me find a sample here, so you see right here. It's a night shot ticking Auto. This is pretty nice shot. But although to be fair, it's not that dark, there's a lava and being lighting in city lights, but now you move over here to the night mode or super nice shot.

And you see it done. Let me read just a little better and kind of pop a little more right, so this is a photo that you put on Instagram. It will look pretty nice so again, the main camera struggles at night. If you shoot in auto-pay, if you go to all online you'll, be fine. In fact, you can get some pretty serviceable night shots if you shoot in night mode, so I'll show you some samples right now in terms of video, you can shoot video at 720p, 1080p or 4k resolution, but only at 30 frames per second and in general, videos are lively and sharp and vibrant, but except there is no stabilization whatsoever.

So you see I'm walking right now and its it's very jerky, but colors are good, and you can zoom using that two times. Zoom toggle button in mid-video, and on top of that good news, you can shoot videos of the wide-angle camera too. That's huge, that's something that you can't even do on a 1 plus 7 Pro an hour, an Oprah. We know now it's for the selfie camera I'm, not a big fan of selfies, but I. Think for the most part, it's fine.

It's um! It struggles a lot with dynamic range, so you see with this bright lights coming in it will blow out parts with really bright lights, but again it's a $250 phone, and I'm not going to have too many complaints. It's its. Definitely not like the best selfie camera out that you see right here. The background behind my girlfriend. It's completely blown out, but you can get some pretty decent images if you have good lighting condition, but even here you see my face.

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As you can see, there is no app tray, which is a little annoying, but I do like some a lot of things made. You do with the software. So, for example, I already mentioned this. You can bring down notification shape by swiping it from anywhere. You can also run your finger along the edges of the screen to cycle through all your apps.

So then you just have to bring your finger to middle, to open it up. So, overall, the app aesthetic they look pretty clean, and you also have stuff like double tap, to turn on the screen, but you can't double tap to turn on. For some reason, you can double tap to turn off, and you have an always-on display that actually shows you third-party notifications, oh and made. You also gives you three different versions of navigation, which is useful I like to have an option so right now, I'm using the full screen swipe navigation, which works just like the Huawei and Xiaomi implementations, and just like the one that's coming to enjoy 9 you slide from the edges to go back. You swipe from the bottom to go home swipe up and hold there go into app overview, but we don't like that.

Furthermore, you can also go into traditional Android buttons, with three buttons set up and also em back and back. It's like major zone navigation bar that uses a combination or swipes and taps I'm, not a big fan of it account mine's me at the end joint 9 pills, I rather just use traditional Android buttons or full screen, swiping navigation. You see there was a little of a lag right there. You see what I mean so the Snapdragon 670 for some reason just isn't that optimized on this phone, like again, it's not like super slow, but sometimes I'll see a little hiccup like that, and just sometimes purr, like I'll. Try to get out of something, and it'll just be like a slight hiccup like a beat slower, then the major 16's and other phones, but again that's nitpicking here, because ultimately, this phone is 245 US dollars, oh yeah, in battery life, do I really need to talk about it.

There's a 4000 million our battery in there and just like every other Chinese phone on earth battery life is excellent. They can definitely last you all day. In fact, I use this phone all day yesterday heavily and then, when I went home, I store, like 30% battery life labs. So this is a phone that you won't need to worry about, and we need to charge you can charge via USB see. So that's a little wind, because some of these are the budget phones charges via microUSB and now, let's do a quick video speaker there.

So, as I mentioned, there's only a single bottom line, speaker, and you can easily muffle it. This is a 70%. Let's go up 20%, so you had. The speaker is overall, it's serviceable. I did think a max volume there's a little distortion, but you know what we got -.

We got Testament music, so we'll go up to 50% below the max yeah, so a max volume that there's really no pace and quite distorted. So that's about it for the made you 16 XS. So this phone sells for 245 US dollars for the base model. That's six gigs of RAM with 64 gigs of internal storage. If you want to bump it up to 128 gigs of internal storage, that will run you in a $30, so that's like 270 280 and for this price.

I think this is a really, really good. Phone. I personally would still prefer to mate. You 16s, because for $100 more you get to snap junk in a 55, but with this phone you get a wide-angle camera and that's something you don't get from the major 16s. So you know each phones has a pros and cons and of course, there's also stuff, like the Realme X, which is really a good deal in the Xiaomi me 90.

So as usual right now, if you are a fan of smartphones, or you're on the market for smartphones, it's a good time when out man, because all these Chinese brands are competing and we, the consumers, win, we're getting really damn good value nowadays. So that's it for now, thanks for watching.

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