Meizu Zero Hands-On: “Hole-less” Concept Phone With No Buttons, No Ports By ben's gadget reviews

Hey everybody I have here: I meet the maid use zero. So this is the phone that grabs some headlines last week, because when this was announced major you called it. The world's first holds phone personally I think that term is pretty damn ridiculous. I think more accurate her say this is this: is an uninterrupted, seamless, unibody design? So you see at the bottom of the phone. It's missing a headphone jack, obviously, but also know speaker, grilles and no charging port and on the sides left, and right sides were traditionally there are power, buns and volume. Rockers, there's nothing it's smooth.

So this is the whole selling point of this phone. It's one unibody device that feels seamless and kind of uninterrupted. Now to be fair, that's not quite true! You can see, there are holes right here, four mics, and you can argue that the camera sensor and the flash is also a little of interruption in a device, but hey that's where phone brands are trying to go for now, like that hipster slightly, pretentious minimalism that everyone's doing like VIVO and Mountain announced something similar to a pastels in nineteen. So what major is doing here? Its similar idea now around the front. You do have some bezels on the top and bottom, but I, don't think! That's you bad I think the full is perfect.

This is a curved OLED display. It feels very comfortable in the hand. Ceramic is just a nicer material to grip onto than glass. In my opinion, that's why I really like using the Xiaomi me mix three two. So it's still drippy like it doesn't slip off my hand.

So is an easy, the hold phone but ceramic just more dense. It feels more firm, more premium than glass. Now, obviously, since major you eliminate so many crucial smartphone ports such as buttons and uh, you know SIM tray and our speaker grille USB, C port. All that made you have to come up with ways to get around it. Just don't make this phone usable, so the lack of a charging port.

It's pretty obvious! This phone supports wireless charging, supports wireless charging. Just fine you see, our hair is working and um, there are no buttons on the left and right, no physical buttons anyway, and instead in this place, are these touch sensitive buttons kind of like on the iPhone 7. You know with that fake home button, where it's not really a button, but if you press into hard enough, you feel a little click. So it's what's happening here. You see, I can adjust the volume right here you see by pressing in ? it's very hard to see, but there is a little of a dot that highlights the buttons now personally pressing into it does feel very natural if it was like I am pressing a button, but it's quite hard to find, and I've been using this phone for a couple of hours, and I'm still like any time.

I want to lower the volume out to be like oh I have to look at to do this. Like oh, I, saw the power button. So it's right here on the right side, same thing: you just press into it: the foam sleeps. This is pretty natural. When you press into you do feel a little tactile click, but again it's a little hard to find when I first got this phone took me like five minutes or left.

Five minutes took me like, like ninety seconds, to turn it on, because I wasn't sure what a button was and how hard not to press it. Okay mix up to replace the missing speaker, grilles major, is using piezoelectric transducer technology. That's not new Xiaomi did it with the first me mix. So basically sound will now vibrate through the screen to you. So let's just play a video really quick, so I'm not gonna, play K-pop videos in this, because my girlfriend's getting a northern me for always using K-pop videos of all these girls, so I'm just playing an MBA video instead to see where now let me increase the volume a little, so speaker does sound pretty good like a work.

Sound is coming from the screen right now. When you put your finger on the screen actually vibrate, so you can feel it moving now. The problem is when we lower volume. The problem is, this: doesn't get as loud as a traditional loudspeaker, because I was on a coffee shop earlier, and I was trying to test the speaker and I couldn't really hear it in the crowd and the coffee shop wasn't even that loud. But if you're watching this in private it definitely works.

We play some music actually because you need to check your bass work, so we'll go to we're going on my bad who says there was a bit of distortion at max volume. So that's me on the drums. By the way the screen looks nice, though, like not having it naturally does add to the impulsiveness. So speaker sounds pretty good. I haven't been able to make a call yet because this phone, like I mentioned, doesn't even have a SIM card slot, so you have to use ECM IOM.

It's like relatively. We were relatively obscure technology of SIM card embedded inside your phone via software, and you can only set it up if your carrier supports it. Hong Kong right now, only one carrier uses ECM and I. Don't I don't use that carrier. So there's no way for me to use this phone fully out and about because I can't just use my sim in there I'll get to you so yeah that ultimately limits how much I can use this phone, but I'll get into that later.

So now, we'll talk specs, really quick. This is a 6.2 inch OLED panel. The chips are in size. They snap tracking, eight four fives. So yes, some fans are gonna, be disappointed.

Considering this is chip size like now a year old, but it's still more than powerful enough to handle day-to-day tasks for like 99% of the global population. Multi-Core score on a deep bench is pretty respect over eighty-seven, thirty, four, twenty-four thirty-two I mean we know that snaps on a 45 is good enough. There are six gigs of ram in there it's a little on the low side. However, I do wish. There's eight, but I haven't seen any performance issues there with the phone.

So now, let's talk about the software I'm a little disappointed that it's only enjoy 8.1 here in certain joint nine, but at least a fly me software skin. On top, it's pretty good I'm, generally I'm a fan of major software skin. It's I, don't love it as much as I love, one plus as oxygen OS, but I still like a lot better than then Vito, so a fun touch or opals, color, OS or Huey wise EMU, I. So I like that, you can bring down a notification shade by swiping down from anywhere. So you know they don't make you reach all into the top.

Like some phones I like that, you can swipe from the edge of the screen to psycho to your apps. That's been pretty useful and overall, the software is pretty zippy pretty responsive. Now, Richie does use a slightly different swiping navigation. So I'll show you really quick. So let's go into Instagram story, it's tricky, so you need to swipe up a little to go back, and then you swipe up higher to go home.

So it's something that requires a little of training like a lot of times when I first started using this software I would accidentally go all the way back home when I'm just merely trying to back up a little. So it takes a small swipe to go back to go back out big swipe to go home, and I need big swipe and hold to bring up app overview. I probably want to prefer something like what VEVO and oboes doing, which is your swipe from the left or right side to go back or Xiaomi or in Hollywood you swipe from the sides to go back like this kind of like difference between big swipe and small swipe. It's a little funky for me, but overall still I, don't hate this software, like it's a lot better than when I use a Huawei phone. To be honest! So now let's talk about the camera, so you notice that obviously there's a bezel up top because there's room for a 20, megapixel, selfie camera, the VIVO apex does not have bezel up top because it just flat-out didn't have a selfie camera I! Think I haven't touched that phone yeah now around the back.

You have a 12 megapixel main shooter, with a f1 pointing aperture and a 20 megapixel secondary telephoto lens. So this set up it's almost exactly the same as maze use last flagship. The 16th I generally think major use camera is pretty solid. It's on point like it's not like the greatest camera around, but it definitely will get the job done. You know, colors are really accurate, and shutter speed is fast and responsive and dynamic range is really solid.

This is not a bad shot at all. This is the neighborhood ROG she's, so freaking cute, and this is selfie portrait mode. So you see the depth the edge detection. It's wrote, it's pretty on point, see I picked out my hair. Okay, it's a little strong there affect in the back, but I believe you can fix this in software afterwards.

So this is selfie portrait and this is a normal selfie, and it's just overall. This is a two time. Zoom photo overall, the camera. It's pretty good. So now I must stress that this film isn't final I'm using a pre-production them right here, so everything should improve even more as I use the phone, but as of right now these cameras more than usable.

Already like no complaints, you go into the camera app, it's Cree responsibility, zippy, you have all the different modes, including funny snap, which it's like those AR stuff that Chinese brands love so much, but I generally think made use camera software. It's above average I like that. You can switch in a selfie camera just right here in the lower left-hand corner some Chinese software has the button up in the upper right corner, and it's just stupid because it's really hard to reach with one hand. Okay, so that's about it for now, I can't really comment on battery life, yet because I haven't used to phone long enough, plus I want to stress that this is not a review. This is a pre-production demo unit I'm going to test.

So it's not final software, but you know I already know what the final consensus is. Going to be for this phone. This is not a phone. That's meant to be sold to the masses. This is not a mainstream phone, because one east similar now it's very obscure most people will not have access to it.

So you can't even put your SIM calling this thing to the kind of software buttons side, blinds they're cool in theory, and they look nice, but you see it took me like five seconds so hunting around one hour just to find it. So it's not practical same with this power button here like if you want to unlock your phone, really quick, you have to find it. I mean there is a fingerprint sensor that works, but I took it on I tested it at work, but I took it off and now because this is unfinished software, and I'm, just not confident putting my to go in for and my fingerprint on there fully, but I've used previous major phones before I tested my bunch of messy phones, and they are always pretty legit. This is not like a shady company. Releasing something that's like you know.

You don't know. What's in their major phones are usually pretty legit, so I'm confident that the final software, a final version, will be more ease about, but still this is a phone for collectors. This is not a phone you buy to use day-to-day. It does look very damn good. It feels pretty damn nice and performance is solid if you can get over all the shortcomings, so that's it for now, I'm going to be going to MWC.

So please stay tuned because I'm going to have videos coming up on the new Huawei phone, probably the foldable new LG phone, probably something from Xiaomi, opal or VIVO. Whatever else is coming and yeah, that's it for the health thanks for watching.

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