Meizu MX - The Review

The macro photo of the VW Beatle looks stunning, though at low light and at distance it's still pretty noisy. Looks like the over-exposure emerges when there are dark area's in the picture. The camera seems to try to compensate that?

Can you tell me how the battery is attached? When looking at this picture it doesn't seem that "fixed" if you know what I mean
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The L-shaped plastic panel surrounding the lower part of the battery covers the connecting wires. Removing the screws holding down the panel "breaks" the finish on the screws (a warranty no-no, I suppose), but once that's done it's pretty easy to disconnect the battery.

And here's a handy play-by-play; click on pics to move ahead in the slideshow:

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looks like the battery isn't removable at all.
the more difficult thing than removing it is to find/get a replacement

By the looks of chengdude's link, removing the battery shouldn't be a problem. I am quite confident that cloned replacement batteries will start to appear in a few months or even weeks.

Thanks Chengdude, after removing the screws it looks pretty easy indeed. Let's hope JouleThomson is right about the clones (with bigger mAh's)

And the screws... well, to me it looks as if they either used the wrong size of screwdriver or screwed the wrong way around :P

Which all begs the question why they made it non-replaceable in the first place....an homage to the big A? Joking aside, I think it's probably to do with discouraging clone battery manufacturers..and TBH if the quality of the M9's battery is anything to go by, it most likely won't need to be changed.

The micro-sim thing is baffling though, if you look at the teardown, I'm sure they could have fitted a full size one in there.

The lack of SD? Well a lot of manufacturers are going this way, perhaps due to the limited lifespan of sdcards, speed compatibility (my M9 doesn't like class 10 cards very much), quality control etc.

I think skipping the SD card slot has to do more with safing money. It is all about money, so if you sell 100.000 units and you can safe 0,50$ per unit, you have a plus of 50.000$, simple as that. And they kind of justify this move by saying 'you don't need a SD anymore, you can store everything in the cloud'.

I think cloud-like services might become a big thing in the future and while 16GB is on the low side, I don't think I'll be watching 720p movies on a 4" screen.

The SD chip is build very deep inside the phone ÷È×åMX Ö÷°å±³Ãæ²ð½â_IT168, but it looks a lot bigger than a micro-SD

I don't think I'll be watching 720p movies on a 4" screen.

Well quite; I think the world is still figuring out what it wants such devices for, hence some phones and tablets are converging in size. We're going to reach a stage fairly soon I think where the tech outruns the application, and we'll be able to do anything on any form-factor. I think then the market will fragment into niche products, instead of lots of manufacturers all trying to essentially do the same thing.

Originally Posted by Idsz

I think cloud-like services might become a big thing in the future

Thanks for the bright insight...

Anyways, great review, still wondering about the "unreleased firmware" that you are using. Also, in certain areas it sounds like you have a engineering sample instead of the final product

Originally Posted by Idsz

I think cloud-like services might become a big thing in the future and while 16GB is on the low side, I don't think I'll be watching 720p movies on a 4" screen.

The SD chip is build very deep inside the phone ÷È×åMX Ö÷°å±³Ãæ²ð½â_IT168, but it looks a lot bigger than a micro-SD

maybe in this way it is faster then normal Gate 4 Micro SD cards. Maybe the lifetime is more extended too.

Originally Posted by iDoraemon

Anyways, great review, still wondering about the "unreleased firmware" that you are using. Also, in certain areas it sounds like you have a engineering sample instead of the final product

How did you come to that conclusion?

Originally Posted by nice2know_u

How did you come to that conclusion?

Haha, well you stated it yourself: "The firmware I ran these tests with was an unreleased version."

As for the engineering sample sounding, it's just the tone and your diction that suggests it

Originally Posted by iDoraemon

Thanks for the bright insight...

You're welcome. Always happy to receive such pleasant misinterpreted reactions.

I really wish the battery was replaceable.

Originally Posted by es.

I really wish the battery was replaceable.

Why would you prefer that? So you could switch battery when you run out of power?
Millions of ppl use apple phones with built-in batteries and they are so happy.

Originally Posted by MXon

Why would you prefer that? So you could switch battery when you run out of power?
Millions of ppl use apple phones with built-in batteries and they are so happy.

Witch my M8 & M9 I had a external battery charger, set of two batteries, so that I don't have to waste time for charging the phone battery, because just as I put out discharged and put in charged Simply

Originally Posted by lobot

Witch my M8 & M9 I had a external battery charger, set of two batteries, so that I don't have to waste time for charging the phone battery, because just as I put out discharged and put in charged Simply

I guess the M8 could work pretty well with it's back cover, but does the M9 back cover still performs well after this mass of removing and attaching actions?

hmm...did someone know, what the "M" in the Statusbar mean?

It is the symbol for a persistent notification. IE for an app that has quick access from the notification pull down menu.