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what's up guys lon here from Android authority and the latest flagship from meizu takes what was already great about the mx-5 from earlier this year and puts it in a larger package but what does this pro version of the phone offer besides just a bigger size let's find out with the meizu pro 5 it's no secret that meizu has been designing their smartphones to emulate apples for quite some time now and the same way Apple releases a smaller and bigger version of their flagship smartphone meizu has also filed in those steps meizu has dropped the MX name but the pro 5 is essentially just a bigger version of the previously released mx-5 so it has the same exact design with an all metal unibody construction and rounded off corners and sides which makes it pretty comfortable to hold it's been relatively lightweight and feels solid in the hand as you would expect from an all-metal body but it is a little on the slippery side due to not having any sharp angles or a textured back to help with the grip the pro 5 is still however a sleek looking and attractive device despite not being the most original of designs the buttons and ports are in their typical locations with the power and volume buttons on the right side which are both very clicky and tactile along the top is the standard 3.5 millimeter headphone jack followed by the dual SIM tray on the left with the secondary slot doubling as a micro SD card slot for expandable storage up to a hundred and twenty eight extra gigabytes if you need that extra storage and finally on the bottom there's a single speaker but instead of a micro USB port like on the MX 5 meizu has maybe switch over the USB type-c for the pro 5 which was a very awesome change to see in typical meizu fashion there's no capacitive or on-screen keys instead you just have a single home button but it also doubles as a back button by lightly tapping on it and a sleep / wake button when holding it down the home button is very easy to press but the feedback is a little bit mushy and the button itself feels kind of cheap almost toy like in a way the screen measures in at 5.7 inches 0.2 inch increase over the mx-5 which makes the pro 5 a pretty large phone but if you're used to phones with 5.5 inch or larger screen sizes you'll have no problems adjusting to the pro/5 it retains the same 1080p resolution as the mx-5 and although it would have been nice to see a bump up 2 quad HD I really had no problems with 1080p on this particular panel text and graphics are still very sharp and easy to read and consuming media is quite enjoyable as it usually is on such a large screen it's an AMOLED display so the colors are bright vibrant saturated and full of contrast with excellent viewing angles and all of it is covered in 2.5 D glass for those subtle curves along the edges 2.5 D glass has been the rage and a lot of smartphones but this is actually the first time Mizzou has ever used it and it blends in quite well with the curved body lines of the pro 5 inside you might be surprised to find the Samsung made Exynos 7420 the same processor that powered the Galaxy S six considering how powerful and efficiently Exynos 7420 is this is a rather smart move by meizu to use this chipset Ram will be dependent on storage capacity with either three gigs of ram on the 32 gigabyte version or 4 gigs of ram on the 64 gigabyte version ours is the 32 gigabyte model and performance has been as good as you would expect with such an ample amount of RAM and one of the most powerful processors currently on the market the profile flies through all the basic stuff like swiping scrolling opening and closing apps and web browsing without any issue navigating through the interface is very responsive and fluid and more intense tasks like graphically demanding games and heavy multitasking also proved to not be much of a problem either the pro 5 is definitely no slouch in the performance Department so no matter what you throw at this phone it's not going to let you down the pro 5 has all the usual connectivity options for a modern day smartphone like Wi-Fi 802 DPS Bluetooth 4.1 and LTE but band support is quite limited which meant HSPA+ data speeds during my usage on t-mobile it was still plenty fast for all of my needs including YouTube but just something to bear in mind for anyone in the state's looking to import this device the single speaker on the bottom gets surprisingly loud and sound quality is actually quite decent but it gets easily muffled when you're tightly gripping the phone during gameplay or watching videos in landscape so you might find yourself adjusting your grip fairly often in order to not block it you pro/5 does however come with built-in hi-fi audio which is great if you use your smartphone as your primary music player and will give you a much better audio experience when using headphones just like previous MX releases the pro 5 features a fingerprint scanner embedded in the home button that's very easy to use and features a tap and hold setup process that's very similar to what we've seen from the likes of Samsung and Apple it's fast and reliable enough that you won't have any problems using it but it isn't the most accurate fingerprint scanner that I've ever used the majority of the time it usually unlocks on the first attempt but sometimes it'll randomly miss read my finger even though it's squarely placed on the home button if I had to put a number on it I would say it works flawlessly eight out of ten times so the times that it doesn't catch my print on the first go-around it's definitely not enough to ruin the experience battery life on the pro five has actually been really good it's got a large 3050 milliamp hour battery and I've had no problems getting through a full day a lot of the times I was easily able to squeak out another half a day on a single charge it with a couple hours of combined gaming and YouTube watching which was pretty impressive and screen on time consistently surpassed the four hour mark the pro 5 is also capable of fast charging through its USB type-c port with Mizzou's M charge 2.0 technology which really came in handy anytime I needed to quickly top off my device the main camera on the rear is a 21 megapixel shooter with phase detection and laser autofocus the sensor is made by Sony which is usually a pretty good sign the phone is capable of producing good looking photos and the profile can grab some great-looking shots and adequate lighting there's plenty of color detail and sharpness to be had and the HDR image processing brightens up the image and brings back plenty of hidden details in the shadows without looking unnatural it's when the Sun starts setting or the lights get dim that everything starts to fall apart and they fall apart rather quickly images begin to look soft and muddy with very little detail and the camera tends to overexpose leading to a lot of overblown highlights what really cripples the camera experience on the pro 5 is the camera software itself the software is pretty simple and straightforward but the entire interface is tailored for portrait orientation and doesn't rotate when switching a landscape which makes it extremely cumbersome to use common modes like HDR are buried in the settings and when using the camera in landscape mode toggling between different modes becomes a slow and unintuitive process when you have to read everything sideways or rotate the phone back to portrait for selfies the camera interface works wonders and the five megapixel front facing shooter can certainly get the job done but otherwise the camera UI makes for a less than desirable picture taking experience the pro 5 is running on android 5.1 lollipop but you wouldn't really know it due to mazes fly me OS which alters the entire Android experience altogether there's no app drawer so all of your applications will reside on the home screens but this is nothing new and has been the ongoing trend with Chinese OEMs for quite some time now and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon the UI however is actually quite clean with some very nice transparencies minimalistic looking icons and isn't overly colourful like some other skins although the pre-installed wallpapers might lead you to think otherwise why me OS may not be your typical Android experience but it also doesn't try to overwhelm you with features there's just a few built in to keep things interesting most of which are just your base like double tap to wake swiping downwards to bring down the notification shade or drawing different characters on the screen to open up an application there's also what meizu likes to call smart touch which basically puts a virtual joystick of sorts on your display that can be repositioned anywhere on the screen it can be configured to do a variety of different actions some of which are identical to the gesture controls you can double tap to close an app so I left it right on the screen to switch between tasks and show the notification shade just to name a few the 32 gigabyte version of the pro 5 is currently available for roughly 438 US dollars and 485 dollars for the 64 gigabyte version respectively this isn't meant to be a cheap affordable phone from a zoo but it definitely isn't a bad price for the phone that you are getting Mazur devices are not really meant for the US market so the lack of LTE band support is rather unfortunate but if you're a fan of the meizu lineup this phone isn't going to disappoint with an all-metal build a fingerprint scanner a beautiful 5.7 inch display USB type-c and some very powerful internals driving the whole experience the pro 5 is easily the best flagship meizu has released the date and certainly shouldn't be overlooked as always thank you guys so much for watching this video hopefully you guys enjoyed it and found it helpful if you did please give it thumbs up down below and also subscribe to the channel which is also down below if you haven't already and if 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