Meizu M5 Note 16Gb

Advantages: The quality of the body, glass. Build quality. Everything is so perfectly tailored that the phone seems to be much more expensive than its price. Excellent juicy bright screen with good viewing angles. The battery keeps the charge for a long time if you call and occasionally use the Internet, it will live 4 days, it suits me. There are no Google presets with a bunch of icons that can not be deleted, you put only what you need. Convenient interface.

Disadvantages: At the beginning, when talking, the slot of cards rattled, now it's over. The camera is average, nothing interesting. Work with the main applications is fast, but the feeling that the lag 2 asus does not leave behind in performance.

Comment: Specifications do not catch up with the appearance, but I still like it, for me the appearance is also important, who needs a powerful and productive stuffing that will be a little distressed and the possibility of the camera as well.

Advantages: 1.Screen (very good indeed)
2. Design (In the rare blue version for which I was hunting, it is simply gorgeous, the only thing I did was body color more fine)
3. Fast charging (approximately 1.5 hours)
4. 3 GB RAM
5. Battery (here it is worth noting that you need to understand and adjust so that the battery does not eat too much)
6. Sound in headphones (not fantastic, but good enough)
7.Flyme (convenient, fast, but in my opinion slightly inferior to MiUi in terms of functionality, but wins in terms of convenience)
8. Branded button (for me it is much more convenient than 3 standard buttons)
9. Cameras (they can hardly be called good, but you can’t call them bad either. In general, it's quite possible to photograph)

Disadvantages: 1. The absence of Flyme 6 (there is no stable version as it is, and it is not known when it will be. Everything has been updated, but this is all possible)
2. Processor (Strange decision to put the P10, although it was possible for the money, well, or even slightly adding the price to put something more interesting.Suitable for everyday tasks, but paired with a Mali viewer accelerator, heavy games only at low and sometimes medium settings
3. There are lags (rarely, but they happen. Maybe it's in the installed Xposed modules, I don’t know. But apparently the processor sometimes fails)
4.2D glass (cool, but problems with the selection of glass, had to be pretty fucked by AliExpress. What I saw and even bought in St. Petersburg is laughter, because of the beveled edges of the display, the glass did not even reach the end of the working area of ​​the screen, very wretched and not convenient. As a result, I ordered from China a normal-sized glass with a special liquid for filling voids at the edges)

Comment: This is a great phone for your money. Everything listed in the shortcomings, for me this stuff. Although of course you need to take gray, prices in large stores are too high. 9-13 thousand is the max that you can give for this phone, despite the fact that the competitors are not asleep, at least the same Xiaomi.
Meizu or Xiaomi?
And Meizu and Xiaomi! He used a lot of those and those, both cool. Who likes what. Before that, there was a Xiaomi note 3 pro, an excellent device, I didn’t see any special meaning in taking Xiaomi note 4 pro or 4X, it was awl on soap, and returned to Meizu again. And I am pleased. Apparently the next one will be Xiaomi)))
Thank you for reading, I hope something useful to learn. Good luck to you!

Advantages: Smart, not tupit, convenient menu, it charges very quickly and keeps charge for a long time with constant use, including surfing the Internet and watching videos, does not heat up. We were pleased with the automatic adjustment of the screen brightness when changing the lighting of the room. In short, this is a smart phone for its price range.

Disadvantages: If you do not have a pianist’s fingers, it will be a bit uncomfortable to reach the other end of the screen. However, this is the problem of all the "blades".
Also comparing with my heroically lost Lenovo k3 lemon, the speaker is not ah. Want good quality music - headphones to help.
And even when using a stationary keyboard, at some point a notification will start to appear on downloading the Russian dictionary, which cannot be removed until you download Google’s.
Oh, and my favorite problem! Due to extended root access, Sberbank online operates in a limited mode. You can create templates through the computer, and from the application you can use them, reflash, install hackers, etc., or be sad as I am.

Comment: I advise you to immediately download Google services, Google play and G board. The latter will deprive you of the problems with the keyboard described above. And not all applications can be found in the pre-installed store.

Advantages: Impeccable workmanship and materials. Large high-quality bright screen, the response to the touch works without brakes. Great price, I took the 16-gig version with global firmware for 7810 rubles. in the end of May. The phone battery was pleasantly surprised, even if you constantly “hang” on the Internet for 2 days, and if you use it in the phone mode and sometimes you surf the Internet for 3 days it will be enough. If you use a native charger, then from scratch the battery will fully charge in less than 2 hours - excellent autonomy for a smartphone with such a large and bright screen. I want to warn you that you need to charge it through your own charging, because Because of the capacious battery, it is impossible to charge the device normally through a normal USB port, spend 4 hours, and the device will charge well if at 40%. They complain about a weak processor, but I took this model for use as a phone, Internet surfing and car navigator, and for this purpose the device suits 146%.
P.S. I play games on my home computer on a 27 inch monitor and I consider it a perversion to play something harder on Tetris on a 5.5 inch monitor :)

Disadvantages: Already after the purchase I found out that applications can only be installed on the phone’s memory and 16 GB may not be enough. If I had known in advance, I would have bought a 32 gig version. I would like in 2017 that the smartphone has a USB type C port, not micro USB.

Comment: Excellent model for use as a phone and social networking. And for games collect a serious sistemnik and do not torment phones and laptops :)

Advantages: Pretty good build quality.
According to the tactile sensations in the hand of the device worth at least 20 thousand rubles.
I consider my native firmware, not overloaded with Google services, to be a huge advantage. All you need to put is easily installed using the original installation program Hot Apps. Due to the lack of Google services, the phone really flies! 3GB of RAM - definitely enough for him, very quickly switches from application to application without hanging - from Yandex navigator to Watsup, video player and back. Not one android with pre-installed gugloservisami so did not fly with me ..
Of the benefits - quite an interesting idea with the return key and navigation to the main menu, it feels very positive.
The program for cleaning and accelerating the phone is also preinstalled - it works at 100%, and without any advertising, as a program from the market.
The call recording function is installed.

Disadvantages: Among the shortcomings can be noted video accelerator. Good games on this phone will look flawed; the same Angry Birds 2 compared to Sony looked very sad on this device and was removed ..
It may seem a disadvantage that it’s not okay Google, but if you want you can install it and synchronize it with your account and say goodbye to performance. But after synchronization and transfer of contacts to the phone’s memory, you can again take down Google and enjoy the perfect operation of the device.

Comment: The phone was bought from outbid Ali, and cost 9300 p. respectively tel. Not PCT, even charging not under our sockets, but firmware with normal Russian and font, no errors were detected - everything is like in "our" store.

Advantages: The device is a bomb! Perfect everything. I took a 16GB model in blue color, I did not find it on 32 in blue. Design, display, metal case, fast charging, 4000 mph battery - everything is fine. I note the high build quality.

Disadvantages: The expectations were all met. Definitely recommend for purchase.
One moment - deny applications other than those that need it access to geolocation. Then the device actually lives for two days. Otherwise, once a day will have to be charged.

Comment: Now only 621q models are on sale, for the Chinese market, a difference to the Chinese firmware and the absence of one of the LTE frequencies. The store in which he bought, has already brought everything to mind - the latest global firmware with full Russification stands. LTE works fine, flies. Moscow and the region, operators MTS and Beeline.

Advantages: Everything suits, put on him a SIM Yota, the first impressions are positive. The connection does not stop and does not hang, as with the phone Lenov0. Fast and economical wifi.

Disadvantages: GPS works uncertainly. The feeling that the battery quickly sits down.

Comment: I have his brother, M3 note, so I have something to compare with.