14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday was a big day for Meizu, as the company unveiled the M2 Note smartphone during an event in Beijing. We praised the phone because of its affordable price and quite nifty specs, but preliminary benchmark results show pretty disappointing results.
The handset arrives with a 5.5-inch Sharp IGZO IPS LCD display with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution and an octa-core MediaTek MT6753 chipset clocked at 1.3GHz. It works in concert with 2GB of RAM and either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage, depending on taste, which is expandable via microSD card slot.
Meizu M2 Note has already been put to the test in AnTuTu benchmarking app and the results are pretty disappointing. The phone managed to score only 31,638 points, less than its predecessor which managed to snatch around 40,000 points (as seen at Gizmo China).
You might be better off buying the Meizu M1 Note
The original M1 Note comes equipped with a 64-bit MT6752 chip clocked at 1.7GHz, which can be found in most mid-range phones these days.
But with the M2 Note, Meizu decided to go with the MT6753, a silicone piece that supports CDMA networks required to bestow compatibility for China Unicom. However, by making this decision, Meizu sacrificed the clock speed for the cores.
The Meizu M1 Note is a budget device, so we weren’t expecting stellar results in the first place. But it’s still pretty disappointing to see its predecessor perform better in the test.
Apart from the difference in processors, the M1 Note is pretty similar to the new model, arriving with a 5.5-inch display with FHD resolution and boasting the same 2GB of RAM with 16GB/32GB internal storage setup.
The two devices are pretty similar in the photography department too. The M1 Note boasts a 13MP main snapper with autofocus, dual LED flash and a 5MP selfie shooter up in front.
This is exactly what the Meizu M2 Note brings to the table as well. There is one difference between them, however, as the new phone ships out with Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box, while the M1 Note is still stuck at Android 4.4 KitKat with no mention of a possible update to Google’s Lollipop.
