Of all the products I've used from Chinese OEMs, those from Meizu always struck me as the most polished. While Meizu largely focuses on their abode market, their smartphones are typically quite usable in Western territories, with near-perfect English localization. Better yet, Meizu employs a Xiaomi-like pricing construction such that near of their phones are aggressively priced for the hardware y'all get.

The Pro 6 Plus is the highest-end smartphone currently sold by Meizu. Information technology's a truthful flagship, featuring the same Exynos SoC as seen in the Samsung Galaxy S7, a big v.vii-inch 1440p AMOLED brandish, and a cute aluminium unibody chassis. Even the camera, a 12-megapixel sensor with OIS and laser autofocus, is like to what we run into in high-end devices from Samsung, Google and Huawei.

Despite packing meridian-stop specifications, the Meizu Pro vi Plus is an affordable handset in China, retailing for just CNY 2,999 (approximately Us$430). It may cost a bit more than than this to import the Pro 6 Plus into North America, just the handset should be available across Europe and Asia soon. At this toll, the Pro vi Plus undercuts almost of its contest, and straight competes with the OnePlus 3T.

The Pro six Plus features one of the most beautiful smartphone designs I've seen. Meizu often nails the blueprint of their entry-level products, but they've really hit it out of the park with their flagship offering. At the superlative of the table there'due south a lot of tough competition, and throughout 2022 I saw fantastic designs from OnePlus, Samsung, Apple tree and HTC (to proper noun a few). The Pro six Plus packs a design only as good as these 'proper noun brand' handsets, and even beats it in some circumstances.

About of the Pro 6 Plus' chassis is a unmarried piece of metal, which encompasses the entire back console and curves around the edges. The only parts of this rear panel that aren't metal are the great antenna lines at the top and lesser, forth with the camera lens and wink assortment. The quality of metal used here is top notch: its matte finish looks exquisite and feels fantastic. I appreciate the minimalist design as well, which puts this metal on display without interference from plastic sections or split up panels.

For a large phone, the Pro 6 Plus is remarkably ergonomic. The metal back curves perfectly into the edges, creating a comfortable rounded edge that makes the phone sit well in your hand. The phone is thin at 7.3mm, and surprisingly low-cal at 158 grams, which helps with portability. In comparing, the sick-fated Galaxy Note vii is slightly thicker and heavier for a similar battery capacity, while the iPhone 7 Plus is very similar in size but includes a smaller 5.5-inch display. The Pro six Plus doesn't include the slimmest bezels I've seen, though they're much slimmer than the monstrous bezels on the iPhone.

The front of this phone is a massive piece of smooth glass, again curved to perfection forth the edges for a swooshable touchscreen experience. Most of this forepart panel is occupied by the display – the Pro 6 Plus has a screen-to-body ration of 74% – although there is a speaker, camera and some sensors higher up the display, plus a fingerprint sensor beneath the display.

I mostly prefer rear fingerprint sensors compared to front end sensors, but the position here isn't bad. The sensor is fast and reasonably accurate, and while it'southward not quite as expert equally the sensor found on the Google Pixel or the iPhone 7, it serves its purpose well. The sensor doubles every bit both a home and dorsum button: clicking the sensor returns home, while tapping information technology similar a touchscreen goes back. This functionality is included because, like other Meizu phones, at that place are no physical or on-screen navigation buttons to accompany the single habitation/dorsum button.

I strongly prefer a total array of navigation buttons for home, back, and recent apps, only it merely takes a few weeks to fully adjust to Meizu's navigation scheme. The main downside with this scheme is accessing the recent apps slider for multitasking, which requires swiping up from the bottom of the brandish. This is somewhat awkward and not as easy to activate as just borer a button.

The fingerprint sensor is too supposed to double as a center rate monitor, but I couldn't discover whatsoever software included on the device (or any pop 3rd political party apps) that supported this feature. Meizu says this feature volition be introduced in a second updateafterFlyme vi hits the handset.

The position of the fingerprint sensor on the Pro six Plus ways there is no stereo front facing speakers on this device. Instead, there is a single bottom-firing speaker of mediocre quality and volume. During mural telephone usage, particularly while gaming, this speaker is easy to block, so you'll have to watch the position of your fingers at times.

The bottom edge takes design inspiration from the iPhone 6s Plus and the Milky way S7 Edge. In the heart is a USB-C port for charging and data transfers, flanked by iPhone-similar exposed pentalobe screws. This USB port supports USB 3.1 for fast data transfers, which is rare in smartphones despite nearly laptops supporting at least USB 3.ane through their USB-C ports. The speaker grille is on the right here, with a similar design to the Galaxy S7 Edge, while the important iii.5mm headphone jack is on the left.

With all the ports plant along the bottom edge of the Pro 6 Plus, the top is left relatively free, except for a single microphone.

The Pro six Plus comes with a unmarried tray on the left manus side that supports two nano-SIM cards. There is no microSD menu slot included on this device, although you'll get 64 GB of internal storage equally standard with the option to upgrade to 128 GB. While I would accept preferred to run into a microSD card slot hither, 64 GB of storage should be plenty for most users, and the 128 GB model is reasonably priced.