Hi guys, so I have with me here to unbox the
Meizu E2 - this is their latest budget
phone just recently came out literally
about three four weeks ago I ordered it
off Aliexpress so it's still got the
factory seal wrap on there which is
great so this model is powered by a Helio
P20 that's an octa-core it has three
gigabytes of RAM and you can see my
particular model has 32 gigabytes of
storage I think the highest you can get
is 64 dual SIM 5.5 inch screen 1080p and
it is running fly me OS their own skin
or launch you could say on top of
Android 7 there
so let's the seller did do as I
requested to not remove the factory wrap
up because a lot of them are still just
go ahead and do that which I find quite
annoying I asked them to leave it alone
but they still go ahead and do it so
there we have the mobile which feels
reasonably light I'll put that aside for
just a second we've got a sim tool here
of course to open up that dual SIM tray
FlyMe, little instruction manual here
Quick Start Guide that is all in Chinese
and then this looks to be just something
on these specs by the looks of it or
possibly support or something so here's
the charger which i think is going to
support that mediatek pump Express and
that charger is rated to 9 volts 2 amps
we also get a micro USB 2 to standard
sized USB cable there for charging and
data. So on the front of the E2 you can
see we've got an 8 megapixel front
facing camera the ambient light sensor
proximity sensor that's to the right of
the earpiece and a SIM tray which is on
the upper left there you can see the
antenna line along the back and on the
rear we have a 13 megapixel camera with
a quad LED flash
to the unusual you don't normally see
that and here's the SIM tray so we'll
take either two nano Sims or you can use
just one nano SIM give up the other one
and use a micro SD card to expand upon
the storage on the top of the mobile
this is just a secondary mic I thought
it might be an IR transmitter but on
closer inspection only a mic on the
right side of the device the volume
buttons power button these are made out
of metal and they feel really good they
don't rattle around which is also great
on the bottom of 3.5 million headphone
jack microphone for voice calls then the
micro USB 2 port, loud speaker and it
is screwed in place with some Torx
screws there the home button
incorporates a fingerprint reader and
it's a click in style and would also be
capacitive. So it comes in at seven point
seven three millimeters thin which is
good but of course the camera does bulge
out a little bit and that increases it
to eight point three millimeters but
still overall very good and it weighs in
at 161 grams so it's quite light okay so
time to power it up of course I need to
remove that screen protector that's all
now that's just for transit so first
we're going to take a little while
that's to be expected and it looks like
it's going to start up in Chinese - so
Asian languages and English that is it
so the screen first impression looks
good we do have that rather ugly black
bezel that's going around the outside
there so I can see it is detecting
wireless AC networks which is good so
it's supporting the five gigahertz band
and I can set up my fingerprint which
I'll do now just to see what it's like I
need a password of course start out with
against vibrating straightaway need to
move my finger a little bit and do this
ten times of course okay standard theme
let's get started okay this is just a
little see that thing okay so bloatware
before I actually look on blow we're
have a look and see how this unlocks
okay so I need to press down and wait
the phone first it's not a straight
unlock but it's quite quick you can see
that when I do actually wake it up and
do it all in one motion that is
reasonably fast so not too bad so there
are quite a few bloatware applications
on there if you have a look at that
we've got qunar travel, weibo and
all those other chinese things most of
those we should just be able to uninstall
and get rid of all of that so here's a
quick look at the keyboard you can see
it's got a nice layout on there the
English keyboard and it doesn't seem to
be as annoying as some of those other
ones can from the likes of Xiaomi
default keyboard I find to be very
frustrating but I probably will end up
dumping this and going with Gboard
which of courses Google keyboard and
upon connecting up to the Internet it's
telling me there is a new version of the
OS so that's FlyMe six point zero point
three point two way which I will
download and install so if the stock
camera application we have a few options
here the typical ones you see on most of
my lines they're so high dynamic range
you can disable that various different
filters by the looks of it and here in
the settings we can add things like a
level guidelines and the photo size goes
all the way up to 13 megapixels of
course on the back and the front 8
megapixels for your selfies there and
video mode but there isn't
missions all the way up to 1080p on both
front and back cameras which is really
good because a lot of these budget
mobiles only the front camera will do
480p VGA resolution which is really
disappointing at least we're not going
to have that problem with this mobile
now there aren't various different modes
going into that so we've got promo which
is all your manual settings macro and
really straightforward there you can see
there's also slo-mo and just getting out
of that political options we get with
pro so we can control this shutter rate
ISO the focus point and our exposure
levels so here's a look at the
front-facing camera I'll start out with
this one first so we can record up to
1080p as I just showed you before and
you don't normally get this option on
budget smartphones you normally it just
goes up to around 480 or 720 P maximum I
can see that the exposure does adjust
quite abruptly at times there you can
see so let's have a look now at the
rear-facing camera which is 13
megapixels and also shoots in 1080p this
is the rear camera now
quality seems to be decent for the price
now I don't think it does have automatic
continuous autofocus now you have to do
tap to focus the audio quality doesn't
seem too bad from what I've heard so far
and overall okay for this type of mobile
you can't really expect super good
quality
(Music...)
so if you're not familiar with Flyme
their skin their OS that they use on
here it's a little different because
they don't have the back key and mini
key in the normal location you'll find
on Android phones so the home button
acts as our back key so when you're in
an application for example if I just go
to the App Store here tapping it just
goes back double tap will launch the
camera from anywhere so click launch it
and swiping up as our task manager to
swap between applications and then you
can kill off everything of course it and
free up the memory so the phone does not
come with Google Play installed this is
always the case with the phones out of
China most of them don't have it unless
of course it already has a global ROM on
there that your seller or someone has
installed for you but if you go into the
App Store that they have on there and
you just type in Google Play one of
these here should be the Google Play
installer if not there are other ways to
get that off the internet but you can
find those google applications you want
you can see here we've got Google Maps
Google Play Music google keyboards
photos and the rest of it there can be
installed from their app store so I ran
that into Google services installer and
it hasn't given me a plate icon you can
see that it's not actually here in the
launcher so you have to go through the
GMs installer and then you can open
google play but it seems like it is
going to work here so it's not going to
be a problem you see it's going through
that normal setup menu and everything so
let's have a listen to the single down
speed get has on the bottom
so it isn't the loudest loudspeaker I've
heard it does peak just then at 96 but
really it's actually a lot lower than
that it hovers around the 81 as you just
saw there it does vibrate too at 100%
there is a slight hint of bass in there
mostly just based in treble not really
that much in meds only a little I'll put
the mobile on to manual brightness at
the moment just to show you the
brightness of the screen tha's normally
by default it on auto brightness so
that's the dimmer sitting there which is
very done so it's going to be good for
using it late at night without damaging
or hurting your eyes and then maximum
brightness completely overpowers my
current settings I have on my camera it
is very bright
so the ROM performance seems good to me
so far using it I haven't seen too much
in the way of lag but when you do a bit
of multitasking I have noticed some
slowdown there now just go quickly into
Chrome just to show you the browser
performance reasonably good for some
reason the scroll doesn't seem that far
for the new web it's to do with the
touch input from the screen but I'm not
having any problems using the Google
keyboard getting around and typing that
is very accurate and fast here so that's
it there for the E2 so far it looks like a
really decent mobile phone for the price
I'm impressed with the performance of
the UI was quite well you are going to
see some Chinese characters and there of
course and it doesn't come with Play
Store pre-installed but it's not too
hard just to go into their own store and
then download that install as I showed
you before previously in this video
build quality is really good we've got
2.5 deglass a very nice bright screen
too and the weight of it it feels nice
it's quite light at 161 grams and
overall top quality build again for the
price you getting their fingerprint
unlock is fast but you must wake the
device first. Apart from that the camera
is probably their biggest downside here
and then I will need to check out things
like the performance, gaming performance
benchmarks and battery life thanks a lot
for watching this preview unboxing of
the Meizu E2 2 and I hope to catch you
back in the channel soon if you have
any questions please let me know down in
the comments