today I'll be checking out this is
the Maze Blade, it's a budget octa-core
Bible that's powered by the media tech
MTK 67 53 with a 1.3 gigahertz
maximum turbo there so three gigabytes
of RAM 32 gigabytes of internal storage
a very common screen so it's 5.5 inches
and 1080p front-facing eight megapixel
camera a rear 13 megapixel camera and as
you can see it's sealed in the factory
wrapper here which is good now this one
runs Android 6 and retails for around
100 - 110 u.s. you can see those specs
there on the back of it now it has glass
on the rear of it as well so they
promised a hopefully a good build for
the price so put the mobile to the side
for just a second once you get what else
we get inside the box here so a simple
of course so we can access the dual SIM
tray which takes I believe dual
Denison's or a nano SIM and a micro SD
card got some warranty certificate there
a quick guide EU charger now this is
rated to a maximum of 5 volts 1.5 amps
so definitely not quick charging it's
gonna be quite slow and I've included a
micro USB to cable 179 grams proximately
8.15 millimeters thick
this has a very Sony Xperia look to me
because look at those top and bottom
bezels they're rather large and the
middle frame around it and then we have
the reflective mirror like glass finish
on the back on the bottom of the maze
blade we have a micro USB 2 port here
microphone loudspeaker and there's even
a little slot that you can see to the
left so you can loop something through
there and attach it to perhaps a little
cord or something so you could stop
yourself and dropping it you don't
normally see this on mobiles anymore
down the bottom of front-facing
fingerprint reader which acts as a home
button when pressed to click n type and
then we do have capacitive backlit menu
keys at the top here we're going to
ambient light sensor the earpiece and a
front-facing 8 megapixel camera on the
back of the blade you'll find a 13
megapixel camera secondary microphone
and dual tone LED flash some trays on
the top left-hand corner here and it's
not your typical sim tray that I'm used
to seeing so here's the top of it where
you put in a micro sim and on the other
side is where you'd put your microSD
card or a nano SIM on the top of 3.5
millimeter headphone jack and lastly on
the left side a quick launch button
which looks like it's a camera button
but it isn't but you could set it up to
launch the camera application power
button and the volume up and down
buttons now these buttons are made out
of metal which is really good but I have
noticed that the volume button does
rattle around a little bit for the price
I find the build quality to be excellent
it's really well put together I can't
see any flaws lines up nicely to fit and
to finish glass on the back might be
very easy to break if you dropped it of
course and it is a real fingerprint
magnet the only downside that I found so
far with a build is that volume rocker
it does tend to rattle around and make a
little bit of noise so when I powered it
on it just went straight into the main
menu here you can see into the launcher
and I didn't have to go through any
setup menus which is odd normally you
have to go through set up your
fingerprint everything I have already
done that so let's test out how fast it
unlocks locks now and it was a little
slow second time as well it didn't quite
get it so I can see there's a little bit
of a weakness there that the fingerprint
read it isn't going to be the fastest so
the screen seems reasonably bright the
color calibration the whites seem to be
leaning a little bit towards cool white
is a little bit of a blue tint there
cumin brightness seems fairly decent and
so does the minimum dense down quite dim
there so does running Android six and
the security patch level is from last
year that's over a year old now may the
first 2016 which isn't great free
available space on first boot comes in
at just over twenty four gigabytes you
can of course expand upon that with a
microSD card just running onto to now
you can see it's really struggling with
a 3d care that's incredibly slow it's
like a two or three second frames per
second slideshow and here are the
results of n22 you can see 36,000 that
is not a good score that is very low as
expected from a Mele
T 720 GPU so this is not a mobile phone
for gaming otherwise you're going to be
sorely disappointed because games are
going to be very laggy but at least it
doesn't feel too bad in and out of the
UI so multitasking and doing things that
are just using the CPU I think it's
going to be okay of things like browsing
and just general moving around it does a
good job of that at least here's the
camera application so we get all those
settings you typically see on the media
tech chipsets various different options
here now these cameras aren't going to
be wonderful a game look at the price of
this mobile we can put on electronic
image stabilization on the video video
quality fine is just up to 1080p to
other settings I think a 720p then right
down to VGA now the front camera is only
going to be VGA as well even though it's
an 8 megapixel camera that is all the
chips it can do I feel or the sensor
that they've used on there so let's have
a look at some samples from those of the
cameras
you
and this is the a megapixel front-facing
sensor it looks like a daily recording
in VGA the audio on the sample I just
played before to myself seemed to be
alright and it's sticking out background
noises quite a bit they're a little bit
choppy the framerate at times but
overall I feel gained for the price that
this doesn't seem to be too bad really
you can't expect the hell of a lot some
point out from the rear camera this is
on the fine sitting which is 1080p you
can see struggling a little with the the
light here but very hard conditions of
course because it sounds going down
we've got areas of full sunshine in in
areas of shade but it's compensating
quite well there you can't really expect
too much from a hundred dollar mobile
the focus looks like you need to tap to
focus like other media tech mobiles
so the loudspeakers reasonably loud but
it doesn't really have any quality to it
whatsoever there's a lot of vibration
it's quite tinny sounding well let's
have a look and see now if the Mallee
720 can hand a little bit of gaming from
that and to to school it looks like no
that's relatively slow there is a
definite input delay there that I can
see yes really slow so a lot of lag this
of course is a demanding title and a
huge drop and frames just then
it makes gameplay a little difficult
there and frustrating and I can also
feel on the back that it's getting quite
warm just around this area right so
that's the maze blade and it's a budget
mobile you always have to take that into
consideration and I especially do when
reviewing I think for the price you
getting quite a lot you're getting a
1080p display which a lot of them only
720p displays now the performance of it
you can see that the UI is fine I feel
browsing performances okay GPS
performance a little slow but where it
really lacks is going to be the GPU
performance the Mali 720 just can't
handle those newer demanding titles with
playable frame rates you can play the
games but you're going to get frustrated
with the kind of performance out of it
it does also get quite hot apart from
that the build quality seems excellent
we have fingerprint reader security
although the unlock is a little slow
camera performance as expected again for
this price range isn't particularly
wonderful so should you buy it well I
would say if you're going to game on
your mobile no don't get it because
you're going to be disappointed but if
you want just a mobile that's got
Dual SIM slightly better build quality
and you only want to spend around $120
$110 USD then maybe it's worth a look but
then I also think maybe you should save
up 30, 40, 50 USD more and look to
something else that has better specs and
a better chipset in there perhaps a
Snapdragon 625 powered mobile thank
you so much for watching this review and
I do hope to see you back in the channel
soon