Hey guys so I'm back with another Chinese mobile phone that's powered by a
mediatek chipset now I agreed to review this one here because I found out that
unlike other phones it does not have one of those gimmicky fake dual camera
setups on the red no just a single camera which we're off to a good start
aren't we there so this is called the maze alpha X I never reviewed the maze
alpha but this one here has well a business display but it does have it was
of course on the side but a very slim small bezel on the top you can see there
with the earpiece so a little similar to that of the Xiaomi me mix to that I
looked at now down the bottom you'll also see that we do have a fingerprint
reader here because it slightly missed a line for those of you that have a keen
eye you can probably see that and picked up on that already
next to that you can see down on the chin there we have a front-facing camera
now this one is 8 megapixels and you'll notice that the screen the edges of it
there they are rounded but there's a slight defeat there's a couple of jagged
edges there so the finish of that for those of you are quite picky might
bother you because it's not perfect you can see so the screen it has on here is
2160 by 1080 18 by 9 aspect ratio of course that new popular trend now out of
the box it does have quite a blue tint to it but of course it does have mirror
vision and that lets us tweak the color balance on here which is great but over
quite a nice screen I found that the viewing angles of the screen are in fact
better than the xiaomi redmi v plus that i recently looked at and it has decent
brightness to it actually comes out brighter than the xiaomi redmi v plus as
well at 580 lux maximum output they're decent colors for an IPS the blacks as
well aren't bad so really good screen in a 200-dollar mobile phone I feel so
taking a look at the rest of the design here so it does have a metal frame
around the outside that's mat coated we do have metal volume buttons now they
don't rattle around they've got a good feel to them they hopefully will stand
the test of time down the bottom a single
loudspeaker type-c port which is another positive there good to see this on here
and microphone now up the top we have a 3.5 I'm going to meet a headphone jack
those couple of lines there you can see they are the antenna strips there so
that is actually for Bluetooth GPS and wireless performance and you'll see to
that there is no secondary microphone on the top here or on the back when you
have a look at the camera module so the camera lens protrudes by approximately
one millimeter or so and we do have a dual tone LED flash there this back
material feels a little bit Hollow it is glass definitely glass but I don't
believe it's Gorilla cornering Gorilla Glass there on this that they have used
I don't think so not for this price point I haven't scratched tested it or
anything yet though and then we have a course dual SIM support on the left side
so that's where the SIM tray is there and you can also fit a micro SD card so
overall the build is good for this price inside the box you get a sim tool we get
a tempered glass screen protector which is really good we don't often see this
instruction manual type C cable a euro charger depending on your region now
this one supports pump Express 12 volts 1.5 amps for quick charging the
Alpha X certainly isn't the latest of mobile phones coming in at 214 grams
makes it quite heavy so the fingerprint reader works about 8 out of 10 times 9
out of 10 times it can be a little bit slow you can see that's how fast it is
so it's about 2 to 3 seconds it all depends really on if you've been
multitasking or how long you've left the phone it can be a little bit slower so
the ROM is a stock Android 7 ROM you can see these are the apps you get when you
first boot it up we've got FM radio on here too which is great play store of
course is included it has to be so there is no bloat from maize but we do have a
lot of google apps on here now the wrong performance I find to be decent so I'm
multitasking here at the moment I've got a lot of applications open and some
games so it's very heavy scrolling speed you can see isn't super
smooth and fluid but it's not doing bad at all when you see just how many apps I
am running here so multitasking and I've got quite a few big games on here's a
shadow fight three Ashfield extreme throttling test hits all there in the
background and swapping between those applications is quite quick it keeps
everything in memory - it doesn't kill it off quick which is good to see so raw
I like the performance of this rom I feel it's doing just fine the halle o P
25 which is very similar to the Snapdragon 625 so the phone has
on-screen buttons but the home button can act like the mezu phone so one tap
will be back and then holding it down will actually take you home which is
rather handy and better than nothing at least so this is the antutu score here
of the Hallyu p25 paired up with six gigabytes of RAM not a bad score 63,000
here is the speeds and results of the internal storage so we've got emmc 5.1
spec drive on here very good speeds for this type of drive not bad at all now
while it's here I'm not too happy words so when you're close to your wireless
router you get decent speeds but it should actually be a little bit faster
than this this is on the 5 gigahertz band and stepping away from the router
so just to the other side of the apartment which isn't really that far at
all the signal quality isn't very good and speeds take a huge hit here you can
see now I tested this straight after doing the test in the same room as the
router and then walking over to the end of the apartment so not really too happy
with the wireless antenna reception on this model so the GPS works well it does
not take long at all to get lock the accuracy is also good to meet us here I
found the GPS works a lot better than this xiaomi redmi v plus that i recently
reviewed now better life is good but it's not quite as good as the duty mix
to that I viewed that got 10 hours of screen on time I got 7 hours and 34
minutes of some heavy oh so was gaming a lot you can see there's the screaming on
time so more the better yes it is good but I
feel it could actually be better and I do have my doubts on whether capacity is
actually really 3900 milliamp hours or it could be something a little less like
3000 600 or 700 money amp hours now to look at the charge times of the Alpha X
so to fully charge it will take 2 hours and 37 minutes this is from completely
dead so I had 0% battery which is not a bad time here but charging it with just
30 minutes only gets you to 25% 60 minutes to 56 so it isn't the fastest
when it comes to charging times so has a single loud speaker on the bottom and it
is really quite poor it simply isn't loud enough I'll give you a sample of it
so it really is quite flat it needs more volume there now speaker on there now
the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack quality also disappoints there's a
slight hiss that can be heard when nothing is playing that kind of
irritates me a bit so playing the latest titles like shadow fight 3 here you get
playable frame rates other titles that are tested as well very smooth playable
you will see some hiccups and stutters but I'm happy with the gaming
performance of this mobile phone I do think that that six gigabytes of RAM
really does help out so the camera setup is your typical that you often see with
mediatek phones now they do have here a two times zoom mode now don't be fooled
of course there is no other lens on here and this is only just digital zoom the
shutter rate on it seems to be reasonably good now the focus can be at
times very slow and if you find it in low-light I mentioned a few times will
also be quite laggy too so not great performance from that now video you can
shoot up to 1080p only and I'll give you some samples here so just start out with
photos you can see that in daylight it can capture an okay photo but if you
zoom in there's quite a bit of noise there's some artifacts and in low-light
it's very obvious there's some over sharpening there's just compression
artifacts everywhere it's not a very good camera at all and that's
no surprise really considering this price range and you take a look at these
samples here too that sometimes the focus is off completely now I focused on
these hibiscus the flowers right there and for some reason it just came out
like this because I think because of the very slow shutter rate perhaps with a
slow focus is why this photo came out bad so very hidden mess with photos and
I'll give you some samples now of the video quality so the rear camera the
video quality you get a maximum resolution of 1080p no 4k other phones
the ones that used the Snapdragon chip sets you can get 4k if you're after that
then take a look at those phones they're the quality of the 1080p video well as
you can see if yourself here it's okay now I have noticed that it will tend to
overexpose tons sometimes it will sometimes also get the colors completely
wrong so the auto white balance can be quite off the focus performance as well
isn't wonderful it can be really slow and struggled to get lock and in
low-light the video becomes very choppy and I have noticed some frame dips as
well even recording 1080p footage so they definitely need to focus on
improving the camera performance so let's take a look at the front-facing
camera and now sample from the front facing camera so can shoot up to 720p
maximum the quality I find in daylight like right now is fine it's good for
this kind of price group of phone however in low-light the viewfinder and
the recording itself will drop a lot of frames and it doesn't look that great
then it becomes through choppy the video now because the cameras location that
when you do shoot selfies you have to flip the phone around it will tell you
that and the other thing to to note that it does look a little bit pixelated the
background so it's not exactly the greatest quality of video you can get in
this price category other phones do this a lot better and they can even shoot
1080p on the front-facing cameras the sound as well not the greatest and if
you are in direct sunlight which I aren't at the moment because it's
overcast then it will tend to overexpose your face again not the best so the
camera quality on the Alpha X is rather poor so this is a phone that I really
want to like but it has a few shortcomings like most of these phones
do so they cut corners the manufacturers we've got
a really nice screen on this and in fact is better I feel than the one used in
the xiaomi redmi 5 plus it's slightly brighter the screen and the viewing
angles are better as well it has a little bit of a bluish tint the whites
out of the box but of course with the mirror vision there you can calibrate
that and you can get the screen to look quite decent so happy with that
now the fingerprint reader performance it works around eight to nine out of
times out of ten sometimes it can be a little bit slow depending if you've got
a lot of multitasking going on or you haven't to have left the phone for a
while it tends to go into like a sleep mode and will take just a few seconds
more but overall the fingerprint reader does perform much better than the duty
mix2 that I looked at with a very similar spec I like the top bezel it's a
lot shorter the core quality out of the air piece of notice does have some
crackle to it so it's not the best in terms of call quality now we also have
the middle buttons on the side the whole middle housing the frame around it
that's a really nice touch it's a little heavy but it is a solid good feeling
phone in hand and I do like that the performance of the ROM also is excellent
we're going to ample 6 gigabytes of RAM Jaleo p25 paired up with the Melly T 880
GP you can play all of the latest games with same frame rates that are playable
they're smooth they're not perfect you will notice sometimes a few little
stutters and things but that's to be expected so to be expected as the camera
performance which I find to be one of the main weaknesses it's no surprise
really they do often have bad cameras these mobile phones and this category
but this one's terrible really because the focus has a lot of trouble our
daytime photos can look okay and sometimes the whites are off so the
color balance gets it completely wrong the auto white balance will notice over
sharpening some focus issues the video quality as well isn't really that great
and that lets it down there but the biggest complaint for me is little
Wireless so the wireless performance not very good at all if you're in the same
room as your wireless router then things will be fine but if you happen to be one
of those people that have their wireless router on for example upstairs and your
room is downstairs then you will notice that it will be
very slow it just suffers in terms of range I tested it in the studio
apartment here I tested it at home and with both of my networks wasn't too
happy with the range and performance of the wireless the other slight
disappointment is the speaker at the bottom it's just not loud enough that
loudspeaker they really do need to up the volume on that so hopefully if mace
can patch and fix the wireless if they can boost the performance of the speaker
or they can change the hardware in there then you've got a very good phone I feel
for the price this is those areas where it is leading itself down a little bit
and why you can't really recommend it at this stage and tilt that as flex there
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