Meizu Pro 6 Plus review: imPROved

imPROved

GSMArena team, 18 January 2017.

The MX browser

The latest version of the MX web browser utilizes almost the entire screen real estate to show the web pages, save for the status bar on top and a tiny bar on the bottom for Refresh, Tabs, and Bookmarks. Choosing Tabs opens a quick pop-up preview of your open tabs instead of bringing up an entirely new screen, which is great as it still leaves the current website in plain view.

The browser comes with an integrated ad-blocker. Oddly, it advertised Flash support, too, but we weren't able to run Adobe Flash content.

There's even a Reading mode and our favorite Night mode, which inverts the background and text colors and makes it really easy to read at night.

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MX Browser

Other apps

The Meizu Pro 6 Plus features a calendar that supports multiple online accounts. It offers monthly, weekly, daily and agenda views and is pretty straightforward to work with. Creating a new event lets you set which calendar to store it in, along with a reminder.

The Calendar has a very minimal, clean look but retains all the functionality you'd expect. You can also go for the Google Calendar - it's available for download as a separate app from the Play Store.

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Moving on, we have the Clock app that will handle multiple alarms with custom repeat times, ringtones, snooze time and labels. There are also a stopwatch and timer integrated within the Clock app.

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A calculator app is also on board. Interestingly you can use it as a pop-up app over the homescreen and other apps, such as MX browser. It offers a currency, length, weight and volume converter, too.

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Calculator

There is a very helpful Toolbox app, which provides a flashlight, a mirror, compass, level, ruler and magnifying functions.

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Toolbox

The Notes app is clean and straightforward. You can add notes, images, and even checklists to it.

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Notes

The preinstalled file manager lets you browse through the memory of the Meizu Pro 6 Plus or through Recent, or through different media types - music, videos, pictures, etc. It allows copy, cut and paste and also sharing of files on your device.

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File manager

Perhaps the highlight of Meizu's homebrewed apps is the Security app. It lets you scan for viruses, clean junk files, keep an eye on your large files, manage your data traffic, and most importantly - control the permissions for each app you install in a really detailed manner.

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Security app

Reader comments

  • Amer bader
  • 30 Aug 2018
  • qJx

Do you know if it will work on 4g of Tmobile in the US?

  • Anonymous
  • 23 Jun 2018
  • S2T

We are still waiting for your Helio X30 to blow everything out of the water

  • Anonymous
  • 23 Jan 2017
  • n3Y

Don't have laptop, i use 32' widescreen bprderless screen on my PC.