Meizu PRO 5 Pro Reviews

At a base price of $430 for the 32GB model (excluding shipping and import taxes), the Meizu Pro 5 delivers a lot of smartphone for the money. This is a competent phablet that's built around exacting design, a no-compromise spec sheet, and delightful user experience. Indeed, the Pro 5's display, fingerprint scanner, and night photography performance could have been better, but the device's strong sides seriously outweigh the negatives! Indeed, the $150 increase in price over its predecessor, the Meizu MX5, is well worth it. Unfortunately, fine Meizu products like this one still aren't ones you can conveniently find in stores if you are outside Asia. We're not saying the Pro 5 isn't worth a few weeks of waiting and the eventual import headaches if you're interested in a phablet, but while you're at it, you might as well just pick up the Google Nexus 6P by Huawei, which is priced in a similar ballpark and is a better all-around Android device that you can pick up locally. That aside, the ambition and precision poured into the Pro 5 prove that Meizu's products have what it takes to spar with the Chinese big boys, such as Huawei, Xiaomi, Vivo, and Oppo. But its limited market presence outside China simply won't let the Pro 5 compete with globally available flagship devices from Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola, and HTC right now.