Meizu m1 Note Battery Life Test

The Meizu m1 note is a very affordable and yet powerful mid-ranger with a 5.5″ 1080p display, a MT6752 chip with an octa-core processor, a 13MP snapper and a 3,140 mAh battery. It runs on Android 4.4 KitKat skinned with Meizu’s Flyme launcher, which is clean and feature-rich.

The Meizu m1 note is also a dual-SIM smartphone capable of connecting to 3G and LTE networks, while the second SIM works via GSM networks only. The phone supports dual-SIM standby and uses microSIM cards.
We approached this our battery test with high hopes due to the relatively high battery capacity of 3,140 mAh. We kicked things off with the 3G talk time checkup. The m1 note lasted just few minutes short of 15 hours, which is great.

Talk time

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• Lenovo Vibe Z2 Pro 33:20h
• LG Optimus G E975 15:30h
• Sony Xperia ZL 15:22h
• Nokia Lumia 720 15:17h
• ZTE Blade S6 15:01h
• Nokia Lumia 830 14:56h
• Meizu m1 note 14:53h
• Xiaomi Redmi 1S 14:51h
• HTC Desire 816 14:46h
• Motorola Moto X (2014) 14:45h
• Alcatel Idol X+ 14:41h
• Xiaomi Mi Note 14:31h
• Pantech Burst 4:46h

The default MX web browser isn’t acing any benchmarks, but it turned out amazingly frugal on battery power and kept on running our dedicated web browsing script for more than 13 hours. This is among the best results to date.

Web browsing

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• Huawei Ascend Mate2 4G 16:41h
• Sony Xperia Z3 Compact 14:52h
• Meizu MX4 14:06h
• Huawei Ascend Mate7 13:53h
• Samsung Galaxy S5 mini 13:14h
• HTC Butterfly 2 13:11h
• Meizu m1 note 13:05h
• Sony Xperia C 12:45h
• Nokia Lumia 1520 12:40h
• Sony Xperia Z1 Compact 12:37h
• HTC One (M8) for Windows 12:31h
• HTC Desire 700 dual sim 12:30h
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250 3:01h

The looped video playback turned out great as well – the smartphone packed enough juice to last about 11 hours and 10 minutes before its battery dropped down to 10%. This is enough for 7 full-length movies and way above average.

Video playback

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• LG G Flex 19:57h
• Apple iPhone 6 Plus 11:15h
• BlackBerry Q10 11:15h
• Oppo N1 11:15h
• Samsung Galaxy S5 11:15h
• HTC One (M8) for Windows 11:15h
• Meizu m1 note 11:09h
• Samsung Galaxy S5 mini 11:02h
• Asus PadFone X 11:01h
• BlackBerry Passport 10:46h
• Samsung Galaxy Note Edge 10:41h
• LG G Flex2 10:35h
• Nokia Lumia 710 3:27h

Finally, we measured the standby battery endurance and the Meizu m1 note turned out an average performer with the two SIM cards inside – the phablet lasted a full week plus a few more hours of the eight day. This doesn’t sound impressive at all, but it is an OK performance for a dual-SIM phone with both SIM cards on.
In our test, the Meizu m1 note managed to score an average rating of 66 hours of battery life. It posted very solid numbers in all of our tests, while the stand-by performance is only average because of the dual-SIM functionality. This means the Meizu m1 note will last two and a half days and then some, if you do an hour each of calling, web browsing and video playback daily.

The m1 note offers three battery modes – power-saving (four CPU cores only), balanced (six CPU cores) and performance (access to all eight CPU cores). We tested it at Performance and Balanced modes, which provided similar results, but you may be able to squeeze even more from the battery, when the m1 note is set on Power-Saving mode which puts a limit on the processor and some of the connectivity features.

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