However, in the view of glory, the internet is not a gimmick to take advantage of the situation. Its essence should be a communication tool and a medium for efficient communication between brands and users. What really landed in the end was the product. Obviously, domestic mobile phones are constantly exploring the ceiling of brand value, and consumption upgrading also provides the necessary conditions for domestic mobile phones to improve their quality. In this context, glory took a flagship as the first show of 17, and proposed to speed up the second half of Internet mobile phones, while glory V9 was the starting gun for glory to speed up the competition in the second half. In this evaluation, let's see if the product of Glory V9 can be worthy of the name of Glory Flagship.
Users who know the glory brand know that the current product line of glory is relatively clear. Flagship machine * * * has three series: V series, Note series and Zhengdai series. Among them, V series pays attention to cost performance and belongs to the top of hardware configuration in honor. Therefore, the V series that appeared last year not only contained the meaning of victory at the beginning of its release, but also carried the innovative part of the glory gene. In this part of the article, let's take a look at the hardware configuration of Glory V9.
Basic parameters of glory V9
Screen characteristics
5.7-inch 2560* 1440 resolution
Fuselage size
157mm x 77.5x6.97mm
Fuselage weight
184g
processor
The main frequency of Kirin 960 processor is 2.4GHz.
Network mode
Dual-card dual-standby single-pass full netcom
Body memory
64/ 128GB
Random access memory
4/6GB
Camera characteristics
12 million black and white+color dual lens
Battery capacity
4000 mAh (up to 9V2A)
operating system
EMUI 5.0
, compatible with Android 7.0
Fuselage color
Aurora blue, magic night black, platinum light gold, charm flame red
retail price
1999/3499 Click for details.
As can be seen from the parameter table, the hardware of Glory V9 can be regarded as a well-deserved flagship in honor. Keep the 2K screen and upgrade the specifications of memory and processor to the top level of the current Android phone. In my opinion, the greater significance lies in the fact that glory V9 can seize the market in this vacuum period (2-3 months) when all domestic flagships are still watching Xiaolong 835 blink. The battery capacity of Glory V9 is 4000mAh, the energy density is as high as 7 10Wh/L, and the body thickness is only 6.79mm, which also shows the skill of Glory V9 in ID design.
In addition, dual cameras have become the standard of today's flagship. Glory V9 is equipped with12 megapixel black and white+color dual lens, and the algorithm is continuously optimized. It is said that the start-up speed and photographing speed of the camera have been greatly improved, and it also provides the function of 3D creative shooting, becoming the first dual-camera 3D modeling mobile phone, and can also be used for 3D online printing to explore more possible application scenarios. These are also derived from the internet genes of the glory brand, which can dare to innovate and bring different experiences to users. Of course, hardware is only the basis of experience. Whether the configuration can be truly transformed into experience is the real test of the internal strength of the manufacturer.
Appearance technology:
On the front, the glory V9 is equipped with a 5.7-inch 2K resolution screen, and the black edge of the screen is properly controlled. Due to the background of 2.5D glass, it is full of exquisiteness. For this 2K resolution screen, Glory V9 has been specially tuned, and CE color enhancement technology has been adopted to improve the color saturation, make the color more gorgeous, and make the picture more eye-catching.
At the top of the fuselage, the glory V9 is a front camera, a light distance sensor and an earpiece, all of which are in a line, reflecting a certain sense of order. The front camera has 8 million pixels and supports ten levels of beauty. It is worth mentioning that it is obvious that Glory V9 only draws on the treatment method of Glory 8 glass and adopts multi-layer coating process, which effectively improves the optical characteristics of glass and produces beautiful mirror effect.
The bottom of the glory V9 is also the traditional design of the brand. It uses virtual buttons and is printed with "Honor" logo, which reflects different shades of colors at different angles, which is very textured.
In terms of fuselage, Glory V9 is made of metal, which is made of a whole piece of metal through 40 processes including CNC machining, nano injection molding and sandblasting. It has a rounded body line and a delicate feel. The colors of the injection belts of the upper and lower antennas are close to the true colors of the fuselage, and there is no obvious sense of visual separation.
Glory V9 is equipped with the third generation dual camera system, which is still dual12 million pixels, black and white+color dual lens, and is equipped with dual color temperature fill light. In terms of glory, the camera startup and photographing speed are optimized, and the 3D shooting function is innovatively added, which lays the foundation for VR application. Below the camera is a fingerprint identification module.
The battery capacity of the machine is 4000mAh, and the thickness of the whole machine is controlled at 6.97mm, which makes the face value and battery life well balanced. The side is designed with streamer ridges. After more than 40 cutting processes, it not only has a slim visual impression, but also is not difficult to hold in your hand. The key is made of metal, with short key stroke and moderate feedback.
At the bottom of the fuselage, the glory V9 adopts USB Type-C interface and has a 3.5mm headphone jack. The openings of the external speakers are all CNC, and the high-gloss diamond trimming is vaguely seen. There is also an infrared remote control sensor at the top to support remote control of home appliances.
System experience:
In today's highly homogeneous mobile phones, the system has become the biggest difference in mobile phone experience. After all, hardware is only the foundation, and the system carries the attitude of manufacturers to products and consumers. However, due to various restrictions, Android native can not get all the experience in China, so the domestic third-party OS has become the main battlefield of various powerful manufacturers. Among them, after several years of development, EMUI has become a relatively mature system with perfect functions and good fluency, which embodies the demeanor of a big factory. Last year, glory released Magic, which reflected glory's thinking about future systems and artificial intelligence. In this part of the article, let's experience the glory V9 system.
For a long time, EMUI has given people the impression that it is mostly stable and business-oriented, but it is inevitably a bit old-fashioned in positioning young Internet users. In EMUI 5.0, we can see that it is more integrated into the current fashion trend. From the interface, the font of EMUI 5.0 has become slimmer and the icons have been redrawn. It is worth mentioning that the author also found a theme of native icons in the theme, which looks fresher and more in line with the glorious positioning of young netizens.
In addition, EMUI 5.0 also adds some interesting animation effects, such as charging bubbles and a three-dimensional compass. In the introduction of EMUI 5.0, it is said that its design is inspired by the marine civilization of Aegean Sea, which can integrate the agility and smoothness of water into the system. Moreover, EMUI 5.0 greatly simplifies the logic of the system, allowing 90% of common operations to be completed in three steps, which is more efficient and more in line with the development trend of modern smart phones.
Functionally, EMUI 5.0 supports the application of avatars, split-screen applications and other functions. Press and hold the multi-task key in the application interface to enter the split screen mode, and you can adjust the proportion of different applications. This function is also very common in other Roms, but there is a problem in use: when one of the split-screen applications is a video application, suppose you want to set up your mobile phone while watching the video, and the video will automatically pause when switching to the upper application, and you need to restart it manually.
Of course, the functions of mobile phone operating systems are almost the same now, and at the press conference of Glory V9, Glory also put forward the slogan of 500 days without being stuck. As we all know, there are various non-standard applications in Android system that reside in the background to seize memory resources, which leads to the shortage of Android phones even though the hardware configuration is constantly improving. In addition, in daily operation, the saved files are deleted repeatedly, which leads to the decrease of memory reading speed.
Glory uses both hardware and software. In hardware, UFS 2. 1 supported by Kirin 960 ensures the memory reading speed of the system, and in software, it supports F2FS file management system. Simply put, F2FS can actively defragment the system and cooperate with IO storage optimization technology to reduce cache fragmentation in the system and improve the reading speed of system access. In addition, in Glory V9, EMUI 5.0 also integrates the artificial intelligence algorithm adopted by Glory Magic to record users' common usage habits, give priority to allocating memory resources for common applications, shorten application startup speed and ensure user experience.
Hardware performance:
As the flagship of the Internet that focuses on cost performance, the glory V9 will naturally not be underestimated in hardware configuration. Glory V9 adopts Kirin 960 chip and the latest A73 architecture of ARM. It consists of four large cores A73+ four small cores A53, with the highest frequency of 2.4GHz. It comes standard with Mali-G7 1 MP8 GPU, upgrades its i6 coprocessor, upgrades its memory specification to UFS 2. 1, and is equipped with the second generation PrimISP 2.0 independently developed. Of course, the theoretical performance of a processor is never equal to the actual experience. In this part of the article, let's take a look at how V9 performs after comprehensively upgrading its hardware specifications.
For processor Kirin 960, its biggest highlight lies in A73 architecture and GPU Mali G7 1. Anyone who knows something about Kirin's processor knows that as one of the few manufacturers in the world that can independently develop mobile terminal CPU, the biggest difference between Kirin and Apple and Qualcomm is that they always use the public architecture of ARM. When ARM was updated to A73, Kirin naturally chose to follow up.
Cortex-A73 still adopts full-scale ARMv8-A architecture, which can be used in 10nm and 14/ 16nm processes, while Kirin still continues the 16nm FinFET+ process, mainly based on ensuring the power consumption of A73 architecture. Horizontally, the improvement of architecture is more important than the process and architecture. After all, until now, the process of 10nm is still unstable, so Kirin finally chose 16nm.
Kirin 960 supports UFS 2. 1 memory reading and writing specifications, and of course Glory V9 is no exception. In AndriodBench, both sequential reading and random reading and writing are excellent, especially compared with UFS 2.0 Xiaolong 820. In the actual experience, because the speed of reading data in memory has been obviously improved, it has a good experience to open applications, read data and cache a lot during operation.
At the launch conference of Glory V9, I took the time to introduce and demonstrate to Yin and Yang teachers, which also showed their confidence in the performance of Glory V9 games. This is the masterpiece of games like Yin Yang Shi, and it depends more on the strong performance of this Kirin 960. The graphics processing ability of Kirin chip has been criticized for a long time, but it has been solved on Kirin 960 chip. Kirin 960 is equipped with Mali G7 1 MP8, adopts Bifrost architecture, and the main frequency is 850MHz, which is different from Samsung's latest Exynos only in the number of cores. In the test of GFXBench4, the off-screen performance of 1080P Manhattan is 3 1Fps, and that of 1080P Tyrannosaurus Rex is 60Fps, which is a great improvement compared with Kirin 950.
In addition, Mali G7 1 supports APIs such as OpenGL and Vulkan interface standards. Different from OpenGL and other standards, Vulkan has improved multithreading performance and faster rendering performance, and got rid of the way that OpenGL relies on CPU operation, so that GPU and CPU can read and write in the same memory at the same time, giving full play to the parallel computing ability of multi-core processors. Therefore, Glory V9 is confident, and it can perform well even in a big game like Master Yin and Yang. Moreover, we also tested the Yin-Yang teacher and called the performance test software to monitor the operation of CPU.
▲ CPU scheduling of Kirin 960
According to the monitoring of CPU, Kirin 960 will be fully opened in eight nuclear mainly when the game is loaded and complex scenes are encountered, but in simple scenes, it will enter the strategy of giving priority to small cores and assisting large cores, and there will be no so-called "one core is in trouble, and seven cores are on the lookout" scene. And we also tested the performance of Glory V9 for a big game like Yin. Through the test, we can see that Kirin 960 can reach the level of 30Fps (full frame) in a half-hour game. It can be seen that from the beginning of Kirin 960, game performance will no longer be the weakness of Kirin.
Of course, the performance of mobile phones is strong, and the foundation is battery life. Glory V9 is equipped with 4000mAh battery, and the battery capacity density is as high as 7 10Wh/L, which is higher than 69 1Wh/L of Note7. For consumers, when the fast charge is basically at a level (mostly around 18W), the efficiency per unit energy is even more important. We also tested the battery life of the Glory V9.
Judging from the endurance chart, the endurance performance of Glory V9 is still excellent, thanks to EMUI's management of chain start, so the power background management of Glory V9 in standby is excellent, with 3% power failure in eight hours standby, which is an excellent level in the Android camp. In addition, until now, there may be people who misunderstand the 2K screen and think that it consumes more power than 1080P. In fact, since the first 2K resolution screen was commercialized three years ago, the brightness and power consumption of the 2K screen have been the same as the resolution of 1080P. Therefore, it can be seen that in the test project of playing video, glory V9 consumes 10% of power online for one hour at 720P p, and on the whole, glory V9 performs better among products with 5.7-inch screen level.
Summary: There is no doubt that the gear of Glory V9 within 3000 in hardware configuration is the flagship. Whether it is Kirin 960, UFS 2. 1 or 2K screen, it gives strong support to Glory V9 from theoretical performance to application experience. Here, I still want to say two digressions: Huawei has finally upgraded from K3V2 to Kirin 960 after so many years of unremitting independent research and development. For Huawei, it has become a terminal manufacturer that can vertically integrate SoC components outside Apple, and can modify SoC according to its own needs. Today, the smart phone supply chain is becoming more and more transparent, and it is undoubtedly a killer function.
Photo experience:
For today's flagship mobile phones, dual cameras are not a selling point, but a standard. Naturally, glory V9 is no exception. From the hardware point of view, glory V9 adopts12 million black and white+color dual cameras, which supports phase focusing and depth focusing, and has a certain guarantee in focusing speed. In fact, most scenes can be focused in seconds without pulling the bellows. Moreover, it is worth mentioning that in order to improve the camera experience, Glory V9 adopts Lite OS (optimized for dual camera) algorithm, which makes the imaging speed faster and ensures the film yield.
In addition, we know that in addition to the quality of the lens itself, ISP image processing also contributes to the quality of the photos. Kirin 960 adopts PrimISP 2.0 independently developed by Huawei, with built-in SoC. PrimISP's support for dual cameras also provides technical updates, which can fuse black and white dual cameras in real time and capture more details. And the large aperture processing is more natural, the depth of field information is more accurate, and the photo layering is stronger. Of course, these are also theoretical manifestations. Whether the photo is good or not, look at the sample next.
The first is the large aperture sample during the day. It can be seen that it is natural to blur the bicycles after the first one in turn, while the bicycles with the main focus are very clear. In addition, it can be seen that the proofs of Glory V9 are rich in layering, and the white balance is relatively accurate, with no obvious deviation.
In terms of detail resolution, we compare it with vivo Xplay6 (main camera12 million pixels, depth of field camera 5 million pixels). From the enlarged details, the two are almost the same, but the brightness of vivo Xplay6 is too high, which leads to some overexposure of the white on the street sign.
As can be seen from this set of photos, the color saturation of the samples of Glory V9 is relatively high, and a cut tree on the street has a certain texture under the afternoon light and shadow. And the glory V9 controls the brightness of the picture more accurately, even in the scene with high brightness, the whole picture will not be overexposed.
In addition, the glory V9 also joined the black and white camera mode. As early as Huawei P9, this German-style function has been loved by many users. Compared with ordinary photos, sometimes black and white photos can better express the sense and texture of the scene. Some users may ask, then I can't achieve the same effect with a black and white filter. Let's look at this set of proofs:
▲ Glory V9 proofs
▲vivo Xplay6 proofs
From this set of proofs, we can see that, unlike ordinary black-and-white filters, the gray scale of the black-and-white camera of Glory V9 is too natural, and too many brick colors can be seen on the roof tiles above the plaque, while Xplay6 retains less details, which makes it look too blunt in black and white. Simply using filters to eliminate colors will make photos look stiff, while the black and white camera of Glory V9 will make photos look more textured.
▲ Glory V9 night scene proofs
In terms of night scenes, glory V9 is not as bright as Xplay6, but it is still average. It can be seen that although there is some loss in the brightness of the picture, the noise control performance of the night scene picture is not bad, but the control of glare needs to be strengthened. But to be honest, compared with the performance of Glory V9 that impressed the author during the day, the night scene can only be regarded as a passing standard.
Summary:
As the first flagship mobile phone of Glory 20 17, Glory V9 did not disappoint. On the hardware level, there are Kirin 960 SoC, 6GB memory, UFS 2. 1 storage and other hard power, which lays the foundation for rapid response; At the software level, there is EMUI 5.0 blessing and integrated artificial intelligence technology to help maintain a long-term smooth experience. The organic combination of the two is the foundation of V9 "fast". In addition, as a mobile phone specially designed for young people, Glory V9 also absorbs cutting-edge design and technology, with a slim body and dual cameras. Among them, on the basis of steadily improving the image quality, the latter especially supports the fields of 3D modeling and cross-border VR, adding a bit of forward-looking exploration, and then we can see the glory and forward-looking innovation genes.
In the past year, changes in the environment have left Internet mobile phones in the cold, and glory has to stop and re-examine the future of Internet mobile phones. In glory's view, on the one hand, the Internet allows users and manufacturers to have an efficient and equal communication channel, thus mapping users' real ideas into products; On the other hand, the Internet is also an important channel for users to spread word of mouth, making excellent products widely known. Therefore, the essence of the Internet is only a media tool after all, and products and experiences are the foundation. Implementing the latter is the direction that Internet mobile phones should adhere to, and Glory V9 is the practitioner of this concept.