After defining the positioning of "excellent conscience product, national mobile phone", Lenovo mobile phones have successively launched a number of cost-effective products, and gradually returned to the public's field of vision. Lenovo Z5, which is promoted by Lenovo Z5, continues to sell well, affecting the product strategies of traditional cost-effective players such as Xiaomi and Glory, and has become an out-and-out showstopper in the thousand-yuan market. While the iron is hot, Lenovo Mobile recently signed Zhu Yilong as the spokesperson, and held a new product launch conference on October 18th. Lenovo S5 Pro, which focuses on "idol-level selfie", was officially unveiled, launching a new round of offensive to the thousand yuan market.
A good bangs screen
Following the design trend in recent years, Lenovo S5 Pro also adopts bangs screen design, but compared with the "little bangs" that have evolved into water droplets and pearls, the bangs of S5 Pro are a little generous, and the look and feel is very similar to that of iPhone X.
Of course, the wide bangs will certainly accommodate more sensors. Liu Haizhong of S5 Pro not only accommodates the necessary receiver, light distance sensor and 2-megapixel camera, but also designs an additional 8-megapixel infrared camera, which is used to capture 3D information of face to assist beauty, on the other hand, it also improves the efficiency of face unlocking in dark light.
on the screen, Lenovo S5 Pro uses a 6.2-inch LCD screen with a 19: 9 aspect ratio, a resolution of 2246*18, a 113% sRGB color gamut performance, and the highest brightness can reach 6 nits. In terms of physical experience, the color performance of this screen is relatively pleasing to the eye, and the perception under strong light is acceptable, and the overall performance is in the leading position in the same price.
as for the width of the chin, it can be seen that Lenovo S5 Pro is also controlled, which is in the middle level of LCD screen products. Fortunately, the width of the borders on both sides of S5 Pro is symmetrical. With the transition of large R angle, the width of chin is weakened visually, which makes the overall look and feel more harmonious.
See also one-piece fuselage
Different from the glass fuselage used by mainstream models, Lenovo S5 Pro adopts an all-metal one-piece fuselage, and its line design is more similar to that of iPhone 6 series. The back is very flat, with slight arc-closing transition on both sides. The surface is polished by 25 zirconium sand, which makes it feel much more delicate than the original metal, and it is not difficult to hold it in your hand.
It should be said that the metal body of Lenovo S5 Pro has reached an excellent level among the thousand yuan machines, from signal tape injection molding, CNC machining to surface treatment. After all, there are still many models that stay in the three-stage body or continue to polish large plastics.
in order to improve the recognition, Lenovo also printed its own logo in the lower left corner of the fuselage, which corresponds to the position of the dual-camera module above, vaguely showing the style of Lenovo's big shot in the past.
how about taking a photo with a rear double camera?
In terms of camera, Lenovo S5 Pro adopts the mainstream dual-camera configuration, equipped with a 12-megapixel wide-angle main camera with an aperture of F 1.8, and an additional 2-megapixel telephoto auxiliary camera with an aperture of F 2.6 for optical zoom and portrait shooting. See the sample below.
Lenovo S5 Pro has warm colors and limited details, which basically meets daily use. However, as a mobile phone with camera as its main feature, Lenovo S5 Pro still has some problems to be solved urgently, such as zoom switching stuck, HDR imaging is slow, accompanied by a composite picture from bright to dark, and the picture quality still has room for optimization.
2-megapixel beauty selfie
Self-portrait is the main feature, Lenovo S5 Pro has a 2-megapixel front camera and an 8-megapixel infrared camera. The former is responsible for self-portrait imaging and supports the four-in-one pixel technology to improve the self-portrait effect at night; The latter can assist the main camera in 3D face modeling, providing a basis for more natural beauty and light effect.
The beauty of Lenovo S5 Pro starts from many aspects. In addition to conventional skin-grinding, it also supports micro-shaping of face, such as big eyes and thin face, which has obvious effects after actual experience.
in addition, Lenovo S5 Pro supports six kinds of special effects of ambient lights, providing 3D portrait lighting effects such as natural light, stage light, early morning light, rainbow light and studio light. These light effects are by no means the superposition of simple filters. Based on the capture of spatial information by dual cameras, a 3D stereo model is established to achieve a more realistic stereo fill light effect.
Of course, the specific beauty effect varies from person to person. Please see the effect through the proofs.
Snapdragon 636 basically meets the needs of mobile games
Lenovo S5 Pro adopts Snapdragon 636 mobile platform. As a mid-range SoC promoted by Qualcomm this year, it looks like a chicken blood version of Xiaolong 63 in terms of its name, but in fact it is an out-and-out youth version of Snapdragon 66.
on paper, Snapdragon 636 is made of advanced 14nm FinFET technology, with Kryo 26 architecture consistent with Snapdragon 66 and 4+4 core design, in which the highest frequency of four large cores is 1.8Ghz, and that of four small cores is 1.6Ghz, and only the main frequency of the large core is slightly lower than that of Snapdragon 66.
at the same time, Snapdragon 636 has built-in Adreno 59 GPU, Spectra 16 ISP and Hexagon 68 DSP, and its baseband is Snapdragon X12 LTE Modem, with the highest downlink rate of 6Mbps. It supports dual cards, dual standby and dual 4G, including 5G WiFi and Bluetooth 5. It is an affordable choice with comprehensive performance.
in the actual experience, the daily experience of Snapdragon 636 running with 6GB is obviously improved. In the high frame rate mode, the fierce team battle scene of the mainstream mobile game "the glory of the king" can also be maintained above 3fps. For the demanding mobile game of eating chicken, it is enough to reduce the picture quality.
brand-new ZUI+ sincere charging kit
Lenovo S5 Pro runs the latest ZUI 5. system. In actual experience, its fluency and ZUI 3.9 installed at the beginning of Z5 have been significantly improved compared with chirality. At the same time, the author also noticed that the interface of ZUI 5. has also been changed, such as canceling the shortcut menu at the bottom and changing it into a more mainstream drop-down menu.
ZUI 5. optimizes the full-screen gesture, and slides up from any position at the bottom to trigger the return. Sliding inward at the left and right edges of the bottom corresponds to multi-tasks, and sliding up and hovering at any position at the bottom returns to the home page, which is very easy to operate with dynamic effect.
in addition, Lenovo S5 Pro's face unlocking has a good speed. Due to the existence of infrared camera, the speed and success rate of unlocking at night are significantly improved, which is difficult to experience in the same price model.
it is also worthy of praise that Lenovo S5 Pro is equipped with a Type-C interface, built-in 35mAh battery, supports QC3. fast charging, and comes standard with QC3. fast charging head, which can last for one day properly, even if there is no power, it can replenish enough power in a short time.
The price starts from 1298 yuan, which is cost-effective, but the advantage is no longer
With the keynote of "national mobile phone, conscience is excellent", the price of Lenovo S5 Pro still follows this idea. The 6GB+64GB version is priced at 1398 yuan, and an additional gold version of 1298 yuan is provided, which is related to its Snapdragon 636, mainstream bangs screen, and front and rear dual-camera beauty.
However, comparing Xiaomi 8 Youth Edition (starting from 1399 yuan) and Xiaomi 6X (starting from 1199) equipped with Snapdragon 66 horizontally, Lenovo S5 Pro has no absolute strength in design, technology, configuration, photography, etc., and its cost-effective advantage is not obvious, so its appeal to rational consumers is probably limited. Fortunately, Lenovo Mobile also invited Zhu Yilong, who is very popular, as a spokesperson, which may affect the purchase of some consumers.