Dual Card Full Netcom Thousand Yuan Machine Huawei Glory play 4X Evaluation

IT 168 Evaluation At the beginning of this year, many manufacturers were saying that this year was a year of overtaking in corners for them, because the arrival of 4G networks would give mobile phone manufacturers a big reshuffle to some extent. After half a year, what is the current situation of the domestic 4G market? The author believes that Huawei's glory in playing 4X full netcom mobile phones is very representative today. This year, many domestic manufacturers are making efforts in the 1000 yuan 4G market, and Huawei's glory in playing 4X Netcom is just the strongest machine in the 1000 yuan 4G field this year. Today, we will look at the development level of the 4G mobile phone market after 1 year through evaluation.

"hardware configuration

In fact, rumors about Huawei's glory to play 4X have been going on for a long time. The machine is basically positioned as a full netcom thousand yuan 4G mobile phone. At the price of 1000 yuan, the 4G full netcom mobile phone is basically a blank stage. Although major manufacturers are focusing on their own cost-effective 1000 yuan 4G machines, it is rare to achieve the price of 1000 yuan and the whole netcom. To evaluate this part of the article, let's see if Huawei's hardware configuration can be the best among thousands of 4G mobile phones.

"Huawei Glory Play 4X Main Parameters

operating system

EMUI 3.0 is deeply customized based on Android 4.4.

Network standard

TD-LTE/FDD-LTE/TD-SCDMA/WCDMA/CDMA 2000/GSM/CDMA 1X

Fuselage size

152.9 * 77.2 * 8.65mm

weight

165g (with deviation)

screen

5.5 inches 1280*720 resolution completely fits the screen.

camera

13 megapixel+5 megapixel front camera

processor

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 10 quad-core processor, clocked at1.2ghz.

Body memory

Ram: 2GB ROM: 8GB (expansion supported)

battery

3000mAh (non-replaceable)

Fuselage color

Black (official color back cover)

listed price

"Full Netcom Edition 1299 Yuan Telecom Edition 999 Yuan (click to make an appointment)

As can be seen from the hardware parameter table, Huawei Glory Play 4X occupies almost all the new words of mainstream cost-effective mobile phones, such as 64-bit processor, full-fit screen, 2GB running memory, 3000mAh ultra-large capacity battery, 7-mode 15 frequency and so on. You may not know what these words mean, but you must have heard of them at various mobile phone conferences. From these words alone, we can see that Huawei's glory to play 4X configuration belongs to the category of current cost-effective mobile phones. Of course, we also saw some highlights different from other mobile phones on Huawei Glory Play 4X. For example, Huawei Glory Play 4X should be regarded as the first Huawei thousand yuan smart machine equipped with EMUI 3.0. What is the experience of EMUI 3.0? We will have a detailed interpretation in the evaluation article.

"Industrial design

For the design of thousand yuan smart machine, most manufacturers have reached a * * * understanding at present, that is, the design of thousand yuan smart machine is to satisfy the aesthetics of most users without increasing the burden of production capacity. But if you want to stand out in the thousand yuan smart machine, then a good design is the best selling point of the product. In short, it is relatively easy to build a smart phone with a cost performance of 1,000 yuan at present, but how to make users feel it is worth buying, industrial design is an important part. To evaluate this part of the article, let's first look at whether the design of Huawei Glory Play 4X has entered your eyes.

First of all, on the positive side, Huawei Glory Play 4X adopts the design language of rounded rectangle, which makes the whole look more square and very atmospheric through the angle adjustment of four R angles. And it also adopts the design elements that completely fit the screen, so that the front panel looks very dark and full of unity without opening the screen.

On the front top, Huawei Glory Play 4X is equipped with a 5-megapixel front camera, which is considered a high configuration in the thousand-yuan smart machine. Moreover, the light and distance sensors are placed on the left side of the dust-proof net of the receiver, which is very hidden. If you don't look carefully, you can't perceive the existence of these two sensors at all, which ensures the sensory integrity of the front to the greatest extent.

At the bottom of the front, Huawei Glory Play 4X is equipped with back, HOME and menu buttons from left to right, respectively. The styles of the three virtual buttons are unified with those of EMUI 3.0 because they are equipped with EMUI 3.0 system. Unfortunately, the virtual buttons are not equipped with backlight. However, generally speaking, the length of the upper and lower virtual button areas is small, which also makes the front screen of the whole machine occupy a relatively large proportion. Although it can't reach the ultra-narrow bezel and ultra-high screen ratio of the flagship mobile phone, the front screen ratio is also large enough in the thousand yuan mobile phone.

The back of the fuselage is the highlight of Huawei's glory 4X design. The back cover is made of polycarbonate as a whole, and the texture design of linen fabric. This design has excellent hand feel, look and feel, and anti-fingerprint effect. And the official also equipped with black, white, rose, light blue and gold and other colors for users to choose from.

Actually, the design is about inspiration. Huawei officials say that the design inspiration for Huawei's glory in playing 4X comes from the CD texture of Miyazaki Hayao's masterpiece City in the Sky, and it is also a small tribute like Miyazaki Hayao. Moreover, the top camera protection metal sheet adopts a diamond-cut frame, which makes Huawei's glory to play 4X13 million camera module design very eye-catching.

The bottom of the fuselage is not equipped with too many designs, and the fuselage speakers usually placed at the bottom of the back are also considered for sound effects, and are not placed on the back of the fuselage.

The side of the fuselage is equipped with an integrated volume button and power button. The big button design of the previous glory 3c series products was not adopted. And I guess the pan has been changed. It makes the hand feel better than Huawei's glory 3c series products and won't feel soft.

The top and bottom of the fuselage are equipped with 3.5mm headphone jack, noise reduction microphone, call microphone and microUSB jack. It is worth mentioning that the speaker port of the thousand yuan smart phone, which is usually placed on the back of the fuselage, was placed at the bottom of the fuselage by Huawei Glory Play 4. The advantage of adopting an integrated sound cavity is that when the mobile phone is laid flat on the table, the sound outlet of the speaker will not be blocked.

A 3000mAh non-removable battery is designed inside the mobile phone, and the battery compartment is shielded by a metal shield, so that even if the mobile phone encounters external force, the battery will not be in any danger. This kind of design usually only appears in manufacturers who are very pursuing quality, and Huawei widely adopts this design on thousand yuan smart machines. It can be seen that quality is still the most important part of Huawei. Dual microSIM cards and microSD card sockets supporting up to 32GB of body also make Huawei glory to play 4X with good scalability. According to the technical documents provided by Huawei, Huawei Glory Play 4X supports all mobile/Unicom/telecom 4G, 3G and 2G networks, and is a true 7-mode 15-band all-netcom mobile phone.

From the overall design of Huawei Glory Play 4X, several small highlights have been added in the well-behaved design: the front completely fits the screen, the back cover style of cotton and linen fabric, and the CD texture design of the camera module, all of which make Huawei Glory Play 4X with its own style while ensuring that it conforms to the public aesthetic. Moreover, the feel of the whole machine 165g is also very thick, and there will be no empty inspiration when you hold it in your hand.

"How is the performance of 64-bit processors?

As mentioned earlier, Huawei Glory Play 4X adopts Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 10 quad-core 64-bit 1.2GHz processor. And with the baseband chip, it can support the LTE network of CAT 4, and the highest download speed can reach 150Mbps per second. And what is the performance of this processor? Let's take a look at this part of the evaluation article.

As can be seen from the model of Snapdragon 4 10, this processor is the follow-up model of Snapdragon 400 series chips, while Snapdragon 400 series processors adopt ARM A7 architecture, which is mostly used in the chips of thousand yuan smart phones at present. This Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 10 processor is manufactured by ARM A53 architecture and TSMC's 28nm LP low-power process. It adopts quad-core, the main frequency starts from 1.2GHz, and the highest frequency can reach 1.4GHz. It also supports single-channel 64-bit LPDDR 2/3 memory chip.

In terms of GPU, compared with the previous Adreno305, Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 10 adopts Adreno306 GPU display core, and its main frequency reaches 400Mhz. The biggest highlight is that this processor can be used with the MDM9X25 baseband core previously installed on Qualcomm Xiaolong 800, supporting the 4G network support of LTE CAT4, and also supporting the functions that were only available on previous high-end models such as Beidou positioning.

The architecture of A53 is the same as that of A7 before, and it also supports double release sequence execution. In addition, A53 is more flexible in instruction parallelism, and various instructions including branch prediction can be issued simultaneously through two decoding paths. In order to improve the accuracy of branch prediction, A53 adopts the method that A 12 architecture is executed out of order, and a 12 architecture is used to replace A9 architecture. Although it is still in sequential execution, A53 has achieved the extreme of the current sequential execution architecture. Before the performance test, let's take a look at the performance differences between A5/A7/A9 and A53.

In the case of 1.2GHz, A53 is much faster than A5/A7 architecture, and even completely surpasses A9 architecture. Moreover, the power consumption of A53 is much lower than that of the current mainstream A9/A 15/A 17. Next, we will test the performance of this Snapdragon 4 10 processor installed on Huawei Glory Play 4 through running software.

"Ann bunny!

This software is the most widely used running software for enthusiasts at present. This software mainly tests the CPU performance and memory (RAM) performance of mobile phones. Not much nonsense, screenshot.

We used the new Ann Bunny testing software. In the new Ann Bunny testing software, 2D and 3D performance tests are more accurate, and the resolution of each mobile phone is different, so the final score of Xin 'an Bunny in display performance is converted into a unified resolution. Huawei scored nearly 20,000 points when playing 4X in glory, which improved the performance by about 17000 points compared with 15% in glory 3c.

“Nenamark 2

Nenamark is a running software specially designed for the performance of mobile phone processor display chip. It is divided into Nenamark and Nenamark2, which are aimed at low-end mobile phones and high-end mobile phones respectively. Want to know the true strength of Huawei's glory in playing 4X, we did not hesitate to run on Nenamark2.

As can be seen from the test results, the score of Glory Play 4 is about 55FPS, which is 10% higher than that of the previous red rice mobile phone. It seems that the ability of GPU to display the core Adreno306 is still good.

"Vilamo

Vellamo was originally used by Qualcomm to test the processor performance in web browsing. Since there was no software in the industry to test users' web browsing experience at that time, Qualcomm released this software. With the enhancement of mobile phone processor capabilities. The 500 mark, 1000 mark and even the 2000 mark have been broken. Next, let's take a look at the strength of Huawei Glory Play 4X equipped with the latest Android 4.4 operating system in this software.

Through the hardware test, we can see that the new 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 10 processor not only ensures the performance, but also further reduces the power consumption, even exceeding the current flagship A 15 architecture. In fact, the quality of a mobile phone hardware depends not only on the performance of CPU, but also on the overall performance of SOC, including the support for network signals. At present, Qualcomm can be regarded as a leader in network signal support, and it can also well support the whole network to support 4G in the entry-level cost-effective SOC. It can be seen that Qualcomm's next strategy is not only high performance, but also network integration is a very big goal for Qualcomm in the next few days. Take Huawei Glory Play 4X as an example. In the future, when consumers buy mobile phones, they don't need to consider whether they are telecom, Unicom or mobile cards, and they don't need to lament that their operators have so few cost-effective mobile phones.

"EMUI 3.0 analysis

How important is the current smart phone customization system? Look at the understanding of various mobile phone manufacturers on their own customized UI. Xiaomi: Xiaomi mobile phone x2=8 16798, MIUIx4=8 16798. MIUI= 1/2 Xiaomi mobile phone is available. IUNI: Born with a heart. One plus mobile phone: color OS+CM 1 1 dual experience. Hammer mobile phone: SmartisanOS has the most humanistic feelings. Examples and so on tell us that the customized UI can play a decisive role in the quality of a smart phone. Speaking of Huawei, we can think of Huawei's customized UI——EMUI. In fact, EMUI is one of the founders of customized UI in China. It has been more than two years since it was born. It experienced emotion UI1.01.5/1.6/2.0/2.3 and so on. The recent release of EMUI 3.0 is highly anticipated. Not only do pollen expect their Huawei phones to be equipped with EMUI 3.0 as soon as possible, but Huawei officials also have high hopes for the brand-new EMUI system. What is the charm of EMUI 3.0? As we mentioned earlier, Huawei Glory Play 4X is Huawei's first thousand yuan smartphone equipped with EMUI 3.0. What is the performance of EMUI 3.0? We will interpret this part of the evaluation article in detail.

In fact, there are many preconditions for the quality of a customized UI, such as whether it is smooth enough. There is no problem running EUUI 3.0 in terms of fluency. And the memory occupied by the system is basically the same as the previous EMUI 2.3. The word Caton has nothing to do with EMUI 3.0. In addition to fluency, the unity of system style has also become an important factor in whether a system is excellent or not. This series of articles starts with the system interface of EMUI 3.0.

Through the above video, we can see that the improvement in the interface is still obvious. The icon adopts a uniform rectangle with large radian and rounded corners. And has adapted to the commonly used application software in the market. Other unsuitable software icons use green rounded rectangles to make the style cartoon and unified. In terms of drop-down interface and system interface, EMUI 3.0 uses more plane elements such as lines as decoration. The virtual buttons at the bottom use triangles, circles and rectangles to replace the traditional back, home and multitasking icons. The overall style has become much smaller and fresher, which will not make users feel redundant.

In terms of details, we can see that in terms of fonts, compared with the previous generation, the fonts that are not bold are clear and highlight the lightness of the whole system. The icon shadow has also been slightly adjusted. The shadows become brighter. And in the aspect of color matching of system-level icons, a brand-new warm color icon is adopted, which is not bright, and it looks more comfortable for human eyes and has no dazzling feeling.

In the drop-down menu, we can clearly feel the flat design concept. The notification bar appears at the top left of the screen, and the function of timeline is added to the notification bar, so you can see important information such as missed calls, text messages and emails without opening it, which is quite convenient. Slide from the top right of the screen to display the small switch interface. The icon of the small switch is outlined with thin lines. Generally speaking, it feels very light.

The application market of EMUI 3.0 is divided into five columns: recommendation, ranking, classification, management and mining. Among them, audio-visual entertainment, practical tools, social communication, e-books, theme individuality, news reading, convenient life, study and office, tourism navigation, shooting beautification, financial management, physical therapy health, safety performance and other applications 13. And games are also divided into online games, leisure puzzles, sports racing, role-playing, business strategies, action adventures and so on. The application market of Huawei EMUI 3.0 integrates popular photo albums, wallpapers, ringtones and other functions in addition to the common classifications in other application markets, which should be said to have a wide coverage.

In terms of security, the application market of Huawei EMUI 3.0 will prompt you whether the downloaded software is official, virus-free and advertisement-free. And for many of our commonly used software and games, we have conducted manual re-inspection, which is extremely rare in other third-party application markets. But also ensure sufficient safety. In other respects, compared with other third-party application malls, Huawei EMUI 3.0 App Store has a complete points system. Users will get different points when downloading different applications, and they can also get points when signing in every day. Users can exchange points for physical prizes in integral mall, and there are also interesting lucky draws.

The setting interface is divided into two parts: the top bar and the setting part. The top bar is transparent and consistent with the desktop. The Settings menu is divided into two parts-General Settings and All Settings. The style is the same as the drop-down menu, and the content is not much different from the previous generation EMUI.

Long press the screen to bring up the menu, we can see the wallpaper. This time Huawei EMUI 3.0 is equipped with 8 well-made wallpapers. Changed the colorful wallpaper and landscape wallpaper used before, and adopted a more calm tone. In terms of small plug-ins, Huawei also updated some plug-ins such as clocks. I don't know if more small plug-ins will be added in the subsequent official version. In terms of switching effect, EMUI 3.0 gives different page switching effects in 9, but the author still prefers the default (no effect) switching. In terms of layout, Huawei also gives two layout methods, 4x4 and 4x5.

The multitasking menu uses four recent tasks on a single page and can be set to turn pages. Users can quickly switch between several open softwares. Users can swipe a single task to clean up, or swipe up from the bottom of the interface to clean up globally. Of course, Huawei also provides a small plug-in to clear the cache with one click.

In terms of folders, when users open the folder of EMUI 3.0, the back desktop will be dimmed, and each page of the folder can store 9 applications, and users can also turn pages in the folder.

When Huawei released EMUI 3.0 at the IFA conference in Berlin, it said that EMUI 3.0 can not only be perfectly adapted to high-end models, but also provide support for entry-level cost-effective models. Compared with Huawei Glory Play 4X equipped with EMUI 3.0, more Huawei thousand yuan models will also support EMUI 3.0. Generally speaking, this time, EMUI 3.0 uses lines, flat small switches, thinner fonts, less use of very bright colors and consistent APP icons to create a fresh, non-redundant and brand-new UI, which makes users feel lighter and faster. Moreover, from the system interface, EMUI 3.0 is really reborn and has reached a new level.

"Camera experience+article summary

Perhaps the biggest change in EMUI 3.0 is the camera interface. Before interpreting the camera of Huawei Glory Play 4X, let's take a look at the improvement of Huawei Glory Play 4X in camera function.

Through the video, we can have a general understanding of the EMUI 3.0 camera system. The brand-new interface design makes it easier to take photos, and makes the author more willing to take photos with the glory of EMUI 3.0. Coupled with the timeline and geographical location display, photos are not only megabytes of space stored in your mobile phone, but also represent time and space. Although the interface has changed a lot, it still retains the functions of selfie mirror and skin beauty. And the function of real-time filtering is also added. Huawei has put a lot of effort into the camera.

Next, let's take a look at the strength of Huawei's glory in playing 4X13 megapixel camera through proofs.

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Huawei Glory Play 4X uses Sony13 megapixel back-illuminated camera module, which also reaches the standard configuration of mainstream cost-effective mobile phones in terms of parameters. Through the proofs, we can see that Huawei Glory Play 4 performs quite well in the case of good light intensity. Compared with the previous 8 megapixel Huawei Glory Play 4, the details have also improved. Moreover, the new EMUI 3.0 also supports the separation technology of focusing and photometry, making it easier to take creative photos. Generally speaking, the author of this13 megapixel camera is still very satisfied with the thousand yuan 4G mobile phone.

The article concludes:

As I said before, there are almost no 4G full netcom dual-card dual standby mobile phones on the market at present. The launch of Huawei Glory Play 4X is aimed at this market. Equipped with Qualcomm's latest 64-bit processor, it is also a brand-new processor that just came out in Qualcomm in the second half of this year. It is believed that in the future, Huawei Glory Play 4X will occupy the first echelon of the 1,000 yuan cost-effective market with the accurate positioning of dual-card dual-standby full netcom 4G. For this kind of mobile phone, I just want to say that high cost performance is nothing, and capacity improvement is the last word.