Super Configuration Positioning Internet Flagship Glory V8 Evaluation

IT 168 Evaluation In 20 14 years, Glory officially implemented the dual-brand operation strategy with Huawei as its independent brand. As a veritable "rich second generation" entrepreneurship, the glory brand gradually got rid of the shadow of Huawei in two years. In the short two generations of products after Glory 6, the seemingly radical product strategy also made Glory put a unique mark on its products in a short time. As the flagship product of the year, glory defines the new product as V series, which not only contains the meaning of victory, but also shows the concept that glory breaks through the convention and bravely makes its own products. Compared with some manufacturers who are still playing the price-performance card with high price and low price, Glory V8 pays more attention to the solid improvement of products.

The current mobile phone market has gradually changed from the "purchase era" to the "replacement era", and users will be more cautious when continuing to buy products. For Internet brands like Glory, we need to be more cautious in product iteration. So we can see that it took nearly nine months for glory to bring us glory V8 again. Glory V8 not only took out a 2K screen, dual cameras, but even set out to lay out VR. The tune is high enough that some people even try their best. As the flagship business of 16, whether glory V8 can continue to live up to its flagship name this year is also a question we need to know in this evaluation.

"Hardware part:

As an Internet brand mobile phone, the hardware configuration naturally carries the positioning of the mobile phone. As the flagship of the year, Glory V8 released the interpretation of using 2K screen in the warm-up stage, and the reuse of dual cameras made many people pay great attention to its configuration. At the beginning of the article, let's take a look at the hardware configuration of Glory V8.

"Glory V8

parameter

Mobile phone model

Glory V8

Glory V8 (Quan Netcom)

screen size

5.7 inches

5.7 inches

resolution ratio

1920* 1080

2560*

1440

processor

kirin 950

Qilin 955

Sim card

Double nanometer

Card slot, double card and double standby

Dual NanoSIM card slot, dual card dual standby

Random access memory

4GB

4GB

Body memory

32GB

64GB/ 128GB

Main camera

12 megapixel dual camera

12 megapixel dual camera

front-facing camera

8 million pixels

8 million pixels

operating system

EMUI 4. 1

EMUI 4. 1

Fuselage size

157 x 77.6 x 7.75 mm

157 x 77.6 x 7.75 mm

eigenfunction

NFC is not supported

Support NFC

Battery capacity

3500 mah

3500 mah

Network standard

Operator Edition/Full Netcom

All netcom

price

2299/2499 Yuanguan

2799 yuan view

By comparing the tables, we can see that the biggest difference between the full netcom version of Glory V8 64GB and the standard version is that the high version uses Kirin 955 processor (Kirin 950 for the standard version) and supports up to 2.5GHz (2.3GHz for the standard version). 4GB RAM +32/64GB ROM, with maximum support for 128GB memory expansion. Glory V8 uses a 5.7-inch screen with a resolution of 2560x 1440 (the resolution of standard version and carrier version is 1080P). The full netcom version supports NFC, while the carrier version does not, and even the colors are different. As you can see, glory V8 is quite different between different versions, and users can choose according to their own needs.

"Appearance:

An excellent mobile phone should not only have powerful configuration, but also have excellent design. With the problem of excess performance of smart phones becoming more and more prominent, appearance has become the first standard for many users to buy flagship phones. A good flagship mobile phone must have solid workmanship, excellent industrial design and excellent feel at the same time, hoping to capture the hearts of users. Let's take a look at the features of Glory V8 in industrial design.

In terms of appearance, Glory V8 is equipped with a 5.7-inch 2K screen with a resolution of 5 15 ppi and a color saturation of 94.5%. It has a 2048-level backlight adjustment, which enables the machine to bring more realistic and delicate display effects. There are no physical function buttons on the front of Glory V8, which makes the front look refreshing, but the design of virtual buttons on the screen will reduce the real use area of the screen. Glory also provides the function of hiding virtual buttons, which can be called out or hidden according to actual needs.

With the rapid development of smart phones, smart phones have entered the "metal age". On the back of the fuselage, the Glory V8 adopts a metal integrated fuselage design. Combining the 3D drilling and cutting design with micron-scale spraying technology of sand blasting process, Glory V8 presents different metallic textures at different angles, and at the same time, the hand feel and wear resistance are also improved a lot. This time, fluorinated liquid waterproof technology was added, which effectively reduced the damage to mobile phones caused by common situations such as water drops and hand sweat. Obviously, the glory V8 has gone further in the design and treatment of the fuselage, and the addition of metal sandblasting technology has made this mobile phone more recognizable among competing products at the same price.

Above the back of the fuselage are a camera and a fingerprint identification module. We can clearly see that the two cameras are fixed on the same base with a strong zinc alloy protective bracket. After precise debugging, the shooting quality and stability during long-term use are fully guaranteed. Glory V8 adopts a dual camera with12 million pixels. The dual cameras adopt black-and-white and color dual sensors respectively, which supports the mixed laser focusing technology of contrast, laser and depth of field, and is specially optimized for the skin color of orientals. It can be said that the technology of dual cameras has been fully upgraded this time.

The right side of Glory V8 mobile phone still retains the well-received smart keys, and will

The buttons have been readjusted and placed on the same side as the volume button and the power button, which is more convenient for users to use and more ergonomic. It is worth mentioning that intelligent key has deeply integrated Internet resources and services, and achieved a breakthrough experience for consumers in mobile Internet life.

Unconsciously, the symmetrical design style has become popular in the mobile phone circle and is gradually adopted by more and more mobile phone manufacturers. Glory V8

The opening at the bottom also follows the principle of symmetrical design, which is more unified visually and looks more concise. In terms of interface, Glory V8 is also very mainstream, and the bottom of Glory V8 adopts the latest Type-C interface. Compared with the traditional MicroUSB interface, there is no need to distinguish between positive and negative blind insertion attributes, and the control experience is more convenient.

"EMUI4. 1 system experience:

Glory V8 is equipped with EMUI4. 1 system based on Android 6.0 deep customization. Compared with the previous EMUI4.0 system, the overall interface style of this update has not changed much, and the icon design with large radian and rounded corners is still adopted, keeping the overall simple and intuitive characteristics. EMUI4. 1 system mainly focuses on optimization, adding some practical and interesting functions. In this part of the article, we will explain for you what optimizations and new functions the current version of EMUI 4. 1 system has brought.

"1, optimize wireless network connection.

EMUI4. 1 Upgrade WiFi+2.0 in the network, automatically identify the connection quality of each WiFi through background calculation, and automatically inform users that the hotspot quality is Internet-accessible (good quality, average quality and poor quality), Internet-inaccessible and requires verification code (portal hotspot), and can be sorted according to the network quality or other more intuitive ways. At the same time, for portal hotspots that need verification code, the login is simplified, and users can directly connect and use without manually inputting the mobile phone number and verification code.

"2. More comprehensive 3D color temperature adjustment.

According to everyone's different color sensitivity and preferences, Glory V8 also has built-in screen color temperature adjustment options. Whether you prefer cold screen or warm screen, you can adjust it in "Settings-Display-Color Temperature". Different from the previous three default modes of color temperature adjustment, the biggest feature of color temperature adjustment in EMUI4. 1 is that users can drag the color ball to customize their favorite color temperature, which satisfies users' personal preferences for screen colors to a greater extent.

"3.ROG power saving mode ensures long battery life.

Glory V8 features long battery life. In addition to reducing power consumption in hardware, using high energy density and large capacity batteries, system optimization is also one of the important parameters that affect battery life. The "Super Power Saving Mode Based on Internet" mentioned at the press conference will be officially pushed to Glory V8 through OTA upgrade in June.

However, in the battery management of EMUI 4. 1, we also found a function called "ROG power saving", which can reduce the screen resolution to 1920* 1080, and effectively improve the battery life under the condition that other settings are unchanged. By reducing the API resolution of the system, the purpose of saving electricity is achieved, and there is no need to shut down and restart. In principle, this will definitely achieve the purpose of saving electricity. As for the specific effect of saving electricity, further endurance test is needed.

"4. Multi-user mode

In our daily life, we often encounter temporary borrowing of mobile phones from relatives and friends. It is really troublesome to quit a bunch of social software accounts to back up and clean up personal privacy information. Therefore, EMUI4. 1 has added the multi-user mode, which is actually an upgraded version of the guest mode in the previous EMUI system. Similar to the PC-side system, multiple users create their own usage accounts on this machine without interfering with each other; After the new account is created, it needs a series of basic settings just like the first boot.

In the lock screen interface, all created users (avatar+name) can be displayed, which can be switched by clicking.

After switching to other accounts, the original information of the main account will be completely isolated, and the information content between accounts will be independent and not shared with each other.

At the same time, we also found that under different users, the content read by Glory V8 is independent after connecting to the computer. Privacy is largely guaranteed, but switching between users will be more meaningful if you can set your own user password.

"5, the new student model.

Nowadays, many students also have a mobile phone, but parents are worried that their children are addicted to mobile games or browse some inappropriate web pages. The student mode added in EMUI 4. 1 is obviously designed for this purpose. After the student mode is turned on, the use of the application will be limited by time, and you can't install and download the application at will. In addition, parents can restrict web browsing. In order to avoid "Xiong Haizi", the function of modifying system time and multi-user is also blocked in student mode.

"6. Customize rich VR content resources.

In order to better enjoy the VR experience of 2K screen, the video in Glory V8 was upgraded to Video 2.0, and we had a deep cooperation with Youku Tudou. In addition to 60 million hours of high-quality film library, it has also opened up a VR scenic spot. At present, 156 VR video resources have been launched and will be continuously updated in the future. At the same time, Youku promises that there will be 1 10,000 VR movies in the future, and VR content will be customized for glory users every two weeks.

"7, intelligent key upgrade 2.0.

Smart key is a new function launched by Glory 7, which can sense three different scene modes: click, double click and long press, so as to realize quick photo taking, quick application opening, smart scene mode, smart voice mode and so on. This time, intelligent key of Glory V8 was upgraded to 2.0, which optimized the functions of navigation, food, air ticket/hotel reservation, and added the functions of movie ticket reminder and monthly traffic report. In addition, users can customize smart keys as shortcut keys for making phone calls, screen shots or other functions.

"Hardware performance:

"Huawei Kirin 950/955 SoC chip parameter comparison.

Product model

Huawei Kirin 950

Huawei Kirin 955

Processing technology

16 nm FinFET+ TSMC

16 nm FinFET+ TSMC

Core quantity

8-core

8-core

structure

Cortex A72+A53+i5 coprocessor

Cortex A72+A53+i5 coprocessor

frequency

4x2.3GHz+4x 1.8GHz

4x2.5GHz+4x 1.8GHz

Network baseband

LTE Cat6

LTE Cat6

Graphic coprocessor

Mali -T880 MP4

Mali -T880 MP4

Graphic frequency

900 MHz

900 MHz

For today's smart phones, the realization of various functions depends more on the development of hardware, so hardware becomes more and more important. As the flagship of glory, V8 naturally chose Kirin 955 (high version) with 16nm process technology. Kirin 955 adopts quad-core A72+ quad-core A53 architecture with Mali-880 MP4 900MHz. As we all know, for a processor, architecture and technology determine the performance of the processor. The smaller the process of the chip, the stronger the computing power under the same power consumption, and the lower the power consumption under the same computing power. Kirin 955 16nm process technology is still in the leading position in the industry.

▲ Shape under FinFET+process

Kirin 955 adopts 16nm FinFEF+ process, and FinFEF effectively controls the leakage rate of chip grating by changing the grating shape. As early as Kirin 950, Huawei had already participated in the whole process of TSMC 16nm FinFET from research and development to streaming to mass production demand. As an upgraded version, Kirin 955 has increased its main frequency from 2.3GHz to 2.5GHz, which has enhanced its ability to deal with emergencies. Architecturally, Kirin 955 adopts the public version architecture based on ARM A72. ARM officially claims that the core performance of A72 architecture is 3.5 times that of A 15 architecture (the data is based on 16282028nmFinFET process A72 versus A 15), and the performance of A57 architecture is improved by 1.9 times (the data is based on A57)

In addition, Kirin 950 uses Mali-880 as the GPU. In the official test, Mali-880 can reach almost crazy MP 16, in order to reduce the number of transistors, SoC package area and power consumption. Kirin 955 adopts the strategy of high frequency and few cores, and adopts Mali-T880 MP4 quad-core GPU with the main frequency of 900MHz. We also tested this GPU with GFXBench GL.

In the scene of 1080P Manhattan off-screen, Glory V8 got 17Fps, and Tyrannosaurus Rex got 30Fps off-screen 1080P, which may not be beautiful intuitively, but the use of GPU performance is not the result of unexpected events, but a continuous event like CPU operation. How to ensure that the GPU works at high frequency for a long time can finally improve the actual experience. At this point, the strategic advantage of high frequency and few cores is obvious. GPU can stay within the power consumption threshold for a longer period of time, so it can run at a higher frequency for more time.

In addition, we also tested the CPU of Kirin 955 with Ann Bunny. You can see that Kirin 955 got a score of 95323. Although there is still a certain gap compared with the scores of hundreds of thousands of running points at present, Kirin 955 has reached the SoC of the first echelon after years of accumulation.

"Dual camera experience:

Glory took the lead in adopting bionic parallel dual cameras as early as Glory 6Plus. There is some accumulation in the exploration of dual cameras, which has a technical advantage over other mobile phone manufacturers who are still waiting to see. This time, the glory V8 adopts the newly upgraded second-generation dual-camera technology, which is different from the dual-camera principle of the glory 6Plus. Glory V8 is equipped with dual12 megapixel parallel lens, and adopts black and white and color dual sensors. Officials claim that the performance of ordinary cameras is improved by 36%, and that of large aperture cameras is improved by 44%. How the experience is, it needs to be verified by actual tests. Before the formal experience, let's briefly introduce the working principle of Glory V8 dual camera.

In the dual cameras of Glory V8, one camera is responsible for recording the color of the subject, and the other camera is responsible for recording black and white information. The advantage of this is that in the imaging process of traditional color sensor, when light passes through the filter, each pixel produces a color value, and the information of missing color must be calculated by interpolation of adjacent pixels. Because there is no filter, the black-and-white lens is a fully transparent sensor, and the amount of light entering when taking pictures is four times that of ordinary color sensors. Therefore, in imaging, the dynamic range of the picture can be improved and the noise can be reduced. When taking a photo, two photos are combined into one, which can keep more details and have no influence on the color.

At the same time, dual cameras also bring more focusing advantages. First of all, Glory V8 supports laser focusing and contrast focusing with good performance, and the design of dual cameras will bring a new choice of depth of field focusing, that is, by calculating the angle between the subject and the two lenses, supplemented by the distance between the two lenses, the distance of the subject can be accurately calculated, thus simplifying the focusing steps and quickly reaching the position at one time. According to different shooting environments and shooting objects, Glory V8 will automatically choose the most suitable and fastest focusing method. What is the final effect? Let's get to know it through samples.

"Large aperture mode

The background blur effect brought by large aperture is impressive. This glory V8 brings a brand-new upgraded large aperture mode. The official claims that the large aperture performance is improved by 44%, and it supports F0.95-F 16 aperture adjustment. When the large aperture mode is turned on, the dual cameras will not only measure the focused objects and record the depth of field, but also identify the objects with various distances on the screen, so as to obtain different background blur effects according to different focus points, which is very effective for some scenes with obvious front-back distances.

By comparing the proofs of iPhone 6s Plus, we can see that Glory V8 has achieved better background blur effect in large aperture mode, and the main body of the picture is more prominent. At the same time, the photos taken in large aperture mode can also re-select the focus and adjust the blur at will, which is more flexible and playable.

"Shooting at night.

Night shooting is another advantage brought by using dual cameras. Among them, the color lens is responsible for recording color, and the black and white lens is responsible for outline, detail and brightness. ISP synthesizes the image information collected by two lenses. After synthesis, the tail is almost invisible to the naked eye, and the details in the dark part are more abundant. At the same time, because the black-and-white lens has no filter, the overall brightness of the synthesized picture is higher, the noise is less, and the picture purity is higher, achieving excellent night imaging effect. As can be seen from the proofs, it can also perform well in 100% details.

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"3D dynamic panorama

This time, Glory V8 cooperated with Fyuse to build 3D dynamic panoramic function in the camera, which can make the picture taken after opening stereoscopic and bring stereoscopic vision to viewers with the help of motion. You can slide or move your mobile phone on the screen of your mobile phone, and watch photos from different angles to make them full of motion. At the same time, the whole shooting process is very simple. Press and hold the red area of the shooting page, move the phone along the arc, surround the object, or shoot the surrounding scenery with yourself as the center, and record the parts you want to show. Of course, this cool-looking photo also supports hyperlink sharing on social platforms such as WeChat and QQ.

"There are some questions you want to know:

"Glory V8 has several versions?

Glory V8 is the latest flagship of glory. * * * There are three versions, namely, 4G+64G full netcom version, 4G+32G full netcom version and 4G+32G carrier version. 4GB+64GB full netcom version has four colors: champagne gold, rose gold, ceramic white and elegant gray. 4GB+32GB full netcom version and carrier version, platinum light gold and glacier silver * * *.

"Glory V8 equipped with 2K screen will affect the efficiency of mobile phone use?

Anyone who knows about mobile phones knows that,

The biggest problem with the 2K screen is that it will bring high fever, high power consumption, and a sharp drop in battery life. Previously, the technology of the mobile phone industry was immature, and some manufacturers used it in advance, which affected the user experience.

Glory V8

Breakthrough progress has been made in 2K screen technology. At the press conference, according to the official announcement, in the case of 2K screen, Glory V8 can still brush 1 1 hour WeChat, watch 1 1 hour TV series and play games for 6 hours continuously; Ordinary users use 1.78 days, and heavy users use 1.2 1 day. As far as FHD is concerned,

Glory V8

You can continue to use 12 hours of WeChat, follow 14 hours of TV series and play 7 hours of games, and the usage time of ordinary netizens has also increased to 1.94 days; It took heavy users 1.35 days. Realize the real super cool feeling of charging once and playing for a day.

"What are the advantages of the dual camera design of Glory V8?

Glory V8 adopts12 million pixel dual parallel lens, black-and-white color dual sensor and dual ISP (image processing chip), which brings up to twice the light intake and light-sensitive area. With the second-generation dual camera technology, the performance of ordinary camera is improved by 36%, and that of large aperture camera is improved by 44%. Laser focusing, depth of field focusing and contrast focusing complement each other to achieve faster and more accurate focusing. Glory V8 supports F0.95-F 16 aperture adjustment, deep ISP chip, large aperture real-time preview, dual lens and HDR technology can achieve better backlight shooting effect, synchronous iterative exposure, multi-frame noise reduction algorithm and visual camera technology processing can make night shooting clearer. The dual lens realizes extremely rich high-frequency details at the same time, which is more clear when shooting objects with more details such as hair, small animals and plush toys. In addition, thanks to the beauty algorithm trained by French beauty experts, more accurate skin color restoration can be achieved when taking selfies; Coupled with the dim light and charm function, the self-timer experience is greatly upgraded.

"Glory V8 purchase channel:

At present, Glory V8 has opened appointments in Huawei Mall, JD.COM Mall and Baidu VIP offline stores. The price of the 4G+64G full netcom version of Glory V8 is 2799 yuan, the price of the 4G+33G full netcom version is 2499 yuan, and the price of the 4G+33G operator version is 2299 yuan. The appointment time is from May 10 to May 10. May 17 10:08 will be officially put on sale in Huawei Mall (VMALL) and JD.COM, only for reserved users, and non-reserved users will not be able to purchase. At present, I still make an appointment to buy. Of course, it can also be purchased through offline channels or third-party platforms. There may be value-added purchases in the initial stage. With the further expansion of production capacity, I believe it won't be long before we start at the original price. As for whether this product is worth the money, objectively speaking, the glory of dual-camera 2K screen V8 still has good competitiveness in the same price mobile phone in the offline channel market.

"Direct link:

JD.COM Mall Booking Glory V8 Dual Camera +2K Screen

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"abstract:

After combing the products of Glory independently, we can see that in just two years, Glory has developed dual cameras, intelligent key and flip cameras in just two generations. This product strategy is even a bit radical. But such a strategy also puts its own unique mark on the products of glory. 2K screen, dual cameras, combined with VR, when these technologies are given to a mobile phone at the same time, it will undoubtedly stimulate consumers' desire to buy. At the turning point of the Internet mobile phone market, glory V8, as a technical company, can see the flexible changes of glory in market segmentation to better meet the needs of users.