On beauty selfie, I really haven't lost anyone's comment on Meitu T8.

IT 168 Evaluation At present, domestic mobile phones have basically added beauty selfies to the front camera function, but from beginning to end, Meitu is definitely unique. However, in the eyes of most users, Meitu mobile phone has always been a "wonderful" product, not only because of its strange shape, but also because it is incompatible with mainstream smartphones everywhere in the system interface. However, judging from Meitu's recent mobile phone products, more and more users began to discuss Meitu's mobile phone. The recently released T8 was fired to a high price of 10,000 yuan even before it was officially released, and gained a high degree of popularity. After the official sale, the spot price of Meitu T8 once hovered around 5,000 yuan. You know, the phenomenon of domestic mobile phones snapping up at high prices has long been rare.

In addition to selfies, fashion is also a key word that is very suitable for Mito. From the cross-border marketing methods such as live broadcast and celebrity endorsement, we can also see that Meitu is completely different from traditional mobile phone manufacturers. Through these cross-border combination punches, Meitu mobile phone, as a selling point of beauty selfie, has not been left behind by the market, and daily users have also shown a growing momentum, which actually reflects Meitu's continuous excavation and deep thinking on user demands.

Back to the product itself, Meitu T8 still focuses on beauty selfies. For the first time, the dual-pixel front camera, PDAF phase focusing, front OIS optical image stabilization, third-generation front intelligent fill light and fourth-generation dual-image engine were used, which provided stronger hardware support for beauty selfie. In terms of appearance, Meitu T8 has also been upgraded on the basis of family-style double V design, and the metal integrated body further enhances the texture of the whole machine.

For Meitu T8, we mainly look at the actual performance of this mobile phone from three aspects: design, beauty selfie and system UI.

First, attach the basic parameters of Mito T8. Users who are not familiar with this phone can learn about it first.

Basic parameters of Mito T8

Screen characteristics

5.2 inches 1920* 1080 AMOLED

processor

MediaTek ten-core MT6797

Network mode

All netcom

Random access memory

4GB

Fuselage storage

128GB

front-facing camera

12 million DualPD, Sony IMX362

Rear camera

2 1 10,000, Sony IMX338

Product selling points

Two-pixel self-timer black technology

Fuselage size

158.4 * 71.5 * 9.3mm

Battery capacity

3580 mah

operating system

MEIOS 3.5

Fuselage color

Magic orange/rose gold/dazzling blue/gem grey

retail price

3299 yuan

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The earliest mito 1 generation mobile phone has the same shape and design as the traditional mainstream mobile phone, but since the second generation, mito has introduced the "double V" design into mobile phone products and inherited it into a family-style classic design. This style will be too personal and bold for most users, and the word "wonderful" has become the inherent impression of these users on Meitu mobile phones. However, such avant-garde design can also attract non-public groups who pursue fashion and don't follow the crowd. For them, only Meitu mobile phone can bring the freshness and unique temperament that is difficult to describe accurately.

On the front of the fuselage, Meitu T8 uses a 5.2-inch screen and 2.5D glass. Due to this unique double V design, the processing difficulty and cost of 2.5D glass used by Meitu T8 are higher than those of traditional mobile phones, which is also a factor restricting its production capacity. At the upper V arc, the receiver of Meitu T8 is slender, which is consistent with the design language of the whole machine. In order to be symmetrical, a silver screen decorative strip is also designed at the bottom V-arc, which balances the visual beauty.

On the back of the fuselage, Meitu T8 adopts a metal integrated fuselage design. Nano-injection molding strips are similar in color to the fuselage and will not be as unsightly as the leucorrhea of iPhone 6 series. This makes the whole machine have a good integration and improves the exquisiteness. The folding design on both sides of the fuselage allows the fuselage to have a high degree of fit with the palm when held, and the grip is comfortable.

In addition to the double V shape, this huge camera on the back of the fuselage is also a highly recognizable iconic design of Meitu mobile phone. The decorative ring around the camera is trimmed with CNC technology, and the ring is decorated with strip texture, which is very delicate. Moreover, many decorative elements are not complicated and handled properly.

Around the fuselage, Meitu T8 adopts two circles of bright color diagonal trimming design, which fits the bright color lines around the fuselage to outline the outline of the fuselage and plays a very good decorative role.

On the top of the front of the fuselage, Meitu T8 uses a12 million dual-pixel camera and is equipped with a third-generation intelligent fill light. Seriously, this huge front camera is unsightly here, but it is a major feature of Meitu mobile phone.

At the bottom of the front, Meitu T8 adopts the design of circular solid buttons, which is the same as Meitu M6. Compared with iPhone, Meitu T8 has a slightly shallower key press, but a longer key stroke and good key feedback. In fact, before the official release of Meitu M6, there were all kinds of speculations about what shape of the Home button Meitu would use: diamond, V-shaped, bar, but when it comes to actual experience, the round Home button is undoubtedly the most suitable choice. The round Home button echoes the huge front camera at the top of the fuselage to achieve visual symmetry, and it will not be uncoordinated at the bottom of the V-shaped fuselage.

▲ Can you recognize Mito T8 at a glance without looking at the label? Appearance review

Meitu T8 continues the family-style double-V design as a whole, and its overall shape is somewhat similar to Meitu M6s, but it goes further in terms of technology and details. The use of nano injection molding technology improves the exquisiteness of the whole machine. Compared with traditional mobile phones, Meitu T8 is more like a fashion item, which will make people unconsciously forget its natural attributes as a mobile phone. Next is the key part about this mobile phone. At the beginning of the article, it was mentioned that Meitu T8 used the dual-pixel front camera, full-pixel PDAF focusing, front OIS optical image stabilization, third-generation front intelligent fill light and fourth-generation dual-image engine for the first time.

Meitu T8 features "dual-pixel black technology", which you may not know much about. Simply put, dual pixels mean that a single pixel can be used for focusing and imaging at the same time. The traditional PDAF single pixel can only be used for focusing or imaging (usually 5% pixels are used for auxiliary focusing), so there will be a compromise of sacrificing image quality to take care of focusing speed. Samsung Galaxy S7 is also using this technology, called dual pixel. This is a phase detection technology, which has been applied to SLR and mirrorless cameras, and can be said to be PDAF 2.0 in the field of smart phones.

▲ Traditional PDAF phase focusing and dual-pixel focusing show that their advantages are very obvious, which improves the photosensitive ability and improves the focusing speed.

On this basis, Meitu T8 also used front OIS optical image stabilization for the first time, which is especially important for improving image quality. Usually in the dark environment, the brightness of the picture is improved mainly by three ways: sensitivity, exposure time and aperture. Improving sensitivity is the simplest and rudest, which will bring obvious noise; At present, many mobile phone manufacturers are trying to increase the aperture, but the development of optical technology is slow and immature, and many mobile phones are relatively conservative in increasing the aperture; Prolonging the exposure time will cause the picture to shake, which will have a fatal impact on the photo. OIS optical image stabilization can be said to be a perfect solution to this problem. Correcting the optical axis deviation by floating lens will not cure the symptoms but not the root cause like electronic image stabilization (using algorithm to compensate the edge image quality).

Under the current technical conditions, these hardware upgrades can effectively improve its imaging performance in the dark environment. Faster focusing speed and greater light input will undoubtedly make Meitu T8 get better image quality and shooting experience in normal light. Let's take a look at the actual self-portrait sample. Are you ready?

Comment on selfie effect

The above is a sample taken by my colleagues in the company with Mito T8. Summarize the evaluation in a few words: delicate, natural and clear. You can observe the details of the proofs: hair, skin, facial contour. Meitu T8 is very delicate in portrait beauty treatment, and there are no signs of edge or small-scale smearing. Meitu official said that the new Meitu AI beauty black technology can customize different beauty programs according to different ages and genders. Therefore, some details of the characters are not deliberately erased: for example, beards, such as acne pits, the details of the characters are well preserved, and the final effect is very natural.

On beauty selfie, Meitu really never lost anyone!

As for the main camera, Meitu T8 adopts Sony IMX338 sensor, with 2/kloc-0.0 million pixels, area 1/2.4'', unit pixel size 1. 12 micron, and aperture f/ 1.8, which supports optical image stabilization. Let's take a look at some samples taken by the main camera.

Main camera review

: Sony IMX338 The main advantage of this sensor lies in the details. Enlarge the sample by 100%, and you can clearly see the texture of the building window and trunk. The overall white balance and tone are also good, and the outdoor exposure and dynamic range performance are acceptable. However, some obvious problems were also found in the shooting. Under strong light conditions, it is easy to overexpose.

▲ In terms of overexposed sample system software, Meitu T8 runs MEIOS 3.5. 1 based on Android 6.0. In the main hardware configuration, Meitu T8 is equipped with a MediaTek MT6797(Helio X20) ten-core processor with a main frequency of 2.3GHz and a running memory of 4GB. Generally speaking, such hardware performance is enough to meet the needs of ordinary users. Moreover, its three-cluster architecture can accurately allocate hardware performance for usage scenarios and reduce power consumption, and its excellent endurance performance is one of its major advantages. In the next part, we will learn about MEIOS 3.5 and briefly talk about the experience.

Meitu T8' s unique fashion temperament is from the inside out. The style of the main interface of the system echoes the design of the mobile phone. The slender icon is the most representative design of MEIOS 3.5, and the software and hardware are highly integrated.

In terms of basic functions, take dialing and SMS as examples. MEIOS 3.5' s dial-up interface not only supports the quick retrieval of contacts' initials, but also supports the quick query of various service numbers, which is practical and convenient. SMS also adapts the avatar of the service number, supports information content such as photos, videos and audio, and also supports regular sending.

After several years of continuous updating, MEIOS has also made great progress in function, and various practical functions are becoming more and more perfect. At present, the popular long screenshot function MEIOS has also been supported. At the same time, press and hold the power button and the volume button to take a screenshot, click Edit to select a long screenshot, and after the long screenshot, you can also cut, mark and mosaic the intercepted content in one step.

For Meitu users, the most attractive thing about MEIOS is probably the exclusive application of Meitu. Poster factory, beauty camera and fashion selfie all further enhance the playability of the camera, which can be said to be an essential post-processing artifact for fashionistas.

Meitu T8 is equipped with fingerprint identification keys and adopts ceramic technology. In practical use, its unlocking speed and recognition accuracy are satisfactory. In addition to unlocking the screen, Meitu T8' s fingerprint identification button can also be used to manage private photo albums. After turning on the private photo album function in the fingerprint setting option set by the system, you can display the private photo album by touching the Home button in the photo album interface, with clear operation logic and direct access in one step.

MEIOS 3.5 also integrates the official functions of the system, which can cclean, apply garbage and uninstall residues, prevent virus Trojans, and ensure the payment environment and account security. It is always unreliable to hand over the security of the system to a third-party application, which provides a guarantee for the safe and smooth use of users.

Systematic review

Nowadays, MEIOS has become more and more perfect in terms of function and interaction. Whether it is basic function or practicality, it is not a leader in the domestic customized Android UI, but it has reached the upper-middle level as a whole. Evaluation summary

It may be difficult for most users to understand why the seemingly unconventional Meitu T8 has not only been left behind in the fierce competition in the mobile phone market, but also gained such high popularity. Detailed analysis, Meitu has won the acquiescence of users with its continuous focus and accumulation of beauty selfies. Looking back at the product itself, Meitu T8 continues the family-style design, but it is more exquisite in craftsmanship and texture. It is not so much a smart phone as a fashion item, perhaps an accurate interpretation of its inherent attributes. On the main selling point of beauty selfie, Meitu T8 was upgraded to a dual-pixel camera, and with the upgraded beauty algorithm, it got a more perfect experience in self-portrait quality and shooting experience. On beauty selfie, Meitu mobile phone has never lost anyone.

Users who don't know Meitu mobile phone may worry that it is a vase, but they can rest assured. As far as the basic attributes of a smart phone are concerned, the experience of Meitu T8 system software has been improved day by day, and its functions, practicality, interactivity, fluency and convenience of operation are not lost to the excellent domestic customized Android UI. If the pursuit of cost performance, 3299 yuan Meitu T8 may not be suitable. But if you are not satisfied with the same smartphone model on the market, like taking selfies, and want to have more fashion attributes, Meitu T8 must be the best choice.