Since 2013, smart phones have crossed the era of four cores and officially entered a new era of eight cores. Due to different architectures, smart phones are divided into the so-called "true eight cores" and "false eight cores". In this year's MWC 2014, Samsung officially announced its "true eight core" and "true six core" SoCs. The Galaxy Note 3 Neo we are going to introduce today is also the first mobile phone in the world to use a six core processor.

The Galaxy Note 3 Neo model we got this time is SM-N7505, which is a Hong Kong LTE version.

From the name of the mobile phone, Galaxy Note 3 Neo is not so "conventional". It seems to be a simplified version of Galaxy Note 3. In fact, its overall specification is similar to Galaxy Note 2. We can understand that it is a six core processor+LTE network and "slimming" successful Note 2. In terms of appearance, the style of Galaxy Note 3 Neo is similar to that of Galaxy Note 3. The following is a comparison chart ▼ of the three Note series

The packaging box of Galaxy Note 3 Neo still continues the wooden carton ▼ started by Galaxy S4

The opening method is a little different from the past. It looks less solid ▼

The package is still divided into two layers, the upper layer is mobile phone, and the lower layer is related accessories ▼

The accessories of Galaxy Note 3 Neo are the same as those of Galaxy Note 3, including earphone, data cable, power adapter, touch pen and disassembly tool. Of course, since Galaxy Note 3 Neo does not support USB3.0, the corresponding data line is also a ▼ of the USB2.0 standard

The power adapter adopts British socket, and the current is 2A ▼

From the front, Galaxy Note 3 Neo is almost the same as Galaxy Note 3, but slightly smaller in size ▼

The back is also made of imitation leather, but the camera looks inferior to Note 3 ▼

The camera has the same specifications as Galaxy Note 2, with 8 million pixels of backlight and an aperture of F2.6. Equipped with a led fill light ▼

The imitation metal frame on the side is smooth and won't scratch your hand at all, but it is plastic... The top is 3.5mm headphone interface, noise reducing microphone and infrared sensor ▼

At the bottom is microUSB interface, speaker, microphone ▼

On the left is the volume key ▼

On the right is the power key. It can be seen that the layout of Galaxy Note 3 Neo's fuselage is exactly the same as that of Galaxy Note 3 ▼

Since it is a Galaxy Note series product, S Pen certainly needs ▼

The screen is exactly the same as Galaxy Note 2. The 5.5 inch 1280 * 720 Super AMOLED screen does not use the "iconic" Pentile arrangement of Super AMOLED, which is also conscience... But for Galaxy Note 3, color deviation is still serious ▼

The rear cover is detachable and flexible ▼

Galaxy Note 3 Neo still continues the conscience of Note series and the design of large capacity removable battery ▼

The microSD card and the microSIM card still adopt a layered structure. Although the space of the body is saved to a certain extent, it is not very convenient to remove the card ▼

Galaxy Note 3 Neo uses the system based on Android 4.3, so the system will not be introduced much. Users who have used Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S4 will be familiar with ▼

The system is based on Android 4.3, the kernel version is 3.4.39, and the model is SM-N7505 (international version FDD-LTE 4G version) ▼

2G Ram in total, 1.67G can be identified, and it can be used around 1G ▼ when starting

Built in 16G Rom, user disposable up to 11.8G ▼

The biggest highlight of Galaxy Note 3 Neo (only for the international N7505, which is quite bad for BOC configuration...) is of course the Exynos 5260 six core chip, except for the use of big In addition to the LITTLE architecture, it also supports HMP (Heterogeneous Multi Processing), which is the biggest difference between this SoC and Exynos 5410 and Exynos 5420 in the past. Let's also test the strength of this processor.

First, let's take a look at the basic situation of the Exynos 5260 CPU. It consists of two 1.7GHz Cortex-A15 and four 1.3GHz Cortex-A7. From the screenshot, we can see that four A7 cores are running at 1.3GHz, while one A15 core is running at 1.7GHz and the other is running at 1.5GHz. At this time, A7 and A15 cores are running simultaneously ▼

Since the system is Android 4.3, Galaxy Note 3 Neo also supports OpenGL ES3.0 ▼

In the example link, An Tu Tu... the score is very good, higher than that of many "real eight core" mobile phones. This score is obviously not the height that can be achieved by dual core A15 or quad core A7, so we can be sure that this is the result of full opening of six cores ▼

3D drawing has also exceeded 9000 points, of course, the resolution of Galaxy Note 3 Neo is only 720P ▼

Pi, breaking 30 seconds, which is close to Exynos 5410 ▼

The RAR has its own speed test, and the score of more than 1100KB/s has also reached the level of Exynos 5410, but it seems disappointing that the six threads we expect only reach this level ▼

The GBA simulator, with more than 150 frames, is similar to Snapdragon 800 2.3GHz, and still lags behind the quad core A15 processor ▼

The average frame number of 1080P ref15 60fps video is close to 48, which is also quite good. It is also quite close to ▼ with the quad core A15 processor

Sunspider 1.0.2 (Chrome beta), what's the result? Didn't break 1000ms? I think it must be the wrong posture during the test... but after many tests, the result is still like this... It is estimated that the A7 core or A15 core was used during the test to severely reduce the frequency

Finally, let's test the GPU. The Manhattan test of GFXBench 3.0 only has a poor 3.6 frames, which is not as good as Adreno 320 ▼

The T-rex test of GFXBench 2.7 has 14.8 frames, basically the same level as Adreno 320 ▼

3DMark, the total score does not break ten thousand, and the frame number is not very good

Basemark X， The new version is really disgusting. I used to be able to see the frames, but now I can just throw a score away... But I can tell you that the high-end GPU can easily break 20000, hmm

Finally, let's take a favorite screenshot. How many cores is this Mali-T624? How high is the frequency? Through checking time_in_state, we can see the frequency distribution. Although there is a gear of 667MHz, it has never been turned on. The highest frequency is 560MHz. Combining the above test frames, the author guesses that it is possible to have a three core Mali-T624 ▼

The camera of Galaxy Note 3 Neo basically maintains the level of Galaxy Note 2, and "enough for the party" should think it is not a problem, but compared with the high-end mobile phones with 13 million pixels, the picture details are still less. The following is the HDR effect picture (click to view the original picture)

Night view mode (click to view the original picture)

We will share with you the other experience of Galaxy Note 3 Neo in the detailed evaluation. Which aspect are you most interested in?

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