At present, the size of mainstream large screen mobile phones is still 4.5 "to 5", and of course, there are also 5.5 "large screens like the Galaxy Note II. However, Huawei recently launched a mobile phone that is truly cross-border—— Mate The size of this phone has reached 6.1 inches, which is close to 7 inches of the ordinary small tablet. What about the actual performance and use experience of this giant phone?

Huawei Mate parameters

Model: HUAWEI MT1-UI06

CPU: HiSilicon K3V2 quad core 1.5GHz

Operating system: Android 4.1.2

Screen: 6.1 inch 1280 * 720 resolution IPS screen

SIM card type: microSIM

Storage space: 8GB (supporting TF card expansion)

RAM：2GB

Connection: Bluetooth ®, Wi Fi ® IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n, Micro USB, 3.5mm audio interface

Camera: 8 megapixel backlit F/2.4 aperture, 1 million front.

Battery: 4050mAh, non detachable

Others: Magic touch, OTG

Size: 163.5x85.7x9.9mm

Weight: 198g

In terms of configuration, Huawei Mate certainly impressed us most with its large screen and large capacity battery. Compared with the 5.5 inch screen of the popular Galaxy Note II, Mate's screen size has reached a new level. The 6.1 inch screen will impress everyone who sees it, and the 4050 mAh battery is also a giant in mobile phones.

Appearance and screen

On the positive side, Mate and Ascend D2 There are many similar places, and the overall style is consistent ▼

The top is a mesh shaped earpiece, distance sensor, light sensor and front camera ▼

There is also a hidden LED signal light on the far left of the receiver

The back uses IML technology similar to D2, so it looks very crystal clear ▼

The top is an 8 million pixel back lit camera and led fill light. The camera only has a slight bulge. Compared with the huge body, the camera seems a little too mini ▼

Although Mate uses a circle of silver metal to protect the lens, the lens is still relatively easy to grind, and users need to pay special attention to protection ▼

The body speaker is in an inconspicuous position, similar to the earpiece, which is also a metal mesh design ▼

There is only one slot for tf card on the left side of the fuselage, and the frame is designed with coarse frosted baking paint ▼

Close up of tf card slot ▼

On the right side of the fuselage are the on-off key and volume key. The position of the on-off key is also convenient ▼

The top is 3.5mm socket, noise reducing microphone and micro SIM card slot ▼

Close up of micro SIM card slot ▼

At the bottom is the microphone and microUSB interface ▼

Screen effect

Mate uses the IPS and full fit technology screen, which has excellent display effect, accurate hair color, and the large screen also makes people have a strong visual impact. The following is the live shooting effect of the screen ▼

In terms of visual angle, from the diagonal of the screen, Mate performs well on the left side of the screen without color deviation ▼

From the right side, Mate's screen is slightly bluish purple ▼

Although Mate uses a 720P high-definition screen, because the screen size is too large, the PPI is 240. If you look closely, you will still find that the screen has a sense of graininess. Of course, for such a large screen, when users use it, they will subconsciously look a little farther away from the screen, and the sense of granularity in the normal use range is not obvious ▼

System UI

In terms of system, Mate continues the emotion UI system used by Huawei. The version is 1.5. The overall layout is basically the same as that of D2. For details of emotion UI, click UI with "emotion" Huawei Emotion UI analysis One article I understand. This is just a brief introduction.

The overall style of the Emotion UI tends to be simple and clean, eliminating the traditional secondary menu of Android. Although it is simpler in logic, some older Android users may feel inconvenient because they are used to entering the "program menu" to find the required applications ▼

Effect switching of initiator and switching system theme ▼

The navigation bar can be hidden like Ascend D2, so that in some games and applications we can operate in full screen. When hiding, we only need to use the upward stroke gesture to redisplay the navigation bar ▼

Like D2, Mate uses the virtual key design of "Three King Kong", and also supports the automatic hiding of virtual keys ▼

The system settings are similar to those of other mobile phones equipped with Emotion UI, but some Mate specific functions are added, such as single hand operation, suspension operation, glove mode ▼

It is worth noting that Mate's power saving mode also has two distinctive functions: "auto start management" and "power saving settings". The former is to manage the software that starts automatically after startup. Generally, only third-party software can achieve this function (and requires Root). The latter is an application ▼ that can be set to be included in the "white list" when it has its own automatic cleaning task

Introduction to Mate features

One hand operation. Both Galaxy Note II and Optimus G Pro have similar designs. For the 5.5 inch screen now, this design can be better for one hand operation ▼

The hover button is a rare function. After clicking it, four built-in applications will appear, and it can be displayed in the form of independent small windows, and can be displayed in multiple windows. However, there are not many applications supported temporarily, and the window size cannot be customized ▼

The glove mode doesn't need to be explained too much. This function also appears on the Lumia 920. The phone equipped with an ultra sensitive touch screen can operate normally even if wearing gloves. Mate can also switch this function after upgrading the firmware. The GIF demonstration is as follows. It can be seen that the phone on the left cannot operate normally after putting several layers of cloth on the fingers, while Mate is normal ▼

Smart reading. In the past, if we selected some specific words when browsing the web page, we would pop up options such as copy, share, search, etc., while Mate added translation and encyclopedia to facilitate users to read ▼

performance testing

Huawei Mate uses the familiar Hisense K3V2 processor, with a frequency of 1.5GHz and a graphics processor of GC4000. The Ram capacity is 2G. As for this SoC, we have learned a lot about its performance in previous evaluations of the Glory Quad Core and Ascend D2. Because the Mate has added a new driver to the GC4000, its graphics performance will be more enhanced than that of the previous K3V2. We also conducted a series of tests on Mate's performance.

Theoretical score

Antu rabbit evaluation

With conventional scoring software, Mate's score is close to 16000, which is also the highest score of K3V2 mobile phones tested by the author. Due to the resolution, the graphics performance is higher than D2, so Mate's total score is higher and also meets our expectations ▼

GLBenchmark 2.7

The latest version of GLBenchmark puts forward a new requirement for the GPU of mobile processors. The GLBenchmark 2.5 Egypt HD Offsceen does not consider the resolution of the device. The frame number of Mate is 15 fps, while the evaluation of Ascend D2 is 12 fps. It can be seen that the GPU performance of K3V2 is still improved through system optimization ▼

Anthare 3D

This is a graphic performance turn test separated from the graphic test evaluated by Anthare. The average frame number of Mate is 16.9, which is even higher than Galaxy Note II, and performs well ▼

BaseMark X

The latest graphical test application, which uses the Unity 4.0 engine, has high requirements for GPU Shader performance ▼

Web page test (completed with Chrome Beta V27)

Sunspider

In the web Javascript test to measure CPU single core performance, Mate's performance is better than that of previous K3V2 devices (the lower the score, the better) ▼

Google V8

Similar in nature to Sunspider, Mate also has some improvement in this test compared with the previous K3V2 ▼

Game Test

Mate uses the GPU of GC4000, and we also try it out. The FPS Meter frame number test is added in the test process (Root is required).

Modern Warfare 4

A large FPS game, Mate's The average number of frames is 28 ▼

Top Speed Car 17

Large 3D racing game, using Tegra's data package. Mate's The average number of frames is 17 Although the number of frames is not high, the phenomenon of "broken glass" in the past using K3V2 processors has not occurred, and the compatibility has been improved compared with the past ▼

Temple Escape: Wizard of Devil Kingdom

The latest expansion of the popular game Temple Escape has been adjusted to the highest special effect operation, Average frames 44 ▼

PPSSPP simulator

The game is a masked knight: a super peak hero, tested with the latest version of PPSSPP V0.7, and runs smoothly, but the map color is slightly biased ▼

Video decoding

The decoding ability of HiSilicon K3V2 has always been strong. The following is the test of video decoding, which uses the "Royal Sword Video Packet" video.

720P group

MP4 Jay Chou's Double Cut Staff, 1280x720, H.264 High Profile L5.1， Bit rate 17M

WMV Microsoft WMVHD official video, 1280x720, VC-1, MP@HL

AVI The Circle of Realm trailer, 1280x720, Xvid

RMVB Dark God Theatre, 1280x720, RV40

FLV AOM OP, 1280x720, H.263

1080P group

MP4 Clannad OP ，1920x1080，H.264 High Profile L5. ref16

MKV Conan Theater Edition 15 trailer, 1920x1080, H.264 Main Profile L4.0， Audio coding AC-3

WMV Microsoft WMVHD official video, 1440x1080, VC-1, MP@HL

The video test results are as follows ▼

6.1 inch large screen features

Mate has a 6.1 inch giant screen, which is definitely a big part of mobile phones. How about the experience of this large screen in actual use?

For male users, ▼ can be barely operated by one hand

Mate still has high requirements for the capacity of ordinary trouser pockets... ▼

Female users are more stressed with one hand, and many operations must be combined with two hands ▼

Of course, for many female users, what such a large screen brings is... it seems that the face and hands are very small ▼

In addition to the domineering appearance of the large screen, it will also bring different feelings in terms of use. For example, although the size of the virtual keys is the same as that of ordinary mobile phones when playing games, the virtual keys on Mate occupy less space on the screen, so the operation will have more space than other mobile phones ▼

In addition, due to the difference in screen DPI (Dots Per Inch), The application layout of Mate and general Android phones will also be different This phenomenon is somewhat similar to the difference between Android tablet and mobile phone using the same application. The following figure shows the difference between Mate and ordinary Android phone (Mate on the left, Note II on the right) ▼

photograph

Mate's photographing interface is not very different from D2. It also has features such as double click shutter, volume key shutter and focus tracking. The following screenshot is the schematic diagram of focus tracking ▼

Mate real shot sample (click to view large picture) ▼

The following figure is HDR imaging (the above figure can be compared). The details of clouds in the visible sky and ground buildings are better than those in the automatic mode, and there are more details in the dark (Click to view the large picture) ▼

From the proof sheet, Mate's imaging is good, with good sharpness and dim color. Night imaging needs to be improved, and the unique photographing function has greatly improved the playability of the camera.

Endurance

Mate uses a battery with a very large capacity of 4050mAh. Here are some common scenarios to test Mate's endurance. During the test, the following operations were carried out:

Test of 30 minute large-scale game (modern war 4), the power dropped from 100% to 88%, and the consumption was 12%

After 40 minutes of HD video (hardware decoding, 720P MP4) test, the power consumption dropped from 87% to 79%, consuming 8%

In the 30 minute test of 3G (China Unicom) Internet access, the power consumption dropped from 77% to 72%, consuming 5%

A total of 230 minutes of testing, of which 100 minutes of high intensity, the total power from 100% to 72%, satisfactory performance ▼

OTG

OTG is the standard feature of high-end mobile phones, and Mate's OTG is worth mentioning alone because its output current is larger than that of ordinary mobile phones, and it can even help other mobile phones charge. Of course, it is even easier to connect the mouse and keyboard in ordinary application scenarios. The figure below is an extreme case. Connect the keyboard and USB flash drive through OTG, and charge another mobile phone at the same time ▼

fever

The heat test still uses large-scale game aided measurement. After 30 minutes of large-scale game (modern war 4) test, the hottest place of Mate's fuselage is near the camera, Up to 42 degrees (No load, non handheld, room temperature 23 ℃) ▼

signal

The Mate in the test is a WCDMA version. We use the Unicom 3G phone card to test. The Mate signal performs well, but there is some problem with the display of the asu in the system's own signal strength, which is always 0. The supported network is HSPA, that is, the maximum speed of 7.2Mbps. Through the Speedtest test, the downlink can reach 762kB/s, and the uplink 151kB/s ▼

summary

Huawei Mate is a mobile phone that blurs the boundary between mobile phones and tablets. Its appearance has overturned everyone's impression of mobile phones, and its large screen size has attracted many users' attention. From the use of Mate itself, the hardware performance is commendable, and a variety of unique functions add a lot of points to the user experience. In addition to the large screen, the large capacity battery also provides a strong guarantee for Mate's endurance. As an important product of Huawei's differentiated competition, Mate has a special strategic significance. And the giant screen mobile phone has gradually become a trend. What is the limit size of the mobile phone?

Attachment: Huawei Mate Street Interview

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