If last year's big screen mobile phone market was still led by Samsung Note series, and other mobile phone manufacturers were still in the water testing stage, this year's Samsung Note series mobile phone is not a unique big screen mobile phone. Other mobile phone manufacturers, such as Sony, launched 6.44 inch giant screen mobile phones, and Coolpad launched 7 inch mobile phones. Huawei Mate series, as the first series to enter the ranks of large screen phones, also launched Huawei Mate 2 at CES this year. As the second model of Mate series, what about Mate2? Today, let's take a look at the evaluation of Huawei Mate 2.
This article is from: Ji Wei, the original of it168 website
Evaluation background: Huawei launched a dual version of Huawei Mate 2 mobile phone at CES. The two versions of Huawei Mate 2 have slightly different processor configurations. Huawei Mate 2 will be equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processors for overseas markets, and Huawei's latest Hisense processors for domestic markets. What we got is that the domestic telecom version uses the latest Hisense V9R1 quad core 1.6GHz processor version.
hardware configuration
In fact, compared with Huawei Mate, Huawei Mate 2 is the same with Mate in many places, such as screen resolution, screen size, battery, etc. At the beginning of the evaluation article, let's take a look at the hardware parameters of Huawei Mate 2?
From the table of hardware parameters, we can see that the biggest highlight of Huawei Mate 2 is the new Hisense V9R1 quad core processor, which is the first major upgrade of Huawei high-end models after the Hisense K3V2 processor has been installed in recent two years. What practical experience improvement will this upgrade of the processor bring to users? The detailed analysis of our processor will give you a brief explanation.
Appearance industrial design
In fact, smart phone manufacturers have their own understanding of industrial appearance design, but it seems that many smart phone manufacturers have reached a consensus to maximize the proportion of high screen. The mobile phone with high screen proportion can give a visual impact of science and technology, and Huawei Mate 2 is such a mobile phone with high screen proportion.
▲ Huawei Mate 2 vs. Samsung Note 3
Huawei Mate 2 adopts a 6.1 inch screen on the front, which accounts for 79% of the total screen. It can also be regarded as a mobile phone with a high screen share. However, while pursuing a high screen share, it will also adopt the screen virtual key design advocated by Google since Android 4.4. The debate about whether the screen virtual key is good or bad has never stopped, You are also welcome to browse and discuss this eternal topic. However, the screen virtual keys on Huawei Mate 2 can be hidden by sliding down and called up by sliding up, which provides convenience for playing games and other scenes.
▲ Front screen accounts for 79%
Before the product release, many netizens and users had guessed whether the resolution of the new generation Mate would rise to 1080p. In fact, the resolution of the screen does not mean that the popular 1080p manufacturers will build a 1080p screen, nor that the previous generation is 720p and the current generation must replace 1080p. Because the screen resolution is limited by the entire system platform and cost, high resolution screens will exert great pressure on performance and power consumption. Because the panel resolution increases, the opening rate will decrease, and the darkness and color gamut will decrease, so it is necessary to increase the backlight, which will naturally increase the power consumption. In addition, in order to ensure enough bandwidth to run daily operations, that is, we often say that the system is not smooth and the resolution output will also require high memory bandwidth. Therefore, due to the influence of memory frequency and other factors, it is not subjective to build a 1080p screen.
▲ Side design of fuselage
It is worth mentioning that the Huawei Mate 2 box is roughly the same design as the Huawei Glory 3X before. It is made of silver gray plastic material with a metal like texture, and the radian is just right, so it will not feel awkward in the hand. In fact, at present, many mobile phone manufacturers still use ultra-thin design when making large screen phones. It seems that bigger and thinner is the mainstream development trend of smart phones in the future. In my opinion, for large screen phones, the comfort of a single handheld is very important, which Huawei Mate 2 has done well.
▲ Interior design of the fuselage
Open the inside of the machine body, Huawei Mate 2 Telecom Edition adopts the dual card dual standby mode, supports CDMA2000 and GSM networks, and is designed with small cards. We can see that this patch is covered on the battery compartment, which is the NFC near-field communication chip of Huawei Mate 2. With the NFC chip, Huawei Mate 2 supports the Phantom Transfer function, enabling the Phantom Transfer function to transfer files such as videos/pictures to another mobile phone through sharing.
New HiSilicon quad core processor
Since Huawei Ascend D1 Quad, Huawei has been using the HiSilicon K3V2 quad core processor. This processor has been used by Huawei Ascend D2, Huawei MATE, Huawei Ascend P6, Huawei Glory quad core, Huawei Glory 3 and many other models since September 2012. The outside world has been speculating about when Huawei will be able to replace its processors. In Huawei Mate 2, we finally see a new processor.
▲ Yu Chengdong's Weibo exposes Hisense's new processor
In fact, before Huawei released Huawei Mate 2, Yu Chengdong publicly said on his microblog that Huawei would introduce a new processor, adopt a 28nm process, and replace it with a new GPU display module, which would improve the performance by 50% to 80% and reduce the power consumption by 50%. This is all due to the new 28nm HPM process. According to Huawei's official technical documents, Huawei Mate 2 uses Huawei Hisense V9R1 quad core 1.6GHz processor and Mali450MP GPU module, which is very similar to the previously rumored technical parameters of Hisense Kirin910. Next, let's test the performance of the new Hisense processor through the running score software?
Angora rabbit
This software is the most widely used running score software for enthusiasts at present. What we usually say is that the software has scored tens of thousands of points. This software mainly tests the CPU performance and memory (RAM) performance of mobile phones.
Through the screenshot, we can see that the processor model of Huawei Mate 2 is identified as HiSilicon Kirin 910 in Anthare software, which is roughly the same as our guess, and the final score is 22000+, surpassing Samsung Note2 with 1.6GHz quad core and Sony Xperia Z1 with 1.5GHz quad core Qualcomm APQ8064. Compared with the previous score of less than 20000 for Huawei HiSilicon K3V2E, it is still a big progress.
Nenamark2
As we mentioned earlier, Huawei Mate 2 is equipped with a four core Mali450 display chip, which is the same as the display chip of the MT6592 eight core processor of MediaTek, which is very popular recently. Is the 3D performance very powerful? We test it through Nenamark2, a running score software specially used to test 3D performance.
▲ Nenamark2 score
From the screenshot, we can see that Huawei Mate 2 scored a full score of 60FPS on Nenamark2. It can be seen that Mali450MP with full firepower is still very powerful. In terms of 3D performance, Huawei Mate 2 is also very powerful.
Vellamo
Vellamo was originally a software used by Qualcomm to test the performance of its processors in web browsing. Since there was no software specifically designed to test the user experience of web browsing in the industry at that time, Qualcomm released this software. With the increasing power of mobile phone processors. 500 points, 1000 points and even 2000 points have been broken. Next, let's take a look at Huawei Mate 2's strength in this software.
▲ Vellamo score
In terms of Vellamo, Huawei Mate 2 scored about 2000 points, surpassing the Samsung Galaxy S4. The score was quite good.
In fact, Lei Jun, the president of Xiaomi, once said that Xiaomi does not only care about running points, but that running high points is the basis for a mobile phone to have a good user experience. What is a really good user experience? In fact, the user experience is not only determined by the processor, but also by many hardware that we don't pay much attention to at ordinary times, such as sensors, touch chips, RF modules, and more importantly, by the software UI. Next, the author will lead you to a brief experience of the latest Huawei Emotion UI 2.0 system on Huawei Mate 2.
Emotion UI 2.0 Experience
Emotion UI is Huawei's independent UI system that has been tested and used on Huawei Ascend D1. Huawei Mate 2 has undergone several major improvements, including beta, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0. Starting from Emotion UI 2.0, the system will be updated every two weeks, and the elderly mode is also built in. Where is the Emotion UI 2.0 upgraded to improve the user experience? This part of the article is for you to interpret in detail.
First of all, let's take a look at the emotion UI 2.0 system. If you have used Huawei's smart phone before, you will feel a little fresher when you get started with emotion UI 2.0. Of course, if you have not used Huawei's mobile phone before, you will find carefully selected locking wallpaper and novel unlocking methods, In addition, the feature of Android 4.2.2 that can add small plug-ins to the lock screen interface does make people feel that the emotion UI 2.0 is carefully designed at first glance.
Entering the main interface, we can see that the rounded application icon design does not completely adopt the pseudo materialization design, but adopts the cartoon+pseudo materialization+flattening design. With the built-in simple wallpaper, the overall style is very simple, which also surprises the author who has used many Huawei handhelds before.
However, when we come to the pull-down menu, we can still see the shadow of the previous Huawei Emotion UI 1.5. Replaceable small switches are placed in the pull-down menu, and the setting interface is roughly the same as the logic of the previous Emotion UI 1.5, which does not match the style of the previous desktop. However, we believe that it will be improved with the iterative update every two weeks. After all, even the MIUI is three years old, It has formed a relatively fixed and unified style at present.
The biggest feature of Huawei Mate series is its super long standby time. Huawei Mate 2 is equipped with a 4050mAh battery, which can exceed the capacity of some laptops on the market. Huawei Mate 2 also supports a variety of power saving modes, including intelligent power saving, ultra long standby and ordinary power saving. The main mechanism of power saving is to set the menu of protected applications. These protected applications can still run in the background after the screen is turned off, while those high power consuming applications will be automatically turned off after the screen is turned off for a period of time. For example, if you are playing a game and forget to turn it off, then Huawei Mate 2 will automatically stop the game after a period of time after the phone turns off the screen. In this way, power can be saved to the maximum extent for users.
In terms of desktop style, Huawei Mate 2 has customized the standard style and simple style, while the simple mode is specially customized for the elderly. In fact, many people buy large screen smart phones for parents to use. For example, my parents like large screen smart phones with good photos, but it is exhausting to teach them to use a smart phone. With this simple style, it is much more convenient. You can customize the screen according to the preferences of the elderly at home, while the functions that are not used by other elderly people are cleverly hidden. In this regard, Huawei is not only very considerate, but also accurately aware of the consumer groups of Huawei Mate 2.
In terms of themes, Huawei Mate 2 also supports the online theme library function. However, we found that most of the themes in the online theme library are designed according to the previous Emotion UI 1.5, and do not adopt the new 2.0 style. However, we believe that with the comprehensive upgrade of Emotion UI 2.0, this problem will definitely be solved.
In other aspects, such as mobile services, mobile butlers, Huawei Cloud and other customized software of Huawei before are also built into Huawei Mate 2 after upgrading. In general, the Emotion UI 2.0 system on Huawei Mate 2 has been greatly upgraded compared with the previous version, and the effect after the upgrade is very obvious. However, the customization style is not uniform, and the theme library is not updated in time. However, after upgrading, the Emotion UI 2.0 interface has become very friendly, and the most important thing is that Huawei Mate 2 runs smoothly, without any problems.
Photography experience+summary
Huawei Mate 2 is equipped with a 13 million pixel stack camera and a 5 million pixel front camera. Compared with the previous generation of Huawei Mate, the main camera of Huawei Mate 2 has been upgraded from 8 million to 13 million pixels, The front camera of Mate Generation 1 is 1 million pixels, and the 22mm wide-angle lens used by Huawei Mate 2 is not used. Let's first take a look at the front camera of Huawei Mate 2 mobile phone.
▲ Add self timer function
When taking a selfie, have you ever seen a photo taken that seems to look at other places without feeling right at the camera? In fact, this is because the former camera of the mobile phone is usually at the top of the mobile phone, and the human eye often looks at the screen when taking a selfie, which causes this problem. The emotion UI 2.0 on Huawei Mate 2 adds a small picture in picture function at the top right of the screen, which enables you to see yourself on the screen and face the front camera when taking a selfie, This humanized function has not yet been customized in other customized UI, which is very humanized.
Next, let's take a look at the strength of Huawei Mate 2's 13 megapixel stack camera through the sample.
From the sample, we can see that Huawei Mate 2 performs very well when the light intensity is good in the daytime. The image sharpness and color restoration have enabled the author to abandon the card machine. When the light intensity is poor at night, Huawei Mate 2 is equipped with a large aperture of F/2.2, and the brightness of the image is guaranteed. However, due to the limitation of the size of the sensor of the mobile phone camera, more noise will be generated while ensuring the brightness. This is also a major weakness of smart phones that even the iPhone 5s cannot solve at present. In general, the overall quality of Huawei Glory 3x camera meets the author's expectations, and the addition of the self taking picture in picture function makes the author feel that Huawei is really doing camera work seriously, which makes users think more about it.
Evaluation summary
In fact, many manufacturers believe that as long as the mobile phone has a large screen, it will give people a sense of high-end atmosphere, but it is not true. There are many precedents of making big screen and death. Consumers will not spend a geometric multiple of the price to buy a mobile phone in order to make the screen larger, unless you have real skills.
From Huawei Mate 2, the author sees that Huawei has learned some lessons from Huawei Mate generation mobile phones. For example, Huawei's Mate generation mobile phone adopts a more business style body design, which turns away many female users, and the body is not light enough. This is also one of the major problems that Mate generation has been criticized.
On Huawei Mate 2, Huawei adopts a design similar to that of Samsung Galaxy Note 2. The lightweight plastic material makes it more comfortable to hold the Mate 2, The Emotion UI 2.0 system has also been very smooth. If the price is about 2000 yuan, Huawei Mate 2 is a model that can really fill the gap of large screen phones at this price. If I want to make a suggestion for Huawei Mate 2, I hope Huawei Mate 2 can launch some colorful models to meet the needs of different consumers.
