Editor's note: Nubia Z5 is now open for purchase. Although it came a little late, I believe many netizens are still interested in it. This is a netizen Z5 experience article, he evaluated the performance of Z5 from a unique perspective on the design and system experience of the whole machine.

1、 Appearance and material

The appearance design style of Z5 is very simple. Because of the full fitting screen, the screen is completely black, with silver metal edges and red circle breathing lights. The effect is pretty good, especially when charging or having a phone, the breathing light flashes, the black screen is integrated, the silver frame, and the metal keys have a strong sense of design.

The aluminum alloy frame is made of metal wire drawing. It is not vertical, but has a slope. It is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. It looks more exquisite than the stainless steel frame of the iPhone 4 and 4S.

(You can clearly see the slope of the frame, the lower width and the upper narrow slope, and the wire drawing of the metal frame.)

The material of the back cover of the machine is very interesting. Before getting the real machine, I looked at the pictures and thought it was cheap plastic, and there was no pattern to prevent slipping. But when I got the real machine, I found that it was not ordinary plastic, but a little rubber. It was soft, and the friction coefficient was very high, so there was no need to use patterns to prevent slipping. The texture of control was also good. Far from ordinary hard plastics.

But it can't be seen without touching. The red circle camera on the back is very prominent, showing certain photographic characteristics. The specific effect will be discussed later.

(The camera is very prominent. The material of the machine looks unimpressive, but I know it feels good when I really touch it.)

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2、 Hardware

When Nubia Z5 was designed, its hardware was the top configuration at that time, with 13 million cameras, 1080p screen, Qualcomm 8064 processor and 2G memory. Five months later, except that the processor is not the latest, it is not backward at all.

In fact, the score of Anthare is close to 20000, which is the normal level of 8064. All kinds of software are smooth, and the game is no problem. The 1080p 5-inch screen is of good quality.

The 13 million camera needs to say something more. The 13 million camera has a lot of noise due to the small unit light sensitive area, but the noise reduction of Nubia Z5 is good. It not only controls the noise, but also does not have the excessive smearing like Sony, so that the details are lost.

(The camera is balanced between details and noise reduction, and daily shooting is sufficient)

In addition, the white balance of this camera is also good. There is no color deviation problem common to domestic mobile phones, and the overall level is not low. There are many details under strong light, reflecting the level of 13 million yuan. The light in the city is also good. In addition, it comes with advanced mode. Metering and focus can be separated. If you want, you can take some advanced effects.

(Advanced shooting mode, light metering and focusing can be separated, please note that photography and video recording are independent keys)

The weak point is the night scene, which is also a common problem in mobile phone photography. Because of the small area, short exposure time and insufficient light input, if you pursue brightness, there will be more noise, and if you pursue noise, the picture will be black. Nubia Z5 can't be used to produce flowers. The only solution is the optical anti shake of Nokia 920 and HTC one to force the exposure time to increase.

Nubia Z5 has a good design of "three networks for all". Although it does not support TD, it is convenient for users to change their mobile phones without changing their carriers.

The metal frame and heat dissipation design of nubia Z5 need special mention, which is very interesting

1. Nowadays, ordinary smart phones are generally plastic back covers with half panel design. The heat is mainly concentrated on the upper half. Because the plastic has poor heat conduction, the heat accumulation is fast, the temperature will be very high, and the heat dissipation will be very slow. Samsung S4 has run rabbit safety for three times. The camera can be equipped with scald function nearby, and the high temperature will last for a long time. Not good for internal components of mobile phones. But the advantage is that the temperature of the place where the hands touch is not high, which does not affect the sense of control.

2. An improvement is the metal back cover, which is used as a heat sink to dissipate heat, and the graphite thermal conductive film is used to guide the high heat chip to the metal back cover. This method has the advantage of fast heat dissipation and no heat accumulation. It is a kind of protection for the electronic components inside the mobile phone. HTC ONE，OPPO finder， The latest Lenovo K900 is designed in this way. But the disadvantage of this design is that when it gets hot, the temperature can be clearly felt by holding the phone.

3. Another design is to place the heating chip under the battery, so that there is a layer of battery between the hand and the heating chip. It is not impossible to feel the heat of the phone when the temperature is high for a long time. The comfort is better, but the problem is that heat accumulates inside, which is not only bad for the internal components of the phone, but also bad for the battery. And really hot, heat dissipation will be very slow, slower than the first. Motorola's Razr and Xiaomi 2 are both of this design. Xiaomi 2 actually has a metal skeleton as a heat sink, but it is wrapped in plastic, so the heat dissipation effect is reduced.

(Xiaomi's metal frame plays the role of heat dissipation and shielding at the same time. Unfortunately, it is heavily wrapped in plastic.)

The design of nubia z5 is very interesting. It is between the first and the second. The heating chip is on the top, but the heat conduction does not depend on plastic, but on a metal frame. The heat dissipation speed is much faster than that of the first one, because the area of the metal frame contacting the hand is very small, and the hottest metal frame is in the upper right corner, so the heat dissipation process is quiet. You don't have to touch the whole phone to know where the phone is radiating heat.

(Nubia z5 is also a full metal frame for heat dissipation, but the four sides of the metal frame are directly exposed to the air)

Nubia Z5 has chosen a compromise between the control feeling and the heat dissipation speed, between the first and the second, and the actual effect is good.

3、 Software

The software of nubia Z5 has been debugged for a long time, and the completion degree of the current version is still very high.

first The sliding of the desktop starter is very smooth, without any stagnation or card feeling. At this time, the processor frequency is relatively low.

secondly The transition animation is done. Click the icon to open the program and switch the interface. Although the animation itself cannot be said to be perfect, the animation that has been done has improved the sense of fluency. OPPO find5 is the latest version to upgrade the animation transition. In the past, the main reason why Android looked better than IOS and WP system cards was that there was no transition animation. This is very important for smooth flow.

third Each interface has been designed in style. How many original interfaces are retained is an important standard that distinguishes large factories from small ones. All interfaces and their own application styles are unified, which Nubia has done well. This is something you can't see on ZTE machines.

The call interface, the SMS interface, and the numeric keypad after dialing the number are all user experiences. IOS took the lead in those years because it did well in these details. NubiaZ5 has designed these details, and the overall style is black and red, pursuing a sense of stability.

(Set the graphic design of the interface, pay attention to the shading design)

(The design of the dialing interface in the call is not designed by the small factory. It is the blue button of Android.)

(The visual style of the built-in program pursues unity)

(The visual effect of the third-party program has also been changed, which is consistent with the overall style)

Even the background color of the system setting menu is not a solid color, but a texture material is deliberately made, which is the intention of high-quality mobile phones.

(You can pay attention to the design of background color and texture, button material and light and shadow design, which are necessary for high-quality products)

fourth . Deliberately designed many humanized functions, and deliberately designed a reasonable location
The phone book of nubia Z5 has a key for scanning business cards. The dialing interface can send SMS messages directly, and the SMS interface can search for content directly. The photographing interface has the key for taking photos and the key for recording videos side by side, instead of switching to the default interface of Android system. There are many similar details.

(Attention should be paid to the short line button at the lower left corner. The call interface can send SMS directly.)

(Attention should be paid to the business card scanning function in the upper right corner. The contact interface can scan business cards directly.)

(SMS interface can search SMS content and contacts directly, which is very practical)

4、 Attachment

The box of nubia Z5 is very powerful. Open the paper box of popular goods, there is a beautiful white box inside, and there are accessories with uniform style. The box is very thick. The material is a little like plastic but heavier. The texture is very good. It comes with two films, earphones, data cables and chargers, all of which are Nubia standard.

This style of packaging was invisible to ZTE before, but Meizu and OPPO both had ingenious unpacking designs, and Nubia showed another style everywhere.

5、 Overall evaluation and possible improvements

The product is generally good, but not perfect. There is still room for improvement in terms of humanization of accessories and software details, which needs to be revised in subsequent versions.

In general, Nubia Z5 reflects the awareness of being a boutique and paying attention to details. The reason why Lexus is different from Toyota is not that there is any technical difference between the two, but that it strives for perfection in the details of user comfort. The smoothness of the engine, the jerk of the transmission, the comfort of the suspension, the isolation of noise, and the comfort of the seats. It is not high technology of Mars, but the pursuit of details. Nubia is on the way.

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