The competition in the 1000 yuan Android phone market is getting fiercer and fiercer. At present, people are more inclined to buy a cheap and practical 1000 yuan Android phone than to spend too much money on domestic Android phones. After all, the value of domestic Android phones is far less than Samsung and Apple, and there are many cost performance killers in the 1000 yuan Android phone market. Now we are Love to play computer games Compare several popular thousand yuan machines in the market.

This time, the target of our horizontal review of Love Computer is the Meilan Note, Red Rice Note 2 and Nut U1. The configuration specifications of these three mobile phones are the best in the thousand yuan machine segment. In the thousand yuan machine segment, their cost performance ratio is outstanding, and these are more popular thousand yuan models recently. Let's see how they perform in all aspects, and which one is more suitable for you.

In terms of configuration, although the three machines are very similar in configuration, The SoC specification is 8 A53, but the theoretical performance ranking is MT6795>MT6752>MSM8939 (Snapdragon 615). The 13 million pixel camera is used for taking photos, and neither has optical anti shake. However, the High Configuration of the Hyacinth Blue Note and the Red Mi Note 2 uses Samsung's Sensor, while the Red Mi Note 2 uses Samsung's own technology, ISOCELL's S5K3M2, The photo configuration of Hongmi Note 2 is better, but the sensor model of nut mobile phone is unknown.

appearance

In terms of appearance, because they all use 5.5 inch screens, and their three circumferences are very similar, they all use plastic bodies. The Magic Blue Note is a bright polycarbonate back shell, the red rice Note 2 is a matte back shell, and the nut U1 is a grid striped back shell. From the hand feel, the back shell of the Magic Blue Note is bright, When used, it will feel smooth and slightly greasy, while the matt treatment of red rice Note 2 and the grid stripe of nuts will feel smooth and not greasy.

Meilan Note and Red Rice Note 2 both use black front panels on the front of the machine. The effect is obvious when the screen is turned off. At the same time, it is not easy to see the black edge of the screen. Most thousand yuan mobile phones on the market use this black front panel, while Nut U1 uses a unique white panel, Luo Yonghao also said that "Hammer Technology has always been an enterprise pursuing design, so we rarely use the design of white panel+white frame at this price." After comparing many thousand yuan machines, I also found that although this is just a small design detail, it can distinguish nut U1 from many thousand yuan machines, It can be said that this design is one of the biggest features of nut U1.

The thick white frosted middle frame gives this white panel a transparent visual effect, which makes people feel like the double material injection molding process of the rear cover of Meizu MX2. At the same time, nut U1 is designed with a three-tier structure of rear opening+middle frame+front panel, which may also be due to the cost. Meilan Note, Hongmi Note 2 and most of the thousand yuan machines on the market do not use the "middle frame" structure. They almost extend the back cover to the middle frame part, so that the materials for the middle frame can be saved, Replace with thin and cheap plastic.

Both Magic Blue Note and Red Rice Note 2 extend the plastic back cover to the middle frame

In terms of key layout and body opening, the three are similar, or it should be said that the current thousand yuan machine is similar in opening and key layout. However, Nut U1 purposely makes the keys symmetrical, and the bottom voice outlet and side keys are made into symmetrical patterns. They also admit that the left voice outlet is the real voice outlet, The one on the right is just a fake voice outlet made for design consideration. Although this is just a small design detail, it is these many small details that make the nut U1 design extraordinary in the thousand yuan gear.

In addition, only the camera of Red Rice Note 2 is convex, while the Magic Blue Note and Nut U1 are parallel to the back shell

Many design details have created a nut U1 with extraordinary appearance. In the aspect of appearance, Xiao Bian believes that nut U1 redefines the appearance of the 1000 yuan machine. The 1000 yuan machine is not just about performance. At the price of 1000 yuan, we still pursue design and beauty, and we are eager to get extraordinary things.

screen

Left: Magic Blue Note Middle: Red Rice Note 2 Right: Nuts U1

In terms of screens, Nuts U1 and Meilan Note use Sharp/Youda's 5.5 inch 1080P screen, while Hongmi Note 2's advanced version uses Tianma/Youda's 5.5 inch 1080P screen (this Hongmi Note 2's advanced version is Tianma's screen). In terms of parameters, although the high configuration version of Hongmi Note 2 uses the Tianma screen, it is not poor in color gamut, color temperature, and color deviation. It has a great advantage over the Sharp/Youda screen of Meilan Note in terms of color deviation. In actual use, we love computers and feel that the color restoration of Meilan Note's screen is inaccurate, In terms of the color temperature of red rice Note 2, the default color temperature is closer to 6500K, and the coverage of sRGB color gamut is also better than that of Magic Blue Note. However, the manual maximum brightness of Magic Blue Note is much higher than that of red rice Note 2 and nut U1. The screen of nut U1 is better at color reproduction, while the color temperature is cooler and the brightness is slightly lower.

In terms of visual angle, there is no problem with the high configuration version of the Red Rice Note 2 and the nut mobile phone. There is no dead diagonal or color deviation. However, the Magenta Note has serious color deviation after tilting, which is very obvious under the diagonal.

In the screen item, the nut U1 screen is balanced in all aspects, better than the other two mobile phones, while the Meilan Note is bright, but it is not as good as the red rice Note 2 in other aspects.

Note: Each of the three machines can adjust its screen color temperature during setting.

System UI

Left: Magic Blue Note, middle: Red Rice Note 2, right: Nuts U1

Left: Blue Note Right: Red Note 2 file management nut U1 does not have its own file manager

Disc rubbing function of nut U1 music player

In terms of system UI, none of the three has a secondary menu. Although Meilan Note and Hongmi Note 2 are both deeply customized, Xiaobian still feels an Android style. In nut U1, Smartisan OS really achieves a different Android feeling. There is still no secondary menu, and the desktop is simplified, a bit like WP. This system can make users feel lazy, that is, you don't want to play with your phone very much. One page can only hold 9 applications, and there is no secondary folder, It is troublesome to install too many apps, but sometimes it makes people feel that the smart OS's system reduction method is very clean, at the cost of a little trouble to use, which is why the smart OS is called the "old machine".

In terms of music player, Meilan Note and Nut U1 have quite a wide range of music sources, and can search for the relatively new Ganwumei OP at present, but can't find it on Hongmi Note 2. In addition, many ACG music can't be found on Hongmi Note 2's built-in music app, and most of the searched music is singer's album music and so on.

performance

Detailed score data point of nut U1

In the run point segment, because the nut U1 uses a special Snapdragon 615, the nut U1 shows obvious weakness in the run point, while in the Meilan Note and the Hongmi Note 2 (high configuration version), there are 8 A53 in the CPU part, and the Meilan Note uses MT6752, The CPU part is eight 1.7GHz A53, and the GPU uses Mali-T760mp2 with a dominant frequency of 700MHz. This is compared with the MT6795 of the Hongmi Note 2 (high configuration version) (eight 2.2GHz A53, and the GPU uses a dominant frequency of 700MHz, Power VR G6200)， In terms of CPU performance, The bandwidth of MT6752 is only 6.4 GB/s, while the Melanie Note uses a 1080P screen, which theoretically provides a bandwidth of 8 GB/s to maintain smoothness. However, since Mali-T760MP2 uses frame compression technology, which reduces bandwidth requirements, the mini editor on Melanie Note does not feel the daily unsmooth situation, while the red rice Note 2 (high configuration version) also uses a 1080P screen, However, the bandwidth of the MT6795 is as high as 14.9GB/s, which is enough to ensure daily smoothness. In the CPU run, we see that the Hongmi Note 2 (high configuration version) performs normally, almost leading the other two competitors in the performance test.

The Snapdragon 615 of nut U1 insisted on using only two A53 cores when running points.

In addition, MT6753 is used as the next generation of Meilan Note2, The main frequency of the CPU is only 1.3GHz, while Mali-T720mp3 is used on the GPU. Although it is ahead of Mali-T720mp2 in the number of cores, the performance is only 70% of Mali-T760mp2 due to the architecture problem. At the same time, there is no frame compression technology, so in theory, the 6.4GB/s bandwidth provided by the MT6753 on the Magic Blue Note2 is not enough to ensure the smoothness of the system at 1080P resolution.

The Mali-T760mp2 with a dominant frequency of 700MHz is used in the GPU of the Melanie Note. Although the same Mali-T760 on the Galaxy S6 edge+is used in the GPU, this one on the Galaxy S6 edge+is Mali-T760mp8 with a dominant frequency of 772MHz. The 700MHz Power VR G6200 on the Red Rice Note 2 is also ahead of the Adreno 405 on the Magic Blue Note and the Snapdragon 615 on the Nutphone in terms of theoretical performance, and it is indeed the case from the actual score.

In the performance test environment, Red Rice Note 2 leads the Melanie Note in both theoretical and actual performance, and is significantly ahead of Nut U1. Nut U1 not only has problems in the test, but in actual use, six of the eight cores of Nut U1 are basically running, and the other two are in a "closed" state for a long time, However, this situation will not appear on the Magic Blue Note and Red Rice Note 2, both of which are 8 cores. At the same time, the system response speed of nut U1 is significantly slower than that of Red Rice Note 2 and Magic Blue Note. This kind of slow body is particularly obvious in three aspects: application opening speed, loading speed, and return to the main interface speed.

photograph

day

Left: Magic Blue Note Middle: Red Rice Note 2 Right: Nuts U1

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Meilan Note and Hongmi Note 2 both use Samsung sensors, and the models are S5K3L2 S5K3M2， The former is BSI, and the latter is ISOCELL. The sensor model of nut U1 is unknown. In the daytime samples, the imaging levels of the three are similar, and the white balance is not very different. They can take affordable samples outdoors in sufficient light.

Night and indoor

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Meilan Note: ISO 1962 shutter 1/10 Red rice Note 2: ISO 2287 shutter 1/10 Nut U1: ISO 1600 shutter 1/15. In this group of samples in the ultra-low light environment, because none of the three have optical anti shake, we can see from the samples that the three conditions are not ideal. After 100% magnification, the samples of Magic Blue Note can clearly see very strong smear marks. The nut U1 and red rice Note 2 are slightly better, while the nut U1 samples are darker than the other two, From the parameters, we can also see that the ISO and shutter of nut U1 are lower than the other two.

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Meilan Note: ISO 589 shutter 1/20 Red rice Note 2: ISO 918 shutter 1/25 nut U1: ISO 1100 shutter 1/24. In this group of samples, the white balance of the Magic Blue Note is accurate, and the white balance of the nut U1 and the red rice Note 2 is slightly green. However, the Magic Blue Note can see that the central picture has been pasted after 100% magnification, and the nut U1 has also been pasted. The central details of the red rice Note 2 are better preserved than those of the other two.

Meilan Note: ISO 477 shutter 1/20 Red rice Note 2: ISO759 shutter 1/25 nut U1: ISO 1100 shutter 1/20. The white balance of nut U1 in this group of samples is completely off track, and the white balance of Magic Blue Note is closer to the real scene.

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Meilan Note: ISO 1437 shutter 1/10 Red rice Note 2: ISO 1889 shutter 1/10 nut U1: ISO 1600 shutter 1/15. In the last group of samples, Xiao Bian focused the three mobile phones on the road signs in the distance. The three mobile phones were poorly focused in the weak light in the distance. Xiao Bian almost focused for several times before they were right. However, after pressing the shutter, he found that the photos were still blurred. In this group of scenes, the performance of the three mobile phones was poor, and nut U1 would have street light glare in this scene, Xiao Bian has also tried to wipe the nut U1 lens, but the situation has not improved. I have to admit that this is the performance of poor lens imaging quality.

In this photo test, the magic blue note and red rice note 2 are at the same level, while the nut performance is slightly poor. It is worth mentioning that the gap between the three is mainly reflected in the night imaging, and in the daytime imaging, the three are equally.

Endurance, fever

In terms of endurance, the three Meilan Notes have obvious advantages over the other two machines. After the test, they still have 68% power, while the red rice Note 2 is the worst, with only 55% power left, while the nut U1 has 60% power left.

In terms of heating, we respectively run the three machines at the same time for NBA 2K14 for 1 hour. The highest temperature of the three machines is near the camera, and the temperature is basically around 42 ℃. The heat dissipation speed of the three machines is OK. The temperature of the three machines returns to room temperature within 15 minutes after the game is closed.

summary

In this horizontal review, it can be said that these three machines all have their own strengths. The use of the high configuration version of the Hongmi Note 2, the flagship MT6795 of MediaTek, has achieved ease in performance. The screen performance is better than that of the Melanie Note, not as good as that of the nut U1. The imaging level is similar to that of the Melanie Note, but the performance in terms of endurance is poor, probably due to the high-frequency MT6795.

Meilan Note uses the MT6752, which was once called the flagship of Meizu and Xiake. In comparison, although its performance is not as good as the flagship MT6795, its performance is also good. It will not fall far behind the red rice Note 2 in daily use. In terms of endurance, it outperforms others. Although the screen has the highest brightness, its color restoration is poor.

The nut U1 can be said to perform mediocrely. Although the photo is poor, it is not unusable. The comprehensive performance of the screen is the best of the three, but the performance is far inferior to the other two. The gap can also be clearly felt in actual use. The delay in operation needs to be explained that the nut U1 shows "slow" rather than "stuck" performance, However, nut U1 is better than Luo Yonghao because of its special appearance design and personal charm.