vivo Xshot， As the first flagship mobile phone of Vivo, which pays equal attention to both shooting and sound quality, it not only ensures excellent sound quality, but also focuses on the camera. In addition, as the flagship machine should have a strong hardware configuration, the overall experience is also quite excellent.

Hardware configuration:

Now we are evaluating the flagship version of Xshot, and the hardware configuration is improved compared with the elite version.

• Screen: 5.2 inch LG screen, resolution: 1920 * 1080, PPI：424。
• CPU： Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 (8974AC) 2.5GHz. GPU：Adreno 330 ，578MHz。
• RAM：3GB。 ROM：32GB， Scalable up to 128GB.
• Network mode: support 5-mode 13 frequency dual 4G.
• Main camera: IMX214 Sony Stack II F/1.8 13 million pixels, equipped with optical anti shake. Front camera: 8 million pixels.
• Fill light: front full spectrum LED intelligent fill light, rear dual color temperature LED fill light.
• Mobile phone size: 146.45 x 73.3 x 7.99mm, mobile phone weight: 148g.
• Battery capacity: 2600 mAh.
• Price: 3498

The biggest difference between the Elite version and the Ultimate version is that the processor is changed to 8974AA, 2.3GHz, and the GPU is also Adreno 330, but the frequency is 450MHz. RAM is 2GB and ROM is 16GB. Mobile 4G is supported, and other configurations are basically the same.

appearance

The vivo Xshot finally responded to the public's call this time, using a screen of 5.2 inches, which is relatively suitable in size. The resolution of 1080P also makes its screen fine, and the viewing effect of the screen is very good.

Its top uses an 88 degree wide angle 8 million pixel front camera. The central earpiece has a metal filter screen, the right side of the earpiece is a sensor, and there is a full spectrum intelligent LED fill light on the far right. This full spectrum LED fill light not only has a more natural lighting effect, but also can adjust the fill light intensity according to the current light brightness. The panel frame of Xshot still maintains a narrow design, but the double-layer addition of the outer frame and the metal frame will appear a bit thick.

There is also a small LED light next to the front camera, which lights up when there is unread information and when charging.

At the bottom are three touch keys with silver effect, without backlight. The three touch keys are not at the center level of the chin. Some Virgos may feel a bit awkward, but if the chin is too narrow or the touch keys are too low, daily operation will be inconvenient. On the contrary, the settings will be slightly better.

The frame is of metal design, with a 3.5mm headphone jack on the top, the jack part is nano injection molding, and the left side is a noise reducing microphone.

The bottom is a USB interface. On both sides of the USB interface, we can see the nano injection layer designed to prevent the metal frame from blocking the signal. The injection molding process is relatively good, and the C port and the C port of the metal frame are cut flat. On the right is the main microphone.

The right side of the front is the volume key and power key, and there is also a physical shutter key at the bottom.

Since vivo attaches great importance to the shooting experience of Xshot, the design of the two-part solid shutter key has been added. A small section of gold paint is also used as the symbol in the center of the shutter key. At the beginning, vivo also used a round shutter key, but finally used a long strip shutter key because of the thickness of the border.

The left side of the phone is designed with a SIM card and a TF card, which can save a lot of costs. The cutting steps of the metal frame can also be reduced, and there will not be too many card slots on the same side.

There is an exaggerated camera and dual color temperature fill light on the back, and there is a vivo logo in the center.

The camera design of Xshot is very eye-catching, and the huge outer circle of the camera is protected by a circle of metal frame. Many people may think that the camera is relatively thick, but this is largely due to the addition of optical anti shake, so the camera module cannot be made thin. If there is no optical anti shake, the camera will not be thick, but it will have one less function and one less selling point. At that time, someone will definitely say that there is no optical anti shake. It can only be said that there are gains and losses. Vivo finally added optical anti shake for the purpose of shooting effect.

Xshot does not have a dual speaker design this time, but uses a separate strip speaker. The speaker volume is still loud enough, but not as exaggerated as the Xplay3S.

In addition, the Xshot uses the screen provided by LG, which has a good visual effect.

After installing the official original protective shell, the thickness will be slightly increased. Whether to use the protective shell or not depends on your personal habits.

screen

As mentioned above, the viewing angle of the Xshot screen is not bad, but the LG screen has a traditional diagonal problem.

For example, there is no problem with screen display at normal viewing angle.

However, once the perspective moves to the death diagonal, the screen will turn yellow. This is a common problem in LG screens. The LG G2 we tested previously also has this problem. The specific angle is the most obvious from the bottom right to the top left of the screen. Of course, few people use a special angle to look at mobile phones. Of course, this is not a problem of vivo, but a common problem of LG panel itself, so we won't tangle too much.

This screen contrast adds the previous generation of Xplay3S using 2K screen of vivo and the recently popular OPPO Find7 as a contrast. The pure white contrast (the contrast brightness of the following screens is 100%). The screens of Xplay3S and Find7 belong to the cold color temperature, while the LG screen of Xshot is slightly warmer.

Red contrast, the brightness of the Xshot is good, and because of the partial warming screen, the color will be slightly more bright.

The green performance is good.

Black contrast contrast, the color gradation of Xshot and Xplay3S is clear, and the screen color of Xshot is still bright.

The contrast of black saturation is also better between Xplay3S and Xshot. Both Xplay3S and Xshot can see 7, while Find7 is slightly weaker, starting from 10. It can also be seen from the black contrast that the Xplay3S and Find7 also have different degrees of light leakage, while Find7 can also see that the lower part of the screen is slightly yellow, and the LG screen of Xshot will be obviously better written, but it is no problem to watch three mobile phones everyday.

Among the red object pictures, the restoration of Xshot is also the most correct.

The original of the physical picture.

Compared with the green physical image, the Xshot is also the closest to the original image, and Find7 is slightly green.

Original drawing.

The color reproduction of LG's screen is really good. Among all kinds of color contrast, it is the color closest to the original image.

Original drawing of the object.

Performance score

Xshot uses an 8974AC high frequency processor, so the run point link should be welcomed.

As we all know, Anthare is just trying to rank.

It seems that the running score is not ideal. Unfortunately, the engineering machines we got this time are all weak, all of them are 4, and the performance may not be able to be given full play.

Xplay3S on the left and Xshot on the right. The Pi test can calculate the 10000000 bit Pi in about 28 seconds, while the Xplay3S calculation time is 28.934 seconds, and the Xshot is slightly faster than the Xplay3S.

In the daily spider web page test, the level of Snapdragon 801 is basically maintained (the lower the final value, the better).

VELLAMO web benchmark.

The comparison reference of GFXBench test is the iPhone 5S, which is now basically at the peak of hardware performance. In the Manhattan and Tyrannosaurus Rex scenarios tested, the Xshot is still basically at a disadvantage. It can only be said that the GPU of the iPhone 5S is really very powerful. In addition to the low screen resolution, it still has many advantages in GPU. However, there are still advantages in other 1080P alpha compounding and filling, and the scene rendering quality plane is basically tied, which shows the strength of Snapdragon 801 (8974AC) processor.

The video test is carried out directly using the rabbit video test. Most of the video formats can be played normally, and only some special packages can not play normally.

Some video and audio codes may fail to play sound.

Of course, there will still be traditional video decoding tests. 1080P, 60fps ref=16 MP4 video is played, and the average number of hard decoded frames is 57, which can basically meet the requirements of full frame smooth play.

When testing soft solution playback, the average number of frames played down in the whole segment is 44. The physical condition of the machine on hand is weak, and the frequency reduction is severe.

The 4K 30FPS UHD video can be played in full frame, and the effect is very good. But if you simply use soft solution to play, it will only be about 10 frames.

In addition, the Bilibili pop-up screen was tested, and the system hard decoding was selected for decoding.

First, try the ordinary size and speed of the bullet screen. Remember to set the density of the same screen in the bullet screen to unlimited first, which is the real pressure test. These bullet screens are very CPU intensive. Under this condition, Xshot can play videos smoothly and the bullet screens can be sent out normally.

At this time, we can further press the performance, adjust the screen font size to the maximum, and speed up the pop-up speed. In this environment, the phone starts to get a little stuck, and the phone starts to heat up.

system

Xshot uses Funtouch OS 1.2, which is based on Android 4.3. I believe you are familiar with this system, and its recognition is also high.

The multitask menu and shortcut switch of Funtouch OS can be called directly from the drop-down menu, which is very convenient. Since the system has only one level menu, all APP icons are directly displayed on the desktop. They can also be classified into one folder for better appearance. Press the menu key on the desktop to call up functions such as plug-ins and hidden icons. The screen can also be moved and adjusted as a whole.

Both the scene desktop and system theme in Funtouch OS can choose their own theme in vivo's official theme market.

The scene desktop is designed as intuitive as possible to enhance the use experience. Whether you like it or not depends on your personal preference.

In the system settings, there is basically no big difference from the ordinary Android system. The biggest difference is that there are a lot of intelligent operations.

By default, Funtouch OS turns off the developer option. If you want to adjust the developer option, you can enter * # * # 7777 # * # * on the dial panel to turn on the developer option.

The intelligent operation functions in this system are also quite complete, and basically all the required intelligent operations are available here, including black screen gesture operation and black screen air operation to open applications.

Spacing operation and intelligent screen lighting function are very practical. Sometimes I just want to take out my pocket to see the time. After I turn on this function, I take out my pocket to light the screen. I don't even need the power button or double clicking the screen.

In addition, there is a one handed mode designed for small handed people who are not convenient to use one handed operation, and it can also adjust the size and resolution of the one handed mode, which is relatively considerate.

Because there are many options for intelligent operation, if you don't know how to use this function for a while, you can click their names, and there will be relevant prompts or experimental operations to familiarize you with this function.

Voice control operation and multi task window are also available, and consumers may be confused everywhere. It is up to everyone to get familiar with this and decide whether to use these functions according to their own situation.

In addition to supporting native music players, the Hi Fi function can also support third-party players. The phone function also adds many intelligent functions and hang up feedback. The Funtouch OS has enough functions, which should meet the different needs of many people.

Smart dial and built-in vivo personal cloud backup. Vivo cloud backup requires you to register a vivo account to upload to the cloud, so that you can directly synchronize your communication data back when you change other vivo phones in the future.

In addition, it is more intimate that there are mobile phone manuals and electronic manuals of after-sales service points, which are useful for consumers at the beginning.

game

"Real Racing 3" runs stably above 50, which is very smooth. The picture effect is also very good. The texture, paint reflection and glass reflection are excellent. We can see the reflection of white clouds in the sky on the glass behind the car. The picture effect is very good. Due to space constraints, we won't cut too many pictures.

Pacific Rim, which has many different mecha options and faces different monsters, basically runs smoothly at around 50, and gets stuck in the opening, closing animation and pop-up dialog box.

As can be seen from "Top Speed Car 17", the dynamic blur, texture and the effect of buildings and road signs reflected by water on the road are all shown. Although it is an old game, the picture performance is still very good. It basically runs smoothly above 50 frames, and 8974AC can also play the best picture of this game.

fever

As for Snapdragon's processor, in addition to being famous for its speed, the biggest feature is that it is hot enough. After playing Real Racing 3 for more than ten minutes, the upper left corner of the screen has reached 41 degrees Celsius. In fact, we know from the pictures we disassembled before, The chip is basically stacked at the top of the Xshot, and the battery compartment is below, so the heating here is relatively serious. Fortunately, this position is not often encountered when the console is playing games normally. However, because of the use of metal frames, heat conduction is also relatively fast. Fortunately, heat dissipation is also relatively fast, and it is easy to cool down after stopping.

shot

The most important thing of Xshot this time is the shooting effect, so many new functions have been added in the shooting mode, such as children's mode, background blurring, etc., which is more practical.

In the normal shooting mode, ISO cannot be adjusted, and only simple adjustments can be made to the sample, video resolution, shutter sound and other items.

In the professional shooting model, in addition to the fixed aperture, the rest can be basically adjusted, as well as the level and composition auxiliary line. It is worth noting that the slowest shutter speed of the Xshot can reach 8 seconds this time. As long as you have a tripod, you can basically handle ordinary urban night scenes with ease.

In terms of proof performance, the appearance of Xshot can be said to make people admire the shooting effect of domestic mobile phones. The overall clarity is very high, the color restoration is also very good, and the focusing speed is also very fast. In fact, this sample was taken in a foggy weather. At that time, the whole sky was grayish yellow at more than 5:00 p.m., and it was still a big backlight scene when shooting. It was very good that the sample still performed like this in the end.

In the afternoon, I shoot outside the cloudy window.

This is a sample shot by opening HDR at the same time. The slightly over exposed sky, slightly under exposed buildings and nearby trees all performed well after opening HDR.

The color performance of Xshot is very attractive. It does not completely restore the color seen by the naked eye, but slightly increases the saturation, making the overall color more colorful, and the contrast of the sample is relatively high. It will appear that the color and object are relatively solid, not false, and very pleasing to the eye.

With the large aperture of F/1.8, the depth of field is very shallow, and the background is also very natural and soft.

I have to say that the macro performance of Xshot is very good, the focusing distance is quite close, and the macro shooting effect is very good.

The shutter of this sample is already relatively slow, 1/11S, for the casual shooting of the night scene in the normal mode. However, due to the optical anti shake of the Xshot, the problem of easy shake and blur caused by the slow shutter is also made up in one aspect. ISO is already 800, but the noise of the picture is basically not obvious, and the definition is also very good. For domestic mobile phones, such handheld night scene performance is very difficult.

The same general mode is used for random shooting.

This is a 100% screenshot of the above figure. We can still roughly see that the logo of the car is Porsche.

Since the shooting ability of Xshot is really strong, and it has many functions, in order to better describe its shooting effect, we will write another article about the shooting evaluation of Xshot. In addition, in terms of sound quality, we need to further burn the machine to better play its sound quality ability. We will also write another evaluation article, please pay attention.

Endurance

Fully charged to 100%, it has been playing music for more than six hours with WIFI using Hi Fi mode, and the power consumption is about 20%. It can be seen that its performance in music playback and endurance is very good.

After 100% of the battery is fully charged, test the 20 minute "Top Speed Car 17" to count the power consumption.

After 20 minutes, the power consumption is about 12%. It can be seen that the Snapdragon processor is still an electric tiger. If you have a strong demand for playing games, you may need to prepare a mobile power supply.

summary

The vivo Xshot uses a more acceptable 5.2 inch screen and excellent hardware configuration, making its overall experience quite good. Although the LG screen used has the defect of death diagonal, it has a good experience in color restoration and visual angle. This Xshot has a weak physique, but it still performs well in score running. Its strong hardware configuration also makes its video playing and gaming experience very good. In terms of heating, people who use Snapdragon processors should be prepared to heat in some areas where the chips are located. In terms of battery life, it is basically no problem to charge every day. It is also more durable to listen to music when the Hi Fi mode is turned on, but the power consumption will be faster when playing games. Patients with severe machine use should bring mobile power. In terms of shooting, the IMX214 Sony stack type second-generation camera with optical anti shake was used this time, and the effect was quite good. The impression that the focus of the home-made machine is slow and the picture is not clear enough has changed, and the Xshot bucket has been as flat as possible without being short on a certain piece.

For domestic mobile phones, Xshot really performs well in all aspects. Especially in photography, it can be said that it is one of the rare boutiques in domestic mobile phones. Domestic products should be self strengthening. We have seen the continuous progress of domestic mobile phones. At the same time, we hope that there will be more and more mobile phones that can be called domestic products in the future.