Samsung will contribute two models of Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series to us every year, and this year Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note5 will also come as promised. As Samsung's flagship product in the second half of the year, what is the highlight of Galaxy Note5?
Appearance design
In retrospect, Samsung's first Android phone with a metal middle frame is Galaxy Alpha, while the first Android phone with a glass back cover is S6. With the Galaxy Note5 (hereinafter referred to as Note5), Samsung has introduced a more designed look on this phone. Note5 has a 2.5D glass front panel and a 3D glass back cover, and the front and rear glasses are made of Corning Gorilla Generation 4, which is more excellent than ordinary materials in terms of fall resistance.
Continuing the characteristics of S6, Note 5 uses 7000 series aluminum alloy as the middle frame. It belongs to the aviation series, which is rare in mobile phones. It makes mobile phones have better wear resistance.
Note 5 also continues the fashion color matching of S6, retaining three classic colors of black, white and gold, and adding the same silver color as the Galaxy S6 edge+. Moreover, the unique coating design on the body makes the phone show different colors from different angles.
hardware configuration
Samsung can be self-sufficient in chips and many components, so it has many advantages over ordinary mobile phone manufacturers. Note 5 is no exception. It uses Samsung's own Exynos 7420 eight core processor, which is the most powerful SoC in the market, and uses 64 bit eight core big The LITTLE architecture, together with Samsung's own 14 nanometer FinFET process, achieves a good balance in performance and process. In terms of GPU, Note5 and 8-core version Note4 both use Mali-T760 series GPUs, but the number of cores is upgraded from 6 to 8, and the frequency is up to 772MHz, which brings more powerful graphics performance.
From our measured results, Note5 really deserves the title of performance king, and ranks top in all objective tests. The combination of quad core Cortex-A57 2.1GHz and quad core Cortex-A53 1.6GHz brings strong processing performance.
Compared with other Android phones, the Exynos 7420 has good performance in both single core performance and multi-core performance, and its comprehensive strength is very strong.
It is worth mentioning that Note5 also uses another "black technology" of Samsung - UFS2.0 flash memory, which has an absolute speed advantage over eMMC5.0 commonly used on other high-end mobile phones. In our measured comparison, the reading and writing speed is obviously better than other products.
In addition to the powerful performance of the phone itself, Note5 also has an excellent photo taking experience. It uses a 16 megapixel 1/2.6 inch camera on the back, which, together with OIS optical anti shake and F1.9 large aperture, lays a good hardware foundation.
As far as the actual imaging is concerned, Note5 shows a very strong ability to take pictures in the automatic mode, especially the HDR and night view. Both the imaging speed and the actual effect are well reflected (the above figure shows the comparison of the automatic mode night view of Note5 and LG V10).
Mobile phone system and application
Powerful hardware provides a good basis for Note5 to run. A user-friendly system and rich application resources also play a great positive role in user experience. In terms of the system, Note5 uses TouchWiz based on Android 5.1.1, and will launch a version based on Android 6.0 at the beginning of 2016.
The TouchWiz system is believed that players will not be unfamiliar with it, and this system on Note5 has made many improvements in functionality. On the Note5 of the Bank of China version, the secondary menu can be removed, so that the application can be placed directly on the main interface of the launcher, which makes it easier for users who like simple logic to use it. While the pull-down menu
On the built-in intelligent manager of Note5, we will find that it has one page more than the common intelligent manager. It has several functions, such as traffic monitoring, call blocking, application authorization management, application locking and notification. It can be seen that Samsung has made many targeted optimizations for the use habits of domestic users.
In the past, when we used Android phones, we found that the mobile phone market often had problems such as insufficient applications and slow update of application versions. In order to solve this problem, Samsung cooperated with Tencent App Store and directly searched for third-party applications from App Store, In this way, users can avoid the inconvenience of installing another application market.
In the Samsung App Store, there is a page called "Exclusive", where you can find some applications customized by Samsung and other application manufacturers for Note5 and other Samsung mobile phones. The "Galaxy Featured Gift Bag" is a third-party application recommended by Samsung's customized version or application manufacturers, while the "Galaxy Featured Customization" includes many official applications made by Samsung for its products.
There are boutique applications like "LeTV Video Note5" in the Galaxy Featured Gift Bag. As long as Note5 users log in from July 1 to December 31, 2015, they can get the three-month free VIP membership service of LeTV video. There are many promotional activities like this, so that users can deeply experience the advantages of being a Galaxy user.
In the Galaxy feature customization, we can find some of Samsung's official boutique applications. For example, S real-time translation is a very practical function, which supports real-time translation in 10 languages, including Chinese, English, Korean, Japanese, and Russian. It is quite practical in some emergency situations. The method is simple, as long as we press the "Speak" button and input the content to be translated into the microphone of the phone, of course, we can also use traditional text input to achieve the same function.
Samsung Milk Music is a new radio music client launched by Samsung, which allows users to easily change channels among hundreds of radio stations with the touch of their fingertips. Different from the traditional network FM radio application, Samsung Milk Music allows us to experience a new streaming music service through cool background, dial design interface, personalized radio layout and other different designs. Among Samsung Milk Music, there are hundreds of music stations with different styles in Europe, America, Asia and other regions. I believe music lovers will definitely find their own paradise here.
summary
From the experience of Samsung Galaxy Note5, it deserves the title of "Android king". It has strong strength in appearance design, hardware performance and even system software resources. Note 5 highlights Samsung's outstanding shape and material design in addition to its hardware advantages, as well as the optimization of software practicability and ease of use. It shows us that Samsung mobile phones are different from the past. In terms of appearance design, combined with the characteristics of Samsung's Super AMOLED screen, Note5 has made a thinner body, and combined with the innovative 3D glass on the back of the body, it shows an excellent combination of design and feel. From the application level, based on Samsung's advantages in SoC, photography and other aspects, Note5 has made further progress in the localization of the system and the richness of official applications, so that users can experience intelligent hardware products with excellent comprehensive quality. We also look forward to Samsung bringing us more surprises in 2016.
