One and a half years later, how many Nokia's shadow still exists in the Lumia 950, Microsoft's flagship model after acquiring Nokia? Can it overturn our consistent view of Lumia mobile phone? Before getting the machine, the author's mind is also full of questions of one kind or another. I hope readers can find your answers in this article.
In terms of specifications, Lumia 950 uses a 5.2 inch 2K AMOLED screen, Snapdragon 808 SoC, and 3GB LPDDR3 memory, The ROM is 32GB (supporting Micro SD expansion), the camera is still 20 million pixels, equipped with optical anti shake, the size of a single pixel is 1.12 μ m, the size of the sensor is 1/2.4, and the battery capacity is 3000mAh. Although it is equipped with Snapdragon 808, it only supports mobile/Unicom dual 4G, the charging head is 5V/3A, supports fast charging, and uses USB Type-C interface, Although the Lumia 950 is not equipped with the popular fingerprint recognition, it has an additional iris recognition.
appearance
In addition to Lumia 950, we also got its important accessories Display Dock Docking Station Both of them are "Microsoft" in terms of packaging, which is a scaled down version of Surface Pro 4 packaging. After opening the package of Lumia 950, I can see a Lumia 950 body, a charging head with a cable, a USB Type-C data cable, and an earplug. and On the display dock side, there is a body, a charging head with cable, and a dual USB Type-C head data cable.
The Lumia 950 without physical touch keys and 2.5D glass is really not Nokia's work. A plastic band can be seen around the screen. On the front of the phone, we can see a Microsoft logo under the earpiece. The keys of the phone are concentrated on the right side of the phone, the USB Type-C interface is below the phone, and the 3.5mm headset interface is on the top of the phone.
In order to cooperate with iris recognition, Lumia 950 is equipped with an infrared transmitter and receiver at the top of the screen to ensure iris recognition in low light.
The logo on the back of the Lumia 950 is made of metal, and its speaker opening is placed next to the camera.
In terms of accessories, it is equipped with an earplug. Its shape is somewhat similar to that of Apple EarPods. The standard charging head is 5V/3A. Both the built-in cable of the charging head and the additional USB data cable are very solid. Compared with the wiring of other smart phones, the wiring of Lumia 950 is thick and black.
The Display Dock docking station is equipped with 7 interfaces, one of which is located on the back of the expansion port to connect the mobile phone, while the other 6 interfaces include one USB Type-C for power connection, three USB ports, one DP, and one HDMI.
screen
Lumia 950 uses a 5.2 inch 2K AMOLED screen and ClearBlack technology. After our test, it covers 95% sRGB, 72% AdobeRGB, under the default screen color of the system, its color temperature is around 7400K, and the average Delta E is 2.41. From the color gamut, it can be seen that this is a specially adjusted AMOLED screen, which may directly narrow the color gamut range to prevent the color from displaying too brightly.
Since it is an AMOLED screen, its contrast naturally needs no more words. In terms of brightness, its highest brightness is at the beginning of 300 nits, and the highest center white spot brightness is around 270. Although the brightness distribution is relatively uniform, the value is low.
system
In terms of system, Lumia 950 Windows 10 is really different from the previous Windows Phone 8.1. Most of these differences come from the system logic, including the file manager, settings, music, etc. There is a strong wind of Windows 10. The music that comes with the system is now changed to Groove (consistent with the desktop Windows 10). For example, when you set the lock screen time, now you are in the "account" In the past, it was set in the "unlock interface". There are many examples of this, including the drop-down notice bar. Microsoft obviously does not want users to strictly distinguish Windows 10 on the mobile phone from Windows 10 on the desktop, creating the illusion that it is Windows 10.
Although the mobile version of Windows 10 has made many improvements, it still hasn't solved the problem that Windows Phone lacked a lot of applications in the 1980s. Even if you bought the Lumia 950, you still can't use it to call express cars, or hungry, Meituan, Baidu, and so on. There are also a lot of problems with existing apps, such as the lack of many functions of Alipay QQ cannot receive red packets and scan codes. WeChat lacks a large number of WeChat games and game apps. App ecology is the fatal problem of Windows 10. Microsoft wants to increase the enthusiasm of developers through UWP to change this app ecosystem, but this will take some time.
performance
Lumia 950 uses Snapdragon 808 SoC. Because Windows 10 lacks perfect scoring software like iOS/Android, we cannot compare its scoring data with Android/iOS. However, the Snapdragon 808 only has 14.9GB/S bandwidth, while the Lumia 950 is a 2K resolution screen. Insufficient bandwidth will affect the smoothness of the machine to some extent, The 3GB memory is still enough for the Lumia 950 to cope with various situations. However, it should be emphasized here that for the current Windows 10 mobile phones, even if the performance is improved and there is no high-quality app/game, it will not help.
photograph
daytime
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge (100% original)
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge (100% original)
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge (100% original)
hot tip ： The speed of taking pictures of Lumia 950 is normal, but when you open the picture browsing, almost every picture needs to go through the "picture is being polished" step. At present, the most likely guess is that Lumia 950 uses the "HDR+" effect similar to Nexus series.
Lumia 950 uses a 20 million pixel sensor with a CMOS size of 1/2.4 and a unit pixel area of 1.12 μ m, and uses contrast focusing. Our Galaxy S6 edge uses a Sony IMX240 sensor with 16 million pixels, a CMOS size of 1/2.6 and a unit pixel area of 1.12 μ m, and hybrid focusing. although In terms of hardware parameters, Lumia 950 has great advantages, but we have also seen many mobile phones with strong sensors actually take pictures with unsatisfactory results.
In fact, according to our daytime actual test, the daytime photography of Lumia 950 is really strong, and we used the Samsung Galaxy S6 edge, which is among the top mobile phone photographers at present, to compare with it, Lumia 950 shows overwhelming advantages in terms of tolerance, resolution and sharpness of photos. Especially in the second group of samples, Lumia 950 can even take pictures of white clouds and blue sky in the sky, while the Galaxy S6 edge does not over expose to white in the sky. In addition, we can no longer see the white balance problem of Lumia 950, and its white balance performance is normal.
at night
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge 100% original image (Lumia 950 has obvious advantages)
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge (100% original)
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge
Left: Lumia 950 Right: Galaxy S6 edge 100% original image (Lumia 950 has obvious advantages)
Left: Lumia 950 has been unable to focus successfully Right: Galaxy S6 edge opens night view mode
In terms of night view, Lumia 950 is equipped with optical anti shake, and its performance in night view is also quite excellent, especially after 100% magnification, its retention of details and light control contrast are better than Galaxy S6 edge. However, in the last set of super night scenes, Lumia 950 could not focus successfully in any case, which was a very bad experience. Fortunately, this situation just happened once. Galaxy S6 edge automatically turned on the night scene mode in this set of scenes (other scenes were not turned on), and the effect was very adverse.
Iris Recognition
Entering iris
When recognizing the iris, the infrared transmitter in the upper right corner is turned on
Iris unlocking process
Lumia 950's iris recognition is equipped with an infrared sensor, which can receive/transmit infrared signals. It will turn on infrared when entering the iris and recognizing the iris, which is quite different from the "eye print recognition" marked on many domestic mobile phones. Lumia 950 is equipped with an infrared transmitter, and we can still successfully recognize the iris even in the ultra-low light environment.
Although it can ensure iris recognition under low light and high light conditions, its iris recognition still has certain requirements for distance. The eyes cannot be too close to the mobile phone sensor Taiyuan, and it is impossible to be too close. The actual unlocking speed of this iris recognition is slightly immature compared with the current mature fingerprint recognition, However, the feeling that the phone can be unlocked when you look at it is very dreamy~
Display Dock Docking Station
Left: virtual keyboard Right: virtual touchpad
The app on your phone can't be used
Cannot play video of non H5 page
It can play mobile web page (H5) video
The author also admitted that when I lit up the monitor with Lumia 950, The Continuum interface really excites me, but when I calm down and look at the Continuum interface, we will find that it is still a mobile phone. It cannot run X86 programs, play videos from most domestic video websites, and open any third-party apps, even if it is a UWP version of QQ.
The interface of Continuum will make it look like a computer, because you can also connect a mouse and keyboard, and even if you do not connect a mouse/keyboard, you can use the virtual keys/touch pad of Lumia 950 to replace it. However, its functions are really few. As I said, it is impossible to watch videos and use apps. Instead, it can only browse the web, edit documents and play its own videos. At present, the function of Continuum is not practical. In the future, there should be third-party apps supporting Continuum. As for their quantity/quality, it is hard to say.
Fast charging&endurance
The charging head of Lumia 950 is 5V/3A, and the battery is 3000mAh. Since its charging head is connected to the line, we cannot measure its charging data with normal equipment, so we calculated the charging time from 0% to 100% completely. It takes 99 minutes to fully charge, 10 minutes to charge to 20%, 20 minutes to charge to 33%, and the fast charging performance is average, However, it is still much faster than normal charging speed.
Since Lumia 950 does not have the large games that we usually test for endurance, it cannot be tested normally during the endurance test. The author chose to conduct the online endurance test when 87% of the power was used. The 10 minute post bar, 10 minute web browsing, and 10 minute microblog were conducted when 50% of the power was used. The remaining power was 77%, and the power failure was 10%. The endurance was average.
summary
The Lumia 950 is no longer the shadow of Nokia. Due to the system, the Lumia 950 is still not perfect in the App ecology. This generation of Lumia flagship is characterized by the use of iris recognition and its very scary photography ability The Display Dock docking station can only be regarded as a toy, and the Continuum function is flashy. In general, the Lumia 950 is a very special Lumia phone. In addition to the lack of apps, it will not disappoint Lumia fans in other aspects.
