The vivo Xplay5 and Xplay5 flagship are the first series models equipped with a hyperboloid screen in China. They use Snapdragon 652+4GB memory and Snapdragon 820+6GB memory respectively, with 128GB storage and 3600mAh batteries built in. Crazy stacking also makes them the real machine king series in service. The controversial prices are 3698 yuan and 4288 yuan respectively. Is Xplay5 worth the price? I hope you will have your own answers after reading the evaluation.
parameter
Comparison table of Xplay5 and vivo Xplay5 flagship parameters
appearance
Xplay5 offers gold and pink options, both of which are white front panels, while We got the gold version of champagne. The package of the machine is narrow and long. On the front is the logo of Xplay5 and 4G All Netcom, and on the back is a simple parameter configuration.
The package includes the warranty card, card pick-up pin, dual engine flash charger and power cord.
The charger supports up to 9V2A output.
The front of the machine is a 5.43-inch 2K resolution AMOLED screen, and both sides have large bends. The shape is similar to Samsung's edge series, which will have a very shocking visual effect in the light.
The screen is colourful and flattering.
There is a ring of plastic between the front glass and the metal fuselage, which can reduce the risk of broken screen when falling. On the top is an 8 megapixel front camera, earpiece, light and distance sensor.
At the bottom are the menu, home page and return key. Vivo is also one of the few manufacturers that still keep the menu key.
The lower left is vivo X6 Plus, and the upper right is Xplay5
The back is the classic three-stage body of vivo, slightly curved, and very similar to the X6 Plus. The camera has upgraded Sony's IMX298 sensor and dual color temperature flash, and still uses the back pressing fingerprint solution.
On the right side of the fuselage are the volume and power buttons.
Specially, the dual nano SIM card slot is placed below the left fuselage (the pin hole is very small, and some pins may not be inserted) 。
The headphone connector and noise reducing microphone are on the top, and the headphone connector is not centered.
At the bottom are microphones, mirco USB connectors, and speakers.
X6 Plus on the left and Xplay5 on the right
The Xplay5 is narrower than the X6 Plus, but a little thicker. With the addition of the hyperbolic screen, the single hand operability will be better.
Metal Side Very thin, There are chamfers up and down, but there is no S6 edge cutting hand.
Appearance comparison of X6 Plus, Xplay5 and S6 edge+
When viewing pictures and videos, the hyperbolic screen will have a feeling of floating content, which is shocking both in appearance and use.
screen
Xplay5 is equipped with 5.43 inch 2K resolution (2560 * 1440) AMOLED screen. The screen is made of flexible material, supplied by Samsung, with bilateral curved surface Pentile arrangement. The maximum brightness of the screen is 320 nits, which is closer to the daily 100 nits brightness Bottom, screen The color temperature is 8200K, the average deltaE of 104 groups of colors is 4.8, and the color gamut is above 130% sRGB.
The actual appearance of the screen is bright and cold, which is more pleasing to the eye, and the color restoration performance is normal. In addition, vivo does not add color temperature selection function, and there will be no brightness jump when strong light shines on the photoreceptor.
system
Lock screen and desktop screenshot
The hyperbolic screen on the Xplay5 pays more attention to the improvement of appearance. The most obvious thing in the system is the side screen effect in the lock screen interface.
Shortcut key customization page of notification bar, pull-up bar and pull-up bar
The pull-up bar integrates multi task pages, and supports long press to lock tasks and slide to clear functions.
The system is based on Android 5.1.1, and the version number is Funtouch OS 2.5.1 The system interface is still familiar with the flat style.
On the left is the symbolic 4GB running memory and 128GB storage of the machine. On the right side, you can see that the system has switches for OTG expansion, dual engine flash charging, leather sleeve lock screen and other functions.
Funtouch OS comes with quite a few advanced functions, such as rest screen gestures, somatosensory control, etc.
On the left is split screen multitasking, which temporarily only supports WeChat, SMS and other small applications; The right is the call function setting page, with call recording.
Screenshots of music, calendar and alarm clock
For WeChat, Taobao and other applications that can only log in to one account at the same time, the system can generate application avatars
On Xplay5 Funtouch OS 2.5， The summary of the previous system evaluation can still be applied: it is a little like the girl next door. The system does not look amazing, but it is very familiar and easy to use. On the balance of aesthetic and functional ease of use, it obviously tends to be easy to use and functional, and it is very grounded. Interested readers can stamp《 》To view the detailed system evaluation, I will not repeat it here.
performance
CPU operation performance test
GPU graphics performance test
Flash memory read/write speed test
Xplay5 is equipped with Snapdragon 652+4GB LPDDR3 @933MHz Dual channel memory+128GB eMMC5.1 storage. Snapdragon 652 （MSM8976） It consists of four 1.8GHz A72 cores and four 1.4GHz A53 cores. The GPU is Adreno 510。 it Also in previous Samsung A9 appeared above.
In the actual test, its CPU computing performance and the Samsung A9 of the same SoC and the Xiaomi Note top configuration equipped with Snapdragon 810 are competing. In GeekBench3, A72 architecture and better thermal stability bring obvious advantages. Both single core and multi-core performance are better than the previous generation flagship Snapdragon 810, and the Snapdragon 808 can be easily rolled.
In terms of GPU performance, Adreno 510 on Snapdragon 652 is still a little weaker than Adreno 418 on Snapdragon 808, but it is not far behind.
In terms of storage performance, the eMMC5.1 chip of Xplay5 has a better reading speed than the Samsung A9 of SoC, and still lags behind the flagship of the previous generation. However, the writing speed, which directly affects the opening speed of daily applications, is a bit faster than the top configuration of Xiaomi Note, completely crushing the Samsung A9.
Cache Test on the left and CPU Burn on the right
The CPU Burn produced by @ ioncannon is used for performance test. The multithreaded floating point performance is 44~46GFLOPS, the average power consumption is about 1W, and the peak value can go to 3W (only for software testing, for reference only).
In terms of stability, at 20 ℃, four A72 cores persisted for 18 seconds, then the frequency was reduced to 1.4 GHz, and two A72 cores were turned off about 38 seconds later. One minute later, only one A72 was running, but the rest of the cores could run at the highest frequency. The thermal stability is one level weaker than the flagship products of 14nm, such as Snapdragon 820 and Kirin 950. But considering that this is 28nm, we can't be too demanding.
Reflected in actual use, Xplay5 is very smooth, and we haven't seen a machine with such beautiful GPU rendering curves for a long time (the lower the green line, the smoother the scene is). CPU Only when microblogging or games are loaded, the eight cores will be fully opened for a short time, and only two A72 cores will be opened daily.
Wild Speed Racing 8
Snapdragon 652+eMMC5.1 storage enables Xplay5 to perform very well in CPU computing and flash memory speed, but the GPU that is not very strong will drag 2K screens, making its game performance weaker than other projects. It can run wild drag racing 8 smoothly with full special effects, but more powerful games will have some pressure.
In general, unless you play a super large game, the performance of the Xplay5 will have a significant surplus, and its smoothness and thermal stability will surpass the flagship Snapdragon 810 model of the previous year. In addition, the special effect of scrolling/sliding screen of Funtouch OS is similar to that of iPhone, which makes the machine feel very light.
photograph
The Xplay5 uses Sony's 16 megapixel IMX298 sensor, with an aperture of 2.0, and supports phase focusing. This sensor has also appeared on Huawei Mate8 and Xiaomi 5.
Daytime Scenario 1
Daytime scenario 2
Daytime scenario 3
Light Scene 1
Light Scene 2
Weak light scene 1
Weak light scene 2
The Xplay5's camera starts, focuses and images faster. In terms of imaging, the Xplay5 metering is slightly dark, with high color saturation, which is more pleasing to the eye, the white balance is relatively stable, and occasionally slightly blue.
Sunlight Scene 1 Center Zoom In
Sunlight Scene 2 Center Zoom In
Sunlight Scene 3 Center Zoom In
Sunlight Scene 4 Center Zoom In
Light Scene 1 Center Enlarged
Light Scene 2 Center Enlarged
Weak light scene 1 central amplification
Weak light scene 2 central amplification
In terms of discrimination, Xplay5 performs well in daytime scenes, successfully abandoning the iPhone with 12 million pixels and Mate8 which is also suitable for IMX298. Although there is no optical anti shake, it is similar to Mate8 in the lighting scene. In weak light, the Xplay5 gives priority to ensuring the brightness of the picture. The first impression of the sample is better, but it is a little difficult to distinguish.
In general, Xplay5 has played its due role in IMX298, and most scenes can surpass the Mate8 with the same IMX298 sensor and optical anti shake, but there is still a certain gap between it and top models such as iPhone 6s Plus in weak light.
Fingerprint identification&network&sound quality
In terms of fingerprint recognition, Xpaly5 adopts the same back fingerprint recognition scheme as X6 Plus, and the recognition speed is not different. They are still one of the fastest machines. Relevant content can be stamped《 》, I will not repeat it here.
In terms of network system, Xplay5 supports dual card full network access and 4G+. Telecom cards can easily run at a speed of more than 7MB/s in Beijing and Shenzhen. But like many mobile phones, when the 1 card uses the 4G network, the 2 card can only maintain the 2G status, and cannot support two telecom cards at the same time.
In terms of sound quality, Xplay5 adopts CS4398 DAC (decoding)+AD45257 (operational amplifier), its parameters are lower than X6 Plus, and it does not follow the quality flow path. Its voice continues the voice tuning style of vivo. Its middle and low frequencies are excellent, and its hearing endurance is good. Of course, there is no pressure to compete with iPhone, Samsung and other products without independent DAC/op amp.
Endurance&Charging&Heating
The battery capacity of the Xplay5 is 3600mAh. After the 3-hour endurance test, there is still 67% remaining power. The power consumption of the machine in the video part is very low, but because of the independent DAC/op amp, the power consumption in the music playing link is higher than that of ordinary mobile phones, which slightly reduces the final remaining power.
After 20 minutes of the game, the highest temperature of the fuselage appeared in the upper right corner, 41.5 degrees. The highest temperature on the back appears below the fingerprint identification module, which is 40.3 degrees. Compared with the previous generation of Snapdragon 810/808, it often performs 45-50 degrees better.
Xplay supports dual engine flash charging. The system can manually switch this function on and off. Even though 42% of the power is still 9.2V1.8A (16.5W).
The charging speed is extremely furious. Even with 3600mAh batteries, the machine charges 51% in half an hour, and reaches 85% in one hour. Then it starts to enter the trickle mode. It takes about one hour and 36 minutes to fully charge, which is even faster than most 3000mAh models.
summary
The vivo Xplay5 is a very balanced machine, with many selling points and configuration performances, such as the hyperbolic 2K screen+Snapdragon 652+4GB memory+128GB storage+3600mAh battery+IMX298+HiFi. If it was put before the Snapdragon 820 came out, it would have been a true flagship.
The CPU performance, storage speed/capacity, charging and daytime imaging of the machine can surpass many flagship models. If you want to talk about the problem, apart from the appearance and aesthetic problems that cannot be concluded, the Xplay5 only has weak light photography and super large game performance that has not yet reached the top level.
The controversial 3698 yuan is more about the price expectations of the domestic flagship (after all, the A9/A9 Pro also falls in this price range). Before that, whether it was Xiaomi, Meizu or Huawei, they failed to break the price expectations of the domestic machine.
However, it is always Grandpa Mao who votes. We cannot, nor can we predict whether Xplay5 will break the domestic price curse. Finally, we can only resist nausea and wait and see.
