Today, Huawei officially launched the Huawei P9 at the Shanghai Grand Stage in Shanghai. This high-profile new flagship of Huawei is equipped with optical modules certified by Leica. Its body is printed with the Leica red label on the tall body, which is extremely tall. Today, let's take a look at the difference of this new Huawei machine supported by Leica.
appearance
The packaging continues Huawei's consistent simple packaging. The white square box is different from the previous one in that a bright "leica" logo is printed on the bottom of the box.
Open the packing box of Huawei P9 and you will see it.
Accessories such as charging head, USB Type-C data cable, card taking pin, headset, manual, etc. are included with the machine.
The attached charging head is 5V 2A, but Huawei P9 supports fast charging of 9V 2A.
We got the full Netcom version of P9 amber gold. The gold of the body is relatively elegant, without the vulgar feeling of local gold.
The back adopts a non-standard three-stage design. The top is a double camera supported by Lycra, and the bottom is equipped with a signal partition bar. The whole back adopts the metal wire drawing process, with a touch of gold, the visual effect and feel are quite good.
Fingerprint recognition is still located on the back, and fingers can easily touch fingerprint recognition. Huawei claims that the new fingerprint identification module has reached Level 4, which can identify fingerprints more quickly and accurately, and has added the design of designated finger fingerprints quickly entering Alipay.
The top of the fuselage is quite simple, with only openings for noise reducing microphones.
The bottom of the body is relatively rich, with speakers, USB Type-C interface and headphone jack.
SIM card slot is on the left side of the fuselage. The SIM card slot adopts the dual NanoSIM card+MicroSD dual card slot design.
On the right side of the fuselage are volume keys and power keys. Interestingly, the power button is red.
The system UI and default wallpaper adopt the golden theme matching the body, which is quite gentlemanly.
Huawei P9 is the most eye-catching of the dual rear camera supported by Leica, whose logo is quite conspicuous.
The model of the whole machine is quite good, and the glass edge has a certain 2.5D radian.
The front panel also has a certain amount of horizontal decoration, which makes the whole machine exquisite but not monotonous.
performance
Huawei P9 adopts Kirin 955 processor, one of the strongest processors in Huawei at present, which has a main frequency of up to 2.5GHz and has excellent performance. Let's take a look at the detailed configuration list of Huawei P9.
Processor: Huawei Kirin 955 uses four 2.5GHz A72 processors and four 1.8GHz A53 processors, and is manufactured by TSMC's 16nm FinFET process.
GPU： The graphics processor part is Mail-T880 × 4
Screen: 5.2 inch 1080P LCD screen 424ppi
Operating memory: 3GB/4GB LPDDR4
Built in storage: 32GB/64GB
Main camera: [dual 12 megapixel Sony IMX286 sensor, 1.25 μ m per pixel area]+[Leica customized optical module, aperture f/2.2]
Front camera: 8 million pixels, aperture f/2.4
Network support: All Netcom
Body size: 145x70.9x6.95mm
Body weight: 144g
Battery capacity: 3000mAh
The Kirin 955 processor, the strongest in Huawei, is used, with 1837 points for a single core and 6643 points for a multi-core, which is basically the same as Mate 8.
Pi time is 13.439 seconds, slightly behind Mate 8.
Manhattan and Tyrannosaurus Rex scored 17FPS and 39FPS respectively.
In 3D Mark's Ice Storm Unlimited test, Test1 scored 120FPS, Test2 scored 62.4FPS, and Physics test scored 47.5FPS.
The reading and writing speed score of winRAR is 1774.
In the AndroBench read and write test, P9's continuous reading is 279.1MB/s, continuous writing is 135.48MB/s, random reading is 39.22MB/s, and random reading is 51.0MB/s. The random reading speed is slightly slow, but the random writing speed is quite fast, even surpassing some models that use UFS2.0 memory chips.
system
P9 is equipped with Huawei's EMUI4.1 system, customized based on Android 6.0, and its use experience is almost the same as that of other Huawei models.
The localization function is quite good, close to the usage habits of mainland users.
The system's built-in automatic wallpaper switching function is more interesting. There are many soap flakes with great visual experience as the background. The pictures come from Visual China. Users can set the update frequency or manually switch the pictures.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the system has added some new small functions for fingerprint identification. For example, in the image browsing interface, you can slide fingerprint identification left and right to realize the jump of images. You can also slide down the notification bar, slide up to close the notification bar, and double-click to clear all notifications.
photograph
As the first smart phone equipped with Leica customized lens, the quality of photography is certainly one of its most popular projects. Its Leica customized optical module+dual cameras+Sony IMX286 sensor makes us have high expectations for the photography level of Huawei P9. Let's first see what changes have taken place in camera applications after cooperation with Leica.
P9 uses a newly designed camera application, which is quite rich in settings. Slide right to enter the setting menu, slide left to enter the scene mode selection, and slide up to enter the professional mode. There are three different color modes for users to choose, and a variety of scene modes are provided.
Huawei also introduced a mode that can adjust the focal length. After taking a picture, you can manually adjust the focal length. Let's take a look at the effect of the focus adjustment mode:
Original film
After focus adjustment
Original film
After focus adjustment
This function is novel and fun. When you are proficient in using it, you may take many photos with "depth of field virtualization". Although this is achieved through algorithms, it is still very practical for most users. It should be noted that sometimes the edge of the photos taken with this function is not perfect. Future versions should further strengthen the algorithm. In addition, this mode is about twice the size of ordinary photos.
The following is a sample of Huawei P9:
It has to be said that after the cooperation with Leica and the addition of Leica's customized optical module, Huawei's photography has almost changed. Its dual camera imaging effect is quite good. Although the white balance is not very accurate in some scenes, the colors shown in the photos are quite pleasing, revealing a faint "German flavor", Since the system on the machine we got is not the latest version, please also pay attention to our upcoming detailed evaluation for detailed photo comparison.
summary
As Huawei's latest flagship model, the P9 is equipped with Kirin 955 processor+3GB/4GB LPDDR4 memory, which is one of Huawei's most powerful models at present. This time, Huawei not only used two Sony IMX286 sensors, but also cooperated with Leica for the first time, using Leica's customized optical modules. With Leica's support, Huawei P9 has made rapid progress in photography. Although its analytical power and the control of night scene noise still need to be strengthened, its photos have outstanding colors, and the appearance is quite pleasing, It is one of the few mobile phones that can be called "German".
