The author once said in the article "Is the 500 yuan smart phone worth buying from Hongmi 3 to Meilan 3?" that the 500 yuan smart phone is actually a standby phone. If we want better performance and photos, we can buy a 1000 yuan smart phone at a price of 300~500 yuan. In fact, there are not many choices of mainstream 500 yuan smartphones, and only Meizu and Xiaomi are highly cost-effective and have certain brand influence. Our comparative evaluation objects this time are Meilan 3 and Hongmi 3.
By comparing the parameters of the two, we can actually find that the parameters and specifications of the two are similar. Neither is equipped with fast charging, fingerprint identification, and the size and resolution of the screen are the same. The biggest difference lies in the SoC and battery capacity of the two.
appearance
In terms of appearance, Meilan 3 adopts the design of plastic wrapped middle frame, while Hongmi 3 is metal bound. Although Hongmi 3 uses a metal body, the author actually prefers the plastic feel of Meilan 3. The biggest difference between the two is that the screen of Meilan 3 uses 2.5D curved glass, while that of Hongmi 3 is still 2D glass. A closer look shows that Meilan 3 and Hongmi 3 have a circle of plastic edging around the screen, but the silver edging of Hongmi 3 is somewhat abrupt, and the black edging of Meilan 3 will be more harmonious with the black screen panel. In addition, I think that the star studded design of Red Rice 3 not only has no aesthetic feeling, but also seems redundant, which means "putting on airs", while the simple back of Meilan 3 may be more suitable for a low-end smartphone.
In fact, as a low-end smart phone with a price of 500 yuan, as long as the appearance does not reduce the score, it is already a bonus. We do not pursue a tall style for the hundreds of yuan thing. The cost is there. It is unrealistic to make the hundreds of yuan mobile phones compete with the high-end ones in appearance. I believe that most people can accept it as long as they don't give users a silly and rough appearance. If we must decide between the appearance of Meilan 3 and Hongmi 3, the author prefers Meilan 3.
screen
Meilan 3 screen data
Red rice 3 screen data
Meilan 3 screen data:
Contrast 500:1 Average color temperature: 7500K Maximum brightness: 340nits sRGB Color gamut: 89.1% 104 Color accuracy: 3.8
Brightness of each part of the screen under manual maximum brightness: 264~340nits
Red rice 3 screen data:
Contrast 1000:1 Average color temperature: 8100K Maximum brightness: 470nits sRGB Color gamut: 92.4% 104 Color accuracy: 3.8
Brightness of each part of the screen under manual maximum brightness: 438~470nits
From the test data, the screen of Meilan 3 is much different from that of Hongmi 3. In contrast, Hongmi 3 can reach 1000:1, while Meilan 3 is only 500:1. In brightness, Hongmi 3 is more than 100 nits higher than Meilan 3. Moreover, the screen brightness of Meilan 3 is very uneven. Under the highest brightness in manual mode, the brightness span of different areas is as high as 70~80 nits, The span of Hongmi 3 is 30~40nits, and the maximum brightness span of high-end smart phones is generally 0~20nits.
system
Red Rice 3
Magic Blue 3
MIUI 7 is not a lightweight system, and the whole system will appear cumbersome. Many system settings are hidden very deeply. For example, MIUI 7 does not allow the floating window permission of the program by default. We need to check Show the floating window in Settings - Other Application Management - Find the program - Pull to the bottom permission management, While most other mobile phone systems open the floating window permission of the application by default, so does Flyme 5.1.
Flyme 5.1 is much simpler than MIUI 7. There are fewer apps in the system, and the UI style is more distinctive and easy to use.
performance
In terms of performance, Red Rice 3's Snapdragon 616 is very similar to the Meilan 3's MT6750. The single core score of Meilan 3 is only 706, while Red Rice 3 is 673. In terms of multi-core, Red Rice 3 is more than 3300 points higher than Meilan. In terms of GPU, Adreno 405's GFX performance is slightly ahead of Mali-T880MP2 (520MHz), even negligible. In terms of storage, reading and writing, the performance of the two is almost the same. Although Meilan 3 and Hongmi 3 are both 500 yuan smartphones with high cost performance at this stage, we can still see that they still have a big gap with the current all-in-one version of Hongmi Note 3 with high cost performance.
photograph
daytime
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
When taking a long view, the auto focus is often out of focus.
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Weak light
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Left: Magic Blue 3 Right: Red Rice 3
Both Hongmi 3 and Meilan 3 use 13 million pixel cameras and support phase focusing, but their camera sensor models may be different. In the comparison of samples, because the lens focus of Meilan 3 is small, its wide angle will be larger. Although it is also a 13 million pixel camera, its range of view is larger and its pixels are distributed more widely, while Hongmi 3 is the opposite. Therefore, in the comparison, Meilan 3's analytical power is basically inferior to Hongmi 3.
All of the author's photographic samples are selected as many times as possible to focus on and compare the samples with a solid picture. However, even so, the focus failure of MB3 in individual scenes, especially in the focus of the distant object, MB3 can only focus by selecting the focus (contrast focus), otherwise it will never be able to focus, In addition, the focus of Meilan 3 is also very difficult at night.
In terms of Red Rice 3, its photos have higher sharpness and better focusing than Magenta Blue 3, but glare is more serious at night when the light is complex. In the indoor environment with warm light sources, its white balance is easy to go wrong.
Glare: Magic Blue 3>Red Rice 3
White balance: Magic Blue 3>Red Rice 3
Analytic power: Red Rice 3>Magic Blue 3
Focus: Red rice 3>Magic blue 3
Endurance&fever
In terms of endurance, the battery capacity of Hongmi 3 is 4100mAh, and that of Meilan 3 is 2870mAh. We adjusted the screen brightness of both to 100nits. Under the three hour endurance test, Hongmi 3 is 4% ahead of Meilan 3. In addition to games, Hongmi 3 consumes less power in the two commonly used test items of Internet access, video playback, and, Of course, this is related to the large capacity battery of Hongmi 3 4100mAh.
In terms of heating, both of them run NBA 2K15 for one hour at the same time. The maximum temperature of Magic Blue 3 is 46.9 ℃ near the earpiece on the front of the screen, and that of Red Rice 3 is 49 ℃. Both of them have no serious heating in normal use.
summary
The advantages of Meilan 3 lie in its appearance, system and price, while Hongmi 3 is its endurance, photography and screen. As a standby machine, both are good choices. Users can take what they need. However, if users have certain expectations for performance, the author still suggests adding thousands of yuan to the machine, so that you can have a broader vision in the thousand yuan machine market.
