On April 28, 2016, Glory held a new product launch at the Beijing National Convention Center, officially releasing the Glory New Year's new work, Glory Play 5C. The biggest attraction of this mobile phone is that it is equipped with the 16nm eight core Kirin 650 chip for the first time. Compared with other thousand yuan phones on the market, the performance of the Glory Play 5C is improved by 65%, and the power consumption of the whole machine is reduced by 40%. At the same time, it is also equipped with a metal body, fingerprint recognition 2.0, front 8 million+rear 13 million pixel camera head, BOX integrated sound chamber, and an Android 6.0 based EMUI 4.1 system.

However, although the 16nm Kirin 650 eight core processor equipped by Glory Play 5C is the first Kirin processor to support all Netcom, only the mobile version (899 yuan) and Unicom/Mobile version (999 yuan) were available when it was first launched. Until June 12, Glory finally launched the all Netcom version of 5C, which supports 4G networks of four major operators, carrier aggregation 4G+ VoTLE high-definition voice can be inserted blindly with two cards. The secondary card also supports the telecommunications network. Of course, it also supports base station anti-counterfeiting and dual main antennas. The price of the standard version of 2GB memory+16GB storage is still 999 yuan, while the high version of 3GB memory+32GB storage is 1099 yuan, which is very user-friendly.

Today, we are going to experience what new improvements and breakthroughs have been made in the respect of the first new millennium PC equipped with a 16nm eight core processor and supporting all Netcom.

Before starting today's evaluation, let's talk about the Kirin 650 chip on the 5C. There are many mobile phone brands in the market, but only a few companies have independent chip research and development capabilities. Huawei is one of the few domestic mobile phone manufacturers that has independent chip research and development capabilities. Kirin 650 chip is based on the 16nm process, which is the third mobile phone chip in the world to use this cutting-edge process. Thanks to the advanced process, its performance (especially the endurance) has made great progress. From the actual performance, it is the same as Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 and MediaTek MT6795.

This eight core processor using the 16nm process technology is Huawei's first All Netcom chip in history. It not only supports the traditional TD-LTE/LTE FDD/TD-SCDMA/WCDMA/GSM, but also supports the CDMA system. It enables full mode and full band arbitrary switching. Speaking of CDMA baseband, it can almost be called Qualcomm's "money printer", Qualcomm has great advantages in the number and quality of CDMA standard patents compared with other manufacturers, and can be called the monopolist of CDMA patents. However, with the launch of Kirin 650, Huawei Kirin chip has supplemented the CDMA baseband and is no longer under the control of others. It is expected that Kirin series will enter the era of full network communication from here in the future.

Kirin 650 also supports Cat7 technology. Its uplink and downlink data can support carrier aggregation. The downlink peak rate can reach 300Mbps (TDD: 220Mbps), and the uplink peak rate can reach 100Mbps (TDD: 20Mbps). Compared with the previous generation Kirin 620, the downlink peak rate and uplink peak rate are increased by 100% and 100% respectively. At the same time, it also supports VoLTE high-definition voice calls, and the voice bandwidth and sampling rate are doubled, so that the voice information can be completely preserved, making people sound more authentic, full and pleasant. In addition, VoLTE can significantly reduce the call connection delay, improve the video call quality by 10 times compared with 3G, and enable users to connect to the Internet while making calls, such as answering calls at critical moments when playing online games.

In addition to the above many highlights, this time, Kirin 650 also has a built-in Prime ISP, which is self-developed. It adds dynamic range adjustment and supports hybrid focusing technology, so that the phone can take excellent photos in a variety of scenes. This is definitely a good news for photography lovers.

Huawei has made use of its own technology accumulation to independently develop mobile phone chips, which has increased the cost performance ratio of its products and the degree of control over its products to a certain extent. It is a progressive and worth learning initiative. Of course, this route has cost a lot to imitate without years of technology accumulation.

The 5C I experienced is a high configuration version of All Netcom, with the color of sunset gold, and dark night grey and space silver for consumers to choose. The front design of the 5C continues the 5X shape, with the top light sense, earpiece, front camera and status indicator arranged from left to right; Because of the virtual button design, there is no button at the bottom of the 5C, and the chin is still the glorious brand logo. The 5.2 inch 1080P full HD waterfall screen is also the current mainstream configuration, showing a deep black when the screen is turned off.

The back cover of the 5C is made of metal with brushed lines, which is full of texture. It is still a three section design, with metal in the middle, plastic frame in the top and bottom, and dual main antennas hidden below; The camera is located in the top center position, next to the flash, below the fingerprint identification module, and the bottom center is still the glory logo. The 5X design is still continued on the whole.

The overall thickness of the 5C is 8.3mm, which is relatively thin in the thousand yuan machine. The camera part is slightly protruding. Although it is protected by metal rings around, attention should be paid to prevent scratches in daily use. The lower fingerprint module has also been sandblasted. Visually, it is different from and complements the brushed metal back cover. It is worth mentioning that, The fingerprint module of 5C adopts the second generation secure fingerprint identification scheme of Sweden FPC, which only takes 0.5 seconds to unlock. It also supports direct access to Alipay's code scanning payment interface when the screen is off, which is quite fast and convenient.

From this point of view, we can see that the corners of the 5C are very rounded, and the back cover has a certain radian for better holding. In addition to the headphone interface, the top is also designed with a noise reducing microphone; The design of the bottom of the phone follows the principle of symmetry and balance. There is a screw on both sides of the middle Micro USB interface to fix the screen. In addition, symmetrical speaker openings are used. In fact, only the right side is the speaker, and the other side is the microphone opening. This time, the 5C speaker uses the BOX integrated sound chamber design, which has a more airtight sound chamber, and can bring better sound quality and greater volume.

The right key of Glory Play 5C is the volume key and the switch on key, while the top left is the card slot position. Glory Play 5C adopts the integrated design of two card slots, which can insert two Nano SIM cards or one Nano SIM card and one Micro SD card at the same time. It must be mentioned that the card slot of Glory Play 5C supports blind insertion of two cards, Users can choose to plug in any two 4G SIM cards of three operators blindly, and then select the phone card of any operator as the data master card at any time in the mobile phone system. In addition, users can manually enable VoLTE high-definition voice calls and LTE Cat 6 carrier aggregation. After enabling carrier aggregation, resources of different bands will be integrated together, bringing users wider bandwidth, The network speed will also be faster.

The screen of Glory Play 5C is a 5.2 inch LCD screen with 1080P resolution, which adopts GFF full fitting process, The PPI is 423, and the proportion of screens has reached 74%. As a children's shoe that has experienced the glory of 5X, the first surprise of Xiaobian is that the big black edge of 5X is finally well controlled on the 5C screen, bringing a more excellent single hand holding operation experience, although the popular 2.5D curved glass screen design is not adopted, But the gratifying thing is that the screen display effect is very exquisite and satisfactory.

Glory Play 5C is equipped with the latest EMUI4.1 system, which is based on Android 6.0 in-depth development. While retaining many advantages of EMUI4.0, it also brings more performance optimization and new functional features. In terms of screen locking, EMUI 4.1 still uses the popular magazine screen locking, which is full of artistic style; The main UI of the system is the same as that of 4.0. The three virtual keys at the bottom and the icons are rounded rectangles. Even third-party application icons have been rounded rectangles, maintaining the unity of the overall style. In addition, the system itself has many third-party applications and practical tools, which users can retain or uninstall according to their needs.

The EMUI4.1 system comes with two desktop styles: standard style and simple style. Personally, the simple style is more suitable for older people. The more simple desktop design and large icon keys are easy for older people to operate. It is known that there are many older people using smart phones, but they generally lack understanding of complex smart phones. This simple style desktop is really a timely help to these elderly people.

EMUI4.1 has added the student mode, which is absolutely the favorite of parents. Through the student mode, parents can flexibly control the time their children play mobile phones, limit the use time of various applications, filter bad information, and so on. They can also directly view the daily mobile phone operation records of children through application statistics, which is very helpful to prevent children from indulging in mobile games. But I don't know what the expression on the face of the bear child is when he learns that the mobile phone provided by his parents has this function?

Another newly added function of EMUI4.1 is the screen recording function, which also supports 720P HD video recording. In any interface, just long press the power key and volume+key at the same time to wake up the screen recording function. Once it is turned on, all screen operations and sounds of users will be recorded into video files. This function is very suitable for mobile game players to do tutorials.

In addition to student mode and screen recording function, The UI design and functions of EMUI4.1 are not different from the previous 4.0. However, based on the new 16nm eight core Hisense Kirin processor and the latest Android 6.0 system, the performance of the 5C is still greatly improved. Compared with the previous generation of the 4C, the performance of the Glory Play 5C is improved by 65%, and the power consumption of the whole machine is reduced by 40%. Let's take a look at the score.

The first is the score run of Android Rabbit. The final score of Glory 5C is 54519, which belongs to the middle level of current Android mobile phones. This level can not only ensure smooth daily use, but also run most 3D games.

Then, we will test the performance of 5C through Master Lu. Master Lu's evaluation project is closer to the user's daily actual use scenarios than that of Android Rabbit. We can see that 5C scored 46452, 33185 and 85.93 respectively in performance test, HTML5 evaluation and experience evaluation, which is also among the best in the current mainstream midrange Android phones.

Of course, it is narrow to test the performance level of mobile phones only through scoring software. After all, mobile phones are used instead of scoring. There have also been mobile phone products with beautiful scoring but poor actual experience on the market. Therefore, we will test the actual performance of Glory 5C by running a large 3D game.

The editor downloaded Real Racing 3 and NBA2K16, two games that can definitely test the performance of mobile phones. Through actual testing, both games can run smoothly on Glory 5C. NBA2K16 occasionally has a stuck in the default mode, but it can still get a smooth experience by lowering the image quality, which is a great blessing for the game party.

It is gratifying that, while the performance has been greatly improved, the heat control of the Glory 5C has also been handled well. After running two large games, the temperature under the metal back cover camera of the 5C has increased, but it just feels warm. When tested with an infrared thermometer, the maximum temperature of the 5C body is only 36.2 degrees Celsius. With such a temperature control level, we can't help admiring the progress of HiSilicon Kirin 650 processor with 16nm process technology built into 5C.

"Photographing" has become a function that many users use most on their mobile phones. The manufacturer also pays more attention to the photography ability of mobile phones. Although Glory 5C is positioned as a 1000 yuan mobile phone with a price performance ratio, the manufacturer still pays enough attention to its photography ability. In terms of hardware, the 5C rear mounted 13 million pixel BSI sensor camera, F2.0 aperture, 78 ° wide-angle, 5P lens, supports flash HDR technology, and in terms of software, 5C's own camera has very rich application functions, supporting the smart image 3.0+professional image processing engine, providing professional, food, streamer shutter, food, slow motion and other shooting modes, as well as smiling face capture, screen out snapshot, voice control shooting and other photography functions, with more play methods and professional filters, further enhancing the camera's playability; For girls who love taking selfies, Glory 5C's built-in 8 megapixel F2.0 aperture front camera, with its own 10 level automatic skin beauty function, will definitely make girls love it.

Now, let's take a look at the imaging ability of Glory 5C through some samples.

The above samples are straight out of the original picture, and only have been cut. In order to be closer to the actual experience of users, I have tested the outdoor, indoor and macro scenes respectively. From the samples, we can see that under the condition of sufficient ambient light, The resolution of the 5C camera is very good, the white balance control is also more accurate, and the color restoration ability is outstanding, especially in the macro mode. The focus is accurate and fast, the background is blurred very well, which can better highlight the main body. Glory 5C's row photo capability is the best among the thousand yuan machines, which can meet the daily photo needs of ordinary users.

In terms of endurance, the built-in battery capacity of Glory Play 5C is 3000mAh, which is a typical capacity of mainstream Android phones on the market. However, because of the low power consumption characteristics of the Hisense Kirin 650 processor with 16nm process technology, Glory Play 5C has achieved chip level power saving, coupled with the system optimization capability of the EMUI4.1 system itself, Even heavy users can use it for more than one day, and the static standby time is up to 25 days.

In combination with the practical use experience of the small editor, the endurance of the Glory Play 5C is really outstanding. The main model of the small editor is the Meizu MX5. In the morning, it is fully charged to work, and at noon, it is less than 60% charged to get home. During this time, it is also about making phone calls, browsing the web and playing a small game to brush the circle of friends. While Glory Play 5C is used as a standby machine. During the test, scores, games, photos, etc. were run for many times. In two days of testing, the battery still has 52% of power. This super endurance ability is really amazing to me. However, Glory Play 5C has not added the fast charging function, and the output current of the built-in charger is 1A. If you want to fully charge the 3000mAh battery, it will take at least two hours, which is indeed a pity.

The above is the detailed evaluation of Glory Play 5C. As a 1000 yuan machine product, Glory Play 5C has excellent performance in appearance design, system performance, photo endurance, etc., reaching the upper middle level of the 1000 yuan machine. In particular, the latest Kirin 650 processor outperforms most of its peers in terms of overall performance, In addition to the blessing of All Netcom and the highly competitive price, Glory 5C can be called a new cost-effective artifact in the increasingly crowded 1000 yuan machine market.

If you want to buy a mobile phone that is cost-effective and practical, playing the 5C with pride will be your best choice!