The 360 mobile N4 has always been a machine famous for its cost performance since its release, but now the 360 mobile N4S has been released, which is 200 yuan more expensive than the N4. In terms of configuration, the two pain points complained about by the N4 have been upgraded. How about this machine? Let's have a look.  

appearance

The N4S of 360 mobile phone uses the same packaging style as the N4, except that there is an additional S in the lower right corner.

The CPU of the 360 mobile phone N4S adopts MTK's X20. Like the N4, it is a 2.11G reduced frequency version, 4GB RAM+32GB ROM, 5.5 inch IPS full HD display, and all Netcom. These parameters are the same as those of the N4. The upgraded part is that the battery is upgraded from the N4's 3000 mA to 5000 mA, the N4's plastic body is upgraded to a metal body, and the camera is upgraded from the original 500W+1300W to 800W+1600W.  

Its accessories are the same as those of the N4 All Netcom version, with the same data cable, charger, thimble and warranty card. Only the contents of the manual are different.  

The charger adopts 5V-2A9V-1.5A12V-1.2A, which is not too powerful in terms of parameters.

Although the screen is still 2.5D radian glass, it feels that the 2.5D radian is not as large as the N4 radian. In addition, the connection between glass and metal is somewhat stiff, and the overall size is slightly larger than the N4.  

The top opening does not adopt the symmetrical design of N4, and the earpiece also uses a long strip instead of a circle. From left to right, the layout is respectively a soft light, earpiece, sensor and front camera.  

The buttons at the bottom still use small dots, but a little smaller than the N4 circle. The backlight is changed to blue. I don't know whether it is because of Nubia. The N4 dot design is not selected on both sides, but instead it is a long strip.  

The back is not a three section design of plastic and metal, but an all metal integrated body. The signal is exported by the antenna of the puzzling injection molding process. This flagship design is used on the 1000 yuan machine.  

Although the rear camera has been upgraded to 1600W pixels, the CMOS has been replaced from Sony's IMX258 to Samsung's S5K3P3. The unit pixel area is only 1.0 μ m, and the aperture is still F2.0, which supports phase focusing.  

The power key and volume key are on the right side, and it feels good to press them.

The SIM card slot adopts three in two, which can insert two SIMs or one SIM and one TF card. Through the transformation of TF and SIM card, the combination of dual SIM+TF can also be realized. The N4S supports all Netcom, double card blind plug, 4G+and VoLTE.  

Symmetrical design is adopted at the bottom, with microphone on one side, speaker on the other side, and typ-c interface still not used in the middle.

In addition to the headphone interface and noise reducing microphone, the top also includes an infrared remote control, which makes the N4S more playable.

Charging and energy consumption

The actual test charging speed is: only 3% in 5 minutes, 13% in 20 minutes, 41% in 1 hour, 58% in 90 minutes, 75% in 2 hours, and full in about 40 minutes in 2 hours. Although it is a 5000mA battery, this charging speed cannot be too fast.

For the power consumption experience, 8-hour standby with dual cards+wifi consumes 5-6% of the power, 70 minute web browsing, headline reading (recent hot spots, you know) consumes 9% of the power, and a 135 minute movie (Youku Chinatown detective) consumes 27% of the power. The 45 minute power consumption of playing King Honor is 12%. In fact, from the data point of view, compared with the 5000 mA battery, this system does not save power. In particular, watching movies with Youku consumes a lot of power, and the screen brightness I use throughout the whole process is only 30%.

system

The 360 mobile N4S is the first mobile phone to use 360 OS2.0. How does the 2.0 system change from 1.0?  

360 OS2.0 adds a magazine lock screen to the lock screen. Each time you unlock it, you can see a different background. You can subscribe to different background content according to your preferences. I used to speak this successfully in an activity of 360 Community.

On the desktop, the icons are simply fine tuned. The biggest change is that the desktop time has been added with a 3D desktop time design. This 3D desktop time is simply a miniature notice bar. In addition to many settings, you will be reminded at this location when you buy air tickets or book hotels.

The 360 mobile phone N4S has added an infrared remote control. The corresponding mobile phone must have software to control infrared. This software is very convenient to operate. You can add the remote control of the device to the mobile phone by searching for the model of the device. One problem is that there are too many models... There are dozens of options for suffixes of the same model. If you can find your own model, it is the best, If you can't find one, choose one at random. It is generally useful. If you want to customize it, the infrared remote control of your phone has no learning function, so you need to purchase additional accessories.  

The 2.0 system has added a Vitality 360, which is an app for recording sports data. You can independently set up cycling, running or walking to measure, and the measured quantity can be forwarded to WeChat and other social channels.

The refrigerator application can freeze apps that are not commonly used and do not want to be deleted. Frozen apps will not be available, which can prevent the app from secretly starting in the background and stealing electricity and traffic.

The property isolation system is a parallel system in a system specially customized for financial management by the 360 mobile phone team. In this parallel system, only officially certified financial apps can be used, and no other applications can be used. Moreover, the verification code received by using these applications is also protected from being stolen by other malicious software.  

Private space is an application that can help you hide private things. You can hide images, files, videos, applications, contacts and other applications in the hidden space. Only through the special channel you set can they be activated. Think about something that happened recently. If the woman used the privacy space, maybe a male star is still in the dark now.

The three featured applications mentioned above can actually be used in the 1.0 system, but their functions have not been upgraded.

The security center of the 2.0 system is slightly higher than the 1.0 version, and various functions that have been castrated in the 1.0 system can already be used~just such functions as red packet rent and program lock, which are provided by the system itself. The security center does not directly call the system functions, making these functions appear to be a bit duplicate. From the perspective of authority management, it can not be seen that the startup management can control the mutual startup, In fact, it is supported. As long as the self started apps are closed, they cannot be started mutually.

The 360 OS cloud service is supported by the 360 Cloud Disk. It is still very powerful in function and has enough space. The promotion at the press conference was 2T. In fact, dozens of T capacity can be obtained through the upgrading of various activities in the later stage (I don't know whether there is any activity at present). The 2.0 system has upgraded the application backup function, and the upgraded application backup can back up the application data.

The anti-theft function of 360 OS mobile phone is still so powerful. The 2.0 system adds the option of card replacement and password sending, and enables automatic. The "password verification is required for shutdown" function can also be turned off.

In the black technology aspect of the 2.0 system, there is not much progress at present, and the application separation can only use WeChat separation. It seems that miui8 has achieved the separation of all applications, and other functions only include the application cleaning, which supports the cleaning of QQ and Weibo instead of WeChat. A self startup management is added. Here you can see the mutual startup of applications.

The 360 OS system is still in the state of addition. Everything in chaos needs to add an app on the desktop. Functions that can be merged are not merged, and there are obvious duplication of functions. In terms of ecology, music and video apps can only be played locally without online resources. In order to solve the resource problem, it has implanted Youku and Kuwo music, but these two apps are Alibaba's (Alibaba has YunOS) and Tencent's (Tencent has TencentOS), both of which are direct competitors. Therefore, I build 360 OS: first, the system does subtraction, Should be integrated; 2、 Complete their own ecological construction.

camera

Although Samsung and Sony have their own achievements in influencing sensors, when Sony's technology is relatively stronger, the price of products is also more expensive. Therefore, the IMX258 is replaced by Samsung's S5K3P3. Although the pixels are improved, Baidu will find that Samsung has designed this CMOS specially for ultra-thin machines, so the unit pixel area is very small, It's only 1.0 μ m, what's the specific performance?  

From my unprofessional point of view, the performance of 360 mobile N4S, 360 mobile N4 and Meizu MX6 is almost the same in sunny days. The pictures taken by MX6 are brighter, which sometimes causes the details of the sky to be lost, and the N4S image feels slightly darker.

In the room with sufficient light, the ISO value of the N4S is the largest in the same environment, while the MX6 reduces the shutter speed to improve the ISO value. Therefore, the MX6 has the best shooting effect. Of course, the risk of the MX6 is hand shaking, because everyone has no optical anti shake, and the slower the shutter speed, the easier it is to be affected by hand shaking.

It can be seen from the 100% enlarged picture that the details of the poster of the N4S with the largest ISO value can no longer be seen.

In the corridor with weak light, the N4 has the lowest shutter speed and the MX6 has the highest shutter ISO value. This time, the MX6 uses the high ISO to exchange for a relatively fast shutter speed. In addition, the MX6 picture is also the brightest by comparison, while the scene taken by the N4S is darker, but closer to the real situation.

When shooting macro flowers in automatic mode, the N4S has a white balance error. The pink perianth has become red, while the N4 and MX6 have more realistic colors, all of which are 2.0 apertures, so the background is almost the same.

However, in the manual mode, the MX6 will be defeated if the macro is maximized. The focus module of 360 mobile phone is larger than the focus module of MX6 in terms of macro capability. A larger macro magnification can shoot smaller objects, such as a very small flower on the top. Under the maximum macro of MX6, only one flower can be photographed, and 360 mobile phone can say that this flower can fill the screen. The N4S successfully photographed the bee this time. Zoom in to see the details of various parts of the bee.

When shooting the night scene, the ISO value of the MX6 is the largest when the three cameras are not in the night scene mode. Even so, the MX6 can still see the phone number on the billboard. The N4 can't see it clearly, but the N4S can barely see it. However, the white balance of the MX6 is slightly green, and the N4S has the best white balance performance. The night view mode is not turned on, and the noise of the three is the same.

All three have turned on night view mode. The N4S has the best performance and noise control, while the MX6 has the most noise. Although the N4 noise is controlled, the white balance has deviated. (360 phone cannot record ISO and exposure time in night view, HDR and other modes)

In extremely weak light, both the N4S and MX6 can restore the scene, except that the N4 white balance deviates again~the image of the N4S is brighter than that of the N4S.  

In the manual long exposure mode, both N4S and N4 have inaccurate ground color, while the problem with the MX6 is that it seems to have the same F2.0 aperture with two second exposure, ISO100， The amount of light entering is larger than that of the other two machines, resulting in a little overexposure.

In HDR mode, I really don't know whether the 360 phone actually performs HDR calculation. Compared with the pictures taken by the N4S, it seems that the dark part of the N4S is really bright, but not obvious. The pictures taken by the N4 HDR are the same as those taken by the normal mode. The MX6 HDR mode has the best effect, but it is a bit too bright. I think it will look better if the brightness is pressed back a bit.

The 360 phone's panoramic mode is really better than the flyme's panoramic mode. The 360 phone can take panoramic photos of about 400 degrees, while the MX6 can only take 360 degrees. Moreover, the MX6's panoramic mode has a very low fault tolerance rate, and it often disconnects automatically before shooting to the end. Even if there is a major error in the middle of the 360 mobile phone, it can still continue to shoot until the completion.

There is a problem in some shooting modes of the 360 mobile N4S camera - shutter delay. To be more specific, for example, the exposure time is 2 seconds. It is reasonable to say that after the end of the 2 second countdown, the shooting should be finished. The shutter is closed, but the shutter is not closed at this time. It is better to wait for the thumbnail to appear before moving. According to my experience, this is the case, When you press the shutter key, the countdown starts, but the actual shutter has not been opened, and the focus has just started. I feel that the shutter will be opened after a delay of more than half a second. In addition, this situation is not only professional mode, but also night scene mode, which means that you feel as if you have finished shooting, and then move your hand to open it, and the result is that the picture has smear. Another point is that for the new version of camera APP, the professional mode starts in one second. I don't know why it should be set this way. The 1.0 version starts in 1/1000 second. High speed shutter is used for high-speed shutter~

summary

Advantages: 1. All metal integrated body plus nano injection antenna, which is the metal process of the flagship machine; 2、 5000 mA battery, enough. 3、 The security performance of 360 OS 2.0 is good.

Disadvantages: 1. Although there is a 5000mA battery, it can really meet the requirement of charging every two days for moderate use, but it cannot be used to watch movies or play games, otherwise the power consumption is still very serious, which means that it needs to be optimized; 2、 The camera's HDR mode needs to be adjusted. More shutter time options are added to the manual mode, and the white balance is expected to be more stable; 3、 The system does subtraction, integrates apps, and completes its own ecological layout.

The price of the 360 mobile phone N4S is 1199 yuan, which is only 200 yuan more expensive than the N4. Although it is not perfect, the price performance ratio is definitely worth buying, 360 OS 2.0 hopes that it can be optimized better. Although it is not particularly powerful in photographing, it is already very good in the 1000 yuan level. Especially if you like to shoot macro, you should choose 360 mobile phones. If the budget is limited, the 360 mobile phone N4 is also a good choice. The N4 is not limited in purchase, and there is enough spot sales.