On the evening of June 30, 2016, the Vivo X7/X7Plus new product launch conference was held in Beijing with the theme of "16 million soft light selfies, lighting up your beauty". The Vivo X7 was officially launched on July 7, while the Vivo X7Plus was officially launched on July 23. Compared with the X7, the X7Plus is upgraded to a larger 5.7 inch. In addition, the main camera is upgraded to 16 million pixels, and the battery is also increased to 4000 mAh. This gives users who prefer large screen phones another choice. What's the actual experience of this vivo X7Plus? Let me take you to have a detailed understanding!

appearance

The vivo X7Plus uses a white paper packaging box, with a silver "X7Plus" logo in the middle of the front and a classic logo logo of vivo Hi Fi&Smart on the side. This packaging design has become a classic design of the X series.

The accessories in the box are relatively abundant. In addition to the basic charging plug and cable, it is also equipped with accessories such as earphones, film and phone case. The sound quality of the XE680 earphone equipped with the X7Plus is better than that of the XE600 earphone equipped with the X7, and it is more considerate than manufacturers of other online channels. For most users, it can be used directly from the beginning.

The vivo X7Plus is equipped with a 5.7 inch 1920 * 1080 resolution Super AMOLED display screen. The surface is covered with 2.5D glass, and the edge touch is exquisite and comfortable. In addition, it uses an extremely narrow frame design, and a higher screen ratio can give a broad visual experience.

The size of the mobile phone is 158.86mm * 77.94 * 7.49mm, and the weight is 183.5g. It is heavier than the X7. Boys can still operate it with one hand, but girls with small hands still have pressure on one hand. The middle frame of the mobile phone adopts a five step transition frame, and the smooth and dumb double C process cuts 3D dazzling bright edges, which makes the whole machine look more exquisite without affecting the best feel.

From left to right on the top of the front screen of the phone are: 16 million pixel front camera, earpiece, sensor and soft light. Among them, the 16 million pixel front camera and Moonlight soft light are the biggest features of vivo X7Plus. The use of simulated studio apple light can increase skin redness and gloss, make skin color more uniform, and even at night, you can take a happy self portrait.

The vivo X7Plus cancels the design of three classic touch keys of vivo at the bottom of the screen, adopts a new entity HOME key design, and supports fingerprint identification function. The black screen unlocks 0.2S, and the bright screen unlocks 0.15S. The menu keys and return keys on the left and right sides of the HOME key are reserved, and the hidden design is adopted, so that the key will appear only when the screen is lit or operated. However, the backlight of the key is weak, and the outdoor light is slightly strong, so it can hardly be seen.

There is no interface on the top of the phone. It looks more beautiful. All the interfaces are concentrated on the bottom of the phone. From left to right, they are: headphone hole, microphone, Micro USB interface and speaker. The overall design is very similar to the bottom of the iPhone 6.

The vivo X7Plus adopts the aluminum magnesium alloy integrated body design, and the back continues the classic design of vivo in the past. The upper and lower ends are designed with white injection signal strips, which have a frosted feel and a delicate and comfortable touch. Because the post fingerprint identification design is cancelled, the original fingerprint identification position is replaced by the vivo logo.

The rear camera of the vivo X7Plus is upgraded to a 16 million pixel Sony IMX298 sensor with a large aperture of F2.0, which supports PDAF phase focusing. However, the camera is not flattened, and it is obviously higher than the back cover. There is a metal band around it, which can protect the camera to a certain extent. There is a flash on the right of the camera, but it is a pity that the dual color temperature flash is not used.

On the right side of the phone is the volume key and power key. The volume key is designed in an integrated way. Below the volume key is the power key. The keys are made of metal, and the feedback strength is moderate. At the top of the left border is the SIM slot. The dual card dual standby All Netcom, which fully supports the 4G technologies of China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom. Both card slots only support the Nano SIM card and do not support SD card expansion. However, the minimum 64GB of built-in storage should be enough for most people.

There is also a vivo X7 phone in my hand, so I made a simple comparison of the appearance of the two phones. It can be seen that the vivo X7Plus is an enlarged version of vivo X7, and there is no difference in the appearance design.

The details of vivo X7Plus and vivo X7 are the same. The only difference is the size of the display. The X7Plus is 5.7 inches, and the X7 is 5.2 inches. In addition, the hardware configuration has been slightly upgraded. The main camera has been upgraded to 16 million pixels, and the battery has been increased to 4000 mAh.

system

The vivo X7Plus mobile phone is equipped with the latest FunTouch OS2.5 system based on Android 5.1.1, which is deeply customized. It adopts the light and simple design concept. On the whole, there is little change from the previous version. It still feels familiar, but some details have been slightly optimized. Adopt the new second-generation intelligent engine, with more efficient resource allocation and management authority, which can improve the sense of fluency and reduce stuck; The multi screen task splitting function is further optimized. In addition to the previous message screen splitting function, the manual screen splitting function is also added.

The icons on the main interface of the system adopt flat design, with uniform rounded rectangle processing, rich colors, and no change compared with the previous generation. The system has more than 10 pre installed applications, many of which are commonly used by us. Applications can be uninstalled at will. The lock screen interface design is very simple. The lock screen pictorial function is added. The lower left corner of the interface is the dialing option, and the lower right corner is the camera option. The camera can be quickly opened when the lock screen password is set.

The system has built-in music player and video player, of which the music player supports local playback and online audition functions. The music resources are mainly from QQ music, which can give us a better music experience in combination with the new specially customized AK4376 Hi Fi scheme and the XE680 headset; However, the video player only supports the local play function. If you want to watch online movies, you can only rely on third-party AV applications. The system's pre installed Tencent AV and iQIYI can provide rich online movie resources.

The setting interface of the system is distinguished by different icon colors according to different setting types. Most of the common setting options are placed on the main page of the setting page, which is convenient for us to select as needed. However, if you add the category name directly, it should be clearer.

The system has its own "i butler" function, where we can perform nine operations, including mobile phone physical examination, space cleaning, traffic monitoring, software management, power saving management, harassment interception, virus detection, privacy space and mobile phone retrieval. The functions are relatively comprehensive, and mobile phones can be protected comprehensively without downloading the third-party mobile phone management software, You can also set accelerated whitelist and version upgrade operations through setting options.

The system has also added a lot of features in FuntouchOS2.5. "Super screenshot" is one of the features. It has changed our single screenshot mode for a long time. There are four screenshot modes: screen recording, long screenshot, interesting screenshot and rectangular screenshot, which makes mobile phone screenshots more interesting and rich. You can directly slide up to see the "Super Screenshot" option in the shortcut toolbar, and then we just need to select the corresponding screenshot mode as required to perform the screenshot operation.

"Split screen multitasking" is also a feature of Funtouch OS, which supports floating icon display in the full screen playback interface of mainstream video applications, and floating icon display in the full screen interface of some card games and e-books. It can be opened directly by setting the "split screen multi task" option on the interface. For the time being, only three applications, QQ, WeChat and Info, are supported. There are still some restrictions on their use. At present, 13 applications are supported, including video, e-book, handheld iReader, Mango TV, LeEco video, and several more applications have been added than when it was just launched, but the number of supported applications is still relatively small.

In the latest Funtouch OS2.5, a "manual split screen" function has also been added. In the current applications that support split screen function, we can directly use the three finger slide operation, and then select SMS, QQ or WeChat to open the split screen mode, making the split screen function more practical. In addition, the manual split screen function can also be used in QQ, WeChat and SMS interfaces.

Now more and more people need to open two QQ or WeChat at the same time, one for work and the other for daily life. At present, more and more mobile phone systems have begun to add dual QQ and dual WeChat functions. The "application separation" function has also been added to the Funtouch OS. At present, it only supports the double opening operation of QQ, WeChat and Taobao. It is expected that more applications can be opened in the future. In fact, the double opening of games is also needed by many people at present, so it is suggested to consider adding them in the future. After opening the "Application Separation" function in the opening method of the setting interface, long press the application icon, and then click the add symbol at the lower right corner of the icon.

A "global eye protection" function has also been added to the latest Funtouch OS2.5 system, which can be quickly opened in the shortcut toolbar. After being opened, it can effectively filter blue light and alleviate visual fatigue. Moreover, after being opened by one button, all interfaces will be under the protection of blue light eye protection mode. Whether chatting, watching news or watching videos, they will be under the blue light eye protection mode. This function is more practical.

experience

The following is about the performance of vivo X7 Plus through some simple test software and some practical experience A simple test is given. First of all, let's take a look at the running score of the X7 Plus to do a simple test. But now the era of running score has passed, and the running score does not directly determine whether the mobile phone runs smoothly. Here we choose Anthare and Master Lu, two commonly used run points software, to test. Anthare scored 79209 points and Master Lu scored 49582 points. If you look at the run points alone, this can only be considered as a mid-range level. However, in Master Lu's experience evaluation, the score was 102.99 points, which was relatively high, and the smoothness of the mobile phone was good.

Through Anthare video evaluation software, a simple test was carried out on the built-in video player of vivo X7 Plus. Through the test, we can see that the system's default player performance is still very powerful, supporting 27 video formats, only 3 of which do not fully support the format. However, it is a little pity that the built-in video player does not support the online play function.

The vivo X7 Plus is designed with aluminum magnesium alloy integrated molding, and the metal still has a certain blocking effect on the signal reception. The upper and lower ends of the phone back cover are designed with nano injection molding signal strips, which can improve the signal reception of the phone. It can be seen from a simple test that the signal strength of the mobile phone's indoor mobile network is between - 95dBm and - 102dBm, and that of the outdoor mobile network is between - 73dBm and - 80dBm. The signal is basically full. At the same time, it also supports the functions of VOLTE and Internet access while making calls. After the actual use experience, there is no impact on the call quality.

Vivo X7 Plus adopts the front fingerprint identification design, and the fingerprint identification function is integrated into the entity HOME key. However, unlike other mobile phones equipped with the entity HOME key, its unlocking method does not need to press the light screen to complete the unlocking operation. Just touch your finger to unlock. The black screen unlocking is as fast as 0.2S, and the light screen is 0.15S. Its fingerprint entry mode is also slightly different from other mobile phones. It requires about 20 times of entry to complete fingerprint addition. Although the entry is slightly cumbersome, the fingerprint recognition speed and accuracy after entry are very high.

The vivo X7 Plus is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 eight core processor and a storage combination of 4GB 64GB. Although it does not use the latest Snapdragon 820 processor, it can easily cope with the current mobile phone large-scale 3D games. The NBA 2K16 game is selected here. Its installation package is more than 2GB. The overall performance requirements of the mobile phone are relatively high. There is no jam phenomenon during the whole game using vivo X7 Plus. The game runs smoothly. It can be seen that there are at least 6 cores working throughout the game. After about 20 minutes of continuous game experience, The maximum temperature on the front of the phone is 45.3 ℃, and the power consumption is 8%.

In our daily use of mobile phones, the major power consumers should be games and videos. Here, we tested the power consumption of video playback. We used iQIYI, which is preinstalled in the system, to conduct online playback tests. The brightness and volume were adjusted to 50%. QQ and WeChat were hung in the background, and we often received information and chat. After one hour of continuous playback, the power was reduced from 66% to 56%, The power consumption is 10%, which is pretty good. After the actual use experience, the endurance of the vivo X7 Plus has been significantly improved compared with that of the vivo X7. If it is a light to moderate user, it can easily persist for a day.

Vivo has always been at the forefront of the industry in terms of mobile phone HiFi calibration. Vivo X7 Plus uses a new, specially customized AK4376Hi Fi solution, with a signal to noise ratio of up to 116dB. In addition, it also cooperates with QQ music strategy to provide massive high-definition and lossless authentic music downloads. After turning on the HiFi function, insert the headset, and then turn on the HiFi mode on the music playing interface to enjoy HiFi music. The mobile phone also fully supports the mobile KTV function. In most mainstream KTV platforms, such as Singing Bar and Tianlai KTV, real-time ear reverberation effect is achieved.

The vivo X7 Plus uses 4000mAh ultra-high density and large capacity batteries, supports dual engine flash charging, and has nine levels of safety protection. The following is a simple test of the charging speed of the mobile phone. Use the original charging plug and charging cable to turn the mobile phone off automatically, and then start charging from 1% of the power on of the mobile phone. In the flash charge mode, the lock screen interface will display the words "dual engine flash charge". The charge rate is 6% in five minutes, 73% in one hour, and it is completed after two hours of charging, Generally speaking, the charging speed is relatively fast. The most important thing is that the temperature of the phone and the charging plug is basically warm during the whole charging process.

camera

The vivo X7 Plus adopts Sony IMX298 16 megapixel rear camera, which is equipped with F2.0 aperture, supports PDAF phase focusing and electronic anti shake functions, and uses Arcsoft's second-generation night scene enhancement technology to increase the shooting ability in dark light conditions. The camera is still fast to start, and it can also be quickly started by double clicking the HOME key when the screen is off, which is convenient for capturing the beautiful scenery.

The main interface of the camera shooting world has four options: beauty, photography, small video and video recording. The shooting interface is very clean, and many functions are hidden. Click more icons on the top right of the shooting interface to select HDR, panorama, night view, ultra clear image quality, document correction, motion anti shake, professional photography, slow lens and fast lens. There are also some simple camera setting options below; There is also a "filter" option on the right side of the capture button, which provides five filter modes, including portrait, food, film, time and style.

The biggest feature of the vivo X7 Plus mobile phone this time is that it is equipped with a 16 million pixel front camera, and it also adds a special Moonlight soft light, which uses Apple Light, so that you can take a happy selfie day and night. Now let's take you to the actual experience of the effect of "16 million soft light selfie". Here, we also specially brought beautiful women for actual experience, and tested the shooting effect of the front camera in different environments. First of all, let's take a look at the self taking effect outdoors in the daytime. The left picture above is taken in automatic mode, and the right picture is taken with the soft light on. Because the outdoor light is sufficient, there is no difference in the effect of turning on or off the soft light in the daytime. However, if it is outdoor in cloudy days, there may be a slight difference, but there is no chance to test it for the time being.

Now let's take a look at the self taking effect at night. The left picture shows the shooting effect with the soft light not turned on in the automatic mode, and the right picture shows the shooting effect with the soft light turned on. This is a sample shot under the condition of sufficient indoor light. The skin of the portrait with the soft light turned on is slightly redder than that without the soft light turned on, which is more natural.

Finally, I chose a slightly dark environment to take a self portrait test. The left figure still does not turn on the soft light, while the right figure turns on the soft light. At this time, the contrast effect is more obvious. The skin of the sample under the automatic mode will be slightly white. After the soft light is turned on, the skin of the portrait will be much more ruddy and natural, The shooting effect at night is obviously improved.

When using mobile phones to take photos, most people should prefer to use the automatic mode of the camera. The above photos are taken directly in the automatic mode of the camera. Without any optimization, only the size of the photos is modified. When the weather is fine, the clarity of the photos is very good. It can retain rich details, and the saturation of the photos is high. This setting is more pleasing to people's eyes, but occasionally overexposure occurs.

The main camera of vivo X7 Plus is equipped with F2.0 aperture, which has a good effect on the retention of object details and background virtualization. However, due to the limitation of aperture, the intensity of background virtualization is relatively limited. For example, in the second photo, the level of flowers is clear, the dewdrops on the surface are also clearly visible, and the details are retained completely. However, if you want to take some macro photos with good background virtualization effect, it is easier to use manual focusing.

Night scene shooting has always been a weakness of mobile phone cameras. Vivo X7 Plus uses the second generation compound eye anti shake and night scene enhancement algorithm jointly developed by Vivo Optical Laboratory and Arcsoft to enhance its shooting ability in dark light conditions. However, after actual testing, when using automatic mode to shoot night scenes, the noise is still quite obvious, but the brightness of the picture and the retention of object details are still good. There is also a "night scene" mode in the camera. After it is turned on, the overall brightness of the picture can be significantly improved, and more picture details can be seen. However, the optimization effect for noise is not obvious, and still exists. It is recommended that you continue to optimize the noise control of night scene shooting in the future.

Summary

This vivo X7 Plus phone has been used as a daily host since its inception. After nearly two weeks of actual use experience, the overall feeling is still very good. The whole machine has fine workmanship, smooth system operation, accurate and rapid fingerprint identification, which can be said to completely retain the "happy" experience of the previous generation of models. With the blessing of 16 million pixel front soft lens, the mobile phone has a different experience again. Compared with the vivo X7, the vivo X7 Plus has a 5.7 inch screen, 16 million pixels for the rear camera, and 4000mAh for the battery capacity. Compared with the X7, its endurance is significantly improved. Even heavy users can easily stay at work. If you like the design of the vivo X7 and like the large screen phone, this phone is still very good. However, since the vivo is offline, this phone is not cost-effective. It can only be said that it is worth the money. Finally, based on your own experience, I simply put forward a few personal suggestions on the shortcomings of this phone.

Deficiencies&Suggestions

The new entity HOME key design is adopted, but the function is still lacking. At present, in addition to the fingerprint recognition function, pressing and touching return to the main interface, and the function is repeated. It is recommended to continue to optimize;

The rear camera is not flat, it should be slightly higher than the back cover, which has a slight impact on the overall beauty of the phone, and it is only equipped with a flash, without the use of dual color temperature flash, so the light filling effect must be relatively poor;

It is a little pity that the Type-C interface is not used for the charging socket of the mobile phone;

The vivo X7 Plus still uses the Snapdragon 652 processor. Although its performance and stability have improved compared with previous MediaTek processors, as a flagship model, it is still a little less sincere than the Snapdragon 820;

The system supports the "application separation" function, but it only supports QQ, WeChat and Taobao at present, which is relatively few. It is recommended to add more applications, for example, it is also good to support some mobile phone games.