The 1000 yuan mobile phone market has always been the main battleground for many domestic mobile phone manufacturers to compete. Although it is cruel for manufacturers to rack their brains on products, this is undoubtedly a great benefit for consumers. After all, there are more cost-effective magic devices, and relatively speaking, there are more choices. Among the thousands of mobile phones with high attention at present, what we have to mention is Glory's new product, Glory Play 5C mobile phone, which was released in April this year.

Full mode self-developed chip

Users familiar with the Glory series of mobile phones know that thanks to the support of the Kirin processor chip independently developed by Huawei, all of their mobile phones still have great advantages in cost control and a whole set of technical support compared with many models that provide core chips through Qualcomm and MediaTek, It includes unique skills in system optimization and stability.

It is worth mentioning that the protagonist of this sharing experience played the 5C with honor, and it is the first 1000 yuan new machine that adopts the 16 nanometer process Kirin 650 processor chip, which has significantly improved in power consumption and heat control. In addition to the nanometer process, Kirin 650 is the first full mode chip in Huawei's history. There are many mobile phone manufacturers with independent chips on the market, such as Apple Samsung and others, but when encountering the CDMA baseband part, they need additional processing, and the most common way is to use baseband plug-in, but the cost is high. The negative impact such as power consumption is the disadvantage of plug-in. As a self-developed full film chip, Kirin 650 indicates that Huawei has CDMA patent authorization and SoC mobile phone chip research and development capabilities.

Of course, there are still many places to be highlighted from the appearance to the details. I hope that after reading this article, you will have a comprehensive, intuitive and in-depth understanding of the glory of playing 5C. Thanks to Lei Feng.com& Love to play computer games Provide experience machine.

Appearance details

At present, there are three versions of Glory Play 5C: mobile version, China Unicom/mobile version and All Netcom version. The color scheme provides three options: dark night grey, space silver and sunset gold. The author's high configuration version of All Netcom, which matches the color of space silver, has 3GB running memory+32GB body storage, and of course the price is also the highest 1099 yuan in Glory Play 5C, The cheapest mobile version with 2GB running memory+16GB body storage costs only 899 yuan, which can be easily selected according to your needs.

For the new generation of the hero, the glorious play 5C, although the screen size has slightly increased to 5.2 inches compared with the previous 4C, the three dimensions of the fuselage are well controlled at 147.1 × 73.8 × 8.3mm (length × width × height), which benefits from the increased screen share after the process improvement, and even the 0.5mm reduction in the fuselage thickness, Therefore, it is relatively easy for female users to use the semicircular arc middle frame in the sense of holding with one hand.

In terms of the front face of this phone, it has the family characteristics of the Glory Play series, because there are also 5A and 5X. The obvious difference between this phone and the previous one is that the original touch button on the chin moves into the screen and is replaced by the Glory English brand logo. However, the inherited frame is higher than the screen design. Of course, it will be better in terms of screen fall protection. However, in terms of visual beauty, it will be somewhat dismal compared with the current popular 2.5D arc screen. The emphasis on safety protection is still on the look and feel of beauty, which is the matter of benevolence and wisdom.

As far as the 1080P full HD IPS black waterfall screen used by the Glory Play 5C is concerned, the overall display effect is exquisite and realistic with the current mainstream GFF full fitting process and up to 423 PPIs. The black edge of the screen after the light screen is not obvious still exists, but it should be controlled within the acceptable visual range.

The top of the front face of the phone is still the familiar distance and light sensor, earpiece and front camera, while there is actually a hidden breath light beside the camera. Of course, the front camera with 8 million pixels is worth mentioning. The large aperture of f/2.0 and the level 10 intelligent skin beautifying effect are believed to be very popular with female users.

As the only two physical keys of the whole mobile phone, the integrated volume increase/decrease key and power key of the Glory Play 5C are very popular on the upper right side of the body, which is convenient for thumb control when held by the right hand. The press damping and feedback force of the keys are moderate, and the rebound is relatively simple. In addition, the whole frame with silver metal texture is actually an injection molding process, but the paint color level has reached a level of unreality. A closer look will show that the horizontal grain treatment of the frame has added a lot of metal like layered texture. Unfortunately, after the transparent protective coating covers the surface, there is no added effect of anti sliding.

The card slot is located on the upper left side of the fuselage. It adopts the combined solution of dual Nano SIM+TF card slots, which is known as the "AND or card slot" design. It is worth noting that all versions of Glory Play 5C support 4G+LTE Cat6 network connection technology, as well as VoLTE technology that also transmits voice calls through 4G network HD. In addition, the so-called "and or card slot" design mentioned earlier means that the Glory Play 5C also supports the combination of a single Nano card and a TF card. The maximum capacity of its TF card is 128GB expansion.

While the All Netcom version of 5C can not support two telecom SIM cards at the same time, it fully supports any other SIM card system combination of the three major domestic operators. The compatibility of the network system has also been upgraded from the original All Netcom 2.0 to 3.0. Users can set any card slot as the main card, supporting China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom 4G+/4G/3G/2G. When the main card uses China Mobile, China Unicom 4G, The secondary card supports up to Unicom 3G network voice phone.

Compared with the very simple top of the mobile phone, which is only designed with 3.5mm headphone jack and noise reduction microphone, the bottom of the Glory Play 5C is quite aesthetic. From the speakers with unified hole style on both sides to the microphone, including two eye-catching screws, there is a very symmetrical sense of brushing presence, and the central charging data port is the current mainstream Micro USB interface.

As far as the appearance design is concerned, the author prefers to play proudly with the 5C metal drawing process rear cover, which not only has the luster and texture beyond the taste of a thousand yuan machine, but also has a silky and smooth touch on the surface of the rear cover, which also makes people feel comfortable and close to the skin. In addition, this metal rear cover also adopts the ergonomic round hyperboloid edge in terms of molding details, Therefore, the back of the whole body that fits the palm of the hand will not snap. Of course, a closer look will show that the widely criticized "white belt" against signal interference and the subsequent three-stage fuselage design have finally failed to appear in the glory play 5C. Instead, it is the natural quality of connection between the metal silver injection molding process frame and the brushed metal back cover.

On the central axis at the top of the back of the fuselage, from top to bottom, there are rear cameras and fingerprint readers. The camera equipped with Glory Play 5C is inevitably convex. Fortunately, a metal protective ring higher than the lens around it can prevent scratches; In terms of hardware parameters, this camera has 13 million pixels and a f/2.0 aperture. It has a built-in Prime ISP sensor developed independently. What's more, its powerful photo taking function will be introduced later. As for the fingerprint sensor used by Glory Play 5C, according to the official statement, it adopts the second generation secure fingerprint identification scheme of Sweden FPC. In addition to providing daily unlocking, it also supports fingerprint payment and fingerprint touch, and achieves the maximum speed of 0.5 seconds in unlocking efficiency. However, everyone may like the way of back unlocking.

System features

At present, the EMUI 4.1 system used by Glory Play 5C is deeply customized based on Android 6.0. The flat icon style is as simple and delicate as ever, while the unique magazine lock screen can still bring different surprises to users every time the screen is lit. In addition, in terms of system optimization, the switch between sliding screen and menu is very smooth. Careful friends may find the statistics of the number of extra exercise steps above the time display on the lock screen, which is also a highlight of the glory of playing 5C.

To be honest, the innovation of integrating the step counting function directly into the mobile phone function without using the sports bracelet is indeed worthy of recognition. The realization of the Glory Play 5C is through the built-in smart core i5 coprocessor, which not only supports the lock screen step counting function mentioned above, but also allows you to view the movement steps It is said that the energy consumption and walking distance will also support WeChat movement synchronization in the future. Of course, the power consumption of these background data acquisition statistics is very low.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to the basic exercise step counting, Glory Play 5C can also synchronize the data collected by the corresponding devices into this set of sports health management system by binding the corresponding brand models of intelligent sphygmomanometers, blood glucose meters and other household health measurement devices, and carry out staged data analysis and health control, which is very suitable for the needs of families with elderly people. In addition, the discovery section in this system also provides a very considerate online doctor and registration service. The online doctor is provided with resources by the well-known "Chunyu doctor", while the online doctor resources are provided by the "micro doctor". The author chooses online appointment discovery to accurately provide the appointment registration service of the local third and second hospitals.

Although it is no stranger to mention the desktop style of the EMUI system, in my opinion, it is also a feature of the Glory series of mobile phones that highlights humanistic care, because in addition to the standard style of normal use, the system also directly integrates simple style, and the desktop menu changes into simple large icons and large font layout after one button switch. For users with poor eyesight, Undoubtedly, it is a very practical just needed function.

In addition to the care for users, the EMUI system also spares no effort in limiting the use of children who lack good or bad identification and self-control. Specifically, the corresponding functions can be activated through the student mode menu in the system settings. After being enabled, it can not only set and limit the time when children at home use their mobile phones, but also set the list of applications with restricted access, and directly block the bad websites that may be touched by surfing through the built-in browser.

In addition, the author found that the "Skylink" APP integrated in this system It is also very practical for people on long-term business trips. It does not require simple settings, nor does it need to apply to the operator for long-distance roaming in advance. By searching the hotspot of the user's location, it is easy to quickly access the Internet with one button in three network environments, including domestic WLAN, global WLAN, or global mobile data.

Photo experience

For the self taking quality of Glory Play 5C front 8 megapixel camera, in my opinion, it is powerful, but the effect of beautiful appearance is somewhat unsatisfactory. Although it is equipped with Level 10 skin beautification function, it focuses on skin grinding rather than optimizing skin color. Fortunately, the built-in powerful photo editing function can be used for secondary processing of saturation, contrast, filter, etc.

It is generally believed that people use the rear main camera more often, and the camera function and control experience are mainly reflected in the built-in camera software. First, in the shooting interface, in addition to supporting automatic focusing, you can also use your fingers to set the focus, and adjust the increase or decrease of exposure compensation for the focus, and support focusing and light measurement separation, In addition, in the main shooting interface, the filter function can be called out through the triple ring logo on the top; The left slide shooting interface can adjust the photo resolution and proportion, timing, voice control and smiling face photography, and also enable very practical settings such as screen out snapshot, initial photo saturation and contrast.

It is particularly worth mentioning that the mode menu called up on the right slide shooting interface is rich and powerful to the extreme, such as professional photography and video recording with customizable focusing mode, shutter, aperture, white balance and other parameters, super night scene and streamer shutter realized by using long exposure As well as the time-lapse camera and other functions that are very artistic and creative, they are both practical and add a lot of interest to the shooting creation. In addition, there are online translation, document correction and intelligent object recognition functions that have auxiliary functions for daily work. It should be no exaggeration to say that the selling points of shooting functions covered by smart phones are almost integrated.

Finally, let's share the hardware parameters of the rear main camera again. This experience machine, the Glorious Play 5C, uses the mainstream 13 million pixel camera, together with the self-developed Prime ISP image sensor, with a large aperture of f/2.0 and a 78 ° wide-angle effect. However, the official did not mention whether it supports phase focusing and electronic anti shake technology. In addition, the photos taken support 4160x3120 pixels at most. Of course, from the parameters alone, we can't feel the real shooting ability of a mobile phone, especially now that 13 million pixels have become standard configuration, so we still share a sample of only cutting size without later stage to illustrate the problem.

Play with pride 5C demo:

In the above samples, the camera mode with default automatic parameters is used for shooting. Finally, from the perspective of imaging effect, Glory Play 5C performs very well in color restoration and macro details in the automatic mode, and thanks to the large aperture of f/2.0, the background in the macro environment can achieve a certain virtualization effect. From the 100% original drawing of the sample of the building, the details are well preserved, with only slight smears. In addition, in the low light night photography environment, if it is in the automatic mode, there will be some noise according to the sensitivity of the sample iso 500. However, because Glory Play 5C supports the professional mode, you can control the noise by locking the sensitivity at the 100-200 threshold and extending the exposure time. Of course, in this case, you usually need to use a tripod to stabilize the phone. In general, as a 1000 yuan mobile phone, the rear camera shooting ability of Glory Play 5C can definitely give this mobile phone a lot of points, and its playability and film production rate are very high.

Comprehensive application

As a 1000 yuan Android entry-level mobile phone, we believe that everyone will care about its performance. The hardware related to mobile phone performance is mainly reflected in CPU, GPU and RAM. First of all, from the hardware parameters, the processor used by Glory Play 5C is a new generation of Huawei Kirin 650 eight core processor with 16 nanometer technology, and the GPU is a Mali T830 graphics chip with 2GB and 3GB operating memory. Then the specific performance will be tested through the scoring software and the movie playing and game experience involved in daily use.

In fact, judging from several well-known mobile phone scoring software such as Anthare, Master Lu and 3DMARK, the final comprehensive score of playing with 5C in glory should be in line with its own price positioning. The processor performance, which affects the score, is still excellent according to the performance of the latest Kirin 650, but the integrated Mali T830 core display is slightly weaker. Of course, buying a mobile phone is certainly not to satisfy the desire to score points, and the use experience that is ultimately closer to life is more practical.

What about the HD video decoding capability of this mobile phone? We all know that online videos are not worth discussing as long as they can be viewed smoothly by smart phones under normal network conditions due to format and bit rate problems. The limit test is to play the 4K resolution MP4 format ultra HD film copied into the mobile phone. The final result is that Glory Play 5C can decode normally and ensure smooth playback of sound and picture synchronization with its own player. During this period, there is no pop, jam or delay. Even dragging the movie timeline can quickly load video content.

In the game test, the author chose the relatively new and popular stand-alone games "Wild Racing 8" and "NBA2K15" on the current Android platform As well as the online game "Three Swordsmen", which are 3D masterpieces, the tests are very persuasive in terms of complex weather changes, light and shadow effects, and characterization of character actions. In addition, the scenes are frequently converted while rendering and displaying excellent picture quality details. The final result is that these three games can run normally without suspense, and the screen switching from the start of the game to the whole experience process is very smooth.

What I want to say about the charging efficiency and endurance of Glory Play 5C is that in the face of the long-term dependence on mobile phones of more and more people who bow their heads every day, people begin to pay more attention to these two aspects when choosing smart phones. However, it is a pity that Glory Play 5C does not support fast charging technology, and the standard configuration is the 1A low current charger, so it takes nearly three and a half hours to fully charge the 3000mAh battery.

What is worth affirming is that the power consumption of the 16nm processor of the Glory Play 5C is well controlled, and the system has always been optimized in terms of power consumption. Therefore, moderate use can easily cope with one-and-a-half days of endurance, and even heavy use can still generate a certain amount of surplus power when returning home for charging at night. For details, please refer to the endurance test table of the author.

Concluding remarks

In my opinion, Glory Play 5C is a 1000 yuan mobile phone with distinctive features and worth recommending. First of all, in terms of its appearance design, under the environment that most mobile phones at the same price use full plastic body, the back cover of the mobile phone has been replaced with a metal brushed material with both high-quality appearance, and the size and feel of the whole mobile phone are well controlled; In terms of hardware configuration, on the basis of focusing on system balance, we put power consumption and stability in the first place. Of course, in terms of performance, although it is not powerful, it is also fully competent for the use of daily integrated entertainment.

In addition, the author particularly appreciates the shooting function and imaging quality, whether it is color restoration, or macro details, as well as the addition of various professional models. In terms of strength, the camera is almost comparable to or even beyond ordinary card cameras. Of course, at present, the only disadvantage is that the fast charging function has not been added. In addition, the cost performance of the version equipped with 2GB RAM+16GB ROM is not as high as that of the full Netcom version, if you really like glory If you want to play with the 5C mobile phone, the author strongly recommends that it is more cost-effective to choose the All Netcom 3GB RAM+32GB ROM version.

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