Perhaps in order to avoid the situation that the new products of the Glory series were piled up last year, the Glory V9 was released 9 months after the release of the previous generation. The mass shipment of Snapdragon 835 models should wait at least until April to May. Glory V9 won nearly three months, which is a market window. The upgrade of Glory V9 is very routine. It is basically to replace the latest processor, which is equipped with 2K screens and a new design. but In the near price range In the months before the arrival of the flagship of Big Wave Snapdragon 835, Just relying on Kirin 960 is enough to make Glory V9 stand out in the crowd with the word "speed".
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Appearance and workmanship
Like the previous generation of Glory V8, the packaging of Glory V9 is also a VR glasses box, Dark blue embossed shell It is relatively solid, and its inner structure is more special than that of normal mobile phones,. Accessories include VR glasses case lenses, instructions, card pins, Type-C data cable and charger.
Glory V9 supports Huawei's FCP (Fast Charger Protocol) fast charging, and the charging head can output up to 9V/2A (18W). The OEM is Huizhou BYD.
The overall design style of Glory V9 has changed from the previous generation's hardness to roundness. The screen border control is good, but the "forehead and chin" is wide. With rounded corners, it has the flavor of narrow border iPhone. There is no physical home button at the bottom, and the logo of Glory is in the center. It is "rare" to have such a long chin without using touch buttons, which is somewhat wasteful (both Huawei and Glory flagship are designed for virtual buttons).
The back of the Glory V9 is an anodized one-piece metal body. We got the black version of the top configuration. The touch and appearance of the back cover of the machine are quite good. The injection molded antenna partition strip and the body are integrated smoothly. The fingerprint identification button and antenna have a slight color difference due to the difference in the reflectivity of the material, but they are slightly different on the black version.
The top is Huawei/Glory flagship landmark dual camera, dual color temperature flash Take care of the psychological feelings of Virgos, It is centered in the middle of the injection antenna.
At the bottom is the logo and simple production and model information. The pure black anodized fuselage will be more distinct in light and shadow. What I have to complain about here is that this anodized body is more stained with fingerprints than the matte black version of the iPhone 7, which is almost a print on one hand, and it takes a bit of effort to wipe off the ordinary cleaning cloth.
The top is a noise reduction microphone and an infrared transmitter, the latter is slightly larger than the usual size, and is also placed in the middle.
At the bottom are the headphone connector, main microphone, Type-C connector, and speakers.
The frame is a common layout of domestic computers, with card slot on the left, volume and power button on the right. The frame has two waistlines to draw attention, and the screen ， There is also a thin plastic washer at the edge.
Glory V9 Cattle adopts injection molding process, with good workmanship. The common "AND or card slot" can be used to insert two nano SIM cards, or one SIM card+micro SD memory card. Double card users who need to expand capacity can try to modify them by putting the SIM card and memory card into the card slot at the same time (remove the glue holder of the SIM card and stick the core part onto the memory card).
Workmanship& Hand feeling&fingerprint identification
Both the power key and volume key have bright chamfers. The former has concentric circles. These details are worth praising. The key bounce and key stroke are moderate. Apart from the slightly larger left and right positions, there is nothing to be picky about.
For a 4000mAh mobile phone, it is an exaggeration to control the thickness at 6.97mm. But Glory V9 is equipped with a 5.7 inch 2K screen, and the machine is wide, so one hand operability should not be expected too much. and Different people have different opinions on the appearance, but The overall workmanship of the machine is excellent. All kinds of centered elements and chamfers/lines at the details can show the design intention.
Fingerprint recognition speed: The performance is normal. It's not very fast now. It is faster than the iPhone and Samsung series, and slightly faster than most domestic rear fingerprints, but slower than the vivo X9 series, OPPO R9/R9s series, One Plus 3/3T and other machines.
screen
99.3% sRGB gamut
The objective parameters are normal: Glory V9 uses a 5.7 inch 2K resolution LTPS screen. The measured maximum brightness is 450 nits, the default mode color temperature is about 7738K, and the contrast is 1410:1, reaching 141.3% of the sRGB color gamut and 91.4% of the NTSC color gamut. The machine has the color temperature stepless adjustment function, and users can adjust the color temperature according to their preferences.
Color standard under sRGB color gamut
NTSC gamut and color standard
The color standard is standard: The default mode is to test the color accuracy at a brightness close to 100 nits in daily use. In the sRGB color gamut, the deltaE of Glory V9 is 4.9, and the maximum deltaE is 9, which is relatively average and the overall performance is average. For comparison, iPhone 7 is 1.6, Note5 is 1.8, S6 edge+is 2.6, and S7 edge is 2.9.
The performance of NTSC gamut is very good. The deltaE is 3.1, and the maximum deltaE is 6.3. However, our daily use of content is almost sRGB gamut, and NTSC gamut is not yet of great practical value.
Tight fineness and visual angle: The 2K resolution IPS screen should not have any concerns about fineness, but the Glory V9 screen has obvious matrix stripes, which is more serious than the flagship version of Xiaomi Note in early 2015, affecting the screen's fineness performance, which will be more obvious in light colors. In addition, its visual angle is much worse than that of the IPS of the ordinary flagship, and there will be a relatively obvious brightness decline on the side slightly, which is not very satisfactory. It's a pity to walk 100 steps forward and then 30 steps back.
system
Basic functions: Glory V9 is equipped with Android 7.0 based EMUI 5.0, and the aesthetic of the system's default theme is somewhat different from the mainstream, but Android 7.0 Of The shortcut switch of notice bar, multi task split screen, double click multi task switch application and other features are available. As an old brand domestic rom, EMUI has perfected various rights control and system functions such as bootstrap management. It should be mentioned that there are records of the system's self start, and Glory can also intercept the home's life services, game centers and other own applications (left in the figure below) in a very public and selfless manner.
Special functions: The system still has screenshots of finger joints, which can complete screenshots, split screens and other functions by tapping the screen line with finger joints. Although the use of functions other than screenshots is not high, the first use was really shocked by the sensitivity and availability. In the simple mode of caring for middle-aged and elderly users, it still stays at the level of changing "starter and enlarged font", and its availability is low.
The main selling point of this system is that it has artificial intelligence to learn user habits, and claims that "500 days of use will not get stuck". Due to different user habits, this learning engine may be the main reason for different glory V9 and different scores in different tests. Another selling point is the personal assistant information stream that has been made into a desktop "negative screen", but now it is basically a centralized page of sports data, life services, news, and video information, which is not different from similar products. What the author expects more is the "release" of intelligent functions such as screen search suggestions on Glory Magic.
Fluency : The top CPU performance is matched with Android 7.0 kernel. Although the maximum response speed in the default mode is still to be matched with that of Mate 9 Porsche Design, the smoothness in the power-saving mode is impeccable (this special point will be discussed later), and the smoothness and speed are not a big problem in the front row of Android camp.
compatibility : The GPU architecture of Android 7.0 kernel+G71 does encounter compatibility problems. The engineering machine we got has no problem in Weibo, WeChat and other commonly used apps, but some relatively unpopular applications, such as the screen test app, which defaults to "large" because of the factory's "display mode", cannot display maps and is completely black (it can be recovered by turning back to "medium", but I have to complain that the EMUI changes the display size and even needs to be restarted), and NBA 2K15 games have also experienced flash backs.
Special points: The power saving mode of the normal mobile phone will be more strict with the CPU/GPU frequency and core regulation, but the old system carried by the test machine has the situation that "the CPU in the power saving mode does not reduce the frequency, but the frequency is strictly controlled in the normal mode". This problem was solved in the system update in mid March.
performance
to configure: Glory V9 is equipped with Kirin960 like Mate 9 series, which provides 4G memory+64G storage (2599 yuan), 6G memory+64G storage (2999 yuan), and 6G memory+128G storage (3499 yuan) in three versions. The price range is large. In terms of cost performance, the lowest version will be higher. Kirin960 is the first SoC with A73 architecture. The CPU part is composed of 2.4G 4-core A73+1.8G 4-core A53, and the GPU part is 1GHz high-frequency Mali-G71 MP8. CPU performance is the peak of the active Android platform. The GPU part is above the 8890, close to the Snapdragon 821.
Comparison object: We compare the Porsche design version of Mate 9, which is also the Kirin 960, with the top configuration of the glorious V8 equipped with the Kirin 955, the one plus 3T as the representative of the Snapdragon 821, and the S7 edge as the representative of the Exynos 8890. Details can be found in our Love to play computer games (Public account search: love computer games) Running points library View.
Frequency/core scheduling and system smoothness: Before the system update in mid March, Glory V9, in its default mode, was similar to the one plus 3T Snapdragon 821. Its CPU was basically the highest frequency within 2 or 3 seconds of the application being turned on. Since then, it has been running at the highest frequency of 2.1G. However, the Glory V9 power-saving mode has released the CPU frequency control, resulting in higher scores for power-saving mode than for ordinary mode in the CPU test part, and the best results are almost achieved in power-saving mode. This problem has been resolved after the system update.
CPU computing performance test (Snapdragon 821 has a small number of cores and single core performance is not superior, and the absolute CPU performance is significantly lower than that of competitors)
GPU graphics performance test
Flash memory read/write performance test
In the actual performance test, in the CPU part, Glory V9 scores slightly better than Mate 9 , amazing performance, Successfully won the title of Android's strongest CPU performance. Compared with the previous generation, the GPU has greatly improved, Win or lose with Mate 9 Pro, absolute performance Between Exynos 8890 and Snapdragon 821. Flash memory read/write On the other hand, the Mate 9 Porsche Design Edition has 256G storage, the Glory V9 and One Plus 3T have 128G storage, the Huawei P9 has 64G storage, and the S7 edge has 32G storage. The larger the storage, the higher the read-write performance. However, in random reading and writing, Glory V9 counterattacked the 256G Emperor Mate 9 with a capacity of 128G, and took an astonishing lead, easily refreshing the random reading and writing records of the database.
photograph
The camera configuration of Huawei P9 was used in the Glory series last year (of course, the "Leica logo" was not used), but the Glory V9 was released a little earlier than P10, and the new dual camera scheme of color 1200W+black and white 2000W pixels on Mate 9 was not used. It maintains the same parameters as the previous generation. The glory official did not disclose the specific configuration model, but it is very likely that the main camera is still the IMX286 without phase focusing.
The most obvious difference between the two generation solutions is that Mate 9 and P10 can provide double zoom, and finally have phase focus (provided by the 20 million pixel sub camera). The improvement of Glory V9 over the previous generation is mainly due to the improvement of Kirin 960's ISP.
The photo interface of Glory V9 has become more unified with Huawei's P series and Mate series. The camera picture is drawn to the left as the mode, and to the right as the setting. Voice control photography, screen out snapshot, image sharpness adjustment and other functions are also reserved. The machine can automatically turn on the night scene to reduce noise according to the light, but HDR is still placed as a separate mode of a secondary page, which is a pity.
Shutter response and imaging speed: Modern flagship ISPs respond to the CMOS output of 12 million pixels, which means that they can not only improve the imaging speed, but also enable manufacturers to adopt more radical and computational software algorithms. The shutter response and imaging speed of Glory V9, Xiaomi 5s and other models are the fastest echelon of domestic flagship. Night scene and HDR processing can be completed in the background, without affecting the response of the front desk. Speed experience is highly praised.
Focus and film rate: The IMX286 of the main camera of Glory V9 has no phase focusing. Although it has infrared focusing assistance, there will still be obvious bellows action when focusing. When the light weakens, it will be more obvious when the shooting object is far away from the mainstream flagship. The exposure and ISO of Glory V9 are more active than those of P9. The film rate has been improved to a certain extent, and it performs better in the non optical anti shake model.
White balance/saturation/contrast: We will finish the photo comparison of Glory V9, Huawei P9, Meizu PRO 6 Plus and Galaxy Note 5 later. Here is the conclusion. The color of Glory V9 in the default mode is similar to that of Huawei P9, which is slightly more colorful and high contrast, but V9 does not have the obvious underexposure problem of P9. The main improvement compared with Huawei P9 is that the smearing algorithm has made progress: the noise is painted cleaner, and the edge of the object is more sharp. Although the ultimate discrimination has not changed much, some scenes are even worse than P9, but the first impression is slightly better.
From experience to actual imaging, the original glory series of Huawei P9 has finally caught up with the new ISP and algorithm optimization. Although facing the new P10, it may still be a little difficult, but the photography part certainly has not fallen to the point of dragging its feet.
Endurance&Charging&Heating
Glory V9 is equipped with 4000mAh battery. After 30 minutes of large-scale games (NBA 2K15), 30 minutes of wifi and 4G Internet access, 1 hour of music playing and 30 minutes of local video playing, after a total of 3 hours of endurance testing, the remaining power is 74%.
The performance is very close to that of the One Plus 3T, Meizu PRO 6 Plus, Xiaomi 5s and other competitors, but it is only a little better than the proud V8 with the battery "only" 3500mAh. The endurance performance is normal, but it is slightly lower than the expected 4000mAh level. Of course, this is only a 3.5 hour test. If the test time is prolonged, the gap will slowly widen.
Fast charging power at low power
Fast charging power under high electric quantity
Glory V9 supports Huawei's FCP fast charging, and supports up to 9V/2A charging. When the power is low, the maximum power can reach about 18W. When the power is sufficient, the power can also reach about 13W.
From 5% to 100% charge, 10 minutes to 18%, 30 minutes to 39%, 45 minutes to 52%, 1 hour to 65%, 90% to 1 hour and 28 minutes, and a total of 1 hour and 50 minutes. It should be noted that some models with battery capacity up to 4000mAh will not have the common trickle charging process after the power exceeds 90%, and Glory V9 is of this type. Due to its larger capacity, the fast charging speed is average, but the overall time is not much slower than the smaller model.
In terms of heating, after 20 minutes of NBA 2K15, the highest temperature on the front of the machine appears on the right side of the top, about 41.9 degrees; The highest temperature on the back appears below the camera, about 40.9 degrees. Because it is a metal body, it will be a little hot to touch, but the overall performance is normal.
summary
From the perspective of new generation products, Glory V9 is a boring product. The new design itself has a high face impact rate in the domestic market, and there are no particularly important characteristic changes. Even the camera parameters are the same as those of the previous generation. From the perspective of an independent product, the workmanship is excellent, the performance of the 2K screen is average, the system is mature and easy to use (but there are some minor problems), the CPU performance is peerless, the photography has slightly improved, but the overall performance is not top, and the endurance performance is slightly lower than expected.
Glory V9 is very good“ The bucket type machine, except for its fast speed, is not brilliant anywhere else. his The situation is somewhat similar to Lenovo's ZUK Z2 a year ago. It is the cheapest Kirin 960 model and one of the fastest mobile phones now. Unexpectedly, the Kirin processor, which was used to by everyone several years ago because of its performance, heat and compatibility, has become a selling point supporting the entire product.
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