In the past 2016, compared with the models of international manufacturers, the new models of domestic manufacturers have given us more surprises, including the full screen concept machine launched by Xiaomi, the Meizu flagship of Exynos, the Porsche design model that is one of the most advanced, and the finished product that combines the strengths of all families. Before the new aircraft is launched in 2017, let's see how powerful the domestic flagship is today.
Appearance design
In appearance, the design style orientation of the four models is quite different, and the most impressive one must be Xiaomi MIX, the concept machine of Xiaomi. The black body, which is designed with a full screen and is made of ceramic, is a step further than the frameless mobile phones previously launched by Sharp, and even accounts for more than 90% of the screen. The narrow black edge of the screen can be almost ignored on the black body, and the moment when the screen is lit is quite amazing. Although Xiaomi later launched the white version, the black version is better in appearance.
Huawei's Mate 9 Porsche design is not very different from the ordinary Mate 9 Pro in appearance. It is also a body design that is basically symmetrical from top to bottom, from left to right. Only the logo of Porches Design is added on the forehead and back. With the Leica 2 dual camera, fingerprint recognition is also rarely integrated on the front Home key. However, the all black color scheme adopted by the Porsche design model, together with the vertical brushed metal grain on the back, is higher than the Mate 9 Pro in terms of the forced grid.
The design of vivo Xplay6 is very conservative, but it just integrates the current popular elements: four sided curved screen+all metal body+domed U-shaped antenna+rear dual camera. It can be said that vivo is not a crab eater, but vivo is the first manufacturer to combine these elements. Obviously, vivo adopts such a design to cater to the mass market. After all, it is a market-oriented manufacturer.
The PRO 6 Plus is a typical Meizu style. Whether it is the round waist home key that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, or the familiar interface key layout plus the round metal body, it can be summarized as the enlarged version of PRO 6 in a word. PRO 6 Plus is a machine that fully displays the elements of the Meizu family. I believe that kerosene will feel a sense of intimacy when it is picked up.
Screen quality
Among the four models, the Xiaomi MIX is a customized 17:9 1080P LCD screen, and the other three are 2K resolution AMOLED screens provided by Samsung. The screen size of the four machines is more than 5.5 inches, and the Xiaomi MIX is even 6.4 inches.
In terms of screen quality, the highest manual brightness of the four machines is Xiaomi MIX, which is close to 600 nits. The Porsche design of vivo Xplay6 and Mate 9 provides burst mode in automatic mode; In terms of color temperature, all the contrast models cater to the preference of Asians. The color gamut covers more than 100% of the sRGB color gamut. In terms of color accuracy, Xiaomi MIX has the lowest average DeltaE, and Xplay6 has the highest average DeltaE. The performance is fairly good, but there is still a certain distance between the color accuracy of iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S7.
System experience
In the system, only Mate 9 Porsche design is equipped with the EMUI 5.0 based on Android 7.0, which is also the leading place of its competitors. The smoothness of the main system of EMUI 5.0 this time, through intelligent learning and automatic optimization, combined with powerful hardware, the Mate 9 Porsche design is indeed very smooth in operation. As for whether it is consistent with the publicity to achieve 18 months without getting stuck, it will leave time to prove. Like its predecessor, Mate 9 Porsche Design has a custom theme built into the system, but to be honest, this theme does not match the design style of Porsche, which is a small shortcoming.
Of course, Xiaomi MIX is equipped with MIUI 8. Based on Android 6.0, Xiaomi MIX is the first Xiaomi machine to use virtual buttons on the screen. There are certain changes in both the proportion of the screen (17:9) and the layout of the system. The three king keys below can be integrated into the levitation ball to get a better visual experience. These are different from other Xiaomi machines. Unfortunately, the Xiaomi MIX has similar problems with the Mate 9 Porsche design, and the MIUI theme falls far behind the very avant-garde design.
PRO 6 Plus is naturally the Flyme 6 of its own, and it also released test firmware to fix the big low power bugs in hardware. The system fluency and the loading speed of application games have been improved, finally achieving the performance that the flagship model should have. Of course, the small and fresh style that Flyme has maintained since its birth has also been inherited. The characteristic functions such as mTouch are not lost. Meizu's family style design is not only reflected in the appearance, but also the system is a feature of Meizu.
The Xplay6 is equipped with Funtouch OS. There is nothing special about the interface. It is iOS like on the whole. With the music screen features, it also adds a quick call menu like Samsung. Funtouch OS is modified based on Android 6.0.1 as a whole, including the cancellation of the secondary menu, the built-in Hi Fi music player and other features. It is the same as other Vivo machines, and similar to the appearance design, it is aimed at public users.
Actual performance
On the SoC, the Mate 9 Porsche design uses its own Kirin 960, the PRO 6 Plus holds Samsung's thigh and uses the latest Exynos 8890, and the Xiaomi MIX and vivo Xplay6 are Qualcomm's 800 series processors. All SoCs in the manufacturing process are 14nm or 16nm processes, of which Kirin 960 has the most advanced architecture, which uses the combination of quad core A73+quad core A53, and GPU is also the latest Mali-G71; PRO 6 Plus is a full blooded version of Exynos 8890. The mongoose core can even reach the main frequency of 2.6GHz, and the GPU is stacked T880@MP12 ； Xiaomi and vivo are equipped with Snapdragon 821/820, both Kyro customized size cores+Adreno 530, but they are different in primary frequency.
Because of its leading architecture, Kirin 960 takes the first place in the score of GeekBench 4, followed by Exynos 8890, and Snapdragon 820 is no surprise because the dominant frequency is lower than 821. However, the absolute difference between the single core performance of the four is not big, and the actual score of Mate 9 Porsche design is a little higher than Mate 9, which is somewhat surprising. In the RAR test, because the Snapdragon 821/820 only opens small cores, there is a big gap. In terms of multi-core, there is also a big gap because only four cores are equipped.
In the graphics test project, the four have won or lost each other, and the gap is also within a millionth of a millimetre. It is somewhat unexpected that the Xplay6 equipped with Snapdragon 820 occupies the first place in the advanced 3D Mark test. Compared with the 821 with higher frequency, the score is higher. I wonder whether vivo has optimized this part. The Mate 9 Porsche is equipped with 256G UFS 2.1 by default, so it has obvious advantages in read-write performance.
Photo performance
In terms of photography, both the Xplay6 and Mate 9 Porsche designs follow the trend and adopt a dual camera scheme. However, the Mate 9 Porsche design adopts a color+black and white mode, while the Xplay6 is a main camera with a secondary depth of field camera, which is slightly different; Xiaomi MIX adopts the customized camera provided by OV because of its design requirements; Meizu adopts the previous flagship IMX386 CMOS sensor. Among the four, only Xiaomi MIX has reached 16 million pixels, and the other three main cameras are all 12 million pixels. Xiaomi MIX is the smallest in terms of unit pixel area.
Xiaomi MIX is a familiar interface to all of us. Xiaomi has not added any special functions to it. HDR and mode selection are also identical with other models of Xiaomi. The shooting, focusing and imaging speed are all in line, and there is nothing surprising.
Similar to Xiaomi, the PRO 6 Plus has no difference from Meizu's model in terms of interface and function, and is almost the same as PRO 6 in terms of hardware. However, the official said that the PRO 6 Plus uses the famous iris algorithm. In addition, it is unknown whether it is the reason for the test version of firmware, and the action is obvious when focusing.
The Mate 9 Porsche design is no different from the general version. It provides a variety of shooting modes. With dual cameras, it has a variety of playing methods. If you want to say the difference, the watermark of "features" is the words of Porches Design.
Compared with Xplay6, it is much simpler. Only the dual camera virtualization function is more prominent. The virtual aperture can be adjusted freely, and what you see is what you get when you take a picture. The experience is good. With full pixel dual core focusing, the focusing speed is comparable to Samsung's S7 series, and the algorithm also has the advantage of iris.
First, let's compare the dual camera virtualization of the Mate 9 Porsche design and the Xplay6. The implementation principles and algorithms of the two are different. The Mate 9 Porsche design and the Mate 9 Pro are the same. They try to achieve the natural depth of field effect through virtualization; The sample of Xplay6 is more like Gaussian blurring directly outside the central focus area, which is a bit simple and rough. When set to the same virtual aperture size, the performance of both is half the weight, and there are obvious processing traces on the proof.
In this group of comparison samples, the best performance of the four machines is Xplay6. The white balance, noise control, and the restoration of light and dark parts are excellent; PRO 6 Plus is a bit unexpected. Except for the slightly inferior white balance and some underexposure, almost all other parts can compete with Xplay6; The performance of Mate 9 Porsche design is the same as that of Mate 9 Pro, with the best performance in details, but the white balance in standard mode is not very accurate; The sample of Xiaomi MIX can only be said to be barely passed. 16 million pixels did not show the difference in details, but it was the worst of the four.
The white balance in the Xiaomi MIX group of proofs drifted seriously, showing an extreme blue bias, while the exposure was also insufficient; Mate 9 Porsche design is slightly lacking in white balance, but the details and noise are best controlled; PRO 6 Plus is the most balanced, the only disadvantage is that the sky is slightly overexposed; The sample of Xplay6 is a little overexposed, and it appears that the center brightness is high, but other aspects are excellent.
In terms of ultimate discrimination, PRO 6 Plus surpasses Mate 9 Porsche design and Xplay6 in this group of samples. It seems that Meizu's iris algorithm has made a significant contribution this time, which is a slight deficiency in exposure and white balance; The performance of the Xplay6 is as excellent as ever, only slightly inferior to Mate 9 Porsche design and PRO 6 Plus in details; Mate 9 Porsche design failed in details for the first time, which is remarkable in other aspects; Xiaomi MIX ranked last without any accident. Such details are not only the flagship machine, but also some high-end machines.
In general, the white balance, noise control, and the details of light and shade of the Xplay6 are the best when the light is sufficient; The design of Mate 9 Porsche is a little inferior, but its analytical power is the strongest among the four engines; PRO 6 Plus does not perform as well as Meizu. In some scenes, except for some exposure problems, it almost catches up with Xplay6 in terms of white balance and details; Due to the inherent defect of the hardware, the 16 million pixels of the Xiaomi MIX are useless. The details are far less than those of the other three machines. The white balance is also easy to drift. The proofs often appear blue.
Switch to the low light scene, and the advantage of Xplay6 is even greater. Only the text of Xplay6 is clearer in this group of samples, and the noise control is also very good. At the same time, the brightness is automatically increased to capture more content; Mate 9 Porsche design has higher brightness when shooting this scene, and the words on the signboard can barely be seen. However, due to the high brightness, the white balance and noise control are weak; PRO 6 Plus most restores the light environment at that time, but there are many noise spots and smears, so you can hardly see the smaller text; The shortcomings of Xiaomi MIX that its pixels per unit area are too small are exposed, and the gap between Xiaomi MIX and the other three machines is too large.
In the garage environment, the white balance of PRO 6 Plus and Xplay6 is relatively accurate. Xplay6 is better at restoring light, and Xiaomi MIX still appears blue; In terms of details, Mate 9 Porsche design is the best, followed by Xplay6, PRO 6 Plus and Xiaomi MIX; In terms of exposure, Mate 9 Porsche design tends to overexpose, while PRO 6 Plus tends to overexpose.
In the scene with insufficient light, Xplay6 will widen the gap. When detecting poor light, it will automatically increase the brightness of the image. The performance of white balance, noise control, and light and dark details are the best and most stable of the four machines; The white balance of PRO 6 Plus is a bit erratic. It performs well at one time, but it will shift significantly at the same time. In addition, the algorithm is similar to iOS, preferring to lower the ISO. The details are good, but the smearing marks are heavy; The light metering of Mate 9 Porsche design is slightly brighter. Although there are a little more noise points, the details are also retained, which is a little worse than the noise reduction of Xplay6 multi frame; As for Xiaomi MIX, due to its hard power, it is unable to compete in terms of white balance, noise control and discrimination.
Battery life charging
In our (WeChat official account: Love to play computer games ） In the conventional three hour endurance test, Xiaomi MIX with a maximum battery capacity of 4400mAh won the first place without any doubt; However, the performance of Mate 9 Porsche design is also quite excellent, only 1% less than Xiaomi MIX, and the remaining 79%; The XPlay6 and PRO 6 Plus have 72% of the remaining power, which is the average level of the current flagship.
In particular, if the PRO 6 Plus is set to the high-performance mode, the power consumption will be more than 20% due to the full power on in the game part, and the endurance will be greatly shortened. After the entire test, only 65% of the power will be left.
Although the battery life is a little disappointing, the charging speed of the PRO 6 Plus is quite violent, from 5% to 100%, it only takes about 1.5 hours; In the later stage, the trickle charging of Mate 9 Porsche design affected the whole performance. However, within one hour, the charging speed of Mate 9 Porsche design was only second to that of PRO 6 Plus, which could charge more than 80%. The other two machines, Xiaomi MIX and Xplay6, were less than 80%. All four machines are equipped with fast charging by default, so they can be fully charged within 2 hours.
Final
As 2017's new aircraft approaches, it is worthwhile to start with these "outdated" flagship if the price can be lowered. The design of Xiaomi MIX leads to limited CMOS selection and unsatisfactory photography, but other parts are absolutely flagship, especially the appearance; The all black color matching of Mate 9 Porsche design makes it more outstanding. It will not disappoint people in terms of performance, photography or endurance. The disadvantage is the price of Porsche design; Meizu finally stopped polishing MediaTek with Exynos. PRO 6 Plus has many highlights, especially the performance of taking photos, which makes people can't believe that it is Meizu's work; As a benchmark, the Xplay6 hardware is not outdated until now, except that the Snapdragon 820 is no longer the flagship SoC. The biggest problem is whether the Vivo brand can sustain such a premium.
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