Vivo Xpaly 6 Yes vivo The company's flagship mobile phone of the year, released in November 2016, has a Snapdragon 820, 5.46 inch 2K resolution curved screen, 6G storage, 4080mAh battery supporting dual engine flash charge, rear dual camera and other high-end configurations. At the beginning of its release, there were only gold and rose gold colors. In April this year, Vivo has added a matte black version. Compared with the previous two white and gold versions, the matte black version is more durable and beautiful.
Unpacking
As a flagship machine, the packaging of Xplay6 is not ambiguous. The surface of the white cardboard box has pinhole texture, and the packaging design is very simple. Only the "Xply6" model is stamped with silver stamping process.
The back is divided into public information and independent sticker information, but only matte black is marked on the sticker information, and other configuration information and capacity information are not marked.
The space of the inner box is very loose. The mobile phone only occupies half of the upper floor. The lower floor is full of accessories. The information on the mobile phone is not pasted on it with a film, but printed on a layer of transparent plastic.
Because of its rich accessories, there are two kinds of mobile phone cases, one is transparent, and the other is frosted hard plastic. In addition to the charger, as a VIVO that has always been the main HIFI music phone, there is no shortage of standard earphones.
Although the two mobile phone companies, Vivo and Oppo, share the same boss behind the scenes, they are two companies that have developed independently. Vivo has always been known for its charging technology We know that Vivo has developed a dual engine flash charge technology, which has eased the gap. The output power of the Xpaly6 charger is 5V-2A or 9V-2A, and its charging speed will be tested later.
The model of this earphone is vivo XE680, which is an earplug type wired earphone. The wire material is white plastic, and the sound quality is good. The disadvantage is that white is not very resistant to dirt.
appearance
The vivo Xplay6 matte black version uses a 5.46-inch Super AMOLED display screen with a resolution of 1440 × 2560 pixels, which is a standard 2K screen. Its pixel density has reached 538ppi, the frame size is 2.75mm, and the front screen accounts for 72.78%. The overall parameters are excellent, and the XPlay6 also uses the fifth generation Corning gorilla glass, In addition to the amazing display effect brought by the excellent screen, the anti drop performance is also stronger.
Xplay6 uses a curved screen, which is not an ordinary curved screen, but a four curved screen, that is, the four edges of the upper, lower, left and right screens are curved screens. This four curved screen seems to be the first one created by vivo. The curved surface has a large radian, looks round and smooth, and feels particularly comfortable to hold in your hand.
The front side uses the round waist key style fingerprint identification, but it has the shape of mBack, but does not have the spirit of mBack. Although this key supports touch and press, it only has the function of home key, Android The three adamantine keys have been retained. I think that since there are touch and press functions, in the future, the system upgrade will be able to achieve touch back and press home functions, just depending on whether Vivo wants to do so.
Vivo mobile phones have dominated the front self portrait effect this year. Although XPlay6 does not have the front 20 million soft light dual camera of X9, it also has a front camera of 16 million pixels and is equipped with a soft light.
The back adopts an all metal integrated design, and the whole middle frame and back cover are integrally formed. It is made by anodic oxidation and micron zirconium sand spraying process, which makes it feel better and black more pure.
At present, there are many styles of rear dual camera in the market. One is black and white dual camera with the same pixel, and the other is dual camera with different pixels in dual color. This dual camera is subdivided into two styles: the main high sub low and the main low sub high. XPlay6 uses the main high sub low dual camera style, and the main camera is 1200w pixels Sony IMX362， The secondary camera is 500w pixels. Since the two cmos devices are not equal, only the main camera is slightly convex.
In this style, the secondary camera is only used to record the depth of field, and has no other use. While the black and white dual camera can improve the amount of light input and take more qualitative black and white photos, while the camera with the primary low and secondary high is generally the main 1200w, the secondary 2000w+pixels. The use of the high pixels of the secondary camera can achieve lossless zoom. This style is the new favorite this year. In comparison, XPlay6 is the flagship phone last year and the first dual camera phone of vivo. I believe that the dual camera phone of Xplay7 will be better.
In terms of antenna, The XPlay6 uses a U-shaped, one size fits all, nano injection molding antenna. The dark gray antenna with a black back cover makes the antenna better hidden.
The interfaces at the bottom of the phone are concentrated. Speakers, charging interfaces, microphones and 3.5mm headphone interfaces are placed at the bottom. The charging interface still uses the traditional micro usb interface instead of tpye-C, which may be the only flagship machine that did not use Tpye-C last year. This year's Xplay7 should be able to use the Tpye-c interface.
Since the connectors are concentrated at the bottom, XPlay 6 has no infrared function, so there is only one noise reducing microphone at the top.
The left side is the power key and volume key. It seems that the power key and volume key have been placed on the right side of mobile phones in the past two years, and everyone is used to them. But from the rendering of XPlasy7, it seems that it moved these two keys to the left side of mobile phones, and I don't know why.
The SIM card slot is on the left side of the phone. XPlay6 has two SIM card slots, all of which support All Netcom. As a flagship model, the standard configuration does not have a TF card slot. The domestic flagship models seem to have this practice, and do not like to be equipped with a TF card slot. Fortunately, the Xplay6 matte black version has a large memory of 128G, which is completely enough for ordinary users.
system
Vivo's mobile phone uses its own Funtouch OS system, which is an in-depth customized Android system. At present, the underlying version is Android 6.0. It is said that since August 15, the Funtouch OS 3.0 version with the bottom package of 7.0 will be pushed. In addition, this time, Vivo's adaptation is very strong, covering a wide range of models. As for the UI style, it looks like native from the lock screen, but after unlocking, it is self-evident to look at the desktop icon.
Not only icons, but also pull-down menus and pull-up shortcut toolbars. These UI designs all have a wind vane to pay homage to a certain product. Not only the image, but also the god. Vivo's system should be one of the few Android systems that use the power key and home key to take screenshots.
Of course, Funtouch OS is not just like a certain product, but also has many things of its own. For example, this curved side screen, the curved side screen page pulled out from the side, is actually a quick launch area, where you can add some commonly used applications and contacts, so that you can quickly find them. The placement position of the curved side screen can be adjusted by setting. This interface can be called out from any application, but not from the horizontal version game Called out in the interface.
In addition, the curved surface also has a marquee effect. When your phone is placed face down and there is an incoming call, white light will run across the curved surface from the top to the bottom.
Android 7.0 has added split screen design, while the 6.0 split screen design is mostly made by the manufacturers themselves. The split screen operation of Funtouch OS is troublesome, and the application support requirements are relatively strict, unlike some systems that can support a large number of applications for split screen, and even some systems can separate two screens that do not interfere with each other.
Funtouch OS can only split screens in fixed applications and QQ, WeChat or SMS, and its application scope is relatively narrow. I don't know whether this split screen operation can be better after updating to the bottom package of 7.0.
The application of the separation function is very practical. After all, everyone has more than one WeChat or more than one QQ, and some people even two are not enough, The split screen mode of Funtouch OS is very strange, because the way it uninstalls applications is not the traditional Android method of pulling up to the top to delete, but long press the top left corner of the application to delete, so for applications that can split screen, the system adds a "+" sign from the bottom right corner of the image, and click this match to achieve application separation. At present, I found that the system only supports QQ, WeChat and Taobao, which are three separate applications. It is unclear whether other applications are supported.
Finally, let's talk about the shortcomings. "I" of Funtouch OS As a security application of the system, the "butler" application is too weak. There are only three functions on the interface: "space management", "traffic monitoring" and "virus detection and killing". Although it supports permission management, it is not integrated. I don't know whether regular functions such as financial security and harassment interception are supported. In addition, the traffic monitoring function cannot set the traffic up and down, This surprised me.
Hardware
Every mobile phone of vivo has good sound quality performance, XPlay6 is no exception, HIFI sound quality is also one of its main features, which is equipped with the new generation of ESS DAC decoding chip ES9038 and three op amp OPA1622 chips, and for the first time on vivo mobile phones, it has realized hard decoding of the DSD format, which can restore music better and more truly. For music enthusiasts, the music hardware of XPlay 6 is powerful enough. Unfortunately, I don't know much about listening to music, so I can only watch it for amateurs.
Good hardware also needs excellent music Software Support. The music app of the vivo system is in cooperation with QQ Music, and the legitimate music library is very rich, but high-quality music is not free to listen to, it costs money. Second, when trying to listen to ordinary music, there is a "HIFI" button in the upper right corner of the playback interface. After the HIFI function is enabled, the sound quality is much better than that of the ordinary version.
With Anthare, the score is 144805. The Xplay6 mobile phone is in Anthare's score list, and Anthare's score is 141988. This score is high among the Snapdragon 820 CPU models. This year's highest score of the Snapdragon 835 mobile phone is less than 40000 points compared with 820, because the performance of the CPU is fully enough. The system experience score was as high as 127.08 points, indicating that the system fluency was no problem at all. The Snapdragon 820 only supports UFS2.0 on the memory chip at most, and the effect of this memory chip on XPlay6 is very good. The software test shows that the reading speed is 415.01mb/s, and the writing speed is 162.17mb/S, The 4k random reading speed is 95.75mb/s, while the 4k random writing speed is 15.49mb/s. Compared with the UFS2.1 supported by Snapdragon 835, UFS2.0 has a large gap in reading speed and other performance.
The GPU used by Snapdragon 820 is Adreno 530. Even the CPU of last year, as the flagship model, there is no problem playing games. There is no pressure in the middle team battle. Vivo also optimizes the glory of the king very well. The frame rate drops to 27 at the lowest. In the last system version, it supports the high frame rate mode. I don't understand why the high frame rate mode was turned off after the update.
For Xpaly6 with 4000mAh large battery, fast charging is essential. Vivo has added dual engine flash charging to this model. I think this charging technology is stable and heavy, not like OPPO Meizu In the early stage, a large amount of current can be quickly charged, and then slowly charged at a reduced speed. Vivo's dual engine flash charge maintains a charging speed of 4-5% every 5 minutes before 90% of the power. After 90%, 2% of the power will be charged every 5 minutes. After 95%, 1% of the power will be charged every 5 minutes until full. The whole process has been used for 130 minutes, and the charging speed is acceptable.
In terms of power consumption, Vivo is also excellent. It does not consume too much power because of the 2K screen. The power consumption of an eight hour standby time is 3%. The power consumption of an off screen clock is a little higher. About 3% of the power is consumed in two hours. Watching offline videos consumes 8% of the power in one hour. Watching online videos consumes 12% of the power in one hour. Playing King Glory consumes 16% of the power in one hour. In addition, I don't think there is much difference between 50% brightness and 100% brightness in power consumption, but if the brightness is reduced to 20%, it will save power. Such power consumption can fully support one day in moderate use, and two days in mild use without turning off the screen clock.
photograph
The interface of the camera of the Fontouch OS system is relatively simple, and there are all the functions that should be available, and the special effect modes are quite rich. In terms of functions, vivo is quite honest. Double camera virtualization is double camera virtualization, not the whole portrait mode. In terms of mode, The app has many modes, such as night view, ultra clear image quality, document correction, motion anti shake, professional photography, slow lens and time-lapse photography. It is very playable.
In terms of configuration, vivo xplay6 has optical anti shake. Although the optical anti shake performance of the mobile phone is not as good as that of the handheld stabilizer, taking pictures in low light environment is very helpful to improve the film yield.
The imaging is very amazing when the light is sufficient in the daytime, with white balance, accurate color restoration, green lotus leaves, pink Lotus It is actually restored, and the blue sky is not oversaturated and blue. The most amazing thing is that IMX362 CMOS has powerful perspective resolution, high image sharpness, and can restore the details of buildings far away.
This camera also has excellent macro ability. It can directly give full play to the maximum performance of macro in automatic mode, without the need for additional macro mode. In addition, the IMX362 performs well in red suppression. Red petals do not appear serious red overflow, but retain many details of petals. Of course, the current technology cannot completely correct the color overflow.
Normal mode exposure time: 1/25 second ISO: 934
Exposure time in night view mode: 1/10 second ISO: 400
Vivo's night view mode is actually to increase the exposure time to 1/10 second, and reduce the shutter speed to obtain the light input, so as to reduce the ISO value. Fortunately, XPlay6 has optical anti shake, and the exposure time of 1/10 second is generally no problem. From the comparison of the two image quality, the effect of the night view mode is really much better. Of course, this mode is only for the night view with good light conditions, When the light is poor and the shutter speed of the normal mode has been used for 1/10 of a second, there is no difference between the pictures taken by the two. At this time, professional mode and tripod are needed.
In professional mode, vivo can adjust the following parameters: exposure compensation ISO、 The settings of exposure time, white balance, focusing distance, saturation, sharpness and contrast are not supported. This professional mode has a small detail that surprised me. When ISO and shutter speed are manually adjusted, the exposure compensation value will automatically budget the exposure according to the environment, in coordination with ISO and shutter speed values. This is the function of SLR camera manual mode. It is the first time I have seen this function in the mobile phone system. When this function is used, It is very useful to provide an exposure reference for manual mode.
If you want to shoot such streamer effect, you need a lower shutter speed. But now the aperture of the mobile phone is getting bigger and bigger, and the photosensitive performance of CMOS is getting better and better. When the street light is half off, the shutter speed of XPlay6 is still only 2 seconds. If you slow down, you will be overexposed.
Only in this case of extreme weak light can the slow gate of 32 seconds be used for shooting. However, when the slow gate is used for shooting Xplay6, the white noise in the picture is very serious, and the longer the exposure time is, the more serious the noise is. As shown in the above figure, if the exposure is not 32 seconds, and the stars have a tailing effect caused by displacement, it is difficult to distinguish the stars from the noise in the whole picture~
This function uses two cameras on the back of the phone to take two pictures at the same time, and then through the post algorithm, the non focus picture image is virtualized to obtain a more beautiful picture of the background. Xplay6's dual camera virtualization can be enabled in two modes, namely, photographing and beautifying.
By default, the function of taking pictures before focusing is enabled for photos taken with dual camera virtualization. The focus can be re selected for photos taken later, which is very convenient. For example, the photo I took above, if necessary, I can save two photos with clear children's faces, and manually synthesize a photo with clear children's faces but fuzzy background. In the experience, I think there are two problems with the double camera virtualization. One is the shutter card. After taking one picture, you need to wait for a few seconds to take another picture. This is very bad for capturing. It is recommended to improve the shutter response speed and transfer the post shooting photo processing to the background processing. 2. Re focus later and save the original image instead of creating a new image file. It is recommended that the saved image be a new file that cannot be modified again.
Soft self portrait has always been the main self portrait function of vivo. There is no doubt that in the case of insufficient light, the front self portrait soft light can provide a certain light compensation effect to make the photos more beautiful.
Before using the soft light, you can still feel the difference. It's just sunset, and the light is not very bad.
summary
Although XPlay6 was released last year, its configuration, shape, material and photography are still quasi flagship. Recently, the convergence of smart phones has become more and more obvious. In order to seek change, manufacturers have added more colors to mobile phones, The vivo Xplay6 is still too conservative. After the addition of matte black, there are only three colors. In comparison, the colors are not enough and rich enough. As far as the leaked information is concerned, the upcoming Xplay7 in September has only three colors on its shell: white, gold and black. The shell color is not as bold as the X9. In terms of the system, the performance of Funtouch OS is relatively mediocre. The surface of the mobile phone still has room for development, and there are also areas that need to be improved in terms of functions, such as the most commonly used red envelope reminder function. I wonder whether the upcoming Android 7.0 version has any major functional improvements. In terms of photographing, the camera's expressiveness is well adjusted. In addition to the long exposure noise, we hope to add more interesting modes. As for the price, 4498 yuan is really not low in the domestic mobile phone market. You need to have some economic strength to buy it.
