360 is one of the manufacturers with the fastest iteration and the most intensive press conferences in recent years. 360's Nseries phones and N5/N6/N7 all maintain the rhythm of half a year, and the small upgrade N5s even takes only three months. This time, the upgrade of the 360 mobile phone N7 is mainly about the appearance process and battery capacity. It is still a cost-effective route. Its configuration is similar to that of the N6 Pro at the end of the previous year, but the release price is lower, 200 yuan lower for version 6+64, and 500 yuan lower for version 6+128.
Appearance and accessories
360's signature pure red package, with accessories including card pick-up pin, quick charger, mirco USB cable and gift card for mobile games. The quick charging head model is QK-S005, the maximum output is 9V/2A or 12V/1.5A, 18W, manufactured by Jiangsu Chenyang. In addition, it is rare in the mobile phone industry to send a mobile travel gift package, but it has already been set as the 360 brand.
The 360 mobile phone N7 comes with a non full screen mask, but it doesn't send a silicone protective case like most manufacturers this year. The one we got is a black version. The corners are rounded. The camera and sensor are on the left side of the earpiece. The width of the lower border is close to that of the 360N6 Pro. Similarly, no touch button is used.
Fingerprint on the back, antenna partition strip with width larger than that of ordinary mobile phones, and the edge of camera and fingerprint have bright side trimming. This is the first time that 360 has made the metal material so textured, and the antenna has finally adopted the injection molding process, so the whole back cover has a uniform feel.
Two waistlines are made on both sides of the fuselage, which is more robust than the previous generation. The power key has a grid pattern, and the tolerance and virtual position control are not bad. The volume key of the whole body has a slight virtual position. The card slot supports dual nano SIM cards or single SIM card+TF card expansion.
There are plastic washers on the edge of the integrated metal body and the screen. The washers are not raised as high as vivo and OPPO. The directly raised washers feel a bit like "floating screen" before, which makes the screen zoom slightly. Oh, by the way, almost all mobile phones with mirco USB interface retain the headphone interface. This time, 360 also used the injection molding process for the gasket beside the headphone port.
This time, the appearance design of the 360 mobile phone N7 is commendable, and the aesthetic is not good to evaluate, but the workmanship and details, if there is no accident, are the best 360 phones. Tolerance, injection antenna and various washer settings are much more refined. In addition to the screen washer, the overall feel is OK.
Because the battery capacity is up to 5030mAh, and the body weight is up to 190g (the higher the lithium battery capacity, the heavier the weight), the iPhone 6s Plus (192g) is fast catching up. Although there is still a gap with the 202g of the iPhone 8 Plus, it is already a relatively heavy product in the Android camp.
screen
Standard mode covers 98.9% of sRGB color gamut (the closer to 100%, the better)
104 color deltaE (the smaller the value, the better)
The 360 mobile phone N7 is equipped with a 5.99 inch 2160 * 1080 LCD screen, with the highest brightness of 414 nits in the center and 416-436 nits in the four corners. The extreme brightness is low, and it is almost caught up by the AMOLED screen. The system provides four modes: standard, eye protection, black and white and custom. The custom mode rarely provides multiple manual adjustment options such as saturation, color temperature and contrast.
In the default standard mode, the objective test is carried out at a brightness close to 100 nits in daily use. The contrast of the 360 mobile phone N7 is 1235:1, and the performance is OK; The color gamut covers 98.9% of sRGB color gamut; With a color temperature of 9619K (standard color temperature of 6500K), it is the phone with the highest and coldest color temperature on the default screen, except for Sony's previous flagship and Nokia X. Even compared with the D70 standard, the deltaE of 104 colors is higher, with an average of 6.1 and a maximum of 14.
system
The underlying system of the 360 mobile phone N7 is very new, with 360OS 3.0 based on Android 8.1. The system smoothness is similar to that of 360N6 Pro and other Snapdragon 660 models, and there is no problem in daily use. The system is equipped with a one button switch of Google service. Property protection, private system, location traversal (it usually takes root to customize the location), refrigerator (similar to the refrigerator app commonly used by players) and game accelerator (automatically improve the resource scheduling of the game and pop up the window to control the notification) are all very grounded functions.
The common functions and background management are sound, but recently 360's system seems to be increasing the proportion of advertising content. There are more advertisements for native apps such as app stores, and there is no plan to skip, which has a certain impact on the experience.
performance
Snapdragon 660 is the most representative mid tier SoC in the two years between Snapdragon 650/652 and Snapdragon 710. The core features are the same baseband DSP， The CPU and ISP have been greatly improved, which is a rare big toothpaste for Qualcomm.
We use Xiaomi 6X Z18 mini， As well as Meizu in the 2499 price range, the three Snapdragon 660 models are used as a comparison, and the Nokia X6 in the Snapdragon 636 is used as a reference.
CPU operation performance test
Memory performance test
GPU graphics performance test
Storage performance test
The performance of 360 mobile phone N7 in the RAR multi-core and pi tests that require multi-threaded bursts is good. The performance of memory and flash memory is average, while the GPU test that is directly related to the game wins or loses with Meizu 15, Xiaomi 6X and other machines. The overall performance is OK.
photograph
The positioning of the 360 mobile phone N7 is more like a product optimized for games and other heavy applications. There is a gap between the camera and the mid-range products that have begun to optimize the camera, such as Hongmi Note5 and Meilan E3. Its camera specification is close to that of N6 Pro. The main camera is Samsung S5K3P816 million, 1/3.1 "bottom, 1 micron per pixel, F2.0 aperture; The secondary camera is the Sibico SP2509V sensor responsible for depth of field information and virtualization, with 2 million pixels and F2.4 aperture. The front is Howell's OV88568 megapixel, F2.2 aperture.
The actual performance of the camera is also similar to that of the N6 Pro, which is mainly used to meet the daily simple recording needs. There is no optical anti shake and it is a small pixel. Weak light is easy to shake the paste film by hand and the exposure is insufficient. The weak light performance is slightly better than expected, and the application force is not as strong as that of N6 Pro, which belongs to the type of preserving picture details and noise.
Weak light sample central amplification
Extremely weak light proof sheet
Endurance&Charging&Heating
After Jinli stopped making changes, the 360 mobile phone N7 became the only mainstream manufacturer to make a "super endurance" model. The battery capacity of the N7 of 360 mobile phone is up to 5030mAh, an increase of 25% compared with 360's regular 4000mAh, and 66.7% compared with the mainstream 3000mAh. This level of battery capacity, as a standby machine, is also very fierce.
After 30 minutes of large-scale games (NBA 2K15), 30 minutes of wifi and 4G Internet access and 30 minutes of local video playback, the 360 mobile phone N7 has 82% remaining power after a total of 2 hours of endurance test. Completely unsurprisingly, it surpassed a large number of models with 4000mAh batteries. In the two-hour test, it was able to open a 4% gap with the 360N6 Pro of SoC, and the effect was immediate.
The 360 mobile phone N7 supports QC3.0 fast charging. The standard 9V2A charger can charge from 5% - 100% in 10 minutes to 18%, 30 minutes to 44%, 45 minutes to 62%, and 1 hour to 78%. It takes 1 hour and 43 minutes to fully charge. More than 80% of the power will slowly enter the trickle charge, and the last 10% of the power will take nearly half an hour. Even without considering the 5030mAh battery, the charging speed of the 360 mobile phone N7 is still good, faster than that of the 4000mAh red rice Note5 (using the QC fast charging head of the MIX 2).
As a mobile phone selling games such as Stimulating Battlefield, the CPU tuning of the 360 mobile phone N7 is very active. In the baking machine test, even if the power is below 20, the room temperature is 26 degrees, the CPU MIX 2 mode+GPU double baking, the 360 mobile phone N7 can still have intermittent high-frequency after 700 seconds of baking.
The room temperature is 26 degrees. After 20 minutes of NBA 2K15, the highest temperature on the front of the machine appears at the upper right corner, about 44.2 degrees; The highest temperature on the back appears just below the camera, which is about 41.7 degrees.
summary
To sum up, the appearance and technology of the N7 generation of 360 mobile phones have been greatly improved, the performance control is active, and the charging speed is OK. However, the weight is too large, and the quality of the screen is not as good as that of taking pictures. This setting is obviously for heavy users of games and mobile browsing.
In the past, 360 mobile phones have always been a firm price performance line, but the competition at this price point is more fierce than ever. This year, Xiaomi and Nubia both have Snapdragon 660 products that pursue price performance. For consumers in this target price range, this year can be said to be very beautiful.
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