Before the press conference, the over hyped publicity strategy made Lenovo Z5 still suffer from massive public opinions even though it broke the price performance record of Snapdragon 636. For Hongmi, Meilan and Nokia, the starting price of 1299 yuan for the 6+64 version is the biggest selling point of Lenovo Z5. As netizens said, Lenovo Z5 is not "flagship model", but Love to play computer games It's a studio for products. Let's take a cool look at the phone itself, despite the public opinion.
Parameters and devices
The yellow position is the core advantage of this model
On the 6+64 version, Lenovo Z5 was 400 yuan, 500 yuan, 600 yuan and 400 yuan cheaper for the first four Snapdragon 636 phones. But the cheapest Snapdragon 636 is still kept by the red rice Note 5.
Lenovo Z5 is equipped with a 6.2 inch 2246 * 1080 19:9 LCD Liu Haiping, Snapdragon 636+6GB memory+64/128GB storage, 3300mAh battery, 16 million+8 million rear, 8 million front, and Android 8.1 based ZUI 3.9. Schumann Black 6+64 version costs 1299 yuan, other colors 1399 yuan, and 6+128 version costs 1799 yuan.
Original list:
In this parameter, there is almost no rival screen at the same price. It is the FT8716F_5P9 of Youda, but unfortunately it is a video mode (consumes some power);
Fingerprint identification uses a header;
The front is Howell's OV88568 megapixel, 1/4 inch, 1.12 μ m, and supports iHDR;
With a rear F2.0 aperture, the sensor is Howell's OV1688516 million pixels, 1/3.06 inch, 1 μ m, and supports PDAF and zHDR. This sensor supports the highest 4K@60fps But Lenovo Z5 camera can record up to 4K30 frames;
The auxiliary picture of 8 million pixels is Hynix HI846, 1/4 inch, 1.12 μ m, which is responsible for the visualization of the human image and does not participate in the imaging.
Appearance and workmanship
The pure white paper box is packed with a red waist seal, with a red Lenovo logo on the front and side. The accessories include the manual, warranty, card needle, Type-C data cable, Qualcomm QC quick charging head and silicone sleeve.
The silicone sleeve delivered is thick, and the quick charging head has a rare one-time sealing film. The charging head model is SC-58, with a maximum output of 18W (9V/2A or 12V/1.5A), which is manufactured by Jiangsu Chenyang. Note that Lenovo Z5 officially marks the maximum charging power as 15W. In the following charging test, the maximum power is about 15.3W.
Lenovo Z5 adopts the Liu Haiping design, and the lower left corner of the factory frosted anti scratch film is easy to tear
Lenovo Z5 claims that the screen accounts for 90% (it should not calculate the fringe area). Its side border control is average, but the bottom border width control is good, not as good as OV and One Plus 6, but it is narrower than Xiaomi MIX 2S and most Liu Haiping mobile phones, and even narrower than its own fringe. The fringe width control is fairly good, close to one plus six, which is much more natural than the big fringe of Xiaomi 8 series. The four corners of the screen have large rounded corners that are consistent with the corners. The overall effect is OK.
The back of Lenovo Z5 is 2.5D Corning gorilla glass. The coating under the glass claims to have undergone eight layers of processing. Even if we get this black version, it will also have longitudinal reflection in the light as the viewing angle changes. The vertical dual camera and flash are placed separately. Like P20, they are designed as "exclamation marks", and the bottom is the bright Lenovo logo.
Personally, I still like this low-key and bright coating design, but I don't know why. Samsung, Glory, 360 and other manufacturers who used similar designs in the past have not continued. Oh, by the way, there is also an anti fingerprint coating on the back.
Classic "and or card slot"
Lenovo Z5 screen edge plastic washer is very special. This is the first time we have seen a machine with injection molding process on the screen washer. The gasket is directly flush with the bright side cutting edge of the aluminum alloy middle frame. Although the edge of the gasket itself still has a slight scratch, it has a better feel and visual sense than the traditional gasket. In terms of layout, the most special thing is that the microphone and speaker are placed on the same side, and the headphone connector is reserved on the other side.
Color matching, feel, fingerprint/face unlocking
Aurora, XLR Blue and Shuman Black
Auroral color
Among the three colors, the aurora color must have a large light source to reflect light, so that you can see the gradient effect similar to Huawei P20 series. The effect under ordinary light is closer to blue black, and this version is also black framed. In terms of color particularity, XLR blue is the most special. After all, the border is also blue.
The fingerprint identification of Lenovo Z5 requires about 15 times of pressing. The recognition rate is OK, but the speed is close to Samsung's flagship model and slower than the fingerprint speed of domestic peers. Lenovo Z5 is also one of the few domestic mobile phones that use Android native smart lock to provide face recognition. The recognition speed is average, but the overall experience is better than expected. It can be unlocked even when the light is dark, and the angle requirements are not high. However, like most mobile phones, you have to turn on the screen to unlock, and you have to turn on the power button or turn on the double click function, which affects the experience of face unlocking.
In terms of hand feel, the current 6.2 inch bangs screen can be understood as the longitudinal extension of the previous 5.5 inch 1080P screen. The horizontal width is very close to the final size of the phone. Lenovo Z5 uses an arc shaped aluminum alloy middle frame. The radians of the four corners are smooth, and there is no problem in holding the frame. It is better than OPPO R15 and MIX 2/2S models with flat back covers, but it is more supportive than vivo X21 and one plus 6 models with curved back covers. But at the same time, with Lenovo Z5 and MIX 2S, the author still takes the wrong one all day.
screen
Lenovo Z5, a 6.2 inch 2246 * 1080 19:9 LCD Liu Haiping, and OPPO vivo、 Yijia and Xiaomi 8 are different. They buy rare LCD materials. The 403's PPI, which is not in the P row, is fine, and there is no annoying PWM dimming strobe like the A screen. For users who do not like AMOLED screens, Lenovo Z5, Nokia X6 and Huawei P20 are among the few Liu Haiping products.
Color gamut and color standard under sRGB standard
Color gamut and color standard under P3 standard
In objective test, the maximum brightness of both manual and automatic is about 716 nits, and the extreme brightness is very high even in the LCD screen. The screen contrast is 1502:1 when it is close to 100 nits in daily use; The screen color temperature is 7093K, slightly warm; The color gamut reaches 133.7% of the sRGB color gamut, while the P3 color gamut covers 98.3%, which is a pure high color gamut screen.
In terms of color accuracy, the most commonly used sRGB color gamut in daily life, with the average delta E 4.1 and the highest delta E 6.5 (the lower the better), shows a medium to medium distance; P3 color gamut, the color accuracy is good, average 3.3, the highest 5.7 (the lower the better). This screen belongs to a gorgeous and pleasing type. It looks good to the naked eye. The drag control is even better than Xiaomi's flagship LCD screen.
This screen is the most "flagship" of Lenovo Z5. It can crush the Red Rice Note5, Magic Blue E3, Nut Pro 2 Special Edition and Nokia X6. It has no competition at the price of 1299 yuan, even better than many domestic flagship.
performance
Lenovo Z5 is the fifth major mobile phone equipped with Snapdragon 636 after the special versions of Red Rice Note5, Magic Blue E3, Nokia X6 and Nut Pro 2. Snapdragon 636 is the orthodox successor of Snapdragon 625, the "generation god U". In terms of configuration balance, Snapdragon 636 has no rivals at the same price. Of course, it would be a bit excessive to ask it to support the name of the flagship.
It is jokingly called the reduced frequency youth version of Snapdragon 660, and it is also the only entry SoC with four A73 like large cores (14nm LPP process, 4 * 1.8GHz Kryo 260+4 * 1.6GHz Kryo 260, and the large core and small core are Qualcomm's semi autonomous architectures based on A73 and A53 respectively). Qualcomm claims that the CPU performance of Snapdragon 636 is 40% higher than that of Snapdragon 630. Its GPU is Adreno 509.
We use all Snapdragon 636 models except the NutPro 2 special version, and Nokia 7 as the representative of Snapdragon 630 as a comparison:
CPU operation performance test
Memory performance test
GPU graphics performance test
Storage performance test
Lenovo Z5 performed well in the RAR and GPU tests, while its memory and flash memory performance were moderate, which was a very classic Snapdragon 636 score. This performance is enough to comprehensively crush Snapdragon 625/626/630 and a large number of MediaTek entry-level SoCs, but it is still far from Snapdragon 660. It is enough to ensure the fluency of daily use. It is also sufficient that the number of king glory frames is not high, but it is difficult to stimulate the battlefield.
The biggest advantage of Snapdragon 636 is its energy efficiency ratio. Its absolute performance is not as good as that of middle and high-end, but it is strong. Lenovo Z5's CPU can reach the highest frequency even if it is double baked for 10 minutes at 24 ℃. The final effect is that the daily endurance is close to the Snapdragon 625 model, and above the Snapdragon 845/660 model.
System
Lenovo Z5 is equipped with ZUI 3.9 based on Android 8.1, and Lenovo officially promised to upgrade Android P at the press conference. Today's ZUI is more like native Android, except for its desktop, notification bar and control center (call out at the home key). The previous step counting and health functions of ZUI are still available, but there is still no scrolling screenshot.
The system menu is close to the original style, but the categories of the first and second level menus are different. Lenovo has the functions only available in domestic ROMs, such as "red packet assistant, game mode, application separation, background chain start blocking, position traversal". In addition, there is the function of switching between WeChat chat and reading window (the new version of WeChat has finally been available). The overall function is relatively complete, and this generation of voice assistant can perform multi-step operations in WeChat, maps and other apps like Samsung Bibxy.
However, Lenovo's previous U-Touch function has become a full screen gesture, with a deep level of reception. The settings such as "up stroke back, up stroke stay back to the home page, up stroke multi task on the left, and up stroke control center on the right" are also unique. The learning cost is high, and the transition and reaction speed of the current version of animation need to be improved. The author has not been used to it for several days. In terms of efficiency and speed, the iPhone X is more popular and easy to use.
In addition, Lenovo Z5 is one of the few mobile phones that does not use bangs by default. By default, the system does not use bangs for viewing pictures and videos (bangs are directly displayed in black). You have to manually turn on the Notch function in the developer's options to work like normal bangs first. It is vaguely felt that Lenovo officials do not seem to agree with the bangs.
ZUI 3.9 comes with a full range of Goolge services, and the officially announced battery optimization has brought about an extremely aggressive application background cleaning mechanism. Some obscure applications have to be reloaded after hanging in the background for a few minutes, and it is basically impossible to use up the 6GB of memory every day. It is recommended to manually open the auto start function for frequently used cold door applications, otherwise it is annoying to always overload. In addition, the negative screen of Lenovo Z5 is that the news stream cannot be closed now, and users who cannot accept it have to manually change their desktop launchers.
As mentioned above, this system is more and more like native Android, but except for this background problem and the bad habit of full screen gestures, there is no problem in use. It is not as good as MIUI and Flyme, but the real class native system of Nokia is still stable.
photograph
Plug in camera app
Lenovo Z5 front is Howell's OV8856, 1/4 inch, 1.12 μ m, supporting iHDR; With a rear F2.0 aperture, the sensor is Howell's OV1688516 million pixels, 1/3.06 inch, 1 μ m, and supports PDAF and zHDR. The Lenovo Z5 camera supports up to 4K30 frames of video recording. The auxiliary camera with 8 million pixels is the depth of field camera, which is responsible for the visualization of the portrait and does not participate in the imaging. The biggest feature of its camera part is that it claims to buy the algorithm of morhpo and Hongruan.
We directly asked Xiaomi MIX 2S, who often appeared in Lenovo's press conference, to take a simple comparison. You should know that the latter is a percentage camera of DxOMark, which ranks high among the domestic flagship. As long as we don't fall behind too much, Lenovo Z5 has already exceeded expectations. If you are interested in the photo comparison of these Snapdragon 636 models, please leave a message on WeChat or Weibo to see if you need another 636 photo review later.
Daytime Scene 1 and Scene 2
Zoom in at the center of scene 1 and scene 2 during the day
Daytime scenario 3 and scenario 4
Zoom in at the left of the center of scene 3 and scene 4 during the day
Indoor Scene 5 and Scene 6
Central magnification of indoor scene 5 and scene 6
Light Scene 7 and Scene 8
Light scene 7 and scene 8 central zoom in
Lenovo Z5 is equipped with automatic HDR and automatic night view. HDR is not strong enough, rollover rate is acceptable, and its impact on discrimination is small. Daily use can keep automatic HDR open for a long time. The shutter response and film forming speed of the machine are average. Because there is no optical anti shake, the film forming rate of weak light is not very high.
In terms of actual production, Lenovo Z5 has little problem with white balance, even the blue sky scene is more accurate than Xiaomi, but the overall metering is dark, and the weak light scene is underexposed. Because the exposure is dark, the image tolerance after HDR is also low, which affects the color saturation. The algorithm of Hongruan is mainly reflected in the fact that both sharpening and smearing are in place. In addition to the pixel advantage of 16 million pixels, the discriminability of daytime and lighting scenes is close to that of Xiaomi MIX 2S. However, there is no comparability between dim light and weak light scenes.
On the whole, Lenovo Z5, a high pixel 1 μ m scheme, is stronger than expected, but the conclusion is consistent with the system part. It is not realistic to play the red rice Note 5 and Magic Blue E3 of IMX 362/S5K2L7, but it should not be a problem to win Nokia X6.
Endurance and charging
Lenovo Z5 is equipped with a 3300mAh battery. After 30 minutes of large-scale games (NBA 2K15), 30 minutes of wifi and 4G Internet access and 30 minutes of local video playback, a total of 2 hours of endurance testing, the remaining power is 78%. The overall endurance of Lenovo Z5 is slightly better than that of Meilan E3, not as good as that of the red rice Note 5 with 4000mAh battery. However, in fact, the gap between them is mainly in the game part, web browsing and video playing.
Lenovo Z5 supports QC fast charging and is equipped with 9V2A, 18W fast charging head as standard. When the power is 6%, the actual power of screen on and screen off is about 15.3W.
Although the power is only 15W, Lenovo Z5 charges very fast. From 5% to 100% charge, it takes 15 minutes to charge 27%, 30 minutes to charge 51%, 45 minutes to charge 71%, and one hour to charge 83%. However, the charging speed starts to slow down after 80% of the power, and it takes a total of 1 hour and 34 minutes to fully charge.
summary
Although the appearance of Lenovo Z5 is beautiful or ugly, its design/manufacturing details and the screen still deserve the name of "flagship". However, from the moment when "Snapdragon 636 is used for SoC, and the starting price is set at 1299 yuan", we should all understand that this is a mobile phone used to call Red Rice Note 5, Magic Blue E3, Nut Pro 2 Special Edition and Nokia X6.
The highest cost performance version of Lenovo Z5 must be the black version with 6+641299 yuan. It's OK to add 100 to blue, but I don't think the effect of the aurora version is obvious, and the border is also black. However, it is unnecessary to sell the 6+128 version at 1799. This version has no price performance. After all, it is not meaningful for the Snapdragon 636 to be equipped with 128G. To go back, it is really necessary to store data. This machine supports TF card expansion.
The objective performance of Lenovo Z5 can be summed up by the sentence "screen crushing, performance, endurance and charging are not different from competitors, but there is pressure on the system and photography". But in front of the huge advantage of price, many weaknesses have become acceptable in an instant. For 1299 mobile phones, the price difference between 4 and 500 is exaggerated. The author also doesn't like the hype before the press conference, but this real machine performance is completely worthy of its own price.
Finally, we conclude with the famous saying of Mr. Wang Jingze, which is "really fragrant".
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