On March 10, vivo officially released NEX3S. As an iterative upgrade version of NEX3, there are not many points in this upgrade. It is basically a regular upgrade in terms of performance. So let's hurry to experience it.

The picture was taken by Chen

First, look at the appearance. It is basically the same as NEX3. This time, NEX3S has added a new color matching - amber alcohol. The new color matching has a great controversy on the Internet. Different people have different opinions on whether it looks good or not. The author thinks that the rendered image is a little better than the real machine, and the actual color will be a little darker, but it is relatively good.

The screen is also a 6.89 inch waterfall screen, with a resolution of 2256 × 1080, a screen refresh rate of 60Hz, a screen share of 99.6%, and an elevating front camera;

People who see this screen for the first time will be amazed. The waterfall screen really looks like a piece of technology; For more experience in using the waterfall screen, you can refer to the previous NEX3 article. The experience is basically the same.

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After the amazement, if you look at the screen carefully, you will be lost. The 6.89 inch 1080P A screen is of average fineness. A little closer, you can feel the obvious graininess. The reason is that the screen size is too large. If you can make the screen smaller, the fineness will not be so "embarrassing";

In addition to the general fineness of the screen, there is no high refresh rate, which is still 60Hz. It is a bit unreasonable not to have a high refresh rate among the flagship phones released in the first half of 2020.

Summary The vivo NEX3S screen is beautiful but not endurable. The waterfall screen can give you a temporary sense of pleasure, but when you actually use it again, the fineness of the screen will make you less fond of the screen. I hope the NEX series will improve the resolution of the screen in the future, and whether the direction of the waterfall screen will not comment on us for the time being, But the screen fineness really affects part of the mobile experience.

In terms of hand feel, the 6.89 inch screen, the 9.4mm body thickness, and the 219.5g body weight are doomed to be not a thin and light mobile phone. It has a full sense of weight in the hand, but the hand feel is OK. The quality of the whole machine is also good without scratching the hand; The hidden pressure sensitive keys are used, and the X-axis linear motor can simulate the feeling of pressing. You need to adapt to it when you first use it, but there is no problem after you get used to it.

The top of the fuselage still retains an extremely advanced headphone hole, which supports HiFi, AK4377A independent decoding chip, and still does not have dual speakers;

In terms of performance, the Vivo NEX3S is probably the most flagship. Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC, 8GB/12GB LPDDR5 storage memory, 256GB UFS3.1 body storage, NSA&SA dual mode 5G, and WiFi6 support; The performance is excellent. There is no pressure to deal with the current mainstream games. The system is based on the Android 10 Funtouch OS 10, and daily use is also very smooth.

It supports full function NFC, and can add traffic cards, bank cards, door keys, and eIDs. It is very convenient. At present, the public transport cards of Vivo are basically free of charge or have discounts. Friends in need can open one for standby.

In addition, the simulated mechanical keyboard effect on iQOO 3 in cooperation with Logitech has also been applied to NEX3S. Anyway, people who like it will not put it down, and people who don't like it will scoff.

Photographing part: NEX3S rear three camera, 64 million pixel main camera, aperture F/1.8, 13 million pixel wide-angle macro camera, aperture F/2.2, 13 million pixel long focus camera (52mm portrait focal section), aperture F/2.46; Front 16 million pixel elevating camera, aperture F/2.09.

Let's see the live shot sample:

Main camera

Super wide-angle

Long focal length (52mm focal length)

The NEX3S still has a pleasing style of photography. It is bright, clear and sharp. It basically doesn't need to be adjusted. The appearance of the photos is very good, especially the optimization of backlight scenes. The white balance and color of the three cameras are relatively close. However, the quality of the sensors of the three camera heads is not very good now, and it can only be optimized by vivo.

In terms of charging, 44W flash charge and 4500mAh battery capacity were expected to be upgraded to 55W fast charge, but they did not; The actual charging starts from 5%, and it takes about 55 minutes to fully charge. The performance of the flagship aircraft last year is excellent, but this year, it is above the average level; In terms of endurance, there was no detailed test on the time relationship, and there was no pressure after a day of moderate use.

Summary: In fact, from this naming, it is basically known that the upgrade is not big. 8+128GB sells for 4998 yuan and 12+256GB sells for 5298 yuan. Once the price is listed, the online sentence of "why don't I buy so and so" is clear. Indeed, this price can choose a phone with a better configuration than NEX3S;

It can only be said that NEX3S is still a main offline phone. After all, the offline influence on the purchase desire is mostly the appearance of the phone and whether the photos are good. NEX3S also just meets these two points. Finally, of course, I hope that the NEX series can be more flagship in the future.

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