Focus on the value of Yan / landing in the performance | Huawei nova 2s evaluation

According to data provided by Counterpoint, a market research firm, Huawei achieved a very eye-catching performance in 2017 and ranked first in China's smartphone market for the third consecutive quarter. Looking to the global market, the cumulative shipment of Huawei handsets in the first three quarters reached 112 million units, the recent quarterly shipments have surpassed Apple, ranks as the world's second-largest smartphone brand, it can be said to have produced a satisfactory result.

Time comes to the end of 2017, the trend of consumer upgrades remains the same, the potential of the high-end market has become more prominent.Mate 10 series has been released is undoubtedly Huawei's trump card to support the high-end market, and in the mid-market, if accurate grasp to cater to young consumers Demand, combined with the full screen, dual camera and other hot technologies to create products, is bound to bring a wave of strong sales growth, to further consolidate Huawei's existing location.

nova is a product series launched by Huawei in 2016 for young consumer groups. With its high-value design, beautiful shots and impressive video entertainment features, nova is the mainstay of this series. With adolescent idols like Zhang Yixing and Guan Xiaotong, nova accumulated in the corresponding consumer groups Good reputation, to become the mid-market can not be ignored.With the release of the previous generation after a lapse of six months, with a full screen of the wave, now Huawei nova 2s timely release, this product exactly how? Our evaluation is about to be announced answer.

In the opening part of the evaluation, let's sort out the hardware parameters.

As you can see, Huawei nova 2s fully upgraded the appearance and configuration, using a new ID design, a combination of full screen, front and rear dual camera, front soft light and other current characteristics, and use the flagship Kirin SoC, more to cater to young The taste of consumer groups. Let's start with the appearance, the interpretation of Huawei nova 2s.

Appearance industrial design

Huawei nova 2s using the popular full-screen design, forehead and chin further narrowed, equipped with a 6.0-inch FHD + screen, with a higher screen share, wide field of vision. Relatively narrow ratio also makes nova 2s grip more like A 5.5-inch model.

In addition, we noticed that the edge of the screen of Huawei nova 2s is fillet cutting, and by changing the display area of ​​subtle liquid crystal molecules, the fillet transition is smoother and consistent with the outline of the whole machine.

Although the forehead narrow, space is limited, but the nova 2s configuration did not make compromise.Pre-20 million +200 million pairs of cameras, and with a soft light, with smart beauty algorithm to bring better Selfie effect.

On the basis of a full screen, Huawei nova 2s does not adopt the traditional post-fingerprint design. Through constant practice, the fingerprint identification module is embedded under the glass to achieve the pre-fingerprint design, and the return, Home key, and more Mission key integrated therein, more in line with the habits of the public.

Back is Huawei's nova 2s design highlights, it is learned that this is inspired by the water, through the light sculpture process to create multi-layer 3D grating, and in the form of coating lining in the glass below, making the glass body with the angle of change also have color The gradient, creating a light flow texture, as if trickle of water in general, very eye-catching.

Huawei nova 2s dual camera slightly prominent in the fuselage, through the parameters on the right is easy to see, the dual camera configuration is good, 16 million color +2000 million black and white, double F1.8 large aperture, Support for two-pixel focus, imaging results we will explain in detail in the next section.

In order to create a better integration, Huawei nova 2s borders with bright processing, and silver glass complement each other.We also learned that this Huawei nova 2s offers a variety of color choices, in addition to the silver gray diamond in our hands , Also provides obsidian black, Sakura pink gold, light blue and Acacia red color, sections are similar color design.

At the bottom of the fuselage, Huawei nova 2s with USB Type-C interface, and with a 3.5mm headphone jack. Overall, Huawei nova 2s will be a full screen, streamer glass and other elements of the collection, the interpretation of the nova series of high-value pursuit.

Huawei nova 2s rear dual camera experience

Huawei has always had a positive technological exploration in dual-camera imaging and has had certain characteristics in night shooting, portraits and non-destructive zooming after several generations of iterations, and now the Huawei nova 2s features a new dual-camera combination with unicorn 960 depth Optimized ISP performance worth the wait.

Specifically, the Huawei nova 2s is still black and white + color dual camera combination, dual camera are F 1.8 large aperture, black and white camera to maintain at 20 million pixels, color camera is 16 million pixels and supports dual-pixel focusing, multi-scene Under the light environment, the color camera is solely responsible for imaging, while in the dim light environment, the black-and-white camera captures the levels and details, the color camera collects colors, and the two cooperate to improve the imaging quality.

Below we look at the sample to see how Huawei Huawei 2s actual performance.

In good light environment, Huawei nova 2s proofs adequate exposure, the color tends to bright, the details also have to show the overall feeling of comfort.At the same time thanks to the steady improvement of the computing power of ISP, in the contrast of strong light and dark environment, Huawei nova 2s Still able to take into account the details of the dark and bright picture of the screen, showing a good tolerance.

Dark environment, Huawei nova 2s dual-camera cooperative imaging, take the lead in ensuring the brightness of the screen, noise is also suppressed, the overall picture is pure.As the aircraft is not equipped with optical image stabilization, the night in the thunderstorm north of the photo into a film rate Zoom in. There is a slight smear on the proofs, but fortunately the details are still showing up, without disturbing the daily social communication.

Huawei nova 2s dual camera In addition to enhance the dark light shooting, you can also capture the depth of field information for the large aperture mode of bokeh for reference.From the sample view, Huawei nova 2s edge recognition for the more accurate, the effect of bokeh relative Naturally, the degree of blurring gradually increases with the space, the picture has a strong sense of hierarchy and is at the mainstream level.

At the same time relying on black and white camera 20 million pixel resolution, supported by the corresponding algorithm to enhance the Huawei nova 2s support dual camera zoom, enlarged to 2 times still clear enough for everyday use.

Front dual camera experience

Huawei nova 2s front camera with a 20 megapixel +200 megapixel dual camera, high pixel means more rich details, can provide more accurate information for later beauty reference, making glam more natural. At the same time benefit from 200 megapixel depth of field of the presence of the camera, Huawei nova 2s can identify more space information, and then make the background part of the virtual processing, highlighting portraits, shoot very temperament portraits.

I made a simple attempt, you can see the effect of bokeh is commendable, with the appropriate beauty effects indeed enhance the author's value.Under the dim light environment can also be automatically opened before the soft light, more natural .

Overall, Huawei nova 2s has a stable imaging performance under multiple scenarios and is fully capable of coping with daily social needs and taking enviable photos.

EMUI 8.0 experience

Huawei nova 2s pre-installed the latest EMUI 8.0, built on Google's latest Android 8.0 system, the basic continuation of EMUI 5.0 simple and natural style, the interface is mostly plain color rendering settings menu has been further simplified and easier to operate. Once the main experience of EMUI 5.0 smooth experience has also been developed on EMUI 8.0, relying on artificial intelligence technology to optimize the Android system for resource scheduling, rationality, enabling users to obtain timely response and smooth experience for a long time.

More convenient operation experience

Similar to the 3D Touch operation of iOS, EMUI 8.0 also supports the secondary menu of the icon to exhale, but the press operation is changed to long press. APPs such as Weibo and Beauty Group have been adapted to greatly simplify the operation steps.

EMUI 8.0's "negative screen" intelligent assistant has been redesigned, the first column integrated sweep code payment, sweep, search and other quick entrance, follow-up to provide travel information reminders, courier smart reminders.

Optimized for full screen

In the context of full screen has become a design trend, EMUI 8.0 targeted optimization, the introduction of intelligent identification scheme, accurately identify the cheeks, arms, pockets, bags and other easy to touch the scene to reduce the lead screen to bring the proportion of increase The error of touch.

For some applications that do not fit on a 18: 9 aspect ratio screen, the default is still 16: 9, with black borders at the top and bottom. EMUI 8.0 provides full screen options that, when turned on, apply to unapplied applications The display to be optimized, naturally fill the black side, but the official reminder 'may also show abnormal', but fortunately I did not encounter the overall fit is quite perfect.

Humane wisdom recognition

EMUI's intelligence goes one step further. When we encounter an interesting text, we trigger a smart phone system's analysis of the textual content with a simple two-finger long press to 'explode' the text and break it up into key messages Such as names of people and places) in the form of a card, without leaving the current operation of the page to quickly get the information you want.If the content is interested, but did not have time to read in depth, you can click later to accept admission to the negative screen, very It is convenient.

Convenient split screen operation

In order to improve the efficiency of the screen utilization, EMUI 8.0 supports split screen operation, which can be triggered by transverse sliding of the knuckles in the middle of the screen. After the split screen is divided into two, the two areas still have a considerable area, the operation is no longer cautious, and EMUI 8.0 supports split screen in both horizontal and vertical screen mode, and the rational use of split screen function can effectively reduce the shuttle between various applications and the rapid increase of efficiency, which is especially obvious on a full screen.

Of course, due to some Android applications are not timely Androd 8.0, the current system has some bugs, but fortunately not affect the overall use, follow-up as the software iteration gray eased.

Performance interpretation

Huawei nova 2s did not use the Kirin 6 Series SoC, but chose the Kirin 960 flagship chip, and Huawei Mate 9, P10 and other flagship models, the number of some surprises. The reason why there will be such a choice, personally think After all, with the price point of view, the more powerful Snapdragon 660 is the mainstream choice, and the chip is about to usher in the iteration in 2018, if Huawei nova 2s in the SoC have some performance margin , Apparently lacking in competitiveness in the market.

The recent "King glory", eating chicken and other mobile games continued to be hot, to a certain extent, improve hand-to-machine performance requirements, so nova 2s also bound to be enhanced by enhancing SoC performance, especially in GPU aspects.At the same time compared to other brands of platform , Huawei is more familiar with the dual-camera adaptation of Kirin SoC, which will help render nova 2s a better picture. In addition, from an economic point of view, the Kirin SoC is Huawei's self-developed SoC that is easier to put in cost and capacity Control, effective guarantee of profits and supply.

Kirin 960 is the flagship SoC, 4 * A73 + 4 * A53 core design, and TSMC's 16nm FF + process developed by Hassis in 2016. The A73 core at 2.36GHz, the A53 core at 1.84GHz and Mali -G71 MP8 GPU, upgrade i6 coprocessor, equipped with self-developed second-generation PrimISP 2.0, as the standard 820 dragon-level products, its performance no doubt.

At the same time, Huawei nova 2s 4GB memory to start running. Large running memory to some extent, to ensure the smooth system experience for young friends keen mobile games, Dayun deposit for the game loading, the switching rate has been directly improved, combined with EMUI 8.0 optimization , Users in the game can really understand the nova 2s performance advantages.

I tried the "king of glory," Huawei's nova 2s throughout the stable performance, the average online battle at about 28fps, the latter is expected to adapt to the high frame rate mode.

to sum up

From the product level, Huawei nova 2s with the same level very good competitiveness, focus on the value of color, landing in the performance of the surprise Ai Ai Lan color love self-timer, the value of the target users is very attractive, and Unicorn 960 application is given nova 2s based experience.In addition, the pre-dual camera and soft light features also make Huawei nova 2s is not mediocre.In the relatively competitive mid-market, Huawei nova 2s to seize the fine Sub-market has a strong competitive edge.