HTC U11 EYEs evaluation: outstanding advantages | disadvantage fatal

After last week's release of the HTC U11 EYEs, I brought a quick overview for everyone, but due to lack of time, I did not have a complete set of tests and in-depth experiences. I have been using U11 EYEs as the main machine for a long time, collecting the test data and summing up the advantages and disadvantages of all aspects of the experience of this handset, and presenting it to my companions. Version of the HTC U11 EYEs evaluation, might as well be regarded as a comprehensive understanding of the U11 EYEs I hope U11 EYEs interested in children's shoes after reading this article can also be well aware of it.

Read the previous experience to get started friends all know, HTC U11 EYEs design and U11 + exactly the same, with the exception - the U11 + right angle full screen turned into a fillet. The body is indeed very beautiful, join the light Mixed-color glass backplane technology is considered this year's HTC features, the value of the color in the glass phone is definitely one of the best.In order to let everyone feel different with the ambient light showing different colors of the fuselage, how magical, I give it Took a group of photos:

In order to adapt to the trend of the times, HTC U11 EYEs joined the facial recognition, through about 5 seconds of scanning, you can register a face in the mobile phone, with the sliding screen gestures to achieve rapid unlock.And the market commonly face recognition Android As with mobile phones, the U11 EYEs' facial recognition is achieved via a webcam, which is less secure than the iPhone X, but this feature does enhance day-to-day convenience.

However, as pointed out by a daring HTC fan at the press conference, the fatal shortcomings of the U11 EYEs were the Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 ... instead of 660. This SoC has four A72 and four A53 CPUs, and Adreno 510 GPU, the performance is actually not outdated, however, 28nm process to play its performance has been no small restriction.

Let's take a look at the GeekBench 4 test, CPU U11 EYEs got the single-core 1424 / multi-core score of 4352, GPU test score is 3652. After all, the main SoC in 2015, into the current GPU benchmark test scores That is, the full blood version of the Snapdragon 630 level; and compared to the Snapdragon 630 at 14nm, the long-term game due to fever and down-regulation of the Snapdragon 652 even worse than the 630 to be comfortable: even now dripping into Beijing, we Still feel U11 EYEs comparable to the hand warmer fever; and want to 'trigger hand warble effect' does not require any high intensity copy machine, 5 minutes, "the king of glory" is enough.

Big winter play readily like this?

More terrible is not heat, is life.With the progress of SoC process technology, 2016 14nm and 16nm can not hold the platform to live the overall power consumption in 2017 to solve a half, the average battery life of the Snapdragon 835 models Generally stronger than the Snapdragon 820/821 models, and strong is not the slightest star HTC U11 EYEs is equipped with a 3930mAh large battery, but the SoC from 2015, that is, it's life can basically benchmark the standard more than two years That batch of large international manufacturers large battery Xiaolong 652/653 models (such as 2015 Samsung Galaxy A9).

The actual test results prove that this conjecture is completely correct, after we used to simulate a full day of high-intensity use of the scene 5 hours of ultra-heavy endurance test, HTC U11 EYEs remaining power of only 14%, the market is the bottom of the new machine level , Not to mention the contrast of other models of similar battery capacity, even the 3000mAh battery millet 6 can easily abuse it.It seems that the battery can be even worse in carrying only 2300mAh small battery, dual screen and Xiaolong 835, and Samsung W2018 running 'Tumor' Samsung Experience system out.

If the horizontal comparison is not enough fun, we compare the HTC's own models.Under the conditions of the test, equipped with 3000mAh battery and snapdragon 835 U11 remaining capacity of 32%, the appropriate level of 2017 flagship standard; Has 3930mAh battery and Snapdragon 835, the remaining power 21%.

Many people think that the '652 is no better than the 835,' and it turns out that the 652 was a mess in power consumption with software optimizations, application environments, battery capacity and remaining lifetimes exactly the same. "The 10nm LPE Is 10nm, your uncle is still your uncle, is an old SoC never insurmountable mountains.

Look at the ease of it, the camera is the strength of HTC phones, U11 EYEs in the whole picture there is no urine point, with the price of the summit is very easy in the proliferation of multiple synthesis functions, 'Algorithm 屌 is do whatever they want' today, HTC with multiple HDR Boost algorithm can force a variety of other home-made multi-synthesis algorithm, while in the role of tolerance, color brightness / saturation, detail reduction, noise reduction, There will be only Google's HDR + first sample of a series of U11 EYEs try salty:

'Click the following proofs to see the uncompressed original'

1 / 2913s ISO81 F / 1.7
1 / 2166s ISO79 F / 1.7
1 / 5281s ISO83 F / 1.7

Tacitly approaching, the HTC U11 EYEs camera has been called the best level of 3,000 yuan. 12 million pixel camp basically no solution details (HDR Boost's credit); followed by bias is true, not hard to add color saturation and contrast Style, which may not please the eye, but to see more than a lot of self-carrying late a lot of thick and elegant style more fresh and comfortable.To say this group of daytime proofs can reveal what U11EYEs shortcomings, it should be the only white balance A little cold.

HTC's HDR Boost can enhance the details of the restoration, but it can be beautiful to complete a HDR's own job? To know that many mobile phones on the market HDR function can not be used, not a bunch of noise is the object edge of the bright side, shoot out very Is embarrassed.With this problem, we came to the big backlight scenes, and then test a U11 EYEs HDR Boost.

HDR Boost is not turned on
Turn on HDR Boost

In the face of the sun, U11 EYEs shoot a very beautiful picture, the edge of the picture does not appear a little bit bright edge, control highlights while dark color saturation and brightness have greatly improved.It looks like, Snapdragon 652 Outdated ISP does not sacrifice the quality of the algorithm of the HTC camera, there should be applause.

1 / 8s ISO3052 F / 1.7
1 / 20s ISO543 F / 1.7

Finally, the dark shooting, with a 1 / 2.5 inch 12 million pixel sensor, F / 1.7 large aperture optical image stabilization lens and HDR Boost algorithm U11 EYEs, taking a photo at night is a small case, comparable to the top flagship details and Color readily. 3000 price, you can not find a second night shot can be so easily controlled mobile phone.

Self-portrait blur proofs
Multiple synthetic wide-angle self-proofing proofs

In addition, HTC U11 EYEs front dual camera cutout fineness and focal plane judgment ability is also one of the two camera phone, self-portrait without urine spots, double camera according to the environment automatically match the virtual level. These are the former As for the original multi-synthesis HTC wide-angle self-timer, U11 EYEs can not fall, you can according to the number of self-portrait photos to choose to synthesize three or five photos, the final out The film looks good, basically no stitching traces, but the disadvantage is the lower resolution.

Like the flagship U11 and U11 +, the HTC U11 EYEs support Edge Sense with short and long basic movements and a short, global squeeze that allows you to summon a wheel for easy one-handed operation, This wheel can be placed in commonly used APP and Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other quick settings; and 'Advanced' operation includes the third party APP squeeze shortcut keys, skilled use you can even do without touching the screen Under the premise of a set of 'even strokes', such as long squeeze open the camera → long squeeze switch before and after the camera → short squeeze shot, with U11 EYEs fuselage IP67 grade dust and water, when the underwater touch screen failure 'Even strokes' will be able to easily take pictures of similar strokes there are many, we can slowly explore the actual experience.

A lot of long-winded, we concluded a little bit faster HTC U11 EYEs is a very prominent advantages and disadvantages of the phone, its advantages (camera, border pressure) is the same price top, shortcomings (sustained performance play, battery life & Fever control) at the same level. Since mid-tier handsets from HTC have been slow to refresh systems, the U11 EYEs are running Android 7.1.2. When is it possible to eat Oreos? An unknown number.Watch the flagship U11 price has dropped to 3000 in the early, spend 2999 to buy such a phone U11 EYEs, what is worth it?

I think everybody already knows how to do it.


After last week's release of the HTC U11 EYEs, I brought a quick overview for everyone, but due to lack of time, I did not have a complete set of tests and in-depth experiences. I have been using U11 EYEs as the main machine for a long time, collecting the test data and summing up the advantages and disadvantages of all aspects of the experience of this handset, and presenting it to my companions. Version of the HTC U11 EYEs evaluation, might as well be regarded as a comprehensive understanding of the U11 EYEs I hope U11 EYEs interested in children's shoes after reading this article can also be well aware of it.

Read the previous experience to get started friends all know, HTC U11 EYEs design and U11 + exactly the same, with the exception - the U11 + right angle full screen turned into a fillet. The body is indeed very beautiful, join the light Mixed-color glass backplane technology is considered this year's HTC features, the value of the color in the glass phone is definitely one of the best.In order to let everyone feel different with the ambient light showing different colors of the fuselage, how magical, I give it Took a group of photos:

In order to adapt to the trend of the times, HTC U11 EYEs joined the facial recognition, through about 5 seconds of scanning, you can register a face in the mobile phone, with the sliding screen gestures to achieve rapid unlock.And the market commonly face recognition Android As with mobile phones, the U11 EYEs' facial recognition is achieved with a webcam, which is less secure than the iPhone X, but this feature does enhance day-to-day convenience.

However, as pointed out by a daring HTC fan at the press conference, the fatal shortcomings of the U11 EYEs were the Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 ... instead of 660. This SoC has four A72 and four A53 CPUs, and Adreno 510 GPU, the performance is actually not outdated, however, 28nm process to play its performance has been no small restriction.

Let's take a look at the GeekBench 4 test, CPU U11 EYEs got the single-core 1424 / multi-core score of 4352, GPU test score is 3652. After all, the main SoC in 2015, into the current GPU benchmark test scores That is, the full blood version of the Snapdragon 630 level; and compared to the Snapdragon 630 at 14nm, the long-term game fever due to fever and downgrade the Snapdragon 652 even worse than the 630 to be comfortable: even now dripping into Beijing, we Still feel U11 EYEs comparable to the hand warmer fever; and want to 'trigger hand warble effect' does not require any high intensity copy machine, 5 minutes, "the king of glory" is enough.

Big winter play readily like this?

More terrible is not heat, is life.With the progress of SoC process technology, 2016 14nm and 16nm can not hold the platform to live the overall power consumption in 2017 to solve a half, the average battery life of the Snapdragon 835 models Generally stronger than the Snapdragon 820/821 models, and strong is not the slightest star HTC U11 EYEs is equipped with a 3930mAh large battery, but the SoC from 2015, that is, it's life can basically benchmark the standard more than two years That batch of large international manufacturers large battery Xiaolong 652/653 models (such as 2015 Samsung Galaxy A9).

The actual test results prove that this conjecture is completely correct, after we used to simulate a full day of high-intensity use of the scene 5 hours of ultra-heavy endurance test, HTC U11 EYEs remaining power of only 14%, the market is the bottom of the new machine level , Not to mention the contrast of other models of similar battery capacity, even the 3000mAh battery millet 6 can easily abuse it.It seems that the battery can be even worse in carrying only 2300mAh small battery, dual screen and Xiaolong 835, and Samsung W2018 running 'Tumor' Samsung Experience system out.

If the horizontal comparison is not enough fun, we compare the HTC's own models.Under the conditions of the test, equipped with 3000mAh battery and snapdragon 835 U11 remaining capacity of 32%, the appropriate level of 2017 flagship standard; Has 3930mAh battery and Snapdragon 835, the remaining power 21%.

Many people think that the '652 is no better than the 835,' and it turns out that the 652 was a mess in power consumption with software optimizations, application environments, battery capacity and remaining lifetimes exactly the same. "The 10nm LPE Is 10nm, your uncle is still your uncle, is an old SoC never insurmountable mountains.

Look at the ease of it, the camera is the strength of HTC phones, U11 EYEs in the whole picture there is no urine point, with the price of the summit is very easy in the proliferation of multiple synthesis functions, 'Algorithm 屌 is do whatever they want' today, HTC with multiple HDR Boost algorithm can force a variety of other home-made multi-synthesis algorithm, while in the role of tolerance, color brightness / saturation, detail reduction, noise reduction, There will be only Google's HDR + first sample of a series of U11 EYEs try salty:

'Click the following proofs to see the uncompressed original'

1 / 2913s ISO81 F / 1.7
1 / 2166s ISO79 F / 1.7
1 / 5281s ISO83 F / 1.7

Tacitly approaching, the HTC U11 EYEs camera has been called the best level of 3,000 yuan. 12 million pixel camp basically no solution details (HDR Boost's credit); followed by the bias is true, not hard plus the color saturation and contrast Style, which may not please the eye, but to see more than a lot of self-carrying late a lot of thick and elegant style more fresh and comfortable.To say this group of daytime proofs can reveal what U11EYEs shortcomings, it should be the only white balance A little cold.

HTC's HDR Boost can enhance the details of the restoration, but it can be beautiful to complete a HDR's own job? To know that many mobile phones on the market HDR function can not be used, not a bunch of noise is the object edge of the bright side, shoot out very Is embarrassed.With this problem, we came to the big backlight scenes, and then test a U11 EYEs HDR Boost.

HDR Boost is not turned on
Turn on HDR Boost

In the face of the sun, U11 EYEs shoot a very beautiful picture, the edge of the picture does not appear a little bit bright edge, control highlights while dark color saturation and brightness have greatly improved.It looks like, Snapdragon 652 Outdated ISP does not sacrifice the quality of the algorithm of the HTC camera, there should be applause.

1 / 8s ISO3052 F / 1.7
1 / 20s ISO543 F / 1.7

Finally, the dark shooting, with a 1 / 2.5 inch 12 million pixel sensor, F / 1.7 large aperture optical image stabilization lens and HDR Boost algorithm U11 EYEs, taking a photo at night is a small case, comparable to the top flagship details and Color readily. 3000 price, you can not find a second night shot can be so easily controlled mobile phone.

Self-portrait blur proofs
Multiple synthetic wide-angle self-proofing proofs

In addition, HTC U11 EYEs front dual camera cutout fineness and focal plane judgment ability is also one of the two camera phone, self-portrait without urine spots, double camera according to the environment automatically match the virtual level. These are the former As for the original multi-synthesis HTC wide-angle self-timer, U11 EYEs can not fall, you can according to the number of self-portrait photos to choose to synthesize three or five photos, the final out The film looks good, basically no stitching traces, but the disadvantage is the lower resolution.

Like the flagship U11 and U11 +, the HTC U11 EYEs support Edge Sense with short and long basic movements and a short, global squeeze that allows you to summon a wheel for easy one-handed operation, This wheel can be placed in commonly used APP and Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other quick settings; and 'Advanced' operation includes the third party APP squeeze shortcut keys, skilled use you can even do without touching the screen Under the premise of a set of 'even strokes', such as long squeeze open the camera → long squeeze switch before and after the camera → short squeeze shot, with U11 EYEs fuselage IP67 grade dust and water, when the underwater touch screen failure 'Even strokes' will be able to easily take pictures of similar strokes there are many, we can slowly explore the actual experience.

A lot of long-winded, we concluded a little bit faster HTC U11 EYEs is a very prominent advantages and disadvantages of the phone, its advantages (camera, border pressure) is the same price top, shortcomings (sustained performance play, battery life & Fever control) at the same level. Since mid-tier handsets from HTC have been slow to refresh systems, the U11 EYEs are running Android 7.1.2. When is it possible to eat Oreos? An unknown number.Watch the flagship U11 price has dropped to 3000 in the early, spend 2999 to buy such a phone U11 EYEs, what is worth it?

I think everybody already knows how to do it.

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