Red Rice Note 5 Review: Strong configuration achievement leapfrog performance

A month ago, Xiaomi released a new 1,000-yuan product to the Indian market Redmi Note 5 Pro. With strong configuration parameters and a very high price/performance ratio, the first sale of the machine created a sales volume of 300,000 for 3 minutes in the Indian market. Record, followed by several rounds of sale is also 'seconds sold out' rhythm, just like the explosive product of the local market.

Today, this red rice Note 5 Pro finally came to the domestic market. The model was changed to a more concise 'red rice Note 5', and upgraded camera sensors, combined with hot AI technology now, further enhanced its camera features, The price is only starting at 1099 yuan. Obviously, in order to meet more fierce domestic competition, to satisfy the increasingly discerning eyes of consumers, Red Rice Note 5 made targeted preparations. Can it replicate its feat in the Indian market? Our evaluation Will soon reveal the answer.

In the opening part of the evaluation, we first sort out its hardware parameters.

From the parameter list, 'Water bucket machine' is perhaps our most intuitive and sensible impression on the Red Rice Note 5. The mainstream 5.99-inch FHD+ full screen, the new Xiaolong 636 mobile platform, 3GB of storage and starting, 4000mAh large battery plus the more The level of dual-camera configuration, red rice Note 5 at the thousand yuan stall price is not something picky short board, continuing the red rice in the configuration of the strong.

Thousand yuan full screen mainstream design

The appearance of Redmi Note 5 is almost the same as that of Red Rice 5 Plus previously released. 5.99-inch FHD + full screen, the curvature of the four corners of the screen echoes with the arc of the outline, and the visual effect is more uniform. Although the black panel naturally hides the black border of the screen, But in fact, the control of the black border of the Redmi Note 5 is very ideal, even though the white front panel is not visually obvious.

Front 13 megapixel front camera, support face recognition unlock, also equipped with a front soft light, with AI beauty algorithm, self-portrait can guarantee.

Thanks to the pre-installed MIUI 9 system, Redmi Note 5 supports full-screen gesture operation, replacing the original virtual button with a simple slide, freeing up more screen space for use. Of course, if it does not fit, it can be switched to The original virtual button.

Consistent with the Red Rice 5 Plus, the red rice Note 5's fuselage adopts a mature three-stage design. The upper and lower ends are made of polycarbonate and the middle is metal. The surface is sandblasted and the joint is still the transition of the high-light T-slot. The overall texture is general.

Redmi Note 5's dual camera model is very similar to the iPhone X, with the same vertical arrangement, and slightly protruding from the fuselage, the top of the 5 million pixel depth of view, the most under the 12 million pixel main camera, the middle of the flash.

In other respects, Redmi Note 5 uses a post-fingerprint recognition, micro USB interface, retains a 3.5mm headphone jack, and an infrared remote control is integrated on the top, which is basically a standard for red rice models. Overall, red rice Note 5 The appearance design has reached the mainstream level, especially considering the price of its thousand yuan machine, it is not realistic to go too far.

Leapfrog dual imaging imaging performance

Red rice Note 5 rear 12 million pixels + 5 million pixel dual camera, using wide-angle main camera + depth of field sub-camera program. 12 million pixels wide-angle main camera support 2PD full-pixel focus, multi-scene focusing speed is more rapid At the same time, the unit pixel area reaches 1.4μm, with a large aperture of F1.9, will significantly enhance the performance of dark light. Another 5 million-pixel subphotograph is mainly responsible for capturing the depth of field information, to achieve a large aperture of the background blur with the main camera effect.

Here we look at the actual performance of the Red Rice Note 5 through a sample sheet.

In a well-lighted environment, the proofs of Redmi Note 5 are well exposed, the colors tend to be bright, and the details are also richly displayed. The overall look and feel are comfortable.

Under the dark light environment, the performance of the Redmi Note 5 is impressive, focusing more accurately and quickly, the brightness of the picture is sufficient, more colors and details are retained, the noise is also well suppressed, the overall picture is pure, compared with other same price points The product has a leapfrog performance.

With the collaboration of 5 million pixels depth of field, Redmi Note 5 can achieve a large aperture blurring effect. From the viewpoint of proofs, Redmi Note 5 is more accurate in recognition of the subject's edges, and the background blur effect is relatively natural. The sense of hierarchy is strong and it is at the mainstream level.

In terms of front-end, Redmi Note 5 uses a 13-megapixel front camera, which can intelligently recognize face contours through machine learning to achieve portrait blur. After repeated attempts, you can see that the outline of the outline is basically accurate. 3. The effect of background blur is still commendable and there is no sign of rollover.

It should be said that Redmi Note 5 can easily deal with shooting scenes in life. Focusing quickly and accurately, with outstanding dim light performance, has surpassed the expected performance of the same class of products, to some extent not lost in 2000-3000 yuan products.

MIUI 9 for full screen optimization

Redmi Note 5 pre-installed MIUI 9.5 system, based on the latest Android 8.1 build, continued MIUI smooth and stable experience, but also added a number of operations on the optimization of the full screen, so that a full-screen experience more complete.

Full screen gestures

MIUI 9 integrates full-screen gestures, replaces traditional Android virtual buttons with different slide operations, slides from bottom to back to home page, and slides on the bottom is multitasking, from the left or right edge of the screen The sliding inside the screen is a return. Actually try it out. This kind of operation logic is similar to the iPhone X, which is more conducive to one-handed operation.

Taking into account the new user is not familiar with this operation, Xiaomi also provides a simple tutorial for the full screen gesture operation, confirm the settings automatically trigger, shorten the user's learning costs, it is intimate.

Face recognition

Redmi Note 5 supports the popular face unlocking function, upgrades the AI ​​algorithm, and uses face detection, pose estimation, and living body detection techniques to make targeted prevention of photos, videos, and other cracking methods, and has higher security. The GPU's operation enables fast and accurate recognition.

In the actual experience, the face unlocking experience of the Red Mi Note 5 has been basically satisfactory. As long as the light environment is not too bad, it can be unlocked within half a second after the screen is lighted. However, its speed is first class with the Android camp. Compared with the level, there is obviously room for improvement.

Split screen operation

MIUI 9 supports split screen operation. In the multitasking interface, split screen mode in the upper left corner allows you to divide a small screen into two, allowing you to perform different operations at the same time. For a full screen, the larger display area is Divide it into two to make the best use of it. To give you a simple example, how to deal with your girlfriend's WeChat chat while watching the video? Using MIUI 9's split screen function, a part of the screen of the mobile phone can be used to play video, The other part of the screen can stay on the WeChat chat page, which will not delay video playback and allow for chat.

The innovative Snapdragon 636 mobile platform

In the past period of time, Thousand Yuan Machine commonly used Xiaolong 625, Helio P20, Kirin 659 and other products on the SoC, all of which were 'affordable enough' choices. The performance was rarely bright. But Redmi Note 5's The release broke the situation and its debuted Xiaolong 636 mobile platform continued to gap with existing products and even had an unexpected product experience.

Xiaolong 636 mobile platform is Qualcomm's latest 600 series products, positioning the middle, from the point of view of the name it looks like a Xiao Long 630 Pro, but the actual parameters of this is a fully-fledged Xiaolong 660 Lite. According to the data, the Xiaolong 636 was built using an advanced 14nm FinFET process. The Kryo 260 architecture is the same as the Xiaolong 660, and the 4+4 core design. The highest frequency of the four large cores is 1.8Ghz, and the four small cores are 1.6Ghz, only the big core clock is slightly lower than the 2.2GHz of Xiaolong 660.

From the perspective of Geekbench's running points, the Xiaolong 636 mobile platform has a single core of 1337 points and a multi-core score of 4929 points. Compared with the previous generation of Xiaolong 630, the performance increased by 40%, which opened a big gap.

In other respects, the Snapdragon 636 also has a steady improvement. Its built-in Adreno 509 GPU has improved about 10% compared to the Adreno 508 of the Snapdragon 630. The Spectra 160 ISP and Hexagon 680 DSP have reached the Snapdragon 660 level. For Xiaolong X12 LTE Modem, up to 600Mbps downlink rate, support dual card dual standby dual 4G, including 5G WiFi, Bluetooth 5 support, connectivity is very good.

Bunny ran out to quantify the performance of the Xiaolong 636. Its breakthrough of 110,000 results significantly ahead of the Xiaolong 630 and Xiaolong 625. It also trailed only the Xiaolong 660 by 140,000 in the 600 series.

In the actual experience, the promotion of Xiaolong 636 and MIUI 9 in the daily experience is very obvious. Open the application, multi-task switching is smooth, and the mainstream mobile game “king of glory” can maintain about 50fps in the high frame rate mode. A high chicken game can also be dealt with. Compared to the performance of the previous thousand Yuan machine, the Red Rice Note 5 under the Xiaolong 636 brace has raised a notch.

Another red rice Note 5 also supports QC 3.0 fast charge, but limited by the cost, the official is only equipped with a 5V/2A charging head, the use of millet 7 charging head measured its charging power up to 14W.

to sum up

In the face of fierce domestic market competition, Red Rice has clearly shown its sincerity to meet the finicky domestic consumers. It has a full screen, 4000mAh battery, 3GB of start-up memory and smooth and easy-to-use MIUI 9, with 1099 yuan. Since the sale price, Redmi Note 5 is already a 'value for money' product.

But more than that, with the outstanding performance of the Xiaolong 636, 2PD large pixel double camera imaging effect, Redmi Note 5 is a 'value for money' product, with absolutely become thousands of explosive products strength.

Finally, the author can not help but be curious that when Redmi Note 5 has set a benchmark product for the thousand yuan product, how will other products of the same class respond? This should be the most worthy of the next thousand yuan market. .