Huawei nova 3e evaluation: High-value youth beauty shot choice

According to IDC's data, Huawei shipped 24.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017, with a market share of 21.3%, still leading the domestic mobile phone market. And IDC specifically pointed out that in addition to the strong performance of the Mate 10 series in the high-end market, Huawei's mid-range The rapid growth of shipments of models is also an important factor, especially the best-selling nova series.

This Huawei's younger product line launched in 2016 delivered excellent transcripts of 20 million shipments in only one year. nova also formed high-value, high-definition beauty, and vivid labels for entertainment. , And invited Zhang Yixing, Guan Xiaoyu such youth idol endorsement, has more 'perceptual' elements, and Huawei's traditional partial 'rational' products complement each other.

Huawei also knows that this complementation is a potential explosion of sales. If we can accurately grasp the opportunity to meet the trend and introduce the right products, it will inevitably bring about a strong sales growth. So on March 20, Huawei Nova 3e was officially unveiled in Changsha, incorporating Liu Haiping, streamer glass, dual camera and other elements. Can this product be as Huawei wishes? Our review will reveal the answer.

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

Huawei nova 3e adopts Liu Haiping's trend design, and its screen ratio is more outstanding. For young users keen to share photos, nova 3e also brought a mature dual-camera imaging solution, and selected Kirin 659 SoC, supplemented by 4GB transport. Save, to ensure a smooth daily experience. Here we start with the appearance, interpretation of Huawei nova 3e.

Eye-catching Liu Haiping and glass body

Huawei nova 3e adopts a popular bangs full screen design, equipped with a 5.8-inch FHD+ screen, makes reasonable use of the space on both sides of the handset, has a higher screen share, and has a wider field of vision. At the same time, the relatively narrow ratio of 19:9 also makes nova The 3e's grip is more like a 5.0-inch model, compact and portable.

In particular, in order to minimize the impact of bangs on the display area, nova 3e deeply customized the components of Liu Hai's part, including a high-precision front-facing camera, which is 44% smaller in size than traditional cameras. Also changed to elliptical design, under the premise of satisfying the audio output area, the size of the handset decoration is minimized.

Huawei nova 3e has a proper border width control. Due to the screen touch chip, the presence of the RF part of the antenna is preserved. However, the presence of the antenna must be narrowed. Therefore, the visual impact of the front panel still remains.

The back was a design highlight of Huawei nova 3e. Inspired by water, Huawei designed a new water-trimmed glare film that uses nano-level glare textures and overlays under the glass in an 11-layer process, making the glass body angled The change also has a color gradient. On the Klein Blue version, the texture of the light flow is created, as if the sun is in the deep sea, it is very eye-catching.

To cater to the trend, Huawei nova 3e also double-camera, logo text, etc., similar to the layout of the card camera, more visually more fresh.

Huawei nova 3e's frame is frosted and the same color as the glass. We also learned that Huawei nova 3e offers a variety of color options. In addition to our Klein blue, we also provide cherry powder, magic night black, and platinum. Light gold.

At the bottom of the fuselage, Huawei nova 3e uses a USB Type-C interface and comes with a 3.5mm headphone jack. Overall, Huawei nova 3e will have a full screen, streamer glass and other elements to interpret the nova series' high-value pursuit.

Rear dual camera imaging, front 24 million beauty shot

Photographing has always been the gene of nova products. Historical nova products also have a good performance here. The Huawei nova 3e rear 16 million pixels + 2 million pixels dual camera, is the main camera + depth of field auxiliary camera program, can be achieved Similar to the SLR's large aperture background blur. In this part of the article, we will make a certain interpretation of the camera part.

The Huawei nova 3e rear camera is a dual-camera solution with the camera and depth-of-field assist camera. The main camera is 16 million pixels and supports phase focusing. The aperture is F 2.2. It is responsible for imaging. The secondary camera is 2 million pixels responsible for depth of field information collection. The two cooperate to achieve a large aperture of background blur effect. Here we use the proofs to further analyze its imaging power.

In a well-lit environment, Huawei nova 3e's screen brightness is guaranteed, and the colors are close to the real ones. The resolution of 16 million pixels is sufficient. In some environments with large light contrast, nova 3e has a good latitude.

After turning on the large aperture mode, Huawei nova 3e has relatively accurate recognition of the subject's edges, the background blur effect is relatively natural, and the screen has a strong sense of hierarchy and is at the mainstream level.

Under the dim light, the noise of Huawei nova 3e also has certain control, the picture purity is good, and the overall look and feel is comfortable.

In addition, Huawei nova 3e is also unambiguous on the front camera, the world's first Sony IMX576 sensor, up to 24 million pixel output, unit pixel size 0.9μm, F2.0 aperture, the overall quality is remarkable, while with the new upgrade portrait The algorithm, nova 3e can not only smart beauty, but also can accurately identify the face contour information, and then blur the background part, highlighting portraits, shooting a very temperament portrait photos.

The author is also a simple attempt, you can see the face of the face is relatively natural, accurate recognition of the silhouette, the effect of background blur is still commendable, with the appropriate beauty effects really enhance the author's face value.

Under the dim light environment, this IMX576 can combine every 4 pixels into one pixel, and the photosensitivity is over 300% higher than that of the general sensor. This effectively improves the brightness of the image and the noise is also suppressed. The portrait face is still radiant.

Overall, Huawei nova 3e's camera is satisfactory. The performance of the front camera is impressive. High-resolution pixels retain more detail. Pixel binning technology ensures the brightness of the screen. At the same time, a more intelligent algorithm is incorporated, making it possible to use multiple scenes. Can complete a style of self-timer.

Smooth and easy to use EMUI 8.0

Huawei nova 3e is pre-installed with the latest EMUI 8.0, built on Google's latest Android 8.0 system, and basically continues EMUI 5.0's simple and natural style. The interface is mostly presented in clean colors. The smooth experience of EMUI 5.0 is also available on EMUI 8.0. To carry forward, relying on artificial intelligence technology to optimize the rationality of the Android system for resource scheduling, enabling users to receive timely response and smooth experience for a long time.

Experienced, EMUI 8.0 impressed the author in the following three points:

Optimized for full screen display

Under the background that overall screen has become a design trend, EMUI 8.0 has targeted optimization and introduced intelligent identification schemes to accurately identify cheeks, arms, pockets, bags and other easy-to-touch scenes, reducing the proportion of screen shots. Inadvertently touched.

For some applications that do not adapt to the 19:9 ratio screen, the default is still displayed in the ratio of 16:9. The black bars will appear on the top and bottom. EMUI 8.0 provides full-screen display options, which can be applied to unmatched applications. The display is optimized to naturally fill the black border, but the official reminds 'may also show abnormalities', but fortunately the author did not encounter, the overall adaptation is still relatively perfect.

Face recognition experience

EMUI 8.0 integrates face recognition, and also supports the lifting of bright screens. The face recognition process is achieved at one go. In the actual experience, Huawei nova 3e's face unlocking experience is satisfactory, as long as the light environment is not too bad. It can be unlocked within a few milliseconds of lighting the screen. The experience is refreshing.

Easy split screen operation

In order to increase the screen utilization efficiency, EMUI 8.0 supports split screen operation, which can be triggered by sliding the finger joints in the middle of the screen. After the full screen is divided into two, the two areas still have a considerable area, and the operation is not constrained. EMUI 8.0 supports split screen in portrait and landscape mode. Reasonable use of split screen function can effectively reduce our shuttle between applications, and its efficiency increases dramatically. This is particularly evident on the overall screen.

Under the active adaptation of EMUI 8.0, this heterogeneous full screen has no discomfort in use.

Kirin 659 performance is flawed

On the hardware side, Huawei nova 3e chose the Kirin 659 processor, which is located in the midrange. It belongs to the Unicorn 655, and is a micro upgrade of the Unicorn 658. This processor is no stranger to us. In recent years, it has been the main choice for Huawei's midrange products. Created by TSMC's 16nm FinFET Plus process, using four 2.36GHz A53+4 1.7GHz A53+i5 coprocessor architectures, the GPU is Mali T830-MP2.

The highlight of this processor lies in the organic combination of its advanced technology and the high-efficiency A53 core, which can save power while ensuring performance. At the same time, thanks to Kirin's self-developed ISP, the dual camera adapter is more professional and helps to present Better photo effects. In addition, the i5 coprocessor can process the information of each sensor in real time with extremely low power consumption, effectively reducing power consumption in light application scenarios such as motion information recording, music playback, and standby, enhancing battery life.

In order to realize the potential of this processor, Huawei nova 3e comes standard with 4GB of running memory. The large running memory guarantees a smooth experience of the system to a certain extent. For application loading, the switching rate has a direct improvement.

However, it must be pointed out that performance is a significant shortcoming of the Unicorn 659, and it is obviously somewhat inefficient when running popular mobile games. Taking the “Glory of the King” as an example, when the high frame rate mode is turned on, the number of frames can barely be reached. 40fps, in most cases still lingered around 30fps, the team battle is obviously, and the performance is not stable.

to sum up

From a product perspective, Huawei nova 3e has a trend-setting Liu Haiping design, stunning streamer glass body, impressive imaging performance, coupled with stylish entertainment tags that cater to young consumers, is undoubtedly a complete work With Huawei's strong position in the brand and channel, Huawei nova 3e will maintain its competitiveness in the traditional market in the short term.

The reason why the author stressed that 'short-term', to a large extent still stems from the obvious performance shortcomings of Huawei nova 3e. Taking into account the increasingly high performance requirements of mainstream mobile games and the continuous iteration of the SoC model SoC, nova 3e This Kirin 659 is already outdated. If Huawei can promptly introduce new products (Kylin 670?) to make up for it, the performance of the nova series will be even more worth the wait.