Millet 6X evaluation | 20 million double shots reflect the explosion potential

According to the data provided by the market research organization Canalys, in the overall decline of the domestic market, Xiaomi achieved a 96.9% year-on-year increase in the fourth quarter of 2017, becoming the only handset brand that reversed after a sharp decline. Relying on its strong performance in the Indian market, Xiaomi also returned to the fourth position in the world, handing in a beautiful transcript.

Entering 2018, in order to continue to maintain a positive growth trend, Xiaomi will inevitably need to adopt more refined ideas to manage its products and cover a wider range of user groups. As a result, Redmi Note5 and Xiaomi MIX 2S have successively focused on the online market. After the product's launch, the millet 6X, which is dominated by new retail, taking into account both online and offline channels, is officially unveiled.

The so-called new retail, the most important is to use the Internet's efficient thinking to do the offline market, which involves more than just a change in the sales channels, for the product itself, also need to be given more differentiated features to meet the offline Consumers are increasingly sensitive. If millet 5X involved in new retail sales at the beginning of last year was slightly younger, then after a year of trying, what exactly would Xiaomi 6X present to consumers? Our evaluation is about to be announced. answer.

In the opening part of the evaluation, let's sort out the millet 6X hardware parameters.

From the parameter list, Xiaomi 6X is equipped with a mainstream 5.99-inch FHD+ full screen, Xiaolong 660 mobile platform, up to 6GB storage, has a very comprehensive hardware configuration. The special place is that millet 6X portrait photography as a breakthrough, combined The current hot AI technology further strengthens its photography advantages. At the same time, it caters to the aesthetics of mainstream consumer groups. It focuses on thin and light design, adds a variety of color options, and tries to directly grasp the user's heart in appearance.

Popular designs

Millet 6X equipped with a 5.99-inch FHD + full screen, screen curvature of the four corners and the contour arc echoes, in the visual effect of more uniform. Only with the current mainstream of the narrow frame standard to measure, millet 6X border processing is somewhat rough, significantly less Some refinement.

Millet 6X front 20 megapixel front camera, support face recognition unlock, is also equipped with a front soft light, with AI beauty algorithm, self-portrait effect can be guaranteed. Special emphasis is that this front camera supports AI Scene recognition, single-shot background blurring based on machine learning.

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.

Compared to the previous generation of millet 5X, millet 6X is still a one-piece all-metal body with detailed sandblasting on the surface to give a delicate touch. The enhancement is that the arc at the 6X edge of millet is narrowed narrowly to create a slimmer finish. Waist line, with a thin visual perception, the whole machine is more in line with the palm when holding.

The double shot style is very similar to the iPhone X, with the vertical arrangement, and slightly protruding from the fuselage, the top of the 20 million pixel sub camera, the most under the 12 million pixel main camera, the middle of the flash.

In other respects, Xiaomi 6X uses a rear fingerprint identification, Type-C interface, and cancels the 3.5mm headphone jack. The infrared remote control is integrated at the top, which is basically the standard of the millet model. Overall, the appearance of the Xiaomi 6X. Fully captured the full screen, vertical dual camera, slim fuselage and other mainstream design elements, are now very mature, popular program, fully meet the mainstream public aesthetic.

AI dual camera imaging + 20 million beauty self-timer

Millet 6X uses the word “Before and After 20 Million, Shooting Better” as a slogan, which reflects the official's self-confidence in portrait shooting. From the hardware point of view, Xiaomi's 6X rear-mounted 12 million+20 million-pixel dual cameras are different from common ones. The wide-angle + telephoto, black and white + color lens collocation, Xiaomi 6X this group of dual camera is somewhat different, we detailed below.

The dual cameras of the Xiaomi 6X are Sony sensors. The main camera adopts a Sony IMX486 sensor with a maximum output of 12 million pixels. It supports phase focusing, has a 1.25μm unit pixel area, f/1.75 aperture, and is responsible for daily imaging; the secondary camera is used Sony IMX376 sensor, maximum output 20 million pixels, 1.0μm unit pixel area, f/1.8 large aperture. The special place is that this sub camera has a special 'low light mode', by combining pixels to effectively increase the amount of light, optimize the dark Light portrait shooting (currently only in dark light portraits).

Therefore, the significance of the millet 6X dual camera is more focused on portrait shooting. In addition to meeting the daytime portrait blur, it also brings better dark light portrait shooting effects. Here we experience the authenticity of the Xiaomi 6X imaging through the proofs. strength.

Everyday shooting

In the default shooting mode, the Xiaomi 6X imaging is completed by a 12-megapixel main camera. It can be seen that thanks to the high-sensitivity of the IMX486, the color of the proofs is bright and full, and the details are preserved. The perception is good. Under the dark light The brightness of the screen is sufficient, but there is a certain smear.

As for the AI ​​scene recognition mentioned in the conference, it is consistent with the previous lineup of the MIX 2S, based on the AI ​​Engine provided by the Snapdragon mobile platform, so that the camera can automatically identify the subject in the viewfinder and make it specific when imaging. Style, parameter settings, improve the final film effect. Only the current function is still optimized, temporarily unable to experience, after the opening of the firmware through the OTA update, we will also bring the experience the first time.

Portrait mode

In the portrait mode, Xiaomi 6X's character edge maps are more accurate and the background is blurry and natural. We also understand that Xiaomi 6X has targeted optimizations for the characters' hair ornaments, hair, gestures and other complex objects, which are identified with the help of AI. More accurate. In the actual experience, the author also obviously feels the excellent performance of Xiaomi 6X on the map.

When the portrait mode is turned on in a dim light environment, the millet 6X automatically switches to 20MP sub-camera imaging. At this time, the IMX376 combines every four pixels into one pixel by special pixel arrangement, and the photosensitivity is better than that of a general sensor. More than 300% higher, then the image resolution is restored by the algorithm, taking into account certain details.

Therefore, from the proof point of view, the night portrait of Xiaomi 6X has a bright picture, and it still has a good performance. At the same time, the overall picture is pure and has a good impression.

Self portrait mode

In addition, Xiaomi 6X will also apply this IMX376 to the front camera, with the front soft light, ensuring the screen brightness under multiple scenes. At the same time this front camera also supports AI scene recognition, based on machine learning to achieve single The background blur of the photo, providing a stable and reliable self-timer performance. It is not difficult to see from the following proofs, Xiaomi 6X only by a single camera to accurately identify the border of the glasses, the map is very accurate.

On the whole, the millet 6X camera has a good imaging effect, and at the same time it brings a more perfect portrait mode, so that 'shooting more beautiful' is even more veritable.

Better Use of MIUI 9

MIUI has always been the leader in Android third-party customized OS. MIUI 9 was highly praised last year, both from the localization of functions and the smoothness of the system. In Xiaomi 6X, MIUI 9 not only maintained a superior experience, but also improved the AI. Further, the voice assistant 'Little Love Classmates' was completely transplanted to MIUI and the operation became 'a matter of one sentence'.

Therefore, molesting Xiaoai classmate became another new game for Xiaomi's mobile phone.

It can be seen that Xiao Ai’s classmates have some localized training and can understand some of the software that is commonly used in localization, including the calculation of the relative price of relatives, or asking for a business trip tomorrow. According to your question, you can search out the weather of tomorrow and give corresponding suggestions. In addition, in the built-in application, Xiaoai classmates can basically provide better support, including listening to songs, opening photos, and other common operations.

In terms of function, Xiaoai classmates can access or control Mijia equipment under the current system Xiaomi account after installing Mijia smart home control authorization. In other words, you can use the mobile phone as the portable terminal of the entire smart home. Control Center. With the growth of Xiaoai's classmates, I believe that he can bring more surprises in the future and let more operations become 'something'.

In addition, MIUI 9 is also making rapid progress in the adaptation of the full screen, adding a number of operational optimizations on the full screen, making the overall screen experience more complete.

The first is the full screen gesture function, which replaces the traditional Android virtual buttons with different sliding operations. From the bottom slides back to the home page, the bottom slides on the top is multitasking, from the left or right edge of the screen to the screen Slide is a return, actually try it down, this kind of operation logic and iPhone X is somewhat similar, 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.

In addition, MIUI 9 also supports the popular face unlocking function, upgrades the AI ​​algorithm, and uses face detection, pose estimation, and living body detection technologies to provide targeted prevention of pictures, videos, and other cracking methods, resulting in higher security. Combine the GPU operation to achieve fast and accurate recognition.

In the actual experience, the face unlocking of Xiaomi 6X is very quick. If the light environment is not too bad, it can be unlocked within the moment of lighting the screen. The speed is basically at the top level of the Android camp.

Xiaolong 660 mobile platform

Xiaomi 6X is equipped with a Snapdragon 660 mobile platform. This is Qualcomm's current strongest Snapdragon 600 series product. Not only does it have performance beyond previous generations, it is also given a flagship level 1 feature, including Kryo 260 semi-custom architecture, Spectra ISP , Hexgon DSP, X12 LTE Modem, etc., have breakthroughs in computing performance, image processing, AI support.

Xiaolong 660 uses 14nm FinFET technology, 8-core Kryo 260 architecture, 4+4 dual cluster design, maximum operating frequency of 2.2GHz, built-in Adreno 512 GPU. It is worth noting that the Xiaolong 660 is not used like Xiaolong 625 ARM public architecture, first introduced Kryo 260 semi-custom architecture, has better performance in terms of performance and power consumption.

We are divided into an instance of security Bunny, you can see Xiaolong 660 easily exceeded 130,000 points, GeekBench test also has a single-core 1600, multi-core 5900 results, CPU performance and once the flagship platform Xiaolong 820 basically the same.

It is worth mentioning that the Xiaolong 660's 8-core has an inherent advantage over the Xiaolong 820's 4-core, which is reflected not only in the multi-core running advantage but also in the actual experience. Handling more thread tasks, fluent and non-occurring in applications that require multi-threaded calls, such as application startup, switching tasks, etc.

On the GPU side, the pure performance of the Adreno 512 is still far behind the flagship first-class products. However, with the related optimization, the performance of traditional online games such as “The Glory of the King” is still worthy of recognition. In particular, Xiaomi 6X has joined the “Glory of the King”. The multi-threaded support, the actual performance is more stable, the basic high-frame rate mode can stabilize at 55fps.

In particular, the Snapdragon 660 supports the AI ​​Engine artificial intelligence engine. Through the supporting NEP software framework, the AI ​​Engine can be used from existing CPUs, GPUs, and DSPs in the SoC. Selecting the most appropriate hardware for AI-related operations greatly improves the AI's native computing capabilities.

This kind of scheme has been applied perfectly on Xiaolong 845. Xiaomi MIX 2S uses AIE to achieve accurate AI scene recognition. In the future, Xiaomi 6X will support AI scene recognition in the same way and further tap AI application potential.

to sum up

Overall, while the millet 6X continues to be highly cost-effective, the appearance caters to the aesthetics of the mainstream people and provides a variety of color matching, which is very attractive to the target users of recharge value. At the same time, Xiaolong 660's blessing is also given to Xiaomi 6X. With the best experience at the same price, taking the portrait camera as the breakthrough point, they have made targeted enhancements on the front camera and rear dual camera respectively, which also made Xiaomi 6X's selling point clear and not mediocre. In conjunction with Wu Yifan’s endorsement and Xiaomi’s Over the past period of time accumulated channel advantages, millet 6X has absolute competitiveness in the market stand out.

Not surprisingly, Xiaomi 6X will continue to participate in Google’s Android One project, carry a native system, and enter the Indian, European and other markets with the name of Xiaomi A2. Facing the obvious weaker than domestic market competition, Xiaomi 6X’s product power will be strong. It will become more prominent and become the key to leading the continued development of Xiaomi's overseas market.