Lenovo Z5 Review: In addition to the high-value outside the more sincere return

After more than a year of dormancy, Lenovo’s mobile phone returned to the domestic market in March of this year. It lowered its position and based on the thousand-yuan machine market, Lenovo has brought three products including S5, K5 and K5 Play. The appearance, solid performance and real price, these three products are praised in a matter of time, helping Lenovo gradually establish a 'conscience of the industry' reputation.

After just over two months, Lenovo’s mobile phone has clearly defined the product strategy of “Conscience Premium Products, National Mobile Phone” and returned to the stage with the 'new national flagship' Lenovo Z5. It is not difficult to find that the Z5 has inherited glorious The 'Z' department name is a big product that fans are looking for. Then if this product is what you want, let's see the evaluation.

Let us first understand the Lenovo Z5 hardware parameters.

From the parameters point of view, Lenovo Z5 can be called realistic, popular Liu Haiping modeling, equipped with impressive performance Xiaolong 636 mobile platform, equipped with 6GB of running memory, to ensure a smooth daily experience. Here we start with the appearance, interpretation Lenovo Z5 .

Excellent look and feel, face value can score high

Consistent with most domestic high-end mobile phones, the Lenovo Z5 also adopted the "Liu Haiping" design. The "Liu Hai" part accommodates the handset, front camera, and necessary light distance sensors. Although this design may not be aesthetically pleasing, However, it is undeniable that, under the current technical conditions, “Liu Haiping” makes reasonable use of the space on both sides of the handset, which has an immediate effect on the improvement of the proportion of screens. Lenovo’s Z5’s screen ratio is as high as 90%.

Lenovo Z5 uses a 6.2-inch, 19:9 aspect ratio, resolution of 2246X1080, material is IPS, supports DCI-P3 wide color gamut, the maximum brightness of up to 700 nits. Physical experience, the color of this screen The performance is relatively strong, it is very good for the eye, the reading under the strong light is not difficult, the overall perception is in the lead in the same price.

In particular, the Lenovo Z5 has clearly moved its mind on the screen border and the control of the width of the chin. The widths of the left and right borders and the top border are almost the same, and the width of the “chin” part is a leader in LCD screen products. Even comparing some AMOLED screen products is not at the bottom of the curve, with the transition of the big R angle, the overall perception is extremely harmonious.

Lenovo Z5 adopts a mature "sandwich" structure, double-sided 2.5D glass + aluminum alloy middle frame. Among them, the glass back shell is specially designed with a glare texture. It is overlaid under the glass in an 8-layer process, making the glass body angled The changes can also show the light flowing texture. For environmental reasons, the Schumann black effect in our hands is limited, and the other card indigo and aurora color effects are even more pronounced.

In addition, the Lenovo Z5's middle frame has been polished in an arc, with bright diamond cuts on both sides, forming a continuous transition with the glass, holding it without a gripping hand, and it is easy to control.

Overall, the appearance of the Lenovo Z5 maintains a relatively high level in the same price range. There is nothing to be picky about under the prevailing environment of “Liu Haiping”. It can give high marks.

ZUI3.9 system, simple and smooth experience

Lenovo Z5 runs the latest ZUI3.9 system, based on the Android 8.1 kernel. ZUI3.9 is more simple in design, there is no native Android two-tier desktop design, the application is tiled on a desktop, the icon is based on the most basic round And square as a basis, more concise.

In terms of functions, ZUI3.9 introduced a new full-screen gesture, U-Touch 4.0, to solve the interaction problem of the full screen. The operation mode is similar to that of the existing ones. It slides from the bottom to the top to correspond to different operations. The upper right slide and the upper right slide correspond to the multi-tasking and shortcut panel. The middle slide returns, and the upper slide returns to the home page.

For those who are accustomed to other gestures, it takes a certain amount of learning to get started with U-Touch 4.0, but it is easy to get used to this operation after a short period of pain.

To cater to the AI ​​trend, ZUI3.9 has built-in voice assistant program music voice, support voice interaction, can implement dialing, set reminders and to-do items, set alarm clock and other commonly used functions, also supports third-party application operations, can include some Multiple consecutive instructions, such as sending a WeChat message to someone, looking for a route to a place, music voice can wake up the third party App to achieve.

In the face of increasing mobile payment requirements, ZUI3.9 added Z space, provided a relatively isolated payment software space, provided genuine payment software downloads, and took certain security measures on permissions and networks to make the payment environment more secure.

In addition, some interesting features of the previous ZUI are also preserved. For example, Wechat, QQ, and other social applications are open. There are two WeChat, two QQ, two Weibo and other softwares in the mobile phone, and there are two open applications. The data does not affect each other and can be run at the same time to satisfy the needs of some users with multiple accounts.

There is also an interesting function - location traversal, users can use the "virtual positioning" in the specified application to send information, such as positioning non-local in the WeChat circle of friends, thereby creating a reason not to be on the scene, gracefully reject some of the affairs ; can also be turned on in the microblogging virtual positioning, send some of the own copy of the X attributes of the text, to meet some of the social preferences.

16 million pixels dual camera, performance quite satisfactory

On the camera side, the Lenovo Z5 has adopted a mainstream dual-camera configuration with a 16-megapixel main camera and an additional 8-megapixel secondary camera to capture depth-of-field information for background blur. That is, daily imaging. The main force is this 16-megapixel main camera, f/2.0 aperture, the parameters in the same price-appropriate, below through the proof to see its imaging strength.

Lenovo Z5 performed steadily during the day, color reproduction was more realistic, and details were preserved, which basically satisfied daily use. In backlight scenes, night scenes and portrait modes are slow to image, and there is still room for optimization.

Xiaolong 636+6GB, no pressure on chicken pesticides

The Lenovo Z5 uses the Snapdragon 636 mobile platform. As a mid-range SoC that Qualcomm has pushed this year, the Snapdragon 636 is by no means a mid-tier SoC with the “affordable enough” in the traditional impression. It does have a dazzling performance. which performed.

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 chicken blood version of the dragon 630, but the actual parameters of this is an absolute youthful dragon 660. From the data point of view, the Snapdragon 636 was built using advanced 14nm FinFET technology. The same Kryo 260 architecture as the Snapdragon 660 with 4+4 core design. The highest frequency of the 4 large cores is 1.8Ghz, 4 The small core is 1.6Ghz, only the big core frequency 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 1,331 points and a multi-core score of 4,865 points. Compared with the previous generation of Xiaolong 630, its performance increased by 40%, opening a large 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's 140,000 points in the 600 series.

In the actual experience, the promotion of Xiaolong 636 with 6GB of running memory is very obvious in the daily experience. Open applications, smooth multi-task switching, mainstream mobile game “king of glory” in high frame rate mode, intense team battle scene can also be Maintained at 30fps or higher, you can also deal with demanding chicken swimmers.

Lenovo's sincerity, priced from 1299 yuan

Lenovo Z5 continues its positioning of the brand 'Conscience Premium Products', closely following the current mainstream trends in the industry, with full-screen, glass body, 6GB storage and other real features. Combined with Lenovo's advantages in research and development, dedicated to the full screen The borders have been polished to achieve a 90% ratio of ultra-high screens, with a value that is unattainable for the same category of products. With the premium price starting from 1299 yuan, it maintains a strong competitive edge and has the potential to become a one-of-a-kind one-off market. Explosive models help Lenovo return to the big stage.

Perhaps you are still tangled in the positioning of Lenovo Z5 'The New National Flagship', regretting the absence of the Xiaolong 800 Series SoC. But don't forget that the Lenovo Z5 is only the fourth product after Lenovo's mobile phone returns. Lenovo also needs time to Familiarity, groping for consumer needs, so please be more patient, At least Lenovo Z5 let us feel the sincerity of Lenovo.