Samsung A9 Star Review: Strength of the young market

For younger generations who have grown up in the Internet environment, the social attributes of mobile phones have become increasingly prominent. Photographs, entertainment, and fresh sense of technology are often the key to their choice of mobile phones. Along with this group's rising consumer power, mobile phone manufacturers are increasingly Pay attention to their needs, and launch products in a targeted manner to win favor.

Recently, Samsung introduced the new Galaxy A9 Star, which is based on the consumer demand of the young group. It has created a product that is different from the previous ones. Here we will use the evaluation to understand it in depth.

First, through a table to sort out the hardware configuration of Samsung Galaxy A9 Star.

The appearance of the "flat version of Note 8"

The topic of “Comprehensive Screening” continued in 2018. The high-end models released in the first half of the year all chose Liu Haiping. However, Samsung is an exception. The flagship Galaxy S9 series still focuses on the all-round curved screen and reaches the mid-range. Galaxy A9 Star, then returned to the relatively traditional full-screen solution: stretch the screen, narrowing the frame chin.

The Samsung Galaxy A9 Star uses its own 6.3-inch Super AMOLED screen, 18.5:9 ratio, 2220 x 1080 resolution, supports AOD, and the display effect maintains Samsung's consistent high level, vivid color reproduction, high contrast, and strong light Still have a good look and feel. Although this screen does not reach 2K resolution, but in Samsung's adaptation of the UI, the grainy sense of the font is not obvious, daily use without any discomfort.

Compared to the popular "Liu Haiping", the screen of the Samsung Galaxy A9 Star is more complete. With the cutting of the large round corners and the outline of the entire machine, it embodies a certain beauty of symmetry. This symmetry is in Samsung's flagship product in recent years. It has become a regular formula, and from this point of view, the Samsung Galaxy A9 Star also has a note of Note 8, which is just a "flat version."

In addition, the Samsung Galaxy A9 Star retains a 3.5mm headphone jack, using the Type-C interface.

The fingerprint location

The body design, Samsung Galaxy A9 Star uses a mature "sandwich" structure, double-sided 2.5D glass + aluminum alloy frame. Back double camera vertical arrangement, located on the left side of the fuselage, but do not know is For what purpose, the fingerprint recognition module is designed to be almost parallel to the camera, and it is higher than the position of the post-fingerprint in traditional cognition. It is difficult to get in one hand and it is very awkward to use. .

Fortunately, the unlocking function with higher frequency of use has been replaced by human faces. Fingerprints are only used in low-frequency scenes such as payment and encryption, and the effect of fingerprint location on daily use is limited.

Friends who have used the Galaxy S8/S9 series know that Samsung is relying on touch-sensitive touch + linear motors to create a full-fledged full-screen interactive experience. The virtual Home button integrates pressure sensing, and pressing the area under the screen will directly light the screen. Unlocked, and accompanied by vibratory feedback, as if pressed, compensates for the absence of virtual keys in the sense of "confirmation."

However, the Samsung Galaxy A9 Star is not equipped with a pressure sensitive touch + linear motor. The virtual home button under the information screen can only be woken up by a long press. There is no vibration feedback. Sometimes I don't even know if I've pressed the right position. Pressed "Confirmation", the experience is greatly reduced.

Better understand your Bixby

The Samsung Galaxy A9 Star incorporates Bixby artificial intelligence, and the Bixby button is specially set on the left side of the fuselage. Press to directly exhale Bixby and long press voice interaction. This is consistent with the flagship level 1 product and guarantees Bixby's experience in the A9 Star. .

In terms of actual experience, Bixby's long segmentation of the phonetic sentence is more natural, sounds less obvious, and has a stronger logic in the language. It can be analyzed by combining the semantics before and after, context and other factors to make it more accurate. reply.

For a simple example, the author asked Bixby 'What's the weather like today?' Bixby will call the weather forecast and broadcast the weather by voice. At this point you want to continue to understand tomorrow's weather, just ask “What's tomorrow?”, Bixby will Naturally linking to an order to understand this order directly broadcasts tomorrow's weather. Visible interactions with Bixby are not mechanically repeated instructions, and are obviously closer to people-to-people exchanges.

Comprehensive and convenient AI experience

Excitingly, Bixby can bring about a change in the way mobile phones are interacted with, so that they can 'speak and speak,' not only involving system applications, but even supporting the operation of some third-party applications, such as WeChat, Alipay, Weibo, and ofo sharing. Cycling, etc. When you are bored, when you say 'Open WeChat Circle of Friends' to Bixby, you will go directly to WeChat's circle of friends and say 'We will send XXX Yuan Red Packet to XXX' will directly go to the WeChat red packet payment verification page, even the amount of red packets. All have been filled out, just need to brush your eyes with the iris to pay for it and completely free your hands.

Currently, there are 17 third-party applications optimized for Bixby, commonly used Weibo, Wechat, and Alipay have been supported, as well as shared cycling, video, music, maps, shopping and other applications, which can basically meet daily needs. The future Samsung Bixby will also Collaborate deeply with other applications to cover more applications.

In addition to voice, Bixby integrates computer vision capabilities, which in turn creates Bixby Vision, what is new in our lives, allows Bixby to see it and recognize it, for easy insight. Bixby's visual entrance is hidden behind the camera In the middle, Bixby instantly became an AI with a clear and conscientious eye. It can recognize objects, texts, and support corresponding translations in multiple languages.

Bixby also has an egg

Bixby incorporates a lot of eggs, such as impromptu composition. Speaking of Bixby 'Hi Bixby, I want to compose music', Bixby will immediately offer several styles of genre choices. After the author made a choice and freely draw a few curves, Bixby It is very fresh to be able to compose music on the basis of this curve.

At the same time, Bixby also included the spokesperson Brilliance's voice. It can wake up Bixby's corresponding password, let Brilliance ask you early, sing and so on. It's very interesting.

Photographs are not ambiguous

Camera, Samsung Galaxy A9 Star is not ambiguous, rear 16 million +24 million pixel dual cameras, are F 1.7 large aperture, support for PDAF phase focus. 16 million pixel camera is the daily main imaging, 24 million pixel camera On the one hand, it is responsible for the imaging of the portrait mode. On the other hand, it supports the “Pixel Four-in-One” technology to ensure that there is more light in the dark light and improve the quality of the night shot. The two cameras will switch intelligently according to the ambient light environment to ensure the best Imaging effect.

From the point of view of parameters, the camera of Samsung Galaxy A9 Star has certain characteristics. Below we use the proofs to interpret its imaging power.

In a light-filled environment, the Samsung A9 Star is accurate in color reproduction, and the resolution of 16 million pixels is also sufficient. In line with Samsung's customary tuning, the brightness of the screen will be the first to guarantee, so there is a tendency to overexposure, such as the exposed bark of the parrot sample. .

In terms of macros, the Samsung A9 Star is not aware of the surprises, the focus is accurate and rapid, the subject's subject is in focus, and the background is blurry and natural.

The performance of the Samsung A9 Star at night is also worthy of recognition. The screen brightness is sufficient, details are retained, latitude is better, noise is well suppressed, smear is not obvious, and the perception is good.

Under the portrait mode, the Samsung A9 Star's character map is more accurate, the background is blurry and natural, there is no flaw, and the degree of blur can be modified at any time during the later period.

On the front camera, the Samsung A9 Star uses a 24 million-pixel camera, which has been added to the studio's light function. It can simulate the effects of left and right lights, front light, and right light in real time. It is reported that these light effects are derived from professional The adjustment of the photographer makes people look like five features and the photos are more artistic.

Overall, the Samsung A9 Star has continued Samsung's strong performance in imaging. Although there is a gap with the flagship first-class products, it is definitely in a superior position compared with the same-level products.

See also Snapdragon 660

The Samsung Galaxy A9 Star is equipped with the Snapdragon 660 mobile platform. This is Qualcomm's current strongest Snapdragon 600 series product. It has been widely used in the same price range and has accumulated a good reputation. The Snapdragon 660 adopts the Kryo 260 semi-custom architecture. Built-in Spectra ISP, Hexgon DSP, X12 LTE Modem, etc., have breakthroughs in computing performance, image processing and actual experience.

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 Ann Bunny as an example. We can see that Xiaolong 660 easily exceeded 130,000 points. GeekBench test also has a single-core 1600, multi-core 5900 results, CPU performance and the flagship platform once 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.

As for the gaming experience, the Snapdragon 660 has already supported the high frame rate mode of "Glory to the King", and provides multi-threaded optimization without any pressure for smooth operation. For high-performance mobile games such as eating chicken, Snapdragon 660 is limited GPU performance, high image quality is relatively difficult to operate, it is recommended that the medium effect.

to sum up

From the product level, the Samsung Galaxy A9 Star is a mature product, the Snapdragon 660, and the 24 million dual cameras before and after are the mainstream standards. The imaging performance is also not inferior to any of the same price products, and it has a flagship machine. Consistent Bixby experience and NFC function, the price of 2999 yuan showed a certain degree of sincerity. But fortunately took the full screen of the ride, the overall value is acceptable, coupled with the endorsement of Brilliance and Samsung in the brand's impact Force, this phone will have a good competitiveness, it is worth everyone to consider.