The development momentum of iQOO in the past two years can only be described by the word "fierce", whether it is positioned as the most high-end digital series or the Neo series that tends to gamers, it has gained quite good sales and word of mouth in these two years.
Especially the iQOO Neo5 released in the first half of this year, Snapdragon 870 processor, 66W fast charging, 120Hz Samsung AMOLED direct screen, independent display chip, OIS optical image stabilization technology to make it a veritable bucket machine, even now, its product power is still not weak.
However, with the advent of a new generation of Snapdragon 8 processors, it also means that the price of Snapdragon 888 models will touch the bottom, and the research and development costs will be further reduced. In order to further gain more market share, iQOO chose to launch Neo5's iterative product - Neo5s in this time period, and the biggest difference between it and Neo5 is that it was upgraded from Snapdragon 870 to Snapdragon 888.
At the same time, this is also the first mobile phone with OriginOS Ocean, the price of 2699 yuan also indicates that this phone will continue the cost-effective concept of Neo5, as for this "49 years into the army" flavor of iQOO Neo 5s can gain more consumers' favor? I hope that after reading this article, you can get your own answers.
After using the Snapdragon 888, has the experience improved?
Although the Snapdragon 888 processor is an old friend for everyone, considering that the biggest upgrade point of iQOO Neo 5s is this processor, Xiao Lei also explains the performance of iQOO Neo 5s in detail here.
This link mainly includes Geekbench 5 running score, Androbench flash speed test, Antu rabbit running three parts, the machine opens monster mode (similar to "performance mode"), the test environment is indoor 21 ° C, the mobile phone inserts a Unicom card and opens the 5G network, the whole process of connecting to WiFi.
In the Geekbench 5 session, the single-core score and multi-core score of the iQOO Neo 5s are shown in the figure, which is considered to be the upper-middle level in the Snapdragon 888 model.
In the Androbench flash speed test, the main role of this link is to infer the speed and running fluency of the mobile phone when opening the application by detecting the speed of reading and writing to the mobile phone memory. The iQOO Neo 5s is equipped with the UFS 3.1 enhanced version, so the results in this section are as follows, which is slightly higher than the regular USF 3.1 model.
Finally, we are also the most familiar with the Antu rabbit running sub-link, iQOO Neo 5s total score of 835366 points, GPU score of 325966 points, compared to the average iQOO Neo5 720,000 points / 240,000 points does improve a lot, but in the test process the fuselage temperature rises faster, but fortunately only in the warm state.
From this round of testing, we can simply see that the performance of the iQOO Neo 5s is not bad, and the overall performance is in line with the performance of this price point. However, these are paper data, does not mean that its performance when playing the game must be excellent, so Xiao Lei also invited out the "League of Legends mobile game" and "Original God" two "old friends", in the game process to pull all the special effects to the highest and open iQOO Neo 5s comes with the Monster mode (similar to the performance mode).
Since iQOO Neo 5s has an independent display chip, which can realize the function of game interpolation (can make the game screen more smooth, and some games can achieve 120Hz), in order to further verify whether this chip and this function can bring practical experience improvement, Xiao Lei divided this link into before and after the function is opened, which can better reflect the gap.
The first is the "League of Legends Mobile Game", before the interpolation function was turned on, the average frame rate of iQOO Neo 5s in the League of Legends mobile game was not 59.42 frames, and after opening it, it was 59.78 frames, the overall difference was not large, the following is the data comparison chart:
The top is before the opening, and the bottom is after the opening
Then there is the "original god" that everyone "likes to hear", before the interpolation function is not turned on, the performance of iQOO Neo 5s in the original god is an average of 45 frames, and there will be small fluctuations in the fight, but fortunately, the temperature of the fuselage is not obvious, and there will be no hot situation; and after opening the interpolation function, the frame rate of iQOO Neo 5s has increased to 60 frames, but after half an hour, it still falls to about 45 frames, and I hope that iQOO can continue to optimize it in the future.
It should be noted that although this independent display chip can improve the frame rate of the game, Xiaolei opens the frame rate monitoring software to find that the GPU rendering output is still 60 frames, that is to say, compared with the native rendering of 120 frames iQOO, this trick frame can better take into account the high frame game experience and power consumption (Xiao Lei personally is not very recommended, because the power consumption and heat generation will increase).
As for the fever problem that readers are most concerned about, at room temperature of 21 ° C, the temperature of iQOO Neo 5s after running for half an hour is 42.7 ° C and 42.2 ° C, which is a relatively warm state, and the overall performance is much better than that of another Snapdragon 888 flagship on XiaoLei's hand, which may be related to the large area of heat dissipation materials it carries.
Overall, the iQOO Neo 5s' performance in terms of gaming exceeded Xiaolei's expectations, mainly due to its excellent heat dissipation stack and independent display chip, which can further reduce the heat generated by the Snapdragon 888 when running.
What are the improvements to the new generation of OriginOS?
As the first mobile phone to be equipped with OriginOS Ocean as standard, the changes and improvements in the iQOO Neo 5s system are also worth mentioning. After a few days of actual experience, the only feeling is "simple but not simple", if the OriginOS released last year is an attempt by vivo to try to transform, then OriginOS Ocean is a time for vivo to release itself, and the upgrade range is so large that it can also be seen that vivo has absorbed a lot of user suggestions in this year, and has been improved and optimized in many parts.
Without further ado, Xiao Lei will introduce in detail some of the new features that are particularly profound.
The first is the lock screen part of OriginOS Ocean, for most people, the lock screen is nothing more than a part of watching time and unlocking (of course, most manufacturers will put camera and phone shortcuts under the lock screen). However, vivo has added a new interactive method this time, that is, the user drags the button of the application to the fingerprint area around the area where the fingerprint is unlocked, and the corresponding application can be quickly opened.
At the same time, the lock screen supports personalized customization, and quick launch also supports the opening of third-party applications. Xiao Lei's current settings are camera and WeChat, which can greatly improve the speed of opening the camera and WeChat. The benefit of this makes the entire unlocking interface more quick and easy to operate.
Some readers may want to stand up against it, saying that other mobile phone manufacturers also have these functions, but the opening method is different. It is true that domestic mobile phone manufacturers have taken this function point into account, but when they design the system to quickly enter, most of them use black screen gestures (such as opening the camera with a finger drawing V in the black screen state). This kind of unconventional operation logic is actually not friendly to users, so many black screen gestures on mobile phones have been reduced to chicken rib function, and vivo's practice is more traditional, but more effective.
Of course, this design of OriginOS Ocean also has certain flaws, such as affecting the integrity and aesthetics of the lock screen, which is more common.
Once we swipe up to unlock it, we can go to the desktop, and although at first glance this home page looks no different from OriginOS, in fact, when we swipe, it is obvious that OriginOS Ocean greatly enhances the transition effect of the animation. However, perhaps because the animation transition effect is too obvious, it is easy to drop frames when performing certain operations, and I hope that it can be solved by OTA in the future.
On the desktop of OriginOS Ocean, vivo gives it considerable freedom, especially the deformer part, where users can set the icon style (rounded, square or middle value), window style, wallpaper color, icon size, status bar style and so on. Almost forgot, OriginOS Ocean deleted FuntouchOS in the deformer, no longer giving users the right to choose between the two, for vivo, a company that is often "indecisive" in system updates, this operation requires considerable courage.
The atomic components that were previously well received on the home screen have also been upgraded on OriginOS Ocean to support more third-party applications. Now, users can use atomic components on the home screen to hail a car, check the courier, learn about Weibo hot search and other information, and in the subsequent update, OriginOS Ocean will also adapt more and more third-party applications.
For the atomic notification feature on OriginOS 1.0, a comprehensive upgrade has also been made in this update. Through different colors, improve the user's recognition efficiency of information. This feature doesn't look very impressive, but it's quite useful during the experience. At work, the phone pops up a new reminder, glance at the color of the atomic notification and then decide whether to pick up the phone to view, which greatly improves work efficiency.
In addition, the previous atomic notification can also be changed to a "capsule notification", which appears on the status bar on the left side. You can view current notifications in real time without affecting other interface operations. This is still very interesting, in the form of capsules to display such as SMS verification code, weather reminders, game resurrection countdown, app download and installation and other status.
Due to the length of the article, some details about OriginOS Ocean are not covered too much here, but overall, OriginOS Ocean still brings a strong sense of impact to Xiaolei. Good animation effects, quite practical lock screen and atomic components take into account both practicality and aesthetics, no longer the "missing meaning" OriginOS in Xiaolei's impression, perhaps this is why Vivo calls it OriginOS Ocean instead of OriginOS 2.0.
IMX598, can it still deal a dimensionality reduction blow?
Talking about iQOO Neo 5, Xiaolei's most impressive point is its IMX598 sensor and OIS optical image stabilization, after all, in the price of two or three thousand, most mobile phones' camera capabilities are only at the level of "sweeping a code", but the advent of iQOO Neo 5 can be said to break the inherent impression of many consumers on this price point mobile phone.
iQOO Neo 5s continues this image configuration, what is its actual performance, and will it be improved after combining with the new OriginOS Ocean? Little Ray explains with a set of samples:
Almost forgot, the new OriginOS Ocean has also upgraded the interface of the camera, and not only the intuitive changes to the UI design, but also the new gesture adjustment. For the first time in the industry, a series of parameters such as natural saturation, hue saturation, hue brightness, contrast contrast, and exposure are integrated. In simple terms, users can simply swipe through their fingers to make stylized effect adjustments to the photo.
In general, the photo performance of iQOO Neo 5s does have certain advantages over products at the same price, the main camera resolution is good, coupled with vivo's own camera algorithm and OIS optical image stabilization technology, which can help us better produce films. However, the ultra-wide angle white balance at night will be warmer than the main camera, but this is an industry problem, there is no need to dwell too much. And the white balance of the ultra-wide angle during the day is very consistent with the main camera, which is not something that all mobile phones can do.
Summary: Another mid-range machine killer
merit:
1, excellent feel, so that it is thin enough while the heat dissipation configuration is piled to the extreme;
2. Excellent performance, the stability is stronger than that of ordinary Snapdragon 888 model after opening the exclusive mode;
3. The sample performance is satisfactory, almost the strongest in the same price;
shortcoming:
1, although the price is low, but the plastic border will indeed affect the feel;
2, in order to ensure the quality of the game will greatly reduce the battery life of the phone.
As an iterative upgrade product of iQOO Neo 5 at the beginning of the year, iQOO Neo 5s is undoubtedly successful, although from the configuration point of view, its upgrade is not large, you can almost treat it as a core replacement version of iQOO Neo 5, but from the price, we can see iQOO's unique insight into the mobile phone market at a price of 3000 yuan.
iQOO Neo 5s still adheres to the characteristics of the iQOO Neo series of products, that is, accurate card slots, with the user's most concerned and most visible configuration to impact the market, and at the same time will give a very competitive price in this configuration combination, so that when you buy a mobile phone, you have to appear this very cost-effective product. This year's iQOO Neo 5s in the continuation of the cost performance at the same time, but also brought an independent display chip and flagship machine design, to the product's core and appearance and a dose of fierce medicine, so that it whether it is game video, or the feel of external vision has been significantly improved, has become a full-fledged mid-range flagship.
Looking at the current mobile phone market, the fierce competition is far beyond people's imagination. As far as the current user experience is concerned, the functions you can think of on other smart terminals are almost all covered by smartphones. Returning to the essence, what can really improve the user experience is still a simple and efficient user experience, iQOO Neo 5s can be said to be the most balanced and perfect product in the same price point.