Tencent Digital | Wang Yuan
iQOO Neo is another cost-effective product series after the iQOO digital series, positioning itself as a mid-to-high-end sub-flagship, which often brings many surprises in the daily use experience. Like the iQOO Neo5 in the first half of this year, the Snapdragon 870+ independent display chip can run to 120fps through interpolation.
Near the end of the year, iQOO released this series of successors iQOO Neo5S, but surprisingly, this time iQOO Neo5S directly used the flagship chip Snapdragon 888, and suddenly stepped into the real flagship camp. What new changes will this bring to it, and is it worth starting with the arrival of the new Snapdragon 8 flagship? Now let's take a look at how it performs.
More product design, screen conscience pile
Since it is called "5S", the new product basically continues the elements of iQOO Neo 5 in the design, and optimizes some details. The back cover uses a higher haze AG frosted glass, which becomes more delicate and smooth, and the anti-fingerprint ability is also improved a lot.
The lens module part is made of metal, this part is quite well-made, the surface uses sandblasting oxidation process, and the back cover of AG glass looks cleaner and more coordinated. At the same time, the four rounded corners have also been shrunk, making the whole module look more square and linear, and the edge part has been CNC cut.
Combined with the family-style cloud level design composed of a shiny texture area below it, the entire lens module part gives me a much more exquisite feeling than before, with the taste of high-end flagship. In addition, the black shell of the fuselage "Night Space" also adds a lot of points to the sense of premium, giving people a more calm feeling, and the other two colors (sunset canyon, orange light jumping) are more suitable for some young users.
The screen is still a 6.62-inch AMOLED direct screen, using a Samsung panel, with a resolution of 2400 * 1080. Most of the user groups of iQOO are mainly gamers, and it is obvious that a straight screen that eliminates accidental touch can better meet the needs of use, in addition to the advantages of convenient film and strong durability. The screen is almost four sides of the same width design, coupled with the center of the digging hole, giving people a symmetrical sense of order.
iQOO Neo5S this screen quality is very top in the same level of products, in addition to the 120Hz high brush, the screen has also been calibrated before leaving the factory, the color accuracy performance has reached the level of JDD≈0.39 and DeltaE ≈ 0.49, and supports HDR10+ certification, with better dynamic range performance. In addition, it also supports sun screen technology, peak brightness up to 1200nit, in the outdoor strong light can also maintain good picture contrast and detail rendering.
At the same time, iQOO Neo5S is also equipped with VRS variable resolution technology, which can identify the key areas of the user's gaze and the unimportant areas of the edge in some games, focus on improving the resolution of the former, ensure the delicate picture quality, and improve the heat and power consumption and frame drop problems while ensuring the visual experience. In general, iQOO Neo5S can give a screen that does not lose high-end flagships in the price range of two or three thousand yuan, which is still quite attractive, and it also plays a good role in blessing the game experience.
Snapdragon 888+ unique chip Pro, the game experience is full
In the past two years, the high-end and sub-flagship camp snapdragon 870 has almost become the standard, the performance is good and stable, the key is affordable, it is easy to become a blockbuster, with the arrival of a new generation of Snapdragon 8 chips, the sub-flagship also has the opportunity to use the 5nm process, the performance of the stronger Snapdragon 888, which is probably the victory of the party and so on...
Snapdragon 888 specific parameters are no longer listed, first run a point according to the convention, my iQOO Neo5S Antutu score reached 830,000, ranking among the best in the same level of products, and iQOO 8 has a fight, at the same time it also uses UFS3.1 flash memory, install large games, load game screens, copy large files have a faster speed.
In addition, iQOO Neo5S continues the configuration of the unique display chip, and upgraded to the unique chip Pro, on the basis of the original game interpolation, dynamic frame stabilization, added 16,000 levels of brightness adjustment, can make the screen brightness change smoother, like students encounter dormitory lights out, will not be affected by sudden changes in screen brightness on the eyes.
At the same time, the unique chip Pro can also improve the display quality of the game screen, optimize the visual experience, and have a good picture display effect under outdoor strong light.
Directly into the game experience link, as a KPL competition machine, iQOO Neo5S play king glory adaptation to the native 120 frame mode is deserved, but under the interpolation frame of the unique chip Pro, it can be clearly felt that the 120fps screen can be kept more stable. The "League of Legends Mobile Game" that has just been launched currently supports fewer models with high frame rates, and 120fps can be achieved through the frame rate improvement mode in iQOO Neo5S.
In addition, large-scale games such as "Peace Elite" and "Original God" and "Tianya Mingyue Knife" have previously supported interpolation to 120fps on iQOO Neo5, and the game experience is full. But considering the battery life, in fact, iQOO also provides a high-frame low-power mode, which can interpolate the game screen to 90, taking "Original God" as an example, the 90-frame screen can maintain a stable time of more than one and a half hours. In addition, according to official data, playing the original god 90 frames in this mode, the endurance time is reversed to 45 minutes longer than the original 60 frames.
In addition to the improvement of the picture, iQOO Neo5S also supports touch acceleration, which can achieve a touch sampling rate of 1000Hz in some games, and the control is more followed, and the position placement skill or open shot can become more smooth.
The iQOO Neo5S is also equipped with dual surround sound speakers and is Hi-Res Audio and Hi-Res Audio Wireless certified, making it immersive to play games. Others such as 4D seismic sensing, enhanced WI-FI6, 5G game antennas, etc. are also not falling, basically covering the needs of most players.
Heat dissipation, battery life, taking pictures, a lot
Although the performance of iQOO Neo5S is very strong in terms of performance, but with the Snapdragon 888 along with the anxiety of battery life and heat, in response to such problems, iQOO Neo5S has added two improvements. The first is to add a high thermal conductivity alloy heat dissipation material with rare earth elements to the heat dissipation structure in the fuselage, and to improve the heat dissipation efficiency with a larger area of graphite plate and liquid-cooled vaporized plate.
In the actual test, after half an hour of the highest quality 90 frames of the "Original God" picture game, the temperature of the surface of the mobile phone was controlled at about 40 ° C, and it is still worth affirming that the Snapdragon 888 flagship can be controlled at this level. This year, several high-end mobile phones have made new attempts on heat dissipation materials, and the effect is obvious from the experience point of view, hoping to be applied to the upcoming Snapdragon 8 flagship as soon as possible.
On the other hand, the battery capacity of iQOO Neo5S has also increased slightly, reaching 4500mAh, after playing an hour of games, watching an hour of video, brushing an hour of Weibo and short video applications under the premise of opening a 120Hz high brush, the remaining power is 56%, and the total battery life is about 4.5 hours if only playing games, of course, this data is for reference only, and it depends on everyone's usage habits. However, daily medium and light use to meet the needs of a full day of battery life is basically no problem.
The fast charging power is still 66W, and the measured 18-minute charge can be charged 70%, and it takes about 37 minutes to fully charge. At the same time, the charging head of iQOO Neo5S is also compatible with the 45W PD protocol, which is also a practical choice for powering some notebooks that support this protocol.
iQOO Neo5S in the lens specifications and the previous generation is consistent, the use of rear triple camera, the main camera is customized 48 million pixels IMX598, aperture f/1.79, support OIS optical image stabilization, this main camera was used for vivo X60, imaging capabilities are very good. In addition, the iQOO Neo5S also has a 13MP 120° wide-angle lens and a 2MP monochrome lens, while the front lens is 16MP.
Judging from the daytime samples, the film style of iQOO Neo5S is still the familiar tuning style, the picture as a whole is close to the real, the details are in place, and the color transparency is accurate. The field of view of 120° under the ultra-wide angle is wide, and there is no obvious deviation between the color and the main camera, and there is no obvious distortion in the edge part.
When shooting handheld in night mode, there is no such thing as long exposure and interpretation of the picture. The overall brightness of the picture is obviously improved, the details in the shadows are not too much lost, and the whole picture also has a good purity, the highlight suppression ability is decent, and there is no obvious overexposure.
The original system has been upgraded and the functions and gameplay are richer
iQOO Neo5S is equipped with the OriginOS Ocean system just released not long ago, adding many new features to the previous generation of the system, such as more silky animation effects, and the experience is much smoother than before. There are richer adjustable options on the appearance, the icon provides two styles of flat and skewed, the size, rounded corners are supported for custom adjustment, and you can quickly switch between wallpaper and system theme in the widget, etc., without entering the setting interface to operate.
In addition, the core atomic component part has also added the adaptation of more third-party applications, such as Weibo, Taobao, Alipay, etc., no longer limited to several system applications, practicality and playability have increased a lot, and at the same time, the style has become richer.
I personally prefer the new Origin lock screen, the lower part of the screen is divided into several rectangular areas of different sizes, a bit like the Windows tile, the largest in the middle for the unlock and fingerprint recognition area, the right side for the common functions or application shortcut icons, just drag it to the middle of the unlock area can be quickly started, the advantage of this interactive way is to combine the application's quick start with fingerprint recognition under the screen, improve the efficiency of use.
summary
iQOO Neo5S's hardware stacking and functional experience are as sincere as ever, especially the combination of the Snapdragon 888 and the dual "core" of the unique chip Pro brings a very smooth game screen, so that gamers can also get a high-end flagship and game phone experience in such a high-end product. And by improving the heat dissipation structure and increasing the battery capacity, the impact of the Snapdragon 888 is minimized.
Compared with the same products, it has a better experience of use, compared with the high-end flagship, it has no obvious shortcomings, and it is enough to support a considerable use cycle. Although it is getting closer and closer to the large-scale listing of the new Snapdragon 8 flagship, it is also a good choice to start such a Snapdragon 888 flagship at a lower cost.