As a domestic rising star in the mobile phone market, realme's bright performance in recent years has attracted the attention of many young users. Although the realme GT series is still performing well, the realme GT Neo series is also a good mid-range product, but to say that the most representative of the entire brand "dare to cross the level" brand concept of the product, it is definitely the main cost-effective realme Q series mobile phone.
Just last week, realme true self mobile phone announced on Weibo the sale of true Q3 series mobile phones: the cumulative sales of the true Q3 series exceeded 2 million units, and successfully broke the sales record of more than 1 million units of the true Q2 series on the whole network. The outstanding cost performance in the same price point products is the fundamental reason why realme Q series mobile phones can become their own sales crown.
With such a successful product in front of the pearl jade, realme naturally hopes to continue the good performance. On April 20th, Realme officially released two iterative new products, the True Self Q5 and the True Self Q5 Pro. As a new work in the realme Q series, True Q5 Pro continues the product concept of "dare to cross the level", not only equipped with a new 80W rapid flash charge and a powerful Qualcomm flagship processor, but also upgraded the screen size and material of the whole machine.
The question is, is this phone worth buying? Taking this opportunity, we made a more detailed evaluation of the true Q5 Pro, hoping to provide a reference for friends who are ready to buy the machine.
Appearance: Orange checkered design, full of eye-catching
To talk about the impression of realme's products, one is that it is inclined to a young audience, and the other is that the design is bold and out of line.
From the "cyberpunk" of the True Self GT Neo, to the "Black Mint" of the True Self GT Neo 2, to the "Paper" of this year's True Self GT2 Pro and the "Purple Micro Star" of the True Self V25. It's hard to simply evaluate whether these designs are good or bad, but it should be no wonder that they appeal to the eye.
Of course, the design of the True Self Q5 Pro is the same. Xiao Lei hands on this is the main color of the real Q5 Pro - "Summer Burning Engine", the whole machine uses orange color, after the double-grain double plating process after the frosted back cover, in the light will show the light and shade of the checkerboard pattern, so that the phone looks more youthful, for the whole product to give a touch of movement and aura.
Turning back to the front of the fuselage, the Q5 Pro uses a 6.62-inch Samsung E4 material OLED screen, with a resolution of 2400×1080, a refresh rate of 120Hz, a touch sampling rate of 600Hz, and supports 4 adaptive refresh rates. In actual experience, the color reproduction of this screen is accurate, the display effect is clear and sharp, in addition to the large bottom border, the look and feel of the whole screen is still OK.
In addition to a good look, the feel is also important. Although the Q5 Pro has a built-in 5000mAh battery, due to the improvement of the stacking process, the thickness of the fuselage is maintained at about 8.5mm, and the weight can be controlled around 195g, which basically does not make the user feel "heavy". However, this product does not solve the transition problem between the middle frame and the back cover of the injection molding, and the grip is still relatively subtle.
Of course, for such a product, it is naturally unrealistic to want to be perfect. Although this product supports fingerprint unlocking under the screen, the position of fingerprint unlocking is as low as ever, and it is not easy to use. Not only that, but the Q5 Pro also canceled the 3.5mm headphone jack that was well received on the previous generation, which may be dissatisfied with users who like wired headphones.
Performance: Use the flagship processor
After talking about the appearance, let's talk about the inside.
True self Q5 Pro uses snapdragon 870 flagship processor, it is estimated that many readers have seen this processor is not strange. In the performance test, the True Self Q5 Pro's Antu Rabbit running score was 710,000 points, for comparison, the previous generation of products True Self Q3 Pro (Tianji 1100) ran 650,000 points, while the True Self GT Neo2T (Tianji 1200) ran 680,000 points.
Although the Snapdragon 870 is essentially the flagship processor released the year before, the performance of the Q5 Pro can still steadily surpass last year's mainstream mid-range processors, and the longer tuning time also allows manufacturers to give full play to the performance of this processor.
Taking the mainstream game "Peace Elite" as an example, we set the picture quality to "ultra hd + extreme frame rate" mode, in about half an hour of normal matching games, the game frame rate is always maintained at around 60 frames, the average frame rate is 57.4 frames, the entire game screen is smooth, regardless of driving the picture, or entering the battle, the basic whole process did not appear any caton situation, the performance is not bad.
Let's take a look at the "Glory of the King" with a large audience, the real Q5 Pro supports the "Glory of the King" 120 frame mode, we set the picture quality to "ultra-high image quality + 120 frames", several games matched down, the basic full game frame number can be stabilized at 120 frames, the average frame number is 117 frames, there is no overheating and frequency reduction phenomenon.
In the performance of the "League of Legends Mobile Game", the performance of the Q5 Pro is still good. After starting the 90 frame mode, the real Q5 Pro can basically achieve the performance of the whole stable frame, the average frame rate is 88.2 frames, basically there is no too much frame rate fluctuation, and there will be no obvious frame drop and stuttering in the high load scene of the team battle, and the game experience is excellent.
Finally, nature is still the most concerned running software "Original God". We set the picture quality to the highest, the frame rate is set to 60FPS, the Q5 Pro can only be maintained at 60 frames for a period of time after the start of the game, and then it will quickly drop to about 40 frames due to the temperature control setting, and finally the average frame count after half an hour test is 42 frames. The advantage is that after the frame stabilization function is enabled, there will be no repeated fluctuations and stuttering, and the frame rate is relatively stable.
Camera: Decent, enough for daily use
In terms of imaging, the configuration of the True Self Q5 Pro is the same as that of the True Self Q3 Pro, the same 64MP main camera, the same 8MP 119° ultra-wide angle lens and a 2MP macro lens.
In the actual shooting, the photo of the real Q5 Pro is still the same green factory style as always, the color adjustment is gorgeous, and the high saturation is very eye-catching. In the case of sufficient light, the clarity and detail of the photo are not bad, the daily shooting record is completely sufficient, and the existence of ultra-wide angle and macro lenses also adds some playability to the image function of the machine.
In the case of weak light, turn on the night mode, the Q5 Pro can use the multi-frame synthesis algorithm to obtain a better exposure effect, the purity and brightness of the actual sample are OK, and the details of the shadows and highlights are well preserved. However, because there is no optical image stabilization, limited by key factors such as the amount of light entered, algorithms, etc., this product is almost unable to cope with extreme low light scenes.
In actual experience, the image capability of the Q5 Pro can only be regarded as the conventional level of the same price product, but it has been able to meet most of the camera scenes in daily life.
Endurance: 80W fast charging, popular thousand yuan file
To say that the biggest upgrade point of the true Q5 Pro is to upgrade the fast charging ability from the 30W ordinary fast charging of the Q3 Pro to the 80W smart flash charge. The actual test, from 0% charging to full power, the real Q5 Pro took a total of 36 minutes. Considering the size of the phone's battery, this is a pretty good result.
Not only that, this time the True Self Q5 Pro is equipped with a 5000mAh super large battery for the first time. In the case of unplugged cards, Wi-Fi connection, and equalization mode, after one hour of "League of Legends", one hour of "Peace Elite", two hours of Bilibili and Weibo, a total of four hours of intensive use, there is still about 52%. For medium and light use scenarios, the real Q5 Pro can basically last a day without pressure, if it is used heavily, it is inevitable to recharge more than one day.
summary
merit:
1, Snapdragon 870 blessing, good hardware configuration;
2, 80W fast charge + 5000mAh battery, to solve the battery anxiety disorder;
shortcoming:
1, the grip feels general;
2. The 3.5mm headphone jack has been cancelled;
Still outstanding design, mature and efficient machine performance, fully upgraded battery life configuration... Although the camera specifications are decent, the whole machine feels inferior to the previous generation, but the upgrade point of the machine basically cut to the pain points of the target customers. It's not hard to see that when Realme designed the True Self Q5 Pro, it initially targeted its audience as under-budgeted young people who valued the performance experience more.
From our actual experience, unlike the True Self GT Neo series of positioning games, the True Self Q5 Pro should be a relatively rare high-performance model in the entry-level market at this stage. Although the machine is not equipped with a new processor, it is balanced enough to bring users a good experience. If you're a user with a limited budget and want to buy a daily workhorse, then this product should be a good choice.