On the evening of December 14, vivo officially released the vivo S18 series products. In addition to the new "Flowery" colorway, there have also been a lot of upgrades in the hardware. So as the "super large cup" Pro version in the S series, what are the highlights worthy of our attention this time? What is the experience? Let's take a look together.
1. Appearance: Flowers, a thousand beautiful
First of all, let's take a look at the exterior design of the vivo S18 Pro. Previously, vivo has successively brought Huaxia Red, Yan Ruyu and Shanhai Blue colors to the X Fold, S16 and S17 series, and has conquered many friends with its strong oriental romantic aesthetic design. On this S18 Pro, vivo continues to start from the "Oriental Aesthetic Universe", combined with the S series' long-term understanding of trendy fashion elements, and brings a new "flowery" color scheme on S18 Pro.
According to the official introduction, on this S18 Pro, vivo takes the flowers in the oriental artistic conception, condenses flowers, cloud brocade and other elements, and integrates beautiful meanings such as looking forward to success, life growth, and cherishing time.
In order to restore the three-dimensional sense of blooming on the plane, vivo S18 Pro pioneered the relief engraving process. The designer lithroded 13 million tangent lines of different lengths and angles on the back of the mobile phone, and cut 256 horizontal sections in a single line only 30 m wide, and accurately controlled the width of each step at 117nm. Drawing on the drawing technique of flower petals, the soft long line is used to transition the leaf texture, and the wavy outline of the petal edge is outlined with a hard short line, which delicately depicts the lifelike stretching dynamics of the petals.
At the same time, referring to the light and dark rules of light projection, the lines are densely arranged in curves to form a more intense highlight, as if the veins with sufficient moisture are brightly raised, and the sparse dark lines are used to simulate the projection of the petal leaf furrows to make the petals hairy matte grooves. Through the delicate control of light and shadow changes, the visual dislocation is realized, and the flat petals have a three-dimensional sense of depth in a space with a thickness of only 2 m.
In the upper left corner of the back of the fuselage,LookS18 ProImage module,Inspired by the "window" that captures light and glimpses the scene,In the classic cloud window design,The "water mirror cloud window" derived from Chinese architectural design has been upgraded to a new "water light cloud window",Innovatively arrange two square windows with rounded corners,It not only retains the sense of order of the rectangular circumference,It also uses a soft arc to create a smart and exquisite。 The modern mirror design, with the characteristics of "lighting and scenery", echoes the ingenuity of Chinese architecture at this moment.
On the rear camera module, vivo takes the side arc when the water is full but not overflowing, and selects the round and smooth 2.5D glass, polishing the general R angle where the crystal water droplets are about to overflow, echoing the curved arc of the square window base, the waves flow and the feel is comfortable. Drawing inspiration from the gemstone carving process, the diamond cutting technique is used to polish the metal side of the cloud window with only 0.35mm, like a silver wire line in a loop, forming a halo under the light, bringing the person's eye to the center. Not only is it full of lines, but it is also visually layered.
Coming to the front of the fuselage,This timeS18 Pro is equipped with the most outstanding S series so far6.78Inch1.5K slightly curved screen,In addition to the delicate display effect, the most noteworthy thing about this screen is the eye protection ability。 It not only supports hardware-level low blue light eye protection, but also supports 2160Hz high-frequency dimming and multiple software eye protection to help users relieve the eye pressure caused by long-term use of mobile phones.
Coming to the side of the fuselage, the top is a noise-canceling microphone, the tail is a SIM card slot, a Type-C port and a speaker, and the right side is the volume button and power button.
In terms of color matching, in addition to the flowers, the S18 series also has a new color "Qingqing". It not only inherits the warm texture of "Yan Ruyu", but also continues the artistic conception of the landscape of "mountains and seas", and uses the trickling clear waves to create a picture of the river and the sea with "the water is shining and the sun is good".
In order to make the surging water waves not only full of vigorous forward power, but also quiet and far-reaching bearing, the designer took the slightly rippling state of the waves as the inspiration to create a natural beauty of "water and sunshine". On the back cover, a particle ink process is adopted, and 15 million magnetic particles with a diameter of only 10-40 m are selected, and their reflection angles are precisely controlled by magnetism, outlining a undulating continuous curve to form a three-dimensional light and shadow with layers and natural growth. In addition to these two colors, there is also a classic black option available, which is perfect for those who want to keep a low profile.
2 Image: This is your portable studio
The selfie performance of the vivoS series has always been highly sought after by young people, and this is also the best product for the selfie experience in my opinion. Take the vivoS17 series released in the first half of the year as an example, whether it is friends around me or ZOL netizens, I have recommended countless friends to buy this product, and the feedback received is also all praise, this time vivo S18 Pro is a step forward in the selfie experience.
First of all, vivo S18 Pro is equipped with a Samsung JN1 sensor in the front camera, which is often used as the main camera sensor by many mid-range products, and it is quite good in terms of hardware specifications. At the same time, the size of the front aperture is also the largest f/2.0 in the blue factory to date, which further improves the light intake of this Samsung JN1 (officially said that the light intake is about 50% higher than the previous f/2.4 aperture).
Judging from the effect of the selfie, from the facial features to the hair, from the material of the clothes to the accessories, it is quite clear. At the same time, with the blessing of the portrait beautification algorithm developed by the blue factory, the characters have three-dimensional facial features at the same time, and the makeup is also more natural, and the overall texture is quite high.
To increase the amount of light by making the aperture larger, it is obviously impossible to meet the needs of users for selfies in low-light environments, so vivo S18 Pro brings two soft lights on the front of the fuselage, and the fill light angle has been increased to 90°, which can better improve the selfie experience and make skin tones whiter and more natural. It is worth mentioning that these two soft lights are hidden in the already narrow upper bezel, which is basically difficult to find.
After talking about the front selfie, let's take a look at the rear image part of the vivo S18 Pro. In terms of hardware configuration, its main camera uses a new custom sensor Sony IMX920, which is deeply integrated into the self-developed bionic spectrum technology. The R&D personnel have conducted in-depth research on the structure of the eye, modified the "retina" according to the vivo human eye bionic standard, and cooperated with sensor giants to deploy filter materials and improve the optical structure of pixels.
According to official data, vivo S18 Pro's main camera can improve the purity of image quality by up to 25%, which is equivalent to making the 1/1.55-inch sensor equivalent to 1/1.4-inch light sensitivity, without increasing the sensor size, and maintaining pure image quality in difficult scenes such as dark backlighting.
Judging from the actual shooting results, this IMX920 performs quite well on the vivo S18 Pro. Especially in the night scene, thanks to the large sensor and VCS bionic spectrum technology, the night scene photos are as bright and clear, the colors are natural, and the picture is pure. The suppression of highlights and the control of dark details meet users' expectations for an image flagship.
It is worth mentioning that vivo S18 Pro also gets the same vivo texture color mode as the flagship X series, after turning on this mode, the finished film is more stylized, and the grasp of color and light and shadow is different from the past, which can help users shoot personalized masterpieces with rich colors.
In addition to the main camera, the vivo S18 Pro is also equipped with a 2X portrait lens, and it is also the same Sony IMX663 sensor as its own imaging flagship vivoX90.
It can be seen that in the outdoor natural light environment, vivo S18 Pro's direct portrait effect is really good, the picture quality is delicate, the facial features of the person's face are also very three-dimensional, the skin is fair and natural, and the overall texture is also very advantageous.
In the low-light environment, thanks to the blessing of the smart soft light ring and the first super-perceptual spectral sensor, it not only brings excellent fill light effect to the S18 Pro, but also enables the S18 Pro to obtain more accurate color temperature, brightness and other information, so as to ensure that the color in the finished film is more accurate.
In addition, from the perspective of portrait performance of the vivo S18 Pro, its background blur effect can separate the subject from the background, thus highlighting the subject of the subject. And in terms of effect, there are even some bokeh effects of professional optical lenses.
In addition, during this evaluation, we found that in the portrait style of the vivo S18 Pro, there is an additional "Soft Film" mode:
Samples shot in the "diffusion" style use fill lights to show a real flash texture, plus distressed-style filters and watermarks, and the retro film feel is vibrant.
Finally, the vivo S18 Pro also has a 50 million ultra-wide-angle lens for shooting some tall buildings and wide landscapes, which is very suitable for travel check-in.
Overall, the overall strength of the vivo S18 Pro's image section is remarkable, especially in portrait shooting. With the blessing of the X90's same Sony telephoto sensor, the overall image experience of the S18 Pro has been further improved, and I believe that this telephoto lens is also what S series fans have been looking forward to.
3 Performance: Flagship SoC blessing, good looks behind the same tough
Performance is undoubtedly another upgrade highlight of the vivo S18 Pro. It is equipped with the Dimensity 9200+ flagship 5G mobile platform, which is also the latest flagship mobile platform on the Android side. According to MediaTek's official statement: the energy efficiency of the Dimensity 9200+ processor is very good, and it will become the best mobile gaming platform at present.
From the perspective of CPU specifications, the Dimensity 9200+ is equipped with a 3.35GHz Cortex-X3 super core, three 3.0GHz A715 large cores, and four 2.0GHz A510 small cores, forming a total of 8 core architecture. On the GPU side, it's the Immortalis-G715 core. Compared with the previous generation platform, the Dimensity 9200+ CPU has increased the frequency of large cores by 10%, small cores by 11%, single-core performance by 10%, and multi-core performance by 5%. The GPU clock speed is increased by 17%, and the performance is increased by 10%.
From the point of view of parameters, the performance of this Dimensity 9200+ is still quite impressive. In order to maximize the performance level of the Dimensity 9200+, vivo has equipped the vivo S18 Pro with a memory combination of LPDDR5X and UFS4.0. In the running score test, we used Antutu, 3DMark, and GeekBench as benchmark software to conduct a data-based test of the performance level of vivo S18 Pro:
In the game testing session, we chose the current popular "Honor of Kings" and "Genshin Impact" for frame rate testing. The test environment was a room temperature of 24°C, the game image quality and frame rate were fully maxed out in the game settings, and the frame rate performance of the whole game was recorded by PerfDog, and the results are as follows:
Judging from the test results, the Vivo S18 Pro's performance is basically the same as we expected. In the test of "Honor of Kings", vivo S18 Pro can basically run at full frame all the time, of course, this is not a pressure for models equipped with flagship-level mobile platforms.
In the 30-minute battle test of "Genshin Impact" Sumeru City, the vivo S18 Pro can still run stably at around 60 frames per second.
Finally, in terms of battery life, vivo S18 Pro has a built-in 5000mAh large battery and 80W voyage fast charging, although it is slightly inferior to the 120W+5000mAh configuration, but it should be noted that vivo S18 ProThe thickness of the fuselage is only 7.46mm, and such a battery life configuration under such a thin and light fuselage is also unique.
Specific to the actual test, vivo S18 Pro In the Zhongguancun online 5-hour heavy battery life test, there is still 51% of the power left, which is basically not much worse than many models equipped with 5000mAh batteries. In terms of fast charging, it can also restore 82% of the blood of vivo S18 Pro in 30 minutes, which can fully meet the needs of users for quick recharge.
4 Experience: Your avatar is in place
As a model equipped with OriginOS4, vivo S18 Pro also incorporates a new AI assistant - Blue Heart V. From the perspective of experience, the blue heart little V undoubtedly makes the use of mobile phones easier and simpler. For example, many friends have a lot of photos on their mobile phones, and when chatting with friends, they suddenly want to send a photo to their friends, but the number of photos in the album is too large, and it takes a long time to look for them. At this time, we call up the blue heart little V through the sidebar, and say "Little V help me find a portrait photo", and then the little V can help us find the photo we want, very fast.
You can also ask Xiao V to help you find documents, especially those documents that you don't know where to save them, you just need to say "reimbursement template file" to Xiao V, and you can find it at once.
You may often encounter a situation where you suddenly think of a feature, but you can't remember what it is called. With Blue Heart V, it's too easy to find. For example, if I want to cast a photo, you can say, "I want to cast a photo on TV, what should I do?"
Xiao V will not only tell you the operation process, but also give a shortcut to the projection function, after the user clicks, they will jump to the corresponding page.
You can also ask some daily questions, such as "how long is the Chinese New Year", "tomorrow to Shanghai on a business trip, what is the weather", Xiao V will call the calendar and weather functions, and quickly give us an accurate answer.
There are too many work documents every day, it doesn't matter if you can't read them yourself, Xiao V can help you summarize the article summary. When we find a news article here, we can call out Little V and ask it "what is this article about", and the summary will come out quickly. Of course, if you don't think it's too specific, you can further click on the "summary in the form of key points", and the little V will summarize it in the form of a paragraph of "1234".
The same operation can also be used in papers and literature, often tens of thousands of words of information to read for more than ten minutes, blue heart V can assist us in reading, it can not only quickly refine the core of the article, but also carry out a deeper interpretation of specific issues, it is easy to help you sort out the information content you want.
5 Write at the end
The above is a comprehensive evaluation of vivo S18 Pro based on the recent actual use experience, I believe you already have a basic understanding of this product. Whether it is the new color scheme "Flowers" that excellently restores the feeling of blooming flowers, or the image system that uses soft light to play portrait shooting to a new height, or the flagship hardware configuration of Dimensity 9200+, it is the reason why vivo S18 Pro is worth choosing in the 3000 yuan price segment.
In the current thin and light portrait track, there is an endless stream of competitors, but vivo's S series is still the trump card product of this track, and this time the vivo S18 Pro is no different. If you want to buy a thin and light high-value mobile phone in the near future, vivo S18 Pro will be a good choice, you can go to a nearby physical store to try it out, I believe you will not be disappointed.