1. Foreword: Say goodbye to the past self, the new Honor V40 hits the road
As early as 2017, Honor mobile phones had sales of 54.5 million units and sales of 78.9 billion yuan, which made it to the throne of the Internet mobile phone leader in China; In the first half of 2019, it can compete with Xiaomi + Redmi at the time. It can be said that the past years of glory are worthy of their vanguard mission.
As the first flagship after the independence of the Honor brand, the importance of the Honor V40 to the Honor brand is self-evident. The former glory has occupied the domestic "No. 1 Internet sales" for many years. So whether the glory of complete independence can continue the previous strength, which makes people particularly look forward to.
Honor V40 has brought huge upgrades in design, screen, fast charging, etc. Among them, in terms of screen, it brings the best screen in Honor history-10bit (8+2bit) 1 billion color original color display, An 80° hyper-curved screen with 120Hz refresh rate and 300Hz sampling rate. It also supports 66W+50W dual super fast charging combination. In terms of appearance design, it adopts the Honor-featured dual-hole + curved body, and the back of the body has made drastic innovations. design.
The configuration that everyone cares most about, Honor V40, because of well-known factors, only MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ 5G chip is available for this work. This is the first combination of Honor flagship model and “Fage”. How has its performance become? A big suspense to watch.
The following is our detailed evaluation experience of the Honor V40.
2. Appreciation of appearance: a thin flagship with eye-catching high-end temperament has come out
In addition to innovations in technology and functions, the appearance ID of the previous generations of Honor V series phones is also focused on the ink Place.
Honor V40 adopts 6.72 inches FHD+ ring screen (dual hole), supports DCI-P3 wide color gamut.The large curvature curved screen has a more advanced visual perception, a wider field of view, and a very comfortable holding experience.
It is worth mentioning that the Honor V40 supports a maximum refresh rate of 120Hz, and the fluency is significantly improved, the 440 PPI screen is more delicate, and the color of the 10bit color depth screen is significantly increased.
Double perforation (front single shot)
Very narrow frame
There are speaker openings on the top
The top view can see the glory of the front and rear hyperboloid design , The outline of the back of the fuselage is all curved.
Titanium silver and rose gold
Honor phones have always had their own independent design philosophy, this time it escaped the routine of "camera frame fine-tuning + back shell color change" , Re-divide the plane with multiple 1:3:9:27 equal ratio rectangles to create a recursive structure.
AG process matte glass and high-gloss glass collide, which is very innovative and charming.
The body of Honor V40 is as thin as 8.04mm, and the weight of the standard version is only 186g, making the round and cornerless body very comfortable to hold.
3. Charging battery life: 66W fast charge is coming!
Honor uses the 66W super fast charging solution.
Its battery uses a technology called "single-core, dual-circuit and three-electrode". Through the shunt technology of the protection board and the battery, it reduces the equivalent impedance and heat consumption of the path, breaking the traditional single-cell and double-cell The technical limitations of the fast-charging solution enable "two-way charging with one cell".
Compared with the traditional single-core solution, Honor V40 adopts single-core dual-channel three-electrode technology with lower resistance.Therefore, there is less heat generation and higher charging efficiency.
It is worth mentioning that compared to the dual-cell battery, the single-cell battery used in the Honor V40 is smaller when the battery capacity is the same. This is one of the reasons why this machine can make the whole machine as thin as 8.04mm while achieving such high-power fast charging, and the weight of the standard version is as light as 186g.
The most important thing is that the single-cell battery solution is relatively mature, and there are no concerns about service life, charge and discharge cycles, etc.
Observing the charging process, it will be found that when the battery is low, the charging power of the Honor V40 will be almost full. In just 10 minutes, the battery will be charged from 2% to 40%.
As the power increases, the charging power will gradually decrease and gradually enter the trickle mode. This is not to say that mobile phone manufacturers have deliberately slowed down the charging speed, but that lithium batteries require this kind of quick and slow charging mode, which takes into account the charging speed and battery durability.
In addition to the charging speed, the temperature during charging is also of great concern to users. Honor V40 feels cool when charging, and the heat conducted to the body is basically the same as the surface temperature of the human body.
This is mainly due to its newly upgraded single-cell dual-channel three-electrode fast charging technology, which has lower resistance than traditional single-cell technology, reduces energy loss during internal voltage conversion, and reduces battery heating temperature.
The screen is fully charged in 36.5 minutes after power-on, and the charging may be faster if it is turned off
In addition, compared with Honor’s previous 40W fast charge, 66W wired super fast charge can charge 11V/6A through two charge pump IC , Synchronous shunt into two circuits of 3A, and then into two circuits of 6A, which further solves the contradiction between low high-voltage charging voltage conversion rate and low-voltage charging current, while also reducing the heat generation of the charger, improving reliability and reducing the size of the charger.
It can be seen that the charger of Honor V40 is smaller than other chargers under the same power configuration that I have experienced, which greatly improves portability.
Fourth, actual test! Honor V40 images continue to daylight color
image specifications,Honor V40 is equipped with a 50MP ultra-sensitive camera + 8MP ultra-wide-angle camera + 2MP macro camera + laser focus sensor.
When we wrote the review, the official did not specify the main camera model of the Honor V40. Based on the specifications of the 50MP ultra-sensitive, 1/1.56 inch bottom and other specifications, it is temporarily impossible to tell whether it is IMX700 or not, because it appeared on the Honor 30 Pro+. The bottom of the Sony IMX700 is 1/1.28 inches, and the two are not exactly the same.
In any case, the main camera of the Honor V40 has increased by 25% compared with the 1/1.7-inch main camera of the Honor V30 Pro. There is no doubt that the improvement of the hardware specifications is a leap.
Now due to well-known reasons, Honor is currently only available on the MediaTek platform. It is needless to say how difficult it is to optimize the MediaTek platform, which is relatively unfamiliar to Honor. This may be the reason why the release of Honor V40 has been delayed for several months than expected.
However, from the results of the actual shooting experience, switching to the MediaTek platform did not have any impact on the image performance of the Honor V40. We have seen that many of the Honor’s imaging capabilities and characteristic implementation solutions have been completely transplanted to the MediaTek platform. For example, the ultimate night shot based on the RYYB super-sensing sensor is undiminished.
itself uses the RYYB super-sensitivity color arrangement method to increase the main light intensity by 40% compared with ordinary sensors. In combination with the algorithm completely transplanted from Honor, it can maintain a high ISO value under low-light shooting, while at the same time it can well control the picture noise, ensure the brightness and purity of the picture in the low-light shooting, and make the low-light shooting effect. Not inferior to the past.
Extreme environment shooting
In addition, in the experience process, Honor’s classic AI RAW domain algorithm interpretation, 4K time-lapse photography, 1920fps super slow motion, front and rear dual scene video, etc., need to run into the characteristics of the processor platform. The item is not less. Old users can seamlessly transition, which is quite amazing.
Next, let's take a look at the proofs.
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Due to the constant wind and dust these days,The air continues to be heavily polluted with earthy colors. The following three pictures have been processed by Honor's own dehazing algorithm.
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5. Fill up the buff for "Fage"! Dimensity assists Honor flagship for the first time
Due to well-known reasons, the sudden rise of MediaTek Dimensity series 5G SoC in 2020 is a more suitable choice that Honor can get within the range of options.
5G speed measurement vs. 4G speed measurement
Honor V40 uses the flagship model-MediaTek Dimensity 1000+, and its core specifications are not bad. TSMC's 7nm process technology is not too late today. In terms of architecture, the combination of 4 large + 4 small is adopted steadily.The four large cores are the Cortex-A77 architecture, which has 20% more IPC performance than the previous generation A76 architecture while maintaining the same power consumption.
The game performance was once criticized by MediaTek, and there have been considerable improvements on Dimensity 1000 Plus. It uses Mali-G77 MC9, 9 cores and 837MHz frequency, which is 40% higher than the energy consumption of the previous generation G76, and the latter's energy consumption ratio under the same process is already comparable to that of Adreno 640.
Through our past tests on the MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ model, we can find that its performance level is basically close to that of the Snapdragon 865 model.
Running points collection
What’s more surprising is that this time Honor V40 generously used the technology in software optimization and technical empowerment, making the classic GPU turbo come to the MediaTek platform for the first time. In terms of type, it is still a new generation-GPU Turbo X, which can be said to be full of buff for "Fage".
GPU Turbo is a technical solution developed by Honor that has spent more than 5 years trying to start from non-pure hardware to meet the needs of mobile phones with different configurations to run large-scale games smoothly. It is now just used to empower the MediaTek platform. Joy.
GPU Turbo is based on Honor's progressive and systematic transformation of Android; later there is a new file system F2FS, with Ultra Memory technology optimized for memory scheduling, so that mobile phones will not be stuck in long-term use.
For games, the adjacent two frames are often the same in many places. Mobile game players should have a good understanding of this. For example, the last frame was picking up equipment in the G port container, and the next frame was very The high probability is still in the container. Some players are even likely to lie in the grass for the entire game, and the game stays on the same screen for 30 minutes.
So when GPU Turbo technology predicts that there is no difference in the next frame of the game screen, it will only render the place where the screen changes. For example, 80% of the images may be consistent between 2 frames, and GPU Turbo will let the chip only render 20% of the change.This reduces the workload of the GPU by 80%.
"Peace Elite" smooth image quality + extreme frame rate monitoring
The reduction in rendering workload greatly increases the frame delay of the next frame. The user's eyeballs feel that it takes 16.7 milliseconds for the frame to drop, the first generation GPU Turbo can already control the rendering time of the next frame within 7 milliseconds, and can complete the rendering of the next frame in as little as 3 milliseconds.
Reasonably schedule GPU resources and save GPU performance to where the game is most needed. This is where GPU Turbo keeps the game running at full frame.
This generation of GPU Turbo X still focuses on software and hardware collaboration to improve graphics computing capabilities, allowing computing resources to be given priority to CPU\GPU resource exchange, automatically perceiving game scenes, and controlling CPU/GPU/DDR bottlenecks.
The first generation of GPU Turbo can only reduce the number of instructions executed by the GPU, and this generation of GPU Turbo X can already reduce the execution load of a single instruction.
From the actual operating experience, thanks to the optimization of GPU Turbo X, the game is smoother and the operation is smoother, and there will be no stalls and delays. In addition, thanks to the AI image scheduling of GPU Turbo X, the jaggedness of the picture is greatly reduced, the clear picture in the dark scene is improved, the picture details are further enriched, and the visual perception is further improved.
VI. Summary: Go ahead independently and still be strong.
The road to the future, going forward independently with glory, also corresponds to the phrase "single-handedly and the world drinking" in "Glory".
Honor V40, as the first flagship of the new Honor, unexpectedly makes the appearance and texture a big killer. It brings the best screen in Honor history-10bit (8+2bit) 1 billion color original color display, 120Hz refresh 80° hyper-curved screen with high speed and 300Hz sampling rate, the body is as thin as 8.04mm, and the standard version weighs only 186g.After the two are superimposed, they are very close.
The 66W wired fast charge that can make the battery full in just 30 minutes has been measured to enable users of Honor V40 to cope with battery life anxiety. It is of great practical value. The adherence to the single-cell solution also reflects Honor's comprehensive battery life and innovation. Comprehensive consideration of technology.
Before experiencing the Honor V40, the author once thought about whether the MediaTek Dimensity platform can support the original and in-depth performance optimization solutions and image features of Honor. What kind of transcript can the Honor V40 produce? 's actual performance answers many questions that the author has considered.
Honor has generously released its long-term technical accumulation, and even used GPU Turbo X as a killer feature for MediaTek’s Teana platform for the first time, making Teana 1000+, which is not bad on paper, reasonable. With scheduling and the greatest degree of "squeezing" development, this machine is considered the most handy and smooth Dimensity 1000+ model I have ever used.
The image part is fully transplanted with many algorithms and functions accumulated by Honor. For example, the ultimate night shooting power based on the RYYB ultra-sensitive sensor is not reduced, the classic AI RAW domain algorithm interpretation, 4K time-lapse photography, 1920fps Super slow motion, front and rear dual scene videos are equally indispensable. Old users can make the transition seamlessly and unobtrusively, which is quite amazing.
Overall, Honor V40 is presented to users-at the current stage, Honor can give the best configuration and performance, quite generous. In addition to the fast charging, imaging, design, screen and other fundamentals that we just mentioned, users can even experience the dual linear motors and dual speakers that Honor has given me on the V40.
In the future, the glory of putting down the burden will be able to embrace the mobile phone market with a more open attitude, and there will be no restrictions on model positioning and pricing.
Judging from the various signs displayed by the Honor V40, the still powerful Honor is ready to be reborn at any time.Actively wait for the market and users to test.
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