If last year was the first year of full-screen in the mobile phone circle, then this year is the first year of full-screen + AI (artificial intelligence). At 2:00 p.m. on March 16, Redmi released another 1,000 yuan new phone - Redmi Note 5. This time, Redmi Note 5 brought AI, a new gameplay that was only available on some flagship phones last year, to the 1,000 yuan mobile phone market.
For a long time, the first impression that Redmi and Redmi Note series give people is that it is cheap, durable, has good battery life, solid workmanship, etc., and has always had a good reputation in the market. So how does the overall performance of Redmi Note 5? International practice, first place parameters. The above
is the relevant data of Redmi Note 5. I wonder if you have observed that the AI part of Redmi Note 5 is focused on the photo part? Yes, because the photo shoots of Redmi's entire series of products have not been very satisfactory before. So, can Redmi Note 5, which has been blessed with AI dual photography, make up for Redmi's shortcomings? Next, let’s carefully dissect the author’s Redmi Note 5 (4GB RAM + 64GB ROM).
Appearance: Long-lasting and durable player
Before talking about the appearance, I would like to make a little complaint about the card pickup needle equipped by Redmi Note 5 this time. This card pickup needle is excellent and won the title of the most exquisite card pickup needle I have ever seen.
, let's get back to the point. This time I got the black version of Redmi Note 5. In addition to this color scheme, Redmi Note 5 also offers three colors: gold, blue and rose gold. The front of the Redmi Note 5 uses a screen that is suspected to be exactly the same as the Redmi 5 Plus, an 18:9 full screen with the same size (5.99 inches), a screen resolution of FHD+ (1080×2160), a maximum brightness of 450nit, a contrast ratio of 1000:1, and an NTSC color gamut of up to 84%. All parameters are exactly the same as the previous Redmi 5 Plus.
Of course, the author said in the previous article that the moment this screen lights up, it gives people a very delicate and full color. In general, among the models of the same price, the screen quality of the full screen of the Redmi Note 5 is still satisfactory.
Although the full screen quality of Redmi Note 5 is no less than other models of the same price, compared with many full screen models of the same price, the overall body of the Redmi Note 5 will appear a little longer. Of course, this is only a slight difference and will not have any impact on daily use. Back to the front of the phone, like many models on the market, the front of the Redmi Note 5 adopts a 2.5D water drop screen design, which echoes the larger curvature treatment on the back of the body. The whole machine will fit the palm very well when holding it, and no matter how the holding posture changes, it will not feel uncomfortable.
Redmi Note 5 The front forehead opening is from left to right, which is the front 13-megapixel camera, earpiece, light sensor, front soft light and breathing light. Since the author got the black version of Redmi Note 5, the front forehead opening is clearly visible in addition to the front camera and earpiece (the front soft light is vaguely visible), the breathing light and light sensor are well hidden. For users who have a desire for integration, the black version is your best choice.
After lit up the screen, you will find that the Redmi Note 5 is the same as most full-screen phones now. In order to facilitate one-hand operation, the three keys on the front chin are replaced by virtual keys. Of course, MIUI also provides full-screen gestures for users who are disgusted with virtual keys (described in detail in the system part).
Like many full-screen models, Redmi Note 5 also adopts the rear-mounted solution of fingerprint recognition, placing the fingerprint recognition module with the upper and middle part of the back of the phone, but the fingerprint recognition is no longer the camera module . The camera module has been moved to the upper left corner of the back. The imaging module is the first dual-camera imaging solution adopted by the Redmi Note series. The imaging module is a 5-megapixel camera, a two-color temperature flash, and a 12-megapixel camera from top to bottom (as for the quality of the imaging, see the camera section below). Then, a "MI" logo is left in the lower half of the back of the phone.
Look at the bottom of the phone again. Compared with other Redmi models, the bottom of the Redmi Note 5 looks much more lively, because the headphone hole that the Redmi series has been on the top of the body has finally moved to the bottom; facing up, the bottom hole is from left to right, and the 3.5mm headphone jack, microphone, microUSB charging interface, and external aid. Then look at the right side of the phone, there are still Xiaomi's traditional three-button buttons, located in the upper part of the phone's border, and the power button and the volume up and down keys are the power button.
Then go to the top of the phone. Because of the downward movement of the 3.5mm headphone jack, the top of the Redmi Note 5 is much simpler. Fortunately, the well-received infrared sensor is still retained. In conjunction with the current Xiaomi smart home scene, a mobile phone can control household appliances. Similarly, there is a secondary microphone next to the infrared sensor. Looking at the left side of the body, there is only one card slot opening, which is very simple. This card slot is an or card slot, which supports dual-stop, dual-standby, full-network 5.0 or single-card, full-network 5.0 plus a microSD card expansion of up to 128GB.
Although the body design of Redmi Note 5 is not excellent among the models of the same price, the back also adopts a traditional three-stage body design, its feel will not make consumers feel cheap. The 2.5D panel of the front panel and the larger curvature of the back can greatly enhance the grip of the entire machine. In addition, in my opinion, the overall design of Redmi Note 5 is indeed a model that I don’t like at first sight, but will feel very pleasing after playing with it. To sum up the appearance of Redmi Note 5 in one sentence, it is a long-lasting and durable player.
system: beautiful, complete, but less than
MIUI, one of the best operating systems in China. Redmi Note 5 is pre-installed with the latest MIUI 9 stable version, and is also MIUI 9.5.4.0 deeply customized based on the latest Android 8.1. It was mentioned above that the Redmi Note 5 adopts a full-screen design. In order to facilitate one-handed operation, the three keys on the front chin were moved to the screen and virtual keys were replaced. However, the MIUI team also provided full-screen gestures for users who were disgusted with virtual keys. In the Settings-Full Screen option, you can switch the virtual buttons to the full screen gesture. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to return to the home page, slide the left and right sides into the screen to return, and hover up to achieve multi-task operation.
returns to the system interface. I believe that users who are familiar with MIUI have more or less knowledge of MIUI 9. Last time, the author gave a detailed explanation of the functions of MIUI 9 split screen, negative one screen, and portal in the last review of Redmi 5 Plus. This time, the author will continue to explain the points that were not mentioned last time about the experience of Redmi Note 5. First of all, because this time it is MIUI 9 based on Android 8.1, it is more obvious to improve the smoothness compared to the previous Redmi 5 Plus (this may be related to the Snapdragon 36 mobile platform equipped with, and the performance part below will be explained in detail). With two large game software, eight daily use software, and four built-in software, there is still 1.8G left in the body memory, and the switching between the software is still smooth. If you think 4G RAM is not enough, you can choose the 6GB RAM version of Redmi Note 5.
I believe that students who have used MIUI 9 have used the portal function, but have you used the album search function? This function is also enabled in the MIUI laboratory. As the name suggests, this function allows users to search photos in many messy albums. The automatic recognition function of MIUI 9 is very powerful. The bank cards I took in 2015 can be quickly retrieved from nearly 20,000 photos. I believe that artificial intelligence is nothing more than that!
Speaking of artificial intelligence, we have to mention the AI camera that was highlighted at the Redmi Note 5 press conference. The AI camera of Redmi Note 5 is not only reflected in taking pictures, but its front camera can also provide high-precision intelligent matching of the face unlocking function used by Redmi Note 5, achieving fast and safe face unlocking. In the password setting options, you can see the option to add face data for the first time in Redmi series. After the addition is completed, it will be completed from the screen to the unlocking in one go. Think about its rear fingerprint module. It seems that it is only used in Alipay fingerprint payment and taking photos in the past few days. After using the face to unlock, it really feels that it can't go back.
I believe I am confused when I saw the author’s fingerprint payment above, using Alipay only! Yes, during this week's experience, I always honestly input six digits during the WeChat payment process. For some reason, Redmi Note 5 still cannot use WeChat fingerprint payment. During this week's experience, the author has developed the "good habit" of trying not to use WeChat payment.
Left: Fingerprint payment interface || Right: Redmi Note 5 WeChat fingerprint payment
From April 6, 2010 to the present, MIUI has gone through nearly eight years. The author can also say that he has witnessed the growth of MIUI, from the beginning of the internal testing of 100 people to more than 300 million users now. It is not easy for MIUI to reach MIUI 9 step by step. Is MIUI easy to use? Easy to use; what is the MIUI function? complete.
However, during the time when I experienced Redmi Note 5, the system still had many problems. Although most of the advertisements of MIUI 9 can be turned off, this has increased the cost of using MIUI users who have just started using it. In addition, I believe that MIUI will add Redmi Note 5 support for WeChat fingerprint payment in subsequent versions.
performance and battery life: completely unexpected
performance, Redmi Note 5 China's first Snapdragon 636 mobile platform. The mobile platform uses eight Kryo 260 architecture cores "4×A73 (1.8GHz) + 4×A53 (1.6GHz)" in the CPU part. Compared with the previous Snapdragon 630 used by Redmi 5 Plus, the overall performance is 40%. With the new Adreno 509 GPU, 14nm FinFet process and other features, it is simply a down-frequency version of Snapdragon 660.
In addition to the major improvements mentioned above, the baseband (X12 LTE modem) of Snapdragon 636 also has a lot of improvements compared to Snapdragon 630. The LTE downlink transmission speed of Snapdragon X12 modem is twice as fast as the previous generation. This means that you can achieve faster speeds when downloading large files with traffic, and downloading multiple files at the same time can achieve consistent speeds. In addition, the Snapdragon 636 mobile platform also used the Spectra 160 ISP of Snapdragon 660 last year, so the Redmi Note 5 will be further improved in taking photos (the photo section below will be explained in detail). After
, check the actual performance of the game directly. Before the game, let’s take a look at the well-known three-platform running score data. Let’s take a look at the picture below:
Left: Antutu ||Medium: 3D Mark || Right: GeekBench
From the above picture, we can see that in terms of performance, Snapdragon 636 has been improved by more than one level compared to previous Snapdragon 630. Next, the author uses the two games "Honor of Kings" and "National Attack: Stimulating Battlefield" as intuitive performance. First, let’s take a look at how “National Attack: Stimulating Battlefield” performs.
"National Attack: Stimulating Battlefield" defaults to balanced picture quality. The first game did not turn on the high frame rate mode, and it ran smoothly. It jumped the car, cut the gun, and aimed at people in one go, and finally successfully won the chicken. In the second game, the high frame rate mode is turned on and the picture quality is adjusted to high-definition mode. You will feel a clear pause when you cut the gun and aim it, and it can run smoothly at other times.
to "Honor of Kings" test, the author turned on high frame rate mode and high-definition image quality by default. When operating in high picture quality and high frame rate modes, it can generally be stable between 59-61 frames in the abyss and the Grand Canyon, and it will drop to 52-55 frames when fighting. To be honest, the performance of Snapdragon 636 in this round of performance tests really surprised me. The performance of the two games "Glory of Kings" and "National Attack: Stimulating Battlefield" has reached the level of Snapdragon 660 last year. After
has strong performance, the battery life of Redmi Note 5 also keeps up. The phone is equipped with a large 4000mAh battery like Redmi 5 Plus. To be honest, when I was testing the battery life of the Redmi Note 5, I was really broken. With the phone volume 66%, connected to WiFi, 4G turn on, and 50% brightness, "National Attack: Stimulating Battlefield" consumes 12% of the power per hour, "Honor of Kings" consumes 10% of the power per hour, 10% of the power per hour, 10% of the power per hour, 10 hours of pure standby, 3% of the power per hour, and 12 hours of watching full-charge drama series. The author experiences that it is great to use it for two days to charge it every day during a week. Of course, if you are a heavy user, you still can't get it if you charge it every day.
(standard equipped with 10W charger: no fast charging)
(fast charging)
battery life is surprising, what about the charging speed? The Redmi Note 5 standard charger supports up to 5V/2A, and it takes 135 minutes from 5% to full charge. In this era of fast charging, such charging speed is really annoying. However, Redmi Note 5 has Easter eggs. In actual testing, Redmi Note 5 supports QC 3.0 fast charging and can be filled in about 100 minutes.
Here, the author would like to strongly recommend the charging head we are using now (up to 24W charging power), supports Qualcomm QC3.0/2.0, supports MTK PEP1.1/2.0, and can also realize PE fast charging. So where can I buy this charging head? Interested friends can go to "Teacher Chao and Brother Ji's store" to place an order and purchase it. It is 19.9 yuan and free shipping! (Note: This charging head also supports Redmi 5 Plus)
photo: There are few rivals from thousands of yuan machines
000. From the hardware level, the 14-bit Qualcomm Spectra 160 ISP mounted on the Snapdragon 636 mobile platform equipped with Redmi Note 5 supports up to capture 24 million pixels without any shutter delay. In addition, it can also provide smooth zoom, fast autofocus and realistic colors, effectively improving picture quality. In addition, the Redmi Note 5 has a 13-megapixel front (equipped with a single-camera background blur based on AI algorithm) pixel camera, and a 12-megapixel rear (1.4μm/Dual PD/f1.9 aperture) + 5-megapixel (mainly used to record depth of field information) pixel camera. It is worth mentioning that the Redmi Note 5 is the first model that Xiaomi has used Dual PD dual-core focus.
Since Redmi Note 5 has made such a big improvement in the imaging system. Next, let’s take a look at whether Redmi Note 5 has made up for Redmi’s life-long life from its actual sample! First, let’s first look at the Redmi Note 5 post-image system from daytime outdoor imaging, indoor imaging, and night imaging!
(outdoor imaging)
(day indoor imaging)
or above are all direct samples, and manual mode is not turned on. From the above sample, we can see that Redmi Note 5 has really put in hard work on the imaging system. Let’s look at the outdoor sample first. The sky has changed the problem of overexposure or insufficient overall details before. Even if it is placed in the details of the building, there will be no overspraying before. Looking at indoor imaging, the light in the subway is dim, and the luminous position of the focus clock will not cause white balance to be inaccurate. The light source is well controlled. Even if it is enlarged to take pictures, the details of the dark part can be retained. It seems that the addition of the 1.4μm large pixel can indeed retain more dark part details.
(Indoor Imaging: Depth of Field Mode)
(Night Imaging)
It is worth mentioning that from the perspective of indoor depth of field mode (portrait mode), Redmi Note 5 has changed Xiaomi's previous preference for excessive green training. This time, there is no green oversaturation, but the depth of field still needs to be improved. Occasionally, there will be an imbalance in the background blur, which makes people a little anxious. Let’s look at the night imaging part that considers whether the imaging optimization of a mobile phone is excellent. In terms of the brightness of night imaging, the Redmi Note 5 has reached the best level of the press conference, but in terms of details, you can see that the edges of the building at night will still have excessive smearing. Therefore, for users who just shoot nighttime beauty and post it on Moments, Redmi Note 5 is indeed a model that has no shortcomings in imaging, and is even better than a model with a higher price.
After looking at its rear, let’s take a look at the front 13 million (single camera background blurred based on AI algorithm) pixel camera, so what kind of imaging quality is the pixel camera! It is a bit worth mentioning here. In addition to supporting face unlocking, the front camera system of Redmi Note 5 is also the first time that HDR is added to the front of the mobile phone. Next, we will directly place the sample.
(front selfie)
(front selfie)
From Xiaofan's photo above, you can see that the front selfie of Redmi Note 5 does have different beautification strategies for different areas of the face (the front soft light is automatically turned on when dark light, and the front HDR function is automatically turned on when backlight). With the support of Redmi Note 5's AI algorithm, the young lady's eyes look more energetic and her temperament is better.Let’s look at the front blur (because the young lady is not there, the little brother can only be topped up, for fear of causing discomfort, so he has been coded). Judging from the cutout of the hair edge, the front body edge recognition is more accurate and the effect is more realistic than the back body. Therefore, can the rear algorithm be optimized properly?
In general, the imaging style of Redmi Note 5 is indeed a unique and unique among all Redmi series models. Its excellent daytime imaging quality and excellent front-facing blurring. If the details can be retained a little more in nighttime imaging, then the machine will not only look for competitors among models of the same price.
summary: It is worth buying the "bucket type" contestant in the
thousand yuan machine. This is Lin Bin's summary of Redmi Note 5 at the press conference. But in the week I experienced it, I believe that this is not a bucket machine. In my impression, the bucket machine refers to a model without any highlights, but this should not be a summary of the Redmi Note 5. Because, if you want to find a suitable thousand-yuan model for purchases from 1099-1699 yuan, the author believes that the Redmi Note 5 is a popular model that cannot be ignored.
Although Redmi Note 5 also has many shortcomings, the excellent gaming performance, standby endurance, face unlocking and considerable imaging brought by the author's weekly experience can completely make up for the shortcomings that the user does not feel when they are used normally.
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