Speaking of Honor mobile phones, let’s first talk about “it was previously reported on the Internet that Huawei is preparing to sell its Honor business”. Some say that due to the influence of international factors, Huawei has no choice but to do so; some say that if the Honor mobile phone business can be separated and independent, and it is not affected by parts procurement factors, it may develop into a truly high-end model... ··The specific details are left to the manufacturers and the market to decide.
However, judging from Huawei’s status as the “big brother” of a domestic mobile phone brand, I believe that no matter what difficulties it encounters, it can still face the storm and eventually see the rainbow. After all, under the leadership of the leading manufacturer Huami OV, domestic mobile phones have a voice on the global stage. This is the pride of domestic brands.
As for Honor mobile phones, the Honor digital series has attracted much attention. Among them, as the latest model, the Honor 30 series officially entered our field of vision in April this year. The only difference from the past is that the Honor 30 series has an extra large cup, which will be unveiled simultaneously in three series models. What is a little strange is that the super-large Honor 30 Pro+ cannot be found on the official website. It may be that the Honor brand has focused on the standard version and the Pro version. You know, from the perspective of the development pace of the mobile phone market, the sales speed of mid- to low-end products will always be much faster than the flagship positioning, which may have caused this situation.
So, facing the Honor 30 Pro, which is responsible for the task of "connecting the past and the future", we look at it from the perspective of the second half of the year. What is the experience like?
In terms of appearance design, Honor 30 Pro has one outstanding feature, which is the use of a curved screen.
To be precise, Honor uses a waterfall screen with a 70° golden curvature for the first time, which is completely different from the previous straight-screen design of the Honor 20 series. It has virtually changed the user’s perception of the screen, and even experienced that the two sides are almost Borderless extension effect. We know that at this stage, almost only high-end flagships will use OLED curved screens, so this phone is on par with Huawei's P series and Mate series, which can be regarded as reaching the high-end threshold.
As for why it cannot be ranked among the high-end flagship teams? The reason lies in the screen.
Based on the addition of the super large cup, while the Honor 30 Pro+ screen supports a 90Hz refresh rate, the Honor 30 Pro only supports a 60Hz refresh rate, which is consistent with the previous mainstream market level and has not been further optimized and improved. Although the 60Hz screen refresh rate can already meet the normal visual needs of the human eye, don't forget that high refresh rate is a major trend in mobile phone screens this year. While adapting to high frame rate games, it ensures that gamers get a smoother experience to the maximum extent. visual experience. So the phone is stuck on refresh rate.
In this regard, our current feeling is: why are we falling behind like Apple’s iPhone 12 series that has not been upgraded to high-end devices?
Also, after its debut on the market, the debate about the screen material continued: BOE Zhou Dongyu arranged, Visionox Delta arranged, choose one of the two, it is time for the "lottery".
As we all know, since Samsung has applied for patents for screen pixel Pentile arrangement and diamond arrangement, domestic manufacturers have developed and launched Delta arrangement for technological breakthroughs. Zhou Dongyu's arrangement is derived from the Delta arrangement. As for the Magic Night Black version of Honor 30 Pro in my hand, actual shots show that this screen adopts Zhou Dongyu’s arrangement.
Judging from the 6.57-inch, 2340*1080 pixel display effect, the overall picture quality is passable, the visual transparency is slightly worse, and the clarity is OK. However, if you interpret it from the perspective of the price of 3,999 yuan, there is still considerable room for improvement.
In addition, unlike the COP packaging process used by this year’s high-end flagships, the Honor 30 Pro still uses the COF packaging process. Relatively speaking, its screen packaging has not changed significantly, so the screen chin cannot reach the extreme, which affects the full-screen effect and full-screen interaction to a certain extent.
What needs to be mentioned is that based on the curved design and the curved glass back cover, this phone has a 1.3mm middle frame, and it also retains the volume button and power button in such a slim middle frame. , excellent design and craftsmanship.
It is no wonder that although it looks "wide", it can control the body to 186g, and the thinnest part reaches 8.38mm, which is "much thinner" than 5G mobile phones above 200g.
In terms of the overall appearance of the phone, there are two aspects worth sharing:
Compared with the perceptual appearance design, users usually focus on understanding the hardware configuration when choosing a mobile phone. , and asked: Is the mobile phone configuration high and the running flow not smooth? Don’t use it for a few months and it will become stuck. Therefore, if you want to understand a mobile phone in depth, the hardware configuration must be placed first.
When it comes to mobile phone hardware, the processor is the key, because this "core" will directly affect the operation of the entire machine, including resource allocation, network allocation, cooling effect, etc.
Just starting from the second half of the year, the Kirin 990 5G equipped with Honor 30 Pro may not be able to show its leading advantage. After all, the A14 processor of the iPhone 12 series, the Kirin 9000 processor of the Huawei Mate40 series, and even the subsequent Snapdragon 875 and Exynos 1080 are all 5nm chips, which have an iteration gap with the 7nm chip of the Kirin 990 5G.
In other words, the Kirin 990 5G ranks behind the 5nm chip. Will the Honor 30 Pro still be in the first echelon of performance at this time?
You must know that as of the date of the machine’s release, as the only 7nm EUV process 5G SoC, Kirin 990 5G not only integrates 5G baseband, but also applies a large number of self-developed core technologies, including NPU units. , ISP graphics processing unit, etc., to maximize the intelligence and efficient processing speed of mobile phones. In other words, in the first half of the year, with this unique 5G SoC, Honor 30 Pro did not fall into the market vortex of homogeneous competition. There is reason to believe that Kirin 990 5G has made a huge contribution to "Huawei's 5G mobile phones ranking first in brand market share in the third quarter of 2020."
However, due to some reasons, Kirin 990 5G cannot support LPDDR5, so Honor 30 Pro is equipped with LPDDR4X and UFS 3.0. We know that in the Android camp, even if we focus on the first half of the year, the hardware combination of Kirin 990 5G + LPDDR4X + UFS 3.0 has obviously lost to another hardware combination "Snapdragon 865 + LPDDR5 + UFS 3.1". This is Caused by the hardware parameters on the surface.
And is the final performance result really like this?
At this time, intuitive platform benchmarking can come in handy. Based on various benchmark simulation tests, AnTuTu, AndroBench and 3DMark were used to conduct overall machine performance, reading and writing speed and graphics processing performance respectively. test. The specific running score screenshots are as follows:
AnTuTu scored over 480,000 points in the default mode and over 510,000 points in the performance mode. Compared with the Snapdragon 865 model, it easily scored 650,000 points. There is a gap between;
AndroBench, through two benchmark tests, both have a sequential read speed of about 1900MB/s and a sequential write speed of more than 1000MB/s. Compared with a certain model LPDDR5+UFS 3.1 combination still has a higher reading and writing speed, which proves that it is optimized in place, which helps to improve the speed of downloading, installing and launching applications on the phone, and makes it more efficient to use;
3DMark, as expected, the running score is really low On Snapdragon 865. It can be seen that compared to Qualcomm series processors, Kirin 990 5G still needs to improve the "short board" of graphics performance.
Undoubtedly, the results of these three benchmark platforms are enough to illustrate their performance, and they are still in the first echelon of Android camp performance. Perhaps the saying "I'd rather be a phoenix tail than a chicken head" is more suitable to describe it.
AnTuTu test
AndroBench test
3DMark test
Since the Honor 30 Pro screen supports a refresh rate of up to 60Hz, I tested Honor of Kings, Peace Elite, and Honkai Impact 3 all use 60fps as the ultimate frame rate.
After some actual game testing, in the two games King and Chicken, although there are some frame drop fluctuations, it can maintain a nearly full frame state and run smoothly and silky; and in the Honkai Impact 3 game , the number of frame drops is more obvious, and the frame rate is only 56.3fps. Considering that this is required for the introduction of the game plot, and there is no obvious frame drop during the actual battle, the game performance is still reliable.
One thing needs to be said, the control feel of curved screen and straight screen is quite different. Users who are using this type of curved screen mobile phone for the first time need to adapt and pay more attention to the touch gestures on the screen border.
The frame rate of King of Glory is 59.5fps
The frame rate of Chicken Fighting is 59.4fps
The frame rate of Honkai Impact 3 is 56.3fps
Playing the game of Honor of Kings On this occasion, I also specifically measured the body temperature. After all, the temperature will affect the control feel in real time, and even affect the final game result or winning rate.
After the game, the high temperature on the front of the fuselage was only 35.9°C, and the high temperature on the back was only 34.5°C. It can be seen that the VC liquid cooling system built into the mobile phone is working effectively, coupled with the stereo dual speakers and supporting 160MHz bandwidth transmission, creating a gaming environment that does not feel hot to the touch, has audio-visual synchronization and a sense of substitution, and provides an online experience.
Front temperature
Back temperature
Like this year’s mainstream flagships that focus on upgrading the photography system, Honor 30 Pro has also undergone multi-level upgrades, such as equipped with large size sensor, and the first introduction of a periscope structure lens.
Although it only has three rear cameras, one lens is missing from the four rear cameras equipped on some imaging flagships, but it is not a big deal. After all, it is one thing for a mobile phone imaging system to have a lot of lenses. Equipped with excellent sensors is another matter. Obviously, with the IMX600 sensor, this phone has also touched the "imaging flagship" field.
"The bottom level is so big that it kills people" can be said to be rough but not rough. It is also a necessary prerequisite for any mobile phone to be promoted to an "imaging flagship".
Although when Honor 30 Pro was launched, the market already had Huawei P40 Pro+ equipped with IMX700 and Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra equipped with ISOCELL Bright HM1 ultra-large sensor. Compared with each other, the 1/1.7-inch IMX600 The sensor does not have the upper hand, but it has obvious outsole advantages over sensors such as 1/2.0-inch IMX586 and IMX582. Even compared to the IMX686, which is also 1/1.7 inches, since the unit pixel of the IMX686 is 0.8μm, while the IMX600 reaches 1.0μm, it can also be proved that this sensor gives the Honor 30 Pro outsole the photosensitive ability.
It can be said that after a mobile phone is equipped with a large-sole CMOS, it has the foundation to be upgraded to an "image flagship" because the imaging effect will be more delicate and richer than that of a small-sole CMOS mobile phone. Therefore, this also makes Honor 30 Pro qualified to transform into an imaging flagship. Based on this innate advantage of the outsole, in daily scenes, it has high resolution and can easily output picture content such as large light ratio, strong contrast between light and dark details, and multiple colors. Just one click, it’s so efficient.
In addition, the strong photosensitivity of the outsole can also improve low-light imaging.
In dark scenes such as night, the lighting for shooting is obviously insufficient, and it is very easy to cause deviations in the final color reproduction. This is a problem that has always existed in night photography with mobile phones. Because when this phone outputs 10-megapixel photos in the default mode, it can perform four-in-one pixel synthesis, which is equivalent to a unit pixel of 2.0μm, changing from four small pixels to one large pixel. The light sensitivity is high, and the amount of light entering If you add more, you can naturally enrich the imaging details.
Combined with phase focus, laser focus, and contrast focus, it can increase the focus speed, making night shots more stable, clearer, and more layered, suppressing highlights, and appropriately controlling the brightness of the picture. High sensitivity and low noise image quality.
In addition, consistent with the pixel filter array of Huawei P40 Pro+, this phone also has a RYYB design in the main camera CMOS, replacing the traditional RGGB arrangement with red/yellow/blue pixel filters. The purpose is to reduce the light intensity loss during the color filtering process, so as to obtain more light and increase the amount of detail exposure information.
This new type of pixel filter array is indeed different from the traditional RGGB format, challenging the photosensitive boundaries of mobile phone images in low-light environments, and giving mobile phones the "courage" to challenge cameras. However, considering that there are more yellow pixels, the imaging effect is likely to have a color cast problem. Especially in warm-toned scenes, the probability of color cast is greater.
In addition to the 40-megapixel main camera, the Honor 30 Pro has two secondary cameras on the rear, namely a 16-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens and an 8-megapixel telephoto lens - the former can be used for wide-angle viewing. It is suitable for shooting macroscopic and magnificent scenes; the latter supports multiple zooms to directly bring the distant scenery closer into the image, catering to this year's mobile phone zoom image trend.
Among them, the telephoto lens deserves special mention. Because this is the first time Honor has introduced a periscope structure lens, with the help of a periscope optical path design composed of a refracting prism and a horizontal precision zoom mechanism, it not only achieves 5x optical zoom, 10x hybrid zoom and 50x digital zoom, but also based on The vertical placement of the photosensitive element further ensures the slim design of the body, which is the best of both worlds. At the same time, this telephoto lens introduces dual-structure OIS optical image stabilization + AF drive motor to avoid image rotation and achieve better anti-shake effect, ensuring more stable zoom shooting and clearer imaging images.
1x zoom
5x zoom
50x zoom
It is not difficult to judge that this time the Honor digital flagship has arrived in the 30 series. A new transformation. The processor is equipped with Kirin 990 5G, the sensor is equipped with IMX600 outsole CMOS, and the exterior body adopts a curved screen design. The Honor 30 Pro has reached the high-end threshold and is a veritable flagship phone.
But when it comes to the "super large cup" positioning of the top flagship, there is still a long way to go. Not to mention other things, the fact that there is Honor 30 Pro+ in front is enough to show that Honor 30 Pro is not up to what we say. "super cup" level. For example, the processors, sensors and screen packaging processes just mentioned actually still have room for upgrades. This is the Honor 30 Pro in my eyes.