Of course, LeTV subsidizes the cost of hardware manufacturing through the profit of content, which makes LeTV realize the possibility of selling hardware at almost cost price on mobile terminals. For ordinary users, LeTV's mobile phone has a high cost performance, and for LeTV, adopting a low-price strategy is the most direct and fastest way to open the market at present. On September 2 1, letv officially released a new generation of flagship music Pro3, and the application of Snapdragon 82 1 made le Pro3 attract everyone's attention again. So what is this Le Pro3, which is called a new generation of cost-effective artifacts? Is it worth buying? Let's continue to look at the evaluation.
"Hardware configuration:
Different from the previous one-off products, this time LeTV held a press conference for Le Pro3 alone, and in terms of the same name, it was also different from the previous product models, so we guessed that Le Pro3 might be a new product outside the previous product line. In this part of the article, let's take a look at the hardware configuration of this mobile phone, which claims to be the world's first mass-produced Snapdragon 82 1 processor.
"Le Pro3 basic parameter list
Screen characteristics
5.5 inches, 1080P resolution.
Fuselage size
151.4x73.9x7.5mm.
Fuselage weight
175g
processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon 82 1(2.35GHz)
Network mode
Dual card dual standby, full netcom
Fuselage storage
32GB/64GB/ 128GB
Random access memory
4GB/6GB
front-facing camera
8 million pixels F 2.2
Postposition characteristic
160000 pixels, F 2.0
Product selling points
Thin metal body, eliminating 3.5mm headphone jack, Snapdragon 82 1 processor.
Battery capacity
4070mAh, supporting QC 3.0
operating system
EUI
Fuselage color
Force Gold/Dopamine Gold/Jazz Silver/Big Coffee Ash
retail price
Click 1799 for details.
From the parameter table, we can see that Le Pro3 has the hardware configuration that can definitely be called flagship machine at present, the processor of Snapdragon 82 1 and the running memory of 4/6GB, and it is used to read and write UFS 2.0. As for the camera, Le Pro3 adopts the CMOS of Sony IMX298, which is widely used at the current flagship level, and is also equipped with a large-capacity battery of 4070mAh, which can support the charging speed up to 24W. No blowing, no black, the price within 2000 yuan, LeTV is definitely the flagship of cost performance.
"Appearance analysis:
On the front of the fuselage, Le Pro3 continues the borderless ID design. In the off-screen state, the integration of the whole machine is very strong, and the front impression is also good. The front camera and sensor at the top of the fuselage also adopt LeTV's classic symmetrical design. Since the release of LeTV's first product, symmetrical design has almost become an industry phenomenon, and mobile phone manufacturers are scrambling to imitate it. As a brand that has not been involved in the field of mobile phone products for a long time, it is really not easy. It is also worth mentioning that LeTV is equipped with the same stereo dual speakers as the iPhone 7. In addition to the speaker at the bottom of the fuselage, another speaker is integrated into the receiver.
Compared with the previous generation, Le Pro3 has little change in overall appearance and fuselage corners, but it has been upgraded and adjusted in some details. Le Pro3 uses 2.5D glass, which makes the front look better and enhances the grip on the edge of the fuselage to some extent. The bottom of the fuselage is a hidden three-button design with breathing light function. In addition, the Home button of Le Pro3 was changed from the previous prototype to LeTV logo, which further enhanced the brand recognition. The author thinks that all the acts of forcibly adding logo to the fuselage belong to hooliganism, but the three buttons of Le Pro3 are hidden, which will not be offensive, but just right, which is a more pleasing design.
With the development of smart phone market, highly integrated solutions make the homogenization scene of mobile phone products more and more serious, leaving less and less room for brands to play freely. In the case that the hardware configuration can't open the gap, this year, the fuselage technology has become the focus of various mobile phone brands. On the basis of adopting CNC metal integrated fuselage design, Le Pro3 added wire drawing treatment to the back cover of the fuselage to further enhance the texture. In addition, Le Pro3 also uses a coating process on the surface of the back cover, which still looks as cold as metal, but it feels very delicate. The feel is between slippery and astringent, so don't worry that the phone will drop at any time.
At the bottom of the fuselage, Le Pro3 adopts symmetrical design, and the left and right sides are still openings for speakers and microphones. In terms of data interface, USB Type C interface has been fully popularized on existing LeTV mobile phones. The advantages of USB Type C interface should be well understood, supporting faster data transmission speed and larger charging current, and it is the quasi-successor of conventional Micro USB interface. It is also worth mentioning that since the previous generation of products, LeTV has started to cancel the 3.5mm headphone jack, fully supporting the CDLA standard (all digital lossless audio), and Le Pro3 is no exception. In order to be compatible with the user's existing audio equipment, Le Pro3 comes with a Type C to 3.5mm audio interface adapter.
The main camera of Le Pro3 adopts Sony's IMX 298 camera sensor with pixel16 million and aperture F2.0 With excellent hardware specifications, it has been used by many brands on flagship models this year. The body thickness of Le Pro3 is controlled at 7.39mm, and the 4070mAh large-capacity battery is accommodated in such a thin body. The camera is still prominent, and the metal protective ring around the camera also plays a certain decorative role, which will not be very uncoordinated.
The above is the appearance analysis of Le Pro3. To sum up, the overall appearance of Le Pro3 has not changed much, basically following the ID design of the previous generation products. Small adjustments and upgrades in some details and fuselage technology are re-optimized on the basis of the previous work, which is rare in the smart phone market with serious homogenization, especially in the same price models, reflecting sufficient differentiation.
"EUI system experience:
Since the earliest generation of LeTV super mobile phones, LeTV has been committed to "breaking boundaries and ecological reversal". Now, LeTV's business scope has covered many popular industries such as sports events, film industry, automobiles and intelligent hardware. And they are gradually growing and improving. As the center of the whole ecosystem, EUI naturally plays a very important role. On the mobile phone side, EUI integrates its own powerful video and live content resources, which is an important entrance for users to enter the LeTV ecosystem. After several iterations, EUI has now evolved to version 5.8. The latest EUI not only continues to deeply integrate LeTV's content resources, but also further optimizes and enriches the system experience and functions. The following is a brief introduction to the system.
EUI 5.8 is based on Android 6.0. 1 deep customization and adopts the popular flat design style. In addition to the default theme of the system, there are two sets of themes built in to choose from: gorgeous and elegant. The system theme also supports customization, and you can freely choose fonts. Although the degree of customization is not as high as that of domestic old Android UI such as MIUI, it ensures the integration of system themes to some extent.
Basic functions of the system. EUI 5.8 further enriches the function and practicability of the system. There are also many functions such as global search, WeChat trumpet, yellow page dialing and so on, which are basically the standard of domestic Android UI. Slightly different, in the global search, EUI integrated more resources, such as searching for "Joker Xue", then related materials, videos, music, apps and so on. Will appear in the search results.
In my experience, I found that in addition to pressing the volume button and the power button at the same time, I can quickly take screenshots, and long pressing the Home button can also bring up more screen capture options. Here, you can not only scroll screen shots, screen shots with the border of the mobile phone, but also support real-time editing, which is very convenient to mark the key contents in the screen shots. This is also the embodiment of the further enhancement of EUI 5.8 functions.
Featured functions. The biggest feature of EUI is the integration of LeTV's rich video content services. Happy Desktop and Live Desktop can be accurately personalized pushed according to users' search behavior and historical data. Dynamic desktop is the essence of EUI. When the live desktop is turned on, the mobile phone will automatically switch to landscape mode, and users can watch live satellite TV, starry sky, movies, TV series and variety shows. The screen defaults to nine videos, which can realize three live broadcasts at the same time.
In addition to rich video content, other powerful ecological resources of LeTV are also reflected in EUI. LeTV has a lot of star resources, and its mobile phone has become an out-and-out idol artifact. In EUI 5.8, you can see star homepages, ringtones, expressions and photo wallpapers. At the same time, the cooperation between LeTV and Yizhi also enables LeTV mobile phones to get a car in advance according to the user's calendar, and so on.
There are many LeTV applications installed in EUI: LeTV Mall, LeTV Video, LeTV Sports, and Fans Community. Every app is the entrance to LeTV's ecology. You can enter other related applications through users' personal interests without frequently switching apps within the LeTV ecosystem. What you want is what you get. This is also the concrete embodiment of LeTV's ecological opposition and breaking the APP island.
EUI 5.8 deeply optimizes power consumption and performance on the basis of Android 6.0. 1, and the support of Snapdragon 82 1 platform further ensures the fluency of the system. After several days of experience, EUI 5.8 is satisfactory in stability and fluency. But in the experience, LeTV and its rich resources and content are even more impressive.
"Hardware experience:
As a newcomer in the mobile phone industry, LeTV mobile phones have always been generous in hardware. This time, Pro3 uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 82 1 processor, which is the first mass-produced product in domestic mobile phones. Of course, compared with the leap from 8 10 to 820, Snapdragon 82 1 mainly focuses on releasing new functions, optimizing performance and improving existing functions. So the main performance is not much different from the Xiaolong 820 that we are familiar with this year. And Snapdragon 82 1 supports Android nougat 7.0 operating system, which paves the way for the system upgrade of Le Pro3 in the future.
Literally, Snapdragon 82 1 can be understood as an overall upgrade of Xiaolong 820. Snapdragon 82 1 still adopts the Kryo architecture independently developed by Qualcomm. The main frequency of the two large cores is increased from 2.2GHz to 2.4GHz, and the main frequency of the two small cores is increased from 1.6GHz to 2.0GHz, which means that the CPU can steadily increase its running speed without power consumption problems through technological progress. It can bring users 10% shorter boot time and faster application startup speed, so that users of Le Pro3 can enjoy smoother screen sliding operation and faster application startup speed and get better practical experience.
In other aspects, Snapdragon 82 1 is still composed of CPU, GPU, VPU (video processor), Hexagon 680 DSP, DPU (display processor), X 12 LTE baseband, Spectra ISP and LPDDR4 memory. This time, Le Pro3 uses a combination of LPDDR4 memory and +UFS 2.0 flash memory. Moreover, this Pro3 is divided into four versions: 4+32, 4+64, 6+64, 6+ 128, and the most basic configuration has reached the level of 4GB RAM. In Ann Bunny's running score, it can reach the level of 158658.
On the GPU side, Snapdragon 82 1 is still equipped with adreno 530, but its performance is improved by 5% compared with the version of 820. In the running score of GFXBench, the test score of 1080P Manhattan is 3 1Fps, and the off-screen of 1080P Manhattan is 3 1Fps, which is basically the same as that of iPhone6S.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that Snapdragon 82 1 also introduced Qualcomm Aqstic audio codec, which supports 192kHz and 24-bit Hi-Fi DAC at maximum, and can provide excellent dynamic range and resolution. The CDLA audio standard advocated by LeTV directly transmits high-quality digital audio signals to digital headphones through the Type-C interface, and the digital headphones complete the decoding, so as to ensure that the audio signals are not distorted to the maximum extent.
"Photo experience:
In terms of camera, Le Pro3 adopts Sony IMX298, which is widely used in this year's flagship, and this CMOS has been applied in all major flagship mobile phones this year. In terms of hardware, Le Pro3 adopts16 megapixel camera, F2.0 aperture, PDAF phase focusing, DTI pixel isolation technology, and is equipped with dual color temperature LED fill light. From the configuration point of view only, Le Pro3 has flagship camera hardware. Let's take a look at the real shooting level of Le Pro3 through the proofs.
In terms of resolution, Le Pro3 is equipped with a16 megapixel camera with good resolution. By comparison, it can be seen that the original image is enlarged by 300%, and the effect is basically the same as that of iPhone 7 Plus120 thousand pixel dual camera 10 times digital zoom.
In terms of outdoor proofs, it can be seen that in a well-lit environment, Le Pro3' s camera ability is still good, the white balance is a bit excessive, the color tends to be slightly oversaturated, and it is sensitive to red. And in terms of taking pictures, we tested more proofs and found that Le Pro3 is more prone to overexposure. In indoor shooting, Le Pro3 is much better. The white balance is accurate, the light control is good, and the picture has a certain sense of transparency.
▲ There will be strong light spots.
In the case of normal outdoor light, Le Pro3' s camera ability is acceptable, its white balance is relatively accurate, and the overall picture color temperature is cold, which is more inclined to what glasses can see. However, there is a problem. In the case of strong light, the overall control of glare by Le Pro3 is not ideal, and light spots are easy to appear in photos. This may appear in the problem of camera tuning, so I hope to improve this problem in the later production version.
In terms of macro, thanks to the aperture of Le Pro3 equipped with F2.0, it still has a good performance in macro shooting. The theme of the photographed flowers is prominent and the background is blurred. And in the whole shooting process, Le Pro3 has a good performance in focusing speed and shooting speed, crisp and neat, without procrastination.
Summary: As you can see, thanks to the application of IMX298, you basically don't have to worry about the camera level of this phone. But in actual use, perhaps because this product is an engineering machine, there are still some areas that need to be improved in the details of taking pictures: for example, the brightness of exposure and the control of glare need to be strengthened.
"Evaluation summary
This year, we can see that the competition in the smart phone market, especially in the domestic smart phone market, is more intense, and many mobile phone brands are hard to resist in the price war. Some mobile phone manufacturers have raised the prices of the latest products in their existing product lines, such as Yijia and Meizu. Letv has always adhered to the pricing strategy of service-oriented and negative hardware. In the first year of entering the mobile phone market, it has embarked on a different ecological profit model, which is very competitive in the current mobile phone market in the Red Sea.
Le Pro3 released this time is equipped with the top processor platform of Snapdragon 82 1, but the price is still controlled within 2,000 yuan, which is the flagship product with sincerity in this price range. In terms of fuselage technology, Le Pro3 has been upgraded on the basis of previous products. The texture of Le Pro3 has been upgraded to a higher level through metal wire drawing texture, delicate coating treatment and the addition of 2.5D glass.
In the past year, LeTV has continuously cooperated with many popular cross-industry companies through mergers and acquisitions and shareholding. , such as easy to use the car, cool, etc. And constantly enrich LeTV's ecosystem and resources, which is the core competitiveness of LeTV's mobile phone. In addition to rich video and live content resources, a large number of high-quality third-party services will really bring more convenience to users in actual use. And in terms of system UI, after several generations of EUI version changes, the latest EUI 5.8 has been greatly improved in function and ease of use.
On the whole, Le Pro3 from 1799 yuan is quite competitive in the same price model. Whether it's hardware performance or software and content experience. For most users, high cost performance is the primary factor to attract buyers, while for heavy users of audio-visual entertainment, the high-quality content resources of Le Pro3 are more attractive. "In every way, Le Pro3 is a sincere work and worth buying.
The comprehensive performance of Le Pro3 is enough to impress most domestic mobile phones, but it is not without its shortcomings. In terms of taking photos, Le Pro3 adopts the current mainstream Sony IMX298 camera sensor, but the actual imaging performance is quite satisfactory and the playability is not high, which is slightly lacking for a flagship mobile phone. If you pay great attention to taking photos with your mobile phone, Le Pro3 may not be the most suitable one.