Native Android Xiaomi A2 exposure: based on Xiaomi 6X

Xiaomi Technology

Following the success of the Xiaomi A1 (Google version of the Xiaomi 5X) last year, Xiaomi has been brewing its successors and will be released this summer. Although the company has not confirmed, an online retailer has already decided to issue Xiaomi A2's pre-order orders and revealed some of its details. Just like Xiaomi A1, Xiaomi A2 is based on the transformation of Xiaomi 6X, Xiaomi 6X equipped with Snapdragon 660 processor, memory 4G/6G optional, storage is 32/64/128GB optional, does not support Micro-SD card expansion.

Last year, Xiaomi released the Android One smartphone Xiaomi A1 (the domestic version is called Xiaomi 5X), which is Google's joint smartphone Xiaomi built for emerging smartphones markets, and now Xiaomi A1 successor A2 quietly appeared.

Xiaomi A2 appeared in GeekBench: equipped with Snapdragon 660

On June 7th, Xiaomi A2 appeared on GeekBench running a sub-site with a single-core score of 1630 and a multi-core score of 4657. The Snapdragon 660 was equipped with 4GB of memory and was running an Android 8.1 system. From the specifications, it is easy to see that the configuration of Xiaomi A2 is exactly the same as that of the National Bank version of Xiaomi 6X, which also means that the phone may also provide 6GB+128GB high version.

Other specifications: 5.99-inch 2160*1080 display, rear 20+12 megapixels dual camera, Type-C interface, 3010mAh battery.

The difference between the Xiaomi A2 and the Xiaomi 6X is that the former is running a native Android system, rather than its own custom MIUI, can get Google update support for the first time. Xiaomi A2 will be equipped with a clean version of Android 8.1, and Android 9.0 updates should also be coming soon.

Currently, Xiaomi has not officially confirmed the equipment, but according to retailers, Xiaomi A2 will be on sale on August 8 and is expected to be officially released by the end of July. As for the price, 32GB is 290 US dollars, 64GB is priced at 330 US dollars, 128GB is 370 US dollars, and there are black and blue and gold color optional.

Nubia Z17 mini the most detailed review: the low price performance king -part 5

System: Edge gestures are bright spots, one hand is more convenient

The Nubia Z17 mini is equipped with a nubia UI 4.0 based on the Android M depth customization, which continues the simple and feature-rich features of previous operations.

Even though the Z17 mini is not a frameless phone, the FIT edge operation is still retained in the system as a fast gesture operation mode. Users can perform tasks quickly by performing some operations on the edges of the screen. For example, pressing the edge and sliding inside can quickly select the desktop page; the edge can be repeatedly slid to accelerate the phone; double-click the edge to return quickly. Such a quick gesture reduces the use steps for the user, which is convenient and practical, and greatly facilitates one-handed operation.

Although only 5.2 inches screen, in order to allow users to use the phone more efficiently, Nubia Z17 mini also supports the split screen mode. After the user activates the split screen function, the user can slide out the split screen by sliding it from the bottom of the screen. In this way, you can watch TV, swipe social network, browse the webpage, and search for information. In addition, Nubia UI has a variety of user-friendly features such as super screenshots, foreign roaming, and application avatars.

Summary: A comprehensive and balanced flagship

Advantages:

1, 4G+64G version 1699 yuan, 6G+64G version 1999 yuan, cost-effective;

2, exquisite appearance, four corners sleek, plus the size of the 5.2-inch body size, good grip;

3, dual camera + many playable modes, camera playability, photography enthusiasts can enjoy playing tricks;

4, 4G/6G + Qualcomm Snapdragon 652/653 collocation;

5, a good grip of small screen plus the convenience of edge gestures, one-handed operation is convenient.

Disadvantages:

1, standard 5V/2A charging rate, no fast charging, charging is not fast enough, slightly regretful;

2, the UI icon is incomplete, some third-party icons are not redrawn, and interface uniformity is not very good.

Nubia Z17 mini the most detailed review: the low price performance king -part 4

As Nubia, who is the deepest in the field of mobile photography, is concerned with camera software, in addition to its hardware strength. Z17 mini has built-in NeoVision6 Z17 mini customized version, in addition to the conventional double camera will have the portrait mode, black and white mode, there are light painting mode, so that shooting light has become very simple, macro details mode and so on. These modes make nubia's cameras more fun. Moreover, this time the Z17 mini is equipped with Sony's exclusive custom-made full-light MONO sensor, allowing the camera to take in more than 96.6 light shots at night, and the noise within the photo is well controlled.

Performance: best in the low price

The reason why this mobile phone is recognized by everyone is that, besides its small size and excellent design, the configuration is also an important factor. Nubia this time provided a large 6GB of memory on the Z17 mini's high version. The memory is large and the ability to run multiple tasks at the same time is even better. In addition to the large memory, for the performance of the entire Nubia Z17 mini to enhance the most, it is necessary to count from strong Qualcomm Snapdragon 653/652 Soc. For the high-profile version of the Z17 mini, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 is the best performing chip in Qualcomm's mid- to high-end processors. As an upgraded version of Qualcomm Snapdragon 652, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 653's clock speed has been increased to 2.0GHz, the overall performance has been improved by 10%, equipped with X9 LTE modems, the downlink rate can reach up to 300Mbps, and the performance is very guaranteed.

In terms of battery life, the Nubia Z17 mini is equipped with a battery with a capacity of 2950mAh, and its power consumption is still good enough to support the normal use of this mobile phone for about 2 days.

Nubia Z17 mini the most detailed review: the low price performance king -part 3

As mentioned earlier, the back of the Z17 mini has a sleek curved curve, and the four corners of the phone also use a rounded design with a larger curvature, so that the Z17 mini's appearance does not look so blunt. In the aspect of frame processing, the two oblique and edging designs are positive and negative, but they add a bit of hardness to their smoothness. The design of the entire back of the phone is very simple, the top left is the flash and dual cameras, in order to protect the camera, it deliberately made a metal bulge in the edge, using the iconic red circle for visual embellishment; fingerprint recognition this time also returned to the back, echoing the nubia Logo below.

The Nubia Z17 mini uses a 5.2-inch, 1080P in-cell full-fitting screen, and a layer of 2.5D curved glass on the surface of the screen, which ensures that the entire phone front becomes more rounded while ensuring excellent feel. More importantly, Nubia added a thoughtful design to prevent this from happening on the Z17 mini, as mobile phones often break the screen. A rubber shock belt is added between the screen glass and the metal middle frame. Because the rubber helps buffer the force, it can effectively reduce the occurrence of broken screens.

Dual Photo: Make the most fun camera more professional

Nubia is the main mobile phone camera, the camera's functionality has been unique. Nubia Z17 mini is equipped with a set of dual 13 megapixels IMX258 Sony custom dual camera combination, go even further this time.

The dual camera on the Nubia Z17 mini uses the current mainstream dual-camera solution - a color camera with a black and white camera. This setting can simulate the out-of-focus blur function of the SLR camera. In addition to the conventional blur, it also supports a special portrait mode that enables real-time depth calculations. It is convenient to preview the depth of field of the sample in real time by adjusting the aperture size. Although there is a certain gap between the imaging effect and the SLR, the degree of usability is still good.

Nubia Z17 mini the most detailed review: the low price performance king -part 2

Unpacking: Familiar taste

The nubia Z17 mini's packaging box continues Nubia's consistent simplicity: a pure white double box with a nubia logo on the front and an iconic red circle. In addition to the phone inside the box, there are power adapters, data lines, mobile phone manuals and so on. The Z17 mini has launched four color combinations: Champagne Gold, Black Gold, Elegant Black and Hyun Red.

Appearance: Simple and smooth, feeling good

It has always been believed that small things are often more refined. Nubia's mini series has always done well in appearance. This time, the Z17 mini inherited Nubia's Z11 mini design language in terms of appearance. Under the premise of a very convenient and comfortable user, a more minimalist design language was used to build the entire metal body. Nubia Z17 mini uses a complete metal plate processing to create, and in order to maintain the integrity of the metal integration, is to use a one-size-fits-all nano-injection antenna signal band technology, making the entire Z17 mini body metal material ratio reached a staggering 97%.

In terms of size, Nubia controlled the Z17 mini's measurements within 146.65 x 72.5 x 7.45 mm, and in particular, the body thickness of 7.45 mm was thinner than the previous one by 0.15 mm. After the sharp drop in thickness, thanks to the curvature of the back of the body design, so that the grip of the phone in the hand does not have any discomfort. In addition, the entire back metal surface uses a very fine sandblasting process, which highlights the texture of the metal and gives a skin-like touch, further strengthening the Z17 mini's excellent feel. The main thing is that on the back of the Nubia Z17 mini, a layer of oleophobic was added. Compared with other manufacturers' metal mobile phones, the Z17 mini is more resistant to fingerprints and grease in the hands.

Nubia Z17 mini the most detailed review: the low price performance king -part 1

The development of mobile phones has gone from simple hardware upgrades to experience upgrades. It is no longer simply a matter of performance, but more about the soft strength of appearance, cameras, and so on. Nubia's mini series, as its flagship small screen smartphones, has been very popular with the market. The nubia Z17 mini also closely follows the trend of the times. Under the sufficient performance guarantee of Qualcomm Snapdragon 652/653 with 4G/6G, it brought an all-metal body and dual camera upgrades, making it look better on the basis of its appearance. The camera of Nubia has always been a model of many fun, and on the basis of the dual-camera upgrade, not only more in line with the mainstream needs, but also make it more comprehensive and balanced, but also make me have more expectations.

Dual camera is the standard of this year's mainstream, as the main camera smartphones manufacturers, Nubia naturally will not miss everyone's favorite. After launching its first dual-camera model M2, it also upgraded its mini series to the Nubia Z17 mini with dual camera. In fact, since the birth of this series of nubia mini, it has become much loved by consumers. After all, everyone wants their mobile phone to have a more appropriate feel, not so big, but the configuration should be as good as the big screen flagship. In today's 6-inch big screen times, Nubia also raised the screen size of the mini series to 5.2 inches.

In fact, I can be considered as a fan of the mini series. From the Z5 mini, I have been concerned about this series of models. Especially when it comes to the Z11 mini, the light, simple feel really gave me a surprise. Z17 mini has a total of two versions, one is the 4G+64G version, priced at 1,699 yuan; the other is a 6G+64G version, priced at 2,000 yuan, I got myself the high version, let us have a look together!

With violence, OnePlus 6 VS Black Shark -part 2

I believe that everyone will find that OnePlus 6 to enter the APP is faster than the Black Shark. In addition to the reasons for the cutscenes, the system optimization is also very helpful. On the network side, OnePlus 6 has advantages in obtaining network data. It can be seen that its reflections will be faster than Black Shark when reading articles on the Internet, indicating that the quality of its network connections is better. The quality of the network can be very important to players. In terms of game read speed, the Xiaomi Black Shark phone is winning with a slight advantage.

The second is the application resident, because both are equipped with 8GB of large storage, plus the inevitable switching application in the game process, and the game must be resident in the background in order to give the user a smoother experience. I found that the Black Shark's background clean-up strategy is quite aggressive. On the contrary, OnePlus 6 seems relatively conservative, but for the player, perhaps OnePlus 6 memory resident forms are more in line with the needs of gamers.

Game measured data

In this session, we use the Gamebench APP to record the utilization of the two products during the game and the actual number of frames. At the same time, in order to further release the performance of the two products, all games involved in the test are enabled game mode. All picture quality is highest and all effects are turned on.

From the actual comparison point of view, under the blessing of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, the actual performance of OnePlus 6 and Black Shark mobile phones can meet the current demand for performance of mobile games. In terms of game optimization, OnePlus 6 can be said even in some important aspects of the game there are some advantages, such as network connection and game optimization, OnePlus 6 performance are quite out of expectation. In short, under the premise of having the same level of performance, the two products do not actually have a large gap in the game.

With violence, OnePlus 6 VS Black Shark -part 1

Some time ago, OnePlus 6 was officially released as the flagship product with the most interesting aspects in the first half of the year. OnePlus 6 has greatly improved in all aspects. Especially in terms of performance, under the support of Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, the performance of OnePlus 6 can be said to be quite eye-catching. Speaking of performance, I believe that many of you will think of the game phone, after all, the game for the performance of the phone is still very high. Looking at several gaming phones currently on the market, the overall configuration of OnePlus 6 is very similar to the Black Shark gaming mobile phone. Having said this, I believe that everyone will have doubts. Under the premise of carrying the same hardware, will there be a gap between the game phone and ordinary mobile phone?

Top performance duel

From the configuration point of view, both products are equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor. At the same time, both of the products are versions of the 8GB+128GB storage portfolio, and the LPDDR4X+UDS2.1 portfolio is standard. It can be said that in addition to the screen and battery capacity, the two products of the OnePlus 6 and Xiaomi Black Shark mobile phones can be said to be highly consistent in their core configurations, and are therefore more comparable.

Game open speed test

Before releasing the measured data, we first tested the speed of the two products in the open game app. In this test we have selected 8 large-scale games that are currently the hottest on the market. At the same time, we have unified all the variables (the same WIFI environment, unified restart and kill the process at the same time off the game mode of the two products), in this section, we mainly tested the system optimization of the two products, the background resident optimized and built-in stored read speeds.