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Comprehensively evaluate the new flagship of ZTE Tianji 7.

IT 168 evaluation started from 20 15, and ZTE gradually embarked on the road of quality. Launch high-end flagship series, establish ZTE young fashion boutique series and Blade national popular excellent series. Three product lines constitute ZTE's brand-new product pyramid, and the product focus gradually moves up, focusing more on the mid-to high-end market. Speaking of cat series, it has always been a high-end flagship product in the family, so today ZTE Cat 7 shoulders the heavy responsibility of family flagship.

"Tianji 7" is the 7th generation product of ZTE Tianji series. Since the release of GRAND S, i.e. Tianji 1 in June, 20 13, Tianji series has been evolving iteratively, and has accumulated a good reputation from users with its independent design language and high-quality experience. In 20 15, the name "Tianji" was launched, which was a milestone for ZTE to formally enter the high-end market. "Tianji 7", the return of the naming sequence, can also be regarded as sticking to the quality of Tianji series.

Since 20 15, ZTE Terminal has announced the strategy of creating high-quality products. The products are named after parent brand ZTE series, and all cat series are also the second batch of products named. 20 16 first quarter financial report shows that ZTE achieved revenue of 218.59 million yuan in the first quarter, up by 4.09% year-on-year; The net profit was 950 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of15.97%; The basic earnings per share is 0.23 yuan. At the beginning of the year, Yu, vice president of ZTE and executive vice president of China, said that he was full of expectations for 20 16 and hoped that the overall sales volume of 20 16 would also double. So how can we double sales? The most conventional and direct way is to upgrade the overall configuration and highlight the buying points of products.

"Class 7 series.

Mobile phone model

High version

Top matching plate

screen size

5.5 inches

resolution ratio

2560× 1440(2K)

processor

Qualcomm Xiaolong 820

Sim card

Double nanometer

Card slot, double card and double standby

Dual NanoSIM card slot, dual card dual standby

Random access memory

4GB

6GB

Body memory

128GB

Main camera

20 million pixel camera

front-facing camera

8 million pixels

operating system

I like UI 4.0

Fuselage size

151.7x75x7.9mm.

eigenfunction

AKM496 1+AKM4490

Peach pattern, 3D pressure screen

Battery capacity

3200 mah

Network standard

All netcom

price

3299 yuan

4099 yuan

Tianji 7 is equipped with 5.5-inch AMOLED 2K super retina magic screen, AK496 1+AK4490 dual flagship independent audio processing chips, and the ultimate configuration brings a cinema-like audio-visual feast; System-level voice control scheme allows your heart to move with the sound and enjoy an efficient and convenient mobile life. Its ID design language makes the characteristics of "high quality", "uniqueness" and "experience" very direct. In addition, the signing of Lang Lang by ZTE, as the image spokesperson of the secret series, completely copied the successful cases in the United States, which can be said to accelerate the brand promotion strategy in the transformation and upgrading.

In terms of appearance, compared with the previous generation, the overall design style of ZTE Tianji 7 has not changed much. It is still a 2.5D glass on the front and a three-stage metal body on the back, which belongs to a calm and restrained business style. However, in the details of the fuselage, in fact, ZTE Tianji 7 has added some interesting minor changes, which has improved the practicality and the grip of the whole machine. Let's take a closer look at the design of this phone.

On the front of the fuselage, ZTE Tianji 7 adopts a dual speaker design, which is rare in the current mainstream mobile phones. The design of 2.5D glass is not only a big plus item of the whole machine's face value, but also improves the grip on the edge of the fuselage. The front of the fuselage is larger than the speaker openings at the upper and lower ends. This time, ZTE Tianji 7 canceled the previous diamond mesh design and adopted the current circular perforation, which was restrained and low-key under the high-profile wooden decoration, and its beauty was not conspicuous. Compared with people, ZTE Tianji 7 seems to be a mature and steady business man.

20 15 years USB Type-C interface standard was tested on mobile phones, and it was really popularized in 20 16 years. At present, even many thousand yuan models have been equipped with TypPC-C-C interface. The speaker of ZTE Tianji 7 is located in the front of the fuselage, so there are only data and microphone openings at the bottom of the fuselage, so the bottom is very simple and integrated.

On the back of the fuselage, ZTE Tianji 7 adopts a three-stage metal fuselage design. Although the design of metal fuselage and injection molding strip is not new, in fact, this design requires high technical difficulty. The joint and tolerance between plastic and metal are the direct factors affecting the yield, so the cost is relatively high, and it is often used in flagship models. After hands-on experience, there is no obvious feel between the injection molding strip and the metal body, and the overall workmanship is satisfactory.

On the back of the fuselage, it is worth mentioning that ZTE Tianji 7 added groove processing at the fingerprint identification key. The official explanation for this design is that it is convenient for fingers to identify the location of fingerprint keys and the operation is more convenient. In addition, ZTE Tianji 7 uses a 20-megapixel camera on the back of the fuselage, and the lens is protected by a metal ring, which reduces the risk of scratching the lens.

The screen size of ZTE Tianji 7 is 5.5 inches, which belongs to the category of large-screen mobile phones. However, thanks to the high screen ratio, the body size of ZTE Tianji 7 is properly controlled. Coupled with the smooth transition of the edge of the fuselage, these have given ZTE Tianji 7 a good grip. In some cases (such as replying to text messages), one-handed operation will not seem awkward.

"summary

In terms of appearance, ZTE Tianji 7 continues the design style of the previous generation, and the overall appearance has not changed much. However, it also follows the current mainstream design trend of high screen ratio, and has a good positive impression with 2.5D glass. In particular, the walnut decoration used in the top version has become the finishing touch of this mobile phone, the highlight of differentiation and the embodiment of identity. Simple summary, full of personality, calm and restrained.

In terms of system UI, ZTE Tianji 7 runs the version of Mi Favor UI based on Android 6.0. 1 Compared with the more mature MIUI and Flyme in China, MiFavor UI does not seem to be particularly famous. But in fact, it is difficult to find some obvious shortcomings and deficiencies in the horizontal comparison system UIS, and the gap between UIS in performance, interaction and function is very small. Let's make a simple interpretation of MiFavor UI 4.0, mainly focusing on its performance in terms of interface aesthetics and functional practicability.

In terms of the overall style of the interface, MiFavor UI 4.0 is a common iOS-like style in domestic Android systems, and its icons are also rounded rectangles, which are more traditional and not as bold and radical as Smartisan OS and Hydrogen OS. The interface color scheme is low-key and restrained, echoing ZTE 7' s tough and steady business style, and achieving both internal and external repair.

Although Mifavor UI 4.0 takes a route similar to iOS as a whole and deeply optimizes the system interface, it still has a strong native Android flavor in the drop-down menu and volume adjustment window. No matter the arrangement or style of icons, it is almost the same as the native Android interface.

MiFavor UI 4.0 introduces a brand-new intelligent voice 3.0, which is a major feature of ZTE. The previous star series mobile phones mainly used voice functions. Intelligent Voice 3.0 has been upgraded in an all-round way, in which the voice secretary supports online voice-to-text and offline voice-to-text, which is a godlike existence for handling meeting minutes, memos and other usage scenarios. After a simple test, the recognition success rate of voice secretary is very high. Surprisingly, its recognition speed is even faster. This should be due to the use of offline voice packets. Similarly, the voice translation function supports conversation and text conversion in nine foreign languages, such as English, Cantonese, Japanese, Spanish and Korean, and is an out-and-out travel companion.

In the telephone application, MiFavor UI 4.0 also integrates the life yellow pages function. Food, hotels, banks, entertainment and other information available, very convenient. At the same time, the dial also supports pinyin retrieval. If you need to find the phone number of SF Express, you can quickly find the phone number of SF Express by typing "SF" in Pinyin. At present, more and more domestic Android UIs are also improving and enriching localization functions, which is also a big advantage of domestic UIS compared with international manufacturers such as Samsung and Sony in system UI.

"summary

After several major versions of changes, MiFavor UI has become increasingly mature and perfect, and has basically caught up with excellent domestic UIs such as MIUI and Flyme in function. Especially in the voice function, the newly upgraded Intelligent Voice 3.0 has reached a new level in recognition speed and accuracy, and is highly practical. However, in terms of interface interaction and system aesthetics, MiFavor seems to have not fully formed its own unique style and lacks characteristics.

"Double independent operational amplifier chip.

It is worth mentioning that ZTE Tianji 7 is equipped with AK496 1 chip used by Sony professional voice recorder and AK4490 chip used by Avery and AK380 professional HiFi player. The dual flagship independent audio processing chips ensure the high-fidelity recording and playback of this mobile phone and the overall pure tone experience. Three-way echo cancellation allows Tianji 7 to achieve high-definition recording within 8 meters, 360-degree automatic sound source identification, and extreme noise reduction, allowing users to experience professional portable recording studios to the greatest extent.

ZTE Tianji 7 is also adapted to dual speakers+dual smart Pa, which is also the first mobile phone designed with dual speakers. Nano-material sound cavity, Dolby panoramic sound effect and professional "golden ear" tuning bring users the highest HD sound experience of current smart phones. In the actual audition experience, the music playing effect of ZTE Tianji 7 left me with a deep speaker. When the environment calms down, the personal sense of existence can even be compared with iMax theaters.

Tianji 7 adopts a front-mounted 8-megapixel camera and a rear-mounted 20-megapixel camera, and has super hybrid anti-shake of "ball optical anti-shake+electronic anti-shake+image compensation", which greatly improves shooting stability. In addition, it also has a series of functions such as multiple exposure, time-lapse photography, slow time gate, slow motion, 360-degree panorama and so on. Thanks to users' big data research, automatic identification of professional scenes, automatic optimization and adaptation of parameters, professional photography teaching and so on. In the automatic mode, Tianji 7 realized the photographic experience of taking high-quality photos at hand.

Since it is the flagship mobile phone, it is also necessary for us to compare it with the current camera benchmark iPhone 6s Plus. Although Apple is the benchmark for taking photos, with the development of Android phones, taking photos has also made great progress. To evaluate whether a mobile phone takes a good picture, our first reaction is usually whether the color is closer to what the naked eye can see. In the first set of comparison proofs, we can see that the white balance of Apple's iPhone 6s Plus has a certain gap with Android's flagship secret 7. Cat 7' s white balance is more accurate, the overall picture is brighter, and Apple's is slightly yellow.

Cat 7 uses a 2 megapixel camera. It can also be seen from the actual test that there is a certain gap between 100% samples. Most of secrets 7 can be seen clearly in the crystal corner, while most of Apple's iPhone 6s Plus is heavily smeared. This is due to the 20-megapixel camera of Tianji 7.

The 20-megapixel camera behind Tianji 7 cooperates with the super hybrid anti-shake of "ball optical anti-shake+electronic anti-shake+image compensation" to greatly improve the shooting stability. We also took pictures of the night scene while walking, and the overall performance was quite satisfactory. We can clearly see the LOGO, graphics and text of the coffee shop in the snapshot, especially the big LOGO. In addition, we can also see that the black part of the whole picture is also very pure, and there will be no screen phenomenon.

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Tongtian Machine 7 also continues the fine tradition of ZTE family in terms of interesting cameras. It has a series of functions such as multiple exposure, time-lapse photography, slow time, slow motion and 360-degree panorama. We can take interesting photos through these combinations. For example, in the first group, we used the simplest multiple exposure, first shooting the desktop, and then shooting the beverage bottle, so that we can see the virtual beverage bottle on the desktop. The second photo uses a difficult multiple exposure, and the combination of the two photos can spoof the beverage bottle.

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Through the experience of the camera, we can completely think that Tianji 7 has maintained a consistent high level of family photography, and added a multi-functional photography mode on the original basis, which allows us to customize more intentional photos. Indeed, the speed, accuracy, stability and playability of the camera itself are very important when the mobile phone is generally good.

"Interpretation of Xiaolong 820 processor

ZTE Tianji 7 is equipped with Qualcomm Xiaolong 820 platform, which is also the standard of flagship machine in 20 16. Speaking of the performance of Xiaolong 820, we must first mention the Samsung 14nm FinFET process selected by Xiaolong 820. Simply put, more advanced technology can increase the number of transistors per unit area, improve transistor performance and improve the overall performance of the chip. At the same time, through more advanced technology, the effects of reducing leakage rate, power consumption and calorific value can be achieved. Generally speaking, more advanced technology can achieve higher performance at the same power consumption and have better power consumption performance at the same performance.

In my impression, there are several influential SoC products in Qualcomm: QSD8250, QSD8260, APQ8064, Xiaolong 800, Snapdragon 80 1, Xiaolong 820 and so on. Among them, QSD8250/8260 adopts self-developed scorpion architecture, and Xiaolong 800/80 1 adopts self-developed Krait architecture. This time Xiaolong 820 adopts the latest Kryo self-developed architecture.

This time, the Xiaolong 820 based on Kryo architecture adopts quad-core design, and the clock frequency reaches 2. 15GHz. However, one thing deserves our attention. Compared with APQ8064, Xiaolong 800 and Snapdragon 80 1, this Xiaolong 820 adopts quad-core design with different clock frequencies of 2 * 2.2GHz+2 * 1.5GHz ... Meanwhile, before Xiaolong 800 adopted 4aSMP, that is, four asynchronous symmetric cores, each of which can be controlled independently. This time, Xiaolong 820 uses two clusters of cores to control 2aSMP, that is, 2+2 asynchronous symmetric cores. In other words, two 1.5GHz cores are synchronized with the same frequency, and two 2. 15GHz cores are synchronized with the same frequency, but the two clusters of cores are designed asynchronously and symmetrically. Speaking of which, you may think that the Xiaolong 820 has also adopted a similar big design. Very few, but according to Qualcomm's official explanation, this is not the case. The two core groups only have different clock frequencies, but still adopt the same Kryo architecture.

Note: The data in the above picture comes from Ann Bunny official website, and the running score in the data comes from Samsung Galaxy S7 China Edition (Qualcomm Xiaolong 820).

Apple iPhone 6s (

Apple A9

), Samsung Galaxy S7 Korean version (Exynos 8890), Meizu Pro 6 (MediaTek Helio X25), Huawei P9 Plus (Hayes Kirin 955).

▲ ZTE AXON secret 7 Ann Bunny Score

From the above comparison, it can be seen that the overall performance of Qualcomm Xiaolong 820 is beyond doubt, and it is worthy of being the flagship SOC of 20 16. Compared with the Samsung S7 China version in the above data, ZTE AXON 7 top version is equipped with a larger 6GB memory, and we are also full of expectations for the running of this machine. After the machine arrived, we couldn't wait to test it with Ann Bunny, and it really lived up to expectations. ZTE AXON Tianji 7 got a high score of 13379 1, ranking high in Antu Bunny's running sub-library, which is quite a good result.

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Qualcomm (Qualcomm)

official website

According to the official data of Qualcomm, the performance of Adreno 530 is improved by 40% and the power consumption is reduced by 40% compared with the previous generation Adreno 430, all thanks to the new architecture design of Adreno 530. Engineers in Qualcomm also mentioned that Adreno 530 has an ultra-low power processor embedded in it, which is used to detect the power consumption of the GPU and dynamically adjust the GPU to make it in the best state. Adreno 530 has a maximum frequency of 650MHz. And Qualcomm took the lead in supporting the latest OpenCL 2.0 and Renderscript on Adreno 530, which is also the first smartphone SoC supporting OpenCL 2.0 at present. Previously, only high-end desktop graphics cards such as Nvidia Titan supported the specification, which also helped game designers to transplant their PC masterpieces to smartphones/tablets more easily.

As for the performance, we also tested the GPU display performance through GFXbench. By comparison, we can see that the flagship GPUs such as Adreno 430 and Mali-T760 in 15 have been greatly improved, which are basically the same as the PowerVR 7XT series GPUs on iPhone6s/6s Plus. Generally speaking, the GPU we understand only deals with UI sliding, rendering game scenes and assisting CPU in calculation. But in the future, 4K video, virtual reality display and augmented reality display will also play a decisive role.

As the flagship product of ZTE's mobile phone in 20 16, Tianji 7 has been fully upgraded from the inside out. Adam Gao, executive vice president and terminal CEO of ZTE, said, "In addition to the international temperament, the core characteristics of products are also important considerations. When Tianji 7, whose sound effects have been severely polished, meets piano master Lang Lang, who is persistent in music, the ultimate high-definition audio-visual experience will become the constant pursuit, and Tianji 7 will become the new favorite and love of new business people. Indeed, in the era of serious homogenization of domestic mobile phones, Tianji 7 highlighted the music and debugged the software and hardware, which was really attractive. Simply put, if you want to buy a high-end HiFi phone, then Secret 7 is a good choice.

Since 20 15, ZTE has made great efforts in brand building, adhered to the localized sports marketing strategy, and greatly enhanced ZTE's global popularity through cooperation with basketball, football and other fields, and its brand image entered an upward track. This time, in China, ZTE launched the first spokesperson plan in the high-end transition period. Signing Lang Lang as the image spokesperson of the flagship series of Tianji can be said to accelerate the brand promotion strategy in the transformation and upgrading.

Tianji 7 is available in three editions: standard edition (4+64GB), high edition (4+ 128GB) and top edition (6+ 128GB). The prices are 2899, 3299 and 4099 yuan respectively. The fuselage color scheme is available in Woking and Stein Grey. Both versions can be pre-ordered in JD.COM from May 26th and will be officially launched on June 2nd. The high-end version will also be launched simultaneously in offline channels of major cities in various provinces. Click to view details.