Glory V20 evaluation: the benchmark of flagship machine in 20 18.

IT 168 evaluation 20 18 is a special year for glory. At the press conference of Glory V 10 last year, Glory was officially promoted to the first position of Internet brand. However, in this year, glory does not seem to frequently mention the honor it has won, but focuses on the innovation of new technologies. Compared with other brands, glory has obviously taken a "technical wind" in brand building. Whether it is the "scary technology" such as GPU Turbo, THE NINE liquid cooling and YOYO smart life released in the middle of the year, or the three technologies redefined as standard at the end of the year, glory's "intensive technological innovation" this year is impressive. In the glory product line, the glory V series has always been the performance responsibility of glory. Each generation of glory V series is equipped with the latest technology and the most powerful hardware configuration. As the closing flagship of 20 18, glory V20 "can't be less".

Further Evolution of Full Screen: Charming Full Screen

In the past two years, as the most direct interaction level between smart phones and users, the screen shape has changed significantly. From the beginning, the screen ratio expanded from 16:9 to 18: 9, and from 18: 9, it evolved into a special-shaped full-screen with more complicated cutting process. It has experienced the process of increasing the screen size and increasing the screen ratio as much as possible within a certain size range. Through the improvement of screen technology, we will continue to approach the "full screen on the front", hoping to reach the screen ratio of 100%.

For smart phones, what affects their full-screen evolution is the existence of front camera, earpiece, sensor and other components.

In the process of screen evolution, different from the transition from ordinary 18: 9 screen to Liu Haiping, the third generation scheme of "full screen with charming eyes" adopted on Glory V20 is more complicated in process realization. We know that even the so-called "Liu Haiping" or other cutting methods will cut some space on the screen to make room for components such as the receiver and the front camera. The biggest challenge comes from the yield of screen cutting and the optimization of backlight module, and more lies in the test of screen technology. The screen punching scheme of "charming full-view screen" adopted on Glory V20 not only needs to challenge the limit of screen technology, but also needs to redesign a whole set of systems such as camera, speaker and various sensors.

Mobile phone screen is generally composed of three main structures: glass cover, LCD panel and backlight layer. There are two schemes for punching holes on the screen. One is called a through hole, which is what many people imagine is that the liquid crystal layer and backlight layer under the screen glass cover are directly punched. In order to create a more extreme full-screen design, the glory V20 makes the aperture of the transparent area of the front camera as small as possible, and at the same time ensures that the front camera achieves the best effect, and adopts the design scheme of blind holes.

The so-called blind hole means that the camera is placed under the backlight layer in the screen, but it does not penetrate the whole liquid crystal layer, and the liquid crystal is not hollowed out. On the one hand, it has achieved a very small aperture of 4.5 mm In order to achieve this aperture, Glory specially customized the front lens, and at the same time adopted 5-axis high-precision dispensing and more extreme assembly process to make the black edge around the front lens narrower, from device to process.

For off-screen cameras, the most difficult part is how to solve the optical problems when taking pictures. Because for the front camera in the screen, the color cast brought by the LCD screen and the light transmittance of the screen medium will have an impact on the photographing effect. Glory V20 has a unique technology, which transmits light to the screen media up to 18 layers, ensuring that its self-timer effect is the same as that of a conventional camera.

In addition, the glory V20 also uses a micro-slit ambient light sensor and a micro-slit earpiece, and innovatively designs the distance sensor on the middle frame at the top of the fuselage, which can detect the approach of objects from the "parallel" direction, thus realizing the function of closing the screen through calls. Glory challenges the ultimate screen technology, solves optical problems, and designs a set of complex components, just to go further to the ultimate simplicity.

Explore the aesthetic trend of science and technology with Moschino

Nowadays, mobile phones are gradually changing from traditional communication products to fast-moving fashion products, and in order to enhance the trend elements of mobile phones, brands are no longer limited to the design of the products themselves, but cross-border with other brands. The most common thing in the mobile phone circle is to cooperate with various tall car brands. However, this time, glory is contrary to other brands. It cooperates with Italian luxury brand Moschino to explore the integration of technology and trend.

V20 still uses the glass material that glory is best at, and has made a bold attempt in design. It draws inspiration from the higher, faster and stronger statue of "Victory Goddess of Samothrace" in Greek mythology, and abstracts its powerful wings into "V-shaped" light and shadow on the back of Glory V20, which subtly embodies the identity of Glory V series. Glory cooperated with Moschino to launch two limited color schemes of V20 magic blue and magic red, with double-layer fourth-generation aperture, nano invisible V-shaped laser texture and unique depth of field design.

Under the design of this trend, Glory V20 adopts the newly designed THE NINE liquid cooling heat dissipation technology, and makes a subtle innovation in the design of heat pipe direction. The hyperbolic S-shape direction passes through the camera module, SOC, charging module and other components along the way, which ensures that the heat pipe can effectively conduct the heat generated by various heat sources (chips and modules) in most user application scenarios, so that the heat dissipation is more comprehensive and effective, and the thickness of the whole machine is not increased.

We also conducted actual tests. Half an hour after the glory of the king's performance mode is turned on (and it will be hotter when connected to a computer), the actual temperature of Glory V20 is 36.6℃. It is worth mentioning that the liquid cooling tube of Glory V20 is just designed when the mobile phone is held horizontally, and almost no part will touch the two hands holding the mobile phone. Moreover, from the perspective of somatosensory effect, the heat dissipation effect of V20 is really fast, which is simply "cool".

It can be seen that the glory V20 can be described as "a show of wisdom". It not only highlights the cooperation between mobile phones and trendy brands, but also makes Glory V20 full of science and technology with nine evolved liquid cooling technologies.

Ultimate performance: Kirin 980

Glory v series has always been the performance responsibility of glory products, so on the glory V20, there is no doubt that this year's flagship SoC Kirin 980 is equipped. The biggest highlight of Kirin 980' s specification is that it adopts 7nm process and integrates 6.9 billion transistors. We know that the core factors that determine the performance of a processor are mainly technology, architecture and so on. The more advanced the technology, the higher the fineness of the processor, and more transistors can be integrated. More importantly, the finer manufacturing process can also reduce the distance between components as much as possible and reduce power consumption. Therefore, the number of 7nm and 6.9 billion transistors of Kirin 980 fully reflects the technical limit of Kirin 980.

In addition, Kirin 980 also took the lead in adopting Cortex A76 architecture, which increased by 75% compared with the previous generation Kirin 970, while the energy consumption increased by 58%. Moreover, this newly designed A76 CPU architecture consists of two super-large cores, two large cores and four small cores, and adopts DynamIQ scheduling technology, which can be used for inter-core collocation scheduling, and can flexibly schedule different cores for different usage scenarios, with higher execution efficiency.

In graphics processing, Kirin 980 adopts Mali-G76 MP 10, and the main frequency is 720MHz. Compared with the previous generation, Mali-G76 has improved the performance of unit power consumption and unit area, the performance density has increased by 30% compared with the previous generation Mali-G72, the architecture efficiency has increased by 30%, and the machine learning processing capacity has increased by 2.7 times. Not only these basic performances, Kirin 980 is also the first in the world to adopt dual-core NPU to realize AI scenes such as face recognition, object recognition, object detection, image segmentation and intelligent translation, and adopts a deeper network with higher accuracy. The computing power of AI is twice that of Kirin 980.

If the strongest Kirin chip is still suspected of "nonsense", we can say that this is the most undisputed Kirin 980 based on the flagship SoC. In the running test, Glory V20 will start the performance mode, Ann Bunny easily broke through 300,000 running points, Geekbench4 single-core 3,337 points and multi-core 9,988 points. On the GPU side, 3DMark scored 4233 points in OpenGL ES 3. 1 and 4433 points in Vulkan test environment. All the running scores are at the very top level at present.

Not only does it have high running performance, but it also brings an upgraded version of GPU Turbo 2.0 in Glory V20. By optimizing the backbone network of high network, single-ended multipath and aggregation acceleration are realized. In the WIFI environment, the system will intelligently choose the path with shorter delay for users to play games, thus realizing network delay optimization. In addition, thanks to the dual-core NPU of Kirin 980, Glory V20 has realized more accurate AI dynamic identification, further improved the performance of the mobile phone, kept the game running in a state close to the full frame, made the game screen more stable and smooth, intelligently learned the behaviors such as power consumption and load in the game scene, established a more accurate SoC energy efficiency model, optimized resource allocation and made more accurate load prediction.

In the actual test, we conducted the tests of "QQ Speeding" and "Surviving the Jedi: Stimulating the Battlefield" respectively.

It can be seen that the game with changing scenes such as QQ Speeding requires real-time rendering by GPU, which has a certain test on the graphic performance of mobile phones. In the game experience, AI touch intelligent scheduling based on Kirin 980 has been significantly applied, which is positive for left-right drift and various key combination operations, and the whole game experience is very good. (It is normal to lose frames at the end of the game)

For a game that tests its performance like eating chicken, Glory V20 can still run stably at almost full frame without fluctuation. The overall game experience is good.

Generally speaking, as the closing flagship of 20 18, the glory V20 has almost reached the strongest performance in the current smart phone. However, this is only part of the V20. ...

When the ultimate performance meets the ultimate technology

With the popularization of 4G and the commercialization of 802.11A/B/G/N/AC WiFi version, technological progress has also changed people's lifestyle. The user's application scene of mobile phone has changed from graphics to video, and the data throughput per unit time is getting higher and higher, and the required delay is getting lower and lower. However, in real life, due to the interference between frequency bands, busy congestion and other factors, data transmission delay and packet loss will inevitably occur, and a single network can not meet the needs of modern users for smart phones. So glory has insight into the actual needs of users. At present, the terminal has two communication modes, WIFI and LTE. If application clients such as video can use WIFI and LTE at the same time, this communication problem can be fundamentally solved through technology. This is the Link Turbine.

For a long time, when users use mobile phones, they either connect to Wifi or use traffic. However, as we said before, a single network cannot meet the current usage scenarios. Therefore, Glory has developed a system-level multi-access protocol: MP-ATP. The cellular network and Wi-Fi network based on mobile phone system can be connected at the same time, and the appropriate network can be intelligently selected to divert key data according to different scenarios when users use it. Under this protocol, mobile phones can use both Wi-Fi and cellular networks, and the same application can also use both Wi-Fi and cellular networks.

In addition, MP-UDP protocol is a protocol interface protocol that provides dual-path UDP message transmission. Its main application scenario is to realize stable and low-delay end-cloud transmission between the terminal and the service server through selective scheduling or dual-path redundant transmission in Wi-Fi/LTE. Among them, MP-ATP is a system-level protocol, which is not limited by cellular network and Wi-Fi version. In other words, MP-ATP can still play the same role even if cellular data is upgraded to 5G network and Wi-Fi is updated to the latest version in the future.

Generally speaking, MP-ATP includes two working modes: intelligent link shunting and intelligent link aggregation.

Intelligent link diversion is suitable for some scenes where tasks are completed quickly with less traffic, and scenes where foreground applications need high-quality networks in a short time. At the same time, different applications can use two kinds of networks respectively, thus bringing better experience. For example, in the past, our mobile phones could only use a single network. If we use Wi-Fi to download software or cache videos in the background, it is likely that the network will be blocked when Taobao or takeaway software is used in the foreground, and the pictures cannot be loaded, which will greatly affect the experience. Now glory has realized intelligent link shunting, so that different applications can use two networks at the same time. According to the business requirements and network quality of a single application, it can intelligently choose the appropriate network to shunt key data, which can ensure that cellular network data is used as little as possible under the condition of smooth business, and the problem of network congestion will never occur again.

Intelligent link aggregation is suitable for high-throughput business scenarios such as high-definition live broadcast and large-scale games, so that applications can establish different link connections through Wi-Fi and cellular networks at the same time. The protocol stack of mobile phone and server will distribute and aggregate data reasonably through Wi-Fi and cellular network according to the detected network quality, thus achieving higher throughput and ensuring low delay of key data. When we watch or broadcast live in high definition, under Wi-Fi and cellular networks, two links send and receive data at the same time, which can superimpose the transmission speeds of the two networks, and the theoretical speed can reach 90% of the sum of the two network speeds, so that the throughput can jump and the delay can be controlled at a very low level.

Through Link Turbo technology, HONOR broke through the limitation that smart phones can only use one communication network, and realized two innovative working modes: intelligent link shunting and intelligent link aggregation. Mobile phones can intelligently combine specific network usage scenarios and user habits, use cellular data and Wi-Fi communication modes at will, maximize the communication capabilities of mobile terminals, and ensure the low-latency and high-throughput transmission requirements of current rich applications.

Moreover, it is worth mentioning that Link Turbo is currently aimed at the combination of 4G+Wi-Fi. When 5G comes in the future, Link Turbo technology will be more dynamic: on the one hand, because MP-ATP protocol is a system-level protocol, 5G networks will also support it; On the other hand, the high throughput of 5G will definitely reduce the price of cellular data traffic. By then, applications that need high throughput and low latency can use the intelligent link aggregation technology in Link Turbo more freely, and can realize the superposition between 5G, 4G and Wi-fi networks, thus achieving a better network experience.

At present, Link Turbo supports iQiyi (Beijing only), Betta (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen only) and Crash 3 (PK mode between players only). At present, the engineering machine we use does not have the function of Link Turbo, and HOTA will be upgraded in subsequent versions. We will conduct further detailed tests in the future.

Not only Link Turbo, but also Glory V20 still supports AI dual-band GPS, and uses self-developed Hi 1 103 chips instead of directly integrating the existing resources of suppliers. It can also be seen that glory's attitude towards technology is rigorous and innovative.

GPS is the most commonly used function on our mobile phones. Taxi, navigation and WeChat location all need to be realized by mobile phone GPS. GPS positioning depends on the time of signal transmission from satellite to ground receiver to determine the specific location of mobile phone. Prior to this, mobile phones only supported (1575.42MHz)L 1 single frequency band. The GPS we used before was the conventional L 1 frequency band, while the dual-frequency GPS adopted by V20 added the L5 frequency band of 1 176.75MHz to help positioning. Because the ionosphere has different effects on L 1 and L5 band signals, dual-frequency GPS equipment can eliminate the errors caused by ionosphere by comparing the time delays of the two signals through algorithms. Between tall buildings, because the bandwidth of L5-band GPS signal is 10 times that of L 1, the signal waveform of L5-band is narrow, and the direct and reflected signals are not easy to produce superposition effect, so the mobile phone can identify the direct signal more accurately. Moreover, glory has also added HiGeo 2.0 tight coupling algorithm to make the navigation trajectory accurate and continuous without losing points. By identifying the weak signals of tunnels and overhead lines, HiGeo 2.0 tight coupling technology is adopted to reduce the navigation loss rate.

Photo test: 48 million AI HD photography

Glory V20 uses 48 million Sony IMX586 sensors, 1/2.0 inch super-large sensor size, four-in-one color filter for pixels and four times hardware HDR. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the pixel arrangement of IMX586 adopts Quad Bayer array, and four pixels can be used for light perception in dark environment, which is equivalent to the shooting ability of a single pixel with the size of1.6 μ m-12 million pixels.

Moreover, thanks to the support of Kirin 980 for taking photos, the dual ISP can improve the pixel throughput by 46% compared with the previous generation, and can adjust the color and gray level of images in different regions. In addition, based on the powerful image processing capability of dual-core NPU, Glory has realized the ultra-clear optimization of 48 million AI, and combined with the dynamic range adjustment technology of AI HDR, it has brought the potential of Sony IMX586 to the extreme. (Subsequent upgrades will also support AI ultra-clear optimization)

In this set of proofs, thanks to the natural and good foundation of IMX586, the V20 is superior to another domestic flagship machine in picture brightness. And the color saturation is higher, and the picture is cleaner and more transparent.

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In this set of proofs, we can clearly see the powerful advantage of 48 million pixels. For the very detailed instructions on the map, it can still be clearly photographed, which is blurred compared with competing products.

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It can be seen that the performance of IMX586 is really outstanding. Its natural good quality and the support of the post-glory algorithm further enhance the color performance in the photos of Glory V20, and the blurred part of the picture is also very natural.

In terms of night scenes, Glory V20 supports AIS handheld super night scenes. Through AIS hand-held super night scene, light detection and anti-shake processing, AI images are more Zhang Hecheng. It can be clearly seen that after turning on the AIS handheld super night scene, more picture information will be obtained, and the noise control in the dark part is still excellent.

Magic UI 2.0. 1:

Glory V20 is equipped with Magic UI 2.0. 1, and our engineering machine is a joint model of moschino. When it comes to the Italian brand Moschino, the first thing that comes to mind is the cute teddy bear, the classic double question mark LOGO, and the designer name Moschino in bold and capital letters. In the glory V20 joint model, the designer chose these two most classic symbols, and combined them with the designer's name Moschino in bold and uppercase to design two pre-installed themes.

Whether it's a cute teddy bear or a classic double question mark, V20 is full of trend.

Full-screen gestures added for full screen are also very useful. Not only does it support sliding back to the desktop and hovering to enter multi-tasks, but it is also convenient to slide inward on both sides of the screen to complete the return. The whole over animation becomes more dynamic.

In addition, the application adaptation of the V20 charm full screen has also caused discussion. Some people think that it will not be symmetrical in the upper left corner, and digging a black hole on the screen will not affect the experience. In fact, if you recall, the camera position of most mobile phones is not in the middle of the screen, but on both sides of the receiver. On the left side, it is also easier to be ignored by users, which ensures the overall sense of the screen to the greatest extent.

Secondly, the camera below the glory V20 screen is located on the left side of the signal bar in the upper left corner of the screen, which perfectly avoids the core area of the screen display. Through our actual measurement, whether watching Tik Tok vertically or playing games horizontally, it will not hinder the view and affect the operation.

Of course, with the built-in Magic UI, Glory V20 naturally supports intelligent life body YOYO. By recording the user's own exclusive voiceprint, YOYO can identify your voiceprint and execute your request. Thanks to the glorious noise reduction technology, MIC noise reduction technology can still distinguish the ambient sound and accurately identify the user's voice even in the disturbed voice environment.

Just like this, when you are driving, YOYO can automatically turn on the driving mode (by voice or by connecting to the car Bluetooth), listen to the user's voice at any time, and be hands-free all the time, which saves the driver from manually operating the mobile phone and avoids potential safety hazards. Based on the two-level deep neural network algorithm, YOYO has built-in 20 wake-up free words such as navigation, music and communication. The user directly said that the mobile phone can do it directly without unnecessary actions.

In addition, YOYO can also intelligently identify things, supporting 42 kinds of cats, 175 kinds of dogs, celebrities with encyclopedias, 3000+ medium-sized cars, and flowers supporting 20000+ categories, which is very convenient for both identifying things and subsequent shopping.

Battery life and charging:

This time, the glory V20 uses a 4000mAh large-capacity battery. For such a full-screen mobile phone with a 6.4-inch screen and a liquid-cooled heat dissipation product, such power is really not small. It can be seen that the glory V20 optimizes the internal space design. In terms of battery life, the 4000mAh battery does have an advantage. After nearly half a day of heavy testing, the glory V20 still has more than 50% power. After comprehensive use, for ordinary users, it is basically no problem to use it all day.

In terms of charging, Glory V20 supports super fast charging with a maximum of 4.5V/5A and a maximum of 22.5W We measured that the peak charging power of Glory V20 can reach 2 1.7W, and the conversion rate is very high. It can be charged from 0% to 50% in 32 minutes. The biggest significance of fast charging is to make full use of debris time. If you use the V20, you forget to charge it when you sleep at night, and you can clean it for half an hour before you get up in the morning, which can ensure that you have at least half a day's worry-free battery life.

Summary:

With the promotion of consumption upgrading, the competition in the mobile phone industry has shifted from manufacturing to "intelligent manufacturing". How to avoid homogenization has become the primary proposition that all brands are trying to solve, so technological innovation has become particularly important at present. In the glory V20, six technologies, namely GPU Turbo 2.0, THE NINE liquid cooling, YOYO smart life, Link Turbo, 48 million AI ultra-clear photos and full-screen charm, are integrated at one time. Any one of these six technical lists is enough as a flagship standard. Glory put them all on one mobile phone at a time. This insatiable and "qualified" attitude directly redefines the "standards" that flagship machine should have at this stage.

If 20 18 is the year of glory technology, then glory V20 is the best summary of glory to 20 18.