Teach you how to choose the right basic model: Charm Blue 6 vs Red Rice Note5A

IT 168 evaluation for entry-level users often requires high cost performance of mobile phones and is particularly sensitive to price, and many mobile phone manufacturers also attach great importance to the development of their "basic" entry-level products. Meizu released the "basic" product Charm Blue 6 at a price of 699 yuan, which once again ignited the topic of entry-level products. At present, entry-level users may consider Charm Blue 6 or Redmi products more when choosing mobile phones. The high-end version of Charm Blue 6 is very close to the reconfiguration and pricing of Red Rice Note5A. Today, let's compare Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A to see which one is more worth buying.

▲ Charm Blue 6 Contrast Red Rice Note5A

Charm Blue 6 High Edition and Red Rice Note5A are both 3GB of memory, both of which are entry-level products, priced at 899 yuan. There are many similarities between the two mobile phones, and the market positioning is similar. It can be said that they are two ideal "basic" entry-level products with a price of 899 yuan, which are mainly aimed at students and entry-level users with a small budget to create cost-effective entry-level products.

Comparison of parameters between Charm Blue 6 (High Edition) and Red Rice Note5A (High Edition)

Mobile phone model

Charm blue 6

Red rice Note5A

screen size

5.2 inch 2.5D glass

5.5 inch 2.5D glass

resolution ratio

1280x720

1280x720

processor

MediaTek MT6750

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435

frequency

Eight nuclear 1.5GHz

Eight nuclear 1.4GHz

Body memory

32GB

32GB

Random access memory

3GB

3GB

Main camera

13 million, F/2.2 RGBW

13 million, F/2.2 PDAF

front-facing camera

8 million, F/2.0, support beauty

160,000, F/2.0, supporting beauty

Fuselage size

148.2x72.8x8.3mm

153 x 76.2 x 7.7 mm

Fuselage weight

143g

153g

battery

3070 mah

3080 mah

Fuselage color

Silver/black/blue/gold

Gold/powder/ashes

operating system

Flyme6

MIUI8

Network standard

Mobile/Unicom/Telecom

Mobile/Unicom/Telecom

price

899 yuan

899 yuan

In terms of hardware configuration, Charm Blue 6 adopts MT6750 processor and Red Rice Note5A adopts Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor. As for who performed better, let's talk about it later. We can only say that Charm Blue 6 still uses the usual MediaTek processor, while Red Rice Note5A also chooses the low-end entry-level processor from Qualcomm. Both phones use 3GB of memory and provide 32GB of body storage, which is quite enough for entry-level users. If there is not enough space, you can expand the memory through the SD card.

▲ Red Rice Note5A/ Charm Blue 6

The biggest difference between Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A is the mobile phone screen. Charm Blue 6 uses a 5.2-inch 720P screen, Red Rice Note5A uses a 5.5-inch 720P screen, and Red Rice Note5A has a slightly larger screen. Of course, under the same resolution, the bigger the screen, the less PPI, and the picture is not as delicate as the small screen. As for the camera, Charm Blue 6 provides a130,000 pixel main camera and an 8 million pixel front camera, while Red Rice Note5A provides a130,000 pixel main camera and a160,000 pixel front camera. In terms of battery, Charm Blue 6 uses 3070mAh battery, and Red Rice Note5A uses 3080mAh battery. The difference between 10mAh can be regarded as the same capacity, and neither mobile phone supports fast charging. Both mobile phones support dual cards and dual standby to support full netcom, and the price is also 899 yuan. How to choose is really difficult for many entry-level users.

For Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A, we compare them in terms of appearance, system, performance, battery life and taking photos to see which "basic model" can do better and which mobile phone is more worth choosing.

Charm Blue 6/ Red Rice Note5A Appearance Comparison:

▲ Left: Red Rice Note5A/ Right: Charm Blue 6

Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A are common frontal designs, which are also family facial designs of Meizu and Redmi. In terms of measurements, Charm Blue 6 is 148.2x72.8x8.3mm, and Red Rice Note5A is/kloc-0 152x76.2x7.7mm Because Red Rice Note5A uses a 5.5-inch screen, its body size is slightly larger and its body thickness is higher than Charm Blue.

▲ Left: Red Rice Note5A/ Right: Charm Blue 6

▲ Left: Red Rice Note5A/ Right: Charm Blue 6

The back covers of Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A are made of polycarbonate, and both of them are treated with similar metallic texture. Charm Blue 6 adopts NCVM vacuum coating technology, and metal-like lines are added up and down behind the fuselage to make the whole machine look metallic. The Logo on the back of Charm Blue 6 adopts 3D laser engraving technology, and the Logo looks even cooler. Red rice Note5A has a similar processing technology, but the processing texture of metal wire and Logo is obviously not as good as Charm Blue 6.

▲ Left: Red Rice Note5A/ Right: Charm Blue 6

In terms of feel, the screen of Charm Blue 6 is only 5.2 inches, and the back cover of Charm Blue 6 is more rounded and feels excellent. 5.5 inches may be more convenient for female users with small hands to operate with one hand. Red rice Note5A uses a 5.5-inch screen, which is larger and the visual experience may be better. Feel slightly inferior to Charm Blue 6, 5.5 inch one-handed operation may be difficult for users with small hands.

▲ Left: Red Rice Note5A/ Right: Charm Blue 6

Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A both provide fingerprint identification, but the fingerprint identification schemes are different. Charm Blue 6 adopts front fingerprint identification, and Red Rice Note5A provides a rear fingerprint identification scheme. As for which scheme works, this is still a matter of opinion. I prefer the pre-fingerprint scheme of Charm Blue 6, because the HOME key integrates fingerprint recognition in the pre-fingerprint, which is more convenient to operate.

▲ Left: Red Rice Note5A/ Right: Charm Blue 6

In terms of buttons, Charm Blue 6 adopts Meizu's mTouch HOME button, which provides the function of HOME button and also supports the function of touching the back, and also integrates fingerprint recognition to make Charm Blue 6' s chin position more concise. Red Rice Note5A adopts the traditional three-point touch button design, provides background, HOME and back buttons, and has no LED backlight. Although the simple line design is adopted, it is difficult to hide the complicated chin position design.

▲ Left: Red Rice Note5A/ Right: Charm Blue 6

On the forehead of the mobile phone, you can see that Charm Blue 6 has three openings, which integrates distance sensing and light sensing, while Red Rice Note5A has four openings on its forehead, and the openings are not small. The size of the circular openings is close to twice that of Charm Blue 6, so this design is naturally not as good-looking as Charm Blue 6.

▲ Down: Red Rice Note5A/ Up: Charm Blue 6

Red rice Note5A provides infrared remote control function. This infrared remote control function is quite practical. You can control home appliances through the mobile app. A mobile phone can replace all the remote controls at home, which is more convenient to use, while Charm Blue 6 has no infrared remote control function.

Comparison of Charm Blue 6/ Red Rice Note5A System

▲ left: Flyme6/ right: MIUI8

Meizu's Flyme and Xiaomi's MIUI can be said to be two well-used deep customization systems in China. Charm Blue's Flyme6 and Xiaomi's MIUI8 both rose to the bottom of android 7.0, bringing more functions and many improvements in power saving. Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A use these two excellent deep customization systems, and the UI of the system will not be discussed too much here. The UI design of Flyme and MIUI is excellent, and the UI design can be said to be half a catty, each with its own strengths. Now let's discuss some points that users pay attention to the system.

▲ Left: Charm Blue 6 pre-installed with 6 apps/Right: Red Rice Note5A pre-installed 10 apps.

Pre-installing app on mobile phones is a problem that puzzles users. Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A pre-installed some apps on their mobile phones. Some of these apps may be apps that users need, and some users may not need them. It can be seen that Charm Blue 6 is pre-installed with 6 apps, and Red Rice Note5A is pre-installed with 10 apps. There are not many pre-installed apps on the two mobile phones, and these pre-installed apps can be uninstalled.

▲ Left: Charm Blue 6 Boot Memory Remaining 1.8G/ Right: Redmi Note5A Boot Memory Remaining1.6g.

Memory management often reflects the excellence of a system. Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A both use 3GB of memory, which may be enough for an entry-level mobile phone, but it may bring a smoother experience when actually used. We will restore the phone to the factory design, without installing any APP, restart the phone and see how much memory there is after the phone is turned on. You can see that Charm Blue 6 has 1.8GB memory left after booting, and Red Rice Note5A has 1.6GB memory left.

▲ Left: Charm Blue 6 Remaining Memory/Right: Redmi Note5A Remaining Memory

In addition, we have installed some commonly used mobile apps on our mobile phones, and run ten commonly used mobile apps such as WeChat, QQ, Netease News, Taobao, Weibo, Baidu Map, Public Comment, JD.COM, Xiami Music and Youku. Let's see how much memory the phone has. You can look at it the other way around (why the other way around? Because the memory mechanism of the Android system will kill some processes running in the background in advance, reducing the memory occupation.) After running this 10 mobile app, the memory of Charm Blue 6 is 8 1 1MB, and the memory of Red Rice Note5A is 794MB. After running the 10 application, there is little difference in the remaining memory between the two phones, mainly using Android 7. 1.

▲ Charm Blue 6 has several built-in advertisements.

▲ Red Rice Note5A has a special advertising page.

The problem of built-in advertising in mobile phone system has been puzzling users, and even MIUI has been dubbed ADUI by netizens. Let's take a look at the built-in advertisements of Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A. We turn on the three built-in functions of time, calendar and weather of Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A, respectively. We can see that both mobile phones have some advertisements more or less, but Red Rice Note5A hides the advertisement information in the next menu. Users only need to click the corresponding options to enter a page that is almost full of advertisements.

▲ Left: Charm Blue 6 turned on for half an hour without notice/Right: Red Rice Note5A turned on for half an hour without notice.

Another advertising problem is that after the mobile phone network is stationary for a period of time, you will find a bunch of advertisements pushed in the drop-down notification bar. Similarly, reset Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A, connect the mobile phone to wifi, close the screen, let it stand for half an hour, and see how many messages there are in the drop-down notification bar after half an hour. It can be seen that Charm Blue 6 has no push information, Red Rice Note5A has three push information, and the situation of Red Rice Note5A is slightly more serious. Charm Blue 6' s Flyme6 system provides intelligent notification management function, which can hide unwanted push information according to users' reading habits.

Performance Comparison of Charm Blue 6/ Red Rice Note5A

▲ Mobile phone information: Left: Charm Blue 6/ Right: Red Rice Note5A

Charm Blue 6 adopts MediaTek's MT6750 processor, which is also a relatively mature product. It has eight A53 cores, the core frequency is 1.5GHz, and the Mali-M860 GPU is integrated. Charm Blue 6 High Edition provides 3GB storage. Red Rice Note5A uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor, also has eight A53 cores, the core frequency is 1.4GHz, and it integrates Adreno 505 GPU. Red Rice Note5A also has 3GB of memory.

▲ Ann Bunny Test: Left: Charm Blue 6/ Right: Red Rice Note5A

Through the Ann Bunny test, we can see that Charm Blue 6 scored 40076 points and Red Rice Note5A scored 45549 points, with a difference of 5000 points. The difference is mainly in 3D performance. The MT6750 integrated GPU used by Charm Blue 6 is weaker than Red Rice Note5A, but there is little difference in CPU computing power between the two phones.

▲GeekBench test: Left: Charm Blue 6/ Right: Red Rice Note5A

Using GeekBench to test the CPU performance of Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A, we can see that the single-core CPU performance of Charm Blue 6 is about 500 points lower than that of Red Rice Note5A, but the multi-core performance test gap has narrowed.

▲3Dmark test: left: Charm Blue 6/ right: Red Rice Note5A

The 3D performance of MT6750 for Charm Blue 6 is really a weakness. It can be seen that there is a certain gap between Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A after 3Dmark test. In actual use, the 3D performance of the two mobile phones is enough to cope with some popular online games, but it will be a bit difficult for the two mobile phones to run large 3D games.

▲PCmark test: left: Charm Blue 6/ right: Red Rice Note5A

The PCmakr test mainly tests the comprehensive performance of performance, with Charm Blue 6 scoring 3440 and Red Rice Note5A scoring 3757, and the performance is relatively close. However, Qualcomm processor has certain advantages in CPU memory scheduling, which also directly improves the test scores. For daily use, Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A can meet some daily use requirements, so don't worry about insufficient performance.

Charm Blue 6/ Red Rice Note5A battery life comparison

▲ Endurance test: Left: Charm Blue 6/ Right: Red Rice Note5A

We use PCmark to test the endurance of Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A. Charm Blue 6 uses a battery of 3070mAh, and the endurance test runs from 100% to 20%, which requires 5 similarities and 25 points. Red rice Note5A uses 3080mAh battery, and the test takes 6 hours and 8 minutes. The difference between the two phones is 43 minutes. The actual battery life is not much different. The power of about 3000mAh should not be a problem for a whole day. Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A do not support fast charging, so the charging time is relatively long, so it is reasonable that entry-level mobile phones are not equipped with fast charging.

Photo Comparison of Charm Blue 6/ Red Rice Note5A

▲ Left: Charm Blue 6/ Right: Red Rice Note5A

Charm Blue 6 uses a13 megapixel camera on the camera hardware, uses Sony IMX278 RGBW sensor, supports F/2.2 aperture, and has a single pixel1.2μ m. The fill light is still a double color temperature fill light. The official of Red Rice Note5A did not specify what sensor to use. Red Rice Note5A provides a130000 pixel camera with an aperture of F/2.2, which supports PDAF phase focusing.

▲ Charm Blue 6 proofs

▲ Red Rice Note5A proofs

▲ Charm Blue 6 proofs

▲ Red Rice Note5A proofs

▲ Charm Blue 6 proofs

▲ Red Rice Note5A proofs

From these three sets of proofs, it can be seen that Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A have excellent photo quality and similar photo effects in a well-lit environment, but the color of Red Rice Note5A is warmer and the picture is yellow, while Charm Blue 6 is closer to the real color.

▲ Charm Blue 6 proofs

▲ Red Rice Note5A proofs

▲ Charm Blue 6 proofs

▲ Red Rice Note5A proofs

The photo performance of the two mobile phones in backlight is not excellent. It can be seen that both mobile phones are more or less inaccurate, but Charm Blue 6 has a slightly better effect, the picture is relatively bright and some details are better.

▲ Charm Blue 6 proofs

▲ Red Rice Note5A proofs

▲ Charm Blue 6 proofs

▲ Red Rice Note5A proofs

▲ Charm Blue 6 proofs

▲ Red Rice Note5A proofs

Taking pictures in low light environment, Charm Blue 6 performs better than Red Rice Note5A, with better picture details and higher picture brightness. Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A have little difference in camera performance. Both mobile phones perform very well in a well-lit environment, but in a backlight and low-light environment, the performance of both mobile phones is not ideal, but Charm Blue 6 performs better than Red Rice Note5A.

Comparative Summary of Charm Blue 6/ Red Rice Note5A

By comparison, it can be seen that Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A are both excellent. As a representative of the hundred-dollar machine, Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A are both good choices for entry-level mobile phones. On the whole, Charm Blue 6 performs better than Red Rice Note5A, mainly because it has better design, system and camera performance. The performance and battery life of the two mobile phones are quite close, and the performance can meet the needs of most entry-level users, so don't worry about insufficient performance.

▲ Red Rice Note5A/ Charm Blue 6

Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer choices of 100-yuan mobile phones, and there are only a handful of mobile phone brands that can persist in making 100-yuan mobile phones. Charm Blue and Redmi are one of them. Charm Blue 6 and Red Rice Note5A, as representatives of 100-yuan mobile phones, have excellent performance in design and performance, and the kind price also makes these two mobile phones have high cost performance. Back to the question of how to choose, Charm Blue 6 has a better comprehensive performance than Red Rice Note5A. Charm Blue 6 is really a good choice if there is no rigid requirement for screen size. If you must have a 5.5-inch screen, choose Red Rice Note5A.