However, this situation has finally changed on Lenovo Z5 Pro: sliding full screen and screen fingerprint recognition have appeared, and the polished Snapdragon 636 has also evolved to Snapdragon 7 10, and the price is only 1998 yuan, which has become synonymous with "real fragrance".
Lenovo is trying to launch a new round of offensive to the market with stronger products, but can Z5 Pro take on the heavy responsibility? Let's talk about it in detail next.
95.06% ultra-high screen ratio
The most interesting thing about Lenovo Z5 Pro is its appearance-the front is almost entirely a screen, and the screen ratio has exceeded 95%.
According to official data, the left and right borders of Z5 Pro are only 2.07 mm. In order to reduce the upper border at the same time, Z5 Pro directly cancels the opening of the telephone receiver at the top, moves the light sensor to the lower left corner of the chin, and changes the breathing light to the bottom, which greatly simplifies the upper border, keeps it consistent with the left and right borders by 2.07 mm, and better matches the transition of R angle visually.
However, the improvement of aesthetics indirectly compromises practicality. For example, when answering the phone, you must slide the slider to call out the receiver, and the system will remind the user to slide the phone on the dialing interface, which is more troublesome than the ordinary full-screen mode and takes time to adapt.
As for the chin, Z5 Pro bent the IC chip stuck on the screen to the back by COF process, and canceled the 3.5mm headphone jack, which successfully reduced the chin width to 4.98mm, greatly weakening the visual presence.
Focus on this screen, Samsung's AMOLED screen, 6.39 inches, resolution 2340X 1080, aspect ratio 19.5: 9, maximum brightness of 600 nits, support DCI-P3 wide color gamut, transparent and gorgeous colors, comfortable look and feel, and the overall quality is in the lead at 2000 yuan, so there is nothing to be picky about. When you wake up the phone, all you can see is the screen, which has a great visual impact.
On the back of the fuselage, Lenovo Z5 Pro uses curved glass with large radian. Although some people complain that its thickness of 9.3mm is too exaggerated, the solid grip and large curvature coincide with the palm of your hand, which well offsets the discomfort caused by the thickness of the fuselage and brings a solid and steady feel.
See also full-screen sliding.
Similar to the previously released Xiaomi MIX 3 and Glory Magic2, Lenovo Z5 Pro also chose the sliding cover structure, which hides the front camera, infrared camera, earpiece, infrared light and other components through the mechanical structure, and can slide out manually when necessary.
It is worth mentioning that the front earpiece is also a speaker, which can be linked with the speaker at the bottom when sliding out to realize stereo playback. Z5 Pro also supports Dolby Atmos technology, which makes the sound more stereoscopic and vivid, and enhances the immersion of watching movies.
In the internal structure, Lenovo Z5 Pro adopts a six-position guide rail with double helix power, which is more similar to Magic2. It mainly relies on springs to provide power, with refreshing sliding feel and moderate feedback. According to Lenovo's introduction, this slide rail design can offset the deviation to the greatest extent, making the slide cover more closely connected with the host and not easy to loosen. In terms of reliability, this slide rail also has a service life of 300,000 times. If you slide 100 times a day, the Z5 Pro can be used for more than 8 years, far exceeding the replacement cycle, so we can use it with confidence.
Lenovo hopes to make the sliding screen a new way of interaction. Z5 Pro can customize a variety of quick sliding screen operations, such as sliding screen answering and callback, automatically answering WeChat and QQ voice, and changing camera settings.
Screen fingerprint +ZUI 10, the experience needs to be optimized.
Lenovo Z5 Pro comes standard with off-screen fingerprint technology, which is the cheapest off-screen fingerprint model at present. Similar to other models on the market, the screen fingerprint of the Z5 Pro is also located in the lower area of the screen. The optical fingerprint sensor is hidden under the glass cover, and relies on the light source provided by the AMOLED screen to draw the fingerprint image by sensing the different reflections of light on the finger surface, so as to accurately identify it.
According to the actual experience, Lenovo Z5 Pro often needs to be pressed to unlock, and the recognition rate and speed are still far behind the industry leading level. At the same time, Z5 Pro only supports bright screen unlocking, and the screen must be lit when it is still. In order to improve the efficiency, it is suggested to raise your hand to brighten the screen for daily use, which saves the trouble of brightening the screen.
On the system, Lenovo Z5 Pro is pre-installed with ZUI 10 system. In the actual experience, its fluency and hand grip have been significantly improved compared with the previous ZUI, and at the same time, some changes have been made in the UI interface, making the style more fresh and lively.
In terms of functions, ZUI 10 adds 4D U-touch, which supports shaking the phone and tapping the screen to quickly open software applications. The system has learning ability. By learning user habits, it can intelligently predict user behavior, thus preloading corresponding resources and avoiding applications.
In addition, Lenovo Z5 Pro adopts infrared face recognition, which significantly improves the speed and success rate of unlocking at night. However, because the corresponding lens module is hidden under the sliding screen structure, it must slide out before use, which requires getting used to it.
What's more, Lenovo Z5 Pro supports NFC, and has already supported Alipay's Beijing bus card recharge and JD.COM and Meituan's China UnionPay Express Service, and promised to support 2 10 cities nationwide to use NFC bus card functions before the end of the year.
Imaging is a hard injury
In terms of imaging, Lenovo Z5 Pro has a rear dual camera with16 million+24 million pixels, all of which have a large aperture of f/ 1.8. The main camera16 megapixel corresponds to Sony IMX5 19 sensor, and the unit pixel area is 1.22μm, which supports dual-pixel focusing. Another 20-megapixel sub-camera is Sony IMX576, which supports 4-in-1 pixel in low light, increasing the unit pixel area to 1.8μm, and increasing the light input, thus improving the night shooting effect.
Let's take a look at the proofs.
Lenovo Z5 Pro has a heavy smear during daytime shooting, and it also has obvious noise after zooming in, and its performance is not up to standard.
When shooting at night, after turning on the night scene mode, relying on Sony IMX576, the brightness and details of the picture have been slightly improved, but the smear feeling is still the same, and the overall level is obviously different from the products of the same price, which needs to be optimized later.
On the front camera, Lenovo Z5 Pro is equipped with16 megapixel+8 megapixel infrared camera. The infrared camera can capture the depth information of the face, so as to obtain the three-dimensional information of the face and realize micro plastic surgery, such as big eyes, thin face and rhinoplasty.
Snapdragon 7 10, a reliable choice.
In terms of hardware configuration, Lenovo Z5 Pro is equipped with Snapdragon 7 10 mobile platform, which is the flagship product of Qualcomm after 800 series. Using 10nm technology, the core design of Kryo 360 architecture includes two performance cores with 2.2Ghz frequency and six energy efficiency cores with 1.7Ghz, which supports DynamIQ technology, making the scheduling more comfortable and improving the system energy efficiency.
In terms of graphic performance, Snapdragon 7 10 adopts Adreno 6 16 visual processing subsystem, and is equipped with Hexagon 685 DSP of the same model as Snapdragon 845. By integrating the multi-core artificial intelligence engine AI Engine, Hexagon DSP with Adreno visual processing subsystem and Kryo CPU, the recognition ability of images and sounds has been significantly improved.
In addition, the Z5 Pro is equipped with 6GB storage for Snapdragon 7 10, with a built-in 3350mAh battery, which supports fast charging up to 18W, which is enough for daily use.
Lenovo Z5 Pro, a quality product of conscience?
Returning to the domestic market, Lenovo is committed to creating "excellent products with conscience". The so-called "conscience" refers to a high degree of cost performance, while "excellent product" refers to the balance of product strength, easy to use and easy to use. From these two perspectives, the Z5 Pro has the ultimate full-screen design, screen fingerprint recognition and practical Snapdragon 7 10, and the price starts from 1998 yuan, so it is definitely a conscience to push the price of the full-screen model with sliding cover to 1,000 yuan.
However, as far as "excellent products" are concerned, Lenovo Z5 Pro is still a little short of time, and its system, fingerprint identification and imaging have some room for optimization. It is hoped that Lenovo will continue to improve through firmware upgrade in the later period, making the Z5 Pro a veritable "excellent product with conscience", giving support in production capacity, and not keeping fans waiting for too long.