360N5 depth experience cost-effective bubble under the abyss?

Speaking, I can be considered an old user of the 360 ​​mobile phone. Last year, the 360 ​​that completed the brand remodeling brought three outstanding performance products: F4, N4, and N4S. “The 360N4S is very sincere in packaging accessories, design, detail workmanship and hardware configuration, and stands out in thousands of mobile phones. "This is a comment given after I experienced N4S.

Now, with the Xiaolong 653 processor and 6GB of large memory, the 360N5 once again launched an attack on the title of “Thousand Flagship”. Although the lowest price came to 1399 yuan, 360N5 still has the price advantage unmatched by the same price phone. However, insisting on cost-effectiveness also necessarily means giving up and making compromises in certain other areas.

The first feeling of getting out of the box, 360N5 did not have the kind of surprise that the previous 360N4S brought me.

For cost considerations, the plastic lining used on the 360N4S returned to ordinary paper packaging. The elegant red flat data cable was also replaced with a simple white data cable. Even the specifications of the manual and the warranty card were reduced. As a non-flagship mobile phone, this configuration is understandable, but compared to the previous generation 360N4S really shouted some. Moreover, 360N5 is even more expensive.

The overall layout of the back of the mobile phone is also consistent with the 360N4S, but the metal-one body design that originally gave me an eye-catching look replaced the three-piece design of the splicing. 360N5's metal fuselage, in fact, only contains a central area of ​​the fuselage, the upper and lower ends with the entire phone box, are plastic material, it is incredible retrogression.

The 5.5-inch 1080P resolution screen shows a very good display. The 2.5D arc glass touch and the black border control of the BM area of ​​the screen also maintain the high level of the 360 ​​mobile phone.

From the perspective of visual perception, 360N5 this screen belongs to the kind of more natural, it will not be particularly gorgeous, but not to mention glamorous. The system settings also provide custom options for displaying effects, which the user can set according to their preferences.

Due to the limitations of the body technology, 360N5's side lines appear to be more complicated, but fortunately the details of the treatment is fairly good, the impact on the grip feel is not great, the plastic frame feel even better than the metal body . The use of horizontal drawing oxidation of the metal back plate, can also be considered to make up for the lack of some of the value of mobile phones.

The metal and plastic splicing is too rough, the high-light T-slots are filthy, and the USB Type-C interface is still not used. This is where I think the 360N5 is a shame in appearance.

From the hardware configuration point of view, 360N5 is indeed reached the Android mobile camp "second flagship" level. Xiaolong 653 processor + 6GB memory program, and Samsung C9 Pro, vivo X9 Plus, OPPOR9s Plus exactly the same, and their prices are up and down 3,000 yuan.

For the 360N5 of only 1399 yuan, it is precisely this market that you want to shake.

Judging from the daily experience, the 360N5 will not appear to be a common case of the thousands of machines, and the 6GB of memory can handle the extreme scenes of the application. However, it should be noted that the memory specifications of the LPDDR3 used in the 360N5 and the bandwidth of data transmission are limited. It is very important to properly view the relationship between the memory capacity and the memory speed. Knowing that there is such a problem: Android phone use 6GB memory is very practical or excess performance? The number one answer is the answer from the 360 ​​mobile phone: there is no problem of “overcapacity” in the mobile phone memory. With the increase in the mainstream memory specifications of mobile phones, the demand for memory for software is skyrocketing. "Taking the example of Wechat we are most familiar with, from iterations of version 2.3 to version 6.5, WeChat's memory usage has increased from 30M to 227M, a full increase of more than 6 times." As for whether this is for 360 to promote N5, Well-designed fishing issues are left for everyone to judge.

All in all, I very much recognize the performance of the 360N5. Whether it is the daily use of WeChat microblogging or the gaming experience of "The King of Honor", it makes me feel good value for money. It is very tempting to allocate 6GB of memory to the whole line, but the low-grade version of 32GB storage may face the risk of insufficient storage space, I personally prefer to buy the high-grade version of 64GB storage.

Put 360N5 running scores on Geekbench4, Ann Bunny and Master Lu. Students who like to run the test can make their own judgment.

360N5 uses 360OS 2.0 system, based on Android6.0 customization, compared with 360N4S little change. "Before 360F4, the 360OS gave me a feeling naive and ugly. However, after the upgrade to version 2.0, the system aesthetics of the 360OS has been a qualitative leap." This is written in the 360N4S evaluation, and it is here. Still suitable.

See this full screen application? The first time the 360N5 is turned on, it is such a scene that is presented to the user. I probably counted a total of 23 pre-installed third-party applications, this does not include the various 360OS wonderful features that are placed in the "black technology" folder. Even the input method, 360OS has installed two "hands" and "Xinfei" for you. Is it very "intimate"?

I think that as the software overlord of the PC era, I am afraid that 360 has not put down the product thinking in the traditional era, and always wanted to give more users. However, as everyone knows, the mobile internet era needs user thinking. When other manufacturers are trying to subtract their own operating systems, it is not a good idea to desperately load things.

360 security guards, 360 mobile assistants, 360 browsers, these PC era familiar products, all want to occupy their own territory in the 360OS. A good drop-down notification bar, 360 security guards dug a piece, I want to stay in; 360 browser dug a piece, I also want to stay, I still have to show the weather; 360 mobile assistant dug a piece, I TM must also be resident ......

There is no separate application market, 360 mobile assistants both assume the role of the download application, but also has the news, hot spots and mobile phone optimization capabilities, then this with the 360 ​​browser, 360 security guards, what is the difference? What is even more infuriating is that ubiquitous advertising and promotion have exposed 360's rogue properties. Through the 360 ​​mobile assistant download QQ, ranking first, actually is a software called "fast about love". I really want to greet the 360OS product manager.

As for the three major interactive features of 360N5, Transform, FastZone, and Infinity, I prefer to think that they are the basic functions of a "productized" system. Everything is like a single application that is placed on the desktop. Transform is equivalent to the task bar of the PC era, providing a quick switch to the background application area on the side of the phone, but it can't implement the interaction between background applications like One Step, and can only be used for application switching. So what is the difference between this and the Android system's own background management, is to replace the card with an icon? FastZone can add specific applications for memory protection, the system will not clean up the process of these applications, so you can achieve the specified application's quick start, not to speed up the application's own startup speed, just because FastZone makes these applications in the background resident. So what's the difference between this and the Android system's built-in background locking? Is it a separate application app? Infinity is even more boring to the extreme, and it is crowned with "creative". Originally, we hoped that the application would be more open to better distinguish between work and life. That would be enough. Now you say that 360OS can open 100 WeChat accounts at the same time. So what does this mean for ordinary users?

Daytime imaging is the normal level of a thousand-dollar mobile phone. The camera startup speed, focusing speed, and imaging speed are acceptable. White balance, resolving power, and color reproduction are also not a big problem. However, the phenomenon of underexposure is generally seen on the screen. It is not easy to see through the screen preview of the mobile phone, but it will be apparent when viewed through a computer screen.

Under the night scene environment, this kind of underexposure tends to become the advantage of 360N5. There is no visible noise, and the picture is very clean and pure. At the same time, the 360N5 anti-glare capability is also much better than the 360N4S. I am very pleased with this progress.

Finally, talk about 360N5 charging and battery life.

Standard 5V = 3A/9V = 2A/12V = 1.5A charger, 360N5 also entered the camp of fast-charged mobile phones, be considered to make up for the lack of 360N4S charging slow.

Of course, compared with the 360N4S 5000mAh battery, the 360N5 battery capacity has returned to 4000mAh. Even if it shrinks, it is among the best in its class.

On the 360N5, you can clearly see its efforts for performance fever. The combination of the Xiaolong 653 processor and 6GB of memory will be difficult for the next few thousand yuan. But you can also feel it. For the ultimate cost-effectiveness of the sacrifices, can not get rid of thousands of cheap appearance, unwittingly improve the 360OS bad experience, even with a strong heart, how can we expect the user at first sight?