1. Introduction and pictures
Speaking of cost-effective models, I believe that many bigwigs who know the digital circle are familiar with them. Most of them are models equipped with sub-flagships or mid-range God U. A long time ago, I was thinking, why can’t I use last year’s flagship processor?
At that time, this question really bothered me for a long time, until I met a senior mobile phone boss and asked about it. There are many reasons, the most important of which is inventory. Nowadays, mobile phone manufacturers are very cautious about inventory, because excess inventory leads to There are not a few closed down, to put it bluntly, there is enough body to digest.
Until the emergence of the iQOO brand, it is indeed feasible to practice this method. In recent years, it has maintained the habit of carrying last year’s flagship processors, such as iQOO Neo, iQOO Neo 3, and the iQOO Neo5S to be mentioned this time.
It’s been a while since the phone was released, so I didn’t want to write a review quickly, but used it as the main phone for a few weeks, and then wrote a review to see if this model with a starting price of 2,699 yuan can compare the Snapdragon 888. The whole “cool”.
Before the detailed introduction, let’s talk about the positioning of the machine. First, we exclude the flagship, and then it does not belong to the mid-range. Then we will refer to the cost-effective flagship SoC model that is often mentioned in the cost-effective list. This model focuses on core configuration and processor priority. highest level.
iQOO Neo5S offers three colors: night space/sunset canyon/orange light and joy. This one in my hand is orange light and joy, which is a rare bright color in the mobile phone circle.
mobile phone packaging
front of phone
front of phone
front of phone
The front of iQOO Neo5S is a common centered hole-digging screen design, especially the straight screen form, and the fingerprint recognition under the screen. In order to control the cost, most of the same gears choose side fingerprints. This can be praised. The border control is not very good, but it is acceptable.
front of phone
front of phone
In terms of parameters, iQOO Neo5S uses a 6.62-inch AMOLED straight screen with a resolution of 2400×1080, supports 120Hz refresh rate + 300Hz touch sampling rate, and 100% P3 screen color gamut, HDR10+, peak brightness of 1200nit, passed SSG low Blu-ray/low smear certification, 16,000-level brightness adjustment, on the whole it belongs to the mainstream level, and the advantage lies in the straight screen.
The back of the phone
lens module
The back of the fuselage is an AG glass back cover, which continues the design language of previous generations. It is printed with the word Neo, which seems to have been processed in a pixel style.
The back of the phone
The back of the phone
On the whole, the appearance is good, especially this orange light and pleasant color scheme, which is really in line with the aesthetics of young people, and the body weight is also controlled below 200g. As a cost-effective flagship SoC model, there is nothing to choose from such a design. .
The package comes with a charger, phone case, and related stickers
2. System and Highlights
Another highlight of iQOO Neo5S is the first launch of OriginOS Ocean. At present, the bottom layer of the system is Android 11, and it is expected to be upgraded to Android 12 in the future. Since it is a major version update, here is a detailed introduction.
A major change in OriginOS Ocean is the animation effect, in which the lock screen has been greatly changed. For the sake of speed, several rectangular blocks have been added below, including atomic music, step record, phone, camera, etc., just drag or slide can be opened quickly.
However, such a design takes a period of time to accept. Compared with the integration of the traditional lock screen interface, this design produces a sense of visual fragmentation. For this purpose, there is almost no user-related feedback to search for it on the Internet. It seems that users have this Tolerance is high and acceptable.
If you are really uncomfortable, you can also manually change back to the traditional lock screen in the settings.
The desktop has not changed much. It is similar to the previous OriginOS. It is composed of various rectangular or square block shortcuts. With software icons, the overall look is a lot better, but there is still a certain threshold to use, and it is easy and fast to slide. The method is mistaken, but the advantage of OriginOS Ocean is that it gives a high degree of user freedom, and the icon style, size, rounded corners, and system style can be exchanged.
As just said, OriginOS Ocean provides users with enough customization options. In the dynamic effect settings, you can even set touch screen animation, charging animation, USB insertion animation, and screen-on/off animation. At the same time, the font supports stepless adjustment. Good reviews.
In terms of wallpaper, behavioral wallpaper has been added, and the “Encounter of Light” behavioral wallpaper has been jointly launched with the game “Light Encounter”. After use, different scenery can be changed according to the accumulated number of steps. After completing the set number of steps, you can reach the end point. The wallpaper increases the playability, and I hope other manufacturers can follow up.
In terms of privacy, OriginOS Ocean provides two options, one is the common privacy protection, which can protect and manage application permissions, and prevent malicious screenshots and recordings, and the other is the atomic privacy function, which I didn’t understand at first. After thinking about how to use it, I found that it is similar to the common mobile phone avatars of other mobile phones. It is more like an independent privacy space, but the difference is that atomic privacy can control all the permissions included, such as one-click to close the positioning, recording permissions, etc. .
3. Performance and Gaming
In terms of core configuration, iQOO Neo5S is equipped with Snapdragon 888 processor. It is said that the heat dissipation has a unique adjustment, which is also the biggest highlight of the machine. It is equipped with LPDDR5+UFS 3.1 flash memory.
In terms of heat dissipation, iQOO Neo5S is the first to release high-conductivity rare earth heat dissipation. The thermal conductivity reaches 200% of the original. The rare earth elements cover up to 89.4% of the mobile phone space in all directions. In addition, there are graphite plates and liquid-cooled soaking plates.
The so-called high-conductivity rare-earth alloys are actually composed of rare-earth elements such as lanthanum and cerium. The specific knowledge of science is involved, and I don’t know much about them. How to test the effect directly? Let’s first look at the running score.
After actual testing, iQOO Neo5S has an AnTuTu score of 836564, which is similar to other Snapdragon 888 models. Compared with the latest AnTuTu Android phone performance list, this score is basically the same as iQOO 8, but the latter is an average score. It seems that there is no problem with the aircraft ranking in the top ten.
In terms of storage, iQOO Neo5S has a sequential read speed of 20004.3MB/s and a sequential write speed of 786.9MB/s, which is the normal performance of UFS 3.1 flash memory.
In terms of games, the machine is equipped with an independent display chip Pro, which can share half of the rendering work for the GPU in the game scene. It can also reduce power consumption while ensuring a high-frame gaming experience, achieve power saving and smooth effects, and support MEMC motion. Calculation and compensation technology, through frame insertion technology, low-frame games can also be increased to 120 frames, ensuring long-term stable high-frame-rate pictures, let’s take a look at its game frame rate, the average test time of each game is 30 minutes.
– “Glory of the King”
Enable the highest image quality (120fps) supported by iQOO Neo5S
game fps
Body temperature
iQOO Neo5S supports 120 frames of “Honor of Kings”, and it can maintain 120fos stably in the early stage of the actual measurement, but as the body heats up, it is automatically adjusted to 90fps. A small frame drop during the period means restarting the game, which is a normal phenomenon. Very stable, almost a straight line, the highest temperature of the fuselage is 41.9, and the average temperature is 39.2.
– “Original God”
Enable the highest image quality (60fps) supported by iQOO Neo5S
game fps
Body temperature
Then there is a game like “Genshin Impact” that eats more performance, and the supported 60fps is turned on. Like other flagship mobile phones, it can maintain 60fps in the early stage, and lock the frame to 40fps in the subsequent period. After that, there is not much frame drop. The actual game basically feels Less than stuttering, the maximum temperature of the fuselage is 42.1, and the average temperature is 40.1.
——”Peace Elite”
Enable the highest image quality (90fps) supported by iQOO Neo5S
game fps
Body temperature
The frame rate performance of “Peace Elite” is a bit unexpected. The iQOO Neo5S supports 90 frame mode, and it stabilizes in a straight line. There is no frame lock during the whole process, and the same is true until the end of the game. The highest temperature of the fuselage is 42.3, and the average temperature is 40.1.
On the whole, the built-in rare earth heat dissipation of iQOO Neo5S has a certain effect, which can quickly dissipate heat. For example, after the game is over, the body can quickly return to normal temperature, and during the game, it is indeed not as hot as other Snapdragon 888 mobile phones. It’s definitely impossible to say that it doesn’t get hot at all.
4. Video and photography
In terms of imaging, the iQOO Neo5S has a rear 48-megapixel main camera (IMX598, f/1.79 aperture, 25mm, OIS) + 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle (Samsung 3L6) + 2-megapixel black and white lens, of which the main camera supports OIS anti-shake, It is rare at the same price, and supports super night scene, starry sky mode, time slow door, dual-view video, etc.
1. Daytime proofs
Roadside buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-56 for the main camera)
Roadside buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-56 for the main camera)
Roadside buildings (13MP ultra wide-angle shooting f/2.2 ISO-50)
Main camera macro (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-576 for main camera)
Macro mode (ultra wide-angle 13-megapixel shooting f/2.2 ISO-794)
In the daytime scene, iQOO Neo5S belongs to the normal level of the same price. The main camera has been adjusted for a while, so the details are restored enough, but the edge distortion of the ultra-wide-angle proofs, the algorithm still needs to be optimized, the macro mode is a surprise, and the ultra-wide-angle lens is called. Shooting can capture details that are difficult to see with the naked eye.
2. Night proofs
It should be noted that the local area was cloudy for many consecutive days, and there was heavy fog at night, which affected the performance of the night scene and did not represent the final performance.
Roadside buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-3188 for the main camera)
Roadside buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-3051 for the main camera)
Street lights and leaves (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-2199 for the main camera)
Roadside buildings (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-1729 for the main camera)
Low-light scenes (default 12MP f/1.8 ISO-5667 for the main camera)
Unexpectedly, iQOO Neo5S also has a surprise in the night scene. The color reproduction is accurate enough. Yes, it can be accurately described. For example, the neon sign of the building, even some flagship models in the same price range cannot achieve color reproduction. It is not because the lens parameters are so powerful. But the late algorithm is excellent.
5. Battery life and charging
In terms of battery life, iQOO Neo5S has a built-in 2*2250mAh dual battery, which is equivalent to 4500mAh. Let’s see how its battery life is. It is customary to use the AnTuTu stress test function for super power consumption test.
Stress test is a built-in function of AnTuTu Review. It tests the stability of device performance by performing high-load operations. It requires a lot of calculations by the CPU, so the power consumption is larger than that of video and daily use.
In the super power consumption test, iQOO Neo5S lasted for 150 minutes, which is a common battery life of Snapdragon 888 models. However, according to iQOO, when playing games, the independent display chip Pro is enabled, which theoretically has better performance. Here The stress test is that the CPU is fully loaded, and the Pro is not used.
Let’s look at the battery life estimate, because this result is obtained when the CPU is always fully loaded, considering our daily use and screen time, so this data needs to be converted into a multiple, and it is concluded that the iQOO Neo5S has about 5 hours of continuous battery life. Note the continuous battery life.
In terms of charging, iQOO Neo5S supports 66W wired fast charging, which claims to be able to charge to 70% in as fast as 18 minutes.
After actual testing, iQOO Neo5S took 35 minutes to go from 1% to 100%, of which 46% was charged in 10 minutes, 77% in 20 minutes, and the power slowed down after reaching 80%. This charging speed is not slow. , If you forget to charge it when you get up in the morning, it is acceptable to charge more than half of it in 20 minutes.
6. Summary
The models that focus on cost-effective flagship SoCs have a common feature, that is, the core configuration has the highest priority, and in order to save costs, other configurations are ignored. The iQOO Neo5S is different, not only has the Snapdragon 888, but also has a 120Hz high refresh screen, 66W fast charging, etc., and With the support of the independent display chip Pro, there is almost no fault at this price.
Then let’s talk about the price. The starting price of 2699 yuan is not cheap, so iQOO Neo5S is not the main cost-effectiveness, but combined with the configuration, it has a certain cost-effectiveness. Let’s not talk about how to classify it, and quote a passage from iQOO President Feng Yufei in an interview before. .
“iQOO mobile phone focuses on performance, not price. When making a product, I never think about how much it will sell for in the end, and what its price will be. Only by truly making products that exceed consumers’ expectations, consumers really spend At this price, when you buy a product beyond your satisfaction, it will be worth it.”
This sentence basically explains the positioning of iQOO Neo5S. The price is not a prerequisite. What matters is whether the mobile phone itself is worth the price. In fact, for a mobile phone brand that has only been established for three years, although iQOO is owned by vivo, it is taking a completely different path. If the two flagship mobile phones are put together, I am afraid that the similarity between the two can only be found when the mobile phone is opened to see OriginOS Ocean.
Looking back at the previous generations of iQOO models, this brand has not deliberately competed for cost performance, so there is no cost constraint. It is especially rare in today’s mobile phone market.
