Millet released the millet Max, the largest mobile phone in the millet family, on May 10th. The price of the 6.44-inch giant screen + Xiaolong 650/652+4850mAh battery was +1499, which made it very subtle.
The focus of this review is the impact of the machine's body shape, the system differences brought about by the giant screen, the performance control of the Nine Dragons 652, and the battery life, not to mention nonsense, and now open the film.
Millet Max is divided into 3 versions, Snapdragon 650+3G memory +32G storage version of 1499 yuan, Snapdragon 652+3G memory +64G storage version of 1699 yuan, Snapdragon 652+4G memory +128G storage version of 1999 yuan, and we this time You get the middle version.
Appearance and workmanship
The detailed picture of the article before the welcome postmark “True and Large Screen Millet Max-Mille 5-Red Rice Note3 Hybrid Figure Tourâ€.
There is only one slogan on the packaging of Millet Max. The accessories include the manual, card pin, data cable and charging head. The charging head output is only 5V2A, and it looks a little kind in front of a large battery of 4850mAh.
The front of the fuselage is a regular rounded rectangle with symmetrical sensors on the forehead and the front camera. The edge of the screen is a specially designed black border. This is Xiaomi's iconic design language this year...
Andrews three King Kong keys with backlight. Millet Max uses 2.5D glass on the front panel. The glass is higher than the surrounding plastic washers, and the washer is higher than the metal body. The edge sliding feels good, but the level risk when falling is higher.
On the back is a three-stage design of "plastic-aluminum-plastic". The combination of plastic and metal work in general, a slight height difference. It is worth noting that the fuselage is too large. Under the normal grip, the index finger cannot reach the fingerprint recognition module.
The machine is full Netcom 4G+. The card slot supports nano+mirco SIM card (ie, medium card + small card), or mirco SIM card (ie medium card) + TF card. The Cato cover is loose, and our tester can hear the sound of metal impact and workmanship. However, the volume and power buttons work well, compact, and have less virtual space. Pressing feedback is simply a bit hard.
The top of the fuselage is a noise reduction microphone, infrared remote control and headphone jack. The bottom left is the microphone and the right is the speaker.
Red rice Note3, Millet Max, Millet 5
Lower left red rice Note3, lower right millet 5, upper millet Max
The length of the forehead and chin of the three machines is almost the same, and the black border of Xiaomi's Max is indeed very obvious, but the actual frame thickness is only slightly wider than that of the red rice Note3. In terms of thickness, millet Max is the thinnest (7.5mm thickness).
6.33 inch screen music Max, 6.4 inch screen millet Max, 7 inch screen glory X1, 7.9 inch 4:3 screen iPad mini
Redmi Note3, iPhone 6s Plus, Moto X Pro, Le Max, Xiaomi Max ( 5.5, 5.96, 6.33 and 6.4 inches screen respectively)
Weight and feel: Millet Max 203g, and iPhone 6s Plus 192g little difference, the weight is acceptable. 2.5D glass feels a lot of extra points, touch and use feel pretty good. The size of the back cover is suitable for scrubbing, and there will not be a sense of unease that the soap will slip.
Holding: The 6.44-inch 16:9 screen is still very wide horizontal, even if male users hold hands will be more supportive, not to mention female users. In addition, the problem of inadvertently touching the machine's one-handed hand has become very serious, especially when lying in bed playing with a mobile phone.
Carry: The machine has longer back pockets than most jeans, and will have a small part when placed in the back pocket. However, as long as it is not too tight, the foreign body sensation will not be too heavy. However, it is not likely to be placed in the front trousers. When you walk, you will find yourself in a stumbling position. When you go up and down the stairs or sit down, you risk bending the phone. Take it in your daily bag or take it directly in your hand.
Fingerprint recognition: Like the red rice Note3 and red rice 3 high version, it is a post-fingerprint recognition with a moderate speed. There is no need to light up the screen, touch it and it will vibrate, and then the screen will light up and unlock, but the fingerprint recognition module is in a higher position and you need to change your hand position to feel it. The machine has a double-click wake-up, no need to turn on the power button to turn on the screen no matter whether it is open or not, convenience is worthy of praise.
Brightness Extremes and Uniformity: The highest brightness of 480 nits in our center and below the tester, and the lowest 463 nits at the top, the performance is OK. The minimum brightness can be pressed to 1 nit, even if the lights out at night will not be dazzling;
Screen quality: Millet Max uses 6.44 inches 1080P IPS screen, not A screen P row, fine degree is not much problem. Commonly used 100 nits brightness, the standard mode color temperature 8300K, cool color. The highest brightness contrast 1027:1, color temperature 9500K, colder is more obvious.
Color quasi: The best standard mode for color testing is to test, 104 color average deltaE is 4.6, maximum 11.3, performance is not very good. As a comparison Note5 is 1.8, S6 edge+ is 2.6, S7 edge is 2.9, Xiaomi 4S is 4.5, and Xiaomi 5 is 4.1.
Visual sensation: The screen has a slight reddish base color, which is more appealing to the eyeballs than the yellowish or pan-green base color. The overall color temperature uniformity is normal, and there is no yin and yang screen because the screen size is too large. Visual angle performance is general, the upper left corner and the lower right corner will look white, and in other directions , the brightness attenuation will be more obvious. This will be more obvious when taking pictures.
In general, the screen performance is quite satisfactory, with the highest and lowest brightness and evenness being good, and the color accuracy and viewing angle are short.
Millet Max did not preload the MIUI 8 that was released at the same time, and when we tested it, the system version was MIUI version 7.6.5.4, based on the Android 6.0.1 kernel.
The system settings are exactly the same as those of other Xiaomi phones, but they only adapt to the large screen and the screen content density is higher.
When Max had just come out, he enjoyed the floating ball function. Swiping in different directions on the levitating ball can trigger a custom function or app, which is highly practical. And now the latest MIUI development version has also followed this function.
In addition, we also found that MIUI has joined the function of mutual wake-up and cut-off, but it is hidden in the application sub-items of “self-start control†and it has been very deep, and the default has disabled the mutual awakening of third-party applications (right image ).
Desktop (left millet 5, right millet Max)
Setting menu (left millet 5, right millet Max)
Theme shop (left millet 5, right millet Max)
Large screen specificity:
There is not much MIUI optimization for large screens. The machine has one-handed mode, double-click wakeup, and floating ball function. Its particularity is mainly due to the larger DPI (number of content per unit area). The same interface can display more content: one more shortcut button, settings, music, calendar, clock browser home page, yellow pages, Look at it, file manager, millet finance, and the weather can display half a line of content. However, the contents of other applications such as app stores, photo albums, theme stores, millet wallets, millet videos, millet games, and millet remote control are almost the same as Xiaomi's Xiaomi mobile phone.
Fortunately, third-party applications can reflect the differences in screen DPI. The advantages in news, WeChat, Weibo, and other third-party applications will be more obvious, and some other machines will have to slide up and down to see things. Xiaomi Max One page may be able to finish reading, and this is still quite fun to use. What is more entertaining than the input experience, the Jiugongge keyboard is basically the same level as casual, and even standard keyboard typing is no longer painful (laughs).
System differences:
With the same 3GB memory version of the millet 5, red rice note3 full Netcom contrast, millet Max boot memory usage will be less, open more than 8 own application after the remaining 1.4G, better than the millet 5 1.2G. And millet Max is Android 6.0 kernel, perhaps the optimization difference of millet 5;
Millet Max, Millet 5, and Millet 4S/4C all have a double-click awakening as standard, but red rice series red rice note3 is not double-clicked to wake up;
But with the automatic night view enhancement, millet series models, for the time being only millet 5 has
MIUI advertising problems remain the same:
Will force a search box in the notification bar, comes with a file manager to appear ads, ads on the search bar on the desktop to pull out the ads, and even after the garbage clean up will pop up ads, this is still the industry's first...
The millet finance that comes with the system is already involved in the financial sector. This is estimated to be the first in the industry.
It turns out that for different models of devices, MIUI seems to push different advertising content
In the latest version of MIUI, MIUI music, video and other applications will have their own independent upgrades, and the update frequency will be much faster than the system itself. There are even friends who ridicule: This may be to stop users from opposing advertisements and to be able to advertise more timely...
In addition, the current MIUI equipment, boot speed and memory performance are much worse than before
MIUI's impression in the minds of many friends can be summarized as "ease of use, feature-rich, ad-ridden," and everyone is more familiar with it, not much to introduce here.
Performance comparison between Xiaolong 652
CPU computing performance test
GPU graphics performance test
We received the Chinese version of the millet Max, equipped with Qualcomm Xiaolong 652+3G LPDDR3@933MHz+64GB eMMC flash memory. Xiaolong 650/652 is the god of this year, which is widely praised by the aircraft. The CPU of the Xiaolong 652 adopts a z+z size core architecture. The GPU is Adreno 510. And compared with the same Xiaolong 652 vivo X6S Plus, Xplay5 and Samsung Galaxy A9 contrast, millet Max's CPU performance is slightly higher, the GPU part can not open the gap.
Compared with the cross-generation flagship SoC
CPU computing performance test
GPU graphics performance test
Flash read and write performance test
And the last generation of Snapdragon 808 (LG V10), Snapdragon 810 (Mille Note Ultimate), Exynos7420 (Note5), this year's Snapdragon 820 (millet 5), MediaTek MT6797T (PRO 6), Unicorn 955 (Glory V8 With version), Xiaolong 650 (red rice Note3 full Netcom) contrast.
Xiaolong 652's CPU computing performance even close to the previous generation of the strongest 7420, but also won a lot of dragon 808/810, 4 core 1.8GHz frequency A72 strength is quite strong. However, the GPU segment also lost some of the Dragons 808, which was sharply abandoned by the two generations of flagship SoCs. Millet Max's flash write performance is even stronger than today's flagship, but read performance can only win the glory of reading performance has always been weak and Redmi Note3 full Netcom.
CPU pager performance/power logging, temperature logging, CPU and GPU sharing
The core scheduling: Xiaolong 652 is a 28nm process, 8 core full power consumption is not small, so vivo X6S Plus, Xplay5 and Samsung Galaxy A9 have adopted a very conservative frequency and core control, basically dual-core A72 running, In fact, the actual use of the experience and the Dragon 650 can not pull the gap. But the control of Xiaolong Max's Xiaolong 652 is very positive. It can open 8 cores without saying anything. The A72 can often go to the highest frequency. This full-blooded 652 allows Xiaomi Max to open and load in daily applications. Close to the top of your own millet 5.
Stability: High power consumption is destined to the Xiaolong 652 is no way to work full time. Its thermal stability is better than its peers, but it is still much worse than the Xiaolong 820 and other 16nm SoCs. When the CPU and the GPU are baked together, the four large cores can only run at 1.7G, and the single-roast CPU:
In the first 25 seconds, the 8 cores are fully open, and then the 4 cores are downgraded to 1.6G-1.7G. At this time, the performance of floating-point operations was as high as 119 GFLOPS, which was already very close to the Xiaolong 820 (120GFLOPS).
After 40 seconds, four large cores are at 1.3-1.6G.
In about 55 seconds, two of the A72s are offline, but the other two A72s can go back to the 1.8G maximum frequency.
After 95 seconds, the dual-core A72 was down-converted to 1.6G.
Temperature control: The cost of high-performance tuning is that power consumption is indeed higher, and the machine will be hotter during the game. If there are more applications in the background, the machine will be hotter than the current generation of machines. After 5 minutes of GPU and CPU baking, the maximum temperature is up to 95 degrees, and the temperature control mechanism is "active" to ashes people.
Summarizing the performance part, Xiaomi Max is extremely rare full-blood version of the Snapdragon 652, absolute performance fury. Daily application is turned on, 4-core A72 can increase the speed, but the use of continuous change back to Xiaolong 650. The basic summary is that “the mild use experience is like the Snapdragon 820, but it will change back to 650 after a long working period†.
Before we have conducted a photo comparison of the 4 new millet machines, if you are interested, you can poke the link "Compared with the door! Millet Max-millet 5-red rice Note3-millet 4S photo Hengping.
Millet Max's camera model speculation: According to the actual film wide-angle and exif information in the focal length are consistent with the red rice Note3 full Netcom, the sensor size should also be 1/3.06 inches. The size of the 16 million pixel sensor, the most common is Samsung's interpolation version of the S5K3L2 and red rice Note3 Netcom's S5K3P3, while the former does not support phase focus, so millet Max is likely to use the red rice Note3 full Netcom Edition Sensor.
However, the suspect is that the extreme condition of Xiaomi Max is 3153 ISO and 1/14 second shutter, while Redmi Note3 full CNC is 6400 ISO (the highest extremist ISO device in millet history) and 1/10 second shutter. The possible causes include: different sensors, algorithm changes, and incorrect EXIF ​​information. It cannot be confirmed for the time being.
The effect is speculated: The hardware parameters of Xiaomi Max and Redmi Note3 Netcom are very close, and the performance is not far behind. S5K3P3 this CMOS 1.0 micron ultra small unit pixel size, even with ISOCELL technology, its day and low light imaging is estimated to be weaker than the millet 4S, and the gap between them and the IMX298+ optical image stabilization millet 5 is estimated farther.
Smart degree: Redmi Note3 and Xiaomi Max’s HDR and night scene modes can only be turned on manually, and the intelligence level is low;
Shutter response and imaging speed: MIUI's shutter response and imaging speed has been very fast, down to the red rice Note3 full Netcom, up to the millet 5 are very close, all very quickly, but millet Max HDR and night mode sample processing speed in general;
Focus: The machine supports phase focus, the focus speed under daylight and normal lighting is good, although the speed is low in dark light, but the success rate of focusing is still relatively high;
Rate of filming: no problem during the day, but there will be a greater chance of hand-shake paste in the brightness level of the lighting scene, and the performance is general.
MIDI camera HDR algorithm, its availability has been very low, and no improvement in the latest millet Max signs. The effect of HDR proofs is very unnatural. Except for dark details that are over-highlighted, high color saturation, and a significant shift in white balance, excessive marks are hardened and algorithm smearing and sharpening are exacerbated. Again, MIUI's HDR function will keep it closed.
In addition, millet Max's white balance is not stable, the focus moves slightly, and the apparent white balance will change significantly.
Millet Max dual mode, very low light scene contrast
Millet Max dual mode, lighting scene contrast
Millet Max uses a night-view pattern algorithm similar to Xiaomi 5 to reduce noise (or even visible smears) in order to retain the power of analysis. The power of resolution and color saturation remain intact, but large-scale color noise does. More affect the perception.
The actual sample size comparison: all 4:3 proofs. Red rice Note3 full-mesh with the same focal length and millet Max, their wide-angle/imaging field of view is slightly larger than millet 5 (common 28mm equivalent focal length), millet 4S minimum (30mm equivalent focal length).
Specimen equal magnification, contrast the same object
Discriminating power prediction: The same object has more pixels in the proofs, and its analysis power will have more advantages. Millet 4S is only 13 million pixels, but the wide-angle range is smaller than other machines, to a large extent is "sacrificed" the viewfinder range to reduce the number of pixels in the weak , in the proofs, the object is larger than 16 million pixels wide-angle red rice Note3 Netcom and millet Max are bigger.
Left is the sample after repeated lens wipes, and the right is normal proofs
Lens flare: Millet Max's lens quality is more general, radioactive ray, atomization, flares are more obvious, there is also a purple light spot on the edge of light, and the gap between millet 4S and millet 5 is larger. In addition, millet Max's lens glass is very easy to absorb oil and cause serious glare, you need to wipe the lens multiple times to wipe the lens to avoid. The difficulty of maintenance is too high. It is very difficult for normal users to use the camera to avoid the problem of “flooding†the lens. It is necessary to avoid strong front light sources as much as possible.
PS: This part of the proofs is used to compare white balance, metering, and color saturation. The proofs and proofs are placed centrally in the final section.
Daylight Scene 1
Daylight scene 2 (both biased, relatively speaking, red rice Note3 more accurate metering, but the white balance is slightly greener)
Daylight Scene 3 (unlike green)
Daylight Scene 4 (unique red)
Light scene 1
Light scene 2
Low light scene 1
Low light scene 2
Metering: Millet Max will be slightly darker, and the dimming amplitude under low light will be more pronounced.
White Balance: Xiaomi's camera algorithm still has a lot to improve. In the day when the white balance is less difficult, once the scene with a slightly larger object contrast (scene 3 sky, scene 4 bushes), the white balance and color saturation of 4 millet equipment (scene 5 flowers) are Different. Tendency, millet Max will be more uniform yellow.
DistinguishabilityPS: Click on the image to see a larger image
scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Scene 4
Light scene 1
Light scene 2 below center
Light scene 2 center
Light scene 3
Light scene 4
Low light scene 1 (millet 4S can not focus)
Low light scene 2
Low light scene 3
During the daytime and light scenes, the high pixel advantage of Xiaomi’s Max was flattened by the wide-angle lens, and the resolution performance was normal. Even the noise control in the daytime scene was normal.
In the low-light scene, millet 5 dropped sharply from other machines, followed by Xiaomi 4S, red rice Note3 full net, and millet Max was much stronger than red rice Note3. If they were really the same sensor, it was Xiaomi. The new algorithm has won, but the purity of the picture and the first perception will have a significant loss.
Millet Max equipped with 4850mAh battery, after 30 minutes of big game (NBA 2K15), 30 minutes of wifi and 4G Internet access, 1 hour of music playback and 30 minutes of local video playback, after a full 3 hours of battery life test, the remaining power of 82% .
Its performance was quite amazing. The results were similar to the red rice 3 with a 5-inch screen and a 4100mAh battery. It left the red rice Note3 and almost all conventional models. 8 hours to open 4G and wifi standby, power-down between 1-2%, daily heavy use can adhere to 2 days, mild use of 3-4 days a charge is not a big problem. Measured full automatic brightness, wifi betta live, the machine can adhere to 8 hours, life is quite violent...
Original charger 5V2A, actual charging power is about 10.7W.
Using millet 5, support Qualcomm QC3.0 fast charging head, the screen can go to 12.5W. Bright screen can go to 15.3W, but this difference is estimated that the machine is running, the input power is estimated to be about 12W, and the original charger is far from the difference we imagined.
Using original chargers and fast charging heads respectively to charge, fast-charged heads are not enough to start fast, but fast-filling heads have the advantage that the speed stays firmer, and the fast-filling head lasts 5% from 5% full time (2 hours 47 In minutes), while the original head took 183 minutes (3 hours and 3 minutes), the speed was equally unimaginable, and perhaps the inside of the camera body also made a certain charging speed limit. But to be sure, this is bad news for machine users who use chargers to significantly increase charging speed.
About 28 degrees at room temperature, after running NBA 2K15 for 30 minutes, the highest temperature on the front of the machine appeared at 44 degrees below the front camera, and the highest temperature on the back surface was around 40 degrees near the fingerprint recognition module. Although the heat performance is better than the Xiaolong 810 stove, it does perform well in this generation of machines.
Millet Max's "Max" refers specifically to the screen and body size, its price and positioning is actually lower than the millet 4C/4S: In addition to the price, the handsome 6.44 inch giant screen and camera performance, be regarded as barely in line with their own Pricing, and Xiaolong 652's training and endurance performance is considered a surprise.
Millet Max's positioning audience is very clear, is relying on giant screen and life support for heavy entertainment users, portable and easy to operate the priority is clearly behind the screen size. This is destined to Millet Max is a lover of giant screen put it down, do not use giant screen people feel bad machine. However, I can tell you that for the former, Xiaomi Max’s trade-offs are still done very well; but for non-severe users, it is not recommended to try.
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