Redmi's transformation has three events:
1. Redmi changed the label of "Redmi".
2. Lu Weibing joined Xiaomi and took charge of Redmi, which brought something different to this sub-brand that always wanted to lose the low-end hat. Whether it is popular science or war of words, Redmi has just become a topic.
3. The development of the K series product line, Redmi, which had been deeply involved in the low-end market, can also be a light flagship and a performance flagship.
Some analysts believe that Xiaomi's re-layout of Redmi is because the old rival changed its strategic layout after glory and independent operation. As a sub-brand of Huawei, Glory is now rushing to the flagship market, and some glory-ranked models even put pressure on big brother Huawei. Although this view is good, it cannot be verified. After all, no one responded to Xiaomi, and the reasonable analysis also belongs to Keiko.
(Intercepted from Xiaomi official website, except for the reverse customized version of "K30 Extreme Edition", the other six K30 series mobile phones that have been listed can be searched in official website. )
A brief look at the history of Redmi, K30 series is the most successful series since the founding of Redmi. Perhaps the person in charge of Xiaomi thought that K30' s ID had a lucky buff, so he later released a series of new machine IDs, all of which contained "K30". These machines are not all derivative or scaled-down versions, because they are not a configuration.
Specifically, seven K30 ID red rice mobile phones were released, namely K30 4G, K30 5G, K30 Pro, K30 Pro Zoom Edition, K30 Extreme Edition, K30 15G and K30 Extreme Commemorative Edition.
Even so, ID K30 is still favored without fear, which means that even Xiaomi 10T, which has performed well in foreign markets, has been "downgraded" to Redmi. This is the K30S speed commemorative edition of Redmi, the protagonist of our evaluation today (hereinafter referred to as "K30S speed commemorative edition"). Can it realize Redmi's high-end dream?
Appearance: matrix camera module, different lens arrangements
In terms of appearance, this K30S speed commemorative edition is the least K30, because its camera is not centered, which does not conform to the previous "family tradition", probably because of its name change. After all, before it was brought back, it was called Xiaomi 10T in the international market.
The highlight of the whole machine is the camera module. Although it is a matrix design, different lens arrangements are adopted. For example, it is a "cylinder" plus a "four-cylinder", but this "four-cylinder" only has two camera holes, the hole in the upper right corner is a light sensor, and the hole in the lower right corner is a flash.
The fuselage material adopts the current mainstream glass material, which feels warm and moist. The star-black color scheme in our hand is not frosted. The advantage is that it looks more elegant and more business-like. The disadvantage is that fingerprints are easy to get. After all, you can't have your cake and eat it. Because Xiaomi 10T brought back from abroad was allocated to Redmi, the Logo was changed to Redmi, and the location was the same as Xiaomi 10T.
The body thickness is 9.33mm, which is barely acceptable for the glass body mobile phone with 5000mAh large-capacity battery. It's just that the protruding thickness of this camera module is a little bit ...
There is no 3.5mm earphone hole, but there is no special explanation on the waterproof, so I don't know why the fuselage of this thickness should castrate this slot. The card slot is a double-sided card slot, which can theoretically save more space for laying cables.
Screen: Top LCD screen, high refresh rate of 144Hz, enjoying silky feeling.
K30S Extreme Commemorative Edition adopts a 6.67-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 2400 1080 pixels and a maximum brightness of 650nit. It supports P3 wide color gamut display. In terms of color representation accuracy, JNCD 0.39 and Delta E 0.63 (Note: JNCD stands for color accuracy, and Delta E is the test unit for human perception of color difference. The larger the value, the more distorted the color, and the smaller the value, the more realistic the color.
Judging from the actual display effect of high-standard pictures imported into mobile phones, the display effect is indeed very delicate, rich in layers, perfect in color, and the light display is true and unbiased.
According to the press conference, the biggest highlight of this 144 Hz high screen of K30S speed commemorative edition is that it pioneered the seven-speed frame rate adaptation from 30 Hz to 144Hz. The system can match the most suitable refresh rate according to the current screen display content, so as to realize the smooth experience of the whole scene. For example, when playing a 24FPS movie, the screen will be displayed at 48Hz; When playing a 25FPS TV series, the screen will automatically switch to 50Hz. In other words, the signal terminal and the display terminal can be accurately matched, and the viewing experience is very smooth through the MEMC motion frame insertion technology.
Through a number of tests on testUFO, we found that the adaptive function of K30S speed commemorative edition is really powerful, and the look and feel is as smooth as Dove's advertising words.
On the overall screen scheme, the K30S speed commemorative edition adopts a single-hole design, which is different from its K30 "family", but the aperture is very small and will not have much impact on the vision.
Unfortunately, this "chin" is roughly measured with a ruler, which exceeds 6 mm If this is the flagship production process, its chin is the same as its price, returning to 20 18.
Performance: Thanks to Snapdragon 865, the performance has made a qualitative leap.
Different from the previous K30 Extreme Commemorative Edition, this K30S Extreme Commemorative Edition uses Snapdragon 865 as the processor. After all, the memory specifications supported by Tianji 1000 Plus are low, which is not conducive to Redmi's impact on the high-end market. So this K30S speed commemorative edition, like many Snapdragon 865 models, supports LPDDR5 memory and UFS 3. 1 flash memory.
Looking back at the press conference, the speaker positioned the K30S Extreme Commemorative Edition and the previously released K30 Extreme Commemorative Edition as double supreme, but through configuration comparison, it can be found that the K30S Extreme Edition is higher than the K30 Extreme Edition.
Judging from the running score, the performance of K30S speed commemorative edition has indeed made a qualitative leap. Ann Bunny (version V8.4.7) scored 66 1800, Geekbench 4 (version 4.4.0) scored 428 1 for single core and 13348 for multi-core, all of which reached the first-class flagship.
Charging: 33W wired fast charging, 5000mAh battery for 53 minutes.
Compared with K30 speed commemorative edition, the battery capacity of K30S speed commemorative edition has been upgraded to 5000mAh, but the standard charging accessory is still a 33 W wired charger.
Tested with original charging accessories, it takes 53 minutes for K30S speed commemorative edition to complete the whole charging cycle. For a 5000mAh "heavy tank", this charging speed is not particularly slow, above the industry average. During the whole charging process, except for the last 5% charging stage, there is no particularly slow time period, and the charging curve is approximately linear.
Game: Running smoothly, no obvious jam.
Some users will equate performance with the gaming experience. In fact, this is not a necessary and sufficient condition for a good mobile phone. If optimization and resource scheduling are not done well, the game experience may not be as good as some mobile phones with lower configuration but better optimization. "Snapdragon 865+LPDDR 5+UFS 3. 1" What is the experience of the top-level K30S speed commemorative edition? We decided to use the monitoring software PerfDog and temperature measuring gun for actual measurement.
The basic settings of the glory of the king are shown in the above picture. To sum up briefly, all special effects are on, and all items with gear selection are selected with the highest gear. The hero selected in the ranking is a hundred miles to keep his promise. I chose it not because the author has a preference for this hero, but because many mobile phones are prone to rollover when playing this hero. This heroic skill can broaden their horizons, and many mobile phones just drop frames when using this skill. In addition, it may be that the screen does not follow the hand at the moment of shooting, or the touch fails, or the phone itself is stuck.
Through the actual measurement, we can find that the performance of K30S speed commemorative edition is very stable, and the screen is very smooth when the second skill attacks, and there is no jam. According to the monitoring data of PerfDog, when K30S speed commemorative edition is used as a hero who is easy to overturn the mobile phone, the frame rate does not fluctuate, and the frame rate curve is approximately horizontal and straight.
The only regret is that you lost the ranking, because after choosing a hero who keeps his promise in the front row, some teammates will beat you if they don't trust this hero. Although the hero is very popular in the competition, it is still very embarrassing to stand alone in the passers-by bureau. But it is precisely because the whole headwind, high-altitude sniper and high-altitude group battle take up more time, which tests the performance of mobile phones. The perfect performance in this test environment has higher gold content.
The setting of "Peace Elite" is as shown in the above picture, and the selected picture quality is "Ultra HD" which has only been opened in recent months. At present, only the models of Snapdragon 865 chip and Apple A 13 chip are opened in this photo lab, and the higher the picture quality, the more you eat and render, which will test the performance of mobile phones. In terms of the number of frames, the highest number of frames in the "Ultra HD" image quality is set to "Ultra High", that is, the 40-frame mode.
Because the map I chose is the new map valley, there are more players than robots, and I skydive with jumpers, jump in hot spots and fight all the way after landing. The author's technology is not as good as others, and it only takes 12 minutes to "box". The biggest feeling during the game is that the "Ultra HD" has a lot of details, and the rendering is very powerful, and there is no obvious jam.
Of course, the monitoring data of PerfDog is also relatively perfect, and the whole process is almost straight. Only a few fierce gun battles fluctuated a little, but the fluctuation was not outrageous, floating in a small channel. You can't feel this subtle change in the number of frames during the game.
The Peace Elite who played with the K30S speed commemorative edition for more than an hour felt that the fuselage was a little hot. According to the actual measurement in temperature measuring gun, the highest temperatures on the front and back are hovering around 40, which is not too hot from the specific temperature value.
The fuselage is hot and cold, and the front and rear heating areas are near the camera module, which may be its embarrassment: if the camera side is placed in the left hand position, then the position where the left thumb touches the direction key is near the front camera module; If one side of the camera is placed in the right hand position, then the position of the right middle finger supporting the fuselage is near the rear camera module. In other words, no matter how the hands change direction, a certain part of one hand will be in the hottest area for a long time, and the somatosensory temperature will feel very hot.
At present, there are two solutions that can be thought of: first, don't play for a long time, let the phone rest after playing for one or two games; Second, DIY customizes a mobile phone case that can cover the rear camera and has good heat insulation effect. When playing, the camera side is switched to the right hand position, so that the area with the highest temperature on the front and back will not be touched for a long time.
Photographing: 64 million pixel AI three shots, taking delicate photos.
Although Mr. Lei issued a document saying that the K30S speed commemorative edition was renamed Xiaomi 10T, which has a good reputation in the international market, the configurations of the two mobile phones are not exactly the same, such as cameras. Xiaomi 10T adopts a Samsung camera with10.8 megapixel, and the main camera of K30S speed commemorative edition is 64 megapixel.
The main camera sensor is Sony IMX682,11.7 inch, which is considered as the outsole, just like the K30 Extreme Commemorative Edition. The sensor is a miniature version of Sony IMX686, and the parameters are roughly the same, except that IMX682 castrates some functions, such as 8K video. However, the K30S speed commemorative edition itself supports shooting of 8K video, but when using 8K video mode, the lens is switched to another super wide-angle lens.
The other two lenses are a13 megapixel super wide-angle lens with a viewing angle of 123 and a 5 megapixel macro lens that supports 2cm~ 10cm autofocus. There is no portrait lens, which is different from the K30 Extreme Commemorative Edition. However, the 2-megapixel portrait lens of K30 speed commemorative edition itself is suspected of adding up, and any lens assistance can be used to calculate the depth of field.
There is no telephoto lens, all zooming is done by the main camera, and the farthest digital zooming is supported by 10 times.
After analyzing the lens configuration, let's look at the proofs:
The weather in Chongqing is not very good these days, either rain or fog, and the visibility is very low. The outdoor big scene photos taken by K30S speed commemorative edition perfectly restore this weather condition, and the camera can accurately restore gray-white color without obvious color cast in this environment.
Foggy days are actually very unfriendly to shooting, because the light in foggy days is poor and more exposure time is needed. In addition, fog makes the air reflect brighter, and there is no doubt that fog will mislead the camera's exposure system. In the process of shooting, we found that the photos taken by K30S speed commemorative edition autofocus were overexposed and albino, so the sliding shaft weakened its exposure effect after focusing. The above three photos are all taken in this way, and the photos are transparent and not dry, with higher color saturation and more beautiful overall.
In the indoor environment, the color reproduction of K30S speed commemorative edition is more accurate, which will slightly increase some color saturation and the processing intensity is just right, so the photos we see are very bright in color, which is in line with the public aesthetic.
In the indoor environment, the K30S speed commemorative edition also controls the light very accurately. Whether it is strong light, dark light or soft light with color temperature, it can be accurately restored, and the photos taken are true and soft.
In terms of wide angle, the K30S speed commemorative edition handles distortion very well, and no distortion can be seen on both sides of the picture. Comparing the photos taken by the main camera, we can find that the viewing angle of 123 can obviously accommodate a wider picture. In terms of image quality, the saturation of wide-angle photos is relatively stronger, and the incident light is relatively lower, which is different from the processing style of the main camera, but it has little impact on the overall imaging.
In terms of zoom, the K30S speed commemorative edition belongs to the type of "one mirror travels all over the world", and the overall picture quality decline is not particularly obvious. In the smog environment, if there is no text description of 2 times zoom and 5 times zoom, I believe quite a few friends can't see that this is the crystallization of high-magnification zoom shooting.
Macro, K30S speed commemorative edition can shoot face. I took the lens very close to the stamen and was able to focus. The photos taken are impressive as a whole, and I can see many details like a magnifying glass. The disadvantage is that it is not suitable for low light, otherwise the photos taken are very dark.
Night view mode, K30S speed commemorative edition controls highlights and noises very delicately, and the overall picture quality is high. The disadvantage is that the dark details are not very good. I guess this is because the camera system adopts the method of deliberately reducing the exposure to control the noise.
In addition, the night scene mode of K30S speed commemorative edition is slightly blue and purple. For example, the light of the first e-sports hall looks blue to the naked eye in reality, not the purple shown in the photo; In the third picture, the luminous lamp wall at the top looks light blue and purple to the naked eye in reality, but the photo taken by K30S speed commemorative edition is dark purple in color, which is very rich.
summarize experience
Aside from external restrictions such as product naming and product line, as far as the product itself is concerned, it is almost invincible in the range of 2000 yuan to 2500 yuan. The top configuration of "Snapdragon 865+UFS 3. 1+LPDDR 5", the top LCD screen, the large-capacity battery of 5000mAh, and the imaging effect of Sony IMX682 lens.
Most of these components are top flagship configurations, and from the actual experience, the effect is really good.
Of course, it also has flaws, such as: the thickness of the camera bump, the thickness of the chin and other technical details; Among the domestic flagships, it is not fast at all. Can only be used to insult Samsung and Apple. In addition, the battery capacity is large, so the charging cycle is too long. The game can be extremely smooth, but the temperature is uncomfortable; There is no telephoto lens, even if it is not a periscope telephoto lens.
Generally speaking, this Redmi K30S speed commemorative edition can be summed up in four words-flaws don't cover up Yu!