Is the value of 699 yuan worth buying? Glory Play 5A Review

A few years ago, various mobile phone manufacturers launched a series of high-end and low-priced thousand yuan machines in order to compete for the entrance of mobile internet. With the advancement of technology and the maturity of technology in recent years, the prices of mobile phone hardware have become lower, and the quality of thousands of machines has become higher and higher. Until now, no matter the result of data investigation or actual sales, the market volume of thousands of Yuanyuan machines has been very large, which makes the competition in the Qianyuan machine market increasingly fierce, especially the brand with Internet genes such as glory. , The operation of several years makes Glory has a rich product line of three series of X/C/A in the thousand yuan file. What brought us today is the new product that has just released the A Series of glory and play: Glory Play 5A.

Glory Play A Series is targeted at cost-effective products in thousands of machines, as can be seen from the hardware configuration. Compared to the glory of the single chip last year, this year launched the full version of Netcom and Mobile / Unicom version of the product. It can be seen that compared with the glory 4A of the single version last year, the glory 5A used the Qualcomm/Kinlin dual-chip strategy, which also reflected glory to the unicorn processor to some extent. In this part of the article, let's take a look at what hardware configuration the glory 5A has adopted.

Glory Play 5A Basic Parameters Screen Features 5.5 Inch 1280720 Pixel Processor Full Netcom: Snapdragon 617; Mobile / Unicom Edition: Unicorn 620 Network Mode Main Card: Full Netcom Vice Card: WCDMA, CDMA
Body storage 16GB (supports MicroSD card expansion) Operating memory 2GB Camera features 13 million pixels front-mounted 8 million pixels (F2.0 large aperture) Battery capacity 3100mAh (non-removable battery design) Operating system based on Android 6.0 EMUI 4.1 design System body color powder, yellow, blue, white, gold sales price of 699 yuan (mobile version) 799 yuan (China Unicom / Telecom Netcom)


Through the parameter table can be seen, glory 5A 5.5-inch 720P resolution screen, 2GB RAM + 16GB ROM memory combination, 8 million +1300 million camera, 3100mAh lithium polymer battery. Only from the hardware point of view, glory 5A in the same price of the product is still in a more mainstream grade. And this glory 5A adopts the dual-processor strategy. The Mobile/China Unicom version adopts the Unicorn 620 processor. Taking into account the needs of the entire network, the use of the Unicorn chip also uses the Qualcomm 617 processor. Compared to last year's single-chip glory 4A, Glory Play 5A gives more choices to users with different needs.


Design:


The appearance of a product is never just an independent project. More often than not, it is the product of constant compromise between design and cost. Many low-end products are directly affixed to the public version of some manufacturers due to cost and technical limitations. Card production. Therefore, in this price of the product, as long as the appearance of a little different, it can make the product appear to have their own temperament.


Design:

The appearance of Glory 5A and Glory 4A has not changed much. It is still a rounded rectangular design style. The front adopts a 5.5-inch screen and adopts deep-strength aluminum-silica glass, which has a certain anti-drop capability and adopts full GFF lamination technology. The screen is dark under the state of blank screen, and there is no impression of greying that is often found in hundred-dollar machines.

The top of the fuselage is a light sensor and a 8 million-pixel camera, using SONY/Hynix back-illuminated BSI sensor, F2.0 large aperture, 27mm wide-angle. Glory's 5A handset is designed with a metal mesh design and a flat glass cover that reduces dust accumulation during normal use. The bottom of the fuselage is still the EMUI classic three virtual buttons, and the logo of the "honor" on the bottom of the phone.

Glory Play 5A body is made of plastic material. The design with 3D texture on the surface will show a different sequence of textures from different angles. The overall look and feel is more energetic. And the glory play 5C uses the detachable rear cover design that is rare nowadays, and opens the rear cover through a notch at the bottom left of the fuselage. The entire backplane is connected to the interior via snaps.

At the top of the back is a SONY/OV 13 million pixel sensor camera, F2.0 aperture; 28mm equivalent focal length. The lens uses 5P lens, built-in blue glass IR filter, and Corning glass protection lens can effectively protect the protective glass of the lens.

"Symmetrical" design is a major trend in the design of mobile phones today. Glory Play 5C also uses symmetrical openings in the bottom of the fuselage, BOX integrated sound cavity design. It is worth mentioning that Glory has integrated a large amount of genuine music in the built-in music APP. In today's era of strict copyright, it is definitely a great welfare for users who like to listen to songs.

The fuselage frame, glory play 5A using metal-like high-light processing, and the border is too good, there will be no feeling of resting. The volume and power buttons are on the left side of the fuselage, and textures are added to the buttons to increase the feel of the device. The keystrokes and feedback of the entire button are relatively modest, and there is no loosening. The overall workmanship is still worthy of trust.

Glory Play 5A has a detachable design on the back shell, but it does not replace the battery. The SIM card slot is in the upper part of the fuselage. It does not support hot plugging of the SIM card. It must be switched off and replaced. Support mixed insertion function, the user can choose which card to use in the system as the main card to access the Internet, and supports memory card expansion.


Summary: In general, the glory play 5A work is still relatively solid, there is no rough work in some thousands of machines, in appearance design law-abiding, not seeking for success but the style is also more in line with this price Features.

System experience:

Glory Play 5A is equipped with EMUI4.1 developed based on Android 6.0. There are not many changes in interface interaction and practical functions compared to the 4.0 version, which still continues the simple and intuitive features of EMUI. Glory Play 5A standard 2GB RAM, about 1.13GB available after boot, this design also ensures that the basic mobile phone can be used smoothly.

Appearance, it is still EMUI's iconic magazine lock screen and rounded rectangle icon. In the interface, EMUI uses more flat design such as lines, and has three virtual buttons such as triangle, circle and rectangle at the bottom, which are concise and clear. In terms of basic operation logic and UI layout, it is not much different from native Android 6.0. Google has gradually standardized the design specifications of various systems after Android 5.0, and Huawei has a huge share in overseas markets, so follow the design ideas of native Android. It has a better effect on the popularity of use.


Compared with other systems, the biggest feature of EMUI is the control of the application. As we all know, due to the initial design of the Android system, there is a chained exhalation mechanism among its applications. For example, if you open an APP, it can call out multiple APPs in the background of the system. This is also a cause of security. A major reason for excellence in using more cards. The EMUI can monitor all applications in the background and clean up automatically if there are abnormalities.

In addition, Huawei has always had a good experience in cell phone signal by virtue of years of accumulation in the communications field. In actual use, WLAN+ is a useful but inconsequential feature. WLAN+ can intelligently select the best network connection according to the signal strength of Wifi and mobile data network; and can automatically turn on or off the wireless at a specific location according to the wifi already connected. In other words, Glory can detect nearby wireless signals, compare it with your own network signal, which signal strength is better, automatically enable, and automatically turn off the wifi setting after you get out of the house a certain distance, without wifi in the background Always scan the signal to save power.


Summary: As a veteran domestic system, after several years of continuous iteration, EMUI has long been able to get rid of the past and the rough impression. Although it is not quite outstanding, it also achieves all basic functions. With Huawei's years of accumulation in the telecommunications field, Huawei's mobile phone communications experience has greatly improved.

Performance Testing:


The glory 5A adopts the dual-chip strategy. The entire Netcom version uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor, and the Mobile/China Unicom version uses the Unicorn 620 processor. Compared to the 4A single-chip strategy that glorified last year, besides the reasons for telecommunications baseband patents, the glory must also have certain confidence in its own Kirin processor. Since the product we got is the full Netcom version, we will experience the performance of the entire Netcom version in this part of the article.

Compared to the same price of the majority of products used in the Nine Dragons 4 series, the main frequency has not changed much, Xiaolong 617 more than four A53 core, using a parallel eight-core architecture, which is why Qualcomm began to call it true The reason for the nuclear. At the same time, besides the upgrade of the core architecture, the Snapdragon 617 processor has been upgraded in terms of baseband, DSP (digital signal processing), storage and memory, and also supports Qualcomm's Qucik Charge 3.0 (fast charging) protocol.

Glory Play 5A (Full Netcom Edition) with Xiao Long 617 processor, integrated Adeno 405 graphics chip, with 2GB of memory and 16GB of memory storage, performance in fact in the same stall in the phone does not lag behind. In the Ann Bunny's running division, Glory played 5A to a level of 44,592 points. It can be seen that Glory Play 5A is slightly better in terms of performance than using MediaTek P10's Charm Blue Note3. In general, Glory 5A does not lag behind in terms of CPU, GPU computing performance in thousands of machines, and supports full Netcom SIM card blind insertion, no main and vice slot restrictions, it is worth mentioning that, vice card part glory 5A WCMDA (3G) signals are also supported.

In GFXBench's test, it can be seen that the glory play 5A is due to the GPU's use of Adreno 405, which is lack of graphics processing capabilities. Basically smooth application of lightweight APP, but if you need to deal with complex image data calculations in large games, you will lose the number of frames.

Photo test:


Glory Play 5A uses SONY/OV 13 million pixel sensor camera, F2.0 aperture; 28mm equivalent focal length, 5P lens, and uses Corning glass protective lenses. Only from the hardware point of view, in the more expensive thousand yuan machine stalls do not fall in the wind. Not much to say, we see really making proofs.

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Night shooting proofs

Through the proofs, we can see that, in the case of good light intensity, the performance of Glory Play 5A in the thousand Yuan machine gave the author a little surprise. The white balance is relatively stable and accurate, and the picture has a certain sense of transparency, but underexposure conditions occur when there is insufficient light. The photographs have a certain dark detail and the edges of the backlight are not much distorted. However, in the night shoot, due to the lack of anti-shake, making the glory 5A's focus speed becomes more protracted, and the overall image quality is also relatively poor. Of course, for a 699 mobile phone, you really can't ask how strong its night shot is. In general, the glory of the 5A's photo shoot is at a good level in the same price category.


to sum up:

As an entry-level thousand yuan machine for young people, Glory 5A has a good overall experience. Although it may not have a bright appearance and its performance is not particularly strong, the products at this price segment must be made available. It is not possible to be comprehensive. Glory began with the most basic functions of communication, life, and other functions of the mobile phone. In the face of market segmentation, targeted users launched targeted optimization, which makes Glory Play 5A have obvious characteristics, and it also has a certain degree of competitiveness at this price point. And the most important thing is to play with 5A this time. We all know that thousands of Yuan machines have always been the world of panic buying. For the emerging new machines, the product life cycle is likely to be only six months or even several months. In such a short product cycle, how can we achieve large-scale supply? In the “sea of ​​blood” 1,000-yuan machine market, time is of utmost importance.

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