Vivo's S series has always been deeply rooted in the positioning of thin and light portraits, and this generation of S18 series is still no exception. It not only has the light and thin attributes of high appearance, but also has a good portrait photography performance with both front and rear cameras.
There are three models in the vivo S18 series, namely vivo S18 Pro, vivo S18, and vivo S18E (among them, S18 Pro is the most recommended, S18 is second, and S18E is not particularly recommended).
This generation of the S18 series continues the concept of the S series of oriental aesthetics, and the color scheme in my hand is called "Flowers", which is a very commonly used image in ancient poetry.
If you stay in the forest like flowers, you will go out to see the flowers."
People come to Luoyang like flowers, but when I come, it is not spring".
The peony is full of spring, and the flowers are like a brocade dancing breeze".
And what will it look like if the image of flowers is made into the color and texture of the back cover of the mobile phone?
Vivo's answer is this:
This is a cluster of flowers that do not exist in nature, it is the flowing light and shadow on the back panel of the mobile phone, it is thousands of tangents of different lengths, and it is a floating pattern ...... with different angles and dots
It is not a real petal, but it has the level of petal blooming, which is exactly the same as the artistic conception of a classical ink painting.
Don't pursue the likeness, but the real godlikeness.
Instead of deliberately stacking countless concrete petal patterns on the back panel of the mobile phone in order to deduct the theme, the thickness of the lines is outlined, and the texture and color are carved and polished to form this flowery picture, which builds an infinite artistic conception in a limited space. This is the wisdom derived from oriental aesthetics - white space.
When the screen is lit up, there is a small surprise, the desktop wallpaper is really a blooming flower, which complements the design of the back panel.
In addition to the flowery design, the part of the image module and the soft light group also has a good ingenuity, vivo calls it the water light cloud window, which comes from the idea that the window in classical architecture can not only let in light, but also leave a scene.
For example, the edges of the lens module are similar to 2The design of the 5D glass has a feeling of light and shadow that is about to overflow when the water is full.
The top and bottom of the middle frame of the mobile phone continue the family-oriented flat design of the blue factory, forming a good transition and separation with the front and rear hyperboloids, which looks good and gets a good feel experience at the same time.
Without exception, the three models are all "light and thin + high value + large battery" product routes.
What is more praised is that the three models of the vivo S18 series have all devolved the blue heart AI large model, which is very well received, and can bring a lot of convenience in the daily use of mobile phones.
As for the common slots of the three models, they are basically single speakers, and the absence of the X-axis phenomenon motor, but considering that the combination of flagship image + large battery has been stuffed into such a thin and light body, it is actually understandable (PS: There are not many sub-flagships equipped with X-axis motors, but the sound experience of a single speaker is average).
Photography is the art of using light, and if you want to shoot well, the premise is that the amount of light is enough. Therefore, the low-light environment has always been a difficult scene with a small bottom such as a mobile phone, but simply shooting scenery and still life has actually been able to achieve high-quality imaging in a low-light environment through the night scene mode, which is based on multi-stack synthesis, but the shooting of portraits is the existence of hellish difficulty in this scene.
If you want to increase the amount of light, you can only choose a large-size sensor, but the double increase in thickness and weight brought by the outsole for light and thin products is inevitably contrary to the positioning, so the most direct and effective is to fill the light, which is also a unique skill of the S series, no matter how good the algorithm is, it is not as effective as the picture improvement brought by the increase in the real light intake after the supplement, which is why other companies are talking about SLR-level portraits, vivo directly further proposes studio-level portraits.
Although it is a thin and light product, in addition to the appearance design and portrait photography, in fact, the S18 series also gives a good body configuration, such as the most core configuration processor in the performance of the mobile phone, the Pro version is the former flagship chip Dimensity 9200+, and the standard version also uses the latest Snapdragon 7 Gen3.
Antutu running score, test conditions, room temperature 26, boost mode, sufficient power.
The details are as follows: Antutu v101.The 6 version runs the score, the score is 927878, of which the CPU part is 278882, the GPU part is 277038, and the temperature of the running score rises by 87 by 284 Warms up to 371, the battery level was reduced by only 1%, from 100% to 99%.
Geekbench 6 scored 1204 for CPU single-core, 3439 for multi-core, and 3684 for OpenCL and 4457 for GPU.
Although the performance of the standard version cannot be compared with many flagships, it is actually enough for most scenes in daily life, and it will not perceive the lack of performance, and S18 Pro relatively makes up for this shortcoming, after all, it uses the previous generation of Dimensity flagship core 9200+, although there is still some gap with the latest flagship, but the performance is far more than the needs of daily life.
The actual game performance test how the S18 performs, in view of the Snapdragon 7 Gen3's nearly one million running scores, directly testing with high-quality 60 frames of Genshin Impact is still a way of running the map + brushing the wild monsters on the road.
As you can see, the whole game is 15min, and the frame rate is still quite stable, most of the time it remains at about 60 frames, even if there is a little lag, there is no cliff-like frame rate drop, so the Snapdragon 7 Gen3 is really strong.
Heat dissipation is generally the disadvantage of this thin and light body, so I also tried how much maximum heat can be achieved after a long period of high load. Here's a 3D Mark Wild Life Extrem cycle stress test to see how high the maximum heat can get.
The front temperature is up to 467. The middle temperature of the screen is 452。
The back temperature is up to 458. The middle temperature of the fuselage is 434。
Such a high load,For this kind of thin and light fuselage, it is actually far beyond the level that can be achieved in daily use,But the temperature is not particularly outrageous because of the thin fuselage,So even after daily use, even after a large game,Don't worry about the fuselage heating up,The hottest is just lukewarm。
The screen of S18 also surpasses other products in the same price range, generally speaking, this positioning is mostly with 1080P screen, and S18 is a group draft 2800x1260 resolution optional, so that the display effect of the screen is also more delicate. And the global maximum brightness has also reached 1200nits, and the local peak brightness is up to 2800nits, which is twice the brightness of the previous generation. Other data of the screen is also very powerful, such as 120Hz high brush, 1 billion color display, P3 wide color gamut, 2000Hz instantaneous sampling rate, etc., all make this screen not inferior to the flagship products of many brands.
In terms of eye protection, the S18 series also uses 2160Hz high-frequency dimming, so you don't have to worry about hurting your eyes caused by stroboscopic.
In terms of battery life, it comes standard with 80W wired fast charging, as well as a 5000mAh ultra-large blue ocean battery. And it is worth noting that the S18 supports many charging protocols this time, whether it is a mobile phone or a charging head, and has the widest compatibility on the market.
In fact, the S series has always been a strategy of differentiated experience, and it is also a thin and light product, vivo's S series has the appearance design of the fuselage of the benchmark competitors, and the experience of light and thin hand, but it has made a differentiated distinction in the image, and it is impossible for everyone to get a sensor with a large bottom at this price, not a matter of cost, but a thicker and heavier image module brought by the outsole sensor is disastrous for the experience of the thin and light body.
And the S series of fill lights is a genius idea, this fill light from the front to the front and back, in fact, it also shows that not only ** scene users need to fill light, but also when shooting in the rear, it will also bring a huge gain to the dark light environment.
So when the industry is still debating whether it is optics or algorithms,vivoI have realized that the root cause is the amount of light entering the market, and for imaging, light is everything.
The most difficult hellish scene faced by mobile phones may be portrait shooting in low light, so this generation of S18 Pro uses a flagship sensor to sense light, a flagship chip to calculate light consumption, and a unique way to use the largest soft light for lightingThis has created the unique "King of Dark Light Portraits" in mobile phone products.
Among the three models,Among them, vivo S18 Pro is the most recommended,This model is weaker than vivo X100 except for the SoC chip、Wired charging power is weaker than vivo X100,And the absence of self-developed image chipV2,The rest is almost no different from vivo X100,And the body is much thinner、**It is also a lot cheaper。
In other words, the portrait of the vivo S series is really top, and it is second only to the level of the vivo X100 series, if the budget is 3000-3500 yuan, I hope to start a model that takes into account the light and thin battery, high appearance, taking pictures (especially portraits), and strong performance, vivo S18 Pro can be said to be a priority object.
Compared with the 3000 yuan model in the same price segment, vivo S18 Pro's performance is basically the same, but it has more advantages in terms of image, and other things such as screen, battery life, fast charging, dual-band GPS, heat dissipation, WiFi 7, etc. can also be taken into account, all aspects are more balanced, and the only slot is to be shipped in January (it's really a bit long).
Compared with vivo S18 Pro, vivo S18 is not much different in terms of body size, weight, color matching, screen quality, battery capacity, charging power, etc., and then cut the SoC chip, rear ultra-wide angle and portrait lens, in addition to the WiFi protocol and GPS, etc., it has also been weakened to a certain extent, but each storage version** is cheaper600-700 yuan.
Although the ultra-wide and portrait lenses have been weakened, the Vivo S18 is still very strong for portrait shots.
This generation of S18 can already be regarded as the most versatile and balanced product at 2299 yuan, and S18 Pro has a performance that surpasses its peersWith a thin and light body, it is flush with the standard flagship of the friend, the same main camera and ultra-wide angle as the X100, the same telephoto portrait lens as the X90S, and the Dimensity 9200+ ......It can be regarded as a thinner version of the X100 again, and it only costs 3199 yuan.
As for vivo S18E, the configuration is quite different from vivo S18 and S18 Pro, but**It is also a lot lower, the main advantages are the thin and light body and**, it is not as comprehensive as the previous two, and the chin bezel is slightly wider, which is not particularly recommended.