vivo S6 mobile phone review: a four-camera phone with super long standby time in the 5G era

Although the dividends of the current smartphone market are gradually shrinking, the arrival of the 5G network wave has given leading mobile phone manufacturers more opportunities - as long as they seize this wave of dividends, it is entirely possible to go against the trend.

Vivo, which was the first to launch 5G terminal products, naturally understands this truth. Therefore, in the past two years, vivo has been actively sorting out its own product lines on the one hand, and steadily advancing the construction of terminal products on the other.

Recently, vivo has brought us the new 5G product of the S series, vivo S6. I believe everyone is also very curious. As the first batch of 5G new phones in the 2,000 yuan range, can vivo S6 continue vivo's consistent product boutique strategy? What surprises can it bring us?

Family-style design, highly recognizable

Although vivo S6 is only a mid-range product of vivo, friends who know vivo must know that in terms of appearance, vivo has never disappointed consumers' expectations.

On the front, the vivo S6 is equipped with a 6.44-inch FHD+ AMOLED waterdrop full screen, which supports 103% NTSC ultra-wide color gamut and can display richer and more three-dimensional content. When playing games, you can especially feel the shocking viewing experience brought by this screen.

The back of the vivo S6 adopts a large arc edge design. When held in one hand, the arc of the entire body and the arc of the palm complement each other, bringing a very comfortable grip. It is worth noting that although the vivo S6 is equipped with a four-camera design, vivo has placed these cameras in the "Oreo" photography module, which not only avoids clutter, but also brings extremely expressive photo effects, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

The color of the vivo S6's middle frame is consistent with that of the back shell, and there is no obvious color difference, which is rare at this price. In addition, the vivo S6 still retains a 3.5mm headphone jack on the top of the body. Although removing the headphone jack is a general trend, vivo still leaves room for consumers to choose, which indirectly reflects vivo's consumer-centric product concept.

Overall, in today's world where mobile phone design is becoming increasingly homogeneous, the vivo S6 still maintains vivo's unique design language, which is undoubtedly very rare.

Four cameras to meet all your shooting needs

The biggest highlight of vivo S6 is photography - its rear lens is a quad-camera combination of 48 million main camera + 2 million depth of field + 2 million macro + 112° 8 million wide-angle, which almost covers most of the photography needs we may encounter in our daily life.

In addition, in order to give full play to the strength of the vivo S6's quad-camera, vivo has also added an AI algorithm at the software level, which can intelligently identify scenes and adjust the user's photo-taking strategy in a targeted manner, truly achieving "point-and-shoot photography". Let's take a look at the sample photos of the vivo S6.

Judging from the flower samples, the bright red flowers do not look dull at all under the lens of vivo S6. At the same time, vivo S6 also accurately shows the elegant pink around the white flowers. These two extreme scenes demonstrate the excellent color reproduction ability of vivo S6.

In the backlit scene, the vivo S6 takes care of the highlights of the background sky on the one hand, and does not let the back of the shade of the tree be too dark on the other hand, presenting a high-light ratio photo with a very balanced overall expression.

Thanks to the 2-megapixel macro lens, the vivo S6 can capture subtle things that ordinary phones cannot. For example, the stamens in the picture above are difficult to see even with the human eye, but the vivo S6 can show every detail.

Normal focal length

Ultra wide angle

In addition, vivo S6 also supports shooting 112° ultra-wide-angle photos. By comparing the photos with normal focal length and ultra-wide-angle focal length in the above picture, we can find that the ultra-wide-angle photos of vivo S6 can include more details, which is definitely a great tool for travel photography.

Looking at the photos of vivo S6, you can find that thanks to the hardware foundation of the four cameras and vivo's profound photography algorithms, the vivo S6 can handle almost any photo-taking scene we encounter - you no longer need to carry a bulky SLR when you go out, you can dominate the circle of friends.

Performance close to flagship phones

In terms of performance, the vivo S6 is equipped with the Exynos 980 flagship chip jointly developed by vivo and Samsung, which supports SA/NSA dual networking. In the state of 4G-5G dual connection, the download speed of vivo S6 can reach up to 3.55Gbps.

As the world's first A77 architecture processor, Exynos 980 not only performs well in 5G networks, but also brings top performance experience to vivo S6 with the support of 8nm process and NPU.

The actual measured AnTuTu score of vivo S6 reached 333859 points, GeekBench single-core score was 3196 points, and multi-core score was 7518 points. Judging from the scores, vivo S6 can even compete with flagship phones.

It is worth noting that in order to allow consumers to experience the best gaming experience, vivo S6 also supports "Game Magic Box", which can bring e-sports mode, 4D game vibration, brightness lock and other functions that were previously only available on gaming phones.

In order to intuitively feel the actual gaming performance of vivo S6, we let vivo S6 run the popular online game "Honor of Kings" and turn on the high frame rate mode.

In actual testing, the vivo S6 can always run at 60fps, and even when encountering complex scenes, the vivo S6 does not drop any frames.

It can be said that through the comprehensive optimization of both software and hardware, the performance of vivo S6 is not inferior to some flagship phones, and it can definitely cope with our daily high-intensity use.

Big battery + fast charging, no more battery anxiety

Although 5G mobile phones have become the trend, due to the high-load characteristics of 5G, the battery life of mobile phones is also a problem that manufacturers have to face.

In order to allow users to use their phones relaxedly when going out, the vivo S6 is equipped with a large 4500mAh battery and has added vivo's exclusive dual-engine optimization technology at the software level. In actual tests, when the parameters of "Honor of Kings" were adjusted to the highest and run continuously for 1 hour, the vivo S6 only lost 15% of its power, which is definitely an "ultra-long standby" product.

On the other hand, in order to make up for the slow charging problem of the large battery, the vivo S6 is also equipped with 18W vivo FlashCharge flash charging technology. It is tested that 77% of the power can be charged in one hour. Even when there is no power, it can be quickly restored through fast charging technology.

Summarize

As a product priced at only 2,000 yuan, we don't seem to have too many expectations for the vivo S6, but vivo doesn't think so - whether it's photography, appearance or performance, the vivo S6 can be compared with flagship phones. Therefore, if you want to choose a 5G phone in the 2,000 yuan range, then the vivo S6 is definitely the best choice.

On the other hand, it is precisely because of vivo's strict product strategy that it has achieved considerable results in the industry.

As early as February 2020, IDC released a forecast that due to the impact of the epidemic, China's smartphone shipments in the first quarter are expected to decrease by 40%. This is undoubtedly a double whammy for the mobile phone industry, which has already entered the stock market.

Although the entire market continues to be sluggish, vivo is getting stronger and stronger - Strategy Analytics research data shows that vivo's global 5G smartphone shipments in 2019 were 2 million, with a market share of nearly 11%, ranking third.

As of April 2020, vivo has basically completed the layout of three-tier 5G smartphones, and through our vivo S6, we also saw the hard power of vivo products. I believe that with its consumer-centric product orientation and cutting-edge product research and development capabilities, vivo will be able to continue its outstanding achievements in the future "winter".

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.