Lenovo S5 review: a 1,000 yuan phone with balanced configuration and no flaws

When Trump took the initiative to start the Sino-US trade war, I picked up my Lenovo S5, which was only priced at 1,199 yuan. It had an all-metal integrated body and was ultra-thin and felt great in the hand. At that time, I had a question: if this phone was made entirely by Americans, would it be priced at 1,199 yuan?

Yes, on this planet, China is the only country that can make a thousand-yuan phone so exquisite.

This also reflects from another perspective the difficulty of making mobile phones in China. There are so many talented people and experts, and it is not possible to stand out from them with just a few big words.

Judging from the first day of reservations, Lenovo S5 seems to have achieved this. The first batch of 500,000 units were sold out in 2 minutes.

After you play around with the S5 and test it, you will find that the public's eyes are really sharp. Among the current thousand-yuan phones, the S5 is not only comprehensive in terms of overall quality, but also has many highlights. As a thousand-yuan phone, what it wants is to sell well, and the S5 really did it.

S5 with comprehensive quality

Before S5 was released, when Lenovo Vice President Chang Cheng kept releasing positive news about S5 on Weibo to attract users' attention, some knowledgeable people said that this was a product that was branded with the ZUK mobile phone seal and was also a product infused with Chang Cheng's strong personal will.

Say without emotion:

1. ZUK's past works are all remarkable. When competing with top players, he not only did not lose, but also had the upper hand in every aspect. Therefore, even after ZUK's unfortunate death, there are still many people who remember him.

2. Chang Cheng is an excellent product manager and supply chain expert. Please refer to the first reason.

In the PC era, experts all liked to play with CPU overclocking. Why? The performance was not good enough. Does anyone still play with overclocking now? Yes, geeks who overclock for the sake of overclocking will play with it. Ordinary people start from performance and no longer pay attention to such expensive and troublesome work.

I really don’t want to say more about the configuration of S5. In this era of overperformance, any chip will suffice.

To make an inappropriate analogy, even if it is a thousand-yuan phone, the current mobile phone chip is at least a V6 engine, and your daily use, even if you just play games every day, is equivalent to driving on the highway, there is no problem at all, it is more than enough to cope with it.

Unlike many thousand-yuan phones that use MediaTek chips, the S5 uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 chip with a single-core frequency of up to 2.0GHz. Combined with 4GB of memory and 128GB of storage and an AI game acceleration engine, it has excellent performance, faster processing speed, smoother operation, and no lag in games.

In terms of display, it uses a 5.7-inch FHD+18:9 full screen, plus a 2.5D curved glass design, with a resolution of 2160 X 1080.

It is worth mentioning that the Lenovo S5 phone, with its thinnest part being only 3mm, has a naturally high-end appearance and is very pleasing to the eye.

Lenovo's conclusion is: We invested a lot of money - the all-metal integrated body design. The body is made of a whole piece of 6-series aviation-grade aluminum alloy plate. Through seven CNC processes, nano-injection molding, grinding, sandblasting, diamond trimming, anodizing and other thirteen processes, the result is a delicate and smooth touch, non-slip and wear-resistant. What is more noteworthy is that the camera part is directly integrated with the back shell, which is dust-proof and durable.

It is no exaggeration to say that Lenovo is very conscientious and attentive in terms of the design and materials used.

In terms of camera performance, the Lenovo S5 phone has a 13MP + 13MP dual rear camera, a dual-color temperature flash, and a variety of professional camera modes and functions.

The front camera has 16 million pixels and 100-level AI beauty, supports dozens of real-time filters, and has a fun and cute selfie function, allowing you to change your style as you like.

In addition, the Lenovo S5 phone supports face unlocking and has a universal camera scanning function. There is no need to open the application, just open the camera to scan the code in one step.

Judging from the test samples, in a deliberately chosen light-proof environment, the photos still achieved good results in light and dark contrast. The details and layering of the plants were well reflected, with no graininess or overexposure or underexposure defects.

In fact, on many thousand-yuan phones, the camera is just good enough, just for taking pictures, and the S5 has obviously taken a big step forward in this standard. It may be a bit exaggerated to be comparable to Apple, but it should not be difficult to compete with 2,000-yuan level phones.

Lenovo S5 also runs a score

Everything needs a standard, even if the standard may not be completely fair. Of course, complete fairness is an ideal state, which does not exist in reality. Therefore, although we are not very happy, we still cannot avoid using AnTuTu to run the performance test.

Regarding running scores, a required step in mobile phone testing, I would like to say that the exam-oriented education has cultivated in us a good habit of checking scores in everything we do.

In fact, it is just a score, nothing more. All it does is to force something to be ranked high or low, and it does not add any value to the actual function and experience of the thing.

In the 3D graphics test, we found that despite its affordable price, the S5 did not slouch in image performance.

The flow of light and shadow, the changes in water flow, and all the details flow smoothly without any sense of drag.

It is difficult for any evaluation to accurately test the battery. It is like the fuel consumption of a car. Your load, road conditions, and driving habits will have a great impact on fuel consumption.

Here, we use Lenovo's official statement. The battery capacity of S5 is 3000 mAh, and the official claims that it can be used for 23 hours of uninterrupted play. This is due to the long-life battery developed by Lenovo mobile phones, the original Anti-Aging Algorithm, and triple anti-aging technology. The average battery life is increased by up to 20%, and the battery capacity can be maintained after long-term use.

In the actual test, after fully charging the phone and running the AnTuTu test twice, it took about half an hour, and the power consumption dropped by about 8%. For details, see the top of the running score screenshot. This shows that the long battery life of Lenovo S5 may not be an empty promise.

On the whole, the S5 launched by Lenovo this time has no flaws in terms of quality and few unreasonable aspects. It is a strong thousand-yuan phone that will sell well as expected.

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.