On the East Fourth Ring in Beijing, I got a rental that I managed to hit, listening to the driver’s broadcast. 60 minutes of Gao Xiaosong talk show, I came to the Xiaomi Science and Technology Park outside the North Fifth Ring Road.

This is the office of Xiaomi just completed in less than two months, a total of 8 buildings, the cost 5.2 billion, about 1 / 33 of Xiaomi’s annual revenue in 2018.

The first public event held here was the launch of the Redmi Note8 series. In order to highlight the Redmi Note8 Pro’s 64-megapixel camera, Xiaomi also specially printed a 3-meter-high proof, so that everyone can see the strength of this thousand yuan machine “big shot”.

As Redmi’s second-volume thousand-yuan product this year, Lu Weibing repeatedly emphasized at the press conference that the Redmi Note8 series is a redesign of the previous work. The Redmi Note8 Pro in our hands is called “Full upgrade and redesign of Note8”.

MediaTek’s latest G90T, 64 million pixel four-shot, 4500mAh battery +18W fast charge, when Lu Weibing announced At the price of 1399 yuan, the audience shouted “Wow…” and “True Fragrance”.

The appearance of the Redmi Note8 series has changed a lot from the previous Note7. The change is from the mobile phone. The shape, color and opening layout are three aspects.

When I hold both Redmi Note7 Pro and Note8 Pro phones, I will notice the post The natural transition in the edge is much more, and the feel of the hand slows down with the curved glass. This is the first experience I used to get started with Note8 Pro.

The reason why Redmi changed the look of the Note series this time, I think it is going to reduce the thickness through the arc surface. The influence of the opponent’s feelings. In fact, the thickest part of the Redmi Note8 Pro has reached 8.7 mm, which is even thicker than the 8.1 mm of the Note7 Pro.

Of course, this is also the design method most commonly used by mobile phone manufacturers. For example, Realme X uses arc surface. Adding a thick fuselage and palm fit, so Redmi is not surprising.

But I also noticed that the Redmi Note8 Pro’s body is heavier than the Note7 Pro. In terms of parameters, the Redmi Note8 Pro reached 199 grams, 13 grams more than the predecessor; it weighed 1 gram more than the 198 grams of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ 5G. Personally think this may be due to the 4500mAh battery caused by the weight, compared to the predecessor’s 4000mAh, this 13 grams of weight in exchange for 500mAh battery capacity.

Lu Weibing repeatedly emphasized Redmi Note8 P at the press conferenceRo is one of the few thousand yuan machines in the country, and it also mentions that its texture and quality are leading the same level. Indeed, the texture of the back of the phone can bring a higher-grade effect under the lining of the glass. But it may be the reason for cost control. Although the phone frame looks like polished metal, it is actually plastic.

In order to make the rear fingerprint area unobtrusive, Redmi is quite cleverly putting the rear fingerprint The area and the camera are placed side by side vertically, and the fourth camera is placed next to it, which gives people a illusion of four shots + TOF, but in fact, the lowest position of the mirror is actually the fingerprint recognition area. However, because I am close to the camera, I often mistakenly touch the third lens and print the fingerprint on the lens. Users with thick fingers may have to pay attention.

The 6.53-inch water drop screen provides 1080P resolution and the picture performance remains the sameAt the mainstream level, the highest brightness of 500 nits allows us to see the picture in direct sunlight. This part of the performance is quite satisfactory, in line with the current thousand yuan machine level.

The real place to circle, I think it is the basic function of NFC and infrared, the former NFC can use To be a bus card, access control identification, etc.; the latter part of the infrared use scene has been replaced by WiFi smart home, but in the absence of network or non-smart home appliances, the phone is a portable remote control.

Oh, the phone is also equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack, and the body also supports P2i nano The life of the coating is splash-proof. Of course, I certainly won’t recommend you to test it with water. After all, even if it is waterproof, the electronic products are farther away from the water source.

This year Redmi is divided into two SoC configurations on the Note8 series. Redmi Note8 continues to use Qualcomm Opteron processors, while the larger Redmi Note8 Pro is used. The latest G90T from MediaTek. And the highest configuration has also risen to 8GB (LPDDR4x) + 128GB (UFS 2.1), and the card slot can support memory card expansion.

Speaking of the name of MediaTek G90T, I believe everyone will feel strange, of course, this is not surprising, after all, we The most frequently contacted this year is Qualcomm Xiaolong and Heis Qilin, and MediaTek G90 series is also a new product released last month.

MediaTek G90T uses the A76 eight-core architecture, which is two A76 large core plus six A55 small cores, the highest frequency is 2.05GHz. In terms of GPU graphics processing power, the SoC is powered by the Kirin 980 Mali-G76. Redmi said that the overall performance of this SoC has surpassed Qualcomm’s mid-range Snapdragon 710.

▲ The results of the three rabbits in the mid-range mobile phone are

In the running point of Ann Bunny, Redmi Note8 Pro ran out of 281,000 points, comparing The 213,000 of the predecessor Redmi Note7 Pro is much higher.

Also someone asked me how big it is compared with the Snapdragon 710 device, I also tested it. Running a minute with Realme X, the result was 184,000 (results are for reference only).