Continuation and change, the careful work of glory, glory V40 depth experience

From the point of view of the design language, Honor V40 is more or less a continuation of the Honor 30 Pro, the same double-curved screen design, 80 super curved waterfall screen makes the front of the phone look and feel very good. Of course, some friends may throw out the "curved wrong touch theory", but don't worry, glory V40 also for the wrong touch to do the AI anti wrong touch multi-scene optimization, you can't deny that such a screen form is better than the straight screen.

Moreover, because of the double-curved screen, the Honor V40 looks thinner and lighter, both from a visual perspective and from a hand-feeling perspective. Of course, from the official data, honor V40 can actually be called thin and light, body thickness of 8.04mm, weight of about 186g, holding in the hand of the overall grip is actually better than the iPhone 12.

The Honor V40 still uses BOE's top-of-the-line OLED screen this time, 6.72 inches with 2676*1236 resolution, bringing it a screen pixel density of 440ppi, and the whole screen has a good level of detail.

In terms of color, this screen of Glory V40 supports 1.07 billion colors of original color display, which is 64 times higher than the traditional 16.7 million colors, and with Glory's comprehensive color management, it can bring better display effect when displaying pictures and videos. Moreover, under the trend of high brush, Glory V40 is not exempt from the trend, not only will the refresh rate of the screen to 120Hz, but also brings up to 300Hz screen touch sampling rate, the screen touch smoothness and visual smoothness have a good performance.

In addition, Glory V40 also adds a natural color display with up to 4096 levels of hardware dimming, so that when the color temperature and ambient light change, Glory V40's screen is able to present the most suitable display effect by changing the color and brightness. This is a useful feature that should be relatively rare in current Android phones.

Although the Honor V40's "forehead" is narrow enough, Honor still managed to put a speaker unit in this position, and the speaker at the bottom of the fuselage to form a stereo dual-speaker, so you can watch movies and listen to music.

On the back of the fuselage, Glory V40 adopts a new 'recursive visual design', which creates the mystery of order and visual unity through the 1:3:9:27 isometric rectangle ring. The back of the phone is made of glass, which is able to create a variegated luster through a dual-layer textured coating process. However, because the glass surface is glossy, it's still hard to escape the fate of a fingerprint collector when used naked.

The Honor V40 comes in three colors, besides the Phantom Night Black, there is also Titanium Silver and Rose Gold, all of which are classic colors, and the Titanium Silver is an AG glass surface, so those who hate fingerprints can choose it.

Camera, Honor V40 uses a triple-camera module, in which the 50-megapixel main camera still uses RYYB ultra-sensitive technology with a 1/1.56-inch sensor size, and the two secondary cameras are an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera and a 2-megapixel macro camera. Below the triple camera module, there is a flash on the left and a laser focus sensor on the right.

Also, despite the curved screen, the volume and power buttons on the Honor V40 use physical buttons, which are better to use than pressure-sensitive buttons.

Finally, the top and bottom of the phone of Honor V40 still use a flat design, as the saying goes: a phone that can stand is a good phone ~

The top of the phone, in addition to the microphone, there is an infrared sensor, which means that the Honor V40 can be used as an infrared remote control, which is still quite practical.

At the bottom of the phone, there is a SIM card slot, earpiece, Type-C charging data port, and speaker. Honor V40 supports up to 66W wired charging and 50W wireless charging (only supported by the high end version), using wired charging, it takes less than 40 minutes to fill the 4000mAh battery.

A lot of people talk about MTK and MediaTek, and they have a preconceived notion that it's synonymous with "low-end". However, after a series of tests and experiences, the performance of the Tenguet 1000+ on the Honor V40 actually gave me a big surprise. In addition to the Tenguet 1000+'s own strength in the mid-range and high-end, the glory of its own optimization and the addition of the GPU Turbo X graphics acceleration engine also contributes to this.

The recent opening of the 90 fps mode for Honor of Kings, and the fact that the Honor V40 was among the first models to be adapted, shows that the performance of the Honor V40 has also been recognized by the game makers. Therefore, this test, I also set the frame rate mode of the "King of Glory" to "very high", that is, the newly opened 90 fps mode. The actual test can be seen, glory V40 in the whole game process of the average frame rate reached 93.1fps, while the fluctuation is only 1fps, converted to 1 hour frame loss of only 6.3fps, see the glory V40 to cope with the glory of the king of the completely no problem.

In the game of Elite Peace, the Honor V40 also performed stably, with an average frame rate of 59.3fps and a frame rate fluctuation of 1.73fps, without any lag in the game process. After improving the image quality, the maximum frame rate of Peaceful Elite dropped to 40fps, while the Honor V40 can be stabilized at 40fps, and the game is still smooth.

From the experience of the two games, Glory V40 is able to run smoothly for the current mainstream mobile games, whether it's the highest quality or the highest frame rate, it is able to run at full frame rate, compared to the current market is also equipped with the TianGui 1000 + SoC cell phone performance is better, and this is also with the new upgrade of the GUP Turbo X optimization is inextricably linked.

Moreover, although it's not a gaming phone, the Honor V40 is still optimized for gaming. For example, in the gaming interface, you can slide down to call out the "Gaming Assistant" option, and tap the center "handle" logo to open the "Hunter Boost", in which the system will automatically clean up the memory, turn on the power of the system, and then use the "Gaming Assistant" function to enhance the performance of the game.

In terms of display, sometimes when we play a game, we may feel that the brightness of the screen is not appropriate, or the color is a bit light, so the game feels poorer, and may even affect the operation. Honor V40 also took into account this problem, so in the game enhancement added "brightness lock" and "display enhancement", you can adjust the screen display according to their own preferences, such as I like to play the game when turning on the For example, I like to turn on "Color Mode" when I play a game, which makes the game more colorful and pleasing to the eye.

Although the game smoothness and graphics meet the demand, but always feel short of something. Honor V40 this time in the hardware configuration, in fact, there is a "killer app", that is, dual vibration motor. Honor V40 in the upper part of the screen and the lower part of the screen were placed in a Z-axis and X-axis linear motor, which can be simulated by different amplitude, different vibration frequency vibration to obtain excellent vibration experience. Currently, in games, 4D vibration support includes Honor of Kings, Happy Fun, New Gods and Demons, New Smiling Proud Wanderer, etc., and more games will be supported in the future.

Review of the glory phone, a topic that can not be left out is the image shooting, this time the glory V40 for us is still a familiar recipe, the rear main camera uses a 50 megapixel camera, still has RYYB ultra-sensitive technology support, while the imaging quality is a step further. Specific performance, we are still through the sample to see:

Daytime samples:

Daylight because the sun gives a good light environment, so it is a more test of the camera's basic ability.

Daytime samples, glory V40 performance makes me more satisfied, the picture is clean, clarity, color reproduction and other aspects of the performance, especially in the optimization of "AI" shooting, glory V40 for the picture of the individual elements to increase the rendering, such as the sky in the picture above, in fact, to be a little bit bluer than the reality of the sky, it feels just right, not like the sky. It feels just right, and doesn't over-render like many phones do, but makes the image look fake.

Still on the subject of color reproduction, the overall color of the Honor V40 is not a complete replica of reality, but rather an algorithm that makes the colors slightly richer, and the resulting image is more pleasing to the eye.

Night samples:

At night, because the entire light environment is darker, it's more of a test of the camera's light intake and algorithms.

Thanks to the RYYB ultra-sensitive technology, the Honor V40's ability to shoot in dark light is guaranteed. Even when the ambient light is completely dark, the images shot by the Honor V40 in regular mode are still bright and clear, and thanks to a significant increase in the amount of light intake, the image noise and smearing are also well controlled.

As for the suppression of highlights, I think the Honor V40 actually does a pretty good job, the lighting doesn't produce excessive halos or overflow, and even with so many lanterns, the picture isn't dirtier due to the lighting.

Indoor samples:

Indoor is more special, such as in the mall, the light environment is more complex, for the camera's white balance also original relatively high requirements.

From these samples, we can see that Honor V40's grasp of white balance is still quite accurate, and there is basically no large area of off-color.

Portrait samples:

Due to the limitations of the phone's camera structure, portraits are more dependent on algorithms, such as how well the background is blurred, and how well the foreground meets the background.

From the sample photos, we can roughly see how the Glory V40 portraits work. The background bokeh effect is quite natural, but in the combination of foreground and background, the edges of the clothes are quite natural because they are more neatly organized, but in the case of the hair, it's not quite as neatly organized as it should be, so it's a little bit of a turnover in a few places. "

These are the first time I've ever seen an iPhone with an iPhone, and I think they're much better than iPhone portraits.

In addition to these regular shooting, Honor V40 also brings more interesting gameplay, such as in the photo, I often use the professional, HDR, panoramic photo, dynamic photo, super macro and other modes, to achieve some special circumstances of the shooting needs; and in the video, the Honor V40 in addition to support for real-time beauty, but also support for slow-motion, time-lapse photography and Dual View Video, all of which are more fun shooting modes.

In terms of system, Honor V40 doesn't follow the previous EMUI, but returns to Magic UI, which may be unfamiliar to some friends, but in fact, Honor was using it on its own Magic series.

From the point of view of the UI design, Magic UI doesn't completely get rid of the shadow of EMUI, whether it's the desktop icon design, or the desktop icon design. So, for those who have been using the Glory phone before, the Magic UI of the Glory V40 is actually very fast to adapt to.

Magic UI's desktop icons all appear in the shape of rounded corners and squares, and even if they are third-party icons, they don't look out of place on the desktop, and the overall style tends to be uniform. In addition to the default theme, Magic UI also provides an additional 4 groups of different styles of preset themes, such as "Silver Wings" will be relatively mature, may be more suitable for business people, while "Fly" with fresh colors, more suitable for fashionable young people, the choice is still quite a lot. The choice is still quite large.

If you're not satisfied with the presets, you can also "customize" the elements of your desktop separately. This includes wallpapers, icons, the display of the rest of the screen, the magazine lock screen, and so on, which can be customized, with a high degree of freedom.

Swiping in from the right side of the screen brings up the Smart Multi-Window Bar, a small feature that is useful for multitasking users. For example, if you want to send pictures from your photo album to your WeChat friends, just open WeChat and Gallery through the Smart Multi-Window app bar, set up a split screen, and then drag and drop the photos from Gallery into the WeChat window to send them in real-time, which is much more intuitive and convenient to use.

Continuity, Glory V40 is equipped with a 4000mAh battery, in the current Android phone camp in the middle, if light use, can be used for 2 days, and in the case of medium-heavy use, can also meet the day's use. Unlike many high-power charging programs that use dual-cell, Glory V40 carries a single-cell, three-pole ear fast-charging program this time, which has less battery loss and a longer lifespan than the dual-cell program.

Compared to the battery's moderate, the Honor V40 is full of sincerity in charging, not only equipped with 66W wired fast charging, but also with 50W wireless super fast charging on the high end model, to meet the fast charging needs of a variety of scenarios.

The actual test, honor V40 using the original charger, power from 0-100%, took about 45 minutes, the first 15 minutes can be for get about 45% of the power, 30 minutes to charge 78%. Since I purchased the lower-end version, there's no way for me to test wireless charging for you, which is theoretically slower compared to wired charging, but shouldn't take more than 60 minutes.

In the time I've been using the Honor V40, I've seen the "shadow" of the V40, and if you've used Honor's 2020 flagships, it's even more pronounced. Whether from the historical reasons, or from the time reason, honor V40 is the glory in the current environment of the sincere work. I personally feel that the comprehensive performance of the glory V40 is still good, design, double-curved screen is still the peak of the value; performance, GPU Turbo X almost Tiangui 1000 + strength all played out; and in terms of photography, the bottom of the RYYB is still there, and the performance of the camera module is still noteworthy.

Of course, the glory V40 is obviously not perfect, such as the optimization of the system level there is still room for improvement.

Comprehensively speaking, it is the glory of the opening of the year in 2021, not extreme, but also can be said to be elaborate.