With the arrival of the Spring Festival, the mobile phone market has finally ushered in a wave of short breaks, in the past year, we have seen the efforts made by mobile phone manufacturers to promote the development of mobile phones: the popularization of high-pixel sensors, the improvement of the quality of telephoto lenses, 2K 120Hz into the standard and so on. Each mobile phone has injected new vitality into the mobile phone market, and also made consumers more look forward to what flowers mobile phone manufacturers will play in 2022.
Therefore, Xiao Lei today has summarized several popular models that will be released in the near future, and see if there are mobile phones that you want to buy with money.
Redmi K50 Series: A New Universe Is Coming
As the most user-aware brand on the market, Redmi's K40 series launched in 2021 can be described as a complete "killing madness", and the sales of K40 models alone on JD.com have far exceeded one million. Therefore, everyone is also looking forward to what kind of surprises this year's K50 series can bring.
Coincidentally, Xiaomi Vice President Lu Weibing released a warm-up poster about the Redmi K50 series on January 29, which clearly stated that it would be released after the Spring Festival. According to the previous release rhythm of Redmi, Xiao Lei speculated that the Redmi K50 series would probably be released around February 15.
As for the configuration that readers are more concerned about, according to the summary of various leaks, the Redmi K50 series will be divided into four models, namely Redmi K50 (standard version), Redmi K50 Pro, Redmi K50 Pro+ and Redmi K50 e-sports version, all four models are equipped with 120Hz high brush straight screen.
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The four models are equipped with Snapdragon 870, Tianji 8000, Tianji 9000 and Snapdragon 8Gen1, which can be said to provide consumers with enough choices. Among them, the overall configuration of Redmi K50 is not much different from the previous generation, and the main upgrade point is to increase the 33W charge to 67W, which is also a lack of regret. The improvement of the remaining models is relatively large, of which the biggest improvement is the K50 Pro+ and K50 e-sports version, the former is not only equipped with Tianji 9000 processor, IMX766 flagship sensor, 2K OLED direct screen, but also has 120W super flash charging technology, the latter is equipped with a super battery, 120W super flash charge, dual VC liquid cooling heat dissipation, motor shoulder key and other special configurations that game phones will have.
Overall, the price of the Redmi K50 series will be around 1999 yuan to 3999 yuan, and four different processors and different priorities can also meet the needs of different consumers, which is worth praising. Xiao Lei personally believes that the Redmi K50 and Redmi K50 Pro will be the main force of sales, after all, consumers prefer lower-priced products.
Xiaomi Mi MIX 5 Series: Book the 2022 Android Emperor in advance
Because last year's Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra was too strong, so that the Xiaomi MIX 4 released later did not achieve a better result. Therefore, according to the breaking news of the digital chat station, Xiaomi has renamed the Xiaomi Mi 12 Ultra to Xiaomi MIX 5, and also has a model called Xiaomi MIX 5 Pro. Regarding the name change, Xiao Lei is not surprised, after all, from 2021, the MIX series has returned, as a more high-end product of Xiaomi, the MIX series can better play a high-end value.
According to the news of foreign media and digital small talk stations, the MIX 5 series is likely to be one of the strongest image flagships in 2022, of which the rear image specification of the MIX 5 is 50MP main camera (GN2) + 48MP telephoto (2 times optical) + 48MP ultra-wide angle, and the front lens is 48MP. The higher positioning MIX 5 Pro will be equipped with a 50MP main camera (GN2) + 48MP telephoto (5 times optical) + 48MP ultra-wide angle lens and a 48MP auxiliary lens, and the MIX 5 Pro will also be equipped with Xiaomi's self-developed surging C2 processor (only for ISPs).
In terms of other configurations, Xiaomi MIX 5 may continue the full screen design of MIX 4, that is, the use of upper screen and lower camera technology, so it is likely that it will not be possible to use the 2K resolution screen, as for the Xiaomi MIX 5 Pro, it may be equipped with the same 2K 120Hz centered hole screen of Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, which can be said to be "clear division of labor".
The charging part, Xiaomi MIX 5 series will be equipped with 200W charging technology, which may reduce the charging time to less than 10 minutes, but the probability of wireless charging is still 50W due to previous policy restrictions.
In general, as far as the current revelations are concerned, the positioning of the MIX 5 series is indeed much higher than that of the Xiaomi 12 series, and there will be no embarrassing situation that the Xiaomi 11 Ultra is stronger than the Xiaomi MIX 4 as it was last year. Of course, Xiaomi also gave two choices this time, if you care about the user of the full screen MIX 5 is a good choice, and the MIX 5 Pro is obviously for those who care about the ultimate configuration and super image users.
Vivo NEX 5 Series
It has been nearly two years since the last update of the vivo NEX series, but fortunately, vivo finally remembered that they still have such a high-end flagship product. According to the @digital small talk station and @panda is very bald, vivo NEX 5 may meet with you in February this year.
However, it should be noted that the screen size of NEX 5 should be the largest in mainstream flagships, which will be equipped with a 7-inch 2K E5 OLED centered digging screen, the fuselage is 168.5 * 76.5 * 9.2, the weight reaches 221g, and it can also be regarded as a "half-pound machine".
Of course, due to the increase in the weight of the fuselage, vivo NEX 5 can also stack various configurations to the ceiling, not only has a 5000mAh large battery, 80W wired fast charging, a large outsole full focal length imaging system and joint cooperation. Not surprisingly, the NEX 5's image performance may be stronger than that of the vivo X70 Pro+ and vivo X80 Pro+.
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In terms of processors, NEX 5 will also be equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 processors like mainstream flagships, although the performance of this chip is not eye-catching at present, power consumption and heat dissipation are still old and difficult problems, but after the iQOO 9 small test knife, vivo should do better optimization and adaptation on NEX 5.
Overall, the positioning of vivo NEX 5 is somewhat similar to that of Xiaomi MIX 5 series, which is to stack various configurations directly to the top to meet the needs of users who are particularly picky about flagship machines. However, it is foreseeable that the weight and feel of these two models are more difficult to guarantee, and how to choose depends on the wishes of consumers.
Vivo X80 series
Although the vivo X70 series has only been released for four months, according to the news, the vivo X80 series is already on the way, and it is very likely to be released with the vivo NEX 5. Consistent with previous generations of the X series, the vivo X80 series also has three models with different positioning, and is equipped with MediaTek and Qualcomm flagship processors.
Among them, vivo X80 is equipped with a Tianji 8000 processor, with a 50MP main camera (GN5) + 13MP telephoto (ov13b10) + 12MP wide-angle (imx363) image configuration, 6.56-inch 120Hz refresh rate 2K screen (supports LTPO technology), 4500mAh battery and 55W wired fast charging.
The higher positioning vivo X80 Pro will be equipped with a Tianji 9000 processor, with a 50MP main camera (GN5) + 50MP ultra-wide angle (JN1) + 50MP telephoto (JN1) + 12MP image configuration. The screen and charging have been upgraded to a certain extent compared to the vivo X80, which has been upgraded to a 6.78-inch Samsung E5 material with 120Hz high brush screen (supporting LTPO 2.0 technology) and a 66W wired flash charge.
The highest positioning vivo X80 Pro+ is configured as: Snapdragon 8Gen 1 processor, 50MP main camera (GN5) + 48MP ultra-wide angle (IMX598) + 50MP telephoto (JN1) + 50MP portrait lens (JN1), vivo self-developed V1 image sensor, 6.78-inch Samsung E5 material 2K120Hz high brush screen (support LTPO2.0 technology) and 66W wired flash charge + 50W wireless flash charge.
As for the price, the starting price of the three mobile phones is 3699 yuan, 4599 yuan, 5499 yuan, considering that the comprehensive configuration of the three models is not bad, plus vivo has done a good job in appearance design and feel, so the vivo X80 series is still a player full of potential in 2022.
OPPO Find X5 series
Since the beginning of the Find X2 series, OPPO's Find series has also returned to the law of one year, and now the Find X5 series has also been dated. Considering that OPPO has said that the Find X5 series will debut the World's first Tianji 9000 processor, then the release time will inevitably be earlier than the Redmi K50 series.
In terms of appearance, according to the exposed rendering, the overall change in the design of the OPPO Find X5 series is not very large, and the fuselage design still continues the idea of the previous generation of products, but some changes have been made in the subtleties. The back shell of the previous generation of products is one-piece molding, and the lens module has been curved, which looks like a natural fit. In addition, hasselblad's logo can also be seen in the lower part of the fuselage, which also indicates that the OPPO Find X5 series is also a co-brand partner of Hasselblad.
As for the configuration, the OPPO Find X5 series may be slightly inferior to the previous top flagships. OPPO Find X5 and Pro versions are equipped with MediaTek Tianji 9000 chip and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chip respectively, both models are equipped with 5000mAh batteries, supporting 80W wired fast charging and 50W wireless fast charging. The main camera and ultra-wide angle of the Find X5 series are both Sony IMX766 sensors, 1/1.56-inch outsole and 50 megapixels, of which the Pro version of the main camera has more OIS optical image stabilization than the standard version. The telephoto section uses the Samsung S5K3M5 sensor, 13MP, front 32MP Sony selfie lens. The overall strategy is consistent with the Find X3 series, which differs only on the processor.
Almost forgot, the OPPO Find X5 Pro will also be equipped with OPPO's self-developed image-specific NPU chip. According to OPPO, the chip is based on the 6nm process, AI computing power up to 18Tops, support shooting 4K Ultra HDR video, up to 20bit RAW format photos. It seems that mobile phone manufacturers' self-developed ISPs will be the mainstream in 2022, and Xiao Lei is also looking forward to which ISP chip performs the best.
summary
Overall, this wave of new machines after the Spring Festival in 2022 is still very interesting, both the all-round top flagship, as well as the mid-range market "big killer", it is foreseeable that the mobile phone market in 2022 will be more competitive than in 2021.
Among them, the most important thing for Xiao Lei is how the models equipped with Tianji 8000 and Tianji 9000 processors perform in the end, I believe this is also the point that most readers care about the most. If MediaTek performs well this year, Qualcomm will naturally feel the pressure, so as to increase research and development efforts, and the ultimate benefit is naturally consumers.