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Half a year is just right, vivo S series ushered in a new generation. On December 14, the long-preheated vivo S18 series was officially released, including S18 and S18 Pro models.

According to the released information, the new vivo S18 series continues the full-dimensional upgrades of studio portraits, chips, memory, battery life, and screens, among which the standard version is the first to carry the third generation Snapdragon 7, with memory-to-maximum expansion 16GB, and 49 applications remain in the background. At the same time, the vivo S18 series is also the first batch of AI Blue Heart models, bringing users a new intelligent interactive experience.

In this article, CTOnews.com will bring the hands-on experience of vivo S18 Standard Edition.

First, the design article on the appearance of the standard version of vivo S18 was officially lifted at the beginning of this month, and CTOnews.com also brought a live picture of this new machine for the first time.

The most impressive design of vivo S18 is the color matching of "Flower like brocade", which is also the main color matching of this S18 series.

According to the official description, the vivo S18 series is born in the S-series "Oriental Aesthetic Universe". It is presented with complicated details and blooming flowers, conveying the most sincere wishes for the New year.

On the vivo S18 series, it pioneered the "Yunjin Glass" process and the "floating carving process" to restore the three-dimensional sense of blooming on the plane.

As far as the look and feel is concerned, the back shell of the fuselage under the "flower like brocade" technology is like a gorgeous picture of the sea of flowers, and each piece stretches freely, just like a real flower. And the sparkling pearl shell texture also adds a bit of elegance and nobility. This rich texture design not only highlights the oriental literary flavor, but also reveals the unique aesthetic concept of vivo in the details.

In terms of details, in the lens module part, vivo S18 continues the S classic cloud window design and is upgraded to a brand-new "water light cloud window", with two square windows with rounded corners, which not only retains the sense of order around the rectangle, but also creates smart and exquisite with soft arcs.

From Yan Ruyu of vivo S16 series, to Shanhaiqing of vivo S17 series, and then to today's "Flower like Brocade", this series of colors full of oriental aesthetic charm have gradually created a "oriental aesthetic universe" that belongs exclusively to S.

Lightweight is also the consistent persistence of the S-Series. This time, the BWH size of the vivo S18 is controlled at 164.36 x 75.1x 7.45mm and the weight is only 185.8g. It is comprehensively designed in front and back, making it feel quite light and comfortable.

It must be emphasized that under the lightweight fuselage, the vivo S18 did not compromise on the battery capacity, but upgraded to the 5000mAh ultra-thin blue sea battery, which is really commendable.

Reasonable, vivo S18 is still a plastic box, but for this price and target consumer groups, this is not a problem. After all, the excellent feel is a more explicit and intuitive experience than the metal frame.

Unexpectedly, the vivo S18 is still a rotor motor, so it seems that the use of the motor in Blue Factory is "hierarchical". Rotor motor with such a good-looking mobile phone, like a beautiful beauty, a mouth is like a leek box smell.

However, I complained. Not long ago, I bought a blue factory X100 for my old mother, and before I started to brag about how good the experience of the X-axis linear motor on this new machine was, my old mother asked me to turn off the vibration on the grounds that it was too vibrating and uncomfortable. It seems that for some ordinary consumers, it seems that they are really insensitive to these configurations.

Going too far, back to the product, according to the official introduction, the vivo S18 series is not only lighter and thinner, but also more durable and reliable, which further optimizes the shock absorber structure and is more resistant to impact and fall.

Go back to the front.

Vivo S18 is equipped with a 6.78in 120Hz sunrise eye screen with a resolution of 2800 × 1260 and a PPI of 452. the global excitation luminance 1200nits, supports P3 wide color gamut, the screen color is deep 10bit, and the local peak brightness reaches 2800nits.

In terms of eye protection, it is equipped with hardware-grade low blue light, highest 2160Hz high-frequency dimming, support for sleep mode, elder color mode, etc., and has passed three SGS professional eye care certifications.

The vivo S18 still continues the front wide-angle double soft light design, hidden in the upper frame.

Therefore, the upper frame of the vivo S18 is also slightly wider, but it is also aligned with the chin, and the overall screen ratio control is good, so it doesn't feel like a "jaw" and chin.

Second, the photographer has always been the highlight of the vivo S series, such as the release of vivo S5 in 2019 brought five super-textured beauty, the release of vivo S12 in 2021, the first micron skin remodeling, and so on.

The vivo S18 does not fall behind this old tradition, with a 5000 million superlight moving portrait lens in front of it, with a 2.76, 0.64 μ m, narrow / 2.0,90 °wide angle. In terms of specifications, this is the familiar JN1, and this lens is still used by many flagship phones for ultra-wide-angle sub-photography.

As a front lens, the specification of the vivo S18 is quite high.

For the rear lens, it is equipped with a 50 million VCS bionic portrait lens (1.55 ", 1 μ m, inch / 1.88, OIS hummingbird super anti-shake) and an 8-megapixel wide-angle lens (1.12 μ m, 1.12 μ m).

Among them, the main camera uses a new generation of VCS bionic human eye sensors, which officials say can improve the clarity of the picture by up to 25%, which is equivalent to making the 1.55-inch sensor equivalent to 1.4-inch sensitivity.

In addition, the vivo S18 brings a soft aura of studio-level wisdom.

According to officials, the distance of the portrait can be detected in real time with an accuracy of centimeters, and then the brightness can be intelligently adjusted. At the same time, the color temperature adjustment of supplementary light makes the color temperature of soft light change with the environment, avoids the face from being stained by environmental halo, and strives to bring mobile phone portrait photography into the era of "studio portrait".

In terms of selfies, the vivo S18 provides the choice of 0.8x, 1x and 2x focal segments, from the front co-shoot to the portrait, which can be handled with one lens.

Vivo S18 still provides extremely rich and highly customized personalized beauty options, including portrait style, beauty effect, makeup style, virtual effect and so on, to meet users' different selfie needs.

The front soft light lamp can bring uniform and natural facial light, and the portrait skin is really exquisite. With an easy shot, the front sample sheet with a strong sense of atmosphere can be taken. The addition of AF autofocus function is also quite practical, such as when you take a selfie and pose, no matter where the lens is facing, you can focus for the first time, making your selfie more clear and natural.

The rear soft halo, in the rear portrait mode shooting, the soft halo will be like the soft light of the professional studio, let the soft light focus on the person all the time.

Ordinary flashlights often cause glossy skin, and it is easy to have white balance problems, but with a soft halo, you don't have to worry about it. You can replenish the light on your face anytime, anywhere, so that your skin is always fair and transparent, and your skin tone is more real and vivid.

For little sisters who like live streaming and selfies, or make-up bloggers who shoot on Vlog, with the soft halo of vivo S18, they really don't have to wear soft light devices that get in the way anywhere.

This soft light lamp can also be customized to adjust the color temperature, close the "A" file, you can manually drag the color temperature bar to customize the color temperature you prefer.

The vivo S18 sample style offers three distinct, textured and natural styles, and the default is a distinct color match.

In the texture mode, the sense of tone is very strong, especially in the dark corner, and the photos taken are very ambient. Choosing a distinct mode is much more "fresh".

Texture, distinct sample although there is no independent 2X portrait lens, the main 2X portrait of vivo S18 is quite amazing, the virtual segmentation of the portrait is extremely strong, and it even smacks of a small "X" series portrait, which seems to be a decentralized part of the Blue Factory portrait algorithm.

For example, the following groups of cat photos, in portrait mode, actually have a very high degree of fineness of hair, it is difficult to find traces of computational photography, it looks very real and natural.

Portrait mode

2x sample sheet, distinct mode

2x sample sheet, distinct mode

Distinct mode

Distinct mode

Vivo official sample sheet

Vivo official sample sheet has careful friends also found that this time vivo S18 comes with different colors of the picture frame, this is the vivo S18 comes with the "dopamine film photo frame", automatically take colors from each photo, and will calculate the best color matching, and finally show a changing style and coordination of the film photo frame, reasonable, which is indeed much better than the monotonous black-and-white watermark photo frame.

Third, the performance part comes to the performance part. Vivo S18 Standard Edition carries the third generation Snapdragon 7 platform, that is, Snapdragon 7 Gen3, with 16+512GB storage specifications up to the top.

The third-generation Snapdragon 7 platform was launched in November, and the vivo S18 was one of the first phones to be equipped with the chip platform.

Specifically, Snapdragon 7 Gen3 adopts TSMC 4nm process, CPU uses 4 dedicated performance cores and 4 dedicated energy efficiency cores, the highest main frequency is as high as 2.63GHz, using 64-bit architecture, the overall performance of CPU is improved by nearly 15% and the performance of GPU is improved by more than 50%. At the same time, GPU performance stability can always maintain a performance of close to 80 FPS in three rounds of Aztec Ruins 1080p tests, which is 52% higher than that of the first generation Snapdragon 7. At the same time, the overall power consumption of the third generation Snapdragon 7 mobile platform is reduced by 20%, and can bring more lasting battery life.

With regard to the third-generation Snapdragon 7 mobile platform, the author adds that the third-generation Snapdragon 7 mobile platform will have three different positioning chips, namely 7+, 7s and 7s. Snapdragon 7 Gen3 is in the middle of the "advanced experience", to be more ferocious or even comparable to the performance of Snapdragon 8 series, we will have to wait for the release of Snapdragon 7+Gen3.

However, the vivo S18 Standard Edition carries Snapdragon 7 Gen3, and its performance is more than sufficient in this gear.

For example, in the running score of an Rabbit, the running score of vivo S18 reached 937000, the single core of GeekBench6 was 1217, and the multi-core was 3455. The overall running score was in line with the positioning of Snapdragon 7 Gen3.

In terms of games, in the room temperature WiFi environment, "Arena of Valor" the highest picture quality opened two rounds of ranking, with an average frame rate of 119.5 and 118.5 respectively, very stable.

In terms of power consumption, the ranking of the highest picture quality of the two games is just over 4W, which is to be expected. After all, the third generation Snapdragon 7 mobile platform has a 20% optimization reduction in power consumption.

Of course, choose the more difficult "original God", vivo S18 is also easy, the highest picture quality, most of the running points can be maintained at about 60 frames, although there is still a certain gap between the overall experience level and Snapdragon 8 series (for example, there is a slight frame drop in the battle scene, such as the occasional frame drop phenomenon with the naked eye), but slightly lower the picture quality, but also can play smoothly for a long time.

The vivo S18 is equipped with 5000mAh ultra-thin blue sea battery and is known as the thinnest 5000mAh phone in 2023. According to official figures, its full bright screen lasts 13.5 hours. In a word, this is the S-Series phone with the longest battery life.

IV. System

The vivo S18 series is equipped with the AI Blue Heart model developed by vivo, which is also the first batch of 10 billion models in the industry to be transferred at the terminal.

The blue heart model of AI has been experienced in detail in CTOnews.com 's "vivo X100 Evaluation" article.

The small V can be exhaled quickly through the small V assistant on the desktop, or through the sidebar.

Here you can send him text, questions, photos, etc., which supports a series of functions such as super semantic search, super question and answer, super writing, map creation, super intelligent interaction and so on. Take super-semantic search as an example, which supports searching native pictures, documents, information, schedules, atomic notes, native functions, and so on. For example, select a specific photo in the album and you can achieve it.

"Super Writing" supports structural text creation, such as text creation, text summary, text retouching and rewriting, mind mapping, and even the generation of copywriting in moments, high praise copywriting, holiday blessings, and so on.

Blue Heart V can not only achieve simple question and answer, picture creation, it can also figure out some more complex instructions. For example, when I say to it, "help me book a ticket to Shanghai tomorrow", it will start Ctrip App and automatically select the ticket machine. You just need to choose the flight to pay.

For example, you can share a photo with it and ask it to help you think of a copy in moments. It will generate a copy directly and edit it. All you need to do is press the "publish" button.

In the system experience, the vivo S18 series also comes with the vivo office suite. With it, you can easily connect your phone to your computer, carry out file transfer, cross-screen search, note-taking multi-terminal collaboration and other functions.

To emphasize, in addition to supporting Windows and web pages, the vivo office suite also supports the Mac platform, which is almost one of the few applications on the Mac platform that can quickly interconnect with Android phones. It is hardly too friendly for perennial Mac office users. I hope competitors will follow suit.

Conclusion: the biggest feeling of the vivo S18 standard edition is that this is a product with blue factory and vivo characteristics, which is accurate and sharp, completely aimed at the target crowd-show restraint where there is no need for force, but not stingy where it should be.

In design, the Yunjin glass with "flowers like brocade" exudes unique elegance from any angle, no one will refuse beautiful things, and no one will reject the "beauty" of vivo S18.

In terms of performance, vivo S18 standard edition may not be the brightest, but after all, the first batch of Snapdragon 7Gen3, daily use machine is also completely enough, even if the "original god" this kind, slightly lower picture quality, but also can play well. Not to mention 16GB large memory and 5000mAh battery. If you have special requirements for performance, there is also a S18 Pro with Tianji 9200 + for you to choose from.

In terms of image, vivo S18 is also within the scope of this positioning and cost control, achieving the extreme: portraits are quite capable of playing in the same gear, and there are only positive and negative soft lights in the industry. Vivo S18 is almost the best selfie and portrait shooting in the same category, or even none.

As for those single lift, rotor motor, plastic frame, it can only be said that the vivo S18 has a good choice, accurate positioning and high EQ-it does not blindly pursue the stacking of hardware, and has found a balance between the choice.

All in all, the main "studio portrait" function makes vivo S18 standard version highly competitive in the market, and even sets up a "new studio portrait standard" on its own. Therefore, if you love selfies and beauty portraits, then vivo S18 Standard Edition is definitely a phone worth a try.

Price Information: vivo S18e (Tianji 7200)

2099 yuan for 12GB+256GB version

2299 yuan for 12GB+512GB version

Vivo S18 (Snapdragon 7 Gen 3)

2299 yuan for 8GB+256GB version

2599 yuan for 12GB+256GB version

2799 yuan for 12GB+512GB version

2999 yuan for 16GB+512GB version

Vivo S18 Pro (Tianji 9200)

3199 yuan for 12GB+256GB version

3499 yuan for 16GB+256GB version

3699 yuan for 16GB+512GB version

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