Evaluation of Lenovo S7 for the Dream "Water Cube" with Rotating Screen and Flip Cover

IT168 Evaluation Center Although the overall performance of domestic mobile phone manufacturers is not satisfactory, Lenovo mobile phones can always give us a little comfort with unremitting efforts. From the classic? Powder popular S9? , to? Health and beauty S9? S series has accumulated a high popularity among consumers with its gorgeous design and humanized functions, especially among female users. And the latest S series new work --S7, what surprises will it bring us? Let's take a look:

Lenovo S7

Lenovo S7 is inspired by the four seasons. This machine has four colors of white, yellow, pink and blue, which correspond to the four seasons of winter snow, autumn leaves, summer rain and cherry blossoms, so that users who like different seasons can choose their own seasonal stories. The most special design is that the mobile phone shell is all made of exquisite crystal 3D relief technology, and breathing light is hidden under the shell. It will be lit up when short messages, incoming calls or music ring, and it will shine in different light and dark ways in accordance with the rhythm, which is not interesting, and the embossed shell is more crystal clear in the white light.

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which one is the one we have? Winter snow? The theme of S7, but although the white shell echoes the color of winter snow, almost most people will unconsciously think of it at first sight because of the Olympic Games? Water cube? This very familiar name. If there is no what we introduced before? Tales of the four seasons? Background, I believe we will be more willing to directly call S7? Water cube mobile phone? . Of course, this can't blame us. Is the crystal 3D relief technology really familiar to us? Water cube? It's too similar, and I believe it will make S7 feel honored to have such a title, as long as you don't let it? Shanzhai? Just give it the hat at the same time.

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Lenovo S7 is a flip phone, and the flip design is also popular with female users. Without opening the flip cover, the size of the fuselage is 12x47.55x17mm, which can be said to be quite slim, and the weight of 113g can be considered as light and portable.

Advantages

: Fashionable and avant-garde 18-degree rotating screen

? Water cube? Fantasy flashing light effect

convenient operation buttons supported by touch on the external screen

good music playing effect and operation experience

32 autofocus lens has good photo taking effect

many humanized and practical functions

Disadvantages

: video decoding ability needs to be improved in general, and full-screen playing operation needs to be improved

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Open the flip. A 2.6-inch 26,-color TFT screen with a resolution of 24x4 pixels and a 16: 9 widescreen display are also very popular at present, which can provide a better viewing angle when watching videos.

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And it is very interesting that the screen part of Lenovo S7 can be rotated 18 degrees, and then folded, so that you can listen to music or watch videos on the screen with a small body.

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The three buttons on the top of the flip cover can play the role of player control at this time. Users can play/pause, move forward and backward through these three touch buttons without opening the flip cover, and the touch process also has vibration feedback effect, which is very convenient. However, you need to be reminded that the touch button will enter the automatic error-proof operation state when it is not operated for a period of time. At this time, the user needs to click the volume increase or decrease to wake up the touch button before operating it. If the user opens the player's? Shake and change? Function, you can hold down the middle play/pause key when you want to change music, and then shake the body left/right, so you can switch up/down tracks, which is different from Sony Ericsson WALKMAN's? shake control? Similar.

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When music is played, breathing light hidden under the shell can shine according to the rhythm of music. The system has a variety of transformation effects for users to rotate, so it is very dazzling to use this function at night.

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Lenovo S7 has a very wide keyboard area and an integrated design, and each key is equipped with a highlight to help locate the key. Although this key design makes it more beautiful as a whole, the short key stroke is still slightly inadequate and needs users to adapt. In addition to the basic buttons, there are also music playing shortcuts and Monternet shortcuts on both sides of the navigation keys for users to quickly start functions. Under the number key 4, we actually found the microphone of the phone, which is also due to the slender figure of S7. Considering that we can get better sound acquisition effect during the call, we specially placed the microphone in the middle and lower part of the fuselage instead of the bottom of the usual mobile phone. The designer's humanized thinking is commendable.

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On the back of the fuselage, we can see that Lenovo S7 is equipped with a 3.2 megapixel AF autofocus lens and an LED flash, which will be activated in night mode, thus playing a certain role in shooting in dark light. On both sides of the camera, there are two independent speakers built in the S7, which can provide very good external sound volume and effect, and are very suitable for sharing music or videos with friends.

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is equipped with an 82mAh lithium-ion battery, which can last about 2 days under the condition of 3 minutes of talking, 2 text messages and 3 minutes of music appreciation every day, which is not bad, and comes with two batteries as standard for users to use alternately. SIM card slot and microSD card slot are located at the bottom of the battery compartment, which can support 4GB capacity expansion at most. The microSD card slot that does not support hot plug is a little inconvenient for those users who often update the contents of the mobile phone memory card.

in terms of peripheral buttons and interfaces, the left side: data cable interface; Right: camera button, volume increase or decrease;

top: rope hanging hole; Bottom: None.

The standby interface display option can display the date and time, operator name, greeting and memo of the day according to user's needs, and the memo of the day can help users better.

Lenovo S7 has four built-in themes, namely, four themes of spring cherry blossom, summer rain, autumn leaves and winter snow, and these four themes are exactly the stories of the four seasons of S7 series models. Even if users can only purchase one model, they can still embody all four system themes in the system and experience more fun. And in the system settings, we found that it still supports? Shake and change wallpaper? The user only needs to shake the body back and forth when opening the flip cover, and the wallpaper will be replaced immediately.

has? Zodiac? And? Single icon rotation? Two menu modes will be used in turn when different themes are enabled.

In the process of dialing, the system can't automatically associate the contacts or call records in the phone book, but fortunately, the phone book supports the quick search of contact initials, and the dialing process won't waste too much time. The phone book supports the import/export operation of contacts, which is very beneficial to the security of user information. The mobile phone itself supports 1 contacts storage.

short message writing supports intelligent pinyin input, and can continuously input phrases or even short sentences, with relatively fast input speed. In addition, it also supports preset SMS function, SMS blacklist and SMS signature, and the mobile phone itself supports 1 SMS storage, which is believed to satisfy the young thumb family. Entertainment multimedia? The functions mainly include music player, video player, camera, video recorder, etc. Lenovo S7 supports music file playback in MP3, AAC, AAC+, MID, wav and other formats, and supports spectrum display, lyrics display and playlist, and can perform background playback, shaking and music changing, and Bluetooth stereo output. Support eight equalizer adjustments of standard, bass, dance music, classical music, treble, banquet, pop music and rock music, as well as echo sound and stereo sound.

Lenovo S7 video playback

Lenovo S7 full-screen display

supports video file playback in MP4, 3GP and AVI formats, and can be displayed horizontally in full screen, but it can be achieved by clicking the # key. In use, we also found that when in full-screen playback mode, it is impossible to pause/forward/backward the player directly, and we must press the # key to exit the full-screen mode before other operations can be performed. This will be particularly inconvenient when the screen is turned upside down. At this time, the user can't use the three touch buttons of the external screen to operate, so he can only open it and press # to exit the full-screen mode, and then perform other operations. These details also show that the technology of our domestic products needs to be improved in the process of innovation. Moreover, when playing video clips with a bit rate higher than 7kbps, there will be obvious card lag. When browsing photos, the system supports gravity sensing to automatically rotate the horizontal screen display, which is more convenient.

In terms of taking photos, the 3.2 megapixel AF autofocus lens supports exposure compensation, white balance adjustment, delayed shooting, continuous shooting, night mode and special effects shooting, and can take photos with a maximum of 248x1536 pixels.

automatic white balance of outdoor natural light (click to enlarge)

automatic white balance of outdoor natural light (click to enlarge)

From the shooting sample, we can see that Lenovo S7' s 3.2 megapixel AF autofocus lens is good in picture performance, accurate in color and light, and has certain performance ability for close-up details, which can help users to complete it better. The rotatable screen can conveniently act as a selfie mirror when taking selfies, which is very convenient for MM users who like taking selfies.

yes? Treasure chest? There are also many built-in functions, such as mobile securities, Fetion, music walkman, UCWEB6, etc. UCWEB6 is a good software for surfing the Internet, which can provide rich browsing options and a good online experience.

The alarm clock, calendar, calculator, recorder, memo, stopwatch, unit conversion, exchange rate conversion, Kingsoft, universal time and so on are some small basic functions that are often used in daily life. And the number attribution query can help users to check the place where strange phones come at any time, so as to know fairly well and prevent accidents such as being cheated. Fitness instructors can help users complete the auxiliary effects of various exercises through the gravity sensing function of mobile phones.

and? Call flip mute? And? Prevent a harassing phone call? They are two very humanized designs, which can solve the problems we often encounter in daily life.

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"View of IT 168 Evaluation Center:

Lenovo S7 is a very attractive fashion model, whether it is an avant-garde 18-degree rotating screen or a cool breathing light flashing effect, it will be attractive to young users.

in terms of functions, the touch buttons on the outer screen can easily control the player when listening to music, and shaking and changing songs makes users feel like Sony Ericsson WALKMAN models? shake control? A convenient operation experience. The 3.2 million AF lens performs well, which can better meet the daily and uncomplicated image recording needs of users. Many practical functions also reflect the extremely humanized design, which is commendable.

It's a pity that the video playback is not perfect. Besides the average decoding ability, the control needs to be improved, which makes the advantages of rotating screen not fully exerted and needs to be improved.

Looking at the current flip phone market, there are not many models with outstanding performance and design, and the most popular ones are probably several expensive models owned by Sharp. The emergence of Lenovo S7 can be a good supplement to this field, not only in appearance? Water cube? Features can completely compete with Japanese clamshell, and its advantages are good function, humanized design and lower price. It adds a good choice for the fashion users who are keen on the clamshell machine.

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