How does the Nut Pro mobile phone evaluate the new Nut Pro machine?

The nut Pro conference is over. Although Lao Luo was "late" as usual at the press conference, the enthusiasm of hammer friends was still high and the atmosphere at the press conference was very active. Yesterday, the live broadcast of Pro conference ended at 1 1 in the afternoon.

Hammer has been a controversial mobile phone brand since its birth, and its products always make people love and hate. On the one hand, the hammer can always bring different things in design and system experience, adding new ideas to the seemingly lively but increasingly boring smartphone market; On the other hand, the hammer mobile phone always seems to step on the wrong time. When the first three products, T 1, T2 and Nut U 1, were released, the hardware configuration lagged behind the competing products in the same period, and the configuration of M 1/ M 1L was caught up, but there was a compromise in the industrial design that was once its strong point.

When will the hammer launch a mobile phone without problems? The Nut Pro released on the evening of May 9, 20 17 may be the answer.

Keywords: Fang, good-looking, not hitting the face

In the industrial design of hammer mobile phone, double-sided glass and symmetry are two unavoidable words, and T 1 and T2 are products that strictly follow these two points. On this basis, hammer mobile phone has derived many unique details, such as the combination of receiver sensors, symmetrical volume keys, metal middle frame without breakpoint and so on. These small details, together with double-sided glass and symmetrical design, constitute the unique style of hammer mobile phone in industrial design.

Returning to the nut Pro released this time, although the hammer classified it as a relatively low-end product line, the hammer spent no less time on the industrial design of nut Pro than T 1 and T2.

Nut Pro adopts double-sided glass design similar to T 1 and T2. The difference is that the two pieces of glass of Nut Pro did not cover the whole surface of the mobile phone, but were cut off at the bottom and replaced with two metal patches.

The two metal patches have the same height, the same color and the same processing technology as the metal middle frame. At first glance, there seems to be a metal "chin" at the bottom of the phone. Of course, unlike LG G5, the "chin" of Nut Pro cannot be disassembled.

It should be pointed out in particular that the front and rear glass of Nut Pro are flat and have not been polished by 2.5D. As for the reason behind it, it may be because the 2.5d glass cannot be smoothly connected with the metal patch, or the hammer simply wants to make the mobile phone as "square" as possible.

This kind of "founder" is also reflected in the metal middle frame of nut Pro. In order to get a better grip, most mobile phones with double-sided glass with metal middle frame will "polish" the middle frame as round as possible, while Nut Pro is the opposite. Its middle frame is almost not round, and two bright metal chamfers are cut on the middle frame. Please refer to iPhone 5 for specific effects.

The advantage of this "square" middle frame is that it can make the phone look more "regular" and can easily stand on the table. Of course, the disadvantage is that it affects the grip.

Although the body of Nut Pro is thin enough (6.98 mm, 158 g), when the flat glass meets the metal middle frame without curvature, the body will not be too narrow (the 5.5-inch screen and screen border are well controlled), so it is inevitable that Nut Pro is awkward to hold in your hand, and the handle is also the biggest compromise of Nut Pro in industrial design.

The hammer is obviously aware of this problem. Therefore, the hammer prepared nut Pro tempered glass handle film (sold in 49 yuan) to improve the handle of nut Pro. Of course, the side effect of sticking a tempered film is that the mobile phone will become thicker.

In terms of color matching, Nut Pro is available in three colors: charcoal black, burgundy (only 64GB, 128GB version) and thin red line special edition (only 128GB version). Please see the picture for details.

In addition to the changes in the overall appearance, there are several small details on the Nut Pro that deserve attention.

Firstly, the metal middle frame does not adopt a breakpoint-free design, but an ordinary injection signal bar is added. As one of the iconic designs of hammer's flagship products in recent two generations, the absence of metal middle frame without breakpoint is inevitable, but considering that the price of nut Pro is much lower than T2, M 1/M 1L, this compromise is easy to accept.

Secondly, the double volume key is removed, and only the volume key on the right side is kept, but a power key that does not exist in M 1/M 1L is added below the volume key on the right side. The quality of this change varies from person to person. I never felt the necessity of the function of the dual volume button, and I didn't feel any loss when I removed it. By the way, it also solved the problem that the left and right volume keys of previous generations felt inconsistent.

The third is to remove the 3.5 mm headphone jack. For mobile phone manufacturers, removing the 3.5 mm headphone jack can free up more space inside the fuselage, which helps to put down the battery with larger capacity and make the appearance of the mobile phone more concise, but for users, this often means extra trouble.

Nut Pro comes with a USB-C to 3.5 mm adapter, but the adapter is not a good solution after all. At the press conference, Hammer also showed a S- 10 1 semi-in-ear wired earphone with USB-C interface, which was sold in 99 yuan. Its principle is similar to JBL Reflect Aware C and Letv CDLA digital headphones. Both of them obtain digital audio signals from mobile phones through USB-C interface, and then carry out digital-to-analog conversion and amplification through the codec inside the headset (powered by USB-C of the mobile phone), and then drive the headset unit to sound. Regarding the specific performance of this earphone, we will test it as soon as we receive it.

In addition, in the fingerprint identification scheme, Nut Pro continues the design of M 1/M 1L front-facing physical keys. The operation logic is the same as m1/m1l. Touch Return, press and hold to return to the home page, and double-click to bring up multi-task.

Generally speaking, Nut Pro has been improved on the basis of the classic industrial design of hammer, and the appearance of the whole machine has become more tough and square, and the color has also been further explored. For a product with a price of 1500-2000 yuan, it is very commendable that the hammer dares to use a brand-new design to make such a product that is exquisite enough and highly recognizable. We are also willing to give a favorable comment on the industrial design of Nut Pro, even if it is a bit awkward to hold.

Configuration: It should be quite a lot.

On the M 1 and M 1L released at the end of last year, Hammer finally understood the truth that "if the mobile phone wants to sell well, the configuration cannot fall behind". For the first time, the configuration is not behind the competing products in the same period, which also helps M 1 and M 1L to obtain better sales data than T 1 and T2. This time, the nut Pro and the hammer also continued this path and configured "follow the trend".

Let's take a look at the configuration list of Nut Pro:

SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 625(MSM8953)/ 626(MSM8953 Pro)

Screen: 5.5-inch incell LCD with resolution of 1080p and PPI 40 1.

Running memory: 4GB LPDDR3

Built-in flash memory: 32GB/64GB/ 128GB eMMC

Rear camera: dual13 million pixels (one color+one black and white), f/2.0 aperture, phase focusing, no optical image stabilization, RGBW white balance sensor.

Front camera: 8 million pixels (32GB),16 million pixels (64GB, 128GB), f/2.0 aperture.

Battery capacity: 3500 mAh

Charging: 18W, Qualcomm QC3.0.

Body size:155mm * 73.4mm * 6.98mm.

Weight:158g

Operating system: Smartisan OS 3.6, based on Android 7. 1.

Others: pre-pressed fingerprint identification (supporting touch back), dual-card dual standby full netcom, USB-C, no infrared, no NFC, no 3.5mm headphone jack, 128 GB version supports NFC (not supported by other versions).

Price: 1499 yuan (32GB, carbon black), 1799 yuan (64GB, carbon black, burgundy), 2299 yuan (128GB, carbon black, burgundy, thin red line special edition).

Here we pick out a few key points.

Snapdragon 625/626, long battery life, dual cameras, Smartisan OS 3.5/3.6.

On the core SoC, Nut Pro has two versions: Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 (MSM8953) and Xiaolong 626 (MSM8953 Pro). The 32GB version uses Snapdragon 625, 64GB and 128GB version uses Xiaolong 626.

Everyone should be familiar with Snapdragon 625. Xiaolong 626 is the high-frequency version of Snapdragon 625. The highest frequency of CPU is increased from 2.0 GHz of 625 to 2.2 GHz. The architecture is still low-power ARM Cortex A53, and other main parameters (Adreno 506 GPU, X9 LTE baseband, 14 nm process) are basically consistent with Snapdragon 625. Because the specifications are not much different. The advantage of Snapdragon 625/626 lies in its extremely low power consumption and calorific value, while its performance is "just enough".

Specific to daily use, Snapdragon 625/626 can smoothly run the standard 4GB storage on common apps such as WeChat, Weibo, Netease Cloud Music, Chrome and mobike, which is enough for users to put five or six common apps in the background of Nut Pro without getting stuck. Compared with the "Snapdragon 82 1+UFS flash memory" mobile phone such as the hammer M 1/M 1L, there is little difference in overall fluency except that the app will slow down when loading.

In a popular mobile game like the glory of the king, Snapdragon 625/626 can basically run at 30 frame rate, but it is impossible to turn on the high frame rate mode (and it is not recommended that you forcibly turn on the high frame rate). Moreover, due to the advanced technology of Xiaolong 626 (14 nm technology), the calorific value is small, and it will hardly be forced to drop the frequency because of the overheating of the mobile phone during the game, which is actually better than the theoretical performance of Xiaolong 652/653. Of course, for a big game like NBA 2K 17, limited by the highest performance, Snapdragon 625/626 can't count on it at all, and it is basically watching slides.

In terms of storage, Nut Pro comes standard with 4GB lpddr 3 running memory, and the built-in storage provides 32GB, 64GB, 128GB eMMC options.

As for why it is "LPDDR3+eMMC" instead of "LPDDR4+UFS", apart from the obvious reason of cost, the fundamental reason is that SoC itself does not support it. In fact, only Snapdragon 8XX, Kirin 9XX and other high-end SoCs can support more advanced UFS flash memory, while Snapdragon 4XX, 6XX, Kirin 6XX and all MediaTek SoCs can only support eMMC at present, as well as LPDDR4 and LPDDR3 (MediaTek P20/P25 supporting LPDDR 4 but not UFS is a special case).

On the whole, the performance of Xiaolong 626 belongs to the level of "sufficient but not excellent", and it is "no problem" to use it in products with the price of Nut Pro. If you often use your mobile phone to complete large-scale games, you need to be cautious when buying a Nut Pro, but in addition, this Xiaolong 626 for Nut Pro should be enough.

Also "no problem" is the battery life of the nut Pro.

Nut Pro is equipped with a 3500 mAh battery, which is barely among the "big batteries". Considering that the body thickness of Nut Pro is only 6.98 mm, this data is still considerable. In addition, Nut Pro also supports Qualcomm QC3.0 fast charging, and the maximum output power of the charging head is 18W.

With the low power consumption and low heat of Xiaolong 626, it is no problem to get the nut Pro and use it for a whole day, and it can barely last for two days.

It is worth mentioning that although it is only a "nut", Nut Pro has become the first mobile phone with a rear dual camera launched by Hammer.

Nut Pro adopts a parallel dual-camera scheme of "one color+one black and white". The pixels of both sensors are130,000 pixels. The specific model is unknown (presumably Sony IMX258). It supports phase focusing, but it does not integrate optical anti-shake module, but integrates RGBW white balance sensor.

From the functional point of view, the dual camera of Nut Pro is no different from similar products. This extra black-and-white sensor can be used together with another sensor to record the depth of field data to achieve the effect of simulating background blur, or it can be used to take black-and-white photos alone. Compared with iPhone 7 Plus, Xiaomi 6, Huawei Mate 9/P 10 and other models, the dual-camera scheme of Nut Pro is mainly different in that it does not have better zoom capability, which is also commonly known as "optical zoom" (this statement is not rigorous). Of course, considering the product positioning and price of Nut Pro, we can't expect too much. After all, it's a small surprise to use double camera.

Regarding the specific photo experience, imaging quality of Nut Pro (Lao Luo said at the press conference that the night shooting of Nut Pro has been greatly improved) and the background blur effect of double shooting, we need to do further tests and share them with you in the detailed evaluation of Nut Pro recently launched.

On the system, Nut Pro is equipped with the latest Smartisan OS 3.6, based on Android 7. 1.

On the UI, Smartisan OS 3.6 has not changed much. The quasi-materialized, flat UI (in Lao Luo's words, "where the quasi-object is quasi-object, where the flat object is flat") and exquisite transition animation have made Smartisan OS 3. X is highly recognizable in a large domestic Android custom ROM.

Compared with Smartisan 3. 1, Smartisan 3.6 has added several practical small functions, including intelligent unsubscribing advertisements and spam messages, simulating incoming calls, "pinning" commonly used apps on the screen lock interface, and so on. In addition, Hammer's own file management software HandShaker has also been upgraded. After the computer and mobile phone are paired, files can be transmitted wirelessly and texts can be copied.

In addition, two important functions of Smartisan OS 3. 1, One Step and Big Bang, have also been significantly upgraded.

There are two main changes when upgrading from 1.0 to 1.5.

The first is to add a shortcut to search for pictures in the sidebar. You can search for a picture in the browser, long press the picture and then drag it to this icon to quickly complete the operation of "searching for a picture". The second is to improve the ability of semantic analysis. When you receive a message with an address, you can drag it directly into the map app, and the system can automatically identify the address information in the message, without having to use the "big bang" method to explode the text first, and select the address information. If the received information contains a lot of information such as address, express order number, flight information, etc. , drag this information into different apps such as maps, express inquiries, and flight inquiries. And can intelligently extract corresponding effective information.

The Big Bang Theory was also upgraded to version 2.0. The upgraded functions include selecting an image area for OCR recognition, sliding up and down on the Big Bang interface to switch the upper/lower paragraphs of the text, cutting all the text and then editing and processing the text.

It is worth mentioning that in Smartisan OS 3.6, a new function called Flash Capsule has been added. Users can record their thoughts and inspirations at any time through voice input without interrupting their original work.

As for the effect of these functions of Smartisan OS, you can pay attention to the evaluation of Nut Pro (room number: 673484) and the more detailed product evaluation in the future.

The first hammer mobile phone that satisfied both Luo Yonghao and users.

Nut Pro is a typical Luo Yonghao and Hammer brand mobile phone.

In terms of configuration, nut Pro, like hammer M 1/M 1L, also has many. From the appearance, Nut Pro, like hammers T 1, T2 and Nut U 1, has successfully made a "hammer-like" differentiation in this "thousand-machine" mobile phone market, which is particularly rare for a product with a price of 1499-2299 yuan. I'm afraid only Luo Yonghao's hammer will do this, at the expense of feel in exchange for the aesthetic feeling of design.

Back to the question mentioned at the beginning of the article, can Nut Pro be regarded as the first "trouble-free" hammer mobile phone?

For critical users and the media, the answer is alwaysno. However, for the "hammer family" who is about to turn 5, nut Pro should be the closest thing to "no problem" in their history.