The cheapest fingerprint mobile phone ZTE Blade A 1 Evaluation

IT 168 Evaluation Xiaomi, who has always been good at marketing, launched Red Rice Note3 last month, which refreshed the lowest price of fingerprint mobile phones and subverted the order of the thousand yuan machine market. Xiaomi, the lowest price of this fingerprint machine, was robbed by ZTE before it became popular. On February 3rd, 65438, ZTE held a "Dare to Think" conference in Beijing. Blade A 1 for young people was officially unveiled, featuring fingerprint identification, full netcom and colorful body, and the price was 599 yuan. What's more, ZTE teamed up with two Internet giants, JD.COM and Tencent, to make up for the disadvantages of its own channels and compete with the main online brands such as Xiaomi, Meizu and Qiku. So what are the odds of ZTE Blade A 1? Is it cost-effective under the condition of ensuring low price? Below we will bring the evaluation of Blade A 1.

Blade has always been an important brand in ZTE's global market, aiming to provide the public with products with both fashion and extreme experience. As early as the beginning of this year, global sales exceeded 20 million units, which can be said to have accumulated a certain popularity and reputation. Although the Blade A 1 launched this time is a product for young users, there is not much compromise in configuration, which belongs to the mainstream configuration at this price.

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ZTE Blade A 1 Basic Parameters

Screen characteristics

5 inches 1280*720 pixels

Fuselage size

142 * 70.2 * 8.9mm

weight

137g

processor

MediaTek MT6735

basic frequency

4*A53 1.3GHz

Network mode

Divided into mobile version and full netcom version, both support dual card dual standby.

Body memory

16GB, supporting maximum expansion 128GB.

Random access memory

2GB

Camera characteristics

Front 8 million+rear130,000 pixel camera

Characteristic part

Front self-timer soft light, fingerprint identification

Battery capacity

2800 mah

operating system

Mifavor 3.2 based on Android 5. 1

Fuselage color

White, yellow, green, blue and gray.

retail price

Mobile version: 599 yuan

Click to buy

? Full netcom version: 699 yuan click to buy.

From the hardware configuration, we can see that Blade A 1 adopts a 64-bit MT6735 quad-core processor and is equipped with 2GB of running memory, which makes the application run more smoothly. The fuselage storage is 16GB, and the storage expansion of 128GB is supported at most. The screen adopts a 5-inch 720P resolution screen, and the camera is13 million pixels+. You know, this configuration only appears on Moto X Style and Glory 7. Therefore, in general, the configuration of Blade A 1 is better than that of Redmi and Charm Blue models at the same price. The addition of fingerprint recognition makes this model a star product different from the red and blue machines. But only configuration is not enough, and the experience of mobile phone is all-round. So we start the blade? A 1 detailed evaluation.

Mobile phones have reached the price of 500-600. For the sake of overall balance, there are often not many bright spots in appearance. As a mobile phone for young consumers, ZTE Blade A 1 has also made some efforts in design, with colorful body, rounded chamfer and polycarbonate back cover similar to iPhone5c, showing youthful vitality.

On the front, ZTE Blade A 1 is equipped with a 5-inch screen with a resolution of 720P, covered with a black glass panel, and the corners are chamfered to a certain extent, so that the overall look is not monotonous, and there is still a certain sense of integration when the screen is turned off. In the case of bright screen, the problem of boundary horse racing is obvious, but it is not difficult to see that it is unacceptable and the whole is relatively coordinated. It can be clearly seen that the surrounding polycarbonate is wrapped in place, slightly higher than the screen, which not only improves the comfort of side grip, but also forms a good protection for the glass of the front panel and reduces the risk of falling and breaking the screen.

The top of the front panel is still very simple. You can only see the circular receiver and the 8 megapixel front camera. In addition to the hidden light distance sensor, there is actually a self-timer soft light on the left side of the receiver to ensure the self-timer effect. The design of the circular receiver is very pleasing. After getting used to the slit receiver, the circular design brings more fresh breath and more interpretation to the design language of the whole machine.

At the bottom of the front, ZTE Blade A 1 uses the "Home" key with a small circle, giving consideration to the role of breathing light. The legacy of Meizu came to me, and the buttons on the left and right sides were replaced by dots, which had no fixed function. It can be set by the system, which is convenient for getting used to the use of hands. The reason why I chose the small circle of "Salute to Meizu" is because of the consideration of echoing the circular receiver above.

The back of ZTE Blade A 1 is an integrated polycarbonate back cover, which is similar to the iPhone5c. The colorful pearl color scheme is full of youthful atmosphere. If you prefer a calm style, the brown version adopts a distinctive matte style, which satisfies many users' choices. Although the material is not eye-catching, the feel of the whole machine is quite good. The rounded corners on the edge, the arc on the back, and the 5-inch mobile phone with the right size are very comfortable to hold in your hand. It is reported that the design of the whole arc is inspired by the aircraft wing and aerodynamics, and the lines are simple, smooth, round and without losing tension.

There is a13 megapixel camera above the back, a flash below and five speaker openings in the lower left corner. The fingerprint recognition layout of ZTE Blade A 1 is located in the position where the index finger on the back is easy to touch. Different from other touch fingerprint identification on the back, this fingerprint identification can press and play some preset functions, such as double-clicking to start a program, long-pressing screen capture and other functions, and the keys and feedback are moderate, which will not affect the normal touch fingerprint identification.

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The volume button is arranged on the left side of the fuselage and the unlock button is on the right side. Due to the appropriate size, there is no obstacle in one-handed operation. Above the unlock key is a dual Nano SIM card slot, which supports blind insertion of SIM cards. Designed as AND or card slot, that is, supporting single SIM card +TF card or dual SIM card. There is a Micro USB socket in the center of the bottom, two screws on the left and right are symmetrically arranged, and there is a 3.5mm earphone hole on the left side of the top, which is nothing special. Generally speaking, the feel of this mobile phone has not been greatly reduced because of the poor material. On the contrary, with the help of suitable size and rounded design, it brings a good feel and performs well at this price.

System customization has always been the unique advantage of domestic brands, among which flyme and MIUI have gained a lot of popularity and formed a considerable fan effect. As a young and dynamic product of ZTE, ZTE Blade A 1 is equipped with customized MifavorUI 3.2. What are the highlights of the system? Let's enter the evaluation of the system.

▲MifavorUI 3.2

MifavorUI 3.2 is customized by ZTE based on Andriod5. 1. It pursues flat design, introduces some bright colors, and tends to be youthful and energetic. Icons are designed with rounded rectangles, which pursue neatness and lack certain personality. For the first time, 1 1 color theme selection will be provided to meet the individual needs of young people. When you are tired of using it and feel tired of aesthetics, you can slide up from the bottom of the desktop to bring up the theme selection bar and change it at will, which is very convenient. It is worth mentioning that MifavorUI cancels the form of secondary menu, and the desktop supports sliding back and forth without boundaries, which is more efficient. But on the whole, MifavorUI brings us limited surprises, and the UI design is not ugly, but it doesn't feel exquisite. In addition to redrawing the icon, it still retains the original appearance.

▲ MifavorUI 3.2 dial-up interface supports T9 search, integrates yellow pages, and can quickly charge phone bills, take a taxi, etc. in terms of improving functions such as home management, mobile phone acceleration, and localization of power-saving housekeeper. , which is equivalent to a comprehensive page of life service, is easy to find when using. It has also added a practical palm housekeeper (security center), which integrates common functions such as space cleaning, virus killing, traffic monitoring, authority management, harassment interception, authority management, etc., and makes the power-saving housekeeper an APP separately for users to find and use.

▲ Privacy space supports the function of renaming privacy space.

On MifavorUI 3.2

It focuses on architecture, the entrance is set in the palm of your hand, and it also supports adding icons to the desktop and modifying the name by yourself. For example, the author named it "nothing" to hide people's eyes and ears, but the naked icon exposed everything. We can understand the original intention of designing this renaming function, but the real function remains to be considered. In the privacy space, it not only supports the hiding of common contacts, text messages and files, but also supports the storage of some account password information, which is relatively comprehensive.

▲ One-click uninstallation and recovery of pre-installed applications makes the author full of praise. This machine is pre-installed with 14 third-party applications, all of which support uninstallation, and in order to facilitate users' cleaning, one-click uninstallation is consciously preset for unified management, which is very convenient. It's just that ZTE actually classified the app store as a third-party application. The author accidentally deleted it during the experience, which brought a lot of trouble, but fortunately it can restore the pre-installed application function and get it back in time.

▲ Fingerprint entry fingerprint identification supports fingerprint unlocking, program locking and privacy space encryption, which are all very practical functions. The actual test fingerprint is unlocked very quickly, which is similar to the official claim that the screen is off for 0.3 seconds. Because you can press the fingerprint key, many convenient operations are derived, such as clicking the screen capture, double-clicking to start the camera to capture, and long pressing to turn on the flashlight. Users can set it by themselves, depending on your habits.

▲ gesture operation

At the same time, like most Android models today, ZTE Blade A 1 also has some gesture operations. For example, sliding down to close the screen to unlock and sliding up to start the camera, the recognition rate is still good.

Generally speaking, this system is not as good as expected. Although it is enough for daily use and some functions are customized according to its own hardware characteristics, compared with other mainstream Roms, it always gives people a less refined feeling. The lack of cloud services has added a lot of trouble to daily use. I hope that the follow-up system can be continuously improved, and pay more attention to service experience while strengthening hardware functions.

With the rapid development of the mobile phone industry, the camera function of mobile phones tends to surpass ordinary cameras, and it has its unique advantages in portability and ease of use. Therefore, more and more users will give priority to its imaging effect when buying mobile phones. Let's take a look at whether ZTE Blade A 1 can meet our daily shooting needs.

In terms of hardware, ZTE Blade A 1 is equipped with an 8-megapixel front camera and a1300,000-pixel main camera, with a front soft light and a rear flash, which has obvious advantages in this price range. The imaging interface is simple and the layout is similar to that of most mobile phones. The adjustment of the filter, the switching of shooting and the switching of the front and rear lenses can be easily found, but the circle of the shutter button is gone, which makes the obsessive-compulsive disorder patients very unhappy. Functionally, it supports automatic mode and professional mode, in which the professional mode supports the separation of focusing and photometry, and it can be completed by dragging boxes and circles in the viewfinder, which has certain playability. In addition to these, ZTE Blade A 1 has added special functions of picture-in-picture, smiling face photo and gesture selfie, which is still very attractive for young friends who like to share their lives.

The front soft light is one of the highlights of ZTE Blade A 1. It can bring better self-portrait effect when it is lit at the same time of self-portrait, combined with beauty algorithm. The author tried such a set of comparisons, and it can be seen that soft light also played an obvious role in a good lighting environment.

With a13 megapixel rear main camera, let's take a look at the sample performance of ZTE Blade A 1.

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As can be seen from the above proof,

ZTE Blade A 1 is used for color reproduction.

Analytical ability,

The macro performance is satisfactory, and130,000 pixels is also the mainstream configuration of the thousand yuan machine level.

adequately

Meet daily use.

Fingerprint recognition also supports fingerprint snapshot, which acts as a shutter when taking a selfie, reducing jitter, and focusing with contrast, which makes the focusing speed completely acceptable and brings a good photo experience. After all, the price of 599 yuan, we don't need to ask for more.

"Performance and durability

This ZTE Blade A 1 uses MediaTek MT6735 processor, and the previous Charm Blue 2 also uses the same chip, which is located in Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 10. Its characteristic is network support. The MT6735 natively supports the CAT4 FDD/TDD LTE network, and further supports CDMA2000 and CDMA Evdo, thus truly becoming the first entry-level full netcom chip in MediaTek. We can know the specific parameters of this chip from the table below.

"MediaTek MT6735 parameters.

Processor name

MediaTek MT6735

Processing technology

28 nm HPm

structure

Arm cortex -A53

Core quantity

Quad core

frequency

4x 1.3GHz

Graphic coprocessor

Mali -T720MP2

Graphic frequency

450 MHz

internal storage

64-bit LPDDR3 type 666MHz

internal storage

Bandwidth 5.3 GB/ s

floating-point calculation

28.3 trillion floating-point operations

OpenGL ES 3.0

support

It can be clearly seen from the table that the performance of MT6735 is really average, and the running score of Ann Bunny 5.7.3 is around 27,000. It is also a reasonable choice to match the 720P display screen, which can ensure daily use. In terms of endurance, MediaTek's performance has always been praised, and this time it didn't let us down. Normal use for a day and a half is no problem. Unfortunately, this product does not support fast charging. I use the quick faucet of 5V 2A to charge. It takes more than 2 hours to try charging from 0 to 100, which is intolerable in today's smart phones. I suggest you charge it while using it, and don't wait until the phone is running out of power.

"problem summary

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After reading our relevant special tests, I also summarized the common problems of current users, hoping to help you. "ZTE Blade A 1 is a dual-card dual-standby mobile phone?

ZTE Blade A 1 has two versions, the mobile version and the full netcom version, and both the primary and secondary cards are dual-card dual standby.

The mobile version supports all network standards of China Mobile, and the full netcom version supports all network standards of the three major operators. Regarding whether the hardware configurations of the two versions are the same and whether the firmware can unlock the network standard, we need to disassemble them later to answer your questions.

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The AND/OR card slot is adopted to support the expansion of dual Nano-SIM cards and TF cards, and the TF card can support the capacity expansion of 128GB at most. Users can choose dual Nano-SIM cards or single Nano-SIM card +TF card expansion. "

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How many colors are available? ZTE blade A 1 is available in four colors: white, yellow, green, blue and gray, but the front panel

They are all black. In ...

White, yellow, green and blue are made of pearlescent texture, youthful and smart; And gray

The color is matte texture, which is relatively calm and restrained. It can be said that the choice is still very rich.

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"What is the fingerprint identification function of ZTE Blade A 1?

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ZTE Blade A 1 adopts the back-touch fingerprint identification scheme, so the index finger can be easily touched, and the acquisition process can be completed only by pressing 10 times, which is relatively fast. Functionally, the fingerprint identification of ZTE Blade A 1 supports unlocking, program locking and privacy space encryption.

The function of taking photos with fingerprints, in which fingerprints are unlocked very quickly, which is similar to the official black screen unlocking for 0.3 seconds. The only slight deficiency is that the fingerprint payment of Alipay and WeChat is not supported at present.

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Is it worth buying? The selling point of ZTE Blade A 1 is very clear, with low-cost fingerprint identification.

Although the price is cheap, compared with the same price mobile phone, ZTE Blade A 1 still has a good industrial design, excellent grip and practical system experience. As a veteran domestic mobile phone manufacturer, ZTE has a wide range of partners offline. Compared with the Internet mobile phone brand that has emerged in recent two years, ZTE has a unique advantage in after-sales service, and product quality control and channel supply chain are also ZTE's strengths. Blade A 1 also carried out strategic cooperation with JD.COM Mall and Tencent Butler, which made up for the shortage of online sales to some extent.

Can ZTE Blade A 1 have it?

The price of 599 yuan is definitely worth it. "ZTE blade A 1

When will it go on sale? In what channel to buy? ZTE Blade A 1 made an appointment in JD.COM and Tencent from 4: 00pm to 9: 00am on February 3rd, 65438. 1 1 officially opened in JD.COM Mall and ZTE Mall on the morning of February 3rd.

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"summary

Finally, let's go back to Blade A 1, which means blade in English. However, the sleek appearance and flat UI design of this product are not very outstanding, which makes the author really unable to connect with the sharp blade. But when we were connected with the sales market of this model, everything suddenly became clear. The market of thousand yuan machines and entry-level machines has long been a cruel battlefield, and almost every manufacturer is actively investing. Redmi and Charm Blue have gradually become the representatives of this department's models and become the main choices of users.

Blade A 1 is undoubtedly expected to become a sharp knife by virtue of 600 yuan's not backward gear configuration and fingerprint recognition function, piercing the existing pattern and breaking through the limit of cost performance. So from this dimension, ZTE

Blade A 1 is really an attractive product at this price.