Recently, foreign media said that Samsung's next-generation flagship machine Galaxy Note III appearance material or plastic case will no longer be used 。 However, many users have expressed their disbelief that Samsung Galaxy Note III will not use plastic case, because Samsung has said that it will not use plastic case since the release of Galaxy S2. Now Samsung Galaxy S4 It has been released, and the shell is still a large plastic that will remain unchanged for ten thousand years. Some netizens complain that Samsung is too poor to buy metal materials?
Samsung Galaxy S3
It must be said that it may be one-sided to guess why Samsung does not use metal materials only from the perspective of cost, because the metal shells used by most manufacturers are only ordinary metals such as aluminum alloy, which may not be expensive if the cost is really calculated; It is undeniable that plastic will always give users the impression of being very cheap, while metal materials will give users a more textured and high-grade feeling of mobile phones. But in fact, from the perspective of industrial design, many plastic shells are not inferior to metal shells.
A netizen on the production line once explained the characteristics of plastic production. In order to use plastics as skeletons with high strength, good thermal fluidity and high insulation, they added glass fiber to a kind of engineering plastics with good fluidity. In fact, there are many things that can be added to engineering plastics. Some add carbon powder to produce conductive plastics, Add fossil powder to change the properties of plastics, add fluorescent agent to produce luminous plastics, and of course, add stabilizer, flame retardant, etc. Therefore, the shell made of plastic materials is not poor in technology. Maybe when engineering plastics can not only maintain the advantages of plastic, but also have the characteristics of metal. For example, in the DC field, semi professional cameras basically use engineering plastics, whose strength is much higher than that of aluminum magnesium alloy. With the internal steel framework, the effect is no worse than that of all metal professional cameras.
Samsung Galaxy S4
The reason why Samsung has always insisted on using plastic shells is more from the perspective of assembly and distribution. From the perspective of manufacturing process, plastic is more suitable for mass production and assembly. For example, HTC has always used plastic shells for its mobile phones, but its latest flagship HTC One uses an integrated aluminum shell. But in A netizen on the website said that the iPhone 5 and HTC One seem to be better in appearance from some perspectives, but HTC One lost in the supply chain, so its release time is far from the time when it was actually launched, and "there may be great individual differences in the quality of HTC's final products, because they do not have the resources to do good quality control".
HTC One
As the largest mobile phone and smartphone manufacturer in the world, Samsung's competitive advantage lies in mass production and rapid distribution, so Samsung insists on using plastic shells that can be mass produced. First, there will be no ticket skipping due to new supply chain problems. Second, there will be no need to spend much time to establish a new supply chain system. Third, there will be no direct collision with Apple in this regard.
As far as Samsung is concerned, it can continue the design style of Galaxy series mobile phones; Plastics have certain bending characteristics. When metal is hit by sharp objects (such as table corners), it will cause depression. Glass is sometimes fragile, while plastics are elastic; The plastic on the back cover of Galaxy series mobile phones is quite thin, and only plastic can achieve this special effect; It is conducive to reducing product weight; The most important thing is that Samsung can use plastic shells to quickly assemble and speed up the distribution of goods.
Samsung Galaxy S3
In addition, there are some functional guesses: for example, the recent two popular new technologies, wireless charging and NFC, will have an impact on these two functions if the metal shell is used. If the future Samsung flagship mobile phone uses the metal shell, it may have to discard these two extremely selling features, which may be difficult for Samsung to accept.
Y., Vice President of Samsung Mobile Business H. Lee previously explained that Samsung will find a balance between the actual needs of users and their desire for premium products when the Galaxy S4 still uses a plastic shell. Therefore, Samsung has always chosen its 10000 year plastic for a reason. As for whether there will be any change in the shell material on the Galaxy Note III, we have to wait and see!
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