When all major mobile phone manufacturers aimed at the 1000 yuan market, Lao Luo, who had been silent for a year, could not resist the sense of reality. On August 25, 2015, Lao Luo took his most affectionate team, Hammer Technology, to hold the launch conference of a new sub brand mobile phone, Nut Mobile Phone U1, in Shanghai.

Although the mobile phone information leaked before the conference, the official website was attacked, the PPT of the conference was lost, and Lao Luo redefined eight o'clock, there were many mistakes, but in addition to Lao Luo's personal "crosstalk", the conference still brought us a lot of surprises.

Of course, the surprise protagonist is Nut U1. Recently, the author was lucky to experience this mobile phone in Lei Feng's trial. Let's take a look at this thousand yuan mobile phone with good looks.

Packaging&Appearance

▲ When it comes to the packaging of mobile phones, in fact, the iPhone's Tiandi box design is basically adopted. Once some domestic manufacturers (including hammers) seemed to have "resisted", but whether for cost control or from the perspective of frugality, this resistance seems to have failed. As the nut of the 1000 yuan machine, Tiandi box design is undoubtedly universal.

▲ Although the package is simple, it does not mean that it is simple. The damping is applicable, and it can be easily opened by its own gravity.

▲ As a thousand yuan nut, the target population is more young. Therefore, Lao Luo also gave up the black and white design of T1 this time, but introduced the rainbow color. The color on the front of the packaging box is exactly the same as the color on the back cover of the machine, which shows that the design team's pursuit of details is also evident, and the feelings are worth it.

▲ Inside the package, there is nothing like other thousand yuan machines except for another "winder".

▲ It may be that with the bottom of the hammer T1, there is still a big surprise to be really familiar with nuts. The plastic body and the arc design of the back are more in line with the hand curve. Among the thousand yuan level, the plastic body is expected, but the soft appearance is far better than the other two.

▲ The nut mobile phone has abandoned the physical keys that Lao Luo has always been proud of, and here we can clearly see the differentiation of the new sub brand. The design without physical keys and two openings on the top makes the whole phone look very clean and tidy. The front panel is made of white plastic, with a 5.5 inch 1080P full HD IPS display and a 5 megapixel front camera.

▲ The top of the phone is the headphone hole, auxiliary microphone and power button.

▲ The speaker and USB slot of the nut phone are integrated at the bottom. In fact, the speaker has only one side, and the symmetrical design is just for beauty, which was also explained by Lao Luo at the press conference.

▲ On the side of the fuselage, the symmetrical design insisted by Lao Luo is still adopted. There are customizable physical keys on both sides. This pair of keys can be customized in the initial setting, which are volume and light The keys at both ends can also be customized. The primary purpose of this key setting is to meet the needs of users with different left and right hand usage habits. However, this kind of paranoid design has to squeeze the power button to the top of the phone, which is still very stressful for the 5.5 inch screen phone in the single hand operation mode.

▲ In addition to the arc design mentioned above, the vertical lines on the back of the mobile phone, which is the biggest highlight of the nut mobile phone, enhance the mobile phone's flavor to the youth age. The hammer logo on the back, like the black version of the hammer mobile phone T1, uses the PVD electroplating process.

▲ There is a 13 million pixel camera on the back of the fuselage, and there is a small "hole" in the position symmetrical to the flash. This is also what Lao Luo said at the press conference. It is another special treatment for beauty, which has no practical effect.

▲ The rainbow back cover of nuts can be opened, but the battery is not detachable. Opening the back cover is two SIM card slots. The nut phone has the function of dual card dual standby. As for the support type, SIM1 supports Mobile Unicom 4G, while SIM2 only supports Mobile Unicom 2G. The size of SIM is Micro Card.

▲ Nuts mobile phone has 7 different color versions of the back cover. When the user changes the back cover, the metal contact between the back cover and the body can detect the user's replacement behavior and prompt the user immediately whether to switch the desktop theme with the same color as the back cover. Lei Feng's sincerity in this trial is ten feet. In addition to the back cover on the body, he also gave a back cover of other colors as a gift.

System UI

▲ Since Lao Luo announced to build a mobile phone, the most mentioned thing besides feelings is his hammer ROM, and this nut mobile phone also placed the system in a very important position. In terms of system, the nut mobile phone uses the same Smartisan OS 2.0 as the hammer T1.

▲ In UI design, Smartisan OS 2.0 continues the previous nine grid design, which has always been Lao Luo's insistence, but this insistence seems to be much more reasonable than the symmetrical solid keys on the side, because this nine grid design is very easy for ordinary users to use, and according to the user's personal preferences, the interface can be switched to sixteen grid, which can greatly improve the space utilization.

▲ In terms of system application style, Lao Luo also has his own insistence. Although the Android design style advocated by Google is flat to the end, what we see on Smartisan OS is still a pseudo physical style.

▲ In terms of productivity tools, Smartisan OS 2.0 adds three functions, namely, scrolling screenshots, phone case and graffiti, to the original screenshot function, integrating multiple steps from screenshots to beautification, and can almost meet the daily use requirements of screenshots, editing and annotation.

▲ In addition to the above, what has the most profound impact is Lao Luo's obsessive-compulsive disorder option. Here we can find many functions, such as "left and right hand single hand operation mode option", "quick corner marking", "thumb down and hover". These functions can be said to be Lao Luo's capriciousness, But in the process of using it, we really feel the convenience brought by these details.

Performance&Heating&Endurance

▲ With Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 eight core processor and 2GB running memory, this configuration is not as good as Red Rice Note, but it is already at the terminal level in the 1000 yuan mobile phone market. Although the author and Lao Luo do not like to use running points to measure the performance of a mobile phone, they still have to do so for one reason, because this data is very important for small white users, However, Lao Luo has closed 6 cores in the run.

▲ From the measured score data, it is not ideal. It is still significantly different from the Red Rice Note, but from the overall experience, it is smooth and can fully meet the daily needs of most users.

▲ In terms of fever, nuts are well controlled. Even if large games are run for a long time, they are not hot, and the endurance is also good.

Screen display

▲ Under the pure black and white test, some uneven distribution of brightness can be seen.

(shot in solid color)

(Real time color pictures)

▲ The screen of nut mobile phone has good performance in saturation and contrast. Its red performance is similar to that of the normal IPS screen, but its blue and green colors are more gorgeous, and its saturation is even close to that of the AMOLED screen.

▲ Under diagonal and low angle, nut U1 has obvious decline in brightness and saturation.

Photo effect

(daytime live shot sample)

(Macro)

(Sample photo taken in the evening)

▲ Nut U1 uses a 13 million pixel main camera with aperture f/2.2. From the daytime samples, the white balance of nut U1 is well controlled, close to the real scene seen by the naked eye, and the resolution, sharpness and saturation of the photo are also very good.

summary

▲ After going through the ups and downs of the hammer, Lao Luo is no longer a wayward man talking about feelings. Although this time we can see many things Lao Luo insisted on in nut U1, the positioning of nuts as a thousand yuan class is not that of Lao Luo at the beginning. The overall performance of nut U1 has been among the best in the thousand yuan machine market and its youthful appearance. Nuts can be regarded as a shot in the arm of the thousand yuan machine market, which can be confirmed from the sales of nuts. The author can only say that this time, more people have finally bought Laoluo.