What can I buy with 1300 yuan? mobile phone? It is also the domestic middle end; having dinner? A table of friends and drinks is not enough; Clothes bags? Don't be too fussy. However, now you can buy a micro whale W43F TV for 1299 yuan, and bring along members for one year.

WeWhale can be called the "spoiler" of the TV industry. Although it is only a new Internet smart TV player established for more than a year, it has been able to compete with LeEco, Xiaomi and other industry giants in terms of configuration, price, product line and advertising. The WeWhale W43F that I am experiencing, when it was released in the middle of the year, the price was 1898 yuan, including members. Now, the price is 1498 yuan, with members. On the WeWhale membership day, 1299 yuan, with members, the price keeps diving, gradually lowering the threshold of small size smart TV. Can this low-cost smart TV meet your needs? Let's talk about this product comprehensively.

Internet TV is delivered directly to the user's home through logistics. Other brands that have experienced before use the next day arrival of SF, and the transportation speed and safety are also recognized by the public. This Wewhal W43F is delivered by a very famous local business circulation enterprise group. Compared with express delivery, professional entity enterprises are more reassuring. The material of Weijing's box is thick, the box is well protected, and there is no damage after arriving home. After confirming the SMS receipt code, the delivery service is completed.

  In fact, there are colored eggs in the packing box of Weijing. After taking out the TV, you will find that there are some lines drawn inside the packing box. Cutting along the lines, you can assemble a sitting three-dimensional whale. The finished picture above is shared by netizens. When I am free, I am ready to make a baby whale with my son. After all, the boxes are basically thrown away after normal use, and the idea of micro whale waste utilization is worth praising.

The accessories of Microwhale W43F include infrared remote controller * 1, remote control battery * 2, screw * 5, three in one AV adapter cable * 1, screwdriver * 1, power supply * 1, and so on. I remember watching the evaluation of Microwhale TV last year, and someone complained that it was inconvenient not to have a standard screwdriver. This time, I was relieved to have a screwdriver and spare screws.

Due to the price factor, the shell of the Micro Whale W43F is mainly made of plastic, but it uses the secondary injection molding process, and has made a variety of surface treatments such as wire drawing, sanding lines, and highlights that imitate metal, so there is no sense of cheapness visually. The characteristics of this processing method can be seen from the two herringbone legs, and the R/L mark is etched on it, which corresponds to the installation position of the TV base to prevent the wrong installation direction.

The front and side visual layers of the Micro Whale W43F are rich. The titanium gray of the base, the silver of the lower front frame, the frosted black of the upper left and right front frames, and the brushed black of the side frames make the overall layout simple, fashionable, and exquisite. At the same time, the ultra narrow front frame of about 8mm is integrated with the screen when the screen is turned off, and it has 15.6% more display area than the ordinary 40 inch TV, which only increases the body area by 5%, bringing a better viewing experience.

The thickness of the frame of Micro Whale W43F is 1.76 cm, slightly thinner than a penny coin. It is the same thickness as the 43 inch flagship 4K "Small Steel Gun". After all, this can be regarded as a simple version of "Small Steel Gun".

The arc-shaped back of Microwhale W43F does not have much bright spot. The convection design of the upper cooling hole ensures the efficiency. Pressing hard near the logo of Microwhale in the middle will cause slight deformation, but the material support force should be no problem.

Personally, the split power supply design of Micro Whale is quite unique. The L-type interface is more suitable for the back of the TV. The compact power plug is much more sophisticated than the ordinary three hole plug, and it will not "fight" with other power plugs on the plug row.

In terms of interface, Microwhale W43F is not as rich as the flagship model. It is only equipped with two HDMI USB 3.0、USB2.0、 Network interface, TV input, AV input, audio output, optical fiber output and other necessary interfaces, as well as support for 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0, meet the needs of daily external audio, player, game console and storage devices. Among them, the USB 3.0 interface is most commonly used by ordinary users. The external mobile hard disk is used to watch high-quality movies and view past photos. USB 3.0 makes hardware identification and data processing faster.

Micro whale W43F has a five dimensional navigation key under the interface, which can't be seen or used at ordinary times, but when your remote control can't be found or broken, it will be useful in emergency. For control buttons, I think more is better than less.

Micro Whale also uses HiFi sound system on 43 inch TV, 2 full frequency speakers and 2 tweeters, plus audio decoding such as DOLBY, DTS, etc., with different sound effect modes, different sound fields of reality shows, concerts, and movies are restored in place. However, I don't agree with the design of the sound layout at the bottom. Acoustically speaking, the sound opening facing down has a certain impact on the sound quality.

The power switch and standby indicator light are also designed at the bottom of the TV. Compared with the traditional point type indicator light, the block type lamp body used by Microwhale can provide obvious indication when the TV is turned on, especially when it is in standby. When watching TV normally, the indicator light is off.  

The remote control of Microwhale W43F adopts a 12 key design, which is moderate in size and feel, and easy for the elderly and children to use. However, the home key is on the left and the return key is in the middle. It is different from the personal use habits, so it needs to be adapted again. It is also limited to cost. The remote control adopts infrared mode. In terms of remote control distance, range and speed, it is still a certain distance from the high configuration Bluetooth remote control. It is recommended to directly configure all the standard Bluetooth remote controls to further improve the use experience.

As the basic attribute of television, picture quality is our duty. Micro Whale W43F adopts an IPS hard screen with a dynamic response of 8ms, which is still limited in cost. The resolution is only 1920 * 1080. It is inevitable that the high-end 4K has a clear sense of particles in close proximity. We still use the camera to take the original picture to show the expressiveness of TV. TV is the standard image mode, and the live picture is only cut without any post-processing. At the same time, because the upload will be compressed by the platform, the image quality will be further damaged. Please cooperate with the text description.

The above picture shows the color performance and visual angle test. The color area of Microwhale W43F is natural, and the color area of triangle is also obvious, with good expressiveness. The viewing angle of Micro Whale W43F screen is 178 degrees. Although the image can be seen clearly at the maximum viewing angle, the color and brightness will be reduced by 1-2 grades. Personally, within 90 degrees, it is the best viewing angle range.

The above picture is a live shot of the tone level restoration test. The dark level of the W43F can be seen about 8, and the light level can be seen about 251. In addition to the level representation in the spherical diagram, it is all satisfactory.

The above is a live shot of a high quality picture, which shows the image quality effect and characteristics of Microwhale W43F through more complex scene pictures. In fact, in the test and actual experience, the screen brightness of Microwhale W43F is relatively high, the color is relatively pleasing to the eye, and it looks more comfortable.

Although the hardware of Microwhale W43F is not 4K, it has a 64 bit dual core Cortex-A53 processor, supports H.265 encoding technology, and can hard understand mainstream video formats including 4K. After the mobile hard disk is inserted into the USB, Microwhale can automatically prompt. If the video is too large and there are too many pictures, it may take a little time to load and decode, which has little impact on the operating experience.

In the era of intelligent TV, hardware is the extension and carrier of content and services. Micro Whale W43F is equipped with an Android based in-depth customized WUI. Students who have used the TV Cat APP will feel very friendly. The WUI of Microwhale also uses a similar vertical card style home page layout, which makes it easy to find the content you need all the way down. The home page of WUI is "My TV", where you can quickly locate functional modules such as history viewing, drama collection, cinema blockbusters, My App, music radio, members, settings, etc., which is actually the shortcut page of each module.

The previous page of "My TV" is "Signal source" and search button, where you can easily switch and preview different signal sources. If you connect an external box, you can quickly switch to the home page of the box here, as shown in the figure above. The search interface can choose T9 keyboard or full keyboard, which is suitable for clearly knowing the name of the content you want to see. Lenovo search is also very powerful.

WUI has memory and learning settings. It will provide appropriate "wonderful recommendations" based on the user's habit of watching and focusing on hot spots. Of course, the content is also inclusive. If you really don't know what you want to see, you can also find the points of interest according to the list you are watching, the latest list, the hottest list, the star list, the collection list and other lists.

The "classification" of WeWhale WUI is relatively reasonable. My favorite movies and documentaries, variety show and TV show wives, children and cartoon sons. The next level of classification is also relatively clear. It is convenient to locate and find favorite content.

Moreover, the content of Microwhale was updated in a timely manner. For example, "We were born in China", which has not been released for a long time, also has Blu ray content. WeWhale itself is a content production platform, and many of its content is also cooperated with Tencent, so it is very good at picture quality, audio quality, and video buffer speed.

Smart TV is supported by a large number of APPs for its scalability and playability. The "application" of WeWhale WUI includes video and audio entertainment, health sports, learning and education, life and leisure, and so on. At present, the content is relatively large. However, due to policy factors, the number of highly entertaining APPs is not large. There is no way, because of the big environment. It is not the problem of Microwhale itself. When you are idle and bored, it is a good choice to play games with Microwhale. In the actual test, the small games run without pressure, but the 3D online game "My name is MT2" with nearly 300 megabytes of files installed will get stuck and jump out of the game during the run. It seems that the pressure of running the big games with 1G storage is still great.

The "Settings" page can be used to set the network, Bluetooth, image, sound, playback, personalization, account, etc. of Microwhale W4F in detail. For example, different image scene modes can be set. The standard, movie, gorgeous, motion and other presets have preset and adjusted the backlight, brightness, definition, contrast, saturation, and color temperature according to the video characteristics, which is more practical. However, the image profile can only be switched on the setting page. There is no switch function when playing video. Unfortunately, it is recommended to add it later.

The WeWhale WUI also supports mobile phone remote control. After downloading and installing a dedicated APP on the mobile phone, you can perform touch remote control, screenshot, application installation, screen projection and other operations on the WeWhale W43F on the same network. In particular, screen projection is more practical. The beautiful pictures taken on mobile phones can be easily transmitted to TV to share with family. However, there are also some slots, such as the response speed of APP TV to operation, which will have a certain sense of lag, and the transmission speed of screenshots is unstable. Microwhale needs to be polished again on the APP.

On the whole, in terms of hardware, as a 43 inch small screen smart TV, the most suitable space is in a small living room or bedroom. It is easy to use at low prices for people who do not have too many performance and function needs. At the software level, individuals prefer the content provided by Microwhale. Although the interaction of WUI has some slots, it tends to be smooth as a whole. In particular, under the continuous pressure of SARFT and the awakening of copyright awareness, the old era of free access to the latest TV dramas, movies and entertainment programs with a box or an APP has passed. The pay service based on smart TV is the right way. The annual membership price of Microwhale is 199 yuan, and the low price of W43F also comes with a one-year membership fee, which is more cost-effective.