On October 18, Hammer Technology held its 2016 new product launch at the Shanghai Mercedes Benz Cultural Center as scheduled, although it "redefined" 7:30. Teacher Luo said that many changes had taken place in Hammer Technology within one year. Wu Dezhou replaced Qian Chen as CTO, winning many design awards, and was reported by the media to have "closed down" and "acquired" many times. Of course, the most important thing is to bring us the latest flagship T3. Oh, no, it is Smartisan M1/M1L.

Appearance design

Since it is a new flagship and its name has been changed to Smartisan M1/M1L, the appearance has also changed significantly. The bar shaped entity "Three Heavens King" key of the T series logo has been replaced by a round Home key, the big logo of Hammer Technology on the back has disappeared, and the camera has become the visual center, so that netizens said that the new flagship is the front iPhone, and the ID design of Meizu on the back.

On the round Home key, Mr. Luo said that limited by the supply chain and various elements, it is a problem to choose a machine that uses positive fingerprint identification, such as Apple or Samsung. Trying to design different geometric figures can not provide users with a good experience, so he finally chose Apple because iPhone is a good product.

In this regard, Mr. Luo's team really needs to "learn" from Lenovo's Moto. The latest Moto Z does not "yield" to Apple or Samsung in front fingerprint recognition, but uses a square design. The "dumbfounded" chin is often remembered by netizens. However, perhaps the biggest problem of Hammer Technology at present is the legal department of Apple. And if you tap the Home key to return to this very mBack operation, do you know if it will cause Meizu's legal department?

At the same time, the "intimate" hammer has added the luminous function to its own data line to meet the user's need to charge the mobile phone when the lights are off at night. But this idea has long been mastered by the masses of the people. Go to Xbao to search for the luminous data line, whether it is to let people choose a variety of colors for the onset of difficulties or the cool special effects of running horses, you can meet them one by one.

In order to satisfy the vast number of users, in addition to the two size machines, there is a new coffee gold leather version. In addition to the color change, the back is also made of leather. The BlackBerry 9000 and moto x, which used leather as the material in the past, have become classic models. Can the M1/M1L of the Hammer make some achievements this time? Unfortunately, the new color means that the original favorite black has been canceled this time. The black model shown in the spy photos circulated before seems to have miscarried.

The hammer, which pursues "innovation", introduced a new processing method on the middle frame this time to achieve the effect of mirror stainless steel, which is in perfect harmony with most of the metal devices we see in our daily life. But can this laborious polishing process satisfy people in terms of wear resistance? After all, the bright black iPhone 7 is a warning. After the mention of stainless steel, the "art journey of a piece of steel plate" in that year came to mind again.

hardware configuration

Compared with the hardware configuration of T2 that was complained about in those years, Mr. Luo took great pains to achieve the ultimate in Smartisan M1/M1L. "Full blooded" Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor, 4G/6G LPDDR4 memory, 32G/64G UFS 2.0 flash memory, rear IMX318 23 million camera+front OV4688 4 million camera, JDI/Sharp 1080P/2K screen and 3050/4080mAh large battery, plus dual card dual standby, no matter which flagship model is inferior.

What's more gratifying is that after the large battery is equipped, the fast charging QC3.0 is finally added. The Snapdragon 808 is not equipped as T2, but QC 2.0 is castrated. In terms of copywriting, the famous advertising words of OPPO, a friend, were obviously used, and even the animation during charging was purposely added to the system to show the real charging speed, but the user would really stare at the charging speed when charging?

In terms of sound quality, the previous strategy of T2 is continued. M1 is equipped with TI OPA1622 operational amplifiers of left and right channels, and M1L even joins the independent DAC of CS4398. This configuration is comprehensive, but two OPA1622s are used. Why not directly make two stages of amplification, but have to have one left and one right channel?

Smartisan OS 3.1

If you look at the length of the introduction, the latest Smartisan OS 3.1 is the protagonist tonight. Mr. Luo spent more than an hour introducing its three major features. The first is the deeply integrated iFLYTEK input method, which has a speech recognition rate of 97%, and has made a significant contribution to the improvement of text input speed. Its powerful speech input is specially demonstrated on site. It seems very tall. In fact, Apple and other major manufacturers have adopted Nuance technology in speech input for a long time, and the recognition rate has been very good after years of improvement. Now Google, Microsoft and other companies are developing in the direction of Deep Learning. iFLYTEK is currently in the leading position in Chinese recognition, But how many users will use voice input to mobile phones outdoors?

Then there is the Big Bang word segmentation technology developed in cooperation with Sogou and Triangle Beast, which can quickly and conveniently process text information and improve the efficiency of using mobile phones to process text. During the live demonstration, both Chinese and English can achieve the function well, and with OCR, the characters in the pictures can be processed. The creativity and completion are both good. The problem is whether it can work as expected when dealing with dialects in various regions (similar to Cantonese in Guangdong)?

Finally, Teacher Luo is proud of the One Step, which can achieve rapid switching between different applications. The drag and drop operation is to quickly complete the operations that users need to achieve in a few steps, which can be called the magic weapon of Smartisan OS 3.1. The utility of this artifact is quite high, but because the demonstration process mainly uses WeChat, nails and their own apps for demonstration, the adaptation of other apps is a question mark, and there are some ingenious behaviors in the demonstration process - iOS and Android can quickly complete operations between different apps through sharing, without having to switch so much trouble, For some efficiency oriented users, workflow, LCP or Xposed framework can be used (In fact, the most important thing I want to say is which user will put more than ten or twenty attachments into the email) 。

deficiencies

The most regrettable thing about Mr. Luo's "crosstalk" was that it was not perfect. After removing the problems in the middle connection and in the switching of Keynote, it was even more doubtful whether there had been rehearsals. When introducing the M1L large battery, the Keynote "leaked" the future Apple's new iPhone 7s Plus in advance, and the processor is still A10, and the battery capacity is 2900mAh, which is no change from the current iPhone 7 Plus.

The most egregious thing is that when introducing partners, the Triangle Beast "turned" into a unicorn on Keynote. Teacher Luo also read it out according to the book, without hesitation, until Zhu Xiaomu came to the stage later to remind him of "epiphany". If this is not the script that Triceratops has discussed with Hammer Technology, then Mr. Luo is playing tricks on his partners.

Smartisan OS 3.1 has 153+65 new and optimized features in addition to those three features, but are many "new" features really new? For example, the "adaptive status bar" can be realized through the "transparent" status bar during the Android 4.4 period, while Google officially added color options on Android 5.0. Now that Android 7.0 has been released, Hammer has caught up with this "trend".

The name of SmartFinder, which is equivalent to the Hammer desktop client, is changed to Handshaker, and the Mac version will be updated to 2.0. The Windows version that makes Hammer users complain has also come, but is it a bit late for this desktop client to debut? In addition, the Windows version is still a beta version. Is it timely compared with other manufacturers?

Finally, there was another embarrassment. The Smartisan M1/M1L was originally scheduled to be launched at 10 p.m. on the 18th. However, due to Mr. Luo's cross talk, the conference was postponed to 11 p.m., so the sales time was postponed to 11 p.m., and retailers were also forced to postpone the launch of products until 11 p.m.

tail

The Smartisan M1/M1L maintains the consistent tradition of a hammer in terms of price: 2499/2799, but compared with the previous T series, if the appearance is acceptable and the Smartisan OS is not disliked, the Smartisan M1/M1L is very competitive: the leading comprehensive hardware configuration+the system with improved efficiency complement the previous shortcomings.

The legendary T3 didn't show up. Teacher Luo has become more smooth after years of ups and downs in the industry. At the end of the conference, he didn't forget to make a disclaimer: everything is subject to the official website. The new "flagship" Smartisan M1/M1L is now on the scene. Will Hammer Technology have a new start? (By the way, do you want to snap up Smartisan M1/M1L?)

P. S. The picture comes from the official website and network of Hammer, which is deleted upon infringement

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