Nowadays, the domestic mobile phone market has become the arena for top 5 manufacturers and their respective incubated sub brands to compete. Small brands hidden in the "other" item in the shipment statistics are increasingly difficult to gain attention and volume under this kind of pressure. However, Hammer Technology or Nut Mobile has always had a volume that does not match the market share, This is not only because the founder Luo Yonghao's personal topic, but also because of the brand's insistence on industrial design and system function innovation.
Nutty mobile phones, which have never engaged in the tactics of "machine sea", seem to have slowed down the pace of launching new mobile phones after being included by byte beating. After the nut Pro 3 in October last year, a year later, they brought the nut R2, which belongs to the R series, with an all-round upgrade in appearance design, hardware configuration and system functions. After about two weeks of experience, the following review article will take you to understand the comprehensive performance of this product.
Appearance design
From hammer T1 to later nut phones of all models, the design of straight middle frame has been adopted. This time, nut R2 is no exception. Just like the iPhone 12 series that returned to the straight metal middle frame this year, this design is a minus item for the grip of the phone. The thickness of the body has already reached 9.5mm, and it looks thicker when it is lifted by the straight middle frame, And the weight has reached 216g. It is OK to hold the bare machine. It will feel a bit heavy when using with a shell.
One of the biggest changes in the appearance of nut R2 compared with previous generations of products is the use of a curved screen. What is commendable is that this curved screen is a micro curved surface. Compared with Samsung's micro curved surface, this curved surface of nut R2 has a slightly larger area but smaller curvature, which also minimizes the impact of the surface on touch and display.
And this time, the front of Nut R2 basically achieved the visual effect of equal width on all sides, which should be one of the few examples of Android camp except Google Pixel 5 in the near future. Of course, now that the packaging process of flexible screen is so mature, it is not difficult for Android manufacturers to make the visual effect of equal width on all sides technically.
However, R2 has a conspicuous plastic buffer layer between the curved screen and the middle frame, unlike other curved screen phones, where the screen and the middle frame are directly connected, which has a certain impact on the texture of the whole machine. In fact, in the final analysis, the straight middle frame should be matched with the straight screen, and the curved screen should be narrowed as much as possible. Even if there is no plastic buffer layer, the nut R2 thick middle frame+curved screen is somewhat strange.
This time we got the light black version (white is really too little, and almost no one in the whole network has ever done it). The whole machine is black from the front panel to the middle frame and the back cover. The back cover is made of bright glass (turquoise green is matched with fog glass), which is easy to get fingerprints. The square camera module and the bottom logo are similar to the design of nut Pro 3 last year, I don't feel fresh this year.
Nut R2 is equipped with dual speakers, and the top speaker is also used as a receiver. After careful observation, it can be found that the sound outlet of the top speaker is facing upward, which is conducive to maintaining the stereo sense of the external sound, but also increases the probability of voice leakage during phone calls.
In general, R2 has its own ideas on the appearance design this year. Unfortunately, the white special edition with hidden light and shadow effect on the back cover is too few.
screen
Nut R2 uses a 6.67 inch, 2340 × 1080 resolution OLED screen, which supports a 90Hz refresh rate. The screen supplier is said to be CSOT (it may be the same batch of materials as Xiaomi 10). From the microscope, it does have the star sub pixels that are the hallmark of CSOT.
Due to the diamond like arrangement, the screen fineness has significantly improved compared with that of Nut Pro 2S and Nut Pro 3, which have adopted RGB Delta pixel arrangement in the past two years. However, it is only the average level of 1080P OLED, the flagship of domestic mid and high-end products, this year. Closely, it may still have a sense of graininess.
In addition, like the Huaxing screen used by Xiaomi, this screen has a certain degree of color cast at a large angle, but it has no impact on normal use.
It is not a big problem that 120Hz is not directly provided to the standard configuration in the second half of the year. After all, upgrading from 60Hz to 90Hz is a difference in overall smoothness - R2 has finally achieved this, while upgrading from 90Hz to 120Hz is just a difference between better and better, and marginal benefits are relatively reduced. And R2's 90Hz is relatively perfect in application adaptation. There is no problem of 60Hz video application lock on some mobile phones.
In terms of brightness, the measured manual global maximum brightness is 390 nits, and the local maximum brightness is 448 nits; The global maximum excitation brightness is 593 nits, and the local maximum excitation brightness is 755 nits. The brightness performance is slightly worse than the 120Hz CSOT OLED on Xiaomi 10 Ultra.
performance
The nut R2 in our hand is equipped with Snapdragon 865 SoC, 8GB LPDDR5 memory+128GB UFS 3.1 flash memory, which is a standard configuration of this year's flagship. There is nothing to say about the performance. Let's directly look at the test data comparison:
CPU
GPU
Flash Memory
photograph
The main shot of Nut R2 was upgraded from the 48 million IMX586 on the previous generation Pro 3 to the 108 million pixel S5KHMX of the same model in the Xiaomi 10 series, which supports optical anti shake, as well as 13 million pixel ultra wide angle, 8 million pixel triple telephoto and 5 million pixel macro lens.
First, let's look at some live photos:
(Ultra wide angle)
(Main camera)
(3x telephoto)
(Main camera)
(Main camera)
(Main camera)
(Night, automatic mode)
(Night view mode)
(Night view mode, indoor)
(Night, automatic mode)
(Night view mode)
Since the main camera and Xiaomi 10 series are the same CMOS, we are also curious about the differences between them, so we took some samples with Xiaomi 10 Pro for comparison (the following samples are Xiaomi 10 Pro on the left and Nut R2 on the right).
This daytime photo of scaffolding and building glass curtain wall shows that Xiaomi 10 Pro is better at suppressing highlights, and when zoomed in to the lower glass door, the details reflected by Xiaomi are clearer, but some noise has appeared in the dark.
The white balance of this nut R2 has shifted, the white font appears blue, and the details are not as good as Xiaomi 10 Pro.
This photo tests the HDR effect of mobile phones. The Xiaomi 10 Pro shows obvious glare here. The highlight suppression effect and overall atmosphere are not as good as R2. Look at the details of the trees below, R2 is also a winner.
This one is in the night view mode. The billboard in the middle of the two phones can not hold down the highlight. The suppression effect of Xiaomi 10 Pro is slightly better, and there is no obvious difference in the details.
This picture also opens the night view mode. R2 has a higher overall brightness, slightly better details, and the highlight suppression of Xiaomi is more prominent, but there is no essential difference.
In general, there was no obvious error in the adjustment of the 100 million pixel S5KHMX of Nut R2 this time. Compared with the Xiaomi 10 Pro, which was the main camera of the same model, Nut R2 had a win or lose. In some scenes, the creation of atmosphere and the adjustment of color tended to be pleasant. What can be improved at present include: the night view mode does not support all lenses, and the imaging effect of 3 times the telephoto.
Battery life charging
Nut R2 is equipped with a 4500mAh battery Love to play computer games After the 2-hour endurance test (90Hz, 5G on the mobile network), the remaining power is 78%, and the power consumption level is close to that of the Xiaomi 10 Ultimate Commemorative Edition at 120Hz. In actual use, you can also feel that R2's power is not very used, and it seems that the endurance level still has room for further optimization.
In terms of charging, NutR2 has finally upgraded the 18W fast charging scheme for many years to the 55W scheme. The charging head adopts the C-port output and is compatible with the PPS protocol. According to the actual measurement, starting from 1%, it can be charged to 31% in 10 minutes, 82% in 30 minutes, and the UI displays full charge in 46 minutes. However, the charger still has an output less than 8W at this time, and the actual full charge will take 58 minutes.
At the beginning of the charging process, the power will rise to 48W, which has been maintained for about 2 minutes, and then it will start to jump between 48W, 49W and 23W, 24W. From 14 minutes to 23 minutes, it will switch to the gear of 28W to 29W, and then the power will start to decline in a stepwise manner. This 55W scheme is on the top of the mainstream flagship, less than the first echelon of 100 watts and the European and Canadian 65W, but it is OK from the half hour charging and full time.
System function experience
For other mobile phones, it is generally enough to draw a conclusion about the mobile phone itself after reading the above. However, since M1/M1L (the big bang, the first step is the launch of this generation), the system functions can be said to have become the soul of Hammer mobile phone products, so we will also talk about the experience of Nut R2 on the system, especially the attached TNT 2.0 large screen system.
Personally, the beauty of the system has always been a prominent advantage of Smartisan OS compared with other domestic customized Android UI/OS. The current Smartisan OS still maintains the relatively refined texture of imitative objects since the original T1 era, and old users will not feel strange when they get started many years later. Of course, different people have different opinions on this thing. Some people may think that the style of imitating things has fallen behind, and some people may like it very much.
(Comparison before and after the icon perception light and shadow effect is turned on)
When it comes to simulating physical style, this time a new design called "perception of light and shadow" has been added to the UI level (it needs to be opened in the settings). It is that the desktop icon will present a projection effect according to the light, the current weather and the holding angle, which makes the icon originally designed to simulate physical style appear more three-dimensional.
Thanks to the high refresh rate of 90Hz, the smoothness of Smartisan OS on R2 has also reached a higher level (although it is following the market trend, it is still a very critical hardware upgrade for nut phones). Of course, there is still room for progress compared with the hydrogen OS, which is the main and light system.
("One step", which can open up to four windows at the same time, is a very useful multiplex mode)
For Smartisan OS, One Step, Flash Capsule and Big Bang have become indispensable core functions. Last year, the Nut Pro 3 was expanded to a multi window and split screen "guide station", enriching the use scenarios of functions originally used for quick sharing, The Big Bang expanded the functions of exploding pictures, exploding sounds and exploding video screens on the basis of exploding words.
(See four videos on the horizontal screen at a time)
This year, these three sets of innovative features are few, and the one-step window can now be used horizontally, unlocking the ability to watch multiple full screen video content on the phone at the same time, or switch back and forth between multiple horizontal games;
Big Bang supports the capture of regional screen recording content;
(The top is the "time capsule" switch, and the bottom is the flash capsule key)
The flash memory capsule supports a function called "time capsule". After turning the "time capsule" switch on the side of the fuselage, it will automatically record the text you copied after turning on the switch and the pictures you saved or shot, and integrate them in chronological order.
I don't use many of these new functions. Most of the time, the big bang is only limited to cutting text content, and the first step is to use it as a small window mode. For users who like to read and extract content for a long time on their mobile phones, or need to pack some key information, "Time Capsule" is a practical function. However, the application scope of this function is relatively narrow. In many cases, they can't remember to open it, and still require users to study deliberately.
TNT go and TNT 2.0
TNT is a system ecology of mobile phone to large screen developed by the nut team in the past two years. Many people may only know about it through various online jokes. In fact, after the controversial 515 Bird's Nest launch conference two years ago and the subsequent ticket skipping of TNT workstation, TNT was actually diluted by the nut team at the propaganda level for a period of time, becoming a dessert like extended screen function.
(You can still see the introduction of the TNT workstation in those years on the official website of Hammer Technology.)
Its hardware carrier has also been handed over to third-party accessory manufacturers. All kinds of small size, touch-screen supporting portable displays were not very attractive, but intentionally or unintentionally became the most suitable accessories for TNT output. From the launch of the 2.0 version system and TNT go in this press conference, it seems that the nut team is going to pick up this unique secret skill and start again firmly.
One of the core logic of TNT is to store all applications and data in the mobile phone. The computing power is also given by the mobile phone. Other displays are just carriers, just tools to maximize the computing power and display content of the mobile phone. The advantage of this logic is that the data is seamlessly synchronized, and does not need to be imported through the cloud or physical means. Apps such as WeChat and Pinpin, which cannot be logged in on multiple platforms at the same time, are ready to use. However, it is inevitable that many data and data garbage in work will be directly piled up on mobile phones; Whether this logic works still needs to be further verified. However, in view of the trend of excess SoC computing power and memory space of mobile phones, TNT is a feasible way to make full use of the excess computing power of mobile phones.
The significance of this launch of TNT go is that after two years ago, the TNT workstation that looks like Surface Studio and whose price is extremely unrealistic ended in failure, this system finally has an officially developed hardware carrier. In terms of the adaptation of system functions and the smoothness of operating experience, the officially developed hardware is qualitatively different from that provided by a third party after all.
TNT go is somewhat similar to the two in one laptop such as Surface Pro in appearance. It is equipped with a 12 inch, 2160 × 1440 resolution IPS touch screen. The measured maximum brightness of the screen is 345 nits. The fineness is good when measured by the laptop screen. The 3:2 screen ratio is also suitable for document and web browsing.
It is equipped with magnetic keyboard, stylus and bracket - the bracket of TNT go is not integrated with the body but attached, equipped with dual speakers and two USB-C interfaces, of which only one can be used for video output; There are also speakers on both sides. In the system settings, you can choose whether the phone speakers or TNT go speakers emit sound.
However, in essence, TNT go is just a portable touch display. There is no internal chip that provides computing power, memory and storage space. Its computing power is given by its connection with the mobile phone, which means that it is not as free and unrestrained as a tablet computer, and it needs to be put on a stable shelf more often.
There are two ways to connect TNT go and Nut R2. One is to use the attached C to C data cable for wired connection. At this time, TNT go will supply power to the mobile phone through the built-in battery, while the other C port can be used to supply power to TNT go at the same time; The other is to connect wirelessly under WiFi network, but this mode is only supported by the wireless version of TNT go.
From the actual experience, even in the WiFi 6 network, the operation delay of wireless connection is still obvious, and it is difficult to achieve the state of smooth and efficient use. If only for projection or emergency use is OK, I will still choose wired connection more often. Since the current TNT system has added the function of virtual memory, it will temporarily store the background application in a designated virtual memory when the mobile phone is disconnected from the wired connection, and it will be restored as it is when the connection is made, so there is no need to worry about the embarrassment of the temporary disconnection of the mobile phone (such as going out to pick up a phone) that will lead to the clearing of all workflows.
When TNT was just launched two years ago, it advocated "Touch And Talk", that is, the interactive way of pressing and speaking, so it also gave birth to some stems. Today, this operation still exists in the system, but based on realistic and rational considerations, keyboard and mouse based, touch assisted is its most efficient interaction means.
The system provides two keyboard usage habits, Windows and Mac. No matter which keyboard you used before, you can quickly learn those familiar shortcut keys and operations; The touch control panel operates smoothly in wired mode. In terms of basic gestures, two fingers can drag the window, three fingers can select text, four fingers can slide up to call out a multitask/slide down to minimize the window, and the left side of the touch control panel slides in to return. However, there is no right button popup menu operation, only two fingers can touch the popup menu.
(WPS adapted to TNT large screen)
(WeChat applet can open a single window)
Like Samsung Dex and Huawei PC modes, the TNT system will run the mobile phone's vertical screen APP in a window mode. In actual use, TNT can display three maximum vertical screen APP windows on the same screen at a time. Some apps that are adapted to Android tablet or TNT mode will display larger horizontal screen windows, such as WPS, Microsoft Office three piece suite, Foxit Reader, Snapsed, YouTube, etc.
(Desktop browser with Chrome kernel)
In addition, the browser built in the TNT system is desktop level, which uses the Chrome kernel and can install various Chrome extension plug-ins (dozens of models including Grease Monkey are officially provided). This is its biggest advantage over Samsung Dex and Huawei PC models.
(Desktop browser means that TNT, a web application like graphite document, can be easily operated)
This means that all the work you usually need to complete on the PC browser can also be done with TNT go - I have tried to use TNT go to complete the writing, uploading and publishing of some new product press conference information drafts before - in the middle, you need to switch more than a dozen browser tabs, write, reply to WeChat, and download and upload some pictures. I found that it is really competent.
Keyboard and mouse operation, free multi window and desktop browser make the combination of TNT go and Nut R2 have certain productivity attributes. For example, the website/WeChat public platform's article layout and release, email processing, medium and light document/form/PPT production and processing, simple drawing revision and other tasks can be completed, And because the Android platform's open file management system plus the operation logic is highly similar to the PC, to some extent, it is more comfortable to handle productivity tasks than the iPad Pro.
(8G memory is slightly strained for TNT under multi task conditions, and the previous 12G version will be better)
However, because it is essentially an Android system, there is still room for improvement in professional APP adaptation. At present, the main things that this system can do are light productivity, web browsing, and video playback. The ability certainly has not reached the official "next generation computer", but the overall completion is no less than the state two years ago, If more third-party professional APPs are added in the future, the boundary of this system in terms of productivity can be further widened.
summary
In terms of configuration and price, Nut R2 is definitely not suitable for the parameter party to pursue the ultimate cost performance ratio at this time node (if only released half a year earlier) - of course, R2 is not bad in parameters, and it is also the same for ordinary users who have not obtained its core selling points, In a question and answer session at an offline event in Shenzhen, the Chinese side admitted that R2 is still targeting a niche market, and sales volume is not the most important goal.
Therefore, if you are an old user who agrees with Nuts mobile phone and Smartisan OS, or a creative worker who often processes a lot of text messages on the mobile phone and likes to record inspiration, R2 is indeed an option to maintain its own characteristics in the market at present, and I think it is also better than Nuts Pro 3 last year. As for TNT go, if you are really interested, the cable version of 1999 is also worth playing.
The Nuts mobile phone, which is now included in Byte Beat, has enough capital to support it. The sales of mobile phones may not be a factor affecting the survival of the team, which is probably why they can only produce one model, a Buddhist model, a year now. They also hope to get byte capital The nut mobile phone team supported by software technology can continue to bring more different ideas to the mobile phone market.
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