Hammer T1 Mobile phone all-round evaluation-the "feelings" value of the old Luo?

Smartisan T1, or the name of the hammer phone, may be unfamiliar to ordinary consumers who are less concerned with digital. Hammer-Phone development company for Hammer Technology, the new mobile phone hardware business, the company launched a more than a year ago, based on the Android Smartisan OS, on this critique of the bipolar system, we will be in detail later; As for the hammer phone itself, though already published in May, But because of capacity and yield and so on, only recently began to officially shipments, even our hands, but also a very close to the listing version of the engineering machine. Speaking so much, in the end this is claiming that "the world's second best (or the most used in the Eastern hemisphere)" is really the name of the phone, now look at the evaluation bar ...

Before we start, we'll look at the dullest specs: Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 2.5GHz processor, 2GB RAM, 16/32GB storage, 4.95-inch JDI 1080p screen (445ppi), 12.78 million megapixel Sony IMX214 The back-camera is the standard. The battery is relatively small, only 2,570mah, but it is more regrettable that the introduction is not equipped with LTE support it.

Many people say that T1 has a copy of the IPhone in its appearance, and that after a while we have experienced it, we can say that both are very similar. It is easy for people to mistake our T1 for the IPhone, but if you pay attention to the market or take a few more glances, you will feel that T1 is more founder from the front. The design of the machine side is also obviously different, instead of using metal, it uses all the black glass fiber composite material and is under the cover of two pieces of Gorilla Glass 3, both positive and reverse, so from afar, the entire phone looks like a dark brick (this is similar to the black version of IPhone 5).

As for the white version to be launched, the overall design and black version of the same, but the front because of the relationship between the screen, so you can expect no black version good-looking. Turn to the back, the black version of our hands looks better than the front, because the glass edge of the machine with the arc surface design, as long as the light reflects the words can be seen very heavy three-dimensional, and the central hammer mark with matte black, below the Smartisan logo is very low-key use of dark gray, So the whole machine can be said to be simpler than any mobile phone. Of course, beauty is a price: our hands on the T1, the machine has several places on the back of the scrape, suggest that you want to buy, or together with optional 200 yuan glass insurance to buy together for the wonderful, broken words within one year can be replaced by up to two times glass.

Back to the phone configuration, the front in addition to the dark screen, near the top of the position of the camera and the handset. This side of the factory adopted a more specific configuration: direct distance and light sensors placed in the receiver's pit to keep the appearance of simplicity (especially in the white version), but also reduce the sensor can not feel the opportunity to face. But relatively speaking, this side can not do the factory advertised the absolute balance. In fact, hammer technology is intended to put the sensor in the pit in the middle, and then let the receiver surround it, but because of the technical problems this is temporarily not. Perhaps in the future, we might consider splitting the light sensor into a symmetrical circular design with a pair of cameras. In fact, the T1 also adopted a similar approach: the Central Micro-usb Jack on both sides have openings, but only the left side of the hole in the speaker and microphone, while the right hole is only used to do the appearance of the Orz (in fact, the inside is the antenna).

The rest of the phone continues to be the principle of absolute balance design, the front near the machine can see a long absence of entity control key, press up a bit shallow, but also calculate good press. On the question of whether to use an entity or a touch key, personal preference for the former, because to blind operation, entity key or have a certain advantage, and the use of entity keys, basically can not be backlit (although the factory still made a very dark backlight), so that the phone in the night more good-looking. In addition, the external directory key and the return key can be swap in the system (the middle of the main page key, of course, can not be changed). As for the left and right sides of the fuselage, there is a set of + + keys, one set of the preset for the volume key, while the other group to adjust the brightness of the screen (also can be used to control the volume on both sides), which is not want to let the sensor virtual consumption of power friends should be But on both sides of the most let us shame is, even "engineering prototype is not for sale" These words are all carved a sentence, it is enough persistent ...

The top side of the machine, near the upper right corner of a power button, and relatively near the upper left corner of the position has 3.5mm headphone jack, the only a bit different is this side also has a microphone small hole, um ... Maybe next time you can add an infrared transceiver next to the power button? The back cover aspect, the user may open by oneself, but must first micro-usb the two screws next to the machine bottom to loosen the line, only then may replace Micro SIM. This may be a bit inconvenient, but according to the factory, most people change the SIM card only once a year, and they do not want to open a hole in the machine side to place the SIM card slot. Fortunately, we have not used these two screws in the case of the back cover has not loosened, so really often change the SIM card friends, you can consider the same approach. Finally, the factory also mentioned that it will launch the battery back cover for T1, can combine a small battery with the built-in battery, to directly increase the overall battery capacity of the phone (HTC one Max's power extension protection sleeve also has this function). This is probably the advantage of a convertible cover, or it's the T1 of the IPhone.

Smartisan T1 runs inside the Smartisan OS. Compared with the 0.1 Alpha version, this version of the IPO will certainly be much more mature, but unlike some domestic manufacturers, Smartisan OS 1.0, based on Android 4.4, does not build a lot of its own software, only a few third-party apps. The details of the features and adjustments, but I am afraid that we have measured the number of mobile phones, the most and most meticulous one. In addition, during our testing period, the frequency of its update is also quite high, about three days will be an upgrade.

After the boot, the first screen to see is of course the lock screen. Here the system is very generous to open almost the entire screen to the user to place a favorite background picture, only the clock, phone, SMS and camera shortcuts in the tool column below. Unlike the Alpha version, now that we're sliding up anywhere, we can unlock it, not necessarily holding down the toolbar. In the lock screen, users can also pull down the notification bar, or press the homepage key two times to open the music control screen. As a general matter, if we block the proximity sensor (for example, in a pocket), the phone screen will not open anyway, so there is no need to worry about the risk that the entity keys will be incorrectly pressed. About opening the screen before the operation, but also to hold down both sides of the control button, so that the phone from the sleep mode directly into the capture mode;

After unlocking the main interface, we probably guessed that we could just see the full screen background image: Because the main interface is composed of nine or 16 of the House interface with the bottom of the toolbar, each of the background is a brick object, and the screen unlock moment will have ragged floating effect, rather engaging, But the price is that there is no room for the background picture at all. As for the use of nine Sudoku or 16 Sudoku, or even dislike the interface, to use the general Android interface, can be set > Desktop settings to adjust. This side also provides the main interface background tone (not pictures) of the selection, the icon under the text display switch and in the thumbnail state directly open apps switch. In addition, in the Settings > tablecloth, wallpaper, icon options, we can also set different apps icon-to use the original version or the phone built a glorified version. The beauty of these benefits is that even if you do not have a landscaping version, or a direct selection back to the general version of the icon, there will be no sense of Shong.

When it comes to thumbnails, there are also a lot of features here. First of all, in addition to the common two-point narrowing of the action, we can also directly in the main interface by directory key to open the overview interface, if it is nine Sudoku, you can choose to reduce the display of 36 house or 81 Sudoku, and 16 Sudoku words only 64 palaces optional. Because you can choose to open the apps relationship directly here, the overview interface can also be seen as a more space of the main interface, so the main page on this side will not return to nine/16 Sudoku, to press the return key can be. When you turn on the overview screen, you can shift it by holding down the icon, or you can name each page at the top, handling it a bit like a folder, and holding down the top bars to move the page freely.

In this overview interface in addition to the thumbnail, we can also see a set of buttons below, press and then enter the advanced settings. The horizontal bar at the top will be changed to show the eye and the lock icon, as the first word can hide the page and the latter is encrypted. Encrypted pages must be in the overview interface to enter a password to open, and each password entered once, will wait until the screen again closed to lock the page again, so do not know that they have been using the password every time you have to enter so cumbersome. In addition to encryption and concealment, the advanced set also has a lot of mobile function: As long as the direct selection of multiple items and then press and hold can be moved to other pages or directly open a new page.

The notification column is a relatively distinct part of the interface, but still see the details of the intimate: pull down after you can see the middle of the notice item by a box around, in this part of the user can only scroll, but not on the slide back to the notice bar, you have to delete all the keys next to the location of the slide. This will not appear to notify the item too much, be sure to press to the bottom of the bar or press the return key to be able to close. As for the quick set page in the middle of the 12 items can not be replaced, press and hold can enter the details of the project settings; Although there is no direct access to the set of shortcuts, but in fact as long as the first line of the flight mode to hold the icon, you can do the same function. In this end to mention is that the task of multitasking interface as long as the main page key can be opened two times, its use of four apps per page arrangement method, the bottom of the button is off, we do not have to slip to the operation.

Into the set interface, we can deeply feel its homage to the old iOS (that is, iOS 6): Whether it's a color or an arrangement of items, or even a layer of buttons on the top left corner, it's deeply revealing the taste of IOS, but here we have a little bit of the flyme of the Phantom, Because the icons next to each item are a little bit similar to the FlyMe settings screen. Although the details of a lot of features, but the general manufacturers have provided the function, such as the control project of the Notification Center, the mode of intrusion prevention and the joy of their own cloud services are not missing; Date and time options are added to the setting of the temperature unit, at the bottom of which is added to the image of the system language choice, only for the time being, only Taiwan Roman Chinese, Three choices in Simplified Chinese and English.

In the screen locking and security options, in addition to the general screen lock can be set, but also set the main interface page lock password location. There are different apps rights management, and the general authority of the different places, is this side will be the type of authority to arrange management, but also includes subcategories such as multimedia, telephone and text messages, and so on, to pay special attention to the other subcategories of the suspension window and boot automatically two, because these are preset off, Will affect the real-time communication software such as WHATSAPP and line, and so on the background push notification, and the suspension window does not open, Facebook real-time Chat head can not be used, but the notification project will remain in the notice bar, so in the evaluation of other mobile phones less deliberately set this project, This time we are looking for the door to fight it.

Pulling down to the lower position, we found an interesting item: Obsessive-Compulsive disorder option. As the name suggests, this option is not for everyone, that is to say, or you will feel very intimate, otherwise it will be dismissed, or even very annoying. In our opinion, the option is always better than no, so although the project inside is a bit too meticulous, but we still keep neutral evaluation good. As for these projects, this includes the percentage of power that other phones have shown, the main interface icon name hidden, the corner mark (that is, the unread/unhandled number on the top right), and when the corner is displayed, slide the top down to the bottom of a large range (palm) to clear it. Do you think it's too much to look at?

Then we see the single Hand Operation optimization option, in the big screen mobile phone we see from time to times this project, came to T1 is a little different. Generally speaking, large-screen mobile phones will work the software to adjust the experience of the single hand operation, but T1 is mainly to adapt to the hardware users. First on the first boot, the phone will first require the reader to select a single hand operation of the hand, the first item on this side is also the case, and the system will decide for you two groups +/– keys, use the thumb of the dominant hand to press the volume key, and the entity buttons on the screen will be returned to the side of the thumb. Because, in fact, directory keys are rarely used. Of course, both of these can be in the single hand operation optimization options to match themselves. In addition, in the contact screen, the quick operation of individual items to open on the left or right, but also on this side of the adjustment. The last option is to use a wide range of downward movements, such as Fujitsu Arrows NX like the full screen downward movement function, convenient without adjusting the grip method of the case with the thumb operation on the half of the screen.

The more special is that the original thought will be integrated into the single hand operation of the Double +/– key settings, is a stand-alone project that includes two volume keys, in addition to the main set to adjust the volume, the other is to adjust the screen brightness, the same volume, or simply no use. Another setting is what happens when the screen is turned on and the two sides of the volume key are pressed: In addition to the default open camera, you can also use screenshots, pull down the notification column, add calendars/notes/recordings, lock the screen or open any app, etc. (this setting does not affect the ability to start snap mode when the screen is off). When it comes to screen shots, T1 offers two methods and two options: the Android preset power supply + Volume button, and the IPhone's power supply + home key; hold down any combination, and cut out the range you want to store after the screenshot, And a press that let go is directly to the entire screenshot storage.

As for other small functions that are not set up, the manual rotation screen is included, as well as the convenient timing mute function. The former allows the screen to be rotated horizontally in any supported apps with two fingers rotating when the user turns the screen off automatically. In addition to not consuming electricity to the sensor, as long as the manual adjustment of the direction of the apps will automatically store the screen direction, so you do not have to rotate each time. Note that the initial rotation rate may be slightly lower, it takes time to adapt. As for the timing mute function, when you press the volume button, you can see the brightness/volume adjustment screen on the upper right there is a mute button, as long as the open can set 1–4 hours or continuous mute, for the entry to the movie Friends is very convenient: do not worry about watching the movie will forget to open the sound.

Although the Smartisan OS built apps not many, but because the domestic does not support Google play service, so a home application store is still necessary. The store's interface is similar to that of IOS, the bottom of which is basically the same toolbar, but the top of the bar with a red, and then add similar lights to the bottom of the special effects, it seems a bit Smartisan OS own features. The phone interface is the same, the bottom of the project has the shadow of IOS, but dial-up keyboard preset to one side, you can use the left or right buttons to adjust the left or the right side. The last thing to mention is the browser, this side of the setting is relatively small, but because the number of paging is only 8, and does not support any plug-in relationship, so that the overall speed of operation is very good. Of course, you can download Chrome if you need it. A small problem associated with browsers, is whenever you encounter a link with a specific apps (such as line), you must choose what app to open, and not to select a preset, although many times we need to choose, but each time we have to choose, it seems to be a bit of trouble.

Music

As we mentioned before, T1 uses a mono speaker (but has two openings) the volume of the loudspeaker is not large, it is moderate, and the sound is mediocre; As for the music player, in addition to the visual interface of IOS, it provides a cloud of music outside of the phone's songs, providing Mandarin, Japan and South Korea and Europe and the United States and other types of songs, but the mobile phone in the case of LTE does not support, streaming music will not appear at times the problem of speed, but with Wi-Fi will be much better.

Play the interface, the use of imitation black disc machine style, will be removed from the disc needle can stop playback, moving inward and outward is fast forward and fast retreat. The top left of the disc has an umbrella icon, press down there are five settings, you can choose to add playlists, timed playback, set for ringtones, lyrics display and fi sound effects, and so on. Although the sound quality is not a big surprise, but and other independent sound chip of the phone compared to the use of KEF M200 headphones test, T1 showed a very good degree of reduction, and high and low frequency details are also excellent, not to mention its interface, in fact, is quite interesting ah.

Camera

When it comes to camera interfaces, T1 doesn't look much like the iPhone, but it looks a bit like a millet phone-the odd question that the set icon does not follow the direction switch. On the functional side, one of the little things about it is that when the camera is shot vertically, you can set the direction of the photo. The scene mode is not much, only HDR, panoramic photography and night view mode, in addition, there are two-dimensional code reading mode. HDR performance Although not Vivo xshot, but in the ability to correct the correction is good, and can set the metering point, the only problem is that the noise will increase significantly. The night scene mode adopts the method of multi frame denoising, the effect is very obvious under the low-light scene, and the photo brightness is obviously improved. The side camera aspect although does not have the big hot beauty mode, but also provides the mirror or the normal direction image storage mode to be possible to choose.

Photo quality, T1 photos are generally good, but in the case of low light noise serious problem is not resolved, so we will recommend long-term use of night mode. Panorama mode success rate is very high, image connection also did not appear fault. As for the capture model that you care about, it's best not to expect too much, because we need to hold down the left and right volume keys about half a second time, but also not immediately after the shot, to be in the frame to let go, the mobile phone will burst three photos, speed is not fast; You just open the camera and don't shoot it. While the snapshot mode starts without seeing the focus, the photo is clear. The problem is that the first (or group) of photos will be forced to use the highest ISO and automatic mode when using this method to open the camera, so the photos can only be used for recording purposes and will not look good.

As for the screen, T1 uses the JDI Pixel Eyes 4.95-Inch 1080p screen, which is identical to the Nexus 5 size and resolution specifications. If you look at the T1 screen alone, you will think it is performing very well, high visual angle, automatic brightness is also accurate, only in a specific direction to see the past has a slight pan-white. But when you look at the same picture with Nexus 5, you can see that T1 's screen is a bit yellow. But for the color orientation, it seems that the factory has not finalized the final, because we during the test, also once received for screen color adjustment system updates, so the end will be how, should be still variable.

Although the results of the run is not very good, but because the hardware and software have a great degree of rewriting, so the overall coordination is very good, the overall operation of stability, during our testing also did not appear the problem of automatic restart. Reaction and speed T1 is also very good, just open the screen and unlock the screen icon floating animation before the end of any operation, a little slow feeling. Other times we did not find the phone has obvious cotton and wait for the situation, and the animation effect can also be set > Advanced Settings > Developer options to adjust speed or close. Power because we are mainly connected Wi-Fi use, so in the shutdown of any permissions and background operation Management, open a Google account synchronization, the normal use of social networking and instant messaging software, about 30-minute web browsing, 15 minutes of news reading plus five minutes and 20 photo shoot, Use 40% of the power in about 6 hours. If only use 3G, in the use of the same use 9 hours, will use out of 70%, to less than 2,600mah of electricity is a good result.

Q: Does the double volume button affect the grip feel?
A: No, the setting of the double volume button makes it natural for us to put the thumb and forefinger on the left and right two groups of keys, holding the gesture is more stable.

Q: Is it worth 3,000?
A: We can say that T1 work than most domestic, and even international brands of mobile phones are good, coupled with the system up and down the labor force and the proportion of people, whether you like it, 3,000 yuan of the price is acceptable.

Q: How about noise reduction?
A: The quality of the call is good, we listen to each other speak no problem, and we speak, the other side can also hear the obvious effect of noise reduction, only when not talking to hear the background sound.

Q: Will there be many applications that are incompatible (or not compatible) like the charm family?
A: During the test did not encounter this situation, basically we will use the apps can be directly in the play Store download, did not encounter the need to forcibly apk file into the phone to install the problem.

You may notice that we have not mentioned this phone's creator Luo (Lao luo) in the whole review. This is because there are relatively few friends in Hong Kong or Taiwan who know Lao Luo, so we hope that more people will be able to see the sword Walk Slant's mobile phone with less personal feelings without contacting this very controversial character. Personally, the younger brother is not too much of a person to feel, but as a detail-oriented person, the details of T1 processing, as well as software system fine-tuning is very satisfactory. Of course, a lot of people will think that these details are unnecessary, which is just because everyone is different from the mobile phone requirements, we do not comment here. Some friends of the phone's impression is that the likes of people will like to be extremely, and do not like the words will be very extreme, this we agree, because in the end is plagiarism or salute, is fastidious or imaginative, are just a line of difference. But there is no denying that Smartisan T1 is a mobile phone that is difficult to find similar positioning and practices in the market, even if only a few, it may not be able to support for a long time, but in this gradually integrated market, still has its important existence value. Whether you like it or not, it's a respectable piece of work.