Nuts Pro2 evaluation: do not beat you | will make you stronger

Since May 20, 2014, hammer technology has released the first Smartisan T1 so far, 3 years and 6 months. Along the way, Lao Luo and his hammer technology did not go well. The greater the responsibility, the Internet empathy, the higher the heat, the more controversial.From the English teacher turned ham technology CEO Lao Luo who is also posted many labels: "feelings", "born proud." Although some have become Tease words, but on the other hand, has also become a rough impression of the old Lo and hammer technology.

If used to sum up hammer technology 2017, Lao Luo spent the 'back to life' in 2016 experienced 'being acquired', 'borrow money' or even 'sell themselves', despite all the bumpy, and finally insisted on keeping the cloud Moonlight. Can see is that from the M1 series, the nut Pro, hammer technology from the product more and more 'pragmatic' also let the author think of Nietzsche phrase: Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker. (Can not kill you, will eventually make you stronger).

As a mid-range product positioning in the 1799, the Nuts Pro2 can not escape the so-called 'cost performance' in any case.In fact, the hammer products in the past, although the allocation of excellent, not limited by the brand strength itself As well as the right to speak in the supply chain, but there is always the feeling of 'entering the army for 49 years.' And this problem was finally solved in the Nuts Pro 2. This is the first time the author has seen that the hammer cell phone is keeping up with the hardware The pace of the times.

Nuts Pro2 basic parameters
Screen features5.99 inches 18: 9 screen 2160 * 1080
processorQualcomm Xiaolong 660
Network modeFull Netcom
Run memory32/64/128 / 256LPDDR4X
Body storage4/6 eMMC (Top Edition UFS)
Front camera16 million
Rear camera12 million +5 million
battery capacity3500mAh (up to 18W fast charge)
operating systemSmartisan OS 4.0.1
body colorCarbon black / burgundy / light gold
selling price1799/1999/2299/2699/3299

Nuts Pro Snapdragon 660 processor, this summer's new Qualcomm 6 series processor is called the mid-God U, and horizontal contrast, the current market with Snapdragon 660 products include the OPPO R11 and vivo X20 Such a flagship product and the same price of the millet Note3. Memory, the nut Pro2 equipped with LPDDR4X ROM and eMMC 5.1 RAM (256GB UFS). And Nuts Pro2 finally catch up with the last screen of the full screen, 5.99 inches 18: 9 Full screen (Pegasus or BOE), 2160 * 1080 resolution, although there is a little 49 years into the military feeling, but on the other hand, the Nano Pro2 fingerprint recognition compensation can be regarded as a complete recovery of the face.

However, the Pro2 nut is also a little regrettable: only with the top version (256GB) equipped with NFC products, as a cost is not that high function, it seems a bit regrettable and the Nut Pro2 all did not carry optical image stabilization , Considering hammer cell phone has been taking pictures all the other features outstanding, so I think the next nut or T-series really need to take some time to take photos.After all, nowadays, almost all high-end smart phones are in the camera force publicity .


Interpretation of appearance

Lao Luo has always been self-styled Hammer Technology is a design-driven company indeed, whether it is symptomatic of T1 obsessive-compulsive disorder, T2 without break in the box, or sharp heterogeneous nuts Pro. In a way, the old Lo on the design The near-paranoid pursuit also brings a "stereotype" of hammer cell phones to everyone today: the phones made by Lao Luo will not be too bad from a design standpoint alone.

Before the release of the product, Lao Luo gave several questions during the warm-up phase: Is the 'golden line' of artistic creation really invisible and inaccessible? Designers digging holes in cellphone panels What can be done? A tailor shop owner's child, how to see the collective light ass phantom square, but also to maintain the true nature and normal business? Along these answers to these questions, constitute the ID design of the nuts Pro2 section.

Question1: Is that the 'golden line' of artistic creation really invisible or inaccessible?

On this issue, Lao Luo is the answer is: I give you a 'gold line' on the fuselage, not to see, touch it? Just a joke.

In the author's opinion, public users may not understand the design of that 'professional gold line', but for the appearance of beauty and ugliness, real touch still have some feelings for a product, the user may not from the professional From the perspective of interpreting the design parameters, but for the actual experience of the product will have its own judgments, so for the design of the 'golden line', everyone can see and touch with.

Nut Pro, known as the "sleek and straightforward" era, appears to be more maverick but too straightforward for a 5.5-inch screen with a low screen-to-play ratio So some inconvenience on the handle.Therefore, in the Nuts Pro2, the positive and negative 2.5D glass and CNC connection with the border out of a very narrow bevel, a lot of grip to enhance a lot, basically no previous generation of hands on the situation .

Question2: While digging holes in the cellphone panel, what else can be done?

On this issue, the old Luo gives the answer is: less is more.


▲ high light under the nut Pro2 contrast iPhoneX

From the hammer T1, hammer products will be hidden in the light sensor away from the handset, in addition to the front camera can not be avoided, as little as possible to open the hole to ensure the integrity of the front panel, to maintain a clean and simple style. If the hammer The design of the phone is certainly ahead of other products, this design should definitely be nominated.And in the design process of the nuts Pro2, using special components and structural design, with special treatment of ink, simply the breathing lamp, light and Distance sensor to hide, and even contrast iPhoneX Liu Haili that a row of original camera system is better, while the nut Pro2 micro-slit handset is still using the traditional diaphragm handset, through the special design of the fuselage structure hidden in Between the front panel and the middle frame.


▲ nut Pro2 handset contrast millet MIX2

Remember the phrase Right is right, left is also right.No detail, can be too detail (not around, all the details decide success or failure)?

Question3: How can a child of a tailor shop owner maintain his character and start a normal business when he sees the collapse of the collective light butt empress square?

On this issue, Lao Luo is the answer is: In addition to full screen, I still have a big move.

Although known as Almost at Lao Lo, the Nut Pro2 has finally reached the 'Full Screen' train whether it is a 18: 9 screen or a high screen, but when everyone is full screen, In the front of the full screen design, up to now all Android phones are still only using the back of the fingerprint solution, which allows the original in some crowded back shell and an additional opening, both beautiful and practical Are greatly compromised.While the old Luo at the conference site to showcase the fingerprint recognition stack integrated into the Logo animation, I heard the audience instantly uniform 'wow'.

As a symbol of business, Hammer Logo has been using metal materials, processing is very delicate.At present stage of the technology is unable to put the fingerprint module in the metal, so the metal on the Nut Pro2 replaced by glass Logo, At first, this design is not very recognized, because he believes that glass is difficult to embody the texture of the metal three-dimensional, and in the final product, the coating and paint in the glass, but also added some similar nail paint inside Oil powder, and the use of electroplating process, made a total of five or six programs, and the final version was rose red (carbon black.) In actual use, fingerprint recognition speed and accuracy are the same with other products on the market .

Many users have always abhorred back fingerprint recognition, and the full screen on the front space squeezing and fingerprinting technology development constraints, so that manufacturers have had to use only the back of fingerprints in this curve to save the country, the Nuts Pro2 The solution, no doubt one of the most elegant designs of any smart phone of the moment.

We have always said that ID design is not independent of the exterior design, but also consider the product cost, the public acceptance and the internal components and other various factors, a final product design is a compromise between various factors Results. It can be seen that, due to external factors, the old paranoia for design has greatly reduced the paternity, although still "pretty unlike strength", but compared to before, nuts Pro2 seems in the design of the emotional and rational Found a good balance between.

Limited by cost, research and development and other factors, hammer cell phones are twists and turns along the way, but Lao Lo still try to make some dazzling details in the limited resources .I am really looking forward to some, the hammer has a When heaven was formed, with the aesthetic of Lao Luo, he would give us what kind of product.


In addition to the design of the hammer cell phone, the most commendable is the Smartisan OS for some of the details of the function to grasp this time in Smartisan OS 4.1, simple to modify some of the UI interface, and no significant new features, and Is a more mature part of the previous upgrade, including the most popular in the previous 'Big Bang', 'one step' and the flash capsule function.

The first is the user interface, modified in the Smartisan OS 4.0.1 notification interface, together with the multi-tasking interface, but the drop-down gesture from the previous notice directly drop-down into multi-task press button. Frankly I Also can not think of the logic of this modification, because almost all Android phones are the default drop-down is the notification bar, you can find all kinds of shortcut buttons in the notification bar .And the revised drop-down becomes a simple display notification .Maybe the design Teachers hope that everyone can look at the notice can be more concise and refreshing, but for accustomed to a variety of Android systems and even older versions of Smartisan OS system users may need some time to adapt to this operation .I think this be substantially modified interactive logic The operation, at least should give a choice switch to the user choice.

In addition, because of the full-screen design, this time in the system by adding a virtual button, but it seems that old Luo does not like this thing (in the Smartisan T1 even made three physical buttons), so gives the classic model Late mode two options. Compared to the classic model, Fang Chi mode to three virtual buttons and notification bar display area to do small to no longer small. But this time to the user switch, we can choose.

In the official version of the flash capsule capsule 1.0, will be added by Nuts Pro2 capsule button, Home button, side buttons and even headset remote control button, at any time to trigger the capsule function the fastest, and then will be synchronized to the cloud, you can phone Or computer to seamlessly share their idea, or one to one to share with another happy cloud account.

For any of a system function, convenient or not to determine whether the user to use or not, the hammer before this small function by dragging a small button on the side of the screen to achieve, sometimes can not be forgotten, but this time adding a capsule button, just press 2 seconds You can call out at any time (lock screen state can be), so for a carrying a need to keep track of the functions of a lot of convenience.

Big Bang 2.2: Added semantic replacement and phonetic transcription, which is a useful feature for many users who type quickly but sometimes fail to pay attention to the accuracy of typos. Frankly speaking, in the demonstration of the function of phonetic change, such as: the sentence of XX such as XX, it really makes me feel more doubled.What makes the phone understand the meaning of people, this is to make the phone understand people's meaning.

Step 1.6: In case of bright screen, the user can quickly enter the one-step mode by pressing the capsule + volume key (release to exit), intelligently identify semantics during sharing, and display related applications.

In addition, Lao Luo preheat products, asked about the process of using smart phones to ignore the crowd, the answer given in the first generation of nuts is the elderly, but this time for the visually impaired users launched a barrier-free mode, the current Including information accessibility, text recognition, voice commands three functions, but Smartisan OS 4.1 is not pushing updates, we are pushing for everyone to experience.


Nuts Pro2 performance test: a comprehensive Xiaolong 660 mobile platform

Xiaolong 660 mobile platform is the high-end market this year, the star products, including millet, OPPO, vivo are used, but the product generally maintained at the price of more than 2500 yuan .N2 is now using the same platform, but the price has been pulled to 2000 Yuan (Pro 2 4GB 32GB version of the price of 1799 yuan), an instant show impressive competitiveness, here we Xiaolong 660 do some interpretation.

As the introduction of Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 series, Snapdragon 660 not only has the performance beyond the past, but also has been given the flagship level features, including Kryo 260 semi-custom architecture, Spectra ISP, Hexgon DSP, X12 LTE Modem, etc., Breakthrough in computing performance, image processing, connectivity.

Snapdragon 660 with 14nm FinFET technology, 8-core Kryo 260 architecture, 4 + 4 pairs of cluster design, the maximum operating frequency of 2.2GHz, built-in Adreno 512 GPU.It is noteworthy that the Snapdragon 660 does not use the same as the Snapdragon 625 ARM public version of the framework for the first time introduced the Kryo 260 semi-custom architecture, performance and power consumption has a better performance, the reason why the old Lo confident 'barbaric performance, power consumption' of the slogen, to a large extent From this processor.

Bunny rabbit to run as an example, we can see Xiaolong 660 easily break 110,000 points, GeekBench test also has a single core 1600, multi-core 5500 results, CPU performance and the previous generation flagship platform Xiaolong 820 basically the same.

It is worth mentioning that the 8-core Xiaolong 660 compared to the 4-core Xiaolong 820 has inherent advantages, not only in the multi-core sub-run advantage, but also reflected in the actual experience. Multi-core means that at the same time Handle more thread tasks, in the application startup, switching tasks need to multi-threaded call the scene does not fate. After getting started with Nut Pro 2 for some time, the fluent is a very deep impression on the author.

At the same time we also tested the Nut Pro 2 flash indicator, 64GB version confirmed using eMMC 5.1 flash, sequential read 300MB / s, writing is also 220MB / s, random reads 67.21MB / s, writes 73MB / s, In the use of eMMC 5.1 model is a good result, it is clear that the hammer also made a lot of thought in the optimization.

It is worth mentioning that, Ubuntu 2 is used in the 6GB + 256GB version of Nut Pro 2.

GPU, the Adreno 512 pure performance and the flagship product is still a gap, but with the relevant optimization, in the "king glory", "Onmyouji" such traditional games performance is still to be affirmed.Nokia Pro 2 Already fitted with "king of glory" high frame rate mode, enough for everyday use. In the author's actual experience, the "king of glory" to open high-frame rate and high-precision mode, the daily operation was basically stable at 59-60FPS, while the group wars dropped to 56-57FPS, the entire operation is still very smooth.

In addition, the Nut Pro also supports face recognition. Unlike the Face ID used by the iPhoneX, the Nuts Pro2 features Face ++ Face Detection, a 2D face recognition technology that recognizes users' 1024 facial features Smart matching.And Face ID is through the original deep camera system, through the dot matrix projector will be 30000 invisible eye spot projected on the user's face, draw the user's facial spectrum, 3D face scan the structure. In the security and accuracy, Andrews face recognition can only do so to the main effect of ancillary. More accurate and safe identification, or the need to complete the fingerprint.

In experience, the nut Pro2 contrast iPhoneX, in recognition need to face more perpendicular to the screen angle, and the ambient light brightness of certain requirements in the daytime or ambient light conditions better state, the Nuts Pro2 and iPhoneX Of recognition speed is almost the same; when the surrounding environment darkens, the recognition speed drops more obvious.When the surrounding environment is dark (for example, turn off the lights at night), the practicability of face recognition is almost zero.




Nuts Pro2 photo test

'Can you make a profit this year? Just look at it today.' This is the original words of Lao Lo at the Npro Pro2 conference, which shows his expectation of the Nut Pro 2. After all, this product inherited the hammer's industrial design pursuit and caught up The trend of full-screen, apparently has the potential of explosion models.But hammer cell phone past imaging performance does not seem satisfactory, this time in the nut Pro2, regrettable to make up?

Compared to the Nuts Pro, the Nuts Pro 2 has a significant upgrade in the hardware part of the camera, and we have a look through a table.

Nut Pro, Nut Pro 2 camera parameter comparison
Product numberNuts ProNuts Pro2
Sensor modelS5K3L8 * 2
IMX 386 + S5K4E8
Pixel13 million * 212 million +5 million
Double camera program
Black and white + color
The main shot + depth of field vice photo
The main aperturef/2.0
f/1.8
Unit pixel area
1.12 μm
1.25 μm
Other features
Phase focus, RGBW white balance sensor

Nuts Pro2's main shot upgrade to IMX 386 sensor, the highest 12 million pixel output, a single pixel area of ​​1.25μm, aperture also expanded from f / 2.0 to f / 1.8, to meet the current large pixel, high-sensitivity technology trends. A mention is that this sensor is also the star this year, Huawei, Xiaomi, Meizu and other manufacturers favor, has accumulated a certain reputation.

Although the Nut Pro2 is still dual-camera, it did not continue the previous 'black and white + color' program, instead opting for the 'main shooting + depth of field sub-shooting' program.The reason why there is such a change, on the one hand the nut Pro2 main Sensor quality upgrade, so that the 'black and white + color' program into the amount of light is no longer obvious advantages; the other hand, the hammer under the old Loewe has a dedication in the design of the pursuit of the old dual camera program requires two such large Camera hole, obviously can not meet the existing hidden design.

On the other hand, the Nuts Pro2 retains the PDAF phase focus, RGBW white balance sensor features, while adding the rainbow soft bokeh algorithm, combined with the Snapdragon 660 Spectra ISP post-processing, the camera has significantly improved both hardware and software. Of course, many of the parameters of the Nut Pro2 can be implemented in the final experience, the following we compare with the Nuts Pro to reveal the answer.


▲ Nuts Pro 2


▲ Nuts Pro


▲ Nuts Pro2


▲ Nuts Pro

Under natural light, the performance of the two nuts Pro basically the same, ignoring some of the differences in white balance, nuts Pro2 some improvement in quality.For example, in the first set of proofs, the nut Pro in the upper right corner has a clear purple Edge phenomenon, while the Nuts Pro2 is better. Details of detail, once in the nut Pro Tucao smear also have some improvement.


▲ Nuts Pro2


▲ Nuts Pro

In the low light environment, compared with Nut Pro, the details are smeared, the picture of Nut Pro2 is better, the overall color saturation is higher, the first impression is more pleasing to the eye.Compared with the amplified street sign fonts, Nut Pro2 smear is also less exaggerated, retaining more details.


▲ Nuts Pro2


▲ Nuts Pro

And when the harsh environment of light, Nut Pro2 has just created a sense of instantaneously into vain, both models are somewhat inadequate, from the windows of the building you can see traces of excessive over-smear, the quality of moving people, but fortunately noise control is acceptable .


▲ Nuts Pro2


▲ Nuts Pro

In the bokeh, the Nuts Pro on the main edge of the recognition is not very accurate, the latter part of the main mistakenly blurring the body, it is not natural.Comparatively, thanks to the new hardware and soft algorithm support, Nuts Pro2's edge recognition is more accurate, and the degree of bokeh is superior, this blur is not a simple blur filter, the lights in the distance there are actual and actual spot processing, more natural.


▲ Nut Pro large aperture proofs


Nut Pro Large aperture proofs

Experience, the Nut Pro is subject to the performance of the Snapdragon 625, the speed of imaging, bokeh speed slightly fussy.Nokia Pro2 has more powerful Xiaolong 660 power, obviously in the image processing speed one step ahead, which In the blurring of the treatment is particularly obvious.

Briefly summarize, compared to the Nuts Pro, Nuts Pro2 significantly improved the smear in low light environment, large aperture blur is also more easy to use, the overall imaging quality has been steadily improved, at 2000 yuan price segment of the mainstream.

Evaluation summary:

From Smartisan T1 officially released so far, three and a half years, a total of 6 generations of 7 products, Lao Lo spent the whole 2008 days to let the public know the hammer cell phone, with a full 2008 days, made a really willing to recommend Mobile phone horizontal comparison of previous products, nuts Pro2 has gradually no longer have some 'very hammer' features really become a landing can be more general public products.Longitudinal comparison, with the price of a lot of products, and can He is not much more than the real. In the sentence with the least hammer: Nut Pro2 is an 'atypical hammer' bucket machine, but perhaps the hammer has the highest acceptance of a cell phone ever.

Old Loo and his hammer technology, which had experienced ups and downs, finally became stronger after not being overthrown.

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