Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Addictive Sliding Smartphone…”.
Just when you think they’re going to run out of innovative and interesting and, dare I say, magical ways to deal with this screen to body ratio obsession you get met with some new form factor. Today, we’ve got the latest to unveil itself. This is the honor magic too. This is a slider phone like the old days. It was a slider phone.
This one is kind of different in the sense that the goal here is to unveil or hide the front-facing camera equipment. Now, if you watched the previous video Nubia, another smartphone maker attempted to get this maximum screen to body ratio by moving another screen onto the back of the device. It’S kind of exciting it’s imaginative, and why not? Who knows what the proper implementation is? Maybe it’s this. This model in front of me has eight gigs of RAM and a hundred and twenty eight gigs of storage. Now this is only available currently in certain regions. I’Ve got the Chinese writing here on the unit itself, type C, cable, a type C audio adapter, because there is no headphone jack on this device. The headphone jack continues to be neglected now you’re gon na notice right away. It’S got a crazy, ambitious camera set up on the rear three camera modules here, including the bottom unit, and then, of course, AI vision is written on there.
So I’m assuming the camera, has some degree of AI capabilities. The construction feels pretty good. It’S weighty.
It’S all glass and metal, very nice, but here is the action. This is what you’ve been waiting for boom. Oh man, that is satisfying. I expected it to be satisfying it’s like an adult, fidget spinner. If these things become popular, if this becomes the de-facto standard, smartphone bezel list implementation, you’re gon na have a bunch of people sitting around doing this. This is rated for many more uses than whatever motor might be inside. Some of those other implementations. Okay, let me put this up Wow, that is a cool wallpaper or you guys see in the action there it’s animated. It does have a bit of a chin.
I mean some people get mad about this cuz, it’s not completely symmetrical. This doesn’t really bug me that much it protects the clean aspect: ratio no bulges, no notches. As you can see, the display goes to the top boom boom. There you go, you need to take a front-facing image. You need to take a selfie, your quick bit of a magic trick, dare I say I think the ladies are gon na love that right there you see and just an addictive fidgety thing to begin with, as I mentioned before, whole my god. If I carry this thing around, I’m having conversations like go on ah interesting, very nice yeah pardon see that again it’s a little much.
Let’S launch the camera. It’S like hey slide it down. Okay, very nice! There’S beauty happening I’m! I am NOT this beautiful beauty level! Zero, that’s better! That’S pretty nice! It’S realistic! How many megapixels on this front camera will that’s a 16 megapixel front-facing image. The crazy part is, I don’t even take that many selfies in real life and part of me feels like a lot of you guys are in the same boat.
So it’s it’s. It’S amazing. The engineering workarounds that companies are having to come up with to solve a problem that most people only face from time to time see what I did face face. The problem face the problem from time to time.
Okay, so the display is F, HD plus. It is also OLED, it’s quite vibrant. Is that the type of display you can get behind a job? Okay, now other considerations, of course, the earpiece it’s able through a channel there to feed through this region. I believe it’s just a mono speaker, but I don’t know I’ll give it a try here.
[ Applause ]. It feels like there’s a tiny bit of sound coming out of the earpiece section. The vast majority is coming out of the bottom grill here. So there’s nothing. Special, it’s getting the job done. It’S an average speaker.
I thought there might be a bit of a compromise with the whole sliding action it seems most. If not all, 99 % of the sound is coming out of this little bottom unit, 6.39 inch device. It’S actually kind of crazy to get that screen size, but like in this grip, it’s got the ki-rin 980. It should also have the night mode. I’M guessing for photo does go pitch-black. Let’S see what happens.
Look at this! That’S in pitch black, like it’s just it’s! It’S bringing life to the darkness, it’s pitch black in here, ladies and gentlemen, so it’s got the crazy night mode. Battery is 3,500 milliamp hours, nothing crazy! It’S probably more of a marvel of engineering than you can possibly fully appreciate from where you’re at when you hold it. It’S like man, it feels surprisingly practical and like less of a gimmick, then you might think when you first saw the announcement or saw the images floating around online price-wise, it’s gon na be somewhere flagship territory between six and seven hundred bucks. It’S only gon na be sold in certain markets, so you’re gon na have to check that out for yourself I’ll, try to track down a link and put it in the description, but right now the thing is just kind of hard to get your hands on, especially If you’re like me here in North America, you guys are gon na have to decide. Is this the type of implementation that brands should be going for? Is this acceptable to you? It kind of feels like too much for a function that really doesn’t get utilized that much if you’re gon na be doing this all day, and it’s like. How often are you really using that front-facing camera and then the rest of the time? Are you just goofing around like this doing thousands of movements and cycles on the slider? Nonetheless, you got to respect the feat of engineering, the honor magic too.
I’M gon na slide my way out of here. .