"BALMUDA Phone" comment, camera color display before and after the update is also compared.

A small smartphone "BALMUDA Phone" that can be picked up with a little pinching of your fingertips.

A small mobile phone full of unique colors

BALMUDA Phone is characterized by a unique style that is obvious at a glance. It is not so much "brand new" as a kind of nostalgic style, which is the less and less design in smartphones these days.

The display screen size is 4.9 inches. It is compact in today's smartphones with an added 6-inch rating. The size of this picture was also available a few years ago, but it has been completely reduced recently. For an active model of the same size, the iPhone SE (second generation) is a little 4. 7 inches smaller and has a full sense of size in the palm of the hand.

The main body size is 69 × 123 × 13.7 mm in width and length, and the weight is 138g. The IPhone SE is 67.3xlongitudinally 138.4 mm thick and weighs 148g, so it has the same width, short longitudinal, thick and light-- Words can make a bad impression, but BALMUDA Phone's rickety body rivals are familiar, and unlike straight-line smartphones, the design doesn't look dull.

Mobile phones with rounded corners on the back always run away regularly, but a lot of things disappear, which is also true. As a result, there are now more smartphones with flat backs. Among them, there are also manufacturers who work hard on a variety of designs, as well as specialized terminals such as folding and rigidity.

Compared with such a device, the BALMUDA Phone is particularly bizarre, not so. However, because it is an action that can hardly be seen in the status quo, it is very original.

The whole body is made of plastic, especially the finishing of the back is not bad. Or cedar, with subtle bumps. At the BALMUDA Phone press conference, there was also such a story: the discoloration during continuous use will become smelly, how the plastic material gets dirty, and how it turns into flavor, which is a very interesting place. Some people wonder whether a smartphone can last that long.

On the back, configure the camera, fingerprint sensor as one of the power button, speaker. The rare configuration of the camera and the fingerprint sensor in the same column, trying to touch the fingerprint sensor with the right hand, gives the impression that it is a bit painful. The left hand can touch the fingerprint sensor with natural movements. By the way, the power button needs to be pressed, but as long as the login fingerprint does not need to be pressed, as long as the touch can unlock the screen.

The engraved "Balmuda" logo is not printed, which is also the point. Leaving aside the LED lights and notification lights, the speakers on the back are leaning against the side of the camera. Is there any strategy?

Place the scroll key on the left side in the SIM slot on the right. There is a USB Type-C terminal and a microphone on the bottom. There are no headphone terminals. The button is simple, there is a power button on the back and the side button is the smallest.

The home screen has a unique UI that can change the background color and the stripe color of the two colors across the screen to create originality. This stripe is a unique feature that acts as a shortcut to the launch of a preset application when you slide one of the two colors along the stripe. Not only the application icon, but also the shortcut integrated with ontology design is novel.

[video] the home screen is the UI that gives priority to launching the application

Is a small screen good or bad?

The small fuselage is also a double-edged sword. One of the advantages is that it is easy to carry, it is also easy to put into the pocket, and the small bag can be easily put into it.

On the other hand, because of the small screen size, compared with the smartphone with large screen, the amount of information displayed at one time is reduced, and the display of text and icons is also smaller. For example, sites with a longer vertical display have a narrower display range and smaller photos.

If the text size becomes smaller, the amount of information will increase, but there will be invisible and dazed users. Increasing the text size narrows the display area further. The character size of the scheduling application described later is also very small. I personally don't have a particular problem, but if the characters on the screen are small and difficult to deal with (this is not limited to BALMUDA Phone, but also to all small mobile phones).

The reason why the author thinks that "there is no special problem" is because (although there is a decline in age) eyesight is better. "I didn't think it would be OK to use this one alone." Take pictures, watch videos, read comics-- Launch multiple apps and schedule from email-if you make full use of smartphones for a variety of purposes, you will find the BALMUDA Phone screen size very demanding.

Bermuda itself would not have imagined such a method of use. It is also clear from what President Terwei Xuan said at the product launch that questions about the lifestyle of frequent smartphone use are the starting point. BALMUDA Phone can also be said to be made to underuse smartphones. As a tool, BALMUDA Phone is used only when necessary. In this sense, the small size of the BALMUDA Phone that can be quickly removed is very important.

Thinking about the standing posture and performance of BALMUDA Phone

From the standpoint of BALMUDA Phone doing what it needs to do quickly, performance needs to exceed a certain amount of performance. BALMUDA Phone uses SoC as Snapdragon765. The memory is 6 GB and the storage is 128 GB.

Although it is not the latest SoC, nor is it a mid-range SoC, but because the screen size is small, so it does not need performance, and it is difficult to be used in games and other sizes, so the original use is limited. As a result, there are very few scenes where there are problems with the performance.

When benchmarking, the value is corresponding. For example, in the Wild Life test of 3Dmark, the score is 1519. Compared with more than 6000 Pixel 6 Pro and other high-end terminals, this is an insufficient number, but this is a smartphone without game ideas, and there is no way to do so.

In addition, GFXBench has 3232 frames in Manhattan and 2313 frames in Manhattan. The single core of Geekbench is 561, and the multi-core is 1663. The CPU of the Geekbench ML used to measure AI performance is 218, the GPU is 501, and the NNAPI is 381.

What matters is how it behaves in actual use. I wouldn't say you're a Kibby, but the startup of the application is loose, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. On websites that use a lot of images, it gives the impression that the action is slightly heavier.