Since the opening of the 5G era in 2020, the weight and thickness of mobile phones have been soaring, and the mainstream thickness of 7.5mm that has been maintained for several years no longer exists, and most of the models have fallen back to the way they were before 2015, and the thickness of more than 8mm has become commonplace. Weight is the same, this parameter has not been paid attention to before, but in the past two years, after mobile phones have generally exceeded 200g, people have realized the existence of this problem.
In recent days, OnePlus has been promoting its upcoming flagship machine - OnePlus 10 Pro, and in the process of publicity, it mentioned the weight of the one plus 10 Pro mobile phone, which is 200.5g, indicating that this is to continue to maintain the greatest respect for the sense of opponents. Similarly, in the first two days of the Xiaomi Mi 12 series of the conference, Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro said that as a flagship machine, weight control to 205g has been very difficult, but also a relatively light level.
From these two things, we can see that the current mobile phone manufacturers are guiding us to accept the early 200g mobile phone, in the face of such mobile phones, perhaps call them thin and light, for only 133g iPhone 12 mini, 140g iPhone 13 mini or a lot of 160g or so main thin and light products, is a not very fair thing, after all, before more than 200 grams of mobile phones, have been spit into half a pound machine.
From the helplessness of the manufacturers, it can also be seen that at this point in time in 2022, the internal stacking of the mobile phone still has not broken through the bottleneck, the large battery + stack and the thin and light can not be well balanced, if you want all aspects of the configuration are piled up, the thick fuselage naturally has no good way to solve, if you want to light and thin fuselage, naturally need to castrate a lot of configuration, it is difficult to support the positioning of the flagship machine.
So, large battery + pile vs thin and light, which is the right direction? Perhaps once these two directions go to the extreme, they will cause a decline in the use experience. For now, in fact, Apple may have given a good answer, that is, to work software algorithms, through some reasonable hardware collocation, with excellent software algorithms, to achieve a good experience, thereby supporting the positioning of flagship machines.
For example, the iPhone 13 mini, Apple A15's excellent energy efficiency ratio + very good iOS system optimization, making its battery life very good. Excellent camera algorithm, so that only two 1200W pixel cameras are needed to achieve excellent photography, and the final weight of 140g can get a comprehensive excellent experience. If the Android mobile phone can work the software system, perhaps the flagship mobile phone can end the 200g era as soon as possible.