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The Mobile World Congress 2022 (MWC 2022) is taking place this week in Barcelona. As one of the world's largest communications exhibitions, various new communication technologies and solutions are the highlight, but manufacturers will also bring many new digital products.
Mobile: Not many highlights
Glory Magic4
New flagship of imaging
At MWC 2022, Honor brought its high-end flagship Magic4 series mobile phones, and the biggest highlight came from the upgrade of the image vision system.
Honor Magic4 series is equipped with a new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, a comprehensively upgraded multi-main camera fusion computing camera system, for the first time so that the mobile phone screen supports LTPO technology and high-frequency PWM dimming technology at the same time, through the combination of software and hardware, trying to bring consumers a better visual image experience. Honor Magic4, Glory Magic4 Pro two products, there are porcelain blue, flow gold, bright black, glazed white, burning orange five colors, priced at 899 euros (about 6309 yuan) from.
The Honor Magic4 rear camera continues the design language of the previous generation of "Muse Eye" in appearance, equipped with a 50-megapixel IMX766 outsole main camera, a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens and a 64-million periscope telephoto camera that supports 100x digital zoom. At the same time, it is also equipped with a 12 million ultra-wide angle + 3D ToF front camera. With the multi-point laser focus sensor and the 8-channel multi-spectral color temperature sensor, under the blessing of multi-frame fusion and multi-sensor fusion computational photography technology, the overall photography ability of the mobile phone has been greatly improved from the hardware and software dual tracks.
Honor's self-developed HONOR Image Engine, combined with multi-camera fusion computational photography technology, also helps the Magic4 series to be more efficient when shooting, shooting more image details.
An iceberg-themed landscape photo was displayed at the press conference, and from the actual effect, the Magic4 Pro showed a strong ability to capture details. Even if you zoom in several times on the part, you can still see the details of the iceberg iceberg. Judging from the other real-life pictures displayed on the spot, whether it is in a dim light environment or shooting landmark buildings at a distance, magic4 Pro achieves efficient scene restoration, whether it is the overall tone or the richness of details, it is extremely excellent.
Honor Magic4 series also provides the "Record Chinese and American Shooting" function, which helps users capture wonderful moments with one click while photographing by integrating camera and photography functions. If you want to capture a wonderful moment in a dynamic scene such as a sports game, just press the photo button when shooting, and you can easily freeze the wonderful moment in the game. At the same time, it will not affect the shooting of the video.
In order to make the phone screen present the best visual effect, the Honor Magic 4 series can not be described as hard work. The Honor Magic4 Pro comes with a 6.81-inch LTPO quad-curved display and ultra-thin bezels. The design of the rounded corner thin border, while ensuring a comfortable grip, also brings an immersive viewing experience for users, watching movies, games, and reading. LTPO screen adapts to the true 1.07 billion color display, supports 100% DCI-P3 wide color gamut and HDR 10+ technology, which means that the screen quality is clearer, the color display is more realistic in addition to vivid, closer to the effect that the human eye can see.
Like most high-end flagships on the market, the Magic4 series has a screen refresh rate of up to 120Hz. However, unlike other manufacturers, based on Honor's self-developed MotionSync technology, the Magic4 series can adjust the screen refresh rate in real time, quickly and intelligently according to the picture rendering speed and finger touch operation of different scenes. The refresh rate setting of intelligent dynamic adjustment ensures that users play games, browse the web smoothly and smoothly, and at the same time, it can also effectively avoid the high power loss of the screen in a high refresh rate state for a long time, and ensure a longer battery life experience.
At the same time, in terms of screen technology, Honor also takes into account the user's eye health problems, and realizes the high-frequency PWM dimming ability of 1920Hz on the Magic4 series, effectively solving the problem of screen flickering of the mobile phone screen in low-brightness scenes. That is to say, even in a low-light environment, users can have a comfortable viewing experience, effectively reducing the visual fatigue after using the mobile phone for a long time.
TCL
Multi-directional folding concept machine
Many manufacturers have launched folding screen mobile phones, and TCL may become the latest "player". At MWC 2022, TCL showed two folding screen mobile phones, Fold 'n Roll adopts a folding and reel design, the screen is a "Z" shape of the tri-fold method, the outer screen is unfolded in a scroll way, the maximum screen size is 8.8 inches, and the screen size is 7 inches under normal conditions. Another 360-degree Ultra Flex features that the hinge supports two-way folding, the inner screen fold can be turned into two outer screens, and the inner fold can completely protect the screen. Both products are currently in the concept machine stage, and TCL did not disclose whether they are listed.
In addition to folding screen phones, TCL has also released 5 mobile phones in the low-end 30 series - TCL 30 5G, TCL 30+, TCL 30, TCL 30 SE and TCL 30 E. The TCL 30 5G with MediaTek Tianji 700 CPU is the most expensive, costing 249 euros (about 1746 yuan), the remaining four use MediaTek Helio processors, all 4G mobile phones, and the cheapest 30 E is priced at 139 euros (about 975 yuan). The entire series is equipped with a 5000mAh battery, except for the 30 E, the other four models use a three-camera setup of 50 million main cameras, TCL 30 5G, TCL 30+ and TCL 30 use 6.7-inch FHD+ AMOLED screens.
ZTE
The battery capacity is large and the configuration is not high
ZTE brought four mobile phones from the Blade V40 series at MWC 2022, of which 3 are 4G phones and 1 is a 5G phone. Blade V40 Pro adopts Unigroup Zhanrui T618 processor, adopts 6.67-inch AMOLED display (1080×2400), 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, equipped with a combination of 64mp pixel main camera, 6GB memory and 128GB storage, built-in 5100mAh large battery, support 65W fast charging. Blade V40 Standard Edition uses the same T618 processor, the same screen, memory down to 4GB, the same storage capacity, and the rear main camera shrinks to 48 million pixels. The battery capacity is 5000mAh, but the charging power is only 22.5W. The cheapest Blade V40 Vita also features the Unigroup Chip, 3GB of RAM and 128GB of storage (UFS2.2), with a 6.75-inch 90Hz screen with a resolution of 720×1600), a rear-facing 48 million main camera, a 5130mAh battery, support for 22.5W fast charging, and three card slots (two SIM cards and a microSD). The only one that supports 5G is the Blade V40 5G, which uses mediatek Tianji 7005G chip, the screen and storage configuration is the same as the V40 Pro, the main camera is 48 million pixels, the battery capacity is 5130mAh, and the charging power is 22.5W.
Nokia
An affordable machine that can replace the battery
Nokia, a mobile phone brand that now belongs to HMD Global, is currently focusing on the low-end market. The Nokia C22 2nd Generation, which appears on the MWC 2022, features a 5.7-inch display, 32 GB of storage, and a single rear camera with a 50 million rear, and its "advanced" feature is that it comes with a detachable 2400mAh battery and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Nokia's other two phones, the C21 and C21 Plus, both feature a 6.5-inch HD+ HDR display that supports fingerprint recognition, and the Plus version offers a higher-pixel camera and a larger battery, and the C21's battery is also removable.
Motorola
Flagship machine that supports stylus
Relying on the cost performance, Motorola's new Edge series has achieved good sales in the Chinese market, and the new Edge+ debuted at MWC 2022, as the brand's flagship machine, Edge+ is not surprising from the configuration - Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, 144 Hz refresh rate screen and three cameras with optical image stabilization function, in addition to providing 68W fast charging, 15 minutes can be built-in 4800mAh battery charged to 50% power, but also support 15W TurboPower wireless charging. The highlight of Edge+ is the offer of a stylus, which is another option beyond the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra for consumers who need it.
Fast charging: Power rush
OPPO
Power touch up to 240W
OPPO's flash charge power is high again. At MWC 2022, OPPO announced the launch of a 240W super flash charge, which can support up to 24V/10A charging, and can charge mobile phones equivalent to 4500mAh battery energy up to 100% in about 9 minutes. At the same time, the 240W super flash charge ensures temperature control and safety throughout the charging link of the adapter, cable and battery, greatly reducing heat generation and "calm" flash charging throughout the process.
In addition, OPPO also released the longevity version of the 150W super flash charge, which supports up to 20V/7.5A output. Following the OPPO charge pump direct charging technology, the mobile phone with a 4500mAh battery capacity can be charged from 1% to 50% and as fast as 15 minutes to 100% in 5 minutes. While improving the fast charging power, the longevity version of the 150W super flash charge is also equipped with OPPO's self-developed battery health engine, which has been equipped for the first time in the Find X5. Based on OPPO's customized battery management chip, including the two core technologies of intelligent battery health algorithm and bionic repair electrolyte technology, it protects the charge and discharge safety from the underlying algorithm and battery chemistry system, helping the mobile phone to have 80% capacity after 1600 full discharge cycles, effectively protecting the battery health.
In order to ensure the safety of high-power charging, the longevity version of the 150W super flash charge is also equipped with 13 temperature sensors to monitor the charging status in real time, and adopts a fused overvoltage protection circuit to ensure the safety of full-link charging; the cable is encrypted by 128-bit high-strength hardware to eliminate safety hazards. The longevity version of the 150W super flash charge equipped with the battery health engine will first be officially released on a oneplus mobile phone in the second quarter of this year.
millet
Wireless charging power rises to 50W
Xiaomi demonstrated its magnetic wireless charging technology during MWC 2022. Xiaomi active refrigeration magnetic wireless charger, using 17 groups of ring array poly magnetic core and other designs, and through the built-in fan to enhance the active heat dissipation, so that the wireless charging power can be safely increased to 50W, in 1 minute to reduce the surface temperature by 20 degrees, and can be 49 minutes to fill the 5000mAh battery charge. Another ultra-thin magnetic wireless charger also uses 17 groups of ring array poly magnetic core, the mobile phone can be adsorbed in the correct charging position, the adsorption force reaches 800g, and the adsorption force of similar magnetic chargers on the market is about 200g. The 30W wireless charging power can be fully charged to a 5000mAh battery in 86 minutes.
In order to avoid the magnet generating too large a magnetic field, resulting in wireless charging current saturation affecting the charging power and magnetic absorption effect, Xiaomi will reduce the induction coil used in the wireless charging design to one-third, while also ensuring magnetic absorption to achieve sufficient induced current while reducing the thermal energy generated by the wireless charging process.
realme
150W lightspeed second charge
Realme Real Me officially released 150W light speed second charging technology at MWC 2022, and the upcoming new Zhenmei GTNeo3 will be the first to be equipped with 150W light speed second charging, reaching a speed of 5 minutes to 50% in terms of charging speed.
Realme also announced the 100W-200W light speed second charging architecture - UDCA smart flash charging architecture. It combines speed, safety and fast charge battery technology, and adopts parallel multiple charge pump mode to increase the charging current, and achieves 150W high-power flash charge with lower conversion loss, lower resistance and lower temperature. While achieving a high power of more than 100 watts, it is equipped with a temperature control management mechanism with leading algorithms, so that the operating temperature is always below 43 °C, ensuring that users do not have to worry about the risk of heating even if they are used for a long time.
Computer: Enhanced features
Huawei
HyperTerminal Multi-screen interaction
In 2021, Huawei launched HyperTerminal for the first time, bringing a simple and intuitive connection method of "one pull and one close", so that Huawei devices can become each other's functional modules after connection, mutual assistance in capabilities, and resource sharing. Nowadays, HyperTerminal has joined the field of smart office, using the PC as the main device of HyperTerminal, supporting a pull-and-pull with other Huawei devices to create a smart office experience with device collaboration. In addition, it also supports headphones, speakers, mice, keyboards, printers and other devices, which can be discovered close to the computer and achieve rapid connection. Through the PC's HyperTerminal interface, the PC can be "pulled and closed" with Huawei mobile phones, tablets, monitors, or smart screen devices to achieve capability expansion. For example, after connecting a mobile phone to a PC, you can open up to three mobile application windows on your computer to achieve multitasking, and when you collaborate with a tablet, you can use the characteristics of the tablet and stylus to get creative.
Huawei's MateBook X Pro, MateStation X, MateBook E, MatePad Paper, and MatePad released during MWC 2022 all support HyperTerminal.
Huawei MateBook X Pro adopts a wedge-shaped body design, weighs only about 1.38 kg, and has the best touch screen of Huawei notebooks to date. It is equipped with a 14.2-inch 3.1K primary color full screen, with a screen ratio of up to 92.5%, with an average ΔE under the P3 and sRGB dual color gamut
There is no interface on the back of the Huawei MateStation X all-in-one, and the unique dynamic hinge design allows users to easily adjust the elevation angle of the screen with one finger. The screen has 4K+ resolution, ΔE ≤1 high color accuracy, in the 28.2-inch large screen size, with a four-sided narrow bezel design, the screen ratio is as high as 92%, support ten-point touch and anti-reflective. The MatePad Paper is the first ink level board to feature the HarmonyOS 2 system. It uses a 10.3-inch ink full screen, 86.3% high screen ratio, combined with Huawei's self-developed ink screen display enhancement algorithm, bringing a real and natural "paper feeling" experience. The new MatePad has a 10.4-inch 2K full screen, through the low Blu-ray and no strobe certification of Rheinland, with the second generation of M-Pencil stylus, support handwriting, recording, handwriting transposing a variety of recording methods, but also support cross-device circulation interconnection, bringing multiple convenient experiences. Users can transfer the reading content on the mobile phone to the tablet to continue reading with one click, and users can also drag and drop files between the mobile phone and the tablet, and work efficiently with the PC through mirroring, expanding and sharing. In addition, the second generation of Huawei M-Pencil brings system-level global handwriting, global annotation and one-click excerpt functions, making recording more handy.
association
Built-in 5G notebook always online
Lenovo released the new ThinkPad X13s at MWC 2022, using Qualcomm's new 3rd generation Snapdragon 8cx computing platform and the first Qualcomm processor on the ThinkPad X13 series. Up to 32GB of optional LPDDR4X-4266 MEMORY and 1TB SSD with optional mmWave 5G connectivity. The body is made of magnesium and weighs only 1.06 kg. Compared with Intel and AMD CPUs, Qualcomm Snapdragon CPUs have very low heat generation, so the fan heat dissipation design is canceled and zero noise operation is canceled. Built-in 49.5Wh battery, claiming continuous video playback up to 29 hours. Lenovo ThinkPadX13s starts at $1100 (about 6960 yuan).
In addition, the new ThinkPad T14/T16 was also released at the same time, continuing the classic ThinkPad design, Intel's 12th generation Core vPro processor or AMD Ryzen™ PRO6000 processor two types of chips are optional, 16:10 golden ratio aspect ratio screen. Intel platforms support up to 48GB of DDR5 memory, Ryzen™ platforms support up to 32GB of LPDDR5 memory, and hard drives up to 2TB SSDs. Standard is the built-in core display, discrete graphics version NVIDIA MX550 and RTX 2050 optional. The new ThinkPadT14 and T16 (Ryzen™ edition) both start at $1,300 (about 8,230 yuan), the Intel version of ThinkPadT14 starts at $1,400 (about 8,860 yuan), and the ThinkPadT16 starts at $1,420 (about 8,990 yuan).
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