On the evening of April 11, Vivo's first folding screen mobile phone vivo X Fold was finally officially released, and it was also unveiled with the 7-inch large-screen new machine vivo X Note and vivo Pad tablet. After reading the introduction of the two flagship mobile phones, the rough feeling is large and complete, which is similar to the official slogan "Set of Great Achievements", but with further understanding, it is found that the large and complete is actually relative, there are some compromises behind this, as to whether it is the details you care about, disappointed or indifferent, may wish to continue to look down.
The other side of the big and complete: the body is blessed, and the "front wave" overturns
People who understand the product should know that the large and complete product is actually not difficult to do, think about the thousand-dollar bucket machine that has been tried and tested for many years, is not this there and that, but often this type of stacking is easy to have a common disease: obesity. Secondly, the thousand-dollar bucket machine seems to be very fragrant, but friends who know a little economics know that they will definitely shrink in places where they can see or can't see. Although the vivo X Fold is a flagship machine priced at nearly 10,000 yuan, there are still two deficiencies that are difficult to avoid in the above two large and full products.
The first is the body shape, the vivo X Fold outer screen reaches 6.53 inches, which is already the main screen size of many mainstream mobile phones, which means that the phone will definitely be large after unfolding. After the folding screen is expanded, its inner screen size is 8.03 inches, don't look at the gap between the inner and outer screens "only" 1.5 inches, but in fact, this gap is the length of the diagonal of the screen, in terms of area, it is actually much larger. Here we may wish to think again, the classic Apple iPad mini, the first generation to the fifth generation is a 7.9-inch screen "only".
Taking vivo X70 as a reference, its main screen is 6.56 inches, the fuselage width is 73.21mm, and the width of the vivo X Fold after unfolding reaches 144.87mm, and the area can almost accommodate the next two vivo X70s, which means that it is really a small tablet in hand. Due to the need for stacking, the vivo X Fold weighs about 311g, which is nearly the weight of two iPhone 12s, compared with the last three generations of iPad mini.
By the way, compare several folding screens of friends, honor Magic V inner screen 7.9 inches, weight 293g; Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 inner screen 7.6 inches, weight 271g; Huawei Mate X2 inner screen 8 inches, weight 295g; OPPO Find N inner screen 7.1 inches, weight 275g. At present, among the inner folding screen models on sale in the market, the Xiaomi MIX Fold and Royole FlexPai 2 will be heavier than the vivo X Fold, but the reputation of these two heavyweight folding screen models understands, and there is not much to say here.
Wrong stacking direction? The battery is slightly smaller, the image shrinks, and the mute key draws snakes to add foot
The vivo X Fold, which is a "fortune", is unfortunately not equipped with a larger capacity battery, and its 4600mAh battery is 150mAh smaller than the Honor Magic V, which also uses the Snapdragon 8 chip. And the above mentioned several friendly products, the smallest battery capacity is actually 4400mAh, Xiaomi MIX Fold is as high as 5050mAh. Perhaps, 50W wireless charging is a comfort? But many consumers may prefer that the more battery capacity, the better.
Intriguingly, the pursuit of large and complete X Fold and X Note, this time also moved the iPhone's characteristic mute key, known as a key global mute, but this also needs OTA to achieve. This design that most Android manufacturers disdain, there is a friction when putting the pants pocket or other reasons lead to misoperation, do not want to mute when muted but muted, so miss the call information, used iPhone or one plus mobile phone friends believe that most of them have had similar embarrassment. Recently, it has been reported that the new machine of OnePlus is also about to start abandoning the design of the mute key. Admittedly, the mute key is convenient, but holding down the volume key is often something that can be done, and it is possible to misoperate another button.
Next, talking about the image, vivo X Fold brings a long-awaited periscope telephoto lens of folding screen players, and finally deserves the high price of the folding screen flagship in terms of telephoto capability. However, a closer look at the parameters shows that this is another unfinished periscope lens, only 8 million pixels, and the picture quality and night shooting performance are not high expectations.
In addition, may be limited by the limitations of device stacking, vivo X Fold does not carry the blue factory features micro-PTZ stabilization, the main camera is also replaced by a smaller Samsung GN5, the level of optimization and debugging of this sensor may not be comparable to the mature Sony IMX 766. Overall, the image advantage of the vivo X Fold is probably just the anti-glare and ultra-telephoto of the ZEISS T* coating, and the moat is not solid.
Friends familiar with vivo should know that the blue factory is a vigorous promoter of screen fingerprint recognition technology, and the two flagship new products have made breakthroughs again. Vivo X Fold successfully implemented dual-screen fingerprint recognition on folding screen mobile phones, and vivo X Note has 3D large-area ultrasonic fingerprint recognition. In contrast, the latter due to the recognition area greatly increased, experience perception will be greater, as for the folding screen screen recognition is not necessarily how good, the mainstream folding screen model of the side power supply fingerprint recognition, in fact, with the facial recognition has a good unlocking experience, vivo this technology will not become a decisive factor for purchase.
Large screen business flagship, X Note forced card slot
Next, let's talk about vivo X Note, the industry leader Samsung stops the background of the Note series of large-screen flagships, which is extremely rare on the market, and can even be said to be the only 7-inch straight board flagship. Samsung gave up the ten years of meritorious Note series, mainly the large-screen product line can sell to more expensive folding screen replacement, on the other hand, the Galaxy S series of oversized cups, the screen size of several generations of models has reached 6.9 inches or 6.8 inches, seriously squeezing the market space of the Note series.
Vivo X Note, priced from 5999 yuan, in fact, the positioning is also somewhat awkward, to say that it is a business machine, other large-screen machine packaging can also be very business. In terms of price, if you compare the pricing of last year's X70 Pro+ (from 5499 yuan), the X Note positioning is higher. However, if you compare carefully from the three blocks of SoC, screen, and image, you have not been able to achieve comprehensive transcendence, and the image has also quietly removed the micro-gimbal, and the front lens has shrunk. By the way, by the way, a cold joke, the price of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Korean version has also killed about 6,000 yuan, and the Hong Kong version is more optional.
Vivo high-end machine layout to do additive hidden worries
In this regard, it can be judged that in fact, the vivo X series of super cups will continue to inherit the responsibility of the blue factory image benchmark, X Note follow-up if there is an iteration, it is to take the direction of the super screen and the large battery, the price gradient of the two floats at about 500 yuan. As for the more high-end market, of course, it is the X Fold series.
The relay of the three series models of the high-end market is logically passable, but this will consume vivo's unprecedented research and development energy, a little careless, may lose sight of one or the other, or tiger tail, into the sub-health cycle of squeezing toothpaste. Think about as strong as Samsung have to cut love, and the next door green factory since the folding screen Find N, the new Find X5 series as a whole has some of the inability to do the reputation is not good, vivo at this time also have to retrograde to do addition, and is in the niche of the super large screen flagship / business jet to spend a lot of effort, some forced card slot meaning, there is really no small risk of trial and error.
Regarding the highlights of vivo X Fold and X Noe, given that KOLs on all sides have blown so much, I will not expand on it here. To be fair, in recent years, the marketing of the blue factory has been hard enough, but the product strength of high-end models has always been felt that it is not top-notch enough. Don't talk to me about what polished products, what extreme pursuit, just talk about X Fold, the head of Android manufacturers in the late folding screen mobile phone, in addition to relying on hardware stacking to attract attention, there is not much surprising innovation. Screen, image, wireless charging, friends want to pile these are not difficult, as for the sound of 300,000 folding certification of the aerospace-level floating wing hinge, does not mean that others are very poor, but in the crease control to be measured by the real machine, the press conference did not say anything special, the probability is not as good as the green factory next door?
(OPPO Find N screen crease almost disappeared)
At present, the price announced by vivo X Fold is still relatively generous, and the official Weibo said that the machine was sold out in 1 minute for online omni-channel pre-sale, which is rare in the flagship products of the blue factory. However, some netizens revealed that vivo this model will take the strategy of controlling the premium of goods, that is, narrowing the channel of the upper cabinet, maintaining the tight supply of goods, and forming a premium effect. At present, it is impossible to judge the authenticity of the picture, and it is not clear how much "moisture" and scalper intervention there are behind the X Fold's instant sale, in fact, the premium of a few hundred yuan is acceptable, more is not recommended, the price goes to the range of Samsung Huawei, vivo's brand premium ability There is still a lot of gap.
It is reported that the fastest at the end of this month Xiaomi and Huawei's new generation of folding screen flagships will have to move, the next 618 is not far away, the second half of the year there are Samsung power, vivo X Fold will be short-lived? Leave it to time to verify.
Keke comments: Set of big, large and complete, does not mean that high-end can be achieved. Vivo X Fold and X Note lack impressive surprises and innovations in addition to stacking materials, and the high-end road is still grim.