iPhone users are welcome to use the X Fold.
—— Vivo X Fold press conference scene
As a ten-year iPhone user, my perception of the "market revolution" is a lot of delays, so until this year began to breed interest in the folding screen, just in time to catch up with the vivo X Fold in advance testing, as the first folding screen mobile phone that "good to use", there are many feelings to share, and more expectations have been born.
▍ Folding screen phone It is also a mobile phone
The vivo X Fold is comfortable in your hand.
In the past, I have touched the same folding screen mobile phone in the physical store of other brands, which is very uncomfortable, it is not uncomfortable, but when I hold it, my subconscious will constantly tell myself that "it is different from the mobile phone" - perhaps because of the unique industrial design of the brand aesthetic, or perhaps because of the user's more inclined to fold the use - in short, it is contrary to the cognitive mobile phone, I do not like this.
My expectation for a folding phone is that it "can give more of a just the right experience than a traditional single-screen phone", and the foothold is still "mobile phone", otherwise why don't I buy a tablet that meets the expected size. Although the thickness and weight of the folding screen make the vivo X Fold not lightweight, its border treatment combined with the plain leather material of the back cover makes it comfortable enough to hold. It is also more in line with my expectations that "the folding screen is also a mobile phone".
A textured phone
As an iPhone user for many years, I have hardly used "premium" to describe it, but the words often say "very weighty", which means that it is a textured phone. Some brands blindly pursue the so-called sense of premium, using various piles, stories and emotions to kidnap a mobile phone and its users, trying to create an overall high-tech atmosphere; but the texture is not like this, it has the blessing of materials, there is also aesthetic use, and at the same time can be combined with the tactile experience - you will not feel that you are stepping on the clouds because you hold it, but you can hold it when you want to be empty.
The exterior design of the vivo X Fold is more luxurious in the plain and easy to use, the same metal frame, it is presented in a matte matte manner with a sandblasting process, which brings a more comfortable touch and avoids fingerprint collection, and is more resistant to seeing than shiny crystals; and the center frame design with rounded edges also makes the force and feedback more obvious when holding.
It is a bit bluish for light reasons, but most of the natural light is a dark gray effect
Its biggest highlight is the back, we hold the phone two main focus points is a border, the other is the back cover, the former needs a refreshing and direct force feedback, and the latter is best to be a soft and reliable sense of interaction - both a warm support, but also a sense of security under the right friction.
This must be only given by the plain skin, but most of the plain leather back shell mobile phones on the market are mostly two extremes, under the premise of the same material touch, affected by other details of the process, often either a cheap plastic feeling, or a strong vulgar rich style. Vivo X Fold added a woven design "ribbon" (the same material), the whole feeling changed. Weaving and leather goods are two very typical and stereotypical materials, styles and even positioning, this small design is used in a large area of plain leather, combined with the aforementioned metal sandblasting, angular frame, etc., the overall look and feel of the mobile phone and positioning jump out of the stereotype such as "young", "business", "calm", "stylized", "advanced" and so on, you can not and do not want to put a label on it, but you know that it is suitable for anyone.
So aside from the "folding screen" these pioneering fashion bonuses to see vivo X Fold, it has not forgotten its duty because of the pursuit of emerging.
A family is meant to be neat and tidy
I think the meaning of folding screen mobile phones is "the regret of completing the size ceiling of single-screen mobile phones in specific scenarios", but unfortunately some brands try to replace the use of single-screen touch with large screens, such as weak outer screens and inner screens in screen specifications and capabilities.
Again, if you can only have a better experience if you can only unfold, then why don't I use a tablet?
Vivo X Fold in this position is to think clearly, the size of the screen to the user is to choose, rather than make a decision in advance, so in addition to the size difference and the inner screen due to folding need to use another screen material, all parameters are consistent, including variable high refresh rate, even the fingerprint recognition under the screen is the same as the inner and outer screens, and the position of the fingerprint recognition module after expanding the inner screen is too intuitive.
"Neat and tidy" is a seemingly easy thing to say and easy to say, but it is difficult to be consistent when it is fully mapped to a product or a broader carrier. The best experience vivo X Fold has given me folding screen phones is that I can choose the size of the screen exactly according to my own needs, rather than being stretched at a certain moment.
▍ Finally there is an Android phone that I would like to use to take pictures
I have always been disgusted with the camera style of Android phones, which can often adjust parameters such as saturation, parsing and exposure in order to be more pleasing, so that the pieces are suspended above reality, which is the self-righteous "gift" of many Android mobile phone manufacturers. And the vivo X Fold took a picture to give me more of a feeling of "what I see is what I get", and I really left what I am now.
There are four different focal length cameras on the back of the vivo X Fold, which are:
12MP, f/1.98 portrait camera
50MP, f/1.75 main camera
60x periscope telecam
48MP ultra-wide-angle main camera
Mobile phone photography is different from the camera, the latter can be the parameter king, but the former is more of a software and hardware adaptation to get better results. At the same time, I hate the mainstream way that people talk about the photography ability of a mobile phone now, for most people, those unpredictable descriptions of the so-called parsing power, color saturation, etc. that are constantly talked about when the evaluation is taken, do not have much practical significance for most users, and you carefully consider these "deep reviews" are very lackluster, and even if you change the terminology and adjust the data, you should be able to complete a new evaluation.
I think there are only two characteristics of mobile photography, one is "free to do as you want", and the other is "satisfied with the film", in my opinion, vivo X Fold can be satisfied.
The shooting base is very strong
A good photo should hide more emotions and stories under the premise of reproducing the real scene, which is first of all a very test of the basic shooting ability of the mobile phone.
The image above was taken by me in a low-light indoor environment, and I got such a picture by referring to turning off most of the lights outside the bedroom when you are ready to fall asleep and only relying on it to fumble through the brightness of the toilet. The foreground is clear, the rear scene is naturally bokeh, and the whole does not shoot the night into the day, but it really allows the mobile phone to complete the clear expression in the low-light environment.
Achieving this is a good combination of basic hardware and software algorithms to achieve, for most people, within a certain range of adjustment difficulties, whether it is cloudy indoors or dark light street corners can get relatively satisfactory photos.
When shooting with my mobile phone, I most often shoot food, and in this scene, I think good imaging is to ensure that the perception is not out of touch with reality, but also to make the subject full of texture.
The above picture is also the native camera shooting straight out without any post-production, while the shooting environment is also a very ordinary indoor, nearly eight o'clock in the evening on the ordinary top lighting, still got a very comfortable photo: the color is naturally full, sharpened and clear just right, if you refer to the mobile phone photography food guide I wrote before, it is a very easy tool to produce.
If it is to capture some dynamic scenes vivo X Fold is not to mention more, the same use of the native camera portrait mode straight out, because the shooting environment is not very bright so the shutter time is longer, but the camera stability is very good, in a very image to convey the "feeding" this information at the same time other subjects are not obvious blur, the bokeh outside the subject is also very natural.
And this picture of children and playgrounds taken downstairs in the community is also accurately focused, colorful but real, without the plastic feeling of many Android phones carefully tuned.
After the basic skills are solid, simple processing can get comfortable street photos
The purpose of mobile photography is freedom
When shooting with a professional camera, people will inadvertently become "serious", you have to decide whether to shoot today before you travel now, and then when shooting, you will also worry about whether this scene is worth remembering at this moment; and the purpose of mobile phone photography is much weaker, it is more inclined to a free expression and recording.
In addition to the good basics, the style filter that vivo X Fold comes with in the native camera is also a plus for its photography.
The above photos are all straight out from vivo X Fold's native camera, using portrait mode and superimposed "retro film" style. The shooting method is also very simple, just stick the phone to the glass jar in the Hema seafood area, and choose 1 or 2 times the focal length according to the subject. If you like these photos, then you will definitely like the vivo X Fold's photography ability.
Although the above photos are not blockbusters, they are at least social sharing that meets the basic etiquette standards, but if I refer to the shooting stream when I used the iPhone before, I need to take pictures with the native camera first, and then import them into Lightroom or VSCO to adjust, of course, I can also use other third-party apps to go straight out, but in the end, I need to "take one more step". However, the point I want to complain about is that OriginOS has to add a simulated film border to the film style, which is very contrived and unnecessary.
On the streets at night, the official camera portrait mode goes straight out with no additional nested style filters
Vivo X Fold is a mobile phone that can provide an excellent shooting experience, although the official use of "Zeiss natural colors" such a fancy description, but in fact it really gives users the opportunity to "see is what you get", if you have used a variety of other android phones to take pictures, not only into a piece of vulgarity, even the space in the later stage has been squeezed out of the left. But if you don't want to toss it, whether it's straight out or directly in the camera to apply filters, vivo X Fold is up to you.
▍ Large screen, is the second thing about the vivo X Fold
I think vivo X Fold "a mobile phone can do two things", not refers to specific things, but echoes two use scenarios, the previous has introduced when vivo X Fold as an ordinary mobile phone when its touch and we are more commonly used to shoot the function, now want to talk about the second thing, but also we will have a large screen demand.
When asked what we need to do with the big screen, it is like asking "what do we need to be free to do", putting aside the definition of those yangchun white snow, the big screen gives us the freedom to control and see, and thus comes the extension of a higher experience. In addition to bringing a more pleasant visual experience on the large screen on the video graphics, a "large-screen mobile phone" also has a lot of innovations in traditional operation.
The tiled straight narrative is no longer switched
The vivo X Fold outer screen size is 6.53 inches, which is the more common medium and large single-screen mobile phone size; after expansion, the size is 8.03 inches, which is equivalent to placing two mobile phones in front of you at the same time, so my most common large-screen scene is the application split screen.
The reason why it is called "scene" is because the meaning of split screen is not to deliberately split the screen, but to supplement the real experience of the past. The most frequent should be "cloud shopping" with friends, two applications open at the same time, while browsing and sharing, unconsciously at 12:30.
In addition to this tiled split screen, vivo X Fold has another kind of "small window" split screen, corresponding to more scenes is to find a store on the review, while looking at the distance on the map.
The corresponding work-learning scenarios, whether it is replying to messages when consulting electronic contracts, or taking notes while reading books, many scenes of "mobile phones can barely be used" in the past have finally become "mobile phones can also be" under the blessing of folding screens.
Comes with a stand
Another interesting way to play the folding screen is to use it upright, whether it is a group photo or to stabilize the fuselage when a long exposure is required, it can be very stable on the desktop, and relying on its stable hinge can achieve a very large span of screen angle adjustment.
The other is that you can stand up to watch videos, vivo X Fold has made separate optimizations for most mainstream video platforms such as Tencent, bilibili, etc., if it is in full-screen playback, the phone will be half-folded to automatically activate the function, so that the video will become half-screen full-screen playback,
▍Not only the maker, vivo is also a participant
Vivo X Fold to the downstairs express cabinet when I was still in Guangzhou on business, two days of "close at hand" in the expectation of a lot of related uses; finally rushed home to get the hand first felt that it is a very delicate and textured mobile phone, the first time to expand the inner screen to watch video, graphics and split screen applications actually have a "familiar" feeling.
Not because I've fiddled with other brands of folding screen phones, but when I open my usual app to log in to my account and use it as usual, I think that's what a phone should look like. Now it is difficult to judge whether it is the mobile phone that has achieved the development of the Internet, or the Internet is promoting the continuous innovation of mobile phones, but the development of products in the field of mobile phones has been advancing at a high speed, but in the past few years, its development has weakened the perception of most users, including me- Liu Haiping is still digging holes, how many nm of the chip process, and even how much the ever-changing shooting ability - we have long been enough.
For me at this moment, the significance of bringing folding to the mobile phone is no less than taking the physical keyboard away from it, and as I mentioned earlier, the meaning of the folding screen is that all mobile phone users have the freedom to take a step. So it's interesting how excited I am when I use it, but how silent I am when I write it into graphics. It wasn't that I was poured cold water, of course, but I didn't know how to share something I deserved.
In fact, whether you have a folding screen phone or not, you can imagine using it — you're using a tablet, and you've learned the magic of tucking it into your pants pocket. It's really simple, but you can also feel that vivo is not simple.
Make the folding screen "the strongest"
X Fold is vivo's first folding screen mobile phone, different from other brands or another way or noble grace, vivo is the current mobile phone industry's most advanced technology are stuffed in, so you buy the strongest Android phone, but also the latest technology folding screen, I think this is an attitude.
At the same time, when it really touches this phone, it has no cumbersome design pile is mostly a solid and comfortable grip, and it shouts "restore the real scene" when major brands chase photography more and more deviations, which is also an attitude.
The inner screen is supported by a floating middle plate at the folding point, and when fully unfolded, the top of the middle plate is fixed to the curved side, ensuring that it can remain flat even if it is folded as many times as possible
Where the user can't see, the use of zirconium alloys, titanium alloys and high-strength steels in the hinge; the design of floating plates that can optimize creases; the new material glass of folding inner screens, etc. In the existing technology, it is more possible to reduce the physical shackles of the folding screen is also what Vivo is trying to do, because it is not yet mature, so the effort is more, which is also an attitude.
I'm not sure if you quantify all the parameters and compare all the folding screens on sale Vivo X Fold is the strongest folding screen phone at the moment, but it must be the product that most stands with the user. At least in my opinion, only vivo has seen a complement to the traditional mobile phone experience of folding screens, not just a gimmick of selling goods.
In the serious way to do folding screen mobile phones, but also in the serious way to do mobile phones.
▍Hardware efforts, software is not willing to be behind people
I will feel that vivo itself is not particularly clear how to introduce the X Fold product, business, integration, exploration, convenience, creativity and efficiency, etc., in the vivo X Fold promotional materials and caliber can see a lot of such conflicts and some repetitive words, which is normal, and it also just makes me feel at ease - because when a technology that is a new field for the whole world is said by Vivo, it means that it does not face it at all.
Some cramped stuttering is cute, but vivo is stingy, that is, OriginOS. It is highly recommended that readers who do not understand OriginOS go to see these two articles, who can't help but applaud the good content after reading it:
OriginOS Ocean Review: Let the fresh air of your custom system continue to blow
OriginOS Hands-on Experience: Three concepts and the problems they correspond to
At that time, the article was published when the vivo X Fold had not yet been released, but when the two were used together at the moment, it felt that it was all laid out early and went with the flow.
When a new shipment is available, the clock component in the upper left corner is automatically overwritten by a pickup notification
For example, the Huarong grid that is more suitable for the layout of the large screen, the atomic components of flexible notifications, on the large screen with ample space, they jump out of the framework of stereotyped dot matrix grid constraints, and also make the notification easier to perceive and easy to use, which looks like some of the "Force" words of the second middle, in fact, the folding screen is also used as a breakthrough to find a new imagination for the next generation of human-computer interaction.
In addition to the notification plugin, even if you just apply the icon, you can adjust the size of the page layout according to the frequency of its use
It also has to be mentioned that vivo X Fold is based on a specific scene customization and pre-installed practical app, such as amber scanning. Although it is easy to find a variety of scanning software in the major application markets, as a pre-installed and completely free scanning tool, it is not only convenient for us to come in handy in time, but also the recognition effect is also very amazing.
Whether it's text capture or table scanning, it provides amazing accuracy
Amber scan in addition to our common documents and documents scanning, but also provides very accurate text extraction, can even directly scan the table pictures and generate Excel files, in many scenes of work and life you are difficult not to thank vivo for the practicality of the device and thoughtfulness.
In addition to the evolution of interaction and function, vivo is also very happy to see vivo's efforts in "creating ecology". Apple dominates the consumer electronics market because it creates a solid ecosystem that's hard to get out of when you're tied up in everything from communications to entertainment to work. This is also why I mentioned earlier that I have less perception of the "market revolution" because I have been in captivity for too long.
Therefore, in addition to the investment in hardware of vivo X Fold, we should not ignore the imagination brought by OriginOS and its derivatives - quantum suites.
I can see a lot of the shadow of the Apple ecosystem on the Quantum Suite: album synchronization and management, memo and schedule systems, including the atomic reading it embeds, and I love atomic reading because it enables both autonomous subscription of information flow and reader, as well as the integration of atomic notes into it for a complete annotation and note-taking experience. Complete annotation and note-taking experience.
The Atomic Kit, which is launched on a desktop system, can operate mobile phone and picture transfer directly on a computer
The lack of desktop system vivo also through the quantum suite and mobile phone connection function in disguise to achieve the interconnection between the mobile terminal and the desktop side, although the current can only achieve the basic remote control and computer to the mobile phone between the one-way picture or file transfer, but in fact, it can be expected to explore more in the future, at least like the Apple ecosystem of the "universal control" is completely expected.
In fact, it is very similar to the evaluation of vivo when chatting with colleagues before, vivo is relatively "obscure" under the background of peers, but when you try to understand its current achievements, you will be surprised by the efforts it has made behind it, but this effort has not yet reached the moment when the announcement can be announced with great fanfare.
▍ Finally
Under the premise of similar configuration, the price of the current folding screen mobile phone is about twice that of a single-screen mobile phone or even upwards, so every probe curious audience will care about a very realistic question - is the folding screen really worth it?
The fact is that the current folding screen is both thicker and heavier than a single-screen mobile phone, and it is slightly inferior to the smooth experience of a real tablet, and this extra effort is more to give the magic of "merging the two into one". It doesn't seem so worth it.
But the world opened by this magic is a new and free order and imagination on top of tradition, and it certainly won't make your life different, but it will certainly ignite your heroic dreams in your tired moments. If you have enough budget and are tired of the lackluster of current mobile phone products, it is better to take the opportunity to catch the vivo X Fold, a fast train that can never go wrong.
And at the same time, we look forward to its more wonderful imagination at the software, use and experience level as soon as possible.