The smallest 5G mobile phone in history is released, why are people still buying small-screen phones?

Nowadays, when you think of "small screen mobile phone", what do you think of?

If you are an iOS user, you may think of the iPhone mini and iPhone SE series that have been discontinued for several years; if you are an overseas Android party, then the Samsung Galaxy S series and Pixel A series may be the first ones to pop up. The name on your lips.

As for the domestic Android party, Xiaomi 12/13/14 may be the product that best meets this positioning.

Oh, by the way, OPPO has recently done a whole job and promoted the OPPO Reno12 series with a screen size of 6.7 inches as the "most beautiful small straight screen", which really caught the eyes of digital enthusiasts from Kuan and Baidu Tieba As soon as it was dark, people complained about it in the forum.

(Picture source: OPPO)

In this regard, OPPO’s official explanation is:

“Super beautiful small straight screen” specifically refers to the four soft edges of the OPPO Reno12 series Straight screen design. The screen is surrounded by exquisite curved glass, and the glass cover above the display and touch area is almost completely flat, making the whole machine feel light and slim. The display features a beautifully rounded design with four rounded corners within a standard rectangle.

Okay, that’s what you say.

However, in Xiao Lei’s view, even if the OPPO Reno12 series is put aside, the above mobile phones can at best be called “relatively small screens” rather than “absolutely small screens”.

You know, even the Samsung Galaxy S24 is equipped with a 6.2-inch direct screen.

Pixel 8a? 6.1-inch straight screen.

Xiaomi 14? That reached 6.36 inches.

(Picture source: Xiaomi)

Although the new stacking technology can indeed make these mobile phones smaller, narrower and thinner, the screen size has exceeded the previous body size. Under the circumstances, these products are more like a compromise solution given by mobile phone manufacturers.

No wonder some loyal fans of small-screen mobile phones are very dissatisfied. Why do these mobile phones with a screen size of up to 6 inches dare to call themselves "small-screen mobile phones"?

Unihertz is not happy with this anyway.

According to foreign media reports, Unihertz recently announced that their new 5G mobile phone Jelly Max will be crowdfunded on the Kickstarter platform, with an early bird price discount of up to 40%, and revealed some parts of this model during the warm-up Hardware configuration information, known as the world’s smallest 5G mobile phone.

(Photo source: Unihertz)

Should I say it or not, it sounds really interesting.

The "smallest" 5G mobile phone in history

Old rules, let's take a look at the appearance first.

Friends who are familiar with Unihertz should know that as a typical heterogeneous niche brand, the last thing this manufacturer is afraid of is breaking this static mobile phone market.

Regardless of whether it is innovative or not, their product design has nothing to do with being outstanding in the mainstream market. Therefore, as for the appearance design of Jelly Max, netizens are not afraid of it being ordinary, but they are afraid of it being messy.

Judging from the currently exposed pictures, the back design of the phone is the same Unihertz style as always.

In addition to the translucent polycarbonate back cover, the most prominent thing must be this horizontal metal cover dual-camera module. After all, these days, everyone basically uses the square module or module led by "Apple". It is a circular module led by "Huawei", and there are very few products using horizontal modules.

This design, which has not been seen in the mobile phone market for a long time, really reminds people of the Samsung Galaxy S10e of that year.

(Photo source: Unihertz)

Then turn to the front.

In the past, the Unihertz Jelly series used a traditional front design, and even the three diamond keys were completely retained, which is called a retro style that has been implemented to the end.

After going around and around, Jelly Max finally uses a full screen. The front-facing punch hole is located in the upper left corner of the screen. Except for the chin which still looks a little wider, the other three sides are completely It can be regarded as the standard of modern mobile phones.

(Image source: Unihertz)

In terms of size, Unihertz has not elaborated yet.

However, judging from the official trailer photos released by Unihertz, Jelly Max can be placed on a six-row keyboard with function keys. Considering that the keyboard I use daily is of this specification, this product’s The screen size should be between 4-5 inches.

Personal visual inspection, it should be smaller than the iPhone 12 mini.

(Image source: 9to5Mac)

As for the core configuration.

Unihertz also previewed three key points in the official announcement: performance, imaging and fast charging.

Let’s talk about performance first.

(Picture source: Unihertz)

UnihertzJelly Max is equipped with MediaTek Dimensity 7300 processor, which is based on TSMC N4P process and has four Cortex-A78 cores with a maximum frequency of 2.5GHz. , four Cortex-A55 cores and a Mali-G615 MC2 GPU.

Yes, it is the processor on CMF Phone1 and Motorola Raze50.

Compared with the Dimensity 7200, which has a smaller name, the Dimensity 7300 has two more mid-cores, but the most critical single-core frequency is about 12% lower, and the GPU directly loses two cores, so The actual positioning is lower than the Dimensity 7200, which can be regarded as a comprehensive comparison of the Snapdragon 7s Gen2 processor.

In terms of running performance, although we don’t have specific figures yet, according to the official statement, compared with the previous generation Jelly Star equipped with Helio G99, the CPU performance of Jelly Max has been improved by 54%, and the GPU performance has been improved. 87%.

Such a performance improvement is undoubtedly considerable for a small-screen mobile phone.

(Picture source: MediaTek)

As for the storage configuration...

There is no need to think about 1TB and 512GB, but Jelly Max provides 12GB LPDDR5+256GB UFS3.1 storage combination.

In a small screen phone, this is pretty good.

Let’s talk about battery life.

For such a compact mobile phone, what is your psychological battery expectation?

2000mAh battery, 10W charging? Then your expectations are similar to those of Jelly Star and Jelly2. After all, it is really difficult to accommodate a larger battery capacity in such a compact body.

It’s reasonable, but in the face of today’s new wave of silicon-carbon negative batteries, it makes no sense to continue to maintain 2000mAh batteries.

(Picture source: Unihertz)

So Unihertz directly increased the weight. The battery capacity of Jelly Max came to twice that of the previous generation product - that is, 4000mAh, and the fast charging power also followed. A rising tide lifts all boats, reaching 66W. According to the official statement, it only takes about 20 minutes to complete 90% of the energy replenishment, and it is estimated that it will be fully charged in about half an hour.

Considering that the fast charging power of most mid-range mobile phones currently on the market hovers between 65W and 120W, such parameters are already considered to be at the upper-middle level.

The last is the image.

Many people may think, "Image? What kind of image can such a small machine have? It will be good if it can take photos for me and scan the QR code and focus quickly."

But Unihertz doesn't seem to I think so. The 100MP main camera and 3.4x telephoto may not be as good as the current mainstream mid-range mobile phones, but compared to the previous two generations of products, it can be said to be a transformation. At least it can handle daily shooting without any problems.

(Photo source: Unihertz)

As for other configurations, although there is no specific news, everyone can make a guess.

Anyway, Unihertz must have some experience in making a small-screen flagship that is popular among digital enthusiasts.

In the small screen market, the winner takes all?

Seeing this, are the small screen fans going to be ecstatic?

But don’t worry, although this mobile phone is small, the price is not cheap. The Unihertz Jelly2 released in the early years is now officially priced at 1,199 yuan, and the Unihertz Jelly Star equipped with MediaTek G99 processor is now officially sold at even less 1,588 yuan, a blind guess that the retail price of Jelly Max will be around 3,000 yuan.

For interested digital enthusiasts, it may be more cost-effective to participate in crowdfunding.

（圖片來源：Unihertz）

此外，現在廠商們不肯做小屏手機，也是有他們各自的理由的。

首先，小螢幕手機的消費群體相對較小，銷售支撐不了旗艦手機的研發成本。小螢幕手機意味著機身空間更小，要完整配備市面上主流的元件，對堆疊技術的要求也會更高。

其次，散熱設計也是一個挑戰。更大螢幕的機型能採用更大面積的VC均熱板，熱量發散也會更快；而小屏旗艦因為散熱面積小，元件堆在一起，打遊戲時相對更燙。體驗也會更差。

再次，消費者對於「小屏旗艦低人一等」的接受度不高。例如，如果有兩款手機，一款是大屏旗艦，配置拉滿，價格合理；另一款是小屏，配置全縮水，但由於採用最新的堆疊技術，售價降不下去，那麼會選擇後者的消費者就會很少。

因此，大廠商在權衡成本、市場需求和用戶體驗後，自然普遍選擇不再生產小螢幕手機。

#b ，情況則完全不同。

對於這種本身沒有什麼用戶積累，產品配置也很難和主流廠商競爭的小眾廠商而言，劍走偏鋒或許才是王道。

好消息是，Unihertz官方顯然是準備把這款產品帶到國內市場的。

而這，能在一定程度上解決保固、售後的問題。即便沒有線下售後，但是有了京東商城背書的售後保障，起碼可以做到返廠換新解決問題，而不至於落得一個出了問題可能都沒地方修的下場。

說來說去，不外乎一句話：買手機，大夥完全可以按自己的需求來選。

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