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Two weeks ago, a well-known financial institution JPMorgan’s report on “Apple may discontinue iPhone 12mini” caused a lot of attention and discussion from the outside world. At that time, our Sanyi Life also conducted relevant analysis on this matter.
In our opinion, the claim that iPhone 12mini is (temporarily) discontinued is highly credible. And this small-screen flagship is not a good-looking sales data, and it also reflects that in today’s 5G rich media era, consumers’ actual demand for small-screen high-performance models is far less than what they “say”. exuberant.
So the question is, is it that for today’s smart phones, “big screen” and “big body” must be the only solution? However, the facts can be said to be yes or not.
On the one hand, as we have said many times before, for today’s smart phone products, their daily use scenarios are no longer limited to phone calls, text messages, chats or emails. In large-scale mobile games, ultra-definition video shooting and editing, and other application scenarios, it has gradually become the mainstream use mode. Even for entry-level 5G models, “high performance” has become the most concerned selling point for many consumers.
What does this mean? Simply put, today’s mobile phone processors are actually more power-consuming and heat-generating than in the past. They require larger-scale heat dissipation components, and they also need larger-capacity batteries to ensure battery life. In addition, for today’s smart phones, they also need to have large bottoms, multi-cameras, high brightness, high color gamut, high refresh, high resolution screens, and even high-quality external Put and (sometimes) more than one high-power vibration motor, etc.
Obviously, if you want to pack all the front parts into a mobile phone, the size of the body, and even the thickness, will be an insurmountable problem. After all, whether it is a battery, a heat sink, or a camera, at the current level of technology, the larger the volume, the better the effect. In other words, if you want the overall performance, battery life, and image capabilities of your mobile phone to be sufficiently high, you must not use a thin and compact body design.
In fact, when we look around the mobile phone market today, it is not difficult to find that even the screen size of about 6.5 inches is even considered “smaller”, and the screen size of many top flagship models has even reached 6.8 inches or even 7. Inches or more. In the past, this can be regarded as a “tablet” rather than a “mobile” field.
However, such a “huge” mobile phone has outstanding performance, outstanding imaging capabilities, battery life and heat dissipation, but obviously not all consumers have large enough palms, not to mention the one-handed operation that large screens inevitably bring problem. Therefore, it is necessary to achieve high performance and imaging capabilities through a large screen and a large body in the hardware design, but also to take into account the user’s control needs in the actual use experience. For today’s smart phone manufacturers, it is a bit embarrassing. The function has become their only choice now.
Yes, this is one-handed mode.
What is called “one-handed mode”? It is actually a convenient design that shrinks the entire display area of the phone so that users can easily touch the other end of the display area with just one hand.
In fact, it may be thought that “large body + one-handed mode” is more practical than a simple “small screen flagship”. Recently, related reports indicate that Google plans to officially add the official “one-handed mode” to this year’s Android 12. Mode” function. Not only that, the related code will also be merged into the open source AOSP channel. This also means that for future Android models, the “one-handed mode” will soon become a “standard” feature that all brands have.
Obviously, “one-handed mode” is included in the default function of Android, which also means a milestone victory for the large-screen design of smart phones. But the problem is that today’s smart phones are generally equipped with large-size, high-resolution, and high-quality screens for better overall performance and display effects. In the end, for the convenience of operation, they have to be quite The large display area is “abandoned”, which seems rather ironic.
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