1. An argument caused by "Yan value"
It can be said that a product has changed, so the changed point will often be magnified by users by dozens of times. Sony Xperia XZ2 is such a product, and all the improvements in configuration and function can be said to be covered up by its controversial appearance.
▲ Sony Xperia Z5 mobile phone
Speaking of Sony's design, it can be said that many people like this brand, whether it is easy to use or appearance, it can always bring you different feelings. Looking back on the design style of Sony mobile phones, from the earliest OmniBalance design of Xperia Z series to the unified design of Xperia X series, from the Loop Surface of Xperia XZ to the Ambient Flow design of Xperia XZ2, in fact, each generation had its own unique style before XZ2, and it was also full of Japanese simple Fang Zhengzhi beauty. The first three stages of Sony mobile phone design can be said to be based on squares, only changing the details of the fuselage. Some will use 3D glass to improve the roundness of the corners, and some will use metal materials to improve the firmness of the fuselage, but the Xperia XZ2 is different. It can be said that it is Sony's first flagship product that completely abandons the square shape in recent years, and it is also an attempt by Sony to develop a new design style.
Sony Xperia XZ2 introduced the 18:9 screen in front to follow the current trend, but many netizens and even some fans can't help but question the design of its back. After all, the 3D arc design is more suitable for the palm, but it also brings the maximum fuselage thickness of11mm.. It is hard to imagine that a flagship product will have such an "amazing" thickness at 20 18. After reading the official data, I believe many people can't accept this thickness. After all, people's aesthetics are more willing to accept thinner products now.
However, just looking at the data can sometimes really mislead users. If you have really experienced it, you will find that it is really thin to hold the Xperia XZ2 in your hand. Judging from the grip feeling of the actual use of the mobile phone, the most obvious position of the palm's perceived thickness is the position where the finger is in contact with the middle frame. The middle frame of Xperia XZ2 is only 6mm thick, which is very thin in grip. After the actual experience, you will find that XZ2 feels much thinner than Xperia XZ Premium.
Sometimes the thin phone will affect the feel. The feel of Xperia XZ2 embodies the design language of environmental flow. The four chamfers of the fuselage are more rounded, unlike the previous generation XZ 1 The bulge in the middle of the back fits the palm of your hand. The center of the whole machine is lower than the fingerprint key, so there will be no unstable center of gravity when using it. Although the appearance of thickness gives people some deviation, it is natural to use it in practice.
The brand-new glass backboard also brings another problem. That is to say, the side fingerprint recognition moves backward, because the border narrows, which makes Xperia XZ2 transfer the fingerprint recognition module to the back of the mobile phone (rear fingerprint). When the smart phone industry as a whole turned to facial recognition and off-screen fingerprint recognition, everyone vomited that Sony once again did not take the usual path, from the leading side fingerprint to the back fingerprint recognition.
Sony can be said to have difficulties on this issue, because the side fingerprint patent in the North American market is not owned by Sony. Therefore, Sony's side fingerprint mobile phone products sold in North America had to cancel this function. Fortunately, the American version of the system can unlock the phone through Google's face recognition and graphic password. When it comes to the new generation of Xperia XZ2 mobile phones, in order to avoid some patent disputes, Sony has to settle for the second best and adopt the safest back fingerprint scheme.
▲ Sony Xperia XZ2 adopts northern fingerprint recognition.
Objectively speaking, the reason why Sony Xperia XZ2 is controversial is only because Sony has high hopes for it. As a technology company famous for its design, it is really unacceptable for Sony to do the opposite in appearance. But Sony creatively added touch to the design, so that its mobile phone products can not only be seen by people, but also be truly felt by users. This brand-new attempt is still worthy of our affirmation.
2. Sony Xperia XZ2 has no "innovation"
After the release of Sony Xperia XZ2, many foreign media claimed to write directly to express their disappointment with Sony, and stated that Sony had fallen into innovation stagnation. For example, the unchangeable appearance, the use of a full screen without following the trend, and the unchangeable functions. In short, they think that the design of Sony Xperia XZ2 is featureless, a bit too mediocre, and failed to surprise the industry again.
In fact, it is a bit too one-sided to conclude that Sony's innovation is stagnant just because there is no breakthrough in appearance and configuration functions. On Sony Xperia XZ2, you can record 960 frames in slow motion with a resolution of 1080P. In addition, Sony Xperia XZ2 can not only shoot 4K HDR video, but also have the display ability to convert ordinary video into HDR video. These cutting-edge technologies from Sony's TV and video departments can be applied to mobile phone products very maturely.
Among them, Sony upgraded 960fps slow-motion video recording this year. Whether Samsung, Huawei or Sony, the slow-motion photography technology adopted by them comes from Sony's brand-new CMOS design. Compared with traditional CMOS, Sony has added DRAM layer (Dynamic Random Access Memory) to CMOS. This DRAM layer can be understood as a memory chip on a PC, and also allows CMOS to store pictures faster.
The recording function of Sony Xperia XZ2 4K HDR enhances the color and depth that can be captured in many videos, from the original depth of 8bit to the depth expression of 10bit, and at the same time supports the wide color gamut of BT.2020 in color expression, which is also the standard specification of "true 4K" in the future. Sony Xperia XZ2' s 4K HDR recording can not only meet the resolution standard. This is also the first mobile phone in the industry to add 4K HDR video recording function.
Finally, let's talk about the fever that everyone mentioned in JD.COM. Sony Xperia XZ2 uses Qualcomm's flagship mobile platform Snapdragon 845, and its performance can be described as the ultimate experience. When it is used to play games every day, the picture can be smooth to the highest quality, and there are no problems such as being stuck. If the picture quality of the popular chicken-eating mobile game is full, Snapdragon 845 can also be easily controlled. However, for this extreme performance, the increase of power consumption is inevitable. After all, the stronger the performance, the higher the power consumption and heat generation. Therefore, playing games for a long time, the phone fever has become an inevitable problem. This is also a problem that mobile phone users who pursue the ultimate performance must face.
In general, the controversy of Sony Xperia XZ2 mainly focuses on the appearance. The gold-lettered signboard designed by Gensonnie after the new design was questioned. The thickness of the official 1 1mm is really unacceptable. But after the actual use, you will find that in this era of thousand yuan machine and bangs, there is also a product with a completely different feeling, so that you are always willing to pick it up and play for a while when you have nothing to do.