1 exquisite pleasure terminal: vivo X5L Sapphire Edition
A year or two ago, the author never imagined that consumer-grade smart terminals like mobile phones would now fight so well. These manufacturers have finished the system size, finished the size and then put together the material, what anodized, austenitic, polycarbonate and aviation aluminum, and there are bamboo materials like OnePlus One Plus, which are extremely rich.
If the main theme of the mobile phone market last year was 3G and large screen, then there is no doubt that the two keywords that have to be mentioned in this circle this year are 4G and material. Looking back at the exposure stage before the release of Apple’s iPhone 6 & 6 Plus a while ago, the news of the sapphire screen was frequently exposed, which is one of the most likely features to appear in the new Apple phone.
However, contrary to expectations, the two new iPhones did not use sapphire panels, and the larger 6 Plus also had a “bending door” incident, which Apple did not have any explanation. And since Apple does not want to take the lead, there are domestic manufacturers to come out of this head, and vivoX5L has become the first smartphone with a sapphire panel in the mainstream brand.
In terms of visual appearance, this vivo X5L Sapphire Premium Edition is almost identical to the regular version of vivo X5L, the only difference between the two is that the former has a well-designed diamond-embellished home button. This unique detail design also makes it a “ID card” that distinguishes the vivo X5L Sapphire Premium Edition, which improves the recognition of the product to a certain extent.
vivo X5L Sapphire Premium Edition with sapphire panel
Compared with the home button diamond ornamentation that is purely used as a decoration, the use of sapphire screen is the essential difference between this machine and the vivo X5 ordinary version, and it is also the main source of the 500 yuan price difference between the two products. Before doing the analysis, let’s take two photos of the machine, and by the way, review the configuration parameters of vivo X5L series of products.
The material of the display panel has been changed to sapphire, and there is no other difference between the vivo X5L Sapphire Premium Edition and the regular version. X5L also has a built-in 1.7Ghz clock frequency MediaTek true octa-core MT6592 processing chip, with a 2GB RAM + 16GB ROM storage combination solution, supplemented by a 13 million pixel rear camera, supporting 4G LTE networks.
2 strong protective panel: sapphire scratch measurement
Specifically speaking of the sapphire panel used in this machine, first of all, we must know that it is located in the outermost layer of the mobile phone “screen” responsible for protecting the protective part of the display panel, and does not directly determine the display effect of the mobile phone screen and the sensitivity of touch operation. Apple is known to use sapphire on the home button of iPhones with Touch ID.
Of course, including the sapphire used on the iPhone’s Home button with Touch ID, and the sapphire used on the vivoX5L Sapphire Premium Edition screen are not natural sapphires, and they don’t emit blue light. These sapphires used in consumer digital products are all synthetic, so they are not outrageously expensive.
The front panel of vivo X5L Sapphire Premium Edition uses synthetic sapphire (9 on the Mohs scale)
However, artificial sapphire is not a type of material as we often say Corning’s gorilla glass, or artificial sapphire is not glass, and of course natural is not. The main component of artificial sapphire is alumina (Al2O3), which is more complex than the manufacture of glass, and has the physical properties of glass, so it can be used as a screen protector.
The hardness of sapphire is higher than any kind of glass, of course, Corning’s Gorilla 3 generation glass is also included, its Mohs hardness is 9, Gorilla Glass is about 6.5, so only diamonds with higher hardness than sapphire are likely to scratch it, and we also took out sharp substances such as cones, keys, and carving knives to scratch and test on this sapphire glass sample.
Using a few tools to rub in a burst (how did it suddenly come to mind my skateboard shoes?) After that, the entire screen is still intact. Then in view of the fact that vivo X5L is a product that focuses on Hi-Fi high-fidelity music playback, and the speaker-based of the machine is located behind the fuselage, if you want to let the sound flow out smoothly, it will be the practice of most consumers to buckle the mobile phone.
When the phone is snapped and placed on the table, the protective glass on the front panel of the phone will be in direct contact with the plane where the phone is placed. In the usual use process, obviously we will be very concerned about the uneven desktop to the mobile phone screen scratch damage. For this vivo X5L with sapphire glass, these concerns can basically be ignored.
Sapphire’s optical properties are similar to glass’s (permeability is only slightly less than glass)
In addition, we also said earlier that the sapphire panel has good optical characteristics, and the transparency is almost impossible to distinguish the difference between the panel and the naked eye. Overall, the sapphire screen scratch resistance and wear resistance are trustworthy, of course, because the cost of the sapphire panel itself is higher, so the price of the mobile phone has also increased accordingly, users can choose according to the priority of each condition when purchasing.