Nut 3 review: Outrageous balanced design and battery life will move you to tears

As a thousand-yuan phone, the Nut 3 has achieved an incredible balance in design, performance and battery life. Just like what Luo kept mentioning at the press conference, "make friends." From the evaluation experience, a journey of a thousand miles tells a horse's strength. If you regard the Nut 3 as a friend, this friend is worth making.

Only Lao Luo dares to design like this

The front camera of Nut 3 is placed on the left side of the physical button at the bottom of the phone. The advantage of this design is obvious. The front camera function can be automatically turned on when the phone is flipped. In the arena of selfies, beauty is fleeting. Whoever draws the sword faster will naturally be the king at that moment.

You should know that before Nut 3, no manufacturer had ever tried this. This is also in line with Luo Yonghao's personality. If there is nothing new on a new phone, he probably wouldn't be embarrassed to bring it out.

In the past, the psychological state of not wanting to repeat oneself was exclusive to artists. Now, Lao Luo has brought it to the mobile phone industry.

In Luo's worldview, whether it is design aesthetics or functional settings, everyone in the world needs enlightenment, including Steve Jobs. Luo, who likes to teach others (he is a teacher), always wants to realize his ideas as soon as possible. So, he set up a factory, the Hammer Factory. He outputs his ideas, realizes them himself, and sells them himself, just like the connotation conveyed by his previous craftsman series posters - I make it with my heart, you can buy it with confidence, just do it.

Whether it is the appearance or the software, you can find both the heritage and the wonderful ideas in all Hammer products. Of course, we all call for innovation, but when innovation really comes, there is enough space for 10,000 comments from the audience, between recognition and disapproval and even sarcasm. Fortunately, Luo Yonghao has this tolerance, and at most he can just block them.

With a strong design will, the Nut 3 smartphone cuts through the sky like a sharp blade, eliminating the notch screen that everyone is imitating, and rushes into the vast sea of ​​thousand-yuan smartphones with its resolute attitude of three-sided borderless display and higher craftsmanship.

In addition to the gold line on the middle frame of the body, the edges of each side are slightly chamfered. Although the Nut 3 is covered with glass, you will not feel any cutting sensation when holding it.

After the advent of full-screen phones, mobile phone design has actually entered a long night of chaos. How to create new designs on a whole piece of glass, especially highly recognizable designs, should have been something that countless designers have worked hard on.

Fortunately, due to Luo's meticulous nature, the appearance design of Nut 3 still maintains its own unique level. In addition to the front camera mentioned above, the placement of the buttons on Nut 3 and the legendary gold line in the middle frame are enough to make you feel Luo's various little thoughts.

A surprisingly balanced experience

Countless people laughed at the Snapdragon 625 processor of Nut 3. I won't try to cover it up, the fact is the fact. But you also have to know that Nut 3 is a thousand-yuan phone. When some brands' 2,000-3,000-yuan phones were still using MTK MediaTek, what did you say at that time?

In actual experience, whether it is non-heavy games, daily surfing the Internet, Weibo and WeChat, or opening more than ten apps in a row, the Nut 3 with 4G RAM can handle it smoothly and flawlessly. If you insist on using it to play heavy mobile games, that is an inappropriate criticism like Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong. At this time, your best choice should be to spend a little more money to buy a flagship phone, rather than saying how bad this thousand-yuan phone is.

In fact, friends who have played PC DIY know that when you have a limited budget and want to upgrade, should you change the CPU or add memory? Let's put it this way, basically you don't change the CPU, you can get a large memory from Xianyu, and the old machine will be transformed into a new one immediately.

In terms of photography, the front 8MP and rear dual 13MP cameras of the Nut 3 are known as honest dual cameras. This means that the two rear 13MP lenses are real 13MP, not the so-called dual cameras that are a 5MP + 8MP = 13MP game. Of course, the dual 13MP solution is the same as other mobile phones, one captures black and white, and the other depicts color.

With the support of HDR, during shooting, I feel that the focusing speed of Nut 3 is very amazing. It basically achieves point-and-click, the imaging is clear, the color details are rich, and the background blur is just right. The only drawback is that at night, the noise is still very large.

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In terms of sound quality, thanks to Hammer's tuning skills, the sound quality of the external speaker is not inferior to any other competitor. As for plugging in headphones, it is up to you to choose. The so-called endless music means that the more you buy headphones, the more expensive they are, and the more you buy them, the more you want to buy them.

As for Smartisan OS, there is no doubt that this is the fundamental difference between Luo Yonghao and other mobile phone manufacturers. It is the soul of Hammer phones and its excellence needs no further explanation. Is Smartisan OS good to use? Let's put it this way. If you have experienced it in depth, you will definitely miss it when you use other OS in the future.

At the beginning of the article, why do we say with confidence that the Nut 3 is an incredibly well-balanced 1,000-yuan phone? The reason is simple. This is Luo Yonghao's insight and a development trend in the mobile phone industry. When performance requirements can be met, the shooting effect, the smoothness of operation, and the ingenuity of the design are the real pain points for users to use frequently. In addition, Luo Yonghao installed a 4,000 mAh large battery on the Nut 3 this time. I think this is Luo Yonghao's most sincere confession to Hammer fans.

Charging twice a day and carrying a power bank with you is not a big hassle, but it is always a burden. If you can still have 10% of power left from the time you leave in the morning to the time you take the subway and play all the way back at night, that would be great. Charging less once a day is also a concrete practice of the spirit of detachment.

In the test, we fully charged the Nut 3 and then started playing "Blade Runner 2049" starring Gosling. The video file is full HD and 12G in size. Even a non-independent graphics notebook from eight years ago may not be able to play it smoothly.

I adjusted the volume of the Nut 3 to a moderate level, and when the 2-hour and 43-minute film was about to end, the battery of the phone was still 79%. This is a terrifying result, that is, if you take the high-speed train from Beijing to Shenzhen without a power bank, a Nut 3 can allow you to watch the whole journey from getting on the train to getting off.

For people who travel frequently, the long-battery-life Nut 3 is the pure companionship of true love, and companionship is the most lasting confession of love.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.