Every year, major mobile phone manufacturers will release different models, and a variety of parameters are always dazzling, manufacturers roll out of the sky with various configurations, showing the strength of the mobile phone with gorgeous numbers, but the better the parameters, does it mean that the use experience of a mobile phone is better, the answer is obviously no. We can see the clues from last year's mobile phone market,Last year, manufacturers seem to have begun to reach a consensus"Reverse upgrade",Telephoto from 10 times to 3 times,The charging power is not rolled,1Inch is not favored。 What kind of change is this?100x telephoto, wrong direction?
Looking back at the changes in mobile phone cameras in recent years, its development can be said to be rapid, from single camera to multi-camera, from megapixels to tens of millions of pixels, from several times zoom to dozens of times zoom, the parameters of mobile phone cameras are constantly refreshed, dazzling. As an important parameter of image configuration, telephoto has naturally become the focus and selling point of mobile phone manufacturers, whether it is a press conference or an official website introduction, telephoto will always occupy a place in the selling point.
Perhaps compared with concepts such as CMOS or aperture, telephoto is "shooting far" is easier for ordinary consumers to understand, and the farther you shoot is equal to the concept of better photographic configuration is easy to take root in the hearts of mass consumers, but the dozens of times or even 100x zoom promoted by manufacturers are more of a gimmick for manufacturers to promote.
However, leaving the PPT marketing at the press conference, the mobile phone's ultra-telephoto lens technology is still far from the usable level in terms of actual landing effect, which leads to poor imaging quality, and mobile phone telephoto photography only stays at the level of "captured".
In addition, the use of telephoto scenarios is contrary to the usage habits of mass consumers, there are only a handful of scenes that can use ultra-high magnification telephoto, and due to the imaging ability of mobile phones, the use scenarios that want to replace SLR telephoto lenses are still very far away, so the existence of mobile phone ultra-telephoto has become a chicken rib, more often than not, the moment you buy a new mobile phone, open the camera 100x telephoto, and say "Wow shoot so far", and never used it again.
And its existence will greatly occupy the internal space of the mobile phone, increase the thickness and weight of the mobile phone, and affect the beauty and feel of the mobile phone.
And this year, manufacturers seem to be going in the right direction, and each company has focused its R&D attention on the polishing of 2x to 5x telephoto, from the direction of "shooting" to "shooting good", for example, Find X6 took the lead in proposing the concept of low-light telephoto, creating a more practical 3X telephoto, which has good performance in many scenarios. These lenses with higher focal lengths are more worthy of careful polishing by manufacturers, whether it is shooting portraits or landscapes, these focal lengths are more convenient for users to compose shots, and it is also easier to produce films, so that ** has more tension.
This year, most flagships are also taking this route, striving to improve the imaging effect of each lens and comprehensively improve the strength of mobile phone imaging. This approach is more in line with the actual needs of users, and it also reflects the essence of mobile phone cameras, that is, to record the beauty of life.
Fast charging takes into account battery life
Charge for five minutes, talk for two hours" over the years, faster charging speed seems to be the eternal pursuit of various manufacturers, the first two years have entered a kind of "crazy state", the charging rate of major manufacturers for mobile phones is getting higher and higher, from 88W to 120W, and there is an iQOO10 PPro that charges the roll to 200W, claiming that it can be filled with 4700mAh of power within 10 minutes, and the charging speed is amazing. 
The original intention of the manufacturer may be to achieve the effect of "rapid blood recovery" through a faster charging rate, after the phone is out of power, you only need to wait for dozens of minutes, and the phone can be resurrected with full blood.
However, the author believes that increasing the charging rate is more like a compromise when the mobile phone battery life technology encounters a bottleneck. When the battery life technology level of the mobile phone can meet the user's ability to charge it once for a day, there is no need for the manufacturer to roll up a higher charging power, but in the case of the battery life technology level in previous years, fast charging may be a way to alleviate the user's lack of battery life experience.
The disadvantages of fast charging are also obvious, due to the high temperature generated by fast charging, it will lead to a shortening of battery life, which makes the user's perception of "the power of the mobile phone is becoming less and less durable" more obvious, and the user experience will be greatly reduced. Secondly, because Android manufacturers have their own private charging protocols, each mobile phone can only use the charging head of its own brand's private protocol to charge to activate the fast charging function, which also brings a lot of inconvenience to users in the charging experience.
This year, many mobile phone manufacturers have maintained rationality in fast charging, they have controlled the fast charging power at about 100 watts, and have not chosen to continue to impact 200W or even higher power, but the battery capacity has increased a lot. Perhaps because of the great progress in battery technology, large-capacity batteries are more used in mobile phones, and they can still maintain a more reasonable volume thickness.
In 23 years, in order to improve the battery life level of mobile phones, various manufacturers have adopted different technologies, such as the blue ocean battery life system battery of the vivo X100 series, making it a dark horse for last year's battery life, and then such as OnePlus's longevity version of fast charging and OPPO's four-year battery guarantee durable battery, which is to improve the service life of the mobile phone battery to ensure battery life.
From it, we can get a glimpse that the key to the battery life of the mobile phone still has to return to the battery and chip, fast charging is just a temporary trade-off, and improving the real battery life is the upgrade of the experience.
Outsole is no longer the only one
When we talk about the image scale of the camera, we will always mention "the bottom is one level crushed", that is because the main camera sensor is the core component of the mobile phone camera, it determines the basic quality of mobile phone photography, the size of the sensor directly affects the amount of light, determines the brightness and details of a **.
Over the past few years, mobile phone manufacturers have been pursuing larger sensor sizes, from 1 to 23 inches to 1 17 inches, and then 1 inch last year, the consensus of manufacturers seems to be that only a larger sensor can shoot better**.
In some scenes, such as when shooting night scenes, increasing the amount of light entering greatly improves the quality of the image. However, due to the size limitation of the mobile phone, it cannot provide sufficient post-focus distance for the outsole, so in some imaging scenes, it will lead to a significant deterioration of some optical performance, resulting in distortion and coma, or in strong light, the large-size sensor will be overexposed, losing details, resulting in the final imaging effect may not be greatly improved or even reduced.
In order to accommodate larger sensor sizes, the volume of cameras and lenses has also increased exponentially, which is reflected in the increased weight of mobile phones and the convex lens module, which can be said to outweigh the losses.
Xiaomi 13 Ultra on the left and Xiaomi 14 Pro on the right
Last year, some mobile phone manufacturers began to try new solutions, they no longer simply pursue large-size sensors, but through the improvement of manufacturing processes to improve the amount of light into the sensor, especially in terms of dynamic range, some scenes even better than 1-inch sensors.
For example, several flagships at the end of last year used the ov50H 1 13-inch sensors, and Sony also has Lytia 800 double-layer CMOS, they all use lamination technology to increase the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the sensor, improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the sensor, and thus improve the image quality. The new sensor also has some features designed for computational photography, such as support for 4-in-1 pixel binning, multi-frame compositing, and HDR**, which can also be used to great results if the AI algorithm is properly tuned.
In addition, the reduction of the sensor size also provides more space for image stabilization and lens group design, and can also alleviate the protrusion of the camera to a certain extent.
Summary
The author believes that mobile phone manufacturing is an art of trade-offs. Manufacturers can stuff the most powerful components on the market into the mobile phone, and coax consumers to place orders with beautiful paper parameters, but a good product never relies on stacking parameters, but pragmatically understands what consumers really need, no longer pursues exaggerated parameters, but concentrates on doing a good job in functions and products.
Parameters are important, but they should serve function, not "parametricism".
This is also a good thing for consumers, we no longer need to be bothered by a variety of parameters, we can enjoy a better mobile phone experience, and we can choose mobile phones more rationally. I hope that manufacturers can roll up in this direction and bring us more surprises and innovations.