Smartisan R1, The World’s First 1TB UFS 2.1 Phone With SND845 Released

Today, in the Bird’s Nest, as scheduled, Hammer Technology unleashed its revolutionary smartphone dubbed as the Smartisan R1, where R stands for Revolution. However, Hamming Technology CEO Luo Yonghao revealed that in the future all their phones will carry the name of Nut regardless of the category of the phone.

It adopts a special full-screen, the screen ratio of which reaches 84%, the aspect ratio is 18.7:9, and the contrast ratio is 1500:1. The front camera is placed in the upper center part like the Sharp Aquos series models. The In-Cell screen comes with a size of 6.17 inches and provides a resolution of 2242×1080 pixels.

On the back, it uses a 3D curved glass, while the middle frame is made of aerospace-grade 7 aluminum. Though the Smartisan Nut 3 comes with a front-mounted fingerprint scanner, the Smartisan R1 returned to the old approach that combines the Hammer logo and the fingerprint reader. The device comes with dimensions of 153.3 × 74.5 × 7.9mm and a weight of 170 grams. There are two color options – carbon black with a red line on the middle and pure white. The latter is promoted as ‘the best white phone in the world.’

The Smartisan R1 is a top-notch smartphone packed with the latest hardware. That’s not difficult to guess the phone is equipped with a Snapdragon 845 chip. This SoC is based on an advanced 10nm LPP process node and uses Kryo 385 architecture and octa-core design. The CPU clock speed reaches 2.8GHz. Thanks to them and the Adreno 630 GPU the AnTuTu score reaches up to 275,866.

Thus, it runs the Xiaomi Black Shark, which is considered the best smartphone in April in terms of performance. THIS IS THE WORLD’S FIRST 1TB UFS 2.1 STORAGE DEVICE POWERED BY SNAPDRAGON 845. The chip is also paired with a 6/8GB LPDDR4X RAM and a 3600mAh battery.

There is a dual-camera on the back. It uses a 12MP Sony IMX363 sensor accompanied by a 20MP sensor. The Smartisan R1’s dual-camera comes with an aperture of f/1.8 and supports dual PD full-pixel dual-core focusing, OIS, and EIS. The front-facing camera is very strong as well. It uses a 24MP sensor, which is great in low-light shooting. Of course, the camera supports AI real-time beauty features.

The 6+64GB variant is priced at 3499 yuan ($548); 6+128GB model costs 3999 yuan ($627); the 8+128GB variant is available at 4499 yuan ($705); and the 8GB+1TB model will be yours for 8848 yuan ($1387). The latter has been sold out instantly. By the way, our assumptions concerning the starting price of the Smartisan R1 were right.