The concept of holographic phone has been gradually spread throughout the internet since June this year. After that, the Takee Company announced that they will launch Takee, their holographic smart phone. Coincidentally, at that time the Amazon in America also launched Fire Phone, adopting the similar technology, which makes the customers more familiar with holographic phones. One month after that, Takee Company officially launched their holographic phone, Takee 1.

After waiting for a while, we received the sample phone for test and evaluation. Last week, we have shared the information about the debut of Takee 1. From the comments left, we found that many people are curious about this phone. No matter what you thought about it before, please keep your curiosity and take a look at the holographic Takee 1 with us in detail.

Design and workmanship

Although I have seen Takee 1 after its launch event, my impression of Takee 1 became vague after a period of time. This is not bad, because when I see this phone again, its design still attracts me.

People, especially those who are fans of Nokia, will think the front of Takee 1 seems similar to that of Nokia Lumia 925. In my opinion, good design should be widely spread. This can be a salute to the classic design. The screen is embedded in the phone with the protection of frames on its four sides, which lowers the risk of breaking the screen.

The back of the phone is with a radiant, and the back cover feels fine, which makes the phone fit the palm well. The frame made of aluminum alloy is smooth because of the fine grinding of CNC lathe. It also makes the phone sturdier.

The hardware of Takee includes a 5.5 inch 1080p screen, a 2.0GHz 6592T eight-core CPU, a 5 million pixels front camera, and a 13 million pixels back camera. In addition, it offers two 2500mA original batteries. Nowadays, few companies will offer two batteries for their phones.

Although Takee 1 has the function of dual sim cards and dual standby, it does not support 4G network. Since 4G network is a current trend, Takee 1 can make some improvement in its later products, which may greatly increase its sales.

The experience of hologram

Then let’s talk about the novel holographic phone. According to previous news report, Takee 1 holographic phone is a kind of innovative handheld terminal adopting computer holographic display technology. This is a totally new concept for many people. I hope through the experience I share in the following part, you will know Takee 1 more thoroughly.

The first and direct feeling is that when you watch the holographic image on Takee 1, the image seems movable. That is, when your eye moves, the image displayed in the screen also adjusts according to your visual angle, which makes you watch from a comfortable angle all along.

Compared with Takee 1, the previous 3D display seems inflexible. Only when you keep parallel to the screen can you get good watching experience. 3D display will not adjust according to your visual angle. That is why we should choose seats right opposite the screen while watching 3D movies.

How can Takee 1 achieve such a movable effect? Those who watched the debut of Takee 1 may remember the round dot below the screen. It looks like a front camera, but it actually plays the role of a tracking sensor.

Thought the sensor, Takee 1 is able to tracking the position of human eyes. Then according to the position of human eyes and based on holographic data model, it calculates the holographic images. After that, through a special directional display, it projects the stereoscopic images of both eyes onto the retina of human eyes. Thus, the visual effect produced is exactly the same as the real visual perception.

Let’s take another example. There are a stereoscopic magic cube and a football. If you want to see different sides of them, the only thing you need to do is to change the focus of your eyes. I have a couple of quite good experiences.

Apart from static images, videos also bring you good experience. Takee 1 offers many videos for you and almost all of them can be directly converted into 2D videos. Besides videos stored by the phone, we can also download videos through the app of “Cloud Cube”. There are a large number of videos which can be searched according to themes and types.

However, the tracking sensor can only be applied to a single user. If more than one person watch the image or video, the stereoscopic result will not be so good. We believe the company will further improve their technology.

Besides videos, people also pay attention to the experience of playing games, among which the fruit cutting game without touching the screen is a very new one. After trying several times, I picked up some skills of playing this game.

After entering the game, use one finger to “cut” in the air. Takee 1 will collect and calculate data according to the trace of your finger and display the result on the screen. Although explaining it takes a lot of words, the actual process is conducted within a moment.

However, there are still some shortcomings. You should keep a close distance from the screen, and 5 cm is considered the best. What’s more, there are not many games which can be played without touching the screen. One a fruit cutting game will bore people. Takee should enrich the types of games and improve their playability.

Takee still has a lot of work to do in order to make hologram a strong selling point rather than just a stunt. It should apply holographic function in more situations, offer more videos and games, and improve the accuracy of the sensor in terms of tracking the eyes and movements.

Photographing

After commenting on the core selling point, let’s talk about the hardware of Takee 1 and its performance of photographing.

MTK eight-core 6592T CUP with 2GB RAM can meet the need of daily use. Even if I use it to conduct a very demanding game performance test, it still satisfies me. What also gives me a deep impression is that after a half-hour continuous game test, Takee 1 has a relatively successful control of heating. Takee 1 gains nearly 32,000 points when evaluated by the An Tu Tu Benchmark, which means it reaches an upper-middle level.

Many users regard the photographing function of a phone as important. The main camera of Takee 1 is 13 million pixels. However, from my own experience, the photographing performance of Takee 1 is only normal. When the light is good, It takes clear pictures and the color reproduction is good.

The system interface

Despite its shortcomings, Takee 1 has many advantages. I like its system interface. The design of the unlock screen gives me a sense of technology. Move the phone to any visual angle, you can see the three planets on the screen also move accordingly.

When the main screen is slid to the right, there is a page of news displayed like a waterfall. Although this is not an original idea of Takee, it is good for Takee to borrow such a good design.

The other aspects of Takee 1 are quite ordinary. The UI icons are in a unified style. It should make improvement in adapting third-party app icons.

Conclusion

Undoubtedly, Takee holographic phone is a bold attempt of the Takee Company. The concept of holographic phone has drawn the attention of the consumers. In the long run, holographic phone is promising. At the same time, like other new products, Takee also has to do more to improve. For example, Takee should offer more holographic videos and games, improve the playability of games, and improve its photographing function. We also hope that more content providers will pay close attention to this emerging field, thus smart phones will develop healthily in a more diverse way.