A maverick egg
——The appearance of UT eggs detailed evaluation
sequence
At the end of the last century, UTStarcom, which was in the United States, successfully grafted PHS wireless local calls originated in Japan to the fixed-line telephone network and invented a small mobile phone built on the fixed-line network. That was PHS. PHS quickly swept across the land of China in a very short period of time and opened a mobile phone dynasty for more than a decade. UTStarcom has thus become almost synonymous with PHS.
UT Starcom is an international high-tech communications company specializing in the research, development, production and sales of cutting-edge products in the modern communications field. It is the world's leading IP-based end-to-end network solution and service provider. The company was founded by Chinese students studying in the United States in the 1980s. It originated in the Silicon Valley of the United States, grew up in the Chinese market, and was listed on the Nasdaq in the United States in March 2000. It has several R&D centers in China and India, and its business covers the globe.
In 2010, UT Starcom successfully implemented a major strategic adjustment. In addition to the strategic investment of Beijing Yizhuang International Investment Development Co., Ltd., the transformation of the board of directors and the management team, the international operations headquarters was relocated to Beijing. In the UTStarcom market positioning, UTStarcom has transformed from a single telecom market to a telecom and radio broadcast market. In terms of service structure, UTStarcom has transformed from a high-tech equipment provider to operate with operators. Provide technology and products for them while also providing operational support services. After the strategic reorganization, UT Starcom, based in China, adhering to the fine tradition of focusing on innovation and pursuing excellence, has introduced a series of technologies and products that are more comprehensive and more suitable for the construction of national triple play networks, so as to meet the future telecommunications, radio and television, electric power and Market demand and development in education and other fields.
In the second half of 2014, UTStarcom made another stunning move and launched a strangely-designed and fully-featured intelligent network set-top box product called UT Egg, which caused an uproar in the industry. What exactly is a product that will allow UTStarcom to suddenly "be unprofessional" and not play with mobile phones?
Please follow the author to reveal the egg under this UT - a maverick egg.
Unpacking
UT Egg and his buddy UT egg game controllers use a mother-in-a-box packaging. The styles are the same. They are all packed in a black carton. Red fonts, red and black, contrast strongly. The huge egg on the packaging of the mainframe matches the baby face and the handle of the handle on the handle. The simple, generous, playful and lively, people never forget.
First look at the UT eggs, carton packaging, black red, the top in addition to UT Starcom LOGO, the most eye-catching is a huge circle in the "egg"; side marked the product model, and mango TV inside The logo, well, in addition to his own egg, even the partners are reminiscent of the round shape of the eggs; the bottom is marked with the factory information, access number, etc., well, but the only one with the ID card.
Open the mysterious "black box", UT egg egg is still covered with a layer of plastic bags, next to the thin remote control placed in the cracks, the black box at the top of the egg, is the other parts of the egg. The egg and its buddies are tightly embedded in tailor-made black pearl cotton molds, which can guarantee that the eggs will not be beaten under the harsh express test.
The dowry of eggs is hidden in this black box. Everything that is not round enough is to be thrown into the cold room. OK, come home, come out and breathe.
Let's take a look at the bridesmaids with UT eggs - the gamepads. The balls without gamepads are not happy, play with eggs, play with eggs, there are no handles, how to play? The same black box carton packaging, a piece of egg family together to make up the baby face smile, look at its model, GP8638, and the egg model is MC8638, it really is not a family does not enter a door ah.
The packaging of the handle is also regarded as luxurious. The white pearl cotton mold will also be wrapped with exquisite handles. If you express your brutal brutality, I will never move.
Since we entered a door, of course, is a family, to Zhang family portrait, good egg family.
As mentioned in the previous article, the remote control is embedded in a pearl cotton mold. It must be extremely comfortable. The author took the oldest effort to pull it out of the heat blanket. Small and exquisite, exquisite workmanship, black plastic material, skin-friendly texture, matte treatment, eleven-button design, reasonable layout, slightly less elasticity of the button, infrared signal, using a CR2032 button battery.
The power adapter adopts 5V, 1.5A specifications, workmanship in general, through the national 3C certification.
A 1.4 version of the HDMI cable is included.
Handle USB charging cable and Nano receiver.
Handle workmanship is first-class, the same is black plastic material, skin-friendly texture, engineering mechanics design, handle with a non-slip texture, good elasticity of buttons, a reasonable layout, the top view.
Lateral view, non-slip texture design.
Above view, charge microUSB port and four function keys.
Underside view, fit handle shape, comfortable grasp, the bottom of the center marked with the product model and factory information.
The handle design emphasizes the details, the workmanship does not lose the professional handle, feel comfortable fitting, people can not put it down. Let’s enjoy playing the game controller from all angles.
OK, the big man always appears last, UT eggs, finale debut. Since the beauty is in a mess, first come to terms, you are responsible for beauty, I am responsible for praise, roll it, eggs!
This egg is a bit large, at least ostrich egg grade, elegant white, the same skin-friendly material, not easy to leave fingerprints, easy to take care of, both sides are printed with UT Starcom LOGO. The white eggs are placed on a silver-gray non-slip base for easy placement by the user.
The interfaces are all behind, concealing without damaging the overall beauty of the egg. Including wired network ports, two USB2.0 interfaces, hardware switches, physical Reset button, HDMI interface, TF card slot and power interface. A set of air outlets are arranged at the back top and the base respectively to facilitate the heat dissipation of the eggs.
The nameplate is located under the bottom of the product and includes the product model, electrical specifications, MAC number, and mango TV serial number.
The egg's front panel is equipped with a colorful power indicator, which shows red light when it is turned on, and a faint blue light when turned on, which is full of mystery in a dark environment.
Summary UT egg packaging design exquisite and generous, cartoon picture of humorous and flexible, for product protection is also in place. The host and the handle are as exquisite as the workmanship, the shapes are ingenious, and every detail reveals the intentions of the manufacturers. Hosts and accessories are generally made of skin-friendly materials, which have excellent hand feeling, and do not easily leave fingerprints and other contaminants and are easy to care for. The interface of the host computer is relatively complete, and the hardware switch and the physical reset button are very close to each other to prevent accidents caused by various playing machines. The packaging of the remote controller is too tight, and it is difficult to remove it. The power indicator on the front panel suggests setting up night mode, or leaving a switch option in the setting, which can be set according to personal preference and avoiding the light pollution caused in the dark environment.
(To be continued)
Ye Haifeng
2015/01/28