7: Chapter 7 Heroic Deeds

Tan Zhuoren's first reaction was,

Lu Miaoxin must have been scammed!

Although the processor Xinxin mentioned,

some 'Dragon 801' or whatever,

was something he had never heard of,

at least based on the camera resolution and memory size,

it was simply impossible to sell it for only 1999!

Tan Zhuoren had his own phone as a reference.

His phone had cost 3500,

and it was this year's latest mid-range model, the Ideal A8 FE.

It used Ideal's previous generation flagship chip, the Ideal 5 Series,

with a 12-megapixel rear camera,

and a 1-megapixel front camera.

Of course, he didn't take many selfies,

so he didn't care much about the front camera resolution.

The main reason he bought this phone was for that previous generation flagship processor from Ideal,

as well as a decent enough rear camera resolution.

Even though he had the lowest version of the Ideal A8 FE with 2+16GB,

even that cost around 3500.

On the other hand, Lu Miaoxin's new phone

had much higher specs than his,

even boasting a large 64GB of memory.

He immediately felt that this phone should not be cheap.

But when he heard Lu Miaoxin say 1999,

he realized right away that Lu Miaoxin must have been scammed.

"Xinxin, why didn't you ask me before buying a phone?

I know a lot about phones!

If you had just asked me,

you definitely wouldn't have been scammed!"

Throwing away 1999

to buy a piece of junk,

Tan Zhuoren still felt it was quite a pity.

"How about seeing if you can still find the owner to return it?

Let's go return it this afternoon,

and I'll help you pick a better one."

Lu Miaoxin shook her head and said, "The main thing was that my phone was broken at the time,

so I had no way to ask you on WeChat,

so I went to buy a phone by myself.

And I thought that shop owner was very handsome,

really handsome.

He shouldn't be scamming me, right..."

Tan Zhuoren shook his head with a bitter smile. "Xinxin,

you're just too naive.

Does being handsome mean he definitely won't lie?

He's a phone seller,

ultimately a businessman,

and his goal is definitely to make money!

You can't think he won't scam you just because he's handsome."

Lu Miaoxin nodded. "That's true.

However, I've been playing with this phone ever since I bought it,

and it feels very smooth.

Also, the photography and everything is indeed very impressive,

much better than my previous phone's camera,

so I don't think I was scammed.

And look at this front camera,

it even has a built-in beauty function.

As long as I take a photo,

it automatically applies a beauty filter for me..."

As she spoke, she pouted and took a selfie,

handing it to Tan Zhuoren to see.

Tan Zhuoren took the phone

and looked closely at the photo.

It indeed turned out very beautiful.

It was indeed much better than his phone's selfies.

But his phone's selfies were trash to begin with,

so he didn't have much of a concept of how strong this phone's selfie capability was.

Instead, he felt it was only natural that this phone's selfies were better than his;

it could be said that any phone's selfies would be better than his.

He complimented her while saying, "Xinxin,

you're already very beautiful,

you don't need any beauty function.

Let me take a look—"

Just holding the phone in his hand,

Tan Zhuoren felt it was very thin and light.

"The feel of this phone is actually quite good,

and it only sells for 1999.

If the photography and storage are really as you said,

then it's actually not a particularly bad deal."

So he opened the rear camera,

aimed it at Lu Miaoxin across from him, and snapped a photo.

Lu Miaoxin immediately made a peace sign

with a sweet smile.

After taking the photo,

Tan Zhuoren immediately opened the photo album

and saw the picture he just took.

It indeed felt much clearer!

He quickly opened the detailed photo information

and found it was exactly as Lu Miaoxin had said.

This single photo was almost two megabytes,

which proved the resolution was very high.

"Is it actually real?

It really has a 13-megapixel resolution?"

Refusing to believe it,

Tan Zhuoren pulled out his own Ideal A8 FE

and also took a photo of Lu Miaoxin,

then put the two phones together

to do a simple comparison.

He found that the photo taken by Lu Miaoxin's phone seemed to look better

and was a bit clearer than his own phone's photo.

Lu Miaoxin was very happy. "See,

I told you the owner was so handsome,

it's impossible he'd scam me."

Still skeptical,

Tan Zhuoren opened the front camera and took a photo of himself,

then impatiently clicked into the album,

finding that it was indeed very clear,

and the photo seemed to come with a bit of skin smoothing,

making his skin look very good.

"Holy crap! This 13-megapixel rear camera

and 8-megapixel front camera are real!

I thought these were all fake specs,

but they're actually real!

Then this isn't a bad deal at all!

And the memory you mentioned—"

He impatiently clicked into the settings,

finding that the data indeed labeled the running memory as 3GB

and storage as 64GB,

making it a 3+64GB combination.

This was much stronger than his 2+16GB combination.

"Xinxin, are you telling the truth?

This phone only sells for 1999?"

Lu Miaoxin nodded. "Why would I lie to you?"

Tan Zhuoren was very excited. "In my opinion, it wouldn't be too much to sell this phone for 11,999!

This phone is way more awesome than mine!

In short, you probably weren't ripped off.

But, wait a second,

there's still one most critical point I haven't tested.

With other hardware specs being so strong,

this phone's processor must be absolute garbage!

Otherwise, why would it sell for such a low price?

It should be right here.

This phone has a snapdragon 801 processor."

Tan Zhuoren also found more information about the phone in the settings

and saw the processor model.

"A processor I've never heard of before,

so that's where the problem is!

I knew it!

He must have used all the money to stack the other hardware,

but used a very crappy knock-off processor!

If that's the case, I can understand it.

But you don't really play games,

so the processor doesn't need to be that good,

as long as it's enough.

Anyway, it shouldn't be a loss.

But since you've already bought it,

how about I test its true performance?"

Lu Miaoxin nodded,

and while using her chopsticks to put rice from the plate into her mouth,

she said, "Then go ahead and test it."

Since there was nothing else to do right now

and they were in the cafeteria,

where they could connect to the campus network,

Tan Zhuoren immediately connected to the school's campus network

and began downloading a game.

heroic battle records!

This game was ported over from league of legends on PC.

It was very similar to league of legends,

one could even say it was the mobile version of league of legends.

When he couldn't get to a computer,

he liked to play this game on his phone.

"I'll help you download a game.

Anyway, your memory isn't small,

so downloading a game won't take up much space,

only about 500 megabytes.

I'll test it today,

and you can delete it later if you don't want to play it."

Lu Miaoxin nodded. "Just put it aside and let it download.

Hurry up and eat,

the food will get cold in a bit."

Tan Zhuoren also put the phone that was downloading aside

and began to eat.

He continued to explain to Lu Miaoxin.

"Even though this game is only about 500 megabytes,

it actually demands quite a bit of phone performance.

Once the game is downloaded,

we'll play a match and compare it with mine

to see how the performance of this chip really is."