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Zoey:
This Compact Coin wallet is for techies, not coins
Design is important with any product, but with wallets design is almost everything. It determines the aesthetics, usability, and comfort of the thing in question, and if you get all those things right, it’s really hard to make a bad wallet. this £59 ($80) Compact Coin wallet from a small English company named Nodus.
The Compact Coin has RFID shielding(射频屏蔽), which is simply a barrier for wireless transmission that helps me keep one set of payment cards insulated on the inside and just one card, typically my travel pass, usable on the outside. The Compact Coin also has a zipper and the same basic layout as the Finn Access, but it slims everything down and elevates the quality of design a little bit higher. I’ve been using it for the past month and a half, and I have to say it’s grown to become my new favorite wallet: fitting perhaps slightly less than my previous one, but doing it in finer style and without bulging out my jeans pocket as much.
April:
Nodus is an endearing example of a couple of young product designers getting their heads together and starting a business from scratch. Having begun with a Kickstarter campaign for an iPhone case in 2013, they quickly expanded to making wallets too, and the Compact Coin is their latest product, launched without any crowdfunding(众筹，众包) help. They use only the good kinds of leather — full grain(全粒面革) and top grain(头层牛皮), vegetable-tanned(植物鞣革) for a more eco-friendly coloring — and they sweat the little details like the subtly debossed（凹面的） octopus logo. I love the feel and texture of the full-grain Compact Coin wallet, which is starting to age handsomely at the edges. It also smells nice.
Yuki:
Despite the “coin” in the name of this wallet, I would absolutely not recommend it as a coin pouch. What makes it nominally coin-friendly is the zipper, which i find useful for a different reason. I use the tiny coin compartment inside to always carry an SD card with me, which is my fallback in the event that something malfunctions with my camera’s storage. In the middle of the wallet, I slot in a couple of notes of paper money and half a dozen business cards, and the third internal slot I populate with my ID and bank card. There’s enough space to jam as many as 17 credit cards in there, but this isn’t really the thing for people who like to carry a ton of paper or plastic with them. This wallet nudges you toward minimalism, and if you’re of the same mind, as I am, it’s a great fit.
Stuart:
The RFID shielding on the Nodus Compact Coin, I’ve come to find, falls shy of being perfect. If I only have my Oyster card on the exterior and other contactless cards inside, the Oyster readers at underground stations will sometimes get confused. My workaround for this has been to insert a business card behind the travel card, increasing the distance and insulation from the stuff inside — that solves all card clash issues. It would also have been nice if both exterior pockets were RFID-shielded, however only one side is (the one without the octopus on it). Still, these are small failures in an otherwise very good design. Nodus tells me that it has listened to user feedback and reversed the direction of the zipper from the one I tested (which is pictured in this review): making the wallet safer by opening up the top rather than the side first.
Margeret:
The red U11 is HTC’s phoenix phone
I call it red, but this particular variant of the HTC U11 — officially branded as Solar Red — is better described as having the color of fire. It’s never one single tint of anything: there are yellows, pinks, various tones of orange, all dancing across the rear glass cover in response to the light. The metal frame is a darker shade of red that contrasts fantastically well with the lighter glass, making for a sophisticated, deeply intriguing appearance.
Heather:
Looking at the rear of the U11 straight on, it appears mostly pink. Turn it on its side, and the rear glass taken on a golden hue. But because that glass has a gentle curve to its sides, you never see a flat color, and the sloping edges appear as if they’ve been burnished into a lighter tint.
But HTC’s masterpiece of warm colors would be for naught if the phone itself didn’t work well, and my cautious enthusiasm spilled over into outright delight when I found the U11 to be excellent in operation. It’s unerringly smooth and fast, the interface is barely any different from Google’s own Android Nougat UI, and I’m liking how long the battery lasts too.
Zoey:
The U11 is the first phone I have yet used that doesn’t make me miss the pixel’s camera
The U11’s camera isn’t just good, it’s great. I’ve spent the past 24 hours dual-wielding the U11 and my Google Pixel, and the U11 has won most side-by-side photo comparisons. Anyone who’s read my previous exuberance about the Pixel’s camera will appreciate how massive a step forward HTC has taken to find itself in a position where I’d rank its imaging ahead of the Pixel. The benchmark gurus at DxOMark have given the HTC U11 a score a single point higher than the Pixel — and even though I always say benchmarks don’t tell the whole story, I have to agree with them on this count. The U11 is the first phone I’ve yet used that doesn’t make me miss the Pixel’s camera.
April:
If the Solar Red HTC U11 was just a pretty shell running the same old humdrum Android, I’d have been a fan of it. I’d have praised HTC for the design and I’d have wished the company could get the rest of its smartphone act together — which is the thing I’ve been doing for the past half decade. But the U11 turns out to be an excellent phone to use, not just look at; and it nails the one spec that I care about more than any other today, which is the camera.
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