Chapter 45 Zhiyun C1 Prototype

Chapter 45 Zhiyun C1 Prototype

Chapter 45 Zhiyun C1 Prototype
When he arrived at the door of the laboratory, Xu Shenxue's entire temperament and image had changed from that of a business elite and billionaire to a more easy-going boss with a friendly smile on his face.

As soon as he entered the laboratory, Xu Shenxue greeted everyone inside: "Everyone is here. It seems that you are all as concerned about this machine as I am."

"Come here, let me see what this little baby looks like after spending several months making it!"

Xu Shenxue was smiling as he spoke. When others heard what Xu Shenxue said, many of them burst into laughter on the spot.

Song Changhai also smiled and said, "Boss Xu, you have to take a closer look. This time we have produced an incredible treasure!"

"Look at this fuselage, how beautiful it is!"

Song Changhai pointed to a mobile phone on a tray on the tempered glass table in front of him and said, "This is our new mobile phone, product number C1. It was assembled less than half an hour ago. We just turned it on and performed a simple operation test. Everything works as expected!"

At this time, Xie Jianyong stepped forward, picked up the phone and handed it to Xu Shenxue: "Mr. Xu, please take a closer look!"

Xu Shenxue took the phone and looked at it carefully.

At the same time, Xie Jianyong on the side also explained to Xu Shenxue: "Currently, we have four main colors. The one you are holding in your hand is silver-gray. We use special plastic on the back cover of the fuselage. After going through multiple processes, it has achieved high polishing. The texture is as close to that of hard materials such as metal and glass."

While listening, Xu Shenxue used his hand to feel the texture of the phone. It was okay... Anyway, compared with the metal and glass-bodied mobile phones that Xu Shenxue was used to in his later years, the feel was more than one level worse.

I asked casually, "Has the metal body not been finished yet?"

Xie Jianyong smiled bitterly at this time: "The processing technology of the metal body is still a big problem. It's not that it can't be made, but the process required is too advanced, which leads to high costs. We are currently actively contacting potential suppliers to solve this problem. If all goes well, it is expected to be used in the flagship model this fall!"

"In addition, we have also tried a glass back cover, but it is also difficult and easy to break. We used a model to perform a drop test. The glass cover model broke more than twice as much as the non-glass back cover. This is the best glass cover on the market. If we force the glass cover to be used, I am afraid the subsequent failure return rate will be very high."

Xu Shenxue also pays attention to the research and development progress of various subsystems of smartphones on a daily basis, and is aware of these problems. Whether it is a metal back cover or a glass back cover, they can actually be made now...but the process of making the metal back cover is not easy, so the cost will be very high, and the signal problem is not easy to solve for the time being, and it is also very difficult to add color combinations.

The glass cover will cause the failure rate to increase several times rapidly...

These two rear cover material options are good, but they cannot be used for the time being due to current technical limitations...

There is no other way, this first Zhiyun phone can only use a plastic body.

Xie Jianyong continued: "On the front of the phone, we have equipped it with a 3.5-inch ultra-large high-definition capacitive screen with 480×800 pixels and supports multi-touch. From the hardware point of view, we already support multi-touch, but the Android system I use now does not support multi-touch, so for the time being we can only use two-touch!"

"After optimization by the system interaction project team, most operations can be performed using two-point touch. In daily use, unless in special circumstances, there is not much difference between it and multi-touch."

“After the Android underlying upgrade, the updated system can be pushed to enable the phone to support multi-touch!”

"For the front of the phone, we use a full glass cover design. The glass cover not only covers the screen itself, but also the chin and forehead, leaving only a small opening for the earpiece."

"In order to use a full glass front, we abandoned the physical button solution on the front and used an electronic touch button solution. There are three buttons in total: the return button, the home button, and the menu button."

"There is a power button and a card slot on the upper right side of the body, and a volume button on the upper left side." "There is a charging/data port and a 3.5MM headphone jack at the rear of the body, with a handset and microphone on both sides!"

"There is a vertical camera and flash module in the upper left corner of the back of the fuselage, and a front camera above the earpiece in the upper half of the front of the fuselage."

"The logo of our Zhiyun phone is printed in the middle upper part of the back, which is a white cloud. The lower part of the north side has the pinyin of Zhiyun, 'zhiyun', the model 'C1' and the miniature manufacturing information."

Listening to Xie Jianyong's explanation, Xu Shenxue was not in a hurry to turn on the phone. Instead, he held the phone in his hand and looked at it repeatedly to experience the feel.

When Xu Shenxue held the phone in his hand, he felt that the Zhiyun C1 phone was of moderate size and weight, and felt good in his hand.

The overall appearance and other aspects are in line with Xu Shenxue's requirements, except that it is relatively thick, with the thickest part being 12 millimeters... This thickness is already at Xu Shenxue's acceptable limit...

If it's thicker, Xu Shenxue will get furious. I spent tens of millions and you only give me a brick?
However, Xie Jianyong and his colleagues also knew that Xu Shenxue particularly hated thick mobile phones, so when designing the back, they cleverly used the plasticity of plastic to make the back of the phone more rounded and with a certain curve. This way, when viewed from the side, it would create a visual error, making the phone look thinner!
If you want to make it really thinner and lighter, you can only wait for a breakthrough in the body material, either using an aluminum alloy body or a glass back cover, and then the internal design must also follow up.

When we release our flagship model this fall, we aim to make it around 10 millimeters thick, the kind that will astound people at first sight.

Otherwise, a smartphone with a 12mm plastic body will always look cheap, and this cheap feeling does not fit in with Xu Shenxue's mid-to-high-end brand positioning of Zhiyun mobile phone.

Looking at the phone, Xu Shenxue took out the Apple 3G in his pocket and made a simple comparison. The two phones were similar in size, thickness, and even weight.

After all, both have the same screen size, the same plastic shell, and a full glass cover, so the main parameters of the appearance and size are actually not that different.

But the difference seems to be huge. For example, the Fruit 3G has a round home button on the chin, while the Zhiyun C1 has no return button, only three capacitive touch buttons.

In addition, the Fruit 3G does not have a front camera, while the Zhiyun C1 is equipped with a -pixel front camera, which also brings changes to the front appearance.

The same is true on the back. The 3G does not have a flash, while the Zhiyun C1 is equipped with a flash to enhance photography in dim light conditions.

As for the main camera, Zhiyun C1 is equipped with million pixels, which is considered a relatively high-end camera in modern times. There are actually higher-pixel cameras with million pixels, but the cost is higher, which is unnecessary!
The core hardware, such as the chip, uses Qualcomm's MSM7200A with a main frequency of 528Mhz. Other chips such as the baseband also use a number of Qualcomm chips. The main thing is that the multi-chip package purchasing solution can effectively reduce costs and patent fees, and at the same time make mobile phone design easier.

The running memory is 256MB and the storage space is 8GB. It is also expected to launch a high-end version with 16GB, which does not support expanded storage.

There are many reasons for not supporting expandable storage, such as saving body space; canceling the external SD card can better protect private data such as photos; it can also effectively stabilize the performance of the device and avoid the performance degradation of the device caused by SD cards of varying quality on the market; it is convenient for system design, otherwise the user will directly pull out the SD card, then many files, such as APP data, will be lost.

But the most important thing is that removing the external SD card can effectively increase hardware profits... Instead of asking users to buy additional SD cards, mobile phone manufacturers can directly sell ROM storage to users, so that they can make more extra money.

At this time, Xu Shenxue turned on the power button. After a while, the phone screen lit up, and a rotating white cloud icon appeared in the center of the black screen. After waiting for a while, the phone was successfully turned on.

Seeing the phone turned on successfully, the people nearby, including Xie Jianyong, breathed a sigh of relief. After all, they had only conducted a simple test before and had not tried turning the phone on and off several times. No one could guarantee that it would turn on successfully now.

After the phone was successfully turned on, Xu Shenxue began to use it.

(End of this chapter)