Chapter 94 The Amazing C2 Pro
Chapter 94 The Amazing C2 Pro
Song Changhai stood up and said: "Our Yun OS 2.0 system is based on the Android 1.5 system, which is a combination of our previous Yun 1.0 series and deep optimization."
"We have also added our self-developed CDMA support module, TD support module, virtual keyboard module, and improved support for resolution. We have also made some optimizations in interaction details, and optimized the interface to fit a four-inch screen with a 16:9 aspect ratio!"
"I can say that although this system is based on the native Android system, it is no longer the same as the Android system. Our optimized and improved system is more perfect and easier to use!"
"The 2.0 system is currently mainly pushed to C1 models, especially for TD-CDMA and CDMA2000 network standards... After all, the previous 1.0 version system only supports WCDMA!"
"My friend who works at Google told me that they will release a minor version update in the near future. So we will also integrate our existing technology and interface based on this upgraded Android system and launch the 2.1 system on C2 and flagship models!"
"The overall optimized design won't have any major problems, but multi-touch is still a flaw!"
"We are already conducting research on multi-touch. If Android fails to come up with multi-touch, we may have to come up with it first!"
When Xu Shenxue heard this, he immediately asked, "Can we get around the patent issue?"
Song Changhai said: "It is difficult to completely bypass them, but we found that some patents are in the hands of other companies. We have successively obtained authorizations. Some patents overlap with the patents of fruit companies. In addition, there are some patents that have no solution for the time being, and I am afraid there will be infringement risks!"
After hearing this, Xu Shenxue said: "As for the patent issue, we will ask the lawyer team to take a good look at it. If the problem is not serious, then we can try to use it. At worst, we can just file a lawsuit!"
Companies that have never fought patent lawsuits are embarrassed to call themselves high-tech companies...
Xu Shenxue had already prepared for this and applied for a large number of patents for mobile phones. In addition to some technical patents, there were more patents for various appearance and structural designs, such as the double-sided glass cover design similar to the Fruit 4 and the aluminum alloy body design...
Of course, these patents are actually used for future flagship phones, because Xu Shenxue's flagship phone had two options: aluminum alloy and glass cover. At the same time, the appearance also follows the path of the later Fruit 5. Therefore, except for the three capacitive buttons on the bottom instead of a single round button, other aspects are actually no different from the Fruit 5.
This is called walking in other people's paths and leaving them with no paths to go!
The series of patents applied for by Zhiyun Technology have been approved by major countries. When Apple launches the Fruit 4 next year, it will find that its own appearance design may infringe on Zhiyun Technology's patents.
Not only that, Xu Shenxue also had people apply for a bunch of messy appearance designs and fingerprint unlocking patents.
These are for use in the era of fingerprint recognition...
Zhiyun Technology has applied for patents for almost all solutions that can deploy fingerprints, whether it is unlocking with a button on the back, unlocking with a power button on the side, or fingerprint unlocking solutions in various shapes such as round, oval, and flat round on the lower front. All have been patented!
In a few years, Xu Shenxue would like to see who can bypass Zhiyun Technology's series of fingerprint unlocking patents and then adopt fingerprint recognition, including fruits.
The existing patents of Apple phones are just ordinary buttons on the front... And what Zhiyun Technology applied for is the "symmetrical bottom circular press fingerprint recognition patent"... In a sense, it has nothing to do with the current circular buttons and patents of Apple phones...
At least patent applications have been approved in many countries around the world.
By the way, these are not actually patents for the appearance of buttons. Simple patents for the appearance of buttons, such as round buttons, cannot be patented.
After all, it doesn’t mean that just because you use the round button, others can’t use it... There is no such good thing in the world!
These patents are basically a complete set of patents for appearance design and functions.
For example, the most typical patent of the fruit circular button is actually a patent for the entire front design of a mobile phone, in which the circular button is just a part of it.
It's not just a single button.
But the front of the phone is actually the same. If you add a single round button... sorry, you are infringing on the patent of Apple... For example, Meizu, Apple is now causing trouble for them.
Similarly, the patent applied for by Zhiyun Technology is not a simple button patent, but a complete set of mobile phone front design and fingerprint recognition button patents.
To describe it as a design drawing, it is the front design drawing of a mobile phone, including various details such as the speaker opening position, camera position, screen ratio and curvature, and finally includes fingerprint recognition modules of various shapes at the chin position...including a round one.
Xu Shenxue had already registered relevant patents for the appearance of the later Apple 5 and even 6 series of Apple mobile phones and fingerprint recognition modules...
Although Zhiyun Technology will not use a circular fingerprint recognition button, it is also very good for disgusting fruits!
In this era, if Apple wants to produce classic models such as the 567 and use a circular fingerprint recognition module on them, I'm sorry... it will infringe on Zhiyun Technology's exclusive patent... Well, okay, is it Zhiyun Technology that infringed Apple's patent, or is it Apple that infringed Zhiyun's patent? This kind of thing is actually difficult to say clearly. It depends on the battle between the patent lawyer teams of both sides and the patent laws of different countries.
In the end, whoever has the better legal team will win...and they can only win once!
This kind of patent war cannot be resolved by just one place or one lawsuit.
Because the patent laws of different countries are different, Zhiyun Technology may win the lawsuit in China today, but may go to the United States tomorrow. Then, the fruit company may win, and the day after tomorrow, the lawsuit will be filed in the European Union. The two companies may be evenly matched, and in the end they can only reach a settlement.
A few days later, they went to other places to sue Four Stars together...
The patent war in the mobile phone industry is very lively and chaotic.
It will be a patent war that will last for many years and will involve multiple mobile phone manufacturers in major mobile phone market countries!
Xu Shenxue is looking forward to the scene at that time!
Winning or losing is not important, what matters is a great battle...
How can Zhiyun Technology achieve the reputation of a world-class technology company without using mobile phone manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung as stepping stones?
Besides, the world still needs rivals. Fruit and Four Star are competing with each other all over the world, and even engaging in one patent war after another.
This way people around the world have news to read, otherwise the world would be so boring!
At this time, Song Haichang said: "We are working on multi-touch, but it will probably take several months to come up with it!"
“We’ll try to get it done before September!”
September is the scheduled time for the autumn new product launch conference. At that time, the C2 and future flagship phones, as well as some accessories and gadgets will be officially released and put on the market.
After hearing this, Xu Shenxue said, "That's great. Regardless of whether Gugou can come up with it or not, we must prepare in advance to prevent them from failing to come up with it!"
Multi-touch is still very important and is related to a series of applications.
Although today's two-point touch can be used, it is still lacking in many aspects. It is fine for daily use, but not so good in some special applications.
So if you can do it, you should do it!
Of course, the lack of multi-touch will not affect the normal release of the phone. After all, two-point touch can actually be used and meet daily needs. As long as you don’t pursue it too extreme, there is no problem with using two-point touch.
Xu Shenxue was using the C2 standard version prototype in his hand and felt that there was actually no obvious difference between it and the C1, and they were basically the same overall.
However, the next C2 Pro prototype made him feel brightened, because this thing uses a four-inch screen. Although the screen quality is not as good as that of future flagship phones, it is still a four-inch screen after all.
The four-inch screen alone brings about huge changes in appearance, including smaller upper and lower chins and a screen-to-body ratio of 60 percent.
Coupled with the dazzling star sand bright black color, this phone looks beautiful at first glance.
Xu Shenxue picked it up and looked around, then turned it on. Liu Huahao beside him said, "We chose a 854-inch screen for the Pro, with a resolution of 480*16 and an aspect ratio of 9:. The screen size is consistent with the future flagship phone!"
"The front camera still uses 1.2 million pixels, and the rear camera still uses 5 million pixels!"
"For the SOC, we use an overclocked version of Qualcomm's 7227 chip. According to our requirements, Qualcomm specially selected some high-quality 7227 chips, overclocked them to 800MHZ and provided them to us. The model is 7227T!"
"The RAM has been upgraded to 512 GB, and the storage capacity is 32 GB!"
"In our design concept, this Pro model should have a certain gap with the 8GB and 16GB C2 models, and stay firmly in the 3800 yuan price range!"
"At the same time, it will not occupy the ecological niche of future flagship phones. After all, there is still a big gap in hardware compared to flagship phones!"
Xu Shenxue looked at this thing and felt that it was really good... much better than the C1 Pro he was using now.
Especially this larger screen size is more in line with one's usage habits and aesthetics.
He immediately smiled and said, "Yes, this is the Pro model I want to see. The product positioning is quite good!"
After hearing Xu Shenxue's praise, Liu Huahao also smiled!
As a person who jumped from other major mobile phone manufacturers and previously served as Xie Jianyong's deputy, now that Xie Jianyong is in charge of flagship phones, he naturally took on the research and development work of the C1 improvement project, which is the C2 project.
Since taking over as the person in charge of this project in February, Liu Huahao has been under a lot of pressure on a daily basis!
What outsiders see is that C2 is just an upgraded version of C1, and it seems that it can be easily fixed, but in fact it is not the case.
Once this chip moves, many things will move with it.
Not to mention that he himself has some ambitions and wants to make a large-screen version of C2 pro, which is more difficult to develop.
Although the C series is positioned within the company as a high-volume model, the 8GB and 16GB versions are strictly restricted, leaving little room for maneuver.
But the Pro model is different. It’s expensive, and to a certain extent it is used to anchor the price system of the regular version of the C series, so there is a lot of room for play.
To some extent, Liu Huahao actually developed C2 Pro as a new mobile phone.
Of course... no matter what, because there is the technical foundation of the C1 mobile phone, and this thing is a purely assembled machine, it is relatively easy to make, and there are no insurmountable difficulties, so it is relatively easy to make.
Unlike future flagship phones, which use a lot of new technologies and face countless problems, we haven’t even produced an engineering prototype yet.
Now that he sees Xu Shenxue appreciates the C2 Pro he designed, Liu Huahao is very happy.
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After taking a tour around the laboratory, Xu Shenxue saw several engineering prototypes and looked at the research and development progress of some sub-projects. Finally, he went to take a look at a more special accessory product, which was a power bank!
In fact, power banks or mobile power supplies are not unfamiliar things these days, but they are relatively rare overall and their application range is relatively narrow.
However, ever since the Zhiyun C1 phone started using a non-removable battery, there has been a demand for mobile power banks on the market... So far, people think the Zhiyun C1 phone is pretty good in all aspects, except that the battery is not durable... and because it is a non-removable battery, there is no way to replace the battery temporarily.
In fact, many users are complaining about this!
There are also some small manufacturers on the market who have launched some power banks to meet this market demand. However, the quality varies. The good ones are quite good, but the bad ones will explode in minutes.
Considering that its own power management level is not very good and it uses non-removable batteries, Zhiyun Technology is preparing to launch a power bank to the market as an auxiliary measure.
This thing didn't have much technical content. Xu Shenxue ran over to take a look and thought it was okay. He then asked them to perfect and finalize it as soon as possible, and then find a OEM factory to mass-produce it and put it on the market.
The price does not need to be set too high, it can be sold at a normal price or even cheaper. At present, the main purpose of this thing is to alleviate users' battery anxiety. We do not expect or need it to make money.
Sometimes making a product is not necessarily for the purpose of making money directly. It may be sold cheaply or even provided to users for free, thereby contributing to the profitability of other products.
The most obvious examples should be some public free basic software, such as maps, instant messaging... These products are difficult to make money directly, but they can serve as traffic entrances to provide traffic for other profitable products.
Some small accessories that are convenient for users, such as power banks, also have this feature.
At least that's the case for now.
In the future...the price will definitely go up.
(End of this chapter)