Chapter 480 Codename A1

After completing his visit, Mr. Prime Minister returned to China first. In addition, he also set a target for his second overseas trip after taking office. He will arrive in China next month.

This also shows that he attaches great importance to China. Well, in fact, he is also the most friendly to China among the British Prime Ministers since the new century.

Barron went to Silicon Valley, ostensibly for the first time to its North American branch after Woaw went public. In fact, Ivanta also "happened" to be there.

Android companies have completed the first version of the Android system and conducted intensive testing.

It’s already August, and there are still five months left before Barron’s previous life, when Apple’s iPhone 1 was released. At that time, iPhone 1 was released on January 9, 2007, and then less than a year later. It was first launched on June 29, half a year later.

At that time, the first mobile phone equipped with Android system, HTC G1, was not released for the first time until September 2008. Moreover, HTC G1 still used a full keyboard design. It was a canopy phone, and its slider was not very convenient. It’s easy to use, and it also comes with a trackball.

At that time, Apple had already released its second-generation mobile phone, the IPhone 3G...

In summary, compared to the iPhone, the HTC G1 is a behemoth with an ugly design.

It wasn't until 2010 that the Nexus One, jointly launched by HTC and Google, implemented a touch screen mode and abandoned the physical keyboard.

This is also the first mobile phone to be sold independently under the Google brand.

However, not long after the Nexus One was launched, Apple released the iPhone 4...

It can be said that in the original time and space, the development of Android-based mobile phones was still far behind Apple in the early days, and its design also "borrowed" many IPhone operating modes.

Now, Honor Electronics' first mobile phone, internally codenamed A1, directly follows Barron's requirements and must be a full touch screen - using the capacitive screen of the original Apple IPhone mobile phone, and the screen size must also be 3.5 inches. , so they customized it exclusively from Sharp.

There were no mobile phones without touch screens before, especially on some brands of PDAs, but today's touch screens are mainly resistive screens, not the capacitive screens later used by Apple on the IPhone.

Resistive screen is a touch screen based on the principle of resistance. It is composed of multiple layers of resistive film. When the user touches the screen, the contact of the finger with the resistive film will cause the resistance value to change, thereby identifying the location of the touch point.

The capacitive screen is a touch screen based on the capacitive principle. It consists of a conductive layer and a sensing layer. When the user touches the screen, the finger is charged, which changes the capacitance value in the capacitive screen, thereby identifying the touch. point location.

To put it simply, the resistive screen can be controlled by almost all items because it is recognized through the change in resistance of pressing. It is not as sensitive as the capacitive screen in terms of accuracy, cannot support multi-touch, and is easily damaged.

But now, the cost of capacitive screens is much higher than that of resistive screens, and the selection of suppliers is far less extensive than that of resistive screens. Currently, capacitive screens are mainly in the hands of Japanese manufacturers.

After South Korea released the "Touch Panel Industry Cultivation Strategy" in 2011, it vigorously supported local touch companies. After downstream manufacturers such as Samsung and LG Electronics also increased their procurement of local Korean companies, their touch companies grew. quickly.

However, Chinese companies will have to wait until after 2012 to enter the market and gradually grow.

Whether it is now or for a long time to come, the biggest cost of a smartphone is still the display screen.

When Barron and Ivanta entered the R\u0026D center of Android Company, he got the latest A1 mobile phone prototype. The appearance of the mobile phone was a more classic 3.5-inch large screen with an elongated shape, between oval and Home button between rectangles.

It is worth mentioning that when it comes to Apple mobile phones, many people seem to have the impression that they have already applied for a patent for the round Home button. In fact, Apple originally applied for a series of appearance patents for its mobile phones, such as rectangular and rounded corners. A design combination of upper and lower symmetry and a circular home button...

Otherwise, if you just apply for a patent for the appearance of a certain function key, there is a high probability that it will not be approved.

After all, in the future, smartphones will be full touch screens with a home button, or full touch screens without a home button. If this can be patented, then other manufacturers will stop producing mobile phones.

It's impossible to say which company applied for a patent for a car that requires four round wheels...

Android companies and Honor Electronics have already applied for many patents around the world based on the appearance characteristics of their mobile phones. Some appearance patent applications were filed earlier than Apple.

Therefore, in this regard, they do not need to worry that Apple will use patent weapons to target them.

It has to be said that after being accustomed to using feature phones over the years, Barron has really regained some of the feelings he had in his previous life when using such a full-touch screen phone. However, it is inevitable that the A1 phone he is using now, regardless of the Whether it is the controllability or the convenience of the Android system, it is definitely not comparable to smartphones more than ten years later.

But compared with the previous functional phones, it has been completely changed.

Barron, for example, has had past life experiences, and Ivanta's words, even though it is not the first time to try this kind of smartphone, it is still full of novelty and surprise.

As for some shortcomings of this mobile phone compared to later ones, many of them are also limited by the technological development of the current era, and they need to evolve slowly.

In terms of system, the effect of the Android system at this time has been improved a lot compared to when it was first launched. Barron's suggestions only need to be iterated on subsequent versions.

As for mobile phones, they still need to make a lot of changes, but there is still time. Originally, Barron planned to wait until Apple launches IPhone 1 in January next year before launching this smartphone from Honor Electronics.

Now he couldn't help but think about it, could he release his own smartphone ahead of Apple?

However, he abandoned this idea. After all, he is also a major shareholder of Apple, and the first epoch-making smartphone is an honor that Jobs deserves. There is no need to ask for this. Rob.

He just needs to do better than the Android companies and HTC of the original time and space, and launch his own mobile phone closely behind Apple, and not be too far behind. It is enough.

Speaking of which, the current A1 mobile phone still looks a bit crude, and it is necessary to have more time to improve it in the future.

And in terms of appearance design, he also hopes to have a different aesthetic from the IPhone.