Chapter 96: Modify the design
Due to the small size of the Magic City, Zhou Ming and the others could only measure 100 kilometers during the communication test.
To do thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers of testing, you can only go to the outside of the magic city to test.
However, Zhou Ming didn't plan to go outside to test, because the system in his brain had already completed all the tests that should be done in a simulated test, and there would not be much difference from the actual test results.
Since there is no problem within 100 kilometers, there will naturally be no problems with communications of thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers...... The ability of the system, Zhou Ming is very trusted.
After all the tests were fine, Zhou Ming's next step was to consider the mass production and promotion of Nokia's magic mobile phone.
Mr. Sayles, who has used a mobile phone, said: "After the launch of Nokia mobile phones, at least 500,000 units can be sold in the Magic City!"
Sabina has recently become obsessed with playing games, and Tetris and Snake are often played all day, and sometimes even the demand for them has diminished dramatically, and the vibrator used to be charged twice a day, but now it only needs to be charged once.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Ming muttered secretly: "I knew what kind of vibrator I made, wouldn't it be okay to make a game console?"
The charm of the game is endless, and sometimes it can even weaken people's needs and desires in other ways, which is proven in Sabina.
At the same time, with the addition of the game, Zhou Ming believes that Nokia's magic mobile phone will definitely sell out!
But......
Zhou Ming, who should be busy with the mass production of Nokia's magic phone, is not very anxious about the launch of Nokia's magic phone.
I don't even really want to make this phone.
Why?
The function is too monolithic.
Aside from calls and texts, plus a clock alarm, a phone book, a calculator, a flashlight, a couple of mini-games, and the ability to smash walnuts, there's a pitiful amount of other things.
The features are too simple and scarce.
It's not the phone he wants the most.
He wanted to come up with a smartphone with more features.
Not only to sell to customers, but also to use it himself.
After all, he really doesn't want to use that kind of old toothless Nokia.
What to do?
He plans not to rush to promote the Nokia Magic Phone, he is ready to modify the design and develop a smart magic phone!
But from a feature phone to a smartphone, this technical span is too amazing.
With Zhou Ming's technical reserves alone, it is impossible to achieve this leap.
Even if he could, he didn't have that much time and money.
He's going to find someone to work with.
Who do you work with?
The old wolf of the Magic Association, of course!
……
On July 5th.
Zhou Ming made a phone call with the old wolf, and told the old wolf about his idea of making a mobile phone.
After listening to Zhou Ming's function introduction, the old wolf on the other side of the phone seemed to hear the Arabian Nights and said that he couldn't believe it.
"I believe what you said about achieving wireless calls within 20,000 miles, but it is impossible to make calls for hundreds of thousands or millions of miles, or without a signal relay station!"
The Magic Association has its own set of communication and contact systems, that is, magic phones that Zhou Ming has seen and used many times.
It's just that the use of the magic phone is wireless signal transmission + relay station signal amplification, and the principle of use is similar to Zhou Ming's magic mobile phone, but the magic phone is a fixed landline type, and the volume of the relay signal station is also very large, so it can't be integrated into a palm-sized mobile phone, so that it can be used when you go there.
"And the text messaging function, how does this work? Can text be converted into magic wave signals like voice? Can you do that?"
"In addition, you said audio, video, games, chat software...... How can these things come to life? How do you get all this amazing stuff out of your head?"
On the phone, the old wolf was full of questions and curiosity.
"I don't want to explain too much to you, who is technically blind, and you can't understand it if you say too much, so give me half a year, and then give me support for a group of technical talents and equipment and materials in related fields, as well as a loan of about 1 million purple gold coins...... Don't worry, when my magic smartphone is successfully developed, half of the profits will be shared with you. ”
"What if you don't make it?"
"I'll mortgage myself to you, and I'll work for the Magic Association for the rest of my life...... I should be worth no less than what I ask for. ”
"Deal!"
The old wolf agreed very happily.
So in the next month, Zhou Ming, who got all kinds of talents, loans, equipment and materials, and even the right to use technical reserves, began to get busy.
But in the process of mobilizing all kinds of resources, Zhou Ming found that in the course of tens of millions of years of development, the technical reserves of the magic city can be described as extremely amazing.
Most of the two Nokia magic phones he had built with all his wealth were based on off-the-shelf technology that he could buy from the market...... These technologies are not very advanced.
However, in the technology and talent pool of the Magic City, Zhou Ming found countless technologies that he dreamed of and a large number of ready-made technical talents.
For example, the high-definition color screen used in smartphones, he thought that the Magic City did not have it, but he soon found this kind of screen in a display research unit, using a very special material, the resolution is very high, the pixel per inch (dpi) can reach 700, which is higher than the pixel density of some 4K screen mobile phones on the earth.
Another example is CPU and various integrated circuits, Zhou Ming can personally rely on precise operation to integrate 5 million electron tubes on a 1 square centimeter chip, but the Magic Association has a high-precision magic puppet lithography machine, which can integrate tens of billions of tubes on a 1 square centimeter chip...... This level is even higher than the most advanced level on Earth.
Another example is the mobile phone camera, the mobile phone camera on the earth can generally achieve 3 million, 5 million, 13 million, 23 million and other pixels, but in the Magic City, Zhou Ming used some precision optical instruments to create a 50 million pixel camera.
Finally, for example, the "network technology" that must be used in magic smartphones, the "Gold and Silver Pass Chamber of Commerce" under the Magic Association, has a set of continent-wide networked account record and settlement system, which not only stores massive data, but also ensures a very low account error rate in the case of ultra-high concurrent usage.
This network system of the Jinyintong Chamber of Commerce, even if it is taken to the earth, is definitely a very advanced Internet system.
In short, as far as making a magic smartphone is concerned, in the Magic City, Zhou Ming can find all the technology he needs, as well as some technologies that can be used after a little tweaking and transformation.
After all, after tens of millions of years of development, in terms of magic technology, no matter what kind of development path genius scientists have found, after a long period of accumulation, they can reach an extreme end.
At least the technology that Zhou Ming wants to find, there is nothing that cannot be found.
The magic city is on the tree of magic technology, and basically all the technology nodes have been lit up.
Finally, in terms of technical talents, Zhou Ming has met countless magicians who can be called "geniuses".
In almost every technical field, Zhou Ming can find one or two top technical masters.
Because the mages of the Magic City don't need to work, in addition to cultivating, their biggest hobby is to do all kinds of interesting research, which is used to kill the long and difficult time, hundreds of thousands of years, in their respective interests, even if they are mediocre, they can make a few great inventions.
So whether it is technical reserves, resources, hardware, and talents...... There is no shortage of magic in the city of magic to develop all aspects of magic technology.
But why does the technology in the Magic City, except for those more powerful ones (such as magic puppets, magic telephones, gold and silver chambers of commerce, magic crystal cannons, etc.), seem to be a bit lackluster in other aspects?
Zhou Ming believes that this should be the reason for the "population".
The population of the Magic City is limited to about 1 million, and once it exceeds 1.2 million, a part of the population will be transferred outward, otherwise the ecosystem will collapse.
However, high-end technology not only needs high-end talents to participate, but also needs a large digestion technology and profit-generating application market.
The Magic City has a population of only a million people, and no matter how high the level of science and technology is, no matter how many talents there are, it is just a small pond, which cannot provide a big market and cannot feed so many new technologies.
The second is the poor ability of technology integration, many advanced technologies are fighting alone, not being able to integrate together, and there is no manpower for integration, after all, the magic city is only a million people, even if all are technical talents, it is impossible to produce 1 magic smartphone.
Because counting designers, hardware engineers, software engineers and assembly line workers, it takes at least tens of thousands of professionals in hundreds of fields to build a smartphone.
Does Magic City have the capacity to integrate 10,000 talents?
Difficult!
Even in this almost sealed circle, there is basically no awareness of system integration.
If the area of the Magic City is expanded tenfold, and the permanent population in it increases to 10 million or 50 million, the development of the Magic City will be completely different from what it is now...... The more people participate in the social division of labor, the more developed the society becomes.
After obtaining all the required technologies, Zhou Ming, who also had a technical team of hundreds of people, solved all the hardware research and development problems in only three months.
In terms of software, Zhou Ming solved it alone, not only with the help of the system, he created a set of "hard language" running on the bottom layer of the hardware, but also created a set of application-based "soft language" for the development of mobile phone operating systems and mobile phone applications.
In short, within two months, Zhou Ming became a code farmer, operating hundreds of "code machines" at the same time, knocking down hundreds of millions of lines of code.
……
It totaled about half a year later.
On January 11th, according to the modified design in his mind, Zhou Ming's first full-screen (screen-to-body ratio is very high) magic smartphone finally created the first batch of ten prototypes.
In order to save brain cells, he named it "Love Crazy Phone".
And on January 18th.
He held a grand launch of the magic phone.