Chapter 550: The Birth of a Festival
Because Atletico Madrid was busy making lupine fans and beating flower drums, it was naturally impossible to participate in MWC2015, which was also held in early March, and of course did not have the opportunity to see the protest signs outside the Barcelona Exhibition Center that read "Realmendon-Tbuygirls".
While large-scale events attract a large number of tourists, making the local tourism and service industries make a lot of money, those special service industries are naturally not far behind. Every time the World Cup is held, there will be a boom in learning English among the people of various countries, and the most active group is local and even foreign bed workers.
After all, most of the people attending the event are middle and high-level enterprises with bulging pockets, or IT reporters and digital enthusiasts who are not too bad for money, and there are especially many young and middle-aged men who travel alone among these people, and they are the favorite type of customers for private escorts and bed workers.
Therefore, during the MWC period, it is also the golden time for these special professionals to work hard. When exhibitors are competing for glory and interests inside and outside the exhibition hall, Spain's special service industry is also actively taking action to not let go of this wave of market. Then there was an interesting scene this year, on an outdoor billboard in the prime location of the main road in the city, on the right side of the pillar is an advertisement for a Samsung Galaxya mobile phone, and on the left is an advertisement for the famous Spanish XX intermediary website AP Day COTS, which can be regarded as a contrast.
However, to the embarrassment of the organizers, the Mobile Communications Association, the billboard was not within the scope of the venue, and they had no choice but to negotiate with the city government, and the opponents who could not wait ran outside the exhibition hall to protest.
Of course, pink gossip or something is just a small side dish with a peculiar taste, and the official dish still depends on the exhibits in the exhibition hall, but at this exhibition, European and American exhibitors collectively "malaise", and the limelight was all stolen by Asian mobile phone manufacturers in South Korea and Japan, which made a number of European and American media also slightly red.
Apple doesn't even participate in CES in the United States, and MWC naturally doesn't come, and they have their own spring conference next week, and their energy will definitely be focused on the preparation of the latter.
In the same situation, Microsoft, although it participated in this exhibition, but did not make a force, and the intention of staying for the build2015 developer conference to be held next month is obvious. Juhard did not bring more news about its own star products Win10 system and Hololens augmented reality glasses, but only took out two low-end mobile phones Lumi A640 and 640XL, and the highlights are not even as many as the products of the two Chinese-funded companies.
In 2004, it was wholly acquired by TCL, and it has become a "domestic product" Alcatel mobile phone, this time it brought the only mobile phone equipped with win10 systemPixi3, but this mobile phone is actually a multi-system platform, in addition to win10 preview version, it also shows the version of installing Android and Firefox OS, diluting the former's presence. And its configuration is a bit low, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of storage fully shows that it is only a low-end model, and the attraction is obviously not too high.
However, another domestic company came up with a WP mobile phone, which not only has an ultra-narrow bezel, glass back cover and waterproof and dustproof design, but also carries a 13 million rear camera, Qualcomm 64-bit 410 processor, 2GB memory and 16GB storage, although it does not join the 810 luxury hand warmer lunch, but the configuration and appearance are already the highest in the WP camp in the field.
However, what is more interesting is that the manufacturer that launched this bvc_x1 mobile phone is Tongzhou Electronics, a famous set-top box manufacturer that launched "960OS" in a high-profile manner early last year.
However, they did not bring their own 960OS mobile phones to participate in the exhibition, but mixed into the WP camp and became an ODM OEM factory, which is also ridiculous and lamentable.
There are two main types of OEMs: ODM and OEM, the former contracts the design and production, and the products are sold under the buyer's brand, which is the so-called "OEM"; Therefore, whether this mobile phone can really sit on the "most beautiful WP in history" it promotes, it depends on whether other terminal manufacturers give face, if others do not buy this design, the same continent only has "export to domestic sales", and sell it yourself.
As one of the four major mobile phone systems, the bee system was also not absent from this exhibition, and the bee held a special press conference the day before the exhibition, releasing this year's new flagship mobile phone BP6, as well as the new version of the system BEIOS6 with it.
Last month in Las Vegas, the B6 system and 64-bit processors have been unveiled, but at that time, the version used by the PT Wave XAI version was taken out, and this time it was the mobile version.
The 64-bit mobile phone processor BH436 released this time is the most 4100GPU core mass-produced by Bee so far, and the performance is more than 30% higher than the previous flagship product 326. Although the number of transistors and cores is limited due to the backward manufacturing process, the performance is better than that of the king of the Android camp, the Samsung Exynos7420 chip with 14nm process, 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU is a big difference, and compared with the Snapdragon 810, which is deeply popular, there are also many gaps.
Fortunately, although the chip is not powerful, the other configurations of BP6 and the appearance have added a lot of points to it.
Samsung's star product S6edge, with a metal body and a glass back cover, also brought the world's first hyperboloid screen, the two sides of the screen are curved and curved, which can be divided to display text messages, message prompts, time and other content separately, and the curved screen on both sides also visually narrows the bezel, which looks very beautiful, so it has become a popular product in this exhibition once it was unveiled.
Curved screen is a new technology,The cost is very high, only a few display manufacturers have mastered it,Bee BP6The butterfly screen carried by the BeeBP6Because of the sensitivity of the interference color rendering technology to the structural distance,The difficulty of making a curved screen is even higher,So they took a trick this time,Use the so-called2point5D curved glass。
In fact, it is to make a special curvature of the edge of the screen protective glass, so that the edge of the glass is more rounded and feels better, and the edge refracts the screen picture, which can effectively alleviate the phenomenon of "no bezel on the screen, big black edge on the screen".
This design was used in the XT788 model back in 2012, but at the time it was claimed to be a "unique chamfered corner design created by diamond cutting", and then it was not until last year that Apple's iPhone 6 also used a similar design, and the new name "2". The 5D screen "became famous all over the world in one fell swoop, so it deserves to be sold, and the publicity ability is really scum!
In addition to this piece of glass, which has become standard, the biggest highlight of BP6 is its "retro" detachable camera module.
Before the establishment of Bee Technology, Ma Jing used this design on his first mobile phone, the idea came from the vast Huaqiang North copycat machine, and then after checking the patent, he shamelessly registered this design patent.
It's just a little embarrassing that the dual-camera design is occasionally used by other manufacturers, but this separable camera design is not cared for. When designing BP6, Atletico took out this patent of "pressing the bottom of the box" to solve the problem of insufficient resolution of the front camera.
Its camera module includes 2 13-million-pixel cameras, dual color temperature flash, fill light, distance sensor, laser focus and other components, and comes with a 100mAh battery and WiFi module, which can be removed and used as a wireless camera for a short time.
Because there is no camera in the fuselage, in order to avoid the phenomenon of toplightness, the body of BP6 is designed to be symmetrical up and down, with speakers and microphones on both sides, and the system automatically switches forward and reverse directions according to the user's handheld direction and gravity sensing direction.
The camera module can not only be used for the forehead and chin, but can also be rotated 90 degrees to install, with the help of a fill light to provide night lighting for the screen, and the butterfly screen needs additional light source illumination.
Thanks to the upgrade of finishing capabilities, the BP6 with all-metal shell has the best feel in the series, and has won unanimous praise from the on-site test crowd.
Of course, the most important selling point of bee mobile phones, the ultra-long battery life has still been maintained.
Although each new mobile phone claims to be more energy-efficient and has a larger battery capacity, it is difficult to feel a significant increase in battery life on the user's side, and the "international practice" of one charge a day still does not seem to see any signs of termination, so that some people ridiculed the battery life of the mobile phone and made up a joke that "less application and more beep, and battery life has to be turned off".
Hardware manufacturers have put all their efforts into the performance enhancements brought by the huge cost of limited space and limited power consumption levels, which are quickly swallowed up by software feature updates.
Whether it's an open Android or a closed Apple, the result is almost the same, only the application has not been updated for a long time, in order to make the 512 megabyte memory fight for several more years.
That is, the bee platform is such a wonderful,Massive first-party software is all God optimized,The review of third-party software and games is also relatively strict,Caton、Crazy power-consuming applications are intercepted directly in the review stage,Leave users to download and use better quality applications,This can be regarded as the undefeated golden body that keeps the bee mobile phone's ultra-long battery life。
Thanks to this, the phone can be used for up to 24 hours, which is more than double the best score in the Android camp. Bee held a small event to promote this selling point.
They organized a live webcast event called the "Pajama Challenge" in the area, and claimed that the first place winner would receive a prize of 2,000 euros.
It's only 10,000 5,000 converted into soft sister coins, and you have to pay taxes, which is really inconspicuous, and it's only the first place with this reward, which makes it seem that the bees are very stingy.
However, the amount of this incentive was decided after careful discussion, and this figure is a little more than the average monthly salary of the local people before tax, and the attraction is actually not as bad as imagined.
"Temporary workers" are prevalent in Spain, and young people usually need to work for more than 10 years to get a stable and long-term employment contract, causing many students to drop out of school early to "save up their working years". The dropout rate is as high as one-third of the country, the highest in the European Union, and the large number of young people entering the labour market has led to an unemployment rate of 54% for young people under the age of 25, the second highest in Europe after Greece at 58%.
In this kind of thing, bees don't need to worry about no one coming, but they have to carefully control the scale of the activity, don't make it like some domestic supermarkets, opening rewards to enter the store to send an egg, only to attract thousands of retired uncles and aunts to line up to receive eggs, so it is embarrassing, not to mention that they are tired, and will cause trouble to the local police.
The actual situation was also completely in line with their expectations, and after the news of "a heated indoor gymnasium, free high-speed WiFi, free blankets, food and water, whoever runs out of BP6 electricity first, will get 2,000 euros!", soon a group of "Barcelona Internet café teenagers" came to the door, and within an hour, the floor of the 420-square-meter basketball court was densely filled with temporary bunks.
Perhaps because of the unrestrained and open-minded national character, nearly 200 young men and women gathered here, most of whom had long forgotten the only reward of 2,000 euros, but gathered together in twos and threes to chat and play, if it weren't for the fact that there were more than 20 cameras in the venue shooting at them in various ways, and there were security guards patrolling and stopping, it is estimated that many of the guys who looked right in the eye would have begun to undress and do something they loved.
Fortunately, not everyone has forgotten the purpose of the event, and there are still people who are playing with their mobile phones, taking pictures, watching videos, placing things, and swiping FB, Twitter and other social media, all kinds of ways to play. Of course, the most important thing is to play games, especially 3D games, especially 3D football games, which is the home of FC Barcelona after all.
In the end, a blonde guy relied on the extraordinary perseverance of eating less and drinking less and not going to the toilet, and successfully took the check for 2,000 euros in less than 6 hours.
However, to the collective shock of the bee staff, after the brief award ceremony, others did not choose to leave, and domestic and foreign netizens who watched the live broadcast on the Internet also swiped the screen and left messages saying not to stop.
So they had to stay and work overtime to maintain order, but fortunately, the lease period of the venue was still very lenient, and the hired security guards did not mind extending the employment hours.
Fortunately, there was no charging equipment in it, and when the mobile phone was turned off one after another, the challengers finally left one after another.
However, they still underestimated the wisdom of young people, and with various power-saving skills, some people actually survived until the fourth day. If it weren't for the end of MWC and the team going back home, I don't know how long this "Pajama Day" would last. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net