After two months, Cats launched a new mobile phone again according to the scheduled plan, called "Garfield 13", which is different from the previous two mobile phones, Garfield 13 is a family mobile phone.

The family mobile phone is mainly aimed at the elderly and children, with voice dialogue and video social functions, there are two main directions, one is to make the simple operation to the extreme, and the other is to do interesting functions.

The former is easy to understand, because children and the elderly have weaker operating ability, and children have to learn, and it is not easy to indulge in a simple one. The fun function, on the other hand, is designed to develop the social interests of children and the elderly.

"The voice dialogue function that comes with the family letter is not very easy to use, because you need to listen to a voice without interruption, and if something is interrupted, you have to listen to it again. In order to solve this problem, we designed the voice playback bar to be relatively large, and you can easily press pause and toggle the fast-forward bar. Tan Zongqin introduced.

This is a very simple improvement, but it is much more convenient for children and the elderly, because their fingers are not as flexible, and the voice playback bar is too small for them to operate.

In fact, the function of voice dialogue is quite chicken for many people, because chatting with WeChat is not for voice, unless it is a conversation between acquaintances.

It just so happens that home phones are designed for acquaintances, so the voice function needs to be improved.

"Family phones also have a remote control function, that is, the phones between family members can be connected to each other, and parents can turn off some functions of their children's phones at any time, so that children cannot play games and so on. This feature is very popular with parents, but it is just welcome, and not many people buy it. Tan Zongqin said.

"Isn't the sales of this phone good?" Hang Yu asked.

"It's not good, only 170,000 units have been sold so far, and sales have begun to decline. Tan Zongqin's face was not very good-looking, which he did not expect at all.

Hang Yu was also surprised and said: "It started to decline so quickly, it stands to reason that it should be very marketable." ”

Tan explained: "In order to meet the functions of tracking and positioning, automatic alarm, physical health management, low radiation, high security, etc., the conventional functional design of this mobile phone will inevitably be affected. In addition, the pricing of this mobile phone is relatively expensive, and many people can't accept 3,81. ”

Hang Yu said: "The mobile phones we launched before were all about 4,000, why...... I know, they are reluctant to buy such a good mobile phone for their children and the elderly. ”

Tan Zongqin smiled bitterly: "Yes, the reality is very different from our research, during the survey, many parents expressed their desire to buy a family mobile phone for their children and the elderly, and they also liked the introduction of the functions we launched." Many parents also said that they could accept the price of regular mobile phones, but when they actually wanted to buy them, parents were not very happy, obviously our research was wrong. ”

Hang Yu also smiled helplessly, he had already heard that the research error was not that the researcher was not attentive, but that the research object did not tell the truth.

Or, in other words, the survey subjects imagined that they wanted to buy a home mobile phone for their children or the elderly, but when they came back to reality, they immediately became sensible.

It is also possible that the finished product of the family phone came out, and some features did not meet their expectations. For example, the two functions of automatic alarm and physical health management, the actual operation is not very practical, after all, it is only a mobile phone, and the degree of intelligence is not high enough to flexibly distinguish the danger, and the real protection of the user, the health management function cannot be compared with the doctor.

As for features such as low radiation, high security, parents could not test it, and quite a few people doubted it.

All these factors combined to lead to the fact that the family mobile phone, which was very popular at the time of the survey, did not win the approval of parents after it was actually launched.

The most important reason, of course, is that the price is too high.

"We all overestimate parents' spending budgets for children and the elderly, or in the case of mobile phones, parents themselves overestimate their own generosity. Tan Zongqin said.

It's not that parents are too stingy, if a child or an elderly person is sick, then how much money will have to be cured. But mobile phones, in the eyes of most parents, are not so important to children and the elderly.

"So from your point of view, can the functions of the family mobile phone be further practical and win the recognition of parents?" Hang Yu asked.

"I find it difficult, some of the technology of the home phone seems easy to implement, but the practicality is always a little bit worse. If you want to reach a high level of practicality, the price will not go down, and I don't think the sales will be good. Many parents are reluctant to buy themselves such an expensive smartphone, and our main users are still young people. Tan Zongqin felt frustrated by this plan and looked away.

After Hang Yu played with a family mobile phone, he had personally experienced all kinds of special functions, and he also felt that these functions were really poor in terms of practicality.

Is it possible to continue research and development to bridge this gap?

Hang Yu finds it difficult, for example, health management technology, to further improve the functionality of mobile phones, it seems to be only one foot away, but in fact, it is already a qualitative change. One of the most important is smart technology.

Artificial intelligence is very good at chess, and it can also talk to people, as if it is very powerful, and it seems that it will be able to enter a high degree of intelligence in a few decades.

In fact, everyone who understands artificial intelligence knows that it is fundamentally different from real intelligence.

Today's artificial intelligence is not even mentally retarded, its core is deep learning, which is to absorb massive amounts of data, and when you need him to answer a question, he will find it from massive data.

Herein lies the problem. To use an analogy, an intelligent robot dedicated to extinguishing fires has obtained all the fire extinguishing solutions through deep learning and can face various types of fires.

Including, fires of solid matter, such as wood, coal, cotton, wool, linen, paper, etc. Liquid fires and fires of meltable solid matter, such as gasoline, kerosene, diesel, crude oil, methanol, ethanol, asphalt, paraffin, etc. Gas fires, such as gas, natural gas, methane, ethane, propane, hydrogen, etc. Metal fires. Such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, aluminum-magnesium alloy, etc. Fire of substances such as charged objects and precision instruments.

Where these fires take place, such as houses, forests, chemical plants, research labs, etc. Large fires and small fires, whether there is anyone or not, follow-up impacts, etc., fire extinguishing robots can handle it.

So many fire types and situations can be handled, and the data required is absolutely unimaginable, which shows how good this professional fire extinguishing robot is. But when you put it next to a ditch, let it clean it.

Sorry, it won't.