Chapter 188 [Can a mobile phone be made like this?] 】
Under the gaze of more than 1,000 pairs of eyes in the audience, Luo Sheng calmly walked onto the stage and came to the middle position.
He was holding a small remote control in his hand, and this time he had to use PPT, because it was an external press conference and not an internal meeting of the company.
And behind him, the giant screen, now a Cote d'Azur company logo, is presented on the screen, a killer whale with a metallic texture and excellent light and shadow effects.
Presiding over a product launch was easy and comfortable for Luo Sheng, and after a while, he made a simple opening to the audience of more than 1,000 people: "Good morning, everyone, welcome to you." ”
At this moment, thousands of engineers on the Côte d'Azur are paying attention to this press conference, and no one is more excited than them, all these years of dedication to this moment.
Luo Sheng walked back and forth on the giant screen stage, and said methodically: "I have been looking forward to the arrival of this moment for a full thousand two hundred and eighty days, and we didn't sleep all night yesterday because we were too excited. ”
In the area of the front row of the field, Feng Yi, Bai Lang, Lu Siming and others are among them, and when they heard the boss's indifferent words on stage, they knew what happened yesterday and how much effort they put in, it was really a toss all night.
The highlight of this time is the result of the sweat and hard work of a huge team behind the scenes.
Rehearsals for the event lasted three days and were heavily guarded, with an electronic lab set up in the background to place and test prototypes, and security personnel were on duty 24 hours a day in front of the lab and lounge and even at all the entrances to the center of the venue.
Anyone entering and exiting must pass electronic identity authentication, and the list of people allowed to enter and exit must be reviewed by Luo Sheng.
In order to avoid leaking information, the night before the product launch, Luo Sheng also asked all those involved in the decoration of the conference, including lighting and stage equipment manufacturers, to live in the exhibition center.
And in order to make the prototype work properly at the launch, engineers have been trying to solve all kinds of potential problems.
The preparation for this press conference took more than two months, nearly three months.
In order to be able to demonstrate the various functions of the prototype on the spot, the prototype screen was projected on a large screen on the stage, and in order to achieve this effect, the engineers spent two or three weeks installing an image output module on the back of the prototype and then connecting it to the projection equipment.
The Wi-Fi link of the prototype on site is actually not very stable, and the engineers discovered this problem two days ago, so they had to hide the Wi-Fi signal transmitter under the stage to shorten the distance of wireless signal transmission.
In addition, the software had to be modified to prevent the audience from using the same wireless frequency and slowing down the link of the prototype on display.
In order to ensure the strength of the signal, the local operator was also hired to set up a movable signal tower on the site.
After Luo Sheng's approval, a team of engineers from the development team modified the program of the prototype for the demonstration, so that the signal strength on the screen would show a full grid regardless of the strength of the signal on the site.
This is to ensure that if the wireless network does fail and has to be restarted, it does not want to be discovered by the audience, especially the Western media, so it is necessary to make the signal strength on the mobile phone screen always show a full state.
There is no way, the signal on the side of Sioux City and even the nationwide communication base are relatively poor, and it can't be compared with ten years later, if it is ten years later, it will be a proper explosion in Europe and the United States.
Even now, Luo Sheng is alone in front of the giant screen on the stage, but there are still more than one or two hundred engineers and staff in the background who are in full swing to prepare, doing their best to escort the smooth conclusion of the press conference.
The ultimate goal is to complete this press conference perfectly.
At this moment, Luo Sheng on the stage said to the more than 1,000 people in the audience: "We have found a rule, every once in a while, a revolutionary product will come out in the world, and then change the world." Today we are going to witness history and witness the emergence of a revolutionary electric product that will redefine the smartphone, and it is the Azure phone, Azure-X! ”
The audience at the meeting was quite sideways, some were curious, some were lively, and some were calm.
The scene was very quiet, and the audience's eyes were on Luo Sheng, and the big screen behind him showed the words "Azure-X", Azure means blue.
There were a lot of foreigners at the scene, including some foreign media reporters, who all brought translators, and these equipment were distributed on the spot.
Many people were stunned for a while after Luo Sheng finished saying that, this tone was not ordinary, but they were not surprised, because as long as people who have watched Luo Sheng's global roadshow of Bluestar Technology's IPO listing, they know that it is his consistent style to like to say some amazing and exaggerated remarks.
Luo Sheng on the stage walked back and forth, and said calmly: "Entering the smartphone industry is a strange field for the Cote d'Azur, but more than 7,000 of our engineers have been working hard day and night for 1,280 days, and we have accumulated a wealth of technology and are extremely mature, and today Azure-X came out." ”
"Before we dive into this revolutionary product, I'd like to talk about what is now called a smartphone, which typically combines a telephone, the ability to send and receive email, and the so-called lite version of the Internet, all in a mobile device with a plastic keypad."
"But the problem is, these devices aren't really that smart, and frankly I think it's a bit stupid." Luo Sheng raised his head to face the audience as he spoke, and there were many people in the audience who laughed.
To tell the truth, if it weren't for Luo Sheng and the aura of achievement of Bluestar Technology Group, these laughter would not have meant to laugh, but to laugh sarcastically.
Even so, some foreigners present listened to the translation, and their hearts were scornful, although Luo Sheng is a giant in the Internet industry, but when he crossed over to the field of hardware equipment, I don't know where he got the courage to so blatantly despise Nokia and Motorola.
Last year, a mobile phone launched by Apple in cooperation with Motorola failed miserably, and some foreign reporters were already silently thinking about writing an article like mocking Joe's gang's mobile phone.
What the people on the scene thought Luo Sheng didn't know what others were thinking, he continued: "...... Not only was it stupid, but it wasn't very easy to use and reasonable, so I decided to make my own. ”
Audience: "......"
Yes, it's very Luo Sheng.
After a while, Luo Sheng immediately continued to speak with a bright smile: "Ordinary mobile phones are not very smart, of course, the current smartphones are definitely a little smarter, but they are difficult to use, too complicated, and even some basic functions have to spend a lot of effort to understand how to use them." ”
"So we didn't want to make a product like that, we wanted to make a super advanced revolutionary product that was smarter and easier to use than all the smartphones out there, which was Azure-X!"
"First of all, the unprecedented mobile interface, which is the result of more than a thousand days and nights of painstaking development, and it is a combination of software and hardware, why do we need an unprecedented user interface?"
Speaking of which, Luo Sheng pressed the remote control in his hand, looked back at the big screen, and the audience also looked at the screen, on which was a picture, there were several smartphones, all of which were well-known brand models from international manufacturers.
Luo Sheng stared at the screen and said: "There are four different smartphones here, namely Benmai, Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia, all of which are very famous and common models, have you found any problems with their interfaces?" ”
The audience said there was nothing wrong with it......
Is there a problem?
Luo Sheng continued: "As a patient with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, I really can't accept that nearly forty percent of the parts under these mobile devices are a plastic keypad, whether you need it or not, these dense keys are fixed, and they are the same in all applications. ”
"And each application needs some unique interface to use, and it needs an optimal key configuration. The question is, what do you do when you have a great new idea in a few months? You can't add more buttons, can you? So what to do? There is no solution to the problem. Because the key functions cannot be adjusted, they cannot be adjusted between each program, and they cannot be changed in the future, so what should I do? ”
At this moment, there was only Luo Sheng's voice at the press conference, and after raising this question, he pressed the small remote control in his hand again, and the big screen switched a slide.
is a PC desktop image.
Luo Sheng looked back at the big screen and said: "Obviously, the computer desktop, which was born more than 20 years ago, has perfectly solved this problem, we can display anything we want to display in the graphical computer screen, and use any kind of interface. So how do we put these things into a mobile device? Quite simply, all we have to do is get rid of these plastic keypads and leave only a huge screen. ”
After speaking, Luo Sheng pressed the button of the remote control again to switch to the next slide, and the front graphics of the prototype were displayed on the big screen, and the people who saw this picture for the first time showed surprised expressions.
"This ......"
A foreign journalist's eyes widened in surprise as he saw the prototype on the big screen for the first time, an industrial design he had never seen before as a user of a mobile phone with a plastic keyboard.
Is this the smartphone that the Côte d'Azur is going to release?
The scene was still quiet, as most people were full of doubts, and the prototype on the big screen showed a flat picture, and at a glance it was not the real thing.
"How do you interact with this screen? It's impossible to pick up a mouse, what should I do? With a stylus? No, it's too low, we don't want a stylus, and it's easy to get lost, and a temper like mine will break down when it happens, and the mood of the whole day will be ruined because of it. ”
After a burst of laughter at the scene, Luo Sheng said with a smile: "So we chose to use the world's best touch indicator device, which is a touch indicator device that everyone is born with...... We use our fingers to touch. ”
As soon as these words came out, the audience's eyes lit up.
But I'm still confused.
Luo Sheng continued: "We have developed a new technology for this purpose...... It's called multi-touch technology, it's really a super cool feature, it's more accurate than any touch interface now, it will be very smart to ignore all unintentional misoperations, and what's even cooler is that you can also make more gestures on it, of course, the key is that this is our exclusive patent, if you are interested in the future, we can cooperate. ”
"And in the revolutionary use of the interface, of course, is the software, now all the mobile phones on the market in the software is actually not very mature, and not at all powerful, so we have also brought a breakthrough in software, at least more than five years ahead of any other mobile phone."
The audience at the scene was puzzled at the same time, but also interested, especially some industry insiders, who were really more and more curious that Luo Sheng had been boasting on stage for so long, and he was ahead for more than five years at every turn.
It feels as if he doesn't look at Nokia and Motorola at all.
Isn't that a bit too conceited?
Some foreigners are "worried" about Luo Sheng, afraid that the products launched at that time will be seriously exaggerated, and the rhythm of the world's famous Internet giants will be laughed out of the big teeth, which has become a big joke in the history of the industry.
And Luo Sheng is still on stage.
"How do we do it? We started with a very strong foundation, which is the AOS system, which is really huge, which means that the engineers of the entire Cerida company have contributed an average of almost 10,000 lines of code each, and with this huge and sophisticated system in a mobile device, the device has all the things we need. ”
"It can multitask, has strong network capabilities, can do a good job of power management, excellent security mechanisms, and has a lot of applications, graphics processing, video and audio functions, etc.
"With all of these features in one mobile device for our engineers, AOS has allowed us to create desktop-class applications and networking capabilities that are not the same as the lame stuff you see in other phones, it's really a desktop-grade application that's not weaker than a PC at all, more than five years ahead of any other phone."
Luo Sheng walked to the side of the stage, took a sip of water and returned to the halfway position, and continued: "Another thing we learned from another company is Apple, Apple's iPod is synchronized with iTunes, we think this is a very good model, we think Azure-X can also be synchronized with MusicSpace, an application service under Bluestar Technology, which can synchronize media files to Azure-X phones." ”
"Not only can you sync all your files to Azure-X, your music, audiobooks, movies, MVs, etc., but also sync a large amount of data, your contacts, your calendar, your photos, your tags, your bookmarks in your browser, etc."
"Another one I want to show you the industrial design of Azure-X, we have designed the most beautiful phone you have in your hands, it's really beautiful, it's super cool." Speaking of which, Luo Sheng pressed the remote control button in his hand again, and turned to look at the big screen:
"Here's what it looks like."
Before the words fell, everyone was already staring at the screen.
Luo Sheng said: "There is a 4.0 screen, it is really big, and it is the resolution screen that we have used, it has 180PPI, and there is a button directly below, similar to the Escape function, and if you look at the side of it, it is really thin, thinner than any smartphone at the moment, only 10.8mm thick." There are several buttons on the side. A power on and off button, press to sleep, press to wake up again, a volume control button, and a SIM card slot on the bottom side. Looking at the back again, the first is the built-in 3-megapixel camera. Then look at the top, there's a headphone jack, and finally look at the bottom, there's a speaker, a connection for charging and data transfer, and a microphone, that's all you can see. ”
When Luo Sheng's words fell, the audience suddenly ushered in the first warm applause, and it was also the first ray of high court ushered in by the press conference so far, and almost everyone looked at the giant screen with a shocked expression.
It even feels incredible, regardless of Luo Sheng's high-profile remarks, regardless of this mobile phone, just its industrial design level has attracted every witness.
Can a mobile phone still be like this?
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