Chapter 37 Our Electronic Age
"A young man!"
This is what the vast majority of the audience thinks, in the eyes of many people who have not seen the press conference of Stardust Technology, the chairman of Stardust Technology should be a middle-aged doctor with a culture wearing a unilateral gold wire mirror.
This is in line with the taste of both a "scientist" and a "big businessman" in their minds, but in fact it is not, Chen Zifan is much younger than they imagined, too young to speak.
But no matter what the chairman of Stardust Technology looks like, it is worth cheering and shouting about being able to create a product like Stardust 1, and it is not a bad thing to be younger in product innovation.
Chen Zifan's attention was not on the audience's reaction, since he took the stage, the audience in the whole venue either applauded, cheered, and held up their mobile phones to take pictures, there were too many people of all kinds.
After a brief pause, he began to introduce today's highlight to the audience: "We always believe that good hardware is only the foundation, and the Stardust OS is based on the Stardust 1 hardware.
Mr. Zhao has a high opinion of it, he has always believed that Stardust OS is a representative of creativity, and he believes, or everyone here has reason to believe, that Stardust OS will lead a new era of smart phones.
But I think that it may not be the products that lead the times, but everyone who uses the products! This should be our electronic age! All it takes is a smartphone and everyone can get involved!
I've seen some products that claim to be 'smartphones', but they're not smart, they lack the most basic creativity, they just connect to a 2G network and browse email.
When creating Stardust OS, we worked to be simpler, more straightforward, and easier to use! We're thinking, why can't we put all the features on the desktop? Whatever you use, you can order directly!
Thus, Stardust OS was born!
Now, the phone in my hand is not activated, I only need to connect it to the computer through a data cable, and then through a software, the screen of Stardust 1 can be projected to the big screen!
As you can see, before entering the desktop, we only need to briefly learn the all-screen navigation method, swipe up at the bottom to return to the desktop, and return to the upper level on the left and right sides of the screen! ”
There are no virtual buttons, and there are no three-stage return buttons, these things can be added later, and now there are direct, pure full-screen gestures, which were demonstrated by Chen Zifan.
Even without his demonstration, the audience at the scene will operate it themselves when they get the demo machine, and every slide is also matched with motor vibration, and the feedback when using it is no worse than the physical buttons.
When these viewers finished experiencing Stardust 1, and then took out their own thick, heavy, small screen, and poor display button function machine, they didn't want it for a while, this sense of gap was too big.
"I didn't think there was anything wrong with my phone until I saw Stardust1..."
What an exaggeration! It's really exaggerated! It's not good to go over the bar from start to finish! However, a mere full-screen gesture is only the most basic point of Stardust OS, Chen Zifan continued to introduce on the stage:
"Here I think someone will ask a question! The full touch screen is fine, but there are no physical buttons to unlock, what if I don't feel secure? What if I put it in my pocket and it unlocks automatically?
Don't worry at all, our Stardust 1 needs two steps to re-enter Stardust OS after the screen is off, first press the power button on the right side of the phone, and we do a swipe up action after the screen is turned on! ”
A concise animation, from bottom to top, press and hold the unlock button in the center of the screen and slide all the way, as if opening the curtains, and it seems to be the golden meteor logo of Stardust Technology rising, which is very beautiful.
"This way, we don't have to worry about accidentally touching and unlocking our Stardust 1 in our pockets..."
This is a completely different unlocking method from Apple1,Apple1The unlocking is of course classic,But the overall style is a little mismatched with StardustOS,StardustOSThe various interfaces give people a stronger sense of vitality。
In fact, if Chen Zifan didn't mention this, many viewers wouldn't even be aware of this problem, and when Chen Zifan introduced it like this, they couldn't help but think that if they were in the crowd...
Two words: absolutely!
Especially in Huaxia, many people care more about face, a mobile phone that can make people invisibly install b, showing novelty everywhere, as long as their budget is enough, it must be impossible to give up!
Chen Zifan grasped the pain point of the user, grasped the user's need to show a sense of existence and the need to pretend to be b, and deliberately used a body language that was not so practical when he was actually showing.
I don't know if it's handsome or not, anyway, according to Zhao Wuxian, Mo Shaokun and others, it's a bit of a model~
"If you're still feeling uneasy, we can also find Password & Security on the desktop, set a four-digit password, and every time we light up the screen, we need to enter the password to verify our identity!"
A sense of security is a basic need, in this way, the "security problem" of some users has been solved, although the mobile phone with a password is not necessarily safe, but at least there can be a sense of comfort.
The problems are solved one by one, the problem of Stardust OS entering the desktop is solved, the operation problem is solved, and the next thing is the one thing that countless viewers are most concerned about: how to type without a physical keyboard?
"In order to solve the problem of virtual keyboard input, Stardust input method provides four templates: Pinyin 9-key input method, Pinyin 26-key input method, standard five-stroke input method, standard handwriting input method!
When we need to enter text for the first time,Stardust OS will pop up an option,The default state is the standard handwriting input method,Of course,We can also switch to any input method at any time! ”
In fact, the handwriting input method is not easy to use, especially on the Stardust with a screen size of only 4.8 inches1, but it doesn't matter whether it is easy to use or not, Chen Zifan needs a shocking effect!
Sure enough, as he thought, when he practiced the handwriting input method and wrote Chinese characters on the screen, the audience at the scene and even in other local squares erupted in unprecedented cheers.
"This is the way Stardust 1 should be entered! Handwriting directly on the big screen! It's so cool! With this, who still uses what button to enter! It's slow and hard to use! Handwriting is the king of input methods! ”
"I can't stand my broken phone anymore! It's so slow to send a text message every time! Typing for half a day, choosing words for half a day, if there is a touch screen, I can directly click on the word I want! ”
"That's how it should be! We've learned to write for so many years, and we should be writing on our phones! Write out what you want to say! Pinyin pinyin every day! Who knows which word should be pronounced in pinyin? ”
This look is the dialect user... Compared with the 26-key input method provided by Apple3GS when it entered the Chinese market, the Stardust 1 Stardust input method is undoubtedly more localized, and the choices provided are more diverse.
Handwriting is more in line with the "intuitive" operation of Chinese users, but whether it is good or not is another matter, at least Chen Zifan is personally more accustomed to using pinyin nine keys and voice input, but the latter has not yet been developed.
"After entering the main interface, each icon represents an application, and each icon has been redrawn, which is more integrated with the main interface in terms of visual perception and human intuition!"
The vibrancy of the Memphis color palette always catches people's eyes at the first time, and each icon is very full of color, followed by the function introduction from the outside to the inside, starting with the three-stage mute key:
"In the upper left corner of Stardust 1, there is a three-stage mute button, and its function is also very simple, mute up, vibrate in the center, and normal volume down, we simulated some practical scenarios for it..."
For example, making and receiving phone calls~
Chen Zifan stretched out his hand to say hello, and five seconds later, the stardust 1 in his hand vibrate, and at the same time, a light and pleasant ringtone rang, and a green phone symbol appeared on the mobile phone screen.
On the phone symbol, there are dotted lines extending to the left, right, and up, and the way to unlock is the same, you only need to press and hold the phone symbol in the middle to slide in different directions to achieve different goals.
"To the left, reject the call! To the right, connect the call! Up, stop the bell vibrating! Or... When it is inconvenient to touch the screen with your hands, you can directly toggle the three-stage mute button to achieve the mute effect!
Of course, the three-stage mute button can be used in any situation where you think you need to mute! Movie playback, music playback, and even simulate the sound of the shutter when you turn on your camera and take photos! ”
Chen Zifan explained while practicing the operation, the three-stage mute key will not be very useful to many people in the future, and it is even a little chicken, but this is a label, a label that makes Stardust 1 different from other brands.
When introducing the three-stage mute key,By the way, the phone function was introduced,Stardust OSThe animation design of each basic function has taken a little effort,And all the functions that should be there。
"If we receive a call from Zhang San and Li Si at the same time, we can choose to keep Zhang San's phone, answer Li Si's call first, and come back after the call is over...
That's where the call hold feature comes in!
If we want to turn off our microphone during a call, we just have to tap on the microphone emulation logo... If we want to turn on the speakerphone in a call, we just need to click on the speaker emulation logo..."
If you have a phone, you have to have a text message!
"In order to present different text message content more intuitively, we divide the text message into read and unread, among the unread text messages, we can arbitrarily select the text messages that we think are important in the interface..."
These are all basic functions,Not to mention Stardust1,It's a copycat feature machine,And the next camera introduction is the key link,Stardust1But it comes with a 2 million pixel camera。
2 million pixels is certainly not a high pixel, and the sensor used in Stardust 1 is also very small, but these are not important, people only know that a card camera that exploded this year is also only 2 million pixels.
"During the R&D process, we agreed that in the future, mobile phones may replace some traditional imaging equipment, and for this reason, we brought a unique set of imaging algorithms from Stardust Technology!
Many of you who have studied photography know that in order to take a perfect photo, we usually take many photos at once, and then combine these photos to choose the best part of them!
On Stardust 1, we can skip the post-production work of shooting, the only thing to do is turn on the camera, aim at the target, and press the shutter!
You can take 3 photos in a flash! And through the stardust algorithm, the most perfect part of each photo is revealed! Not only can you shoot! Let's take good pictures! ”
As soon as Chen Zifan's words fell, the scene burst into applause again, and the vast majority of the audience had never been exposed to photography, but this did not prevent them from thinking that Stardust Technology had played a different set of cameras.
After the applause, Chen Zifan also took a photo as usual, in fact, the so-called "3-in-1" technology is just to cover up the huge exposure time when Stardust 1 took the photo, and the transition animation is also the same.
"This noise..."
The lighting in the Stardust Conference Center is not enough, and after 1.5 seconds, the photo taken appeared on the big screen, from Chen Zifan's eyes, this photo naturally does not meet his requirements, but from the audience's point of view...
This is already one of the best mobile phones they have ever seen to take pictures, and what is even more outrageous is Chen Zifan's next operation on the photo, which shocked everyone present:
"Two fingers zoom in and out! Three-finger spin! But we have to pay attention to the fact that we can only rotate 90° each time, and we can also achieve a simple cropping of the photo through the small scissor-like button at the bottom~"
It seems to come from a science fiction movie, as if it is from the technology of the future, this sense of freewheeling manipulation brings everyone in addition to shock or shock, not only the scene, but also the audience outside.
At the entrance of Huaya Building in Haicheng, a large LED screen gathered a crowd of black pressure, even if the car horn behind sounded, there was still no road in front, and many drivers simply stopped and accepted their fate.
I wanted to follow the crowd to see what they were looking at, but I was fascinated when I saw it: "Damn! Is this a phone? Where is this cell phone? I'm afraid computers can't do it to this extent, right? ”
Perhaps it is such a simple function that countless viewers have recognized the identity of Stardust 1 "smartphone" at this moment, and in the eyes of many people, this is a technology from the future!
"We are moving into the future!"
If there is a photo, there must naturally be a video, and before the audience has come out of the baptism of the photos of Stardust 1, Chen Zifan showed the video function.
There is no optical image stabilization, no electronic image stabilization, and the video frame rate of 30 frames is enough, but the shaking of the picture is very strong during recording, and the recorded video is also a bit miserable, but what does it matter?
Even if Stardust 1 records nothing, let alone what you see is what you get, as long as it can be recorded, it can already meet the needs of mobile phone users at this stage, it's that simple~
What kind of picture jitter?
Isn't that my hand not holding it steady?
What's the matter with Xingchen's mobile phone?
Nowadays, there are many feature phones that can take pictures, but there are really few that can record videos, and Stardust 1 not only successfully covers up the problem of long photo taking time through simulated shutter animation and "3-in-1".
And it also integrates the video recording function, 480P pixel 30 frame video, and can only shoot for 2 minutes, but every audience who watches the Stardust press conference feels the strength of Stardust 1.
But the most powerful thing about Stardust OS has never been to take pictures, videos, and phone calls... It's not a stardust input method, transition animation... Rather, it represents that Stardust 1 is truly a Stardust application for smartphones.