Coquettish Rebirth

Andy Rubin is a typical "geek".

The meaning of this geek is geek in English.This word, translated into geek in Chinese, sounds like it is particularly tall.But in fact, in the "anti-intellectualism" society of the United States, this is really not a good word!The meaning of this geek in English, in addition to "people who are particularly interested in computers", other meanings are "stupid", "stupid", "nerd", "geek"!Because this kind of person is like Sheldon in "The Big Bang Theory", making American "ordinary people" feel that they are weird and only focus on things they are interested in, but they are basically a mess in other aspects!

This Andy Rubin actually looks a bit like Sheldon.Or to put it another way, it is a chunky version of Sheldon—the whole person looks harmless to humans and animals, wearing a red T-shirt, which makes people feel that there is no "deterrence" to the outside world, and it can be said that there is almost no "aura".The hairline of the whole person has almost reached the top of the sky, and then there is a little baby fat on the face, with dimples and a "silly" smile.What else does this feel like if it's not "nerd"?

The soap he handed over to Jia Hongjian... Ah no, the mobile phone is really made to look like soap. Of course, the overall appearance is still gray, but the square overall look is still impressive. Just like a big bar of soap.After getting the mobile phone, Jia Hongjian looked at it over and over again. Such a mobile phone looks a bit like a flip phone.On the outer cover of the phone, there is a nice outer screen.The size appears to be around 2.5 inches.Although this size cannot be compared with the 5-inch screens of later generations, it is already considered a large screen in this year!You know that one inch is 2.54 centimeters, how come there are 2.5 centimeters in 6 inches?So a prototype mobile phone made in 2000 has a screen diagonal of 6 centimeters long, isn't that considered a big screen?You must know that the popular Siemens 2 and Nokia 2118 will be killed in 8250 years. The screen is only 1.5 inches, and it is still monochrome!

According to Jia Hongjian, a reborn person, who has used mobile phones for many years, such a 2.5-inch screen is generally only available in flip phones that were launched on the market around 0506, and the inner screen is only so big!Generally, it was matched with a 26-color tft screen at that time!From this point of view, the external screen of this thing uses a 2.5-inch screen.I don't know if it's black and white or color though.But definitely enough to lead the market ah!How big is the inner screen of this thing? 3 inches? 3.5 inches?

Just when Jia Hongjian thought of this, he couldn't help but carefully observed the appearance of the phone.The clamshell design of this mobile phone is quite strange, unlike the usual clamshell mobile phone, the front and rear pieces are independent of each other, and then connected together by a shaft in the middle.It means that the display screen on the front of the phone is one or two centimeters above and below.There is a ditch!So Jia Hongjian's first impression was that.This outer display screen and such a small area of ​​one or two centimeters above and below, that is an outer screen!Then the board of the mobile phone keyboard below should be flipped up to keep the outer screen!What kind of weird flipping method is this your sister?There is something blocking the outer piece, can it be flipped over?By the way, Jia Hongjian took a closer look.The so-called "outer piece" has no axis at the upper and lower ends!Hey you didn't!How do you flip the cover without the shaft?

Just at Jia Hongjian's side looking at the appearance of the phone over and over again, and thinking about how weird this thing is, he only heard Andy Rubin's voice cautiously and tremblingly floating over, "Sir... our phone The prototype adopts...a slide cover design...not an ordinary clamshell. Hold the phone sideways, and then push the display screen with your thumb and push it out..." While talking, the little fat Andy Rubin He also cautiously nodded and walked to Jia Hongjian's side, stretched out his hand tremblingly to help Jia Hongjian turn the phone sideways, and then helped him slide the top cover of the phone...

wipe!This thing is a slider?At that time, Jia Hongjian naturally felt a little ashamed. Why didn't your sister find out that it was a slider?Of course, it's not his fault. How could he have thought that there would be a slider phone in 2000?Didn’t the slider phone appear in history only in 0506?So at this time, Jia Hongjian was not very embarrassed, nor did he feel particularly ashamed. Instead, he praised Andy Rubin in a small surprise, "Sliding cover? That's a good idea! In this way, there should be no internal screen." , directly use such a 2.5-inch external screen... No, what is a single screen? Oh... I found out that the screen is opened and there is a full keyboard with 26 alphabetic keys. If you slide it open, you can enter URLs and Typing, if you don’t slide open, you can use the two suggested buttons on the outside to answer and hang up? Got it.”

Jia Hongjian fiddled with the phone, and found that it was a bit novel overall—there was a full keyboard under the screen, just like a BlackBerry phone with densely packed rows of small buttons.This kind of full keyboard stuff looks a bit silly in later generations, but it is also a product of cost constraints in this era. For example, Huaxia Hi-Tech has been researching capacitive touch screens for two years, but to be honest, if the mobile phone screen is made 3.5 inches, and then use the touch base, the price of this mobile phone will be around 1 yuan!And because the built-in algorithm is not accurate and optimized enough, it will cause the touch to be a bit inaccurate.In general, it is expensive and not so easy to use!

So in this era, making a sliding screen, and then making the screen bigger, a little closer to the level of intelligence of the Nokia Symbian system back then, Jia Hongjian should still have a future?Thinking of this, he turned on the phone and took a look.Although this mobile phone is only a trial prototype, at least it is not a plastic sample, and it can still be turned on.After pressing the power button, the screen lit up and a logo animation appeared.But this animation made Jia Hongjian realize one thing, that is, the screen is black and white!

"Our mobile phone uses a monochrome black and white screen with a resolution of 240x160. 16-level grayscale LCD with backlight function. In addition, we have designed a small scroll wheel on the left side of the mobile phone, which can be controlled by the left index finger when browsing the page. The up and down movement of the page... At the same time, our keyboard is also equipped with a luminous function. Although each keyboard is made of plastic keys, the middle of the keys is transparent, and there are corresponding LED lights under the keys, so that even if you turn on the phone in the middle of the night I can also see every letter on the keyboard..." Andy Rubin was a little timid when he first started talking, but he kept talking.He seemed a little let go.In the end, he even walked over generously and took the mobile phone and began to demonstrate the operation to Jia Hongjian and the others.

From this point of view alone, this geek Andy Rubin should have only done technology before, so he is a little unfamiliar with these things that come out in public, and he was a little nervous after seeing so many people.That's why it led to the weak chicken state with no aura at the beginning?Jia Hongjian evaluated Andy Rubin in his heart.While watching Andy Rubin's operation demonstration.

What about their mobile phone?The interior adopts the classic nine-square grid design. In addition to displaying the upper and lower sidebars, the large screen can also fully display the nine-square grid interface in the middle.From this perspective, it fully demonstrates the advantages of large-screen mobile phones.Then, Andy showed the function of surfing the Internet.I saw him use the 5-way navigation key in the lower right corner of the keyboard to select the icon of "gprs", press the call button to confirm, and then the screen of the mobile phone changed into a small mobile phone that is sending out signals. Animation, and then about ten seconds later, it entered a browser-like interface.This browser is very simple, the top is an address input bar, and below the address bar are several default recommended sites arranged vertically, and the first one is Sherlock Holmes' search homepage!

"Yo, thank you for your recognition of us. It's an honor for you to put our Sherlock Holmes company connection first." Jia Hongjian smiled gracefully and thanked Andy Rubin.And Andy Rubin also smiled at this time, "Hehe, you deserve it, after all, your company is the best search engine on the market now..."

After the guests and hosts enjoyed each other, Andy Rubin's self-confidence and aura increased a lot after entering the state. He stopped stuttering and began to introduce his mobile phone to Jia Hongjian and the others with ease and focus.As for this mobile phone, the Internet access function is still a bit inconvenient - of course, this is compared with the smart phones of later generations, after all, it cannot be directly controlled by touch, and it must be a bit uncomfortable to use simulated buttons to select.However, at least this phone can access the Internet, right?Moreover, after parsing and rebuilding with a server temporarily used by them as a personal machine, the search page of the Sherlock Holmes company is much simpler, and it will save a lot of traffic if you think about it!From this perspective, their company is still promising, but it may be that the initial investment will be relatively large.

"In addition to the Internet function, our team also knows that this mobile phone is aimed at high-end business users. They will have a lot of appointments and timetables to catch up, so we designed the latest usb jack and infrared jack to connect with the computer. Use If you use the usb socket, you can directly plug it into the computer, but if you use the infrared interface, you need to purchase an infrared transmitter for the computer. We can sell this as a peripheral. In short, it is very convenient to connect with the computer. Through a few steps of operation, it can be synchronized with the data in the computer. For example, calendars, contacts, appointments, reminders, etc. can be edited on the computer and then transferred to the mobile phone. For the convenience of transmission, we will make a The operating software on the computer side comes out, so as long as it is installed on the computer side, it can easily and conveniently transfer things to the mobile phone. In addition, in order to prevent the phone from being stolen and making it impossible to contact people, we will also set up contact backup on the computer side software system……"

Whoops I'm going!From this point of view, this mobile phone is really a bit like the Nokia Symbian smartphone in 0506!Except that the screen is not big enough and not colorful enough, the general design looks similar!At least now it seems that this phone is still very promising! (To be continued..)