Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 141 Zhiyun's Extreme Stacking

Zhiyun Technology's ultra-thin business notebook plan was designed to take a high-end route from the very beginning, so the high-end product route was implemented during the R&D and design stages.

For example, in terms of materials, we stack what can be stacked, and create conditions to stack what cannot be stacked. However, this kind of stacking of materials does not mean that we must have a CPU with very high performance... In fact, when choosing a CPU, we consider power consumption more, and make a comprehensive consideration and balance between performance and power consumption.

The focus of Zhiyun Technology's business project is more on some workmanship details.

For example, the body... the materials piled up on this point alone are enough to make other manufacturers despair!
The top-grade aluminum alloy material used in the mobile phone, coupled with a complex one-piece molding process, and then a unique coloring process...this thing is very expensive.

Then there are various other materials, such as the running memory. Although it is only 2GB or 4GB of memory, it uses DDR3 SDRAM with a frequency of 1066MHZ... and the matching CPU is also a 1066MHZ CPU.

The combination of the two is enough to provide powerful and smooth performance.

Then there is storage... Modern laptops, whether they are laptops or desktops, basically all use hard drives, and large-capacity flash memory is still a high-end product. Even mobile phones do not use it much, and the capacity is generally small, such as 8GB/16GB/32GB.

But the Yun Book uses flash memory, and is available in 128GB or 256GB versions... and the cost of this flash memory alone is not low.

Then there is the keyboard, which was also specially customized... Wang Kuan's R&D team tested almost all types of laptop keyboards on the market, and finally chose a membrane keyboard solution provided by a high-end keyboard manufacturer... The manufacturer uses this technology and craftsmanship to make its own branded product for sale, and the retail price is about five or six hundred yuan.

As for the screen, it uses Sharp's high-end LCD screen. Although the resolution can only be said to be at the mainstream level, the color display is very good.

Then Wang Kuan's technical team also introduced a series of technologies from the S9 mobile phone. Through the built-in light sensor, it provided the function of automatically adjusting the screen brightness. At the same time, it also transplanted some display technologies of the S9 mobile phone to provide night view mode and color enhancement mode.

Then there is also a touchpad... Ordinary notebooks will not provide you with a touchpad that supports multi-touch, but Zhiyun Technology does, and also provides a variety of different gestures for users to choose freely... By the way, many unique gestures are also Zhiyun Technology's patented technologies.

There are also many other things such as cameras and even speakers. These parts are basically top-notch products.

Outsiders often say that Zhiyun Technology is high-priced and low-spec, and it doesn’t seem to have any unique technology, nor does it play with stacking materials...

But in fact, Zhiyun Technology is also at the top level in terms of material stacking, far surpassing other manufacturers, even Apple has to admit defeat.

There are still a lot of things piled up in some details that people don’t pay much attention to... For example, other computer manufacturers may brag about the CPU’s main frequency, but Zhiyun Technology doesn’t do that. They directly max out the front-end frequency and make a balanced choice between power consumption and performance.

And the keyboard thing...Except for Zhiyun, I guess no computer manufacturer would specifically look for a big-brand keyboard manufacturer to specially develop and customize a high-end keyboard just to make the user feel better when using the keyboard...

According to traditional concepts, high-end keyboards should be purchased by technology enthusiasts, people who have some knowledge of technology or people with high-frequency needs.

But Zhiyun Technology directly provides you with this high-end keyboard... The most important thing is that it is a membrane keyboard.

However, membrane keyboards are at the low end of the contempt chain in the keyboard ecological chain. Consumers who claim to be knowledgeable look down on this thing and generally tend to buy various mechanical keyboards, various switches, green, black, tea, and so on.

As for membrane keyboards, in the eyes of many people, they are something that costs only a few dozen dollars and is not worth paying attention to at all.

But Zhiyun Technology has equipped the Yun Book business notebook with a high-end customized membrane keyboard!

As for why?
Why else...it's an ultra-thin notebook, can you put a mechanical keyboard on it?
This laptop keyboard has to be a membrane keyboard... But there are many kinds of membrane keyboards, and the quality varies.

Those cheap crappy membrane keyboards don’t fit in with Zhiyun Technology’s high-end brand identity, so they just got this high-end custom membrane keyboard.

Wang Kuan's technical team attaches great importance to the pursuit of keyboard texture, and even tends to be obsessed with it.

Whether it is mobile phones, notebooks, or many other products under development, Zhiyun Technology actually likes to pile up materials, but this kind of piling up of materials is generally not specifically mentioned, and there will be no excessive publicity.

For a high-end product, this kind of texture and top-quality materials are a given and not worth mentioning specifically.

This time, the YUN BOOK is also a reflection of this product development concept, so you can tell that this is a high-end product just by holding it in your hand.

Then after using it, you will find that it is worth the money!
This thing, except for being expensive, has almost no disadvantages... at least in the contemporary notebook market. In this meeting, Zhiyun Technology decided to officially release this product at the spring conference in March.

In addition to this product, Zhiyun Technology will also release several other small products, all of which are small things in the ecological chain.

At the same time, a new version of the YUN OS system will be released.

It is worth mentioning that this is different from the previous YUN OS system, which is based on the deep optimization and modification of the Android version. This time, the YUN OS3.0 system is the first time that Zhiyun Technology has attempted to modify and optimize the core code at the bottom of the system and add various new functions.

To put it bluntly, Zhiyun Technology is now taking on Google's work... This is not a precaution by Zhiyun Technology to avoid sanctions or the like, but simply because Google is too slow in its actions and is slow in upgrading and improving the Android system.

The multi-touch technology took a long time to develop. If Google had been a little slower by a month or two last year, Zhiyun Technology would have had to release its own multi-touch technology.

Therefore, Zhiyun Technology and Google had a discussion some time ago... and then the two sides established a joint R&D center... Google will send some engineers to coordinate with Zhiyun Technology to optimize the underlying core code of YUN OS.

At the same time, Zhiyun will send engineers to assist Google in upgrading and optimizing the functions of the Android system... such as supporting multiple network standards... Due to technical limitations, the public version of the Android system that Google is currently developing still cannot support WCDMA and TD-CDMA standards.

At the same time, the support for resolution is not good... If Zhiyun Technology's S9 runs the original Android version directly, it cannot even bring out its hardware performance.

As for Google, it is also very interested in the information notification system and APP system in the YUN OS system.

In order to speed up the upgrade of the Android public version as soon as possible, Google finally chose to cooperate with Zhiyun Technology to carry out annual research and development. You help me and I help you.

Of course, this is based on the strong interest relationship between Zhiyun Technology and Google.

Although YUN OS has changed the underlying system and developed its own system push service, it still cooperates with Google. Mobile phones sold worldwide are equipped with Google search, browser, map and other service software.

Even though Google has withdrawn from most Chinese markets, Zhiyun Technology has completely cancelled Google services in its phones sold in these regions due to this impact, but it still has Google services installed in its phones in overseas markets...

The built-in fee for Google's full package is also very good... In addition, for overseas users, Google's full package is not a hard requirement, and they will download it even if you don't integrate it.

The original intention of Google in developing the Android system was not to create any system. Their purpose was very pure, which was to promote their own Google search, map, browser and other businesses through the system.

This is also the reason why they started to develop open source from the beginning... The system is not important, what is important is that their own Google family service can quickly occupy the mobile Internet market!

At present, Zhiyun Technology is an important manufacturer promoting the Android system... All other mobile phone manufacturers in the Android camp combined cannot surpass Zhiyun Technology in terms of shipments!
In addition, Google also uses some technologies developed by Zhiyun Technology to optimize and improve the Android system, such as resolution support, network standard support, and information notification system.

Future updated Android versions are expected to adopt a large amount of underlying core code that Zhiyun Technology can contribute.

Here, I must say that the Android system is an open source system. According to the free open source agreement, when you use it for free, some improvements you make on this open source system will also become part of this open source system.

In other words, others can also use it for free!

This is basically what open source software is like!

In the process of modifying Android, Zhiyun Technology will inevitably modify some underlying codes and add some new functions and new components, and then other manufacturers can also use these underlying codes for free...

Of course, most so-called mobile phone manufacturers lack the ability to directly call Zhiyun's modified version code. After all, although Zhiyun Technology has contributed these core codes, Zhiyun Technology will not directly show you all the source code of the finished YUN OS...

You still have to integrate it yourself and adjust it according to your own situation.

Most mobile phone manufacturers lack this capability... Most mobile phone manufacturers' system R&D teams do not have this ability.

(End of this chapter)