In the future, the mobile phone system is a mobile phone system, but not only the mobile phone system.
In 1973, a Motorola engineer named Martin Cooper successfully called out the world's first wireless telephone, officially opening the era of radio communication, and the handheld phone he used was widely considered to be the earliest "mobile phone". In the decades since, the industry as a whole has moved forward primarily with hardware as its core.
It wasn't until 1993 that IBM introduced a phone called IBM Simon. Unlike all previous mobile phones, it uses a touch screen design and pre-installed third-party applications for the first time, which is the originator of smart phones. The emergence of IBM Simon has a milestone significance for the development of mobile phones, allowing people's thinking to expand from hardware to "hardware + software".
Many people say that the iPhone is a revolutionary product, but it is not so clear where it is "revolutionary". In fact, apple's real strength is that it has extremely strong software creativity and the ability to land it on hardware. So in essence, hardware is only a form of expression, and the software ecology is the core competitiveness of this company.
The advent of artificial intelligence and the 5G era has put forward higher requirements for mobile phone systems, and the goal of future mobile phone systems to serve is not limited to individual mobile phones, but an intelligent ecosystem with mobile phones as the core. In this context, the performance of the mobile phone itself and the ability to connect between different devices have become two very important aspects that affect the actual experience of users.
At the beginning of the birth of mobile phones, it is to get rid of the shackles of cables and make remote communication more convenient and simple. As hardware and software capabilities continue to mature, smartphones have become a versatile multi-tasker. Communication remains a fundamental attribute of this type of device, and on top of that, it also serves all aspects of entertainment, office, and life.
While continuously expanding application scenarios, the requirements for mobile phone performance are also increasing, and sufficient performance support is needed to meet people's requirements for smooth experience. Previously, many people believed that the performance of mobile phones was entirely dependent on hardware capabilities, but this statement was not rigorous. For example, the same is the Snapdragon 888 chip, the software tuning method is different, the actual performance release will have a large gap.
In today's era when the industrial chain is open and transparent enough, in fact, it is difficult to rely solely on heap hardware to make the product have the performance of other competitors. But as we said earlier, investing in the underlying technology of the system and reasonably and fully releasing hardware capabilities is, at least for now, a more sustainable direction for development, and it is also the key to mobile phone manufacturers to have the initiative.
In fact, in the past one or two years, almost all mobile phone manufacturers are emphasizing the importance of the system, and holding a special system conference is not a new thing, vivo is one of the most representative. Last year, vivo officially released a new OriginOS system, which has undergone revolutionary changes from visual to functional to interactive logic.
Some time ago, OriginOS once again ushered in a major version update, when Geek's Choice also made a detailed introduction to the new version of OriginOS Oecan. The intuitive feeling of this version of the system is that the visual presentation is very young, and the functions are extremely rich, and in addition to these improvements and upgrades that are easy to perceive, it also carries vivo's technological innovation and accumulation at the core level of the system.
As Vivo has repeatedly emphasized on VDC 2021, a very important development direction of OriginOS is to improve system performance. In fact, at last year's developer conference, vivo publicly stated that they were doing human factors research and flow construction, so that the system can provide users with a comfortable enough interaction and visual experience in different use scenarios.
In the past year, vivo has put a lot of energy into the four directions of computing, storage, display, and full scene fluency. Let's talk about what vivo has done in the above 4 aspects and what kind of results it has achieved.
For today's smartphones, it is easy and difficult to do a good job of performance. Easy because upstream chipmakers have the ability to provide chips with good enough performance; the difficulty is how to cram the chip into the phone, so that it can maintain a great performance output without affecting other experiences.
Vivo believes that if you want to do a good job in computing performance, the core lies in the three points of concurrency, energy efficiency ratio and instantaneous acceleration. For the concurrency scenario, vivo designs a high concurrency computing mode in the system. Taking 20 applications launched at the same time as an example, when starting one round, the opening speed can be increased by 20%, and the two consecutive rounds can be increased by 30%, which can ensure the fluency of the system when multitasking.
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In the 5G era, the importance of mobile phone energy efficiency ratio has become more and more prominent. In order to make this indicator better, vivo has made a smart scheduling calculation mode to help the mobile phone better allocate performance resources, ensure that there is no frame loss at the same time, but also control the energy consumption to a sufficiently ideal level. Officials say that under the same frame rate, testing with game scenes, its average power consumption can be reduced by up to 10%.
When mobile games gradually became part of people's daily life entertainment, there were high requirements for the instantaneous acceleration ability of mobile phones. To this end, vivo has added a high-speed load chasing mode in the system. With the support of relevant algorithms, it can quickly shorten the time for CPU load to fill up and the CPU speed to increase frequency, so as to meet the performance response in high-load scenarios such as games, so that users can get the ultimate experience.
Because mobile phones belong to a highly integrated class of products, many hardware-level things are difficult to change once they leave the factory, and storage is a more representative point. When you go to an offline store to buy a mobile phone, the clerk will always tell you that buying a mobile phone with large memory does not stutter when you use it. Of course, there is nothing wrong with this, the trouble is that the memory capacity cannot grow with application updates, and enough is a luxury.
In order to make the memory "bigger", last year vivo creatively launched the memory fusion technology, successfully realized the memory +3G, which is equivalent to allowing the mobile phone with 8GB memory to get a smooth experience similar to 11GB memory. Facts have also proved that this technology is worth affirming both from the actual user experience and user feedback level.
Therefore, on the basis of the previous, vivo has once again upgraded to memory fusion technology 2.0, from +3G to +4G. In addition, in order to better play the data read and write performance of ROM and RAM, they also added a global virtual cache management mechanism in the kernel to make memory management more efficient, thereby greatly reducing the stutter caused by storage switching and improving the overall fluency of the system.
In terms of display performance, vivo's main innovation points are mainly two. The first is to show the dynamic level, they have introduced a new quasi-surface physical animation on the basis of the previous atomic animation engine. In simple terms, it simulates the buoyancy and damping of the water surface of the physical world, once to increase the naturalness and pleasure of the dynamic experience, and bring you into the virtual world where the sense of reality is sufficient.
The other is to increase the priority of UI interactive rendering over the full link. Its main purpose is to improve the display fluency of third-party applications, you can understand that vivo improves the priority of all application UI rendering layers and touch response events, when the system judges that the current phone is in the corresponding state, it will automatically allocate more computing resources, so as to allow users to get a smooth visual and touch experience.
Another point that I think is worth promoting by all mobile phone manufacturers is that Vivo has actually made a lot of efforts in the matter of anti-aging. Last year, vivo mobile phone full range of models have 36 months of anti-aging 5-star capabilities, this year they will cover the anti-aging requirements to more scenes and links of the mobile phone system, not long ago won the first domestic full-scene durable smooth experience five-star certificate issued by China Thiel Laboratory, which is very helpful for enhancing user favorability.
Back to the topic we mentioned at the beginning of the article. In fact, whether it is 1+N or 1+8+N or 1+4+N, any ecosystem built with mobile phones as the core needs to do a good job of "1" first, if the cornerstone is not done well, there is no then. From a higher perspective, whether "1" does a good job or not, it comes back to the two words of performance.
With good enough performance as a support, it is possible to provide users with the ultimate smooth experience, and then make everyone willing to accept the ecosystem built on this basis. Of course, in terms of IoT ecological construction, vivo has actually made some achievements.
For example, vivo showed a quick bumper at this year's developer conference, which has a built-in vivo's new NFC operation protocol, allowing the "touch" way to quickly complete networking, screen projection, switch air conditioning, lamps, water heaters; the internet of vehicle product Jovi InCar also ushered in version 2.0, matching more models, allowing users to get a more convenient car-machine interconnection experience.
In addition, from the official we learned that the high-quality products that join the vivo smart life open ecology can obtain the "access to vivo smart life" technology certification, which brings direct benefits to the sharing of vivo online official mall, official flagship store, smart life self-built mall and offline specialty retail stores and other sales channels, of course, it will also help to enhance brand awareness.
After joining the vivo smart life open ecosystem, in addition to obtaining the "hardware + mobile phone software + service" closed-loop solution and quickly listing products, vivo will also jointly carry out operation promotion with partners, provide a data operation platform, visualize the effect of products and services, and bring higher user conversion efficiency.
In fact, due to many factors such as production process and architecture design, the improvement in hardware performance is difficult to be as obvious as in previous years. Under the existing industrial system, starting from the technological innovation at the bottom of the system like vivo and exerting the software and hardware capabilities to the extreme is the best choice at present. At the same time, the logic of thinking that embraces all things is also more competitive in the long run.
From the perspective of the technical layout of the vivo developer conference, the future mobile phone system is a mobile phone system, but not only the mobile phone system, it will extend the ability to all aspects of people's lives through a variety of different hardware carriers, providing a smooth and convenient service experience.
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