In recent years, the relationship between mobile phone manufacturers and car companies has become closer and closer, individual manufacturers even want to cross-border car manufacturing, and under the development trend of the Internet of Everything, many independent mobile phone manufacturers have also targeted the field of Internet of Vehicles, and have put forward their own "car strategies". Recently, oppo wallet APP, together with Xiaopeng, SAIC Maxus and JiKr, has launched the bluetooth car key function of mobile phones. This joint is also a further expansion of OPPO's ecological layout of car-machine interconnection after successfully launching the mobile phone Bluetooth/NFC car key function with many car companies such as Ideal, Weilai, Changan, ANDD in 2021.
Speaking of which, OPPO's products and the linkage of the car in the past two years have enriched a lot, and its 2021 high-end flagship OPPO Find X3 series mobile phone has realized the interconnection of the car machine with the ideal car, and the mobile phone can be used as the bluetooth car key of the ideal ONE, and the door can be unlocked when the mobile phone is close to the vehicle. Moreover, OPPO also integrates the function of controlling the vehicle into the negative screen widget, in addition to displaying the vehicle's endurance information, it can also honk the horn to find the car, and when it is hot, it can also open the window in advance to dissipate heat or open the air conditioner to cool down.
Interestingly, for some low-end or a few years ago, the central control screen is small or even not, OPPO's first folding screen Find N also has a built-in targeted driving mode, and its 7.1-inch inner screen is very suitable for central control operation. In this mode, the common apps in the car machine such as navigation, music, and contacts will be displayed in the form of large icons, the operation is simple and direct, the response is smooth, and it also supports voice wake-up calls, playing music, etc. When navigating, the body of the screen is used to show road conditions, preset locations can be selected above, and there is a music playback module. In view of the fact that many car owners like to use CarLife and CarPlay to project mobile phones to the screen of the car machine, the driving mode of OPPO Find N is enough to meet the needs of most car owners.
In fact, OPPO's research in the automotive field is much more extensive than what we have seen, and it is understood that OPPO has applied for more than 60 patents for automobiles, including vehicle positioning methods, devices, vehicle positioning systems, car ranging devices, ranging methods, cameras, lighting controls, etc. In the 2021 China Autonomous Driving Patent Application Ranking released by Zero One Think Tank, OPPO ranked 41st, higher than the ranking of many car companies.
Recall the statement of Chen Mingyong, founder and CEO of OPPO, at the 2019 OPPO Future Technology Conference: "If automakers can't build cars, OPPO has this strength, and will try in the future." Even if you build a car, you will focus on the areas that OPPO can do well. "This also makes us full of imagination about OPPO's development in the automotive field."
From the current point of view, although OPPO has not announced that it will build a car, it has made quite sufficient preparations, from the preliminary research work to many patent applications, and now we can contact the mobile phone Bluetooth car key, car-machine interconnection, etc., let us have reason to believe that OPPO may not be far from building a car. I hope that in the near future, mobile phones will achieve true ecological interconnection with smart homes and smart cars, covering life and travel needs, let's wait and see!