Introduction to Hammer Phone

Before the press conference, for Luo and his smartisan, we carefully do not have any reports and comments. Only after the conference was held did we get to the basics of the Smartisan OS Understanding of the old Android third party . And, as many readers know, ROM has a lot of innovation, but in the audience, it seems not as good as he had previously claimed.

At the press conference, there was no other thing than a huge hammer on a screen that was not 16m x 9m. The scheduled 7:30 conference was officially started, but at around 8, Luo and his sense of humour appeared before the audience. At first, the old man said he had waited for 9.5 months, and now he finally met with everyone, so he began to explain the question of jumping the ticket on December 1.

He said the millet people told him that the first version of Millet used 6 people two months, so he felt that the team of 7 engineers is enough, but by December did not feel reliable, so the high-profile announcement of the nearly four-month jump ticket. And this conference, the old said he also has no confidence in the development progress, so prepared 10 machines, if the crash immediately change one. After the press conference, Mr. Luo said he would slowly expand the team of engineers to around 150.

How to design a cow x mobile OS?

Lao Luo said that because their Smartisan OS to the original Android system made a lot of low-level changes, so he does not feel that their products are often referred to as the UI, and he is not a humble person, so the ROM is called the OS, not called UI. After that, Lao Luo has introduced their OS from three aspects of vision, function and humanized design.

One, visual

The iphone was released five years ago, and it was 2,098 days yesterday. Mr. Luo said that over the 2000-and-a-day period, all mobile phones have grown to the same point: rounded rectangles. Even the app icon for Ball Games has become square, even including toilets. So he thinks it's unhealthy, and icon should think of Apple's OS X icon, and what it's like. But the big icons put 20 icon and too crowded, small and not good-looking. Another consequence of the rounded rectangle mutation is that all the vendors who make the default wallpaper with landscape images are all hicks ...

So they put 12 icons on their ROM, removed the text, and then the background nine Sudoku block form. When he put the 16 icons of their own design out of the scene, there is no cry, to tell the truth, in that color background, there is no surprise. So the old began to release their design of the third party icon and the original big picture comparison, when put on the Yahoo icon, only the audience applause for the first time, because the new icon is indeed quite funny.

Smartisan os out icon under the default has app name, but can all turn off. I don't think it's a good design, removing names will increase the cost of identification, and most users will not give up usability because of this beauty.

Then the third party icon modified by the old Luo Dolphin browser (personally think the big picture is quite good), as well as Baidu's "Wolf Claw." Mr. Luo said that the first batch of them was ready to draw 1000, and already drew two hundred or three hundred. In ROM, the system also defaults to provide two kinds of icons for users to choose, a third-party icon behind the designer to introduce the link, the old Luo said that their application store will allow designers to submit design changes to the app icon.

This setup page will also have a certain threshold for users, not everyone will open and choose carefully. As for the Third-party designer icon of the crowdsourcing form, there is no one to use I do not know, but at least this gives designers and users a choice, this is commendable.

Changing user habits is a dangerous thing for a manufacturer.

Old Luo said 2007 years when the iphone just released, also can't change wallpaper (I think at that time because the system is imperfect, the second is because the concept of wallpaper is not popular), so they do not have wallpaper, nine Sudoku became a topic (personally think that the section of the scene demo very ugly). To solve the wallpaper problem, they changed the lock screen interface to wallpaper.

Visual Interactive animation

For the Smartisan os nine Sudoku themes, the scene audience is obviously not feeling. When the old man in the demo animated icon animation, the scene is still not surprised, only polite applause. Later, Lao Luo demonstrated his very favorite stopwatch, timer, the world clock, and so on, still did not exclaim, only old Luo's human flesh sound effect.

Stopwatch support multiple people form (Millet V5 version also have), the pull of the timer is very handsome, the world clock shakes can be automatic to its second hand, and the last point, the old Luo said this reflects the hammer technology company's humanistic feelings, light is not enough to look good (although in fact there is no need for the second hand). Oh, that's right, Mr. Lo also shows the Smartisan background, which looks exactly like the BB10 task card.

With the domestic first-class designers, old Luo's third party icon design is indeed very good, even than the millet V5 icon is good. For the visual animals, this will definitely catch them, because most people would prefer a better icon (assuming, of course, to change the ugly theme background).

Second, function

At this stage, Lao Luo shows many Smartisan OS telephone, Address book function.

List of address lists can be sorted by name, location, frequency, add time: Sort speed the scene looks very quickly, not knowing what will happen to thousands of people with hundreds of people.

Frequency list can be manually intervened

Default Support number Attribution function: More like Tinyfool friend map.

Round head icon, Sina Avatar Automatic import: In the future will support Renren and so on.

Nod like a pop-up fan menu: Use the path, but with the avatar on the left, the right-handed user will be very inconvenient.

Group function: Bulk SMS single hand operation is very inconvenient, because the demonstration of the main points and the lower right corner and the upper right corner.

Later, Lao Luo also demonstrated his previous in micro-Bo spit the ICON classification function-Initiator (laucher). Smartisan support to the nine Sudoku interface scaling into 36 sudoku (also can do desktop use), there will be 81 palace (4.7 inches, 5 inches), but each screen has no set name. Its app transfer screen, a key classification, the entire screen hidden, the whole screen lock and so on the function did win the audience bursts of exclamation, this point is really good, although the individual details experience is still not good (such as the whole screen unlock open, do not count the input password required four steps).

Obviously, the old ROM in a lot of innovation, these innovations seem simple, but many manufacturers do not do. This is very embarrassing for the industry, although these features in the details have yet to be optimized, but the overall still very much look forward to.

Third, humanization

SMS Send cancellation: delay 3-5 seconds to send, (do not know if the delay in the state can be directly exited).

SMS in the notification interface directly open: can also directly view, reply, voice, delete, call back.

Important note information when calling: For example, "Secretary Zhang's brother-in-law", "last time I borrowed 1000 dollars has not yet return the guy."

The world clock shows local and field time: There are weather and timing shows that can only be seen in the world clock interface.

In any case, manually rotate the screen to adjust the screen direction: With two thumb slide left and right can make the screen turn, need both hands to operate

Brightness adjustment of the fast transfer mode: need to use in the open screen state, the lock screen may still be volume adjustment.

Calendar to build weather reminders, Spring Festival Seven days automatically show the lunar calendar.

Photo and video separate: Video status under the "for the compatibility of playback, please horizontal screen shooting" text reminders.

Horizontal shooting has this aspect to save tips: let you browse the picture is always positive, not 90 degrees to adjust the direction of the picture.

Photo Mirror effect: When you can click on the upper left corner, you can switch your eyes and others in the eyes of you two kinds of photos. (This feature is very intimate, but in fact, other mobile phones by default are the eyes of you, superfluous)

Global gesture Sweep App Logo: The palm of the screen scan, the whole screen app's corner sign will be clear. It's amazing what the old man called "Blessed are those suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder" (see chapter II of the Gospel of hammers). Well, this feature is really useful for the ugly part of the hammer ROM horn.

Multi-national language with national flag display: When you inexplicably set a language that does not understand, in the settings page can be found through a number of national flag familiar with the language. He called it "no matter how far you go wrong, take you home." This is really awesome, the scene also sounded enthusiastic applause. (But this function is actually basically not used, 99.99% of users may not be used for a lifetime, this does prove that hammer technology is a feeling company.) )

Mr. Luo said these small details of the design there are currently 75, but it is possible to launch in the future will be removed several items, it is possible to add some. Compared to the functional, humanistic chapter really played the advantage of the old Luo-the ultimate pursuit of detail. And these humanized improvements are basically innovation, many seemingly simple but no one to do, I think, including Apple, any ROM manufacturers should reflect.

Voice + unlock

Through "Touch + voice" to solve the practical problem of voice software: put to ear automatically turn on the phone function, say the name of the automatic dialing, say the song name automatically play (during the conference speech repeatedly identified errors, the old Luo also said this function only tested a week, but also very imperfect).

But the Address book intimate design and voice automatic dial telephone function repeat, and voice touch control need to use in the open screen state, but the old Luo said not to open the phone, voice will automatically prompt the choice, do not know whether the technology can be perfectly realized.

Intelligent unlocking via the "Distance Sensor + key": The Smartisan OS will be able to detect whether the screen is turned on by distance from the sensors (it will automatically light up when nothing is in front of the phone). What if your phone is at the table, at home or in your hand? Old Luo said the system will use the power button to confirm the lighting command, press the power button, the cell phone sensor in front of no object occlusion, automatic lighting screen. What if you just want to see the time in the lock-screen state? At this point you can press the home key to open, the system will not automatically unlock. What if the phone doesn't have an entity home button?

In addition to the above problems, through the power button and the home key to unlock two ways for users, remember that the cost is also relatively high, no one is willing to tangle the two unlock way. And most of the user details are not so high, many people are willing to go through two steps to unlock.

Here, the conference is basically over, and finally he explained why the mobile phone and why the system is called Smartisan OS (because Lao Luo has a artisan heart, but this trademark is registered). Behind the old Luo also said that their ROM will be pre-installed in the MO, micro-letter, micro-Bo, Youku, Sogou input method, and so on, all pre-installed software can be unloaded. OS fonts in the future may be with Chinese fine black, letter black, founder Black and other domestic font cooperation. And for two men and a woman three employees zhaoqin, grateful CyanogenMod open source team.

Although Smartisan OS is not a very perfect ROM, but this is enough to make the industry ashamed. Icon design first-class, humane details are very good, but other general, there are advantages, there are slots. And, of course, how much can the hammer ROM change for the Android platform? For everyone, the program remains the most important. What the hammer ROM can change is the attitude of domestic manufacturers and developers to the details of the product, and let them know that if you don't pay attention to the user experience, there is always a hammer beating you.

Smartisan OS will provide a public beta download on June 15, and Luo has repeatedly said that their hammer phone will be online early next year. Anyway, for me, this is still very much worth looking forward to.