The breakthrough of the entrepreneur! New development of smartphone

If "Chi-key", "Rice key", "fast button" also calculate intelligent hardware, smart hardware development will face the lowest threshold of history. Zhi, MyKey, fast button These three and headphones connector shape is very similar to the button, in the insertion of smartphones, and with the use of special app, you can bind short press, long Press, continuous press shortcut key functions, so as to achieve the camera, flashlight, recording, home key, such as key functions.

This will be the lowest threshold ever for smart hardware

At the beginning of January, the message said: 360 will launch the Chi key, before this also has launched a fast button entrepreneurial team, Taobao has been on the spot sales. Last week, Zhou 祎 a high-profile launch of the Chi key, let it more attention. Now Millet has accelerated the follow-up, launched a similar product rice key, so that this small things become more and more important.

Zhi, MyKey, fast button The product principle of these three buttons is the same as using the smart phone's line control headset interface button to send digital signals to the phone, and then through the mobile phone pre-installed app software to capture signals and preset response to start an application, the operation of the underlying hardware functions, More tasks can be done in the future, such as controlling smart homes. You can think of it as part of a line-controlled headset + a dedicated app.

Users can not buy the Chi key, as long as there is a line-controlled headset plus a smart app can fully realize the function of the CHI key. Lei technology Netizen has been measured successfully. And in 360 of the official forum of the key, also have netizens with line control ear head welding an intelligence key. For 360, millet and other companies, only need to develop a product specifications, do a good job in product industrial design, can find a rapid production of Shenzhen manufacturers, for 360 of the production of intellectual key samples of manufacturers more than one.

How much is the hardware cost? Close to 360 Chi key team revealed that 360-chi key and no independent packaging, before the introduction of the rice key, is intended to work with 360 portable WiFi packaged sales, pricing in 25.9 or 29.9. and 360 portable WiFi price of 19.9 yuan, the market price of the key is about 6 yuan, the cost of how much can not be estimated at present, such a product is to rely on quantity to win, in the large-scale production, the cost will be significantly pulled down. Have independent packaging MyKey starting only 1 Yuan 1, 360 chi key is supporting the adjustment of sales strategy. Close to the free scale, and other hardware with sales is the inevitable path. Taobao fast Button 28 yuan in the Mail, fast button pricing should be around 20 yuan, by 360 and MyKey impact is relatively large.

Therefore, from the hardware cost, technical content and supply chain requirements, such as dimensions, button-type products are very low threshold, very easy to be copied, but also easy to spread out, so that the real "hardware free."

The crux of the matter is, after spread out, can build up user stickiness. This needs to work the software level, so that the CHI key can support more convenient operation, control more equipment, compatible with more ROM, this is the technical work, more is the integration capacity, so that other applications, equipment, systems are willing to be compatible with you. Thunder Technology test shows that Zhi has a very small compatibility problem. For the FlyMe system of the Zhi, there will be errors or failures. iOS will not give the smart key too many opportunities, while the bottom of the open more Android is fragmented features, modified ROM dazzling, everyone wants to control the bottom.

Entrance ambition is not a fantasy

When Apple and Samsung are trying to get the phone button to the extreme, the real purpose of the method of loading the new button on the phone is to summarize it with an old topic, which can be said to be a gateway to the smartphone and form its own application ecology. Smart Hand Ring New My founder Gao's evaluation of the button is more straightforward: The Giants ' entrance thinking makes them want to insert everything they can.

Buttons are not strictly intelligent hardware. They do not need to have the ability to compute, much less proprietary operating systems, only the peripheral devices of smartphones. Their key software problem is still the internet's idea that, through the open interface, other apps or devices can support button operation, and then access the button's platform. These apps can be games or hardware products like smart homes.

Internet companies can make buttons work closely with their own services, allowing users to use their own service experience better and have more opportunities to be activated and applied. 360-chi Key has its own mobile phone security services and Zhi combination. MyKey claims to be more manipulative because it can be used in depth with MIUI.

Many people wonder if the key is what users really need? Users can use the home key, volume key or to open the key to define the shortcut functions, operating apps, smart homes can be touched screen, why do you need more than one CHI key? In addition, headphone holes are the location of headphones, many times are occupied. Look at the sales of Wi-Fi products and how popular they are among student groups, and it's not doubtful that smart keys can get a sizeable group. The smartphone user base is more than 500 million, and their needs and habits are diverse.

360 took a gamble on the matter of Zhi. The message from Ray technology is that 360 smart hardware utilities are being independent, and Zhi is ranked higher than the Wi-Fi priority. 360 in accordance with the importance of business arrangements, Chi-key team has more important work station.

Entrepreneurship around smartphones

Before the shortcut button, there are other solutions around the phone's sound hole. Square card reader, Lakara card reader inserted into the headphone hole can be interactive with the app, Veme Mobile power can also be connected to the phone through the headset line after the card. Most hardware entrepreneurs are focusing on smartphones.

The first type of peripherals has nothing to do with intelligence. For example, mobile phone shell, smartcover, mobile phone foil, headset fish skeleton, dust game such things, there are so-called million-cell phone stent, to help users in bed and other occasions to facilitate the use of mobile phones. These products do not require apps and are difficult to combine with Internet services and software.

The second category is to solve the mobile phone's endurance problem. Mobile power, mobile power with swipe-card function, thin and capacity-balanced "blade" mobile power supply, and wireless charging equipment, using kinetic energy, solar energy and even the use of microwave power charging technology. Some of these products began to try to intelligent, short-term mobile phone is difficult to solve, external power is becoming necessary.

The third category is to solve the mobile phone input and output. Can connect the mobile phone's Bluetooth WiFi keyboard, the use of image technology projection keyboard, so that the phone has a better shooting effect of the external lens, even the phone can have a microscope function of the lens, as well as Bluetooth audio, WiFi headphones are becoming a new hotspot. Theoretically portable WiFi, 4G card Such products are also in the solution of the mobile phone input and output problem.

The fourth category is the largest category, the mobile phone (flat-panel) as the center of intelligent Hardware.

Smart TVs (boxes, shadow sticks) began using mobile apps as remote controls; smart Homes (smart appliances, smart routes, WiFi sockets, smart locks, nest and even smart curtains) use mobile apps as a control center; Wearable devices include Google Glass, smart watches, Oculus, hand rings, Adult toys, including mobile phones as a control, communication and storage hub; Intelligent solutions for automobiles, such as CarPlay, pressure monitoring of the iron Tseung, car search applications, use of smartphones (tablets), personal medical monitoring, sports tracking coaches, smart toys, aircraft, and even mobile payments, All around the phone for product design, the hardware era app is still indispensable.

Smartphones connect to other devices via an interface such as WiFi, ibeacon, 4G, or sound holes. The future of the intelligent hardware world, it's not just a smart phone. A central point to the multiple structure, but a network structure, smart watches, smart glasses In some cases can also be the hub of other smart hardware, but smartphones are they can not go around the ridge: computing, storage, communication, interaction.

No matter how smart hardware develops, smartphones will remain invincible in the foreseeable future as the center of the future world. The opportunity for intelligent hardware developers is to build a holistic approach to hardware, software, communications, and cloud services around the center to meet the needs of users and to give users a new, soft and hard cloud integration experience.