The Phantom of the Yang Ye: FlyMe 5.0 Future built-in O2O exclusive applications

December 4 News, the Phantom of the Family headquarters in Zhuhai yesterday, the vice president of the Yang Ye accepted Tencent Digital exclusive interview. In front of the face of the dark blue coat slightly shy of the chief designer to speak but give an orderly feeling. As the owner of the FlyMe business, Yang Ye's main task at this stage is to promote the traditional mobile phone manufacturing company's management model to the Internet company model to change.

When I first joined the demon family, when I was designing M8, M9 and even FlyMe, Yang Ye kept very close contact with Zang. Dozens of phone calls a day, work to the early morning 2, 3 point is often the thing. Since the work involved at the time was very much like it, many of the work was carried out after they were discussed and then assigned to subordinates for execution. But now, Yang Ye slowly away from the meticulous work of the content, although this will make him a little sense of loss, but for the overall development of the whole family, this is a change that has to be made.

"Even so, I will choose some interesting projects to participate in to meet their desires." "Here, Yang Ye, this is the technical origin of his most true feelings revealed." Yang Ye said that after the takeover of FlyMe, the former vice president Ma Lin also gave him some advice and support in the handover, but since then there is not much overlap.

"At the beginning of the year, there were some turbulence inside the company. But now many former employees have returned to the family. "At this time Yang Ye eyes firm, seems to want to convey a word but did not say:" Today's charm family has been different from previous years.

FlyMe Stability: In addition to special circumstances, adhere to the weekly update

Since Yang Ye is primarily responsible for flyme business, our interviews are also based on flyme experience and future layouts. In the system itself, FlyMe is not the most perfect. Before the charm family focus on functional and interactive design experience, but the beginning of the past year, the charm family gradually to the system stability, fluency, power consumption, such as these people loved to raise the problem to a new height, for users of the bug problem, the special technical team will be resolved in a timely manner. Indeed, since the beginning of this May, the Phantom system firmware has been divided into "experience" and "stable" two versions, the former suitable for a taste of the user choice, the latter more stable.

"At this stage of the FlyMe system update cycle, in addition to a number of specific time points, such as for a larger version of the preparation will suspend the push update, the other time will be updated weekly." Yang Ye added.

FlyMe 5.0: Adjust the design idea according to the user's usage habit

When it comes to the most impressive changes in each generation of FlyMe systems, Yang Ye Frankly, "too early a version has been written." Simply put, the FlyMe 3.0 is more simple, there will be a little cold feeling, and FlyMe 4 design is to show a richer visual, living experience, this transition is very obvious.

And in the adaptation of Android 5.0, the charm needs to learn Android 5.0 new APIs, such as animation, graphics rendering, power optimization, and so on, in addition to Android 5.0 new "Material design concept" for the charm of the family also need to be further absorbed, Then use FlyMe own style to combine. Yang Ye says there are two main ideas for future transplants. The first is to transplant the existing flyme directly. The second is to make flyme more meaningful, thoroughly absorbing the elements of Android 5.0 and then customizing.

Yang Ye also said: "After FlyMe 4 based on Android 5.0, the future FlyMe 5 will have a greater boost in animation graphics." The current creative process is still a divergent phase, there are a lot of inspiration, and gradually do subtraction. The idea of design is to adjust to the cognitive changes of the user's usage habits. "The form of the phone is changing, from the initial call tool to the current life assistant, the mobile phone is given more mission, these new scene content will become FlyMe 5 development direction."

Payment: FlyMe future will be built O2O exclusive application

Half a month ago, the Phantom of the MX4 Pro officially released. Although it is much better than the MX4 in hardware configuration, the position of the home button from the front of the fuselage can be seen differently at a glance. Earlier in the Phantom MX4 Pro Press conference, the Phantom President Bai Yongxiang said Mpay will and Alipay, micro-letter payment cooperation, in the first quarter of next year will have a result to show to the user.

At present, Yang Ye is also mainly responsible for the payment of business promotion, he said: "The cooperation of several Parties are in progress, but the fingerprint is not so simple, this requires a lot of joint, so the project is very complex." "Yang Ye promises to Bai Yongxiang the first quarter of next year to make something presentable.

When it comes to fingerprints, consumers have no safety concerns. The answer to this Yang Ye: "It is precisely because it is not guaranteed, so is the safest." This is a technical solution because it is an independent system in a completely closed area of the system. On the other hand, in cooperation, the Charm clan and service, content providers to establish the best cooperation. The idea of FlyMe future security cooperation is to build a platform to access good services.

and millet investment, shares and other play different, the charm because of lack of funds, so can not and millet use the same strategy. However, Yang Ye revealed that in the millet 1.8 billion stake in Archie Art, the charm family is also in and Youku to discuss cooperation to build content, so in any case, the charm family also did not ignore the construction of the content. This form is not only pre-installed applications, FlyMe will use the depth of cooperation, access to the system applications to enhance the user experience.

Talking here, Yang Ye also revealed a rather heavy message. "Now the enchantment is embarking on a new application in the O2O field, which will be introduced as a built-in application of the inner charm, such as catering services." "It can be imagined that the future plus payments will form a consumer closed loop, because FlyMe can integrate more Internet content, services, and functionality, and today's flyme has changed from a single system to a platform."

Fit: FlyMe 4 supports old model and 6 third party equipment

Before the Charm clan officially announced FlyMe 4 system will support MX2, MX3 and other old models, Yang Ye said the adaptation process is relatively smooth. This is mainly because the Phantom of the MX2, MX3, MX4, MX4 Pro These models overall industrial design structure is consistent, so the system interaction level does not need to make too big changes. However, because of the different resolution, it is difficult to guarantee the consistency of the experience, so it is the charm of the current adaptation in the larger difficulties. But Yang Ye says the charm clan has now found a way to solve the problem of adaptation.

In addition to their own equipment, FlyMe 4 also began to adapt to a number of third-party models, including Samsung S4, Samsung Note 3, LG G2, HTC One, Nexus 5, Sony l36h.

Smartbar: New solution has been found to resolve compatibility issues

If FlyMe is the soul of the Demon clan, then Smartbar is the key element that runs through the FlyMe. In the FlyMe 2.0 version, the Phantom has joined the Smartbar Smart Bar. "The only way to change the operating mode of the Android native system is to solve those less-than-good experiences," Yang Ye said. ”

Subjectively speaking, this is a new attempt, but also because Smartbar own influence is not so big, so the promotion process encountered a certain resistance. Today's mainstream applications are well suited to Smartbar, but other third-party applications cannot.

This brings a new thought to the family: is it necessary to change the pattern in a new way? Since then, FlyMe 4 upgraded to FlyMe 4.1, Yang Ye says the team has found a new way to solve the compatibility problem, which will be announced in the future.

Suspension ball: As an auxiliary function, improve the single hand experience

Similar to Smartbar, a new suspension ball design was added to the FlyMe 4.1 system of the Phantom MX4 Pro. Yang Ye does not deny that this is a similar design, but he explains: "This is a new attempt by the Charm clan to solve the Smartbar problem." ”

Starting this year, the enchantment has set up a project called the FlyMe Laboratory, which is a kind of representative of the Laboratory project. The projects here belong to a more interesting new design. As an auxiliary function, the goal of the suspension ball is to meet the needs of a group of users, through the adjustment of position, pull down, slide, click, double-click, and other ways to improve the large screen mobile phone single hand operation experience on the deficiencies.

Yang Ye explains: "FlyMe's operating habits have always been uniform." For example, in the black screen, the way to exhale the notification bar and in the system to operate the suspended ball effect is consistent, this is a great feature of FlyMe. ”

Optimization: ISP algorithms differ in different CPUs

In addition to focusing on new features, users also value existing system optimizations. Before I used the media evaluation version of the Phantom Clan MX4 and MX4 Pro, I found that the same 2070W pixel and IMX 220 sensor camera imaging is different, mainly MX4 Pro image details have smear and sharpening phenomenon.

Yang Ye said MX4 Pro is not fully produced, in the camera aspect of the ISP algorithm is very important, that is, software algorithms, such as white balance, metering, denoising, and so on, this part of the MTK and Samsung Exynos effect will be different, in the future volume production version of this problem will be improved.

Plagiarism: UI homogeneity cannot be avoided, content service is watershed

Now that the smartphone industry has developed to a new level, the problem with homogenization is so serious that it is more visible in the operating system UI. Yang Ye that this homogenization phenomenon is unavoidable, this will cause a certain challenge to FlyMe, now through the surface to do the difference is difficult, more important is the product details, the accumulation of interactive details who can do the meticulous, in the entire platform of construction, content, service is the key.

Yang Ye further said: "In content, the Phantom Music, video, Application Center, gaming platform has been established with Internet content providers to form a business model, which will be the advantage of the charm race." ”

NEW: Do not exclude the introduction of other custom systems of the Phantom phone

Looking to the future, the Charm clan will also launch two new models in the next, but the specific product information currently Yang Ye is not convenient to disclose. But I guess, compared to 1799 Yuan MX4, there will be a cheaper new product launch. In addition to the YunOS version of MX4, when asked if there are other system versions of the Phantom of the New machine, Yang Ye replied that the charm will not deny any possibility, these work is done, the future may be introduced other system version of the Phantom mobile phone.