After completing his visit, Prime Minister Codename A1 returned home first. In addition, he also decided on the destination of his second visit after taking office. He will arrive in China next month.
This also shows that he attaches great importance to China. In fact, he is also the most China-friendly British Prime Minister since the new century.
Barron went to Silicon Valley, ostensibly for his first visit to Woaw's North American branch after its listing. In fact, Ivanta "happened" to be there too.
Android has completed the initial version of the Android system and has conducted intensive testing.
It is now August, and there are only five months left since Baron's previous life when Apple released iPhone 1. iPhone 1 was released on January 9, 2007, and then went on the market on June 29, less than half a year later.
At that time, the first Android phone, HTC G1, was not released until September 2008. HTC G1 used a full keyboard design and was a canopy phone. Its slider was not very easy to use and it was also equipped with a trackball.
At that time, Apple had already released the second generation of mobile phone IPhone 3G...
In summary, compared to the iPhone, the HTC G1 is just an ugly behemoth.
It wasn't until 2010 that the Nexus One jointly launched by HTC and Google realized touch screen mode and abandoned the physical keyboard.
This is also the first mobile phone to be sold independently under the Google brand.
However, not long after Nexus One was launched, Apple released iPhone 4...
It can be said that in the original time and space, the development of Android mobile phones lagged far behind Apple in the early days, and its design also "borrowed" many operating modes of the iPhone.
Now, Honor Electronics' first mobile phone, internally code-named A1, must be a full touch screen in accordance with Barron's requirements - using the capacitive screen of the original Apple iPhone, and the screen size must also be 3.5 inches, so they specially customized it from Sharp.
It's not that there were no touch screen mobile phones before, especially on some brands of PDAs, but now the touch screens are mainly resistive screens, rather than the capacitive screens that Apple later used on the iPhone.
A resistive screen is a touch screen based on the principle of resistance. It is composed of multiple layers of resistive film. When a user touches the screen, the contact between the finger and the resistive film will cause the resistance value to change, thereby identifying the location of the touch point.
A capacitive screen is a touch screen based on the principle of capacitance. It consists of a conductive layer and a sensing layer. When a user touches the screen, the finger carries an electric charge, which changes the capacitance value in the capacitive screen, thereby identifying the location of the touch point.
Simply put, resistive screens can be controlled by almost all objects because they are identified by the change in resistance when pressed. They are not as sensitive as capacitive screens in terms of accuracy, cannot support multi-touch, and are easily damaged.
But now, the cost of capacitive screens is much higher than that of resistive screens, and the choice of suppliers is far less extensive than that of resistive screens. Capacitive screens are currently mainly in the hands of Japanese manufacturers.
South Korea also launched its "Touch Panel Industry Development Strategy" in 2011 and vigorously supported its local touch screen companies. Downstream manufacturers such as Samsung and LG Electronics also increased their procurement from Korean local companies, and their touch screen companies began to grow rapidly.
It was not until after 2012 that Chinese companies began to enter the market and gradually grow.
Whether now or for a long time to come, the largest cost component of a smartphone is still the display.
When Barron and Ivanta entered Android's R&D center together, he got the latest A1 mobile phone prototype. The appearance of the phone is a classic 3.5-inch large screen with a slender home button that is between an oval and a rectangle.
It is worth mentioning that when it comes to Apple mobile phones, many people seem to have the impression that they have already applied for a patent for a round Home button. In fact, what Apple applied for at the beginning were a series of appearance patents, such as the design combination of a rectangular rounded corner with symmetry up and down and a round Home button...
Otherwise, if you only apply for a patent for the appearance of a certain function key, it will most likely not be approved.
After all, in the future, smartphones will be full touch screens with a home button, or full touch screens without a home button. If this can be patented, other manufacturers will not produce mobile phones.
It's impossible to say which company applied for a patent for a car that needs four round wheels...
Android and Honor Electronics have already applied for a number of patents around the world for the appearance features of their mobile phones. Some of their appearance patent applications were applied for earlier than Apple.
Therefore, in this regard, they do not need to worry that Apple will use patent weapons to target them.
It has to be said that after getting used to feature phones over the years, Barron has really regained some of the feelings of his previous life by using a full-touch-screen phone like this. However, it is inevitable that the A1 phone he is using now, whether in terms of operability or the convenience of the Android system, cannot be compared with smartphones more than ten years later.
But compared with previous feature phones, this is a complete and earth-shaking change.
For example, Barron had experience in his previous life, but as for Ivanta, even though it was not his first time trying out this kind of smartphone, he still felt curious and surprised.
As for some of the shortcomings of this mobile phone compared to later ones, many of them are limited by the current technological development and need to evolve slowly.
In terms of the system, the performance of the Android system has been greatly improved compared to when it was first launched in the original time and space. The suggestions raised by Baron only need to be iterated in subsequent versions.
As for mobile phones, they still need to make a lot of changes, but there is still time. Barron originally planned to wait until Apple launches iPhone 1 in January next year before launching this smartphone from Honor Electronics.
Now he couldn't help but have this thought in his mind: could he release his own smartphone ahead of Apple?
But he immediately gave up this idea. After all, he was a major shareholder of Apple. Moreover, the honor of the first epoch-making smartphone was what Jobs deserved. There was no need to snatch it away.
He just needs to do better than the Android companies and HTC in the original time and space, launch his own mobile phones closely after Apple, and not be left too far behind.
Speaking of which, the current A1 phone still looks a bit crude, and it is necessary to improve it when there is more time.
And in terms of appearance design, he also hopes that it has an aesthetic that is different from that of the iPhone.