Chapter 2648 Fairy Smart Bracelet
In the office, Xiao Qi held a black bracelet made of plastic in his hand, slowly watching and pondering.
This bracelet is about the size of a watch strap, but it is slightly thicker. In the middle is a curved LCD screen about the size of an adult's thumb, which is shining brightly.
If you look at it at the end of 2013, you can tell at a glance that this is not the smart wearable bracelet that Samsung just exposed - Gear Fit?
However, in this life, Xiao Qi created the Gear Fit more than three years ahead of schedule, and improved it to form a brand new smart bracelet.
The people in the laboratory promised in June that they should be able to create the fairy bracelet by the end of July, but until now halfway through November, they barely finished the engineering samples.
The reason is naturally that they got stuck on several important technical problems.
The first is the curved LCD screen required by the smart bracelet.
They didn't realize it at first, and Xiao Qi didn't bother to remind them, they followed the method of using a transparent curved plastic layer on the surface and an LCD screen on the inside, but they made it completely different. And it is very cumbersome to operate, and there is no sense of intelligence at all.
So they tried to change the material, and after looking around, they found that in Xiao Qi's design, the screen and the touch screen were actually integrated, so they remembered that the OLEM folding screen and hyperboloid in the laboratory Screen research has long been carried out on a large scale.
Therefore, they planned to use curved LCD screens, folding screens and curved screens. The laboratory staff were more than happy to let the fairy smart bracelets be their test products, so they actively cooperated. After two months, finally Made a barely passable LCD screen.
The LCD screen is ready, and the touch screen is made of soft and sticky material, so it is easy to fit together.
The second difficulty lies in the system design of the smart bracelet. And the deployment of page look and feel, resolution and sensitivity.
It seems very simple, but they found it when they tried it with a common 2-inch LCD screen. Making a fuss on such a small screen not only tests the size of fingers, but also tests the development settings of the system.
In order to satisfy users in Asia, Europe and the United States, they spent a lot of hard work and found a lot of departments to cooperate. Finally, they can achieve great improvements in touch sensitivity, page refreshment, and intelligent sensing. progress.
third question. It is the matching problem of these functions and the curved LCD screen.
Flat LCD screens and curved LCD screens are quite different in terms of touch feeling, force and precision.
If it is used by ordinary people on smart bracelets, a little discomfort will affect their experience. This is a very fatal shortcoming for a product.
So just the modulation and testing of this curved LCD screen took another month.
In the end, I tried hundreds of products, and gave them to people in the company for trial, feedback, improvement... and so on. Until today, they dared to show it to Xiao Qi.
As for the time limit that they swore to promise before, these guys never dared to mention it again.
Samsung's Gear Fit isn't a top-notch smart wearable. But in Xiao Qi's view, it is because of this curved LCD screen. It is enough to not be outdated within five years, just like the Apple mobile phone has always been a touch screen, but it can be prosperous for ten or eight years.
It is rumored that Samsung will launch a hyperboloid or single-curve mobile phone in 2014. Because the size is getting bigger, it is more difficult to make, but correspondingly, the sensation will be bigger and bigger.
Looking at the curved LCD screen in his hand, Xiao Qi can imagine that after the birth of Samsung's curved LCD mobile phone. It should have the ability to compete head-on with Apple.
But this life is different, not only the smart wearable device was first invented by Fairy Company. Together with the curved LCD mobile phone, it will also be invented by Fairy Company. Even if Samsung has such a plan, it will only fall behind Fairy Company.
Putting aside his thoughts, Xiao Qi pressed the power button on the side, and the boot pattern was still the familiar cartoon fairy dragon.
Similar to other products of Xiannv Company, except for a power button, the rest of this smart bracelet is selected and determined by touch, and even the volume buttons are controlled on the LCD panel.
The functions of the fairy bracelet are not too many. Now some of them are detecting the number of running steps, calories burned, heart rate detection, weather and time display, alarm clock and schedule reminder.
Compared with the original Gear Fit, there are less phone calls and text messages. This is also Xiao Qi's intention. Otherwise, it is so perfect when it comes up, how can it be upgraded in the future?
Even so, this fairy bracelet made according to Xiao Qi is exquisite enough.
Xiao Qi tried various function selections. With the support of the weakened version of the fairy system, the function selection and demonstration are very smooth and very convenient, and the vertical pages are more adaptable.
It is a little uncomfortable because the 2-inch curved LCD screen is too small. Compared with the 5-inch large screen of the current smartphone, it is not so easy to press.
"According to our tests, this fairy bracelet is very easy to use. During the one-week trial period, everyone felt that it can facilitate their lives and have unique features in helping to exercise the body." Sun Manxue said with a smile, "Many girls even said that after having it, they can basically put down their mobile phones and go for a good run for a while!"
"What about the shortcomings?" Xiao Qi asked.
"Because it is an LCD panel, it is inevitable that it will not get wet. It would be better if it can be made waterproof." Sun Manxue said.
"The waterproof level is not difficult, but let's do it for now, and wait until the second generation is upgraded." Xiao Qi pondered, "Your laboratory should also hurry up, about the next generation of Dream Pad and Dream Stars. Waterproof research and development should be launched in 2012 at the latest."
"I know that the experts hired from Germany are already developing it, and we will fully support them in terms of resources."
Nodding his head, Xiao Qi put down the fairy bracelet and said, "How much is the cost?"
"The lab made more than 900 pieces. If it is mass-produced, it should be controlled at around 600." Dai Xiandao, "The main reason is that the configuration is relatively high, the RAM has reached 512M, the memory has reached 2G, and the yield rate is low. 95% of the curved 2-inch LCD screen, so the cost cannot be controlled for the time being. At this price, the touch screen of Chenhong Optoelectronics on Baodao is better, but the quotation of Wintek Technology is actually at a loss, and now many Mass production is still difficult, and it is said that the yield of the latest batch is only 88%.”
"The laboratory gave them the design drawings and requirements two months ago, and they have been experimenting, but the results are not very good." Sun Manxue added, "However, their spirit of learning and scientific research is commendable. Some time ago, according to reports from the engineers we sent, several of their deputy general managers in charge of technology lived in the factory in turn, and they held meetings at any time to solve problems.”
"They have seen the future of the new high-end curved LCD screen. They know that if this is done well, there will be LCD orders for curved mobile phones in the future. Are they still willing to work hard?" Xiao Qi said with a smile. cause for effort.
In this regard, Xiao Qi also agrees very much.
Interest can promote people's progress, and greed can also lead to technological innovation.
If you want people to work hard for no reason, maybe once or twice is fine, but if it goes on like this, no idiot will persist.
The price of the fairy bracelet is much more expensive than that of the millet bracelet that costs less than 100 yuan in the previous life, mainly because of the different functions and grades.
The Xiaomi Mi Band is more of a sensor. It needs the help of the screen of the Xiaomi mobile phone to display various functional patterns, such as the number of running steps, calories burned, etc., and it is completely invisible if you hold the bracelet without the screen alone. to something.
"So, when will Wintek Technology plan to supply us?" Xiao Qi asked.
"They promised to provide 1 million screens by the end of the year." Dai Xian replied, "From next year, it can be increased to 500,000 screens per month."
Xiao Qi nodded, this amount is enough.
The practicality of the smart bracelet is not great, but the portability and trendy feeling are very attractive.
Now the cost is more than 600, so if you add marketing costs and profits, etc., you have to sell at least 1,000 to be profitable, and I have always disliked low profits, so I have to sell at least 1288 in China, and 188 in foreign countries. Dollars.
The average sales volume of 500,000 yuan a month is quite a lot.
It is really very popular, so it is also possible to expand production and give some orders to other LCD panel manufacturers.
In the product sequence of Fairy Company, not all products must be like mobile phones and tablets, which can make a lot of money. Many products can also build a smart ecology around the Fairy system, so that the Fairy system can be integrated into people's smart life. middle.
As long as you master these users, it is the greatest wealth, which is much more cost-effective than the best-selling of a single product.
When every smart product they use is a product of Fairy Company, can they choose not to continue to own Fairy Company's products in their later lives?
This is the user viscosity that businessmen pursue!
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