After the birth of the iPhone, smartphones have made great progress in the past decade, but in recent years they have also encountered bottlenecks. The design has no new ideas, and the function of squeezing toothpaste has made consumers' desire to buy new machines fall to the bottom. Last year, many manufacturers tried the modular concept, but with the successive failures of Google (Microblogging) Project Ara and LG G5, the dream of mobile phone modularization may have to be put on hold for many years. Now, the manufacturers are eyeing the flexible, bendable mobile phones with their waists. Can such products really open up new markets and avoid repeating the mistakes of modular mobile phones?
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She forced a bunch of mobile phones that were originally rectangular, like a bracelet wrapped around their wrists, causing a burst of exclamation from the audience, and the video recording the process also successfully detonated the Internet.
The bracelet phone, called CPlus, is the concept phone that Lenovo launched in June last year, along with the Moto Z modular phone and the Phab 2 Pro AR phone. Although the CPlus is just a prototype, it has ignited the torch in the flexible folding phone market.
Since performance is similar to existing smartphones, why do we need such foldable phones?
It is true that the collapsible smartphone can break through the ambiguity of the existing smartphone, allowing designers to have more room to play, but what other significance besides this?
Indeed, for example, foldable devices are smaller, their portability is greatly improved, and most importantly, the screen size of the device can be doubled directly under the same size. The new device form can also change people's usage habits, giving birth to more ways to play and play games.
Problem
Lenovo's bracelet mobile phone CPlus is not the originator of flexible bendable devices. In fact, the birth of such prototype products can be traced back to 2011. At the same time, the news of Samsung's folding mobile phone Galaxy X has been passed for many years, and it is expected to be officially launched at the end of this year, taking Samsung's surface concept to a new height. LG, also a South Korean giant, also has a soft spot for flexible screens. The news shows that they will provide flexible screens for Apple, Google and Microsoft next year.
Although it seems that such mobile phones are about to be blown out, it is still not realistic to use them immediately. For such disruptive new designs, manufacturers will be very careful.
Take Samsung's first curved screen concept machine Galaxy Round, it was born in the Korean market after its birth, has not been able to enter the international market, but many key elements of the aircraft has become the cornerstone of the development of Galaxy S7 Edge. Millet's conceptual MIX also limits production capacity due to high cost and difficult process. If a flexible collapsible smartphone is born, its cost, price and output will not be able to quickly spread in the market. At the same time, manufacturers may choose one or two markets for experimentation, and will not be recklessly directly promoted to the international market. market.
Chris of the Life Mobile Group of the MIT Media Lab said: "Don't fold and straighten the phone every day, it will inevitably cause the wear and tear of electronic components, and such devices must be more fragile. They must be used with a protective cover every day. It’s too much trouble.â€
In addition, in order to meet the design of the foldable model, the researcher must also make the internal components such as the circuit and the battery into a bendable form, so that the failure rate of the entire assembly is further improved.
The driving force for manufacturers to fight for the first
Since the development of flexible and bendable mobile phones is very difficult, why do manufacturers still have to rush to invest huge manpower and resources? The fact is that no one can predict in advance which technology will eventually become hot, but once they miss the best time, It is very likely that all are lost. Therefore, a certain amount of technology accumulation is a necessary chip to maintain its own advantages.
Of course, vendors must also be mentally prepared, because new products must go through a series of setbacks in order to find what consumers really want, the PCs of the year, and the current smartphones.
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