Chapter 1387 Brand New Touch Operation Patent

After sending Pei Ying away, Wu Tao also knew that Deng Fang was in a mood.

But he didn't take that to heart.

As long as Deng Fang doesn't put his energy and attention on those meaningless rejections and struggles, then it doesn't matter whether he comes to find him or not.

What's more, if you go directly to Qihua Electronics to find Yang Ge, you can directly research the best solution while discovering the problem.

Isn't this better?

Anyway, it would be okay to let Wu Tao come up with a solution, but whether it is the best or not is hard to say.

Putting this matter aside, Wu Tao looked at the recent imagination and speculation on the Internet about the new generation of mobile phones, among which multi-touch capacitive screens have been included.

The new model previously revealed by Nokia is still not a full screen, but a half screen.

Because Nokia believes that the design experience and numerous patents of the full keyboard and the nine-square grid physical keyboard are one of Nokia's own advantages. It is a pity to lose them like this.

Well, that’s what swinging from side to side looks like.

If you are reluctant to throw away the keyboard, then why sign a cooperation agreement with Yuanqi Technology?

This old Jorma is getting more and more confused.

But having said that, Nokia's technical confidence in its own physical keyboard reminded Wu Tao.

For the first time, a multi-touch capacitive screen is used, and most physical buttons are eliminated. In fact, the requirements for virtual button and menu design are extremely high.

At this point, Wu Tao felt that he had neglected it.

I touched the Honor S1 prototype again and took a look. The left and right side buttons are no different from what I remember, including the volume up and down keys and the power button.

As for the keyboard on the front, it turns out to be a home button, plus four direction keys up, down, left, and right.

The four direction keys, in conjunction with the home key, also have other operating functions.

This is a bit different from the design with up to three keys in my impression.

Obviously, this design is redundant.

However, Wu Tao combined the operation with the PALM system and discovered that the design of the five-button mode is inextricably linked to the mobile phone system.

At the same time, in terms of operating habits, it basically continues the style of non-touch screen mobile phones.

This is a bit innovative.

Wu Tao was about to call Leng Ning to discuss it, but the phone on the table rang. When he picked it up, it was Leng Ning's call.

"Boss, Deng Fang..."

"Stop talking about it now and come to my office immediately."

This fiery tone almost made Leng Ning think that he had set himself on fire.

But after all, she grew up under the encouragement of her boss, and her mental endurance is no longer on the same level as a newcomer like Deng Fang.

Pushing open the door of the CEO's office, Leng Ning took a look and saw that his boss was immersed in drawing something, and he didn't look like he was angry.

At that time, I felt relieved, walked a few steps, and rushed to my desk, "Boss, Deng Fang didn't come to see you, but went directly to Qihua Electronics to find a better solution. Don't..."

Before he finished speaking, Wu Tao raised his head and interrupted: "In your heart, boss, am I as small as Deng Fang?"

"No, no..." Leng Ning waved his hands repeatedly and wanted to explain something.

But Wu Tao directly changed the subject and said: "Look at this."

Leng Ning looked at the piece of paper in front of him. There were two sketches in total.

One is a schematic diagram of three physical buttons, and the other is a schematic diagram of a single circular button.

"Boss, is this the new mobile phone button layout you designed?" Leng Ning asked and speculated: "But the three buttons are not enough, and the single circular button is even more useless, right?"

Wu Tao did not deny it: "With the cooperation of the current PALM system, it is indeed unusable. However, if our PALM system can be updated and upgraded accordingly, all operations will evolve from the original text menu type to the element menu type. Way."

"...Changing users' habits from text operations to graphic operations can not only simplify the keyboard layout, but also lower the threshold for mobile phone users, which is equivalent to expanding the target market of mobile phones in disguise."

These words made Leng Ning's eyes light up, "If that's the case, it's definitely a subversive design. Boss, isn't your concept too advanced?"

Wu Tao scratched his head. If he hadn't been too stressed out by the anti-African campaign in the past six months, these design concepts should have been thrown out long ago. Why wait until now?

Of course there is no way to say this.

However, Wu Tao didn't say anything, and Leng Ning didn't find it strange. Instead, he carefully figured out the difference between three-button operation and five-button operation.

"Boss, I have already thought of replacing the up and down keys by swiping the screen. But how to replace the left and right keys? Can your return and menu keys be used as left and right keys?"

Wu Tao pointed to the manuscript paper and explained: "First, the left and right keys on the same screen can be directly controlled by touch, so this is no longer necessary; second, the left and right keys to jump across screens require the PALM system to provide a multi-screen operation interface. Use left and right swipes instead of left and right buttons, so the efficiency of swiping is even higher than operating the home button plus left and right buttons.”

Leng Ning frowned and swiped his palm a few times. It was almost a click.

"You're right. Although I'm not used to it, it's faster and more convenient. But boss, the centralized display of a large number of graphics elements will have a huge impact on the current screen power consumption and the load on the mobile phone's CPU. .So on this point, we need to consider it carefully.”

Caution is right.

Wu Tao nodded. After all, he proposed this idea a while ago, so he clasped his hands and said, "In this case, you first register the relevant patents, and then start two sets of layout patents."

"Okay." Leng Ning nodded.

Wu Tao pondered and continued: "In addition, if the comprehensive graphical development of the PALM system cannot keep up with this year's product release, then we should make some improvements in this direction first. There is also PALM's multi-tasking. In our new generation this year This must be reflected on mobile phones that focus on smartphones.”

"On this point, today's Honor S1 prototype is not doing well. For example, when I was browsing the school network, I was interrupted by a phone call. When I returned to the school network, the webpages were not the same as before. In this aspect, not only It affects the experience and makes it feel like it’s not like multitasking.”

Leng Ning immediately understood: "In other words, the context must be saved before and after switching between different functional modules, and the recovery speed must be fast when switching back."

Wu Tao nodded, "As long as you know. In short, the PALM mobile operating system, coupled with the new component of multi-touch capacitive screen, there are still many areas that need improvement. I didn't mention it in these meetings, because it is yours Matters are not Deng Fang’s scope.”

Leng Ning stood up and said, "I understand, boss, go back and implement it now!"