Tang Zhouming frowned. When he decided to develop a smartphone project before, he thought that it might be difficult, even more than when he first developed the A1 e-reader. After all, Onyx technology at that time was just an empty standpoint.

But after this real development, the difficulty encountered was beyond Tang Zhouming's imagination, and the funds had been overspent long ago, so there was no need to consider this at all.

Tang Zhouming looked at Ning Yanlin, Xiaona Boller and others. He was basically responsible for the entire new project, and he was also the one who was most familiar with the progress of the entire project.

“Not ideal!”

Looking at Chen Chu, Tang Zhouming took out a piece of information and placed it in front of Chen Chu. "Whether it is design, technology or parts, it is too difficult to meet the requirements you set by Mr. Chen!"

The smartphone Chen Chu wants is a real touch screen smartphone, not a shelf like Onyx electronic readers. Apart from physical keys such as boot and volume, there are no other buttons.

This design requirement is more advanced than the already bold enough P1 e-reader design. All controls are controlled by the touch screen rather than by buttons. This kind of mobile phone almost completely subverts the current mainstream mobile phone design!

It can even be said that it is a completely different electronic trend design, which can affect the whole body with one blow. Not to mention other conditions, but to meet the screen touch requirements required by Chen Chu, Onyx Technology requires that it redevelop applicable screen technology.

Then the internal functions of the entire mobile phone must also be changed, including system and software functions. If these are only made on traditional functional mobile phones, the difficulty will be very high.

But for Chen Chu's defined smartphones, it is just a beginning. For example, it can freely install various applications provided by the app store on the mobile phone developed by Onyx Technology, and then install games and run them. This is not an electronic device that combines emails, calls, and music together, but a powerful computer that is comparable to a miniature version, and even more powerful than some computer functions!

"Mr. Chen, the design has been revised seventeen times, this is the latest version at present!" Zhang Yanchuan, chief designer of smartphones, said to Chen Chu, and placed the thick design manuscript paper in front of Chen Chu.

He is the chief designer of the entire project, and Zhang Yanchuan is mainly responsible for the appearance design, but the design is not designed as he wants. Even if he designs it well, if the internal parts are changed, the style, weight, and size of the entire product will be changed, and Zhang Yanchuan can only change it.

Because whenever internal parts are changed, there is definitely no way to do it, so you can only make changes. At this time, Zhang Yanchuan had to follow suit. I don’t know how many times such a scene has happened.

For those involved in this project, this project is almost becoming their nightmare. No matter which department changes, the entire project changes, but the performance requirements of the entire smartphone have not been reduced at all!

What caught Chen Chu's eyes was a design that was very similar to later smartphones. The whole product was full of industrial technology, with a white and black appearance. There was no physical appearance, but it had a visual impact.

Zhang Yanchuan is absolutely outstanding in being selected as the chief designer and has no product to refer to. However, Zhang Yanchuan has a vague feeling about the kind of smartphone that Chen Chu asked for.

Zhang Yanchuan even felt that this product, which is completely different from mainstream mobile phone design, has a more industrial aesthetic than the current flip, slide, and straight-panel feature phones.

This Onyx brand smartphone design has a straight-board design, but the buttons are completely removed. The entire front screen occupies more than three-quarters of the body. There is only a black gem-colored He key below, and there are two buttons on the right side, namely the switch sound and adjust the volume.

The entire body design has only these three buttons, which completely subverts the current mainstream design. Even Zhang Yanchuan plans to place the He button below on the side of the body. However, the design is too shocking, and Zhang Yanchuan still retains a button on the front of the body to prevent users from accepting it.

Although it is just a design drawing and it is not known how long it will take to get the prototype, Chen Chu still feels inexplicably familiar when seeing this design drawing. His sense of identity with the design on this drawing is far greater than that of the current monotonous and boring feature phones!

Of course, if you look at it later generations, this Onyx smartphone is almost full of frustration. Onyx Technology is preparing to promote this smartphone as a full screen, but the screen is surrounded by black frames. If you put it later generations, you will definitely be teased that the black frame on the screen can kill people, but in this era, this is already unimaginable.

"According to the pre-designed function, all operations of this smartphone can be solved with just one click, including sliding unlocking, that is, it can automatically light up and close the screen after using the He key. When you unlock it to the phone, you only need to slide to unlock it!"

Zhang Yanchuan said, after all, there is always a gap between reality and ideals. Some of the requirements mentioned by Chen Chu and Zhang Yanchuan and Tang Zhouming have been realized, while others have no trace at all.

However, the sliding unlocking, which is the most representative of smartphones, has been developed, and screen wallpapers, main interface wallpapers, etc. can be replaced. These are the first implementations in the mobile phone industry.

There is also multi-touch control, which can control the phone by clicking the screen with a finger. This is the first time that multi-touch technology has been developed, it has been completely applied to consumer electronic products without the help of any physical buttons.

Although we have not seen the entity yet, many problems have been solved. Chen Chu is already quite satisfied with it. What he wants now is when to see the prototype. After all, no matter how good the design is, it must be realistic.

"The screen problem is the biggest. Onyx Technology uses its own developed capacitive touch screen. Although the experiment effect is good, the lag is too serious!"

Tang Zhouming said that the screen of Onyx electronic reader has been initially produced. Although the screen provided by the partner LG is also used, some have begun to produce their own screens.

Before we really entered the OLED panel era, although generation gaps and technical gaps existed, they were not insurmountable. If we missed this period and wanted to catch up, it would be really despair. Maybe it would take ten years to achieve results!

After thinking for a while, Chen Chu said to Tang Zhouming, "Let's cooperate with LG to develop a new generation of screens. The funds are provided by Onyx Technology. The applicable screens will be developed as soon as possible. The technology and patented Onyx Technology must be held, and at least they must be held together with LG!"

There are only a few companies in the panel market that are good at technology, Sharp, Sony, Samsung, and LG, but Sharp has no need to mention it, it has completely fallen out with Onyx Technology, and Samsung is also tense with Onyx Technology. After counting it over and over again, it can only be considered a partner with LG.

This kind of door-to-door cooperation is basically a slaughter, which is equivalent to Onyx Technology's investment in cooperation with LG for research and development, but LG will have to take at least half of the results of research and development. This is still good. For example, Sharp is even more overdoing the development of an e-reader screen. Not to mention the money, he has never paid attention to cooperation with Onyx Technology at all. The production capacity has never met Onyx Technology, and in the end he can only turn to cooperate with LG.

This is a situation where people are controlled, but if you want to launch a product next year, you can only choose to cooperate with other manufacturers, and in the end you have to give up some of the profits.

"We must work hard to cooperate with LG. We can invest more funds, but we must ensure that the final capacitor screen is provided before the prototype!"

Turning his head, Chen Chu looked at Xiaona Bore and Ning Yanlin, "What is the processor and system, now?!"

If the screen problem is still just the appearance, then the processor and system are the core. It can even be said that smartphones sell processors and systems. In the later generations, why did major manufacturers turn into data emperors? Before they started selling products, they promoted the processors they were equipped with, the system optimization they used, etc. In fact, the products of major brands are basically the same, and they can only compete with product data.

Onyx smartphones, full touch screen control is just a gimmick. In fact, it is used to attract users' eyes. The real importance is to support the processor and system of the smartphone. Use these to tell users that a mobile phone can be controlled only by clicking on the screen with your hands, and can also realize many functions. This is the key.

"Chan, no one can do the requirements of Onyx smartphones!"

Shauna Bourle rarely complained, which shows that this time, even he felt a lot of pressure. "The chip laboratory will provide a chip that can be used for smartphones on schedule!"

"But there may be many shortcomings," Shauna Boller added, Shauna Boller said in truth, "The brand new design, Onyx Technology's metal shell, will block the transmission of wireless communications, and Onyx Technology's smartphone will face the problem of weak signal."

Electronic readers and smartphones are two completely different products. The latter is several times more technically difficult than the former. For Onyx Technology's chip business, communication chips are a completely new field. Even if there is a big guy like Shauna Boller in charge, it is still very difficult to grasp.

"Dual-core processors, baseband chips, cannot be used on smartphone chips." Shauna Bore said regretfully. Onyx Technology has been developing dual-core micro-terminal processors for a while and has accumulated a lot of technology, but the risk is too high and unstable, so it is naturally impossible to use them this time.

As for base chips, it is purely too difficult. At present, the mainstream market is still the Texas Instruments set. The processor and the baseband chip are separate, and the integrated baseband processor is still not mainstream.

However, the baseband is separated from the processor, that is, purchase from different manufacturers, then connect and debug. Not to mention the technology, optical signal instability is a big problem, even Onyx Technology is the case, let alone other manufacturers.
Chapter completed!