These flashy features of mobile phones may have long since been eliminated.

Lead: Android has evolved over the years and now has more than 1 billion users worldwide. The reason why Android is so popular is related to its open source system environment.

Android has evolved over the years and now has more than 1 billion users worldwide. The reason why Android is so popular is related to its open source system environment. The open source system allows more vendors to customize the exclusive UI and add unique features. In the domestic mobile phone market, customized systems are very popular. After constant version iterations, customized systems are becoming more and more fluent and bring many innovative features.

While custom systems have produced many innovative features in the iterative process, only a few of them have been extended, and those flashy features have been eliminated. Next, let's talk about some of the flashy innovations of the previous custom system.

Eye rolling

“Eyeball Rolling” will feel very tall when you hear it. Once this feature is available, you will get a lot of attention. In fact, this function is simple to understand that when the user is using the mobile phone, the front camera is always in the working state of monitoring, capturing the change of the user's eyeball. According to the user's eye movements, some "humanized" operations, such as when the user transfers vision to other places, the phone automatically pauses the video. When you read the e-book, when you see the bottom of the screen, you will automatically turn the page.

This function sounds very useful. In fact, in daily use, the actual effect of "eyeball rolling" is not good. Because the eye control function is very demanding on the angle between the phone lens and the human eye (the brain fills you every time you watch the video is sitting in danger). In addition, the eyeball changes must be clearly monitored, which makes those small eyes feel embarrassed, and do not talk about the mishandling rate, you can imagine, when the video plays ads or boring plot, this will happen to you just pour water.

All in all, the experience of this feature is not very good. When reading e-books, this function can automatically turn pages. At this time, the angle of the eyes is also very harsh. It is better to adjust the angle of the eyeballs at that time. To say that the most practical function of eye control function is to prevent cervical spondylosis. After all, this feature is lacking in experience, and most users will choose to turn off this feature after they have tasted it, and save some power.

In addition, in addition to the experience is not good, the reason for the eyeball rolling short-lived is also related to power consumption. Because the camera and sensor need to maintain real-time monitoring status, this will bring additional power consumption, especially the previous mobile phone is not equipped with a low-power coprocessor.

Hover touch

Hovering touch is also a very cool feature, which was previously supported by the Lumia 1030, Samsung Galaxy S4 and Sony MT27i. Suspended touch, as the name implies, can operate the mobile phone without touching the screen directly with the finger. When the user's finger approaches the screen (about 15mm), the screen can be perceived and related operations. Suspended touch can also sense non-conductive fabrics, so you can use your gloves in winter to operate your phone.

There are quite a few places where the floating touch application is used. For example, when a user hoveres a finger over the text on the screen, the system zooms in on the part, increasing the visibility of the text and enabling a quick cursor movement through the hovering gesture. Such an interaction method can also be used when the webpage is browsed, and the finger hovering causes a part of the webpage display content to be enlarged. On the other hand, the application mainly operates the device by hovering the touch, and when the user hovers over an icon, the operation of clicking the icon can be completed.

In the end, the hovering touch is a bit like the gesture operation. According to the actual performance of the Samsung Galaxy S6, the hovering touch performs better in sliding up and down and left and right, but it often appears unrecognizable in the click performance. The operation of the hovering touch is far less convenient than the direct touch operation of the finger, and the only bright wearing glove is replaced by the mobile glove. The feeling of direct touch is illusory and incomparable with gesture operation, so the suspension touch is actually not very useful except it looks amazing.

Picture in picture function

The picture-in-picture function, as the name implies, displays two pictures on the same screen. Using digital technology, one or more compressed sub-pictures are simultaneously inserted on the main picture that is normally viewed, so that other pictures can be monitored while enjoying the main picture. Originally very popular on TV. In the mobile phone, supporting the picture-in-picture function allows us to watch the video, send text messages, check emails or browse the web, etc. It seems to be a very useful function.

However, this feature is very popular in current mobile phones, and there are many reasons for this. First of all, this function is very popular in TVs and computers. It is because of the large screen support, and the picture-in-picture can also have a good experience. The screen of the smartphone is not big, and the experience of opening the picture-in-picture is also Not as big as a big screen device such as a TV or a computer. In addition, the processing mechanism of the mobile phone is different from that of the computer. The mobile phone software wants to support the picture-in-picture, and needs to be adapted and optimized. If so many mobile phone software are optimized, this workload is unimaginable.

3D Touch

When Apple released the iPhone 6s, it promoted 3D Touch as its biggest selling point. Originally, Apple hoped that this feature would become the standard for smartphones, just like the iPhone 5s released fingerprint recognition at the time. At first, although many Android manufacturers followed up, but almost no Android manufacturers mentioned it, now only Apple has continued this feature.

3D Touch function

Take the 3D Touch function on the iPhone 6s as an example. It combines the “tap” and “slide” modes of action, while the “tap” is divided into “Peek” (tap) and “Pop” (weight). Two kinds of pressing force, the system will get different feedback according to the different pressing strength, similar to the left and right buttons of the mouse, but the pressure sensing screen sounds very scientific and technological, but many users will find this when they actually use it. The function is not as easy as you can imagine to improve operational efficiency.

3D Touch function

In addition, third-party applications support less pressure, and the experience is not perfect, although for Apple, there is enough strength and time to gradually improve it in the future. But for Android vendors, because the Android system level does not provide support, the utility is greatly reduced, plus the support of third-party applications, and it takes a while for users to adapt to this set of operations, resulting in this technology on Android phones. It is difficult to popularize.

What are the relatively mainstream system innovations now?

These features seem to be more of a sneak peek, and may be forgotten after a while. However, some useful features can be preserved, such as split-screen multitasking. This feature is similar to multiple windows on a computer system. Simply put, the screen of the mobile phone is divided into two, divided into two windows, each window can run a separate program, the two windows do not interfere with each other. Users can adjust the size of two windows according to their needs, such as watching videos and chatting with QQ.

Super screenshots are also a very popular feature at the moment. Because in many scenes, a large picture displayed in the mobile phone is beyond the scope of one screen. At this time, using the super screenshot, the user can also perform vertical multi-screen puzzle screen capture, custom pattern screenshot, and the like, which is very convenient. In addition, the application of the avatar is also a function pushed by the current manufacturers. In general, each APP in the mobile phone is independent and can only be installed one. For example, only one mobile phone can be installed with one WeChat. However, many users have two or even three micro-signals, with a work number, a life number, and so on.

These numbers need to be switched back and forth when there is only one WeChat APP, which is very troublesome and may miss important information. In general, the application is a multi-open application, which allows a few WeChat to be opened in one mobile phone, and independent use of each other is not affected, which is convenient.

to sum up:

In the exploration phase of smartphone functions, vendors have developed many innovative features. However, there are quite a few features that are more in the game and have no practical effect. Although these functions don't seem to be practical now, history is always moving forward. Even if the process bumps, these designs will end up in the endless spurs of consumers, or they will soon be replaced by the next good design. . It is also the emergence of these features that allow manufacturers to know the needs of users and develop more useful features.