The Collision of Souls What can Flyme Auto bring to Lynk & Co 08?

It only takes one sentence to ignite the expectations of charming friends: Don’t come here to admire you when you are brilliant, and don’t turn away when you are at your lowest.

I am afraid that even Bai Yongxiang himself did not expect that this famous saying born in the MX4 period could span a generation of youth and be used at the Meizu 20 launch conference.

This time Meizu returns with new bonuses, and its deep binding with Lynk & Co brings a whole new connotation.

As a Lynk & Co car owner and a Meizu fan, this grand "double material" launch conference gave me an experience like the Chinese New Year. Although Shen Ziyu was a little overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of Meiyou, but after hearing the repeated "No Meiyou, no Meizu", some dust-laden memories still made my nose sore.

On March 30, Meizu and Meiyou both had a new friend - Flyme Auto. Leveraging the pioneering popularity of Lynk & Co 08, the software-based mobile phone industry and automotive products have once again ushered in a seamless integration of experience. This is not only a collision of inspiration and ideas, but also the first time Meizu has demonstrated its capabilities in software development after merging into a major manufacturer.

When Lynk & Co’s cars have the soul of Meizu, a truly smart cockpit feast begins.

In order to refine our views, we will analyze Lynk & Co 08 and Flyme Auto from three directions.

●About Lynk & Co 08 - Brand-new artistic conception design concept, unchanged urban oppositional aesthetics

In this Meizu-led press conference, Lynk & Co 08 became Meizu 20 series green leaves. In a sense, it is no exaggeration to call it the most expensive and valuable official accessory in the history of mobile phones. When Lynk & Co 08 slowly drove onto the stage, the applause and cheers from Meizu friends were not at all perfunctory. They obviously knew the importance of this model in Meizu's future development.

From a positioning point of view, Lynk & Co 08 is the design pioneer of the Lynk & Co brand in the 2.0 era. This new large 5-seater new energy medium-sized SUV has many prefixes, but when you actually see it, You know how forward-looking thinking and vision Lynk & Co has when conceiving the concept of urban oppositional aesthetics.

The Lynk & Co 08 is inspired by The Next Day concept car. The new daytime running lights and the luminous LYNK & CO logo are important elements inherited. In the new energy era, cookie-cutter products are not eye-catching, but individual designs will create unlimited possibilities.

Inspired by this, Lynk & Co has given the urban oppositional aesthetics a new look. Without the "frog eyes" and rounded lines, Lynk & Co 08 pays more attention to the sharpness of the product and the cyberpunk vision. Perception. It will give people an indescribable sense of fit. Just like Meizu 20 series mobile phones should have straight screens and stainless steel frames, Lynk & Co 08 also has the ability to make people recognize cars at a glance.

It is true that this ability needs to be stacked up by details, so we saw hidden door handles, frameless rearview mirrors, wipers integrated on high-mounted brake lights, and concave and convex Front and rear light groups, etc. Lynk & Co's new concept has deeply influenced other product lines under the same group. For example, Geely's extremely exciting new model has the shadow of Lynk & Co 08.

The interpretation of the configuration is not comprehensive now. After all, the parameters of Lynk & Co 08 will not be officially announced until the Shanghai Auto Show. But now, we can still outline the outline of the product through some brief information.

Its length, width and height are 4820/1915/1685mm respectively, and the wheelbase is 2848mm. The rim size of high-end models is 21 inches, and there will be new colors such as Kuangjing Green and Sunshine Silver. Inside the car, we will see a 12.3-inch full LCD instrument panel and AR-HUD. Combined with three different color interiors and Harman Kardon audio, Lynk & Co 08 undoubtedly brings an exciting set of features. Interior combination.

The core highlights of these configurations are all displayed by the 15.4-inch floating central control screen. Its hardware is naturally excellent, with a 2.5K resolution and an 8.2mm screen frame, which almost puts a tablet on a car. But ultimately, Flyme Auto is still its biggest highlight.

With the powertrain still unclear, I don’t want to whet everyone’s appetite anymore. Now that the Meizu 20 series has paved the way, we will divide Flyme Auto into two parts: "organic" and "inorganic" to demonstrate their interactive experience and performance advantages in different scenarios.

●About Flyme Auto - combine with Meizu products to experience the unbounded ecology

The Meizu 20 series has been warmed up for a long time, and it has reached the point where the official will use it to make jokes at the press conference. extent. However, perhaps the aura of the new phone is too dazzling, and the top product of the Meizu 20 series "Meizu 20 Unbounded Edition" has become the best beneficiary of the confidentiality work. It is precisely based on this product that the presentation of Flyme Auto is uniquely charming.

When using a mobile phone as the hardware base, the effects that Flyme Auto can achieve are simply staggering. For example, when you bring a Meizu mobile phone into the car, the central control system of the car will seamlessly switch to the mobile phone mapping mode. At this time, all the information received by the mobile phone can be presented on the car screen, and even small windows can be realized. mode operation.

This unified interactive experience demonstrates Flyme’s integration capabilities with the same account but different terminals. In order to make the concept of boundless reality concrete, Lynk & Co teamed up with Meizu to build Flyme Auto into a true interconnection system of all things.

Let’s imagine the most common scenario:

The user is bringing his mobile phone to get into the car, and UWB opens the door lock. When the user gets in the car, the mobile phone and the car system are seamlessly connected. The songs the user is listening to on the mobile phone can be played directly on the car system, and the planned navigation route can also be displayed directly on the car screen. When it was discovered that there was another software update for the car system, the mobile phone had already directly upgraded the car system through OTA.

This is not a groundless conjecture, but a scenario that Lynk & Co can already realize. With mobile phones as the hardware foundation, the interactive experience of the car-machine system will be upgraded with product upgrades. It can be in units of months or years. The experience of the car system only depends on how often the user changes their mobile phone.

According to Mr. Shen, traditional new energy vehicles have five domains, namely power, chassis, cockpit, autonomous driving, and body. But when Flyme Auto comes out, future Lynk & Co models will gradually unlock the sixth domain - the mobile phone domain.

It is obviously a bold idea to use the mobile phone as part of the vehicle domain controller. However, as Mr. Shen said, in the future, car and machine systems that cannot be interconnected with mobile phones are destined to be eliminated, and the pace of the Internet of Everything will not stay still just because of our ideas. After technical support becomes feasible, the arrival of the mobile phone domain may only be a matter of time.

In fact, when the Lynk & Co brand was first born, it proposed the concept of being a "smartphone on wheels". Now teaming up with Meizu to create Flyme Auto is completely a well-thought-out brand building. Breaking through the closed ecology of the car-machine system and combining it with mobile phones is probably the best solution at the moment.

If Linux is used as the underlying development, the future interactive experience will definitely feel deeply fragmented. Just like Mac users find it difficult not to use iPhone after becoming familiar with the operating logic, Lynk & Co and Meizu also hope that every Lynk & Co owner’s mobile phone in the future will be a Meizu product.

It is true that some users do not want to be bound by hardware. Maybe they are technology enthusiasts like me, or maybe they are used to the ecosystem of other products. But even without Meizu mobile phones as the hardware foundation, Flyme Auto can still rely on its own performance advantages to "dimensionally reduce" other similar systems.

●About Flyme Auto - born with a halo, independent and unafraid of challenges

Before talking about performance, I would like to talk about a product point that has been ignored by many car companies.

Perhaps it is because software has a higher priority in terms of practicality that many companies will ignore the important role of appearance in the entire interactive experience. In fact, Flyme’s fame is inseparable from its fresh and elegant UI design. Now, Flyme Auto has also inherited this advantage.

Even as an independent Flyme Auto, its interface design still has a strong Meizu flavor. After several generations of Android return gesture changes, Smart Bar came to Flyme Auto in another form. Its appearance not only integrates the key information on the air conditioner and the Dock, but can also adapt to the user's operating habits in different scenarios.

What I personally appreciate the most is the newly designed time engine and weather engine, which respectively bring weather wallpapers similar to Alive and more scene-oriented Ruran air conditioners. Needless to say, the former is a classic interface for many mobile phone interactive systems, but for the first time in a car, Flyme Auto incorporates the weather concept.

In addition to a more elegant and beautiful interface, real-time weather changes are also of practical significance to drivers. Ruran air conditioners have a similar concept. Users may not understand the perceived temperature in degrees Celsius, but when Flyme Auto brings scenes such as "cold dew, morning breeze, warm sun, and fireplace", users' needs for temperature will become clearer.

The core supporting these engines is the Yikatong chip that has made great contributions. Lynk & Co 08 is equipped with the Antola 1000pro computing platform, which integrates two high-computing power 7nm self-developed chips - Dragon Eagle One. The computing power of this computing platform is equivalent to two Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155s, and the total NPU computing power reaches 16TOPS. Without it, all the beautiful visual effects on Flyme Auto would be impossible.

As one of the first owners of the Lynk & Co 03, I have almost witnessed the entire process of the Lynk & Co brand’s car-machine system from “unsatisfactory” to “dimensionally reduced”. Now that Flyme Auto and Yikatong chips have come out one after another, in addition to lamenting the development of technology, I am more pleased that the Lynk & Co brand is willing to absorb the opinions of users.

With performance support, Flyme Auto can boldly enable the small window mode and the feature-rich Aicy voice assistant, which are Flyme's well-received features on the mobile phone.

Dynamic camera movement, such as pinching with three fingers to return to the desktop and one-shot to the bottom, completely integrates the ease of use and beauty of Flyme Auto.

Of course, as the first model of Flyme Auto, Lynk & Co 08 is also equipped with 60W wired charging and 50W wireless fast charging. The charging power of the latter can theoretically allow the phone to recharge in half an hour. Combined with the power information leaked from Lynk & Co 08, this speed may be only slightly slower than a fully charged Lynk & Co 08 battery.

●Summary

I don’t want to overemphasize that I am a Lynk & Co car owner and a Meizu fan, as this would appear deliberate. But in fact, I have been impulsive for both brands. They have a similar charm, that feeling of "if you don't buy it now, your whole youth will be full of regrets."

If we just talk about experience, Flyme Auto is important enough to be written into the development history of the Lynk & Co brand, regardless of whether it has mobile phone hardware support or not. It saved the Meizu brand and also injected a shot in the arm into Lynk & Co’s less dazzling car-machine system.

Looking at today's automobile market, you can count on one hand the number of companies that have perfectly replicated the experience of mobile phone systems on cars. As latecomers, Lynk & Co and Meizu have brought certain functions and technologies to new heights. Even if the fan filter is stripped away, I am still willing to give it an evaluation of "will bring a revolution to the car system".

Frankly speaking, Meizu flymeauto breaks through the last barrier between mobile phones and cars, bringing a seamless application experience between the two. Lynk & Co 08 consists of a car and a mobile phone to form a more complete and full-scenario smart cockpit. It also avoids the sense of separation between in-car and out-of-car use, and truly provides an unbounded smart travel experience. The deep integration between Lynk & Co 08 and Meizu is a win-win situation that embraces the trend.

Mr. Shen said that famous companies tend to follow a V-shaped development route, and this is true for both Apple and Microsoft. Meizu, which has already experienced a trough, may not be far from its glory after joining hands with the Lynk & Co brand.

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