Flyme7 evaluation: One Mind is fully upgraded, more efficient and smarter.

IT 168 Evaluation For today's smart phones, in a sense, the mobile phone hardware is only the carrier of various functions, and the system is the soul to realize various functions, and its importance and core position cannot be underestimated. Whether it is international manufacturers such as Apple and Samsung, or domestic boutique Meizu, Xiaomi and Hammer, they all have their own carefully customized mobile phone systems. As a pioneer of domestic smart phones, Meizu launched its own customized Flyme operating system as early as 20 12.

Flyme system is one of the core competitiveness of Meizu technology. In a sense, without Flyme, there would be no Meizu mobile phone now. Since the Windows CE era, Flyme has brought a quasi-materialized UI, which is unique in the rough Android system at that time. In the era of Flyme 2, the birth of Smartbar almost changed the life of the classic three-button Android. All operations can be completed through the screen, becoming a generation of classics. Evolved to Flyme 6, and let Flyme have his own life in a moment.

Since then, Flyme has been constantly updated and iterated. The evolution of each generation of Flyme has brought innovative ideas to the entire mobile phone system industry, and it has been imitated and followed the trend again and again, becoming a follower of the Android industry. At the Meizu15th anniversary conference, Flyme was officially upgraded to version 7, and the smarter, more efficient, more worry-free and smoother Flyme appeared for a long time. Today, let's start with the brand-new Flyme 7 and see what changes and improvements have been made in Flyme 7.

New interaction: small and fresh, easy to use

In the UI design, Flyme 7 maintains the same design idea as Flyme 6, and it is still a simple and flat style, but some icons are simply redrawn and the colors are very fresh. The operation logic of the whole setup menu has not changed much. Like Flyme 6, Meizu old users are very convenient to get started and have low learning cost. For the new users of Meizu, the UI of Flyme 7 is relatively flat, and the interaction is intuitive and easy to use.

In addition, Flyme is equipped with interesting animation effects. For example, simulating the weather in the weather APP is more realistic and vivid, and the interactive experience is more pure. And adding voice broadcast function to the calculator, it is still very interesting to use.

Bubble notification: a more efficient and convenient notification method

Speaking of Flyme, your first thought may be a slowly rising blue hydrogen balloon, which is Flyme's iconic animation. In the message notification of this Flyme 7 update, balloon elements are also abstracted, bubbles are introduced into the notification, and a small window reply function is added. Flyme 7 makes the interruption caused by message notification sharply reduced and more immersive.

▲ During the game, there is an incoming call, which does not affect the game at all.

Under normal circumstances, scenes such as playing games are easily disturbed by irrelevant notifications, and messages will block the entire interface of the mobile phone and occasionally cause jams. We have a simple test. When the glory of the king is running under Flyme 7, all the received messages are displayed in the form of bubbles, which will not block the main contents of the game interface and will not cause the phenomenon of jamming. At this point, if it is an unimportant notice, ignore it; If it is an important notice, click the small window button directly and reply quickly on the current page without changing the background. This design logic is time-saving and user-friendly, with seamless regression and strong coherence. You can't miss important news, and it won't disturb your thoughts and affect what you are doing at present. Of course, this function can also be applied to reading e-books, listening to music, watching videos and other scenes, and the speed is quite fast.

▲ Tips will float past in the form of barrage.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the information notified by WeChat in Flyme 7 will float across the screen in the form of barrage. Compared with some systems that just pop up a dialog box without displaying the specific content, users still need to go in to see the specific content. Flyme 7 is obviously more efficient.

Desktop index: small function, great convenience

Desktop index is the function of calling out desktop applications when the desktop applications are complicated. At the press conference, PPT animation showing the effect of desktop indexing attracted many charming friends. In actual use, the visual effect conveyed at the press conference is far less vivid than the personal experience. In addition to making full use of the side, it is no longer the patent of curved screen, and at the same time, it takes care of users with different habits of left and right hands, and both sides can slide; More importantly, thanks to the linear motor, the vibration feedback experience is very delicate, and the feedback feel of the linear motor can be said to be the best experience in Android phones.

In addition, it is more convenient to sort the applications with the same letter. The more frequently you use the application, the closer it is to your finger. Bian Xiao often uses WeChat, Weibo and QQ music, which are always closest to my finger in alphabetical order. This design logic makes it easier and faster for users to open desktop indexes the next time they use them. However, some indicators are simply and mechanically sorted by secondary letters or strokes, which fails to reflect the wisdom and convenience that smart phones should have.

Global night mode: the gentlest night mode in Android system

In fact, the first operating system to launch global night mode on Android phones was Flyme 7. It uses a system-level color conversion system. After the global night mode is turned on, all software and all applications, including third parties, follow this logic, giving people a more unified visual experience. Its convenience and comfort are self-evident, and it is a must for night owls and mobile phone parties. In other systems, the so-called eye protection mode generally adjusts the brightness of the screen to the lowest, and the screen suddenly turns yellow (warm tone), but in fact, the display effect brought by this impression is not bright and comfortable enough.

On Flyme 7, you don't need to endure the yellow and black screen effect like other systems, and you can enjoy the normal night light with one click; Moreover, when switching applications, there will be no glare and tingling caused by applications that do not support night mode. However, it should be reminded that Flyme 7 does not currently support the game to enter the global night mode. After all, the night mode is mainly to support more comfortable reading and browsing in dark light. Moreover, even the most commonly used third-party applications such as WeChat and Taobao have been adapted, and Flyme has indeed made more than superficial efforts.

Data rescue: a life-saving straw when the screen is broken

In Flyme 7, a very interesting function has been added: data rescue. Today's smartphones store a lot of important personal data. Embarrassed, if the mobile phone is not a broken screen, both the user and the mobile phone can't connect to the computer and can't get the information in the mobile phone in time. In this regard, Flyme 7 gives its own solution: as long as you connect the computer and let any contact * # lock screen password # * on the mobile phone, you can switch the mobile phone to USB flash drive mode, and you can read data through the computer without operating the mobile phone.

The author also tried to simulate this function. The analog phone has broken the screen, so you can't operate the phone. There was no response after connecting to the computer, and then a short message was sent to the mobile phone through the number in the contact, and the mobile phone sent a prompt of "connection successful", and then Meizu 15 message appeared on the computer side. Very convenient for emergency. In addition, you can see that Flyme 7 is in the "charging only" state by default when connecting the computer.

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Face Unlocking: More Meaningless Unlocking Experience

It is reasonable for the new 15 series released together with Flyme to adapt to face unlocking, but it is unreasonable for the old 10 models including PRO5 to also open adaptation. It is understood that Xiaomi only began to adapt to new models after the face unlocking was widely popularized, such as Xiaomi note3 and Xiaomi 6, while the flagship Xiaomi 5 and the thousand-yuan best-selling red rice note4X in previous years did not join. In contrast, it is enough to see the tolerance and care of Flyme 7 for users. Although the threshold is low, the quality is not low. Flyme cooperates with Shangtang Technology to ensure extremely fast unlocking speed, high recognition rate and safe unlocking environment.

In practical use, the face unlocking of Flyme 7 is still very convenient, even in the environment with dark light and large angle deviation, it can still be successfully unlocked in less than 1 second. We also verified the accuracy of the live unlocking algorithm: we tried to unlock with photos, but failed, and the security of face unlocking can be seen. Not only that, when we set the password of private applications, we found that the unique biological features of human faces, like human fingerprints, can be used as another way to encrypt and unlock private applications, which is more convenient and diverse.

Personal assistant: a more intimate intelligent assistant

Dedicated, Flyme 7 also joined the personal assistant. In the form of cards, it integrates the shortcut information and services of 16 common scenes commonly used by current users, such as to-do items, commuting road conditions, sports step counting, scene services, parking navigation, take-away ordering, stock quotes, express dynamics, etc. Among them, parking card, take-away ordering and scene service are the special functions of Flyme 7 personal assistant.

For example, when the author travels on May 1, the train tickets booked in advance will automatically generate ticket cards, and the travel time and place information will be clear at a glance, and intelligent reminders will be made according to the information such as road conditions, current location, distance from the airport (or railway station), so as to make scientific travel planning for you. Usually, I will recommend a more reliable takeaway near my mobile phone and place an order directly in the card. For people who have a phobia of choice like the author, this function of Flyme 7 is also intimate.

There are other small surprises.

The small function of intelligent light sense also gives Android the ability to move closer to iOS. Since the advent of smart phones for many years, Android phones have been unable to handle the automatic adjustment of screen brightness well, while iOS has done it perfectly. Aiming at this shortcoming, Flyme 7 optimizes the ability of automatic brightness adjustment and develops an intelligent light sensing system. The actual experience has indeed improved a lot, and there will be no previous splash screen, giving people a feeling of peace and nature.

Smart ear protectors are also available when users are faced with the embarrassment of using headphones. We often have the experience of plugging in headphones in a high volume environment, which makes people unprepared. In the experience of Flyme 7, if the volume is too high, the headphones will automatically adjust to the appropriate volume. If the volume is too high or the headphones are used for too long, a window will pop up to remind you. This humanized highlight is rarely considered by other systems.

Functionally, Flyme 7 is also optimized for the performance and power saving of mobile phones. Aiming at the memory occupation, jam fever, power consumption and traffic consumption of users caused by malicious behavior of third-party apps, Flyme 7 has launched a series of solutions, including frame hosting, audio lock hosting, bright screen lock hosting, broadcast optimization, wake-up alignment, process freezing, etc., which makes the Flyme experience better and reduces the power consumption of the app. The new abnormal App reset mechanism in Flyme 7 will automatically identify abnormal phenomena in the background, and then reset the APP, which can be self-repaired without manual intervention.

Summary: Flyme 7 insists on Slogan to make the experience better, from pixel-level icons and unintentional message notifications to the most advanced intelligent algorithm One Mind and performance optimization, which all reflect Flyme's humanistic care for users. In the actual experience, the functions such as personal assistant and face unlocking in the Yitong Internet plan really helped me greatly improve the execution efficiency, and the small functions such as intelligent light sense really made me feel the comfort that other Android systems did not bring. After a period of use, my biggest feeling about Flyme 7 is that after the comprehensive upgrade based on the difference of ideas, the operation is more efficient and smarter, and there are some intimate and easy-to-use small functions, which highlight the difference between Flyme and other systems and bring me too many unexpected surprises.