when using mobile phones is advertisements. The weather, browser, file management and other APPs are everywhere. If you accidentally click on it, pop-up windows will appear. Many users are disgusted. Now search the Internet for "mobile phone comes with it." "Ads" pop-up content is often how to close the ads? Which phones do not have built-in ads? It can be seen that everyone has already hated advertising. Many people may use online methods to try to close the ads, but here I want to tell everyone, don't listen to people on the Internet, even if you use these methods, there will still be some ads!
Some mobile phone manufacturers may see that users have such a demand, and will in turn take "no ads" as a selling point, such as Smartisan OS (unfortunately now there are nut phones), hydrogen OS, etc., many people buy These mobile phones have taken a fancy to their pure system. Not long ago, Meizu’s newly launched Flyme 9 also brought this “epic” change (no ads means a significant reduction in revenue). The Meizu 18 equipped with the Flyme 9 system is known as 0 ads/0 push/0 pre-installed, pure To what extent? When you use the Meizu 18 mobile phone to post Weibo, you don’t even have a small Weibo...
In fact, in addition to eliminating useless ads, Flyme 9 also removes some redundant elements and adds some intuitive and practical designs. , Function, the whole system is quite "clean". For the mobile phone system, addition is easy and subtraction is difficult. Every time a feature is added or deleted, it needs to be carefully considered. Because of this, netizens have mixed reviews on Flyme 9. How good is the new system? What are the slots in use? I have been using Flyme 9 for a few days. I will share with you today. In order to let everyone better understand the changes in Meizu’s system, I will compare Flyme 8 with it, hoping to give you a new understanding of Flyme 9. .
Design: Is there any internal flavor of iOS 14 and OriginOS? It's not...
We can feel the design changes of the system from the Flyme 9 conference alone,For example, desktop widgets have been added, desktop application icons have been more regular, and the grid system has been optimized. Many people say that there is an internal flavor of iOS 14 and OriginOS. To be honest, I thought so at the beginning, but after using it, I found that, Although the desktop design is similar to iOS 14 and OriginOS, many details include Meizu's unique careful thinking, which other manufacturers do not have.
In Flyme 8, the icon shape of Meizu mobile phone is round and square, while Flyme 9 emphasizes a unified design language this time, so the icon shape has been redrawn, and each icon adopts a rounded rectangle style. , Also developed a set of algorithms separately to adapt third-party application icons. In addition, the patterns in a large number of icons, such as game center, mobile phone housekeeper, theme beautification, toolbox, etc., have also been redrawn, and the color of some patterns has been uniformly changed from dark to light, so that the design language of each UI element of the system is relatively Same (Flyme 8 on the left, Flyme 9 on the right).
Long pressing the APP icon can also directly trigger some functions in the APP, which does not exist in Flyme 8.
In the desktop design, Flyme 9 deletes some small components in Flyme 8, such as the search box, recently used APP, weather, etc., and the desktop looks more concise. In the negative one-screen design, the applications of Flyme 9 are all rounded rectangles, and the distribution is more symmetrical, clearer, and orderly than Flyme 8. You can find the functions you want to use almost at a glance, removing a large number of elements and changing colors. The lightness also makes the user's mood more pleasant (Flyme 8 on the left, Flyme 9 on the right).
In the previous generation of Flyme 8, the tools and functions in the drop-down menu are dazzlingly placed in it. In Flyme 9, the rectangular card with the R corner dominates. Put the commonly used tools At the top, the functions to be used are placed at the bottom, and there is a lot of blank space, which is more organized in the past, and users can find a certain tool or function in the first time.
However, there is also a slot. Although the placement of the Flyme 9 and OriginOS function cards is different, the filling color is dominated by blue, which also makes Flyme 9 look a bit like OriginOS.
Even though Flyme 9 has made drastic improvements on the icons and desktop, after clicking on the application, such as the clock, calendar, mobile phone manager, etc., the UI design inside has not been greatly modified, almost exactly the same as Flyme 8. At most, the color is lightened.
The above are all visible changes of Flyme 9. Next, I will tell you about several personalized designs of this system. The first is its screen interface. This time Flyme 9 adds more rich screen styles (Flyme 8 on the left and Flyme 9 on the right).
mainly contains simple text (the text can be modified by yourself), exquisite static pictures, fancy time display and so on. Quite interestingly, you can add more information in the information screen, including time, Gregorian calendar, lunar calendar, notifications, power, weather, number of steps, and number of unlocks.
can also customize the screen display, that is, you can put your favorite photos and GIFs on the screen display. However, what I don't quite understand is that when you use a custom screen display, you can't display notifications, steps, unlocking times and other information. I hope Meizu can improve it in the future.
One thing that is quite emotional is that the small circle reminder light also returns in this generation. Users can select the circle option in the screen settings, and then they can see the classic small circle breathing light reminder when the message is prompted.
Another aspect of personalization is the wallpaper. The setting path is in the "System Appearance". Alive wallpaper is the main feature of this time. The main purpose is to allow users to enjoy beautiful transitional effects when they experience the screen-lock-screen-desktop, similar to the MIUI 12 super wallpaper. In Flyme 9, a custom option has been added to the Alive wallpaper,When the user chooses the picture he likes, the system can automatically generate a dynamic effect that matches the color of the picture, which is quite cool. Anyway, after I use it, I can't get it back. When can MIUI system follow up?
In the wallpaper design, in addition to providing many exquisite themes, Meizu also has a wave of emotions, allowing users to choose Flyme themes of the past, so that kerosene will travel through the days of using Meizu mobile phones.
interaction: mBack and gesture navigation two in one
In the past Flyme system, the classic mBack navigation is one of the favorite interactions of kerosene, and now in the whole series of Flyme 9, mBack can be integrated Navigation and full-screen gestures are merged together. In the settings of mBack navigation, a side-slide return switch has been added, and mBack itself has also added a side-slide multi-tasking function.
When using the mobile phone, you can realize the full-screen gestures of sliding back, sliding from bottom to top, and calling out multitasking. You can also touch mBack to return to the previous page, slide up or press mBack to return to the desktop, Swipe mBack application switching, long press mBack to turn off the screen and other mBack operations. For old kerosene, it can be used quickly, but for new users, it may not be suitable at the beginning, and it will be quite convenient after a long time of use.
's new features
talked about design and interaction, let's talk about the new features of Flyme 9.
The small window mode is a very practical function in the Flyme system. By Flyme 9, it has become more mature, not only can adapt to various usage scenarios, but also the gesture interaction has become more abundant (note that some gestures and mBack There is a conflict, so it cannot be turned on at the same time).
call mode supports active opening and light opening. The active opening is to call out from the lower right corner. Currently, all applications are supported. Click the "More" button,You can use the small window to open any application without adding; light opening means that in a certain scene, when you need to jump to other applications, the small window will be automatically opened, such as text operations, sharing to applications, quick reply notifications, etc., now at station B Sharing videos no longer requires full-screen jump sharing as before, and direct sharing in small windows.
When you call out the small window mode, Flyme 9 supports a variety of small window mode gesture interactions, specifically, a small window slides and hangs to become a floating small window, click the floating small window to return to the small window mode, Pull down the small window to change to a full-screen application, double-click the floating small window to change to a full-screen application.
In the floating window mode, there is no need to look at the screen, and the window can be fixed in the corner to run; if you don’t need to listen to the floating window, you can press and hold the floating window to close the sound, and you can also control the size . The functions of
Aicy have also been updated. In Flyme 9, Aicy can bring notification announcements (triggered when the lock screen is connected to the headset), article voice reading (supports 3 tone options), and smart home control ( Support Lipro smart home platform products, Mijia, Google and other smart home platform products); and Aicy screen adds listening to songs to recognize music, and one-click recognition of BGM when scanning short videos.
In the image section, in addition to some new filters, Flyme 9 also adds dynamic photos, which can capture some dynamic scenes. After pressing the camera button, it will be recorded in the form of a 3-second high-quality video Next, it is similar to Apple's livephoto; video playback adds thumbnail display, video editing supports frame-by-frame playback, cropping, color adjustment, adding music, and so on.
The privacy part is not mentioned here, it can be roughly divided into four types. The first is the guardian scepter (notify authorization inquiry, network authorization inquiry, and the front desk initiates AI interception); the second is the all-seeing eagle eye (application behavior record, sensitive behavior reminder, application management suggestion and application explicit indication); It is the invisible boots (positioning authorization, fuzzy positioning and other photo privacy management); the fourth type is the privacy cloak (blank data authorization, clipboard read and write permissions, limited access to the gallery, limited access to files, file deletion protection).You just need to know that Flyme 9 can protect your privacy perfectly, and the effect is even better than iOS 14.
Summary
Light and orderly interaction and vision, novel and rich personalized experience, and intimate motion design, the three together form the cornerstone of Flyme 9's design. From my perspective, after three days of use, I can feel that Meizu really intends to "return to users" this time. The entire system is quite clean, and the security guards are particularly good. Of course, there are some slots. For example, the drop-down menu is too similar to OriginOS, the custom screen interface cannot display more information, the mBack and small window modes cannot exist at the same time, the Aicy screen recognition advantage cannot pop up when facing the video... I hope Meizu will be in It can be improved later. This system can be considered as a new beginning for Meizu. Many people may think that the Meizu 18 series is too expensive, but it is worth the extra 300 yuan to use a pure, individual, and safe system.
Finally is the adaptation plan. Meizu Flyme 9 will be launched on Meizu 18/Pro for the first time, while Meizu 17 and Meizu 17 Pro have started internal testing (there is no quota before publishing), and the stable version will be released in May; and the Meizu 16 series will also In the adaptation, there is no specific push time yet, the old kerosene is in a complicated mood...
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