On the eve of the official autumn press conference of the two manufacturers, the highlights of the leaked news about the Huawei Mate50 series and iPhone14 series also pointed to the "satellite communication" function. The Huawei Mate50 series has indeed become the world's first smartphone to support Beidou satellite communication, although only It can use Beidou satellite to send short messages, but it does fall into the category of satellite communication. Since the Huawei Mate50 series was released earlier, some netizens joked that Huawei intercepted Apple in terms of satellite communication function.
Just as people were waiting for whether Apple would add more complete satellite communication functions to the iPhone 14 series, they found that Apple did not introduce satellite communication functions as the main function of the iPhone 14 series. The new pill-shaped screen design on the front became the main feature of the iPhone 14 series. One of the highlights, the most important thing is that Apple has played new tricks with this "pill" panel in combination with the software system, and the official call it the "Lingdong Island" function. The design of
"Lingdong Island" is only placed on the two models of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. The reason why it is called Lingdong Island is because Apple reminds various software terminals of call, listening to music, recording and other status reminders. The notification is combined with this pill panel and can be displayed as a longer pill shape. This freely changing size and outline scheme is very flexible in visual effect, thus covering up the abruptness of the special-shaped screen.
Currently, Lingdong Island's solution is only applicable to some software notifications and reminders that come with iPhone, but the development interface of this function has been opened to third-party APP application developers. Given the closed-loop ecosystem of the iOS software system, for Apple, It is not difficult to make third-party APPs also adapt to the display effect of "Lingdong Island", it just takes a little time.
If the reason for using the full-screen pill solution is just for the Lingdong Island visual effects, then Apple really has no technology upgrade. In fact, the reason why the two models of the iPhone 14 Pro series adopt the pill design scheme is more important because the front-end I feel that the screen panel area occupied by the lens module has been reduced by 31%, which means that the screen area occupied by the entire Face ID solution is smaller.
Satellite communication is not a popular function. At least at present, few people may use this function. Huawei Mate50 series satellite communication relies on Beidou satellite and is only suitable for domestic use. In fact, the iPhone 14 series also supports satellites. Communication function, but its satellite communication service can only be used in the United States and Canada. Whether it will increase support from other regions in the future is currently unknown. Perhaps it is because this function is not popular enough, so there is no too much at the launch conference of the iPhone 14 series. Introduction, but the iPhone 14 series has added another security protection-related function - car accident detection. The implementation of the function
mainly relies on six dimension states, including the drastic speed change of the acceleration sensor, the sudden change of the vehicle direction of the gyroscope , the change of the in-vehicle air pressure detected by the barometer , and the violent impact recognized by the microphone The sound, as well as the motion algorithm developed by Apple's laboratory based on collision tests in various directions and existing car accident data, make judgments on the status of the car accident detection. When the iPhone 14 series detects that a user has a serious car accident, it will actively trigger SOS emergency rescue. Call and notify emergency contacts in advance.
So for Apple, Lingdong Island and car accident detection are the two highlights of the iPhone 14 series. As for the satellite communication function that many people pay attention to, perhaps when this function is more complete in many years, Apple will only be in this regard. There will be greater investment in R&D.
