Chapter 216 A construction machine with no sense of beauty

However, we have just reached a transfer agreement with Pingcheng.

It doesn't seem right for Lin Hui to refuse the invitation to meet with the handover team now.

You know, although US$45 million has been received.

But after all, there are still several remaining payments for upgrades.

These final payments are not a small amount either.

Therefore, Lin Hui hesitated slightly.

But in the end, there was no shirk.

Lin Hui met Elizabeth Nice at the Northland International Conference Center.

Beiyu International Conference Center is a building completed in Beiyu in recent years.

Lin Hui remembered that in the next few years, this building was once a landmark building in Beiyu City.

It not only covers conference rooms of different sizes.

It also includes academic lecture halls, press conference halls, and reception rooms with simultaneous interpretation functions in multiple languages.

It is said that there are also some multi-functional theaters here that use internationally advanced lighting, sound, LED, movie projection systems, etc.

It can be considered fully functional.

Although much is known about this place, most of this is hearsay.

Lin Hui was not very familiar with this place. This was Lin Hui's first time here.

But compared to other animals, humans have always been extremely adaptable to the environment.

Lin Hui quickly became familiar with this place.

Lin Hui met Elizabeth in a drawing room with simultaneous interpretation.

What they met with Elizabeth Nice this time was not about the further handover of the shortcut command software.

Despite this, Elizabeth Nice's behavior after the meeting surprised Lin Hui a little.

Elizabeth Nice asked Lin Hui to sign a confidentiality agreement.

Lin Hui: (⊙﹏⊙)?Confidentiality Agreement??

Elizabeth Nice actually took out several documents printed in both Chinese and English.

This kind of document looked very familiar to Lin Hui. It was basically the same format as the confidentiality agreement in the document signed during the day.

Lin Hui glanced at it and vaguely saw that the liquidated damages on it were half a million US dollars.

Uh, what's the situation? Are there liquidated damages?

To make it so outrageous?

Lin Hui took the agreement and roughly read its contents.

Only then did Lin Hui realize that it was Guozi who wanted to provide Lin Hui with a batch of mobile phone engineering machines.

Before that, Lin Hui must sign a confidentiality agreement as usual.

The so-called engineering machine is not a high-end gadget.

As a product, a mobile phone must go through pre-research planning, R&D and design, comprehensive testing, media promotion and many other steps before a model is launched on the market.

A mature mobile phone may need many modifications and improvements in various aspects before it can be successfully launched and distributed.

During this entire improvement process, some finished and semi-finished models produced by manufacturers can be collectively referred to as "engineering machines."

The reason why Lin Hui's engineering machine is provided is probably to facilitate Lin Hui's next upgrade.

After all, according to the original contract, Lin Hui had to upgrade the shortcut software to adapt it.

This makes the shortcut software that was previously developed compatible with the upcoming iOS8 version.

Even before the mobile phone is officially released, it is common practice for non-internal personnel to sign a confidentiality agreement when using engineering machines during testing.

But is it like Guozi’s confidentiality agreement?

Signing is actually the same as not signing.

Even if there is a confidentiality agreement, the new phone will basically be exposed every year before Apple’s new phone launch conference is held.

It is even very likely that it comes from internal official leaks.

But this kind of thing, you can’t tell it when you see it.

Lin Hui still signed the corresponding agreement.

Anyway, the confidentiality period is less than three months.

After Lin Hui signed the agreement.

Elizabeth Nice took a tightly sealed box from her assistant.

Carefully handed it to Lin Hui.

Such a cautious look.

I don’t know, I thought it was some kind of unique treasure.

Lin Hui is not as cautious as Elizabeth Nice.

Lin Hui opened the box.

I was surprised to find a bunch of construction machines and supporting facilities such as charging devices.

As for the engineering machine itself.

Lin Hui counted them, there were twenty in total.

Shibu is smaller in size, and Shibu is slightly larger in size.

There are many differences between these engineering machines and common mobile phones on the market.

The engineering machines Lin Hui got at this time were rectangular parallelepipeds.

There is no design beauty at all.

Compared with existing Apple products, the only praiseworthy aspect of these engineering machines may be that the battery capacity is larger than that of existing products.

After all, program testers don’t have time to waste on frequent charging.

Although there is no sense of beauty at all, it doesn't matter.

It’s just an engineering machine, so it doesn’t need to be too demanding, as long as it’s durable.

According to Elizabeth Nice's introduction.

There are two types of engineering machines in the box, which are currently called engineering machine gen 6 and engineering machine gen 6+.

Although the name is weird.

But from the corresponding sizes of the screens of these two engineering machines.

Lin Hui could still accurately determine that these two were the predecessors of Pingchun 6 and Pingchun 6plus in the previous life.

The 4.7- and 5.5-inch screens are relatively recognizable in Apple’s mobile phone product line at this time.

Speaking of which, Apple has been squeezing toothpaste on the screen for many years.

In 2012, Apple released the iPhone 5 with a 4-inch screen.

This is the first time in history that Apple’s mobile phone screen size has changed.

Except for the slight changes in the screen of Apple 5.

In 2013, Apple released the Apple 5s and Apple 5c, which had no size changes compared to the Apple 5.

If it progresses as it did in the previous life.

So the changes in the screens of Apple 6 and Apple 6plus will be the biggest change in the screen size of Apple mobile phones.

The change in screen size could be a good thing for mobile phone users.

But it is not so friendly to developers.

The logical resolution of the screen has not changed, and applications generally do not need to adapt to the new model's screen.

But when the screen size changes, the logical resolution of the screen changes.

The application needs to be adapted to the screen of the new model.

Adapting applications that have already been developed requires more trouble.

Especially a phone like 6plus.

In Lin Hui’s impression, the rendering resolution of this phone is 1242×2208px.

But the actual screen physical resolution of its device is only 1080×1920px.

That is, the image resolution rendered by the processor is higher than the physical resolution of the screen itself.

During actual display, the rendered image is also reduced by 1.15 times.

Under normal circumstances, when the image is displayed on the screen, the effect will be most perfect if the pixels can be displayed one-to-one.

Doesn’t Apple know that such a one-to-one correspondence between pixels would provide the most perfect display effect?

Of course you should know.

After all, almost half of the world’s top smartphone talents are at Apple.

Now that you know why, why do you still do this?

The reason should be that the widespread use of 1080p screens can cut mobile phone costs, speed up shipping dates, etc.

Although there are various reasons, they are fundamental.

There is more or less an element of compromise.
Chapter completed!