The era of full screen is coming, but what exactly is a qualified full screen

In the past few years, the development of smart phones has shown obvious inertia, but as an important way of human-computer interaction, the changes of mobile phone screens in the past two years are still very huge. On the one hand, the curved screen design led by Samsung, and the The other is the full screen that we are all very familiar with now.

Starting from the Samsung S6 Edge, the curved screen can be said to have truly entered our lives, and the product strength has gradually changed in the following generations, and it has the momentum to become a future trend. But who knew that a Xiaomi MIX was killed halfway, which made Samsung messed up, and made a 90° U-turn in the wind direction of the industry, and began to shift from the curved screen market to the full screen market.

Although the emergence of Xiaomi MIX has reversed the future development trend of the industry, I believe that various companies have already set up projects for the design of full-screen mobile phones several years before the release of Xiaomi MIX, but Xiaomi, as a domestic manufacturer, released the first shocking world. The full screen is very exciting. But at the beginning of this year, that is, less than half a year after the release of Xiaomi MIX, Samsung S8 officially appeared in the market, which is not just as simple as “following the trend”.

It is precisely because of the great success of Xiaomi MIX and Samsung S8 that we have seen the word “full screen” everywhere in more and more technology news, such as the recently released Xiaomi MIX 2, vivo X20 and full screen. The iPhone 8 (for the time being) that the world is very concerned about. In addition to these promotional machines that we already know, there are also many mobile phone manufacturers at home and abroad that are already on the release schedule. It can be said that between the second half of this year and May next year, When a “full screen” really broke out.

But in fact, there is a question that has been plaguing us. What exactly is a full screen? How to define a full screen and other “ordinary screens”?

I believe everyone still remembers a word called[屏占比], the simple explanation is how much the mobile phone screen accounts for the front area of ​​the mobile phone. In theory, the larger the screen ratio, the better the visual effect.But this word has been gradually diluted over the years, and few manufacturers are willing to mention it in the product. I think it is because in the context of the general trend of development, the screen ratio has quietly changed its name, called[全面屏].

However, deformation is not the same as qualitative change. To put it bluntly, many of the current full screens are ordinary mobile phones with a slightly higher screen-to-body ratio, not to mention that the screen-to-body ratio is not much higher than before.

In my opinion, although the full screen is basically the same as the screen ratio, there must be an obvious numerical definition between the two. For example, “Mobile phones with a screen ratio of more than 90% can be called full screens, while those below this number are ordinary screens, but with a higher degree of integration.” I believe that after similar industry standards are stipulated, many mobile phones will be advertised The agency “checked the water meter”.

So why is full screen as the future trend, but many manufacturers can’t achieve this standard? Let’s take Xiaomi MIX as an example. After so many years of development of mobile phones, the things placed on the front panel are actually so much: the earpiece. , light/distance sensor, biometric sensor and front camera. In addition to the relatively high-end functions such as biometrics, Xiaomi has no choice, the others are the same, and they are all arranged properly. The earpiece is changed to conductive type, and the light/distance recognition is changed to ultrasonic form, but the necessary opening for the front camera is still not fixed, which makes the Xiaomi MIX have to leave a space at the chin position to let the screen occupy than reduced.

And this defect of Xiaomi MIX is also the huge problem of the current industry. Samsung S8 simply keeps all the openings directly, but achieves the highest level of integration, so that the upper and lower areas are relatively smaller; the same is true for the iPhone 8, but a part of the screen Display area is expanded in the form of a “head curtain”. As for other examples, there are many other examples. After the official release, users will naturally have a definition for “full screen”.

Although the full screen will explode this year, the actual market effect will have to wait until this time next year. With the release of more and more “full screen” mobile phones, this new-looking term will gradually After being precipitated, what remains are only those products that are down-to-earth and not showing off their skills. Don’t you think this scene is somewhat similar in the previous “AI era”? Perhaps history developed by turning “false propositions” into “true propositions” one by one.

Full screen is definitely the future trend, but right now, it seems a little too early.