is about to say goodbye to 2023, this year, the long-wintered mobile phone market has finally had a warming trend, and at the same time, major mobile phone manufacturers have also made huge breakthroughs in the field of mobile phone systems.
This year, we bid farewell to Xiaomi MIUI and ushered in Xiaomi's new operation-surging OS, which is a historic moment for Xiaomi, from the date of release, Xiaomi surging OS gradually succeeded MIUI.
This year, the AI model has become the "top stream of science and technology", and major domestic mobile phone manufacturers have also developed their own large models, and implanted the end-side large model into their own mobile phone systems, making smartphones smarter and more understandable.
As the saying goes, "a lone branch is not spring, a hundred flowers bloom in spring", in the domestic mobile phone system, there is a need for a hundred flowers to bloom environment, so that the systems of various mobile phone manufacturers can have their own characteristics and advantages.
At the end of the year, we will summarize and review the outstanding works in the field of mobile phone systems in 2023 in the form of awards, and set up four awards: the Most Concerned Award, the Best Design Award, the Best Experience Award, and the Technology Innovation Award.
At the same time, we have also selected a few software that have excellent experience, are practical, and easy to use.
Fast Technology 2023 Annual Award Topic:
Best Experience Award: Xiaomi Surging OS
In October this year, Xiaomi surging OS was officially released, which was built by Xiaomi for 7 years, and the people-centered people, vehicles, and home ecological operating system.
The system is gradually replacing Xiaomi MIUI, and at present, many of Xiaomi's mobile phones have pushed the surging OS upgrade.
In Xiaomi Surging OS, Xiaomi integrates the self-developed Vela system kernel with the deeply modified Linux system kernel to achieve the largest underlying reconstruction in Xiaomi's history, bringing a comprehensive upgrade in performance and experience.
Thanks to the underlying tech stack, the surging OS firmware on the Xiaomi Mi 14 Pro is only 875GB, leading iOS and other Android friends.
What's more, Xiaomi Surging OS also brings Hypermind, which is Xiaomi's self-developed cross-terminal interconnection framework, which is an intelligent thinking center that spans multiple terminals and supports powerful device-side AI algorithm deployment capabilities.
For example, when you are at home, the speaker will be automatically connected for youWhen answering**, automatically adjust the volume of the TV, and restore the volume after hanging up;When you get home, you will find that the lights are on.
In addition, the network collaboration function also allows devices such as tablets to make full use of the mobile phone network capabilities, allowing tablets to use the phone's 5G network without the need to set up a separate network connection, which is convenient to use.
From "mobile phone x AIoT", upgrade to "people, cars and home full ecology", from personal devices to smart homes, and then to smart travel, to create a people-centric, to create a "people, car and home full ecology" intelligent world, this is the mission of Xiaomi surging OS.
Best Experience Award: Meizu Flymeos
It should be as loud as Huawei Hongmeng and Xiaomi surging!”
In November this year, Meizu announced that it was soliciting Chinese OS names for Flyme, officially saying that "it is necessary to have a Chinese name as loud as Hongmeng and The Surge." ”
At the 2023 Meizu Autumn Unbounded Ecosystem Conference, Flyme also ushered in a blockbuster update, officially upgraded to FlymeOS, and released Flyme 105。
At the same time, the official also announced the final Chinese name of Flymeos - "Meizu Unbounded OS", which symbolizes "everything is connected, boundless and boundless".
It is understood that flyme 105The introduction of the Flyme AI large model, so that the intelligent voice assistant AICY ushered in the most heavyweight upgrade in history, the system claims to be able to become a "question and answer encyclopedia" and "on-call personal assistant" for users.
For questions such as natural science, life knowledge, health knowledge, emotional Q&A, etc., AICY can reason and summarize the corresponding answers.
What's even more surprising is that AICY can also help users write, draw, plan travel schedules, and even write thank-you letters, annual meeting speeches, etc., becoming an on-call personal assistant.
At the same time, flyme 105The gallery has also ushered in a big upgrade, and users can use AICY to search for AI images or AI P maps.
With the blessing of AI photos, after the user uploads**, AI can generate your own photo**, and provide a variety of templates to choose from.
Thanks to the large AI model, Flyme 105It also supports AI intelligent expansion of the screen, intelligent erasure of debris and other functions.
AICY suggests that you can directly "transfer to the car" through the Flyme Link mobile phone domain, and view the address and initiate navigation on the car with one click, eliminating the need to enter information on the car machine.
flyme 10.5 The most striking thing is its comprehensive and seamless ecological interconnection.
flyme 10.5. With the operating system as the core, a new ecology of "diversified integration" linking mobile phones, automobiles and AR smart glasses has been built.
It is reported that in the future, Meizu will build a full-scene intelligent integration software and hardware interconnection system around Meizu Unbounded OS, claiming to build a full-scene AI operating system with leading interaction.
Best Experience Award: Apple iOS 17
The iOS system has always been Apple's proudest work, and it is also the soul of the iPhone, and Apple's App Store provides unparalleled security, ease of use, and reliability, which is a trump card for the iOS experience to surpass Android.
But in recent years, iOS updates seem to be increasingly lacking in innovation, and even constantly aligning with Android.
In June this year, iOS 17 was officially released, and the new features are mainly focused on communication, sharing, input, and display, and there are indeed highlights, but compared to previous generations of iOS, it is difficult for you to find features on iOS 17 that stand out at first glance.
What's more regrettable is that the long-awaited application split screen and small window mode in the hearts of fruit fans are still absent.
It is understood that iOS 17 adds a new standby mode, when charging and placing iphon horizontally after it is turned on, the iPhone will display the time, widgets, weather, notifications, etc. in full screen, which is suitable for placing on bedside tables, desks, and acting as smart home devices.
After upgrading to iOS 17, there is also a new way to play calls, and users can trigger special effects after making specific gestures to the screen.
For example, with the thumbs of both hands pointing up, fireworks will bloom;Thumbs down with both hands, a cloud effect appears;The heart gesture triggers the heart effect;Punk gestures feature laser effects, as well as balloons, streamers, and various emojis.
In addition to FaceTime, the gesture effect function can also be used in WeChat** calls, bringing interesting interaction to family and friends in online chats.
Previously, iOS has not been criticized for not having long screenshots, although Apple added long screenshots in iOS 16, but the outrageous thing is that the save format is actually PDF.
Fortunately, after the iOS 17 update, long screenshots can finally be saved in ** format, but unfortunately it still only supports Safari browser, memo and other Apple's own apps.
Most Talked-About Award: Huawei HarmonyOS 4
This year, in August, Huawei HarmonyOS 4 was released, and in October this year, Huawei announced that the number of HarmonyOS 4 upgraded devices officially exceeded 100 million.
It took Huawei only 2 months to go from 0 to 100 million, and HarmonyOS 4 became the fastest upgraded version of HarmonyOS in history.
It is understood that HarmonyOS 4 has brought comprehensive upgrades in terms of smart assistant Xiaoyi, meta service universal card, application security and privacy protection.
The smart assistant Xiaoyi is connected to the AI large model capability, and users can communicate with Xiaoyi more naturally based on language habits and intuition.
It supports the generation of complex scenes, quick summaries, text creation, natural dialogue, picture speaking, second creation, casual note reminders, scenario-based service combinations, etc.
In terms of system optimization, HarmonyOS 4 is equipped with the new HUAWEI Ark Engine, including graphics, multi**, memory, scheduling, storage, and low power consumption 6 engines, after upgrading to HarmonyOS 4, the system fluency is improved by 20%, the battery life is extended by half an hour, the camera startup speed is increased by 57%, and the gallery is loaded instantly.
In terms of experience, HarmonyOS 4 adds a new "Live Window" function, which is somewhat similar to the "Dynamic Island".
If you switch apps to the background, the Live Window will appear in the upper-left corner of the screen with a pill icon showing the progress of the activity message.
For example, after a user orders takeout, the live window will display the takeaway progress in the form of a card, and the user can see the real-time information of the takeaway at the front desk, without switching the app back and forth.
As the most important part of Huawei's ecosystem, HarmonyOS attracts the attention of the industry and consumers every major version update, and the latest HarmonyOS every year also shows users the future direction of Huawei's mobile devices.
It is worth looking forward to the fact that the Huawei HarmonyOS Next developer preview will be open to all developers in the first quarter of next year, and the system base will be self-developed across the board, cutting off the traditional AOSP**, and only supporting the application of the HarmonyOS kernel and the HarmonyOS system, which will no longer be compatible with Android APP, so it is also called "pure-blooded Hongmeng".
How is Huawei HarmonyOS Next performing?Let's talk about next year's annual evaluation of Fast Technology.
Most Concerned Award: Alibaba Cloud Disk.
In October 2020, the personal network disk created by the Alibaba team - Alibaba Cloud Disk opened internal testing, taking advantage of uploading, ** no speed limit and other advantages, Alibaba Cloud Disk instantly became popular and became one of the most popular network disks.
After more than 3 years, Alibaba Cloud Disk officially entered 5Era 0, known as "bringing a safer, smarter, and more open experience".
In Alibaba Cloud Disk 5In version 0, Alibaba has made major improvements to data security, adding a backup disk security lock function to effectively prevent accidental leakage of important data.
The new version of the app background automatically blurs the content of the cloud disk to further protect privacy and security.
In addition, Alibaba Cloud Disk 50 Added the pronunciation literacy function, which can help users convert audio files into text through Tongyi Listening and Understanding, and improve the readability and ease of use of audio files.
It is understood that in July this year, Alibaba Cloud Disk also launched an intelligent search function to help users quickly find the corresponding image in the cloud album by entering keywords and describing **screen details, improving convenience and efficiency.
Best Design Award: OPPO ColorOS 14
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the release of OPPO ColorOS, and in November this year, ColorOS ushered in another important milestone - the number of monthly active users worldwide exceeded 600 million.
In ten years, ColorOS has become the fastest Android deep customization system in China to exceed 600 million monthly active users.
At the 2023 OPPO Developer Conference, the new generation of ColorOS 14 was officially released, with the support of the self-developed Pantanal system, AndesGPT, and ColorOS supercomputing platform, bringing users a smart and smooth new experience.
Like the operating systems of most mobile phone manufacturers, ColorOS 14 is also connected to large language models, and with the blessing of Pantanal and AndesGPT, the capabilities of Xiaobu Assistant have been significantly upgraded to become a smarter assistant for users.
Such as intelligent summarization, intelligent elimination, intelligent authoring, etc., these can be easily handled, and some subsequent capabilities will be deployed on the device side, and can be used directly without networking.
It is understood that after Xiaobu assistant is connected to the AI model, it is mainly upgraded in three aspects: machine assistant, personalized creation, and personalized service recommendation.
For example, it supports call assistant, and the intelligent summary function can extract the important content of the call log, and can also handle complex mobile phone operations, help you generate customized content, summarize and summarize, etc.
With the empowerment of AndesGPT, Xiaobu Assistant has comprehensively upgraded its logical reasoning, understanding user intentions, and multi-task collaborative generalization capabilities, as if it is talking to a real person, rather than a mechanical artificial intelligence conversation machine.
In terms of privacy protection, which everyone is most concerned about, ColorOS 14 brings the best permission management function, passkey function, and privacy watermark function.
Among them, the privacy watermark function can automatically identify specific types of ** in the album through algorithms, such as ID cards, passports, business licenses, etc., and prompt users to add a protective watermark for ** with one click.
In terms of system fluency, according to Master Lu's laboratory test, ColorOS 14 can be slightly better than iOS 17 in the three links of cold start, background keep-alive and document loading in WeChat, and the same as iOS 17 in the **thumbnail loading and **loading links in WeChat.
Based on the ColorOS supercomputing platform, ColorOS 14 has achieved the transition from "smooth single scene" to "smooth in all scenes".
Technology Innovation Award: vivo originos 4
AI is definitely the focus of OriginOS 4, and the biggest change in this system is that it is equipped with vivo's first global intelligent assistance system, Blue Heart Small V, which is developed based on vivo's self-developed Blue Heart large model, and supports three convenient interactions: voice, text, and drag-and-drop.
Blue Heart V also supports the natural dialogue function, when searching and sending instructions, there is no need to use precise words, as long as the spoken language of daily chat can be completed, even if the description is vague, it can be quickly understood.
Copywriting、**processing、Text life、Natural language search** and other powerful functions can also be done, such as AI passerby privacy, you only need to issue instructions to eliminate passers-by, you can clear all the redundant passers-by on the **, only keep the main body you want.
In OriginOS 4, vivo officially launched the industry's exclusive "Outbound Navigation Optimization" function. When the user drives out of the parking lot and passes through the turnstile, the mobile phone will immediately recognize and quickly refresh the location and route.
According to the official test, the positioning recovery speed has increased by more than 70%, and has been deployed in more than 280 parking lots in 14 cities.
In terms of performance, OriginOS 4 is the industry's first virtual graphics card, which can improve the response speed of applications by 36%, improve the stability of the display frame rate by 70%, and the virtual graphics card also provides ray tracing, frame insertion and super-resolution technologies.
Technological Innovation Award: AutoNavi Map.
With the rapid construction and development of China, there are more and more inter-city highways, urban elevated and expressways, and navigation is an indispensable helper for most people.
In order to solve the problems of weakened or unreceivable satellite signals due to the obstruction of the long tunnel on the expressway, and the positioning drift and untimely occurrence, AutoNavi Map has launched a new smartphone tunnel navigation solution this year.
Based on the self-developed VDR inertial navigation enhanced positioning technology, AutoNavi Map can greatly improve the positioning accuracy and success rate in long tunnels, ensuring the user's navigation reliability and experience in this complex scene.
This is also the first tunnel navigation solution in China with complete positioning capability and based on smartphones.
It is reported that at present, AutoNavi Map has supported more than 600 tunnels across the country, including Shanghai Bund Tunnel, Renmin Road Tunnel, etc.
The user does not need to manually turn it on, and the function is automatically activated when driving to a supported tunnel route during navigation.
Before the May Day holiday this year, AutoNavi Map launched the industry's first mobile phone curve meeting warning function, which allows users to understand the situation of the blind spot ahead in advance and reduce the potential safety hazards of driving.
This function applies Beidou system precise positioning, intelligent traffic real-time algorithm and other technologies, and automatically takes effect when the user navigates to the complex section of the curve, and informs the oncoming vehicle in the form of voice broadcast and dynamic 3D image.
In order to make it more convenient for users to travel, study abroad and travel abroad, AutoNavi World Map was officially launched in September this year, based on the global positioning capability of the Beidou system, to achieve overseas route planning and navigation services.
Up to now, AutoNavi World Map has been launched in more than 200 countries and regions around the world, and users can use the AutoNavi Map app after upgrading to the latest version.
It is worth mentioning that in December this year, AutoNavi Map announced that its lane-level navigation services developed based on cutting-edge technologies such as Beidou satellite navigation system, deep learning model, inertial navigation, and ubiquitous signals have been supported by more than 99% of urban and rural roads in China.
It is also the largest lane-level navigation service in the world to date.
AutoNavi lane-level navigation supports most mainstream mobile phones, and you only need to upgrade AutoNavi Map APP to the latest version to experience the service during driving navigation without additional settings.