Urban Sims

Chapter 678 Modifying the Design
Since the city of magic is very small, Zhou Ming and the others can only measure 100 kilometers during the communication test.

If you want to test thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers, you can only go outside the magic city.

However, Zhou Ming didn't plan to go outside for testing, because the system in his brain had already completed all the simulation tests that should be done, and the actual test results would not be much different.

Since there are no problems within a range of a hundred kilometers, there will naturally be no problems in communications of thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers... Zhou Ming trusts the system's capabilities very much.

After all the tests showed no problems, the next thing Zhou Ming had to consider was the mass production and promotion of the Nokia Magic Phone.

Sairs, who has used a mobile phone before, said: "After the launch of the Nokia mobile phone, at least 50 units will be sold in the Magic City!"

Sabina has recently become obsessed with playing games. "Tetris" and "Snake" are often played for a whole day, and sometimes even the demand for that aspect has been greatly weakened. The previous vibrator had to be charged twice a day. Now only one charge is enough.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Ming muttered to himself: "If I knew what kind of vibrator I was making, wouldn't it be enough to make a game console?"

The charm of games is endless, and sometimes it can even weaken people's needs and desires in other areas, which has been proved by Sabina.

At the same time, with the addition of the game, Zhou Ming believes that the Nokia Magic Phone will definitely be a hit!
but……

Zhou Ming, who should be busy with the mass production of the Nokia Magic Phone, is not in a hurry to launch the Nokia Magic Phone.

Don't even really want to make this phone.

why?
The function is too simple.

In addition to making calls and text messages, plus a clock alarm clock, phone book, calculator, flashlight, several small games, and the function of breaking walnuts, there are very few other things.

The functions are too simple and sparse.

It wasn't the phone he wanted the most.

He wants to come up with a smart phone with more functions.

Not only sold to customers, but also used by himself.

After all, he really didn't want to use that old Nokia with teeth lost.

How to do?
He intends not to rush to promote the Nokia Magic Phone, he is going to modify the design and develop a smart Magic Phone!
But from a functional phone to a smart phone, this technological span is really amazing.

It is impossible to achieve this leap with Zhou Ming's technical reserves alone.

Even if he could, he didn't have that much time and money.

He intends to find someone to cooperate with.

Who to cooperate with?

Of course it's the old wolf from the Magic Association!

……

October 7th.

Zhou Ming called Lao Lang and told Lao Lang about his idea of ​​making a mobile phone.

After listening to Zhou Ming's function introduction, the old wolf on the other side of the phone seemed to have heard the Arabian Nights, and expressed his disbelief.

"I believe what you said about achieving wireless communication within [-] miles, but it is also possible to communicate within hundreds of thousands or millions of miles. It is still impossible to do it without a signal relay station!"

The Magic Association has its own communication system, which is the magic phone that Zhou Ming has seen and used many times.

It’s just that the way of using the magic phone is wireless signal transmission + signal amplification of the relay station. The principle of use is similar to Zhou Ming’s magic phone, but the magic phone is a fixed landline type, and the size of the relay signal station is also very large, so it cannot be integrated into it. In a palm-sized mobile phone, it can be used wherever you go.

"There is also a text message function. How can this be done? Can text be converted into a magic wave signal like voice? Can you do this?"

"In addition, the audio, video, games, chat software you mentioned...how could these things become reality? How did these magical things pop up in your head?"

On the phone, Lao Lang was full of questions and curiosity.

"I don't want to explain too much to you, a technically blind person. If you talk too much, you won't understand. In this way, give me half a year, and then give me support for a group of technical talents and equipment and materials in related fields, and about 100 million purple Gold coin loan... Don't worry, after my magic smartphone is successfully developed, half of the profit will be shared with you."

"What if it doesn't work out?"

"I pledge myself to you, and I will work for the Magic Association for a lifetime in the future... My value should not be lower than what I asked for."

"make a deal!"

The old wolf agreed very readily.

So in the next month, Zhou Ming, who had obtained various talents, loans, equipment and materials, and even the right to use technical reserves, began to get busy.

However, in the process of mobilizing various resources, Zhou Ming discovered that in the course of tens of millions of years of development, the technical reserves of Magic City can be described as extremely astonishing.

Most of the two Nokia magic phones that he spent all his money on and built with great difficulty used off-the-shelf technologies that he could buy from the market... These technologies are not very advanced.

However, in the technology and talent pool of the Magic City, Zhou Ming found countless technologies he dreamed of and a large number of ready-to-use technical talents.

For example, the high-definition color screens used in smartphones, he thought that there were no such screens in Magic City, but he quickly found such screens in a display research unit, using a very special material with very high resolution. The pixel point (dpi) can reach 700, which is higher than the pixel density of some 4K screen mobile phones on the earth.

Another example is the CPU and various integrated circuits. Zhou Ming can personally integrate 1 million electron tubes on a chip of 500 square centimeter with precise operation, but the Magic Association has a high-precision magic doll lithography machine, which can To integrate tens of billions of electron tubes on a chip of 1 square centimeter... This level even exceeds the most advanced level on the earth.

Another example is the mobile phone camera, the mobile phone camera on the earth can generally achieve 300 million, 500 million, 1300 million, 2300 million and other pixels, but in the magic city, Zhou Ming used some sophisticated optical instruments to create a 5000 million pixel Camera.

Finally, for example, the "network technology" that magic smartphones must use. The "Gold and Silver Chamber of Commerce" under the Magic Association has a set of account records and settlement systems that are networked across the continent. Guaranteed extremely low account error rate under the condition of ultra-high concurrent usage.

The network system of the Gold and Silver Chamber of Commerce, even if it is obtained from the earth, is definitely a very advanced Internet system.

In short, as far as making a magic smartphone is concerned, in the city of magic, Zhou Ming can find all the technologies he needs to use, and some technologies that can be used after slight adjustments and modifications.

After all, after tens of millions of years of development, in magic technology, no matter what kind of development path genius scientists find, they can reach an ultimate end after a long period of accumulation.

At least there is no technology that Zhou Ming wants to find.

Magic City is on the magic technology tree, and basically all the technical nodes have been lit up.

Finally, in terms of technical talents, Zhou Ming met countless magicians who could be called "geniuses".

In almost every technical field, Zhou Ming can find one or two top technical masters.

Because the mages in the city of magic do not need to work. Apart from practicing, their biggest hobby is to do all kinds of interesting research to kill the long and difficult time. In fact, even a mediocre person can make several great inventions.

Therefore, whether it is technical reserves, resources and hardware, talents... all aspects of the development of magic technology, the city of magic has it all.

But why the technology in the city of magic, except for a few more powerful ones (such as magic dolls, magic phones, gold and silver trade associations, magic crystal cannons, etc.), other aspects seem to be a bit lackluster?
Zhou Ming believes that this should be due to "population".

The population of Magic City is limited to about 100 million. Once it exceeds 120 million, a part of the population will be transferred out, otherwise the ecosystem will collapse.

However, high-end technology requires not only the participation of high-end talents, but also a large application market for digesting technology and generating profits.

The Magic City has a population of only a million or so. No matter how high the level of technology is, no matter how many talents there are, it is just a small pond, unable to provide a large market and support so many new technologies.

The second is the poor technology integration ability. Many advanced technologies are fighting alone and cannot be integrated together, and there is no manpower for integration. After all, the city of magic has only a population of one million. Even if all of them are technical talents, it is impossible to produce Produce a magic smartphone.

Because counting designers, hardware engineers, software engineers, and assembly line workers, at least tens of thousands of professionals in hundreds of fields are needed to create a smartphone.

Does the City of Magic have the ability to integrate 1 talents?

difficult!
Even in this closed circle, almost no one has the awareness of system integration.

If the area of ​​the Magic City is expanded tenfold, and the permanent population inside increases to 1000 million or 5000 million, the development of the Magic City will be completely different from what it is now... More people will participate in the social division of labor, and this society will be more prosperous. will become more developed.

After obtaining all the required technologies, Zhou Ming, who also has a technical team of hundreds of people, solved all the hardware research and development problems in only three months.

The software was solved by Zhou Ming alone. With the help of the system, he not only created a set of "hard language" running on the underlying hardware, but also created a set of application-based "soft language" for development The mobile operating system and the applications on the mobile phone.

In short, within two months, Zhou Ming turned into a code farmer, operating hundreds of "code machines" at the same time, typing out hundreds of millions of lines of code.

……

A total of about half a year later.

On January 1, Spring, according to the modified design in his mind, Zhou Ming finally produced the first batch of ten prototypes of his first full-screen (high screen-to-body ratio) magic smartphone.

In order to save brain cells, he named it "Love Crazy Phone".

And on January 1th.

He had a big magic phone launch event.

(End of this chapter)