Urban Sims

Since the Magic City is very small, Zhou Ming and the others could only test 100 kilometers during the communication test.

If you want to do tests for thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers, you can only go outside the Magic City for testing.

However, Zhou Ming did not plan to go outside for testing, because the system in his head had already simulated all the 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 with communications of thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers... Zhou Ming has great trust in the system's capabilities.

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

Teacher Sales, who has used mobile phones, said: "After the launch of Nokia mobile phones, at least 500,000 units were sold in the Magic City!"

Sabina has recently become obsessed with playing games. She often plays Tetris and Snake all day long, and sometimes even her need for that aspect has been greatly reduced. Previously, she had to recharge the vibrator twice a day. Secondary power, now only one charge is enough.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Ming muttered secretly: "If I had known what kind of vibrator I was going to make, 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, as evidenced by Sabina.

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

but……

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

I don’t even want to make this phone.

Why?

The function is too single.

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

The functions are too simple and sparse.

This is not the phone he wants most.

He wanted to create a smart phone with more functions.

Not only does it sell to customers, but he also uses it himself.

After all, he really didn't want to use that old Nokia that was toothless.

what to do?

He plans not to rush to promote the Nokia Magic Phone. He plans to modify the design and develop a smart magic phone!

But the technological span of upgrading from a feature phone to a smartphone in one step is really amazing.

It would be impossible to achieve this leap simply by relying on Zhou Ming's technical reserves.

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

He plans to find someone to cooperate with.

Who to cooperate with?

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

…

July 5th.

Zhou Ming called Lao Lang and told him his idea of ​​building a mobile phone.

After listening to Zhou Ming's function introduction, Lao Lang on the other side of the phone seemed to have heard a fantasy and expressed his disbelief.

"I believe what you said about achieving wireless communication within 20,000 miles, but it is impossible to achieve wireless communication within hundreds of thousands or millions of miles without a signal relay station!"

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

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

"There is also a text messaging function. How do you do this? Can text be converted into a magic wave signal just 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 illiterate person, because you won't understand if I explain too much. So, give me half a year and support a group of technical talents, equipment and materials in related fields, and about 1 million purple dollars." Gold coin loan... Don’t worry, after my magic smartphone is successfully developed, I will share half of the profit with you.”

"What if it doesn't work out?"

"I pledge myself to you, and I will work for the Magic Association for the rest of my life... My value should not be lower than the things I asked for."

"make a deal!"

The old wolf agreed very readily.

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

But in the process of mobilizing various resources, Zhou Ming discovered that over the course of tens of millions of years of development, the Magic City's technological reserves were extremely astonishing.

Most of the two Nokia Magic Phones he had spent all his money to build were based on off-the-shelf technologies he could buy on the market...these technologies were 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 readily available technical talents.

For example, he originally thought that the Magic City did not have the high-definition color screen used in smartphones, but he quickly found this kind of screen at a display research unit. It uses a very special material and has a very high resolution of 100% per inch. The pixel point (dpi) can reach 700, which is higher than the pixel density of some 4K screen mobile phones on earth.

Another example is CPUs and various integrated circuits. Zhou Ming can rely on precise operations to integrate 5 million electron tubes on a chip of 1 square centimeter. However, the Magic Association has a high-precision magic doll photolithography machine that can Integrating tens of billions of electron tubes on a chip of 1 square centimeter... This level even exceeds the most advanced level on earth.

Another example is mobile phone cameras. Mobile phone cameras on earth can generally achieve 3 million, 5 million, 13 million, 23 million and other pixels. But in the Magic City, Zhou Ming used some precision optical instruments to create a 50 million pixel camera. 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 continent-wide networked account record and settlement system, which not only stores massive amounts of data, but also can Ensure extremely low account error rate under ultra-high concurrent usage.

The network system of the Jinyintong Chamber of Commerce is definitely a very advanced Internet system, even if it comes to the earth.

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

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

At least there is no technology that Zhou Ming wants to find that cannot be found.

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

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

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

Because the mages in the Magic City do not need to work. In addition to practicing, their biggest hobby is to do all kinds of interesting research to kill the long and difficult time. Over hundreds of thousands of years, they have continued to pursue their own interests and hobbies. Even a mediocre person can come up with several great inventions.

Therefore, whether it is technical reserves, resource hardware, talents, etc., the Magic City is not lacking in all aspects of developing magic technology.

But why do the technologies in the Magic City, except for the more powerful ones (such as magic dolls, magic phones, gold and silver trade associations, magic crystal cannons, etc.), seem to be a bit lackluster in other aspects?

Zhou Ming believes that this should be due to "population".

The resident population of the Magic City is limited to around 1 million. Once it exceeds 1.2 million, some of the population will be transferred out, otherwise the ecosystem will collapse.

But high-end technology not only requires the participation of high-end talents, but also requires a large application market to digest technology and generate profits.

The Magic City only has a population of one million. No matter how high the level of science and technology is and how many talents there are, it is just a small pond. It cannot provide a big market and cannot support so many new technologies.

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

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

Does the Magic City have the ability to integrate 10,000 talents?

Disaster!

Even in this small, almost sealed circle, almost no one has the awareness of system integration.

If the area of ​​the Magic City is expanded ten times, and the permanent population increases to 10 million or 50 million, the development of the Magic City will be completely different from what it is now... The more people participating in the social division of labor, the better the society will be. will become more developed.

After obtaining all the required technologies and having a technical team of hundreds of people around him, Zhou Ming solved all the hardware research and development problems in just three months.

The software aspect was solved by Zhou Ming alone. With the help of the system, he not only created a set of "hard language" that runs at the bottom of the 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 transformed into a coder, operating hundreds of "code machines" at the same time, and typed hundreds of millions of lines of code.

…

In total, about half a year later.

On January 11th, according to the revised design in his mind, Zhou Ming finally built 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 18th.

He held a grand Magic Phone launch event.