What does the 14-year-old Smart Island mean?
It is the smart island function of the iPhone14 series.
Dynamic lsland is Apple’s new interactive interface for the iPhone’s hole-punch screen. It is an ingenious design that blurs the boundaries between software and hardware. It can automatically respond to different application operations and prompts, notifications and activity content needs. Change size and shape.
Apple will add Smart Island to the iPhone 14 Pro series. The main purpose is to hide the high-end "exclamation mark screen" with a hole-shaped shape. Through animated visual difference, users cannot discover the existence of the original hole-punch screen. Being able to activate the top area of the screen with bangs that has been occupied for many years is a very smart, interesting and practical creative approach.
Compared with Android phones that have used punch-hole screens for many years, no one expected that Apple could optimize the punch-hole screen with a UI interface to achieve smooth human-computer interaction design. It is undeniable that the iPhone Smart Island redefines the punch-hole screen. hole screen design.
In the hardware part, Smart Island contains the new Face ID depth sensor and front lens module of the iPhone 14 Pro series. Compared with the previous notch depth sensing camera system, it is 31% smaller and can be moved out of the top. More available space.
14 Smart Island function:
When the user receives a message, the Smart Island above the iPhone 14 Pro display can be expanded to display the message. In addition, Smart Island can also display components such as music playback and Siri, allowing users to control various functions and read information directly on the home page. iPhone 14 Pro has a 6.1-inch screen, and a 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Pro MAX will also be launched.
Apple continues to shrink the TrueDepth camera Face ID components year by year. So far, the TrueDepth camera has been reduced by 33% in the iPhone 14 Pro series, and a new punch-hole screen has been adopted. In order to avoid users feeling I felt that the black capsule was too obtrusive, so I used the software interactive "Smart Island" to beautify the hardware design.
It can be regarded as Apple's demonstration of software and hardware innovation capabilities. If there were no Smart Island, I believe the black capsule would definitely become a ridicule.
Through the "Smart Island", it can be clearly felt that Apple's ultimate goal is to achieve a non-porous full screen for the iPhone. In recent years, the speed of hardware evolution has gradually accelerated, and the true depth sensing camera system has been transformed from the earliest The eight parts have been reduced to two, and the distance sensor has been moved under the screen. Only the necessary depth-sensing camera and front lens remain in the hole.
From this point of view, Apple will continue to move towards Face ID. As for the expectation that iPhone will have under-screen recognition, the chances are becoming more uncertain at present. In the past, Mr. Crazy has analyzed that Face ID is mainly to replace The key technology of fingerprint recognition, facial recognition adopts active technology.
Compared with passive fingerprint recognition, it is more practical. So far, almost no one in the Android camp can catch up with Apple's facial recognition technology, and it will be more difficult to catch up in the future.
Whether you like Smart Island or not, it is undeniable that this new creative technology can transform the original seemingly boring and abrupt exclamation mark punch-hole screen shape into a new interactive vitality, through the blessing of the A16 bionic chip , showing smooth and amazing animations, and the entire operation process is very practical and interesting.
Now that the era of iPhone bangs is coming to an end and is preparing to enter a new era of punch-hole screens, Apple needs to make a cross-generation transition and launch a new innovative method to show the design and recognition of its own iPhone. Then Definitely a smart island.