Many users may be dumbfounded after reading this title. In fact, this is a "concept" newly launched by OPPO for Find 7. At the bottom of Find 7, there is an arc breathing light that can emit light, and because of this breathing light problem, a big V on Weibo said that OPPO copied the design of the origin mobile phone, and the network also launched a fierce discussion on this issue. Does your mobile phone also have a breathing light?
Review the "battle of breath lights" between OPPO Find 7, the protagonist of the "plagiarism" event, and the origin mobile phone:
The reason is that a big V user of microblog said on microblog that the design of the breath lamp of Find 7 copied the creativity of the origin mobile phone, and attached an effect demonstration picture. From the picture, the two are really similar in the effect of the breath lamp. The difference is that Find 7 is "curved" and the origin mobile phone is "straight".
From the design point of view, the two do have similarities. Both use the breath lamp at the bottom of the body, but their functions are different. The breath lamp of the origin mobile phone actually acts as the Home key, and different functions can be achieved by clicking, double clicking, sliding and other operations ▼
The breath lamp of Find 7 is purely a breath lamp, because there are three more standard touch keys above the breath lamp, which respectively realize the three functions of menu, home key and return ▼
Does that mean OPPO imitates the origin? In fact, we can trace back to the prototype of the Find 7 breathing lamp on the mobile phone R807 launched by OPPO in 2012. Of course, the design at that time was not so "romantic" ▼
This incident may be that the origin mobile phone went to the "gunman" to deliberately hack OPPO and hype with the other party's reputation. In addition to the exaggerated bar breathing lights like Origin and Find 7, the breathing lights of Android phones are quite rich in forms:
Spot breathing lamp
This is also the most common type of breathing lamp. We can see this kind of breathing lamp on many products such as LG, vivo, htc, Huawei, etc. Generally, this type of breathing lamp has green, red, blue, etc. to indicate different working states (the figure below is Optimus G) ▼
For example, spot breathing lights of some Huawei products and HTC products are hidden in the earpiece cover (Ascend Mate is shown below) ▼
Bar breathing lamp
This is a common design of Sony mobile phones, embedded in the earpiece, which is easier to identify than the dot breathing lamp (the following figure is Xperia Z2) ▼
"Large" LED breathing light
This exaggerated LED breath lamp first appeared on the "Three Princes" Galaxy Nexus, and then many Samsung flagship such as Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S4, and Galaxy Note 3 saw this design. Although the "pro son" series has been made by LG in the last two generations of Nexus 4 and Nexus 5, it still maintains the design of this "headlamp" (Nexus 5 is shown below) ▼
On HTC flagship Butterfly at the end of 2012, we saw a more novel design. In addition to a small LED breathing light installed on the front, it also added a large LED light on the left side of the camera. Even if the mobile phone is placed down the screen, the breathing light prompt can still be clearly seen, but this design has not been seen on subsequent HTC products ▼
Speaking of Butterfly, we have to talk about Apple's iPhone (the whole article is almost Android, please allow iOS to enter here). The iPhone does not have a breathing light on the body, but it uses the LED fill light near the camera to achieve this function. Although something is better than nothing, high brightness and unfriendly visual effects are still a problem (the following figure shows the iPhone 5S) ▼
Home key breathing light
In addition to the traditional "small house" touch key, there are many brands that "make a big deal" on the Home key of Android phones. The Home key of Meizu mobile phones serves as a breathing light at the same time, and can also achieve more functions through the up stroke operation (MX3 is shown below) ▼
After watching the "white circle", let's take a look at the "red circle". Nubia has used the design of the red circle home key breathing light since the first generation product Z5, supplemented by two red dot shaped touch keys (the figure below is Z5S mini, not the same style as the first lady, don't misunderstand) ▼
In addition to the circle, there is an oval home key breathing light. Compared with Meizu and Nubia's monochrome circles, this breathing light also supports a variety of color changes. Although it seems a bit "smart", it is still very distinctive (the figure below is E985T, that is, the mobile 4G version of Optimus G Pro) ▼
After watching the breath lights of so many mobile phones, which one do you like best? The author believes that the breath lamp is an indispensable part of a mobile phone, especially for the increasingly popular WeChat, the notice of information can still be seen by the breath lamp after the sound and vibration are turned off, and the user will not miss information when the screen is turned off. This is a very humanized setting. A good breath lamp should be easy to detect and provide a variety of colors for users to customize.
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