On October 20, Alibaba officially launched With this new system, there are also new models of Philips The company's evaluation room also got this new model equipped with a new system at the first time. Before detailed evaluation, let's see what's different about this system.

System history and origin

YunOS can be traced back to the middle of 2011, and I believe many people will be impressed by it. It was originally released together with the Tianyu Bumblebee mobile phone, but three years later, its version number has also changed to YunOS 3.0.

Maybe because of Alibaba's security gene, YunOS has taken a different path from the deeply customized "Android UI" such as MIUI, Flyme, Smartisan OS, etc. In order to control the underlying security of the system, YunOS has modified all the upper architectures except the Linux kernel.

YunOS is essentially closer to WebOS and Firefox OS. Although they can be seamlessly compatible with Android applications, they are already mobile operating systems at the same level as Android, rather than "Android UI" developed for the second time.

In addition to the application layer that users can directly perceive, YunOS has strengthened the security direction of the application authentication, key management, kernel and other middle layers and the system bottom layer. The management of sensitive data encryption, API calls, root permissions and other system levels is different from that of Android.

With its independent system structure and the technical endorsement of Taobao and Alipay, YunOS is also the only mobile operating system that has temporarily passed the five-star security certification of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and entered the central government procurement list.

System structure

YunOS 3.0's unlocking style is similar to that of Android, iOS and other systems. It slides down to unlock and supports photo shortcuts and graphic gesture unlocking.

The most obvious feature of the desktop home page is that its icon background has been extended to the icon text, which makes the program icons more like cards. The system cancels the secondary application drawer, and all applications are uniformly displayed on the home page. The application folder also uses the "card" icon.

The left side of the desktop is the local life service page, which displays the search box, weather, movies, entertainment and other recommended content.

It can be seen from the notice bar that there is an obvious trend of flattening. The ground glass translucent effect is adopted. The left side is the notice center, and the right side is the shortcut switch. For the convenience of users, a flow assistant is also placed on the top of the three row shortcut switches.

Long press the Home key to call up the task manager, which uses the light colored frosted glass effect to vaguely see the running tasks on the background. The sliding icon can be locked, and the sliding icon can close the task. In addition to the memory percentage, the bottom also indicates the number of tasks. This design is worth praising.

The system setting interface is divided into four major items: "network, personalization, equipment, and system". The most special one, of course, is the setting item of fingerprint recognition function.

Because the system natively supports push fingerprint identification and has Alipay support, it can be directly used as the payment password of Alipay.

The built-in tools and applications of the system, such as compass, calendar, weather, theme management, have been flattened, and the style is relatively uniform.

Safety function

Undoubtedly, the important selling point of YunOS is its security related to Alipay, and it is estimated that people should also pay more attention to the security functions of the system, so here we take it out for an independent talk.

Permission management

In terms of application permission management, iOS and Android adopt different ways. The former will be used to pop up a reminder for asking for permission when permission is needed; The latter only requires permission uniformly during installation, and there will be no relevant prompt later, which is also an important reason why Android applications abuse permissions.

YunOS 3.0 will pop up a call reminder box during installation and use, and the countdown has been extended to 20 seconds. It seems that Alibaba is struggling to protect user rights.

It is worth mentioning that the system will only focus on reminding users of privacy related permissions, such as GPS location, SMS reading and sending.

For geek users, YunOS's built-in "security center" also provides detailed APP permission control, and you can set the permissions of each APP yourself.

Privacy management

YunOS is probably the only mobile system with built-in application locks and file encryption. These functions were built into business phones like BlackBerry in the past, and YunOS has become the basic function.

Users can gesture passwords for any APP in the security center, such as notes, memos, WeChat and other private applications, which can provide the second level of password protection.

In addition, YunOS has also added a small function called "Zero" to deal with the situation of friends borrowing mobile phones or girlfriends checking posts.

The hidden "floor clip" can be called out on the desktop through double pointing outward transfer, and users can put some APPs in it, so that they will not be easily seen, but can be awakened at any time.

In addition, the security center also adds an encryption function called "Private Space", which can encrypt contacts (SMS and phone will be encrypted), pictures, and files.

And because of the system level encryption, even if the phone is restored to the factory settings, the encrypted file cannot be opened, so it needs to be decrypted before restoring.

Anti theft

YunOS provides a web side "cloud space". In addition to online viewing of contacts, information, photo albums and other cloud backup content, it can also locate mobile phones and remotely destroy data.

Payment encryption

This should be the most distraught function in YunOS. When inputting passwords in the APP or web page, YunOS will automatically enter the "Password Security Mode", and the system will disable screen capture and screen click recording functions to prevent third-party applications from stealing user passwords in various ways.

At the same time, because Philips "Aurora" equipped with YunOS 3.0 supports fingerprint unlocking, you can enter fingerprints in the settings and use the fingerprint password as the payment password in Alipay wallet.

summary

YunOS does a good job in UI aesthetics and fluency. Of course, with the performance of the flagship mobile phone in this era, it is difficult to think about cards. The security protection functions supported by various system levels are also better than (sangxin) to (bingkuang), and the overall system experience has far exceeded expectations.

If there is any regret, it must be the openness that has been abandoned for the sake of security. It temporarily does not open the flash ROM, nor does it have root permission. Other mobile phones cannot experience it like MIUI and Flyme.

Because the system has only experienced for a few days, the remaining endurance and stability tests will be left in the mobile phone evaluation. Please pay attention to the detailed evaluation later.