The OPPO factory in Chang'an Town, Dongguan, is not the same as the production line of the impression manufacturing industry. The factory sisters here can say 'working in paradise'. Dozens of people have an assembly line, and a 12-hour shift can produce 2,600 Find X.
The three shifts of the three shifts, the current production capacity of 468,000 monthly. They are calculated according to the standard version of 4999 yuan, the current sales of Find X is out of stock, the monthly flow of single product is 2.34 billion yuan. Well, OPPO really has money.
Find X in the lift durability test
According to the official OPPO, the production capacity of Find X will continue to climb. But you may not understand, don't look at the current water line, in fact, after the definition of Find X program, it took 13 months to formally mass production.
So what have OPPO engineers and product managers experienced in these 13 months?
1, 'I was shocked after seeing the ID program'
This is the internal OS of the Find X structural engineer after seeing the design draft. He has been doing this for many years. I didn't expect the mobile phone to do this?
For the experienced OPPO structural engineers, the structural design concept of Find X can be said to be “no-man's land”. For this structural team, in the implementation process, the “three no principles” have been formulated: 1. Does not affect the ID form; 2 , does not compromise product performance; 3, without sacrificing user experience.
Does not affect the ID form, it means that the original design of Find X "no hole" can not be changed. For this structural engineer to properly handle the hidden components of the front and rear camera, earpieces, etc., while the thickness of the whole machine should be controlled within a certain range.
Without compromising product performance, the area of Find X structure is compressed by 11.2%. Antennas, batteries, and speakers all have to 'grab the ground'. The antenna layout should be redesigned, the components should be miniaturized, and the motherboard should be moved down to the open screen bracket to expand the battery space. There are also double-sided stacked SIM card slots for these details.
Without sacrificing the user experience, this is a very contradictory point. Since ancient times, the long legs and the cute can't have both. For Find X, the main energy of the structural engineer is used in the speed, stability and reliability of the dual-track subduction. Structured light and post-photographing are used more frequently.
0.3mm hot bending process glass cover
More than 300,000 times of durability test, the fall protection mechanism is the basic operation, the most arrogant is the glass cover 0.3mm hot bending process. It is said that due to the high process difficulty and low yield, the supply chain partners are even extremely resistant at first. In the end, under the 'help' of the OPPO structural engineer, the technical level was improved.
2, '3.4mm chin is not the antenna of the pot'
After the press conference in China, OPPO product manager said that Find X used COP package with 3.4mm chin, which is reserved for the antenna clearance area. But OPPO antenna engineers clearly said that this pot does not back, Find X antenna The design fully utilizes the 'natural space' and there is no additional clearance area claim.
In fact, the antenna technology solution in the full screen mode is more complicated, such as antenna clearance area pressure, radiation efficiency reduction, omnidirectionality deterioration, etc. Especially the head hand grip, the game cross, slip In the case of a state, etc., it is necessary to design a multi-antenna cooperative switching mode.
Find X uses an eight-antenna dual-core intelligent switching solution with TIA (Teloscopic Intelligent Antenna) submarine-slide smart antenna and Distributed Antenna distributed antenna design, and has applied for 83 antenna-related patents.
According to the data given by the OPPO antenna engineer, the cellular OTA/TRP ranking: Find X (slide out state) ≥ Find X (default state) > R11S = R15, TIS rank: Find X (slide out state) > R15 = Find X ( Default state>>R11S. The default state is prioritized when designing the antenna, that is, when the structure is retracted.
In the specific comparison test, Find X (4x4 MIMO/4RX) chose iPhone X (2RX) for 'hanging'. In the first-hand mode, it is 3-4dB better than the latter, and the peak throughput is twice that of the latter. Actual network environment Test, the same location the former download rate 112Mbps the latter 43Mbps, download the same size 699MB file Find X time for the iPhone X quarter.
In fact, the Snapdragon 845 chip will have a part of the baseband advantage, but there is no technical guidance from Qualcomm in the antenna design, relying entirely on the OPPO engineer team to design and develop independently.
3, Why choose Obi Zhongguang joint research and development
Inside OPPO, there is a part called "Enhanced Group". In October 2016, it first contacted structured light technology and gained in-depth understanding. It was officially established in May 2017. Then in September of the same year, iPhone X realized the original deep-sensing lens (3D structured light). ) Mass production.
OPPO FaceKey's dot matrix has 15,000 speckle spots (1 million resolution), which is half the 30,000 spot size of the iPhone X, but also has millisecond 3D accuracy (±0.6mm). 50,000 domestic, 20,000 foreign face data (100 per person), a total of 7 million pictures for more than one million structured light machine learning training.
At the same time, OPPO product manager said that the post-TOF also has related technical product reserves. As for why Obi Zhongguang is chosen, there is no choice of an Israeli company like Xiaomi, mainly considering some communication cost reasons, Obi Zhongguang can do Dispatching the technology station.
4, other technical details
For 3D image applications, Find X provides 3D portrait light effect, 3D beauty, Omoji function. 3D light effect front and rear camera can be realized, but the front is used for structured light rear based binocular ranging. Omoji is generating Logically different from Animoji or Memoji, it is Mr. adult like moji and then match the animal avatar.
SuperVOOC super fast charge, 50W power voltage 10V current 5A and charge pump technology. Two 1700mAh batteries are connected in series, the battery material is not much different, but the charge and discharge IC needs to be redesigned. During the discharge process, two batteries are simultaneously operated. There is no case where one piece is placed first and then one piece is placed.
In addition, regarding the compatibility of SuperVOOC and VOOC, the wire is universal, the charging head of SV can be used for V power 5V4A, but the charging head of V is only 5V2A power for SV.
There is also a question of intense user feedback, which is about the closure of the OS system or the degree of openness of the permissions. ColorOS 5.1 based on Android 8.1.0 is quite conservative in this respect, even a little closer to the direction of iOS. OPPO said this More from the perspective of user experience, in fact, there are not so many people love tossing system.
Summary: OPPO is not money
I said at the beginning that "OPPO really has money," but in fact, Find X is not a product that relies on money. Through the explanations of the above engineers, we know that in this innovation, many non-standards are adopted. Custom components.
First of all, in order to control the overall mass production cost of Find X, OPPO is unlikely to pay unreasonably high prices for these non-standard custom parts. So in fact, for the supply chain, it is very likely to pick up the 'unwilling to do good' job. Communication efforts, more production of some mature standard parts, processing fees may earn more.
But perhaps it is based on years of back-to-back cooperation, the supply chain is willing to work with OPPO to do this while Find X is still in the capacity climb. In addition, under the engineer's 'forced', The supply chain also masters, for example, the 0.3mm glass hot bending process, which reserves the future technical strength.
So don't look at the title of 'May 2.34 billion monthly. It's very local. For OPPO, this is a 'small money'. Engineers in various fields, bold industrial design teams, product managers in the face of difficulties, and supply chains. The trust and support of the partners is the biggest and most valuable asset of this Dongguan enterprise.