Meizu's mBack Story: A great achievement to design takes how long?

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2016-03-25 11:16

This extremely simple home key seems as if it is very common today. It is in fact very special, in that it was born in the proliferation of a functional machine in 2009, that time phone's had a complex function key as appeared the true sense of opening up domestic smart phone era . Remember this shape , many years later , there will only be a few phones that use this shaped Home key.
The M9 was the first Meizu device to use the android system, due to the need to follow the application specification , modifing the return key and menu key. Compared to other manufacturers that generally use "the arrow " and " little house " icons, the M9 uses a few small squares to represent two function keys. This is the replacement of a few months prior to listing J.Wong interim decision, but also because the screen changes , so that the M9 has a unique Seal scr ipt logo and the country's first retina screen.

MX boldly uses a raised circular Home button, charm of the faithful affectionately call the "milk key". The design was once called the "idiot design". Years later , the T-Series phones also use a raised button, in addition the menu and back key have revolutionized with the use of independent LED lights, there was a breathing effect issued when touched, but also according to the direction of gravity the light sensors changed shape, these designs became an iconic symbol of the Meizu phone.

The MX2 was the first attempt to remove the menu and back key, instead being referred as the faithful charm "scared to Heaven" designed a small circle Home key. It supports gestures, slide to return to the previous menu. At the same time, it is luminous at night, the weak luminescence characteristics can assist operations. Meizu comments this little circle as the most identifiable design continues for several generations.
MX4 pro brings Android camp's first front push fingerprint reader "mTouch". J.Wong  decided to exchange M8 waist shape from round rectangle with rounded corners just before it released a month later, but the time did not make the trip. Then a few months later, engineers made ​​the first attempt for the back touch option, that was praised upon creation, which became the mBack predecessor.

The Meizu M2note was the first to determine the "round the waist button" in the name, at a press conference a few days ago, the team decided to return to take a nice easy to remember name, copywriting within the team to play Jason Hau said, called it the "mBack" meaning "I'm back". So you see there will be a conference of this seemingly unremarkable, that will make you not want to go back to any other home button.

There after, Meizu's full range of products finally spend the unruly button. From the first to abandon the function key, to build the three diamond button, later decisively abandoning the modifier keys, Meizu spend 10 years before they got a very simple waist circle button. With exploration and repeated effort, not being an issue. That experience itself became reality.

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