In the smartphone industry, innovations are necessary and the HONOR Smart Capsule was a solid entry. Back in the year 2019, this innovative design was shown off on the HONOR V20 during its launch. The idea was to take the front-facing camera cutout and make it a functional part of the screen.
To do this, Honor assigned some software features to the front-facing camera cutout. With this, certain designs, animations and pop-ups (or notifications) could wrap around the cutout. This innovative thinking from HONOR was done back in 2019 when the V20 device came into existence.
Fast-forward to 2022 and netizens get to see a similar design on the iPhone 14 Pro series. But this time Apple calls it the Dynamic Island, and it does exactly what HONOR’s Smart Capsule did back in 2019. For this reason, the Chinese company is calling Apple out and labelling them copycats lacking innovative thinking.
HONOR calls out the Apple Dynamic Island during the MWC Shanghai event
At the MWC Shanghai event, Honor’s CEO Zhao Ming pointed out the lack of innovation in the smartphone industry. During his speech “The Future Evolution of Smartphones” he made it clear that the mobile industry is declining due to certain complications. One such complication is the lack of innovations seen among smartphone manufacturing companies.
From his point of view, some smartphone manufacturing companies are waiting to borrow the ideas of others. To solidify this point of his, he points out the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro series. Apple has got tons of praise from netizens for introducing this feature on the iPhone 14 Pro series.
However, HONOR’s CEO points out that his brand came up with this innovation back in 2019. The HONOR V20 smartphone is built upon the idea of the front-facing camera cutout being functional while the phone is in use. For instance, during a call, the UI will display a pill-shaped design around the cutout to display the call time.
Apple took this design and made it popular with the iPhone 14 Pro series. Just a few months after another smartphone company, Realme also put this innovation to use on one of their devices. To the HONOR CEO, Zhao Ming, this lack of innovative thinking is affecting the smartphone industry.
2023-07-04 15:04:34