In the era when we couldn’t buy the touchscreen/flip phone, after we bought the touchscreen Android, we had to make some changes to the machine to hand over to the parents/relatives/grandparents, and install the old man’s desktop app, which is now the most The most reliable solution is even more practical than the so-called old model that many mobile phones have. Today we will compare the most famous products of the same kind:
It was the earliest application of the same type. The original name appeared to be the desktop of the elderly, and later it was considered that many target users had conflicted with the title of "elderly people" and changed their names. MIUI that needs to restart the minimal mode, the provider is likely to be the application of the team, perhaps because of this, MIUI's machine is not installed this app ...
Its cube-type desktop is already a standard product of its kind: the left side is the contact, the top of the home page is the time, weather and custom app. It is characterized by a sophisticated UI design and clear, functional logic:
The number of page buttons will not exceed two, and the options are generally controlled under three. The interface is simple and the font is large. All of them are text buttons. It is difficult to use them if they are not used, and the chance of mistakes is low.
The density of desktop icons is adjustable, which can adapt to different ageing users and mobile phones of different sizes;
Self-locking screen with large size clock and lunar calendar display, forced to unlock only on the screen (anti-touch);
Re-created the most frequently used dialing and text messaging applications, SMS support voice to text entry, even handwriting input method can not complete the ordinary text message text entry;
Weather and photo albums are minimalist and large. The former has no interaction at all. The latter can only be viewed and deleted without worrying about mistakes.
There are application stores and health information recommendations for middle-aged and elderly people. There are special versions for calendars and alarms, but some machines will fail to install...
Wishful old desktop: crazy big and full
It is called MIUI in the old man's desktop, and custom projects are already more than 99% of regular desktops. For Virgo users, this is the desktop on the market that best meets the individual needs of your parents/relatives/grandfather, without one:
On the basis of the original large size, there are 5 sizes of font size adjustment, desktop icon density has 3 levels of adjustment, and it is also the only desktop with the same type of folder concept;
Click on the time/weather of the desktop to broadcast the voice.
Calculators, alarm clocks, memo pads, and other apps that you want to install, click to download automatically, and you're more comfortable;
There are many kinds of application stores, calculators, alarm clocks, calendars, and notepads are just a few good tools. Even the skin shops have (with fake hammers Smartisan OS, MIUI, iOS desktop);
The old Huangli is a large word with a traditional one-day lunar calendar page;
The browsers are all modified navigation pages, but just jump to the normal page through the browser;
The alarm clock has an hour, medication reminder, various vibration and voice setting modes;
Notepad can also be voice input, but also read aloud;
There is an independent control center, wifi, 4G Internet, volume, ring size, brightness, text size can be adjusted
Advanced features:
Voice alert can be performed globally (each press of a button will have voice to read the key function), the lock screen interface can also read the sound, the lock screen can directly help
In the lock screen interface, the volume button can be used to trigger flashlights, calculators, report time, take pictures and other functions;
You can locate and send your own position as a text message;
This is estimated to be the only old desktop that supports dual cards now...
And there is also a price for high-end books: function setting items are much more complicated than similar products, UI is not extremely simple and exquisite, and many setting items have their own application promotion. (Of course, this is understandable, and it has no impact on peacetime. Use); folder occasionally has a map bug; the built-in lock screen will be duplicated with the original lock screen, and cannot be unlocked by fingerprint directly.
It can adapt to the needs of users in middle age to old age and many other age groups. It can be as simple as a desktop, and it can leave a lot of switches and shortcuts to users. It will be even more efficient and functional.
Wheat Table Top: Simple and Refined
The UI icon of the wheat desktop is the most detailed and most materialized of this kind of product. The weather icon has no buttons and will not be touched by mistake. Customized photo albums, full-function alarm clocks, lunar calendars (font sizes to be improved), and weather are all not installed as much as the previous products.
Have their own settings button, wifi, 3/4G Internet switch (really can be used to achieve the principle is unknown), voice mode, brightness, voice broadcast switch. In the same product, it is the only temporary reset of the browser, navigation pages and content are also optimized through fonts and icons.
Three-page design desktop, but the left and right pages are app pages, the middle of the middle home page has a network, flashlight shortcut switch, and the power indicator that other products have forgotten (because Android has recovered 3/4G switch in Android 5.0, so The 3G switch inside cannot be moved). The alarm clock is integrated in the time display, and only one alarm clock can be set. The weather display mode is also boring and simple; the level is lower than the above, but the efficiency and appearance are closer to the regular desktop, and should be considered a middle-aged desktop.
365 old desktop
Jane Eyre old desktop
Big cat desktop
The rankings of the same products, such as Big Cat Desktop, 365 Old Desktop, Jane's old desktop, 91 old desktop (increase in memory usage) and other products are quite satisfactory, and they are highly consistent with the previous products.
Our requirements for the elderly desktop are nothing more than the following. For users of different ages, the order of importance will change:
The interface and interaction should be simple, the font should be large, and the content of the page should be less. Try to display the button in the form of words instead of icons.
Not too many functions to prevent misuse or scare the user;
Can lock settings to prevent mistakes from being modified;
The remaining details include time and power display must be large enough to not be able to easily exit the desktop, performance and memory requirements can not be too high, software stability, etc.
There are many interesting details about these desktop software for the elderly. For example, they wrote the name of the wifi as “free Internet access.†Almost all have the “security lock†function of the lock settings. It can be seen that they are really ulterior motives, but these The program has a unified problem:
Because of limited software rights, the original notification bar of the mobile phone can be pulled down (there are a lot of shortcut switches that are easily mistakenly touched)
Menu / multi-tasking button can not be shielded (many times the older generation of users, point to this button will be a look of force)
Many users may feel that these desktops are too ugly or do not want to be regarded as "old people"
Very simple to reset the specific functions of the camera, recorder, etc., can not find
This time we need to find other third-party applications to replace, and even use the root permissions and artifact Xposed framework, just confirm the phrase "simple but is the most complex" old saying. These issues, we will be in the next few articles, in the form of science/tutorial/application recommendation, to provide you with the best solution can be found for the time being, so stay tuned.
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