Time also passed gradually.
Hongjun Communication Equipment Company has not only gained a good reputation and excellent sales in the market with its new product "HeiZI MP4".
At the same time, with the popularity of this product, it has also opened up markets in many regions.
Some dealers in other regions who have no cooperation with the company have also started to contact Hongjun Communication Equipment Company.
The company has also used this product to gradually expand offline channels in most provinces and cities in China, which also facilitates the company's future development.
Offline channels are still a very important channel in the industry. Even if e-commerce platforms gradually rise in the future, the sales volume of offline platforms will still account for the majority of the overall sales volume.
"The fruit company officially reached a strategic cooperation with Sharp..."
The emergence of a new piece of news made Xu Cong begin to pay attention to the fruit company's actions during this period.
"Heizi MP4", an epoch-making top electronic product, has brought a lot of inspiration to Cook, the current head of the fruit company.
Now Cook has basically understood the design left by Jobs, and has begun to gradually design new products.
"We don't have much time left..."
Seeing that the fruit company and Sharp Company have reached a strategic cooperation, Xu Cong also understood that the fruit company is now ready to start designing new products.
As an old technology company in the island country, Sharp has a very high status in the field of screen panels.
Many top electronic product manufacturers and TV manufacturers hope to obtain the supply of Sharp screens.
After all, the quality of Sharp's screens is at the top level in the industry.
However, Sharp is not just a simple upstream supply chain manufacturer, it is also a world-renowned electrical appliance manufacturer.
Sharp's most well-known electrical product is the TV. Relying on the natural screen panel advantage, Sharp's TVs are also at the top level in the entire industry.
Even with the emergence of smart phones in the future, Sharp has gradually shifted its attention to smart phones and released several well-known smart phones.
On these smartphones, users can often see the horror of Sharp's screen panel technology.
In 2016 and 2017, the screens released by major domestic communication equipment and mobile phone manufacturers were basically 1080P resolution screens.
As a company with natural screen advantages, Sharp has released many products with top-notch 2K screens. Even in 2017, when high refresh rates were not yet popular, Sharp had already released a smartphone with a high refresh rate.
It is a pity that although Sharp claims to have a sufficient level of screen supply, it has never been able to sell its products outside the island country.
Now that the fruit company and Sharp have reached a cooperative relationship, Xu Cong can foresee that the fruit company is likely to design and produce the first smartphone within a few years.
Xu Cong needs to seize the fame he deserves by releasing the product before the other party designs and produces the product.
And now the company already has the ability to manufacture smartphones.
Even in Xu Cong's expectation, the smartphones produced by this company can be modified accordingly based on the original "HeiZI MP4" product.
Even the appearance of the product can continue to use MP4 modules, thus saving a certain amount of production costs.
After all, the appearance design of the "HeiZI" product is also a very popular product among today's electronic products and communication equipment.
As a smartphone product, compared to an entertainment-oriented product, more components and parts will be added to the motherboard of the product.
Bluetooth chip module and WiFi chip module!
Communication baseband modules and radio frequency chips!
More powerful processor chips and flash memory chips!
At the same time, it is necessary to add more antennas to the three-section position of the middle frame of the product to facilitate the product's signal reception level.
The front camera and rear camera, plus the flash of the mobile phone, will be welded on the motherboard and become important components of the mobile phone.
In addition to adding these components, you also need to add components such as earpieces and microphones that can assist calls.
After all, if you want to implement a device that can make calls now, the cost is not high, but it is definitely not particularly low.
As for other basic components such as screens, batteries, and speakers, the same type of components as "Heizi MP4" can still be used.
According to the performance of adding components to mobile phones, with the same module as the original MP4, the density of components inside the product will be stacked more closely.
At the same time, in order to stack the components inside the product more closely, it is appropriate to cancel or select some components.
For example, this time, the ultra-large speakers have been widely praised in MP4-type products.
Judging from the density of components and heat dissipation added this time, the new smartphone product may not be able to accommodate more speakers.
In the end, these speakers may even retain only one speaker horn, thereby saving more internal space in the product and facilitating the stacking of other components.
Nowadays, the most basic communication modules can be purchased in the magical Huaqiangbei.
Only the core components still need to be solved by Xu Cong and Hongjun Company.
The first is the core processor chip, which is the most important product.
As the first smartphone, the operating system of the entire product is fundamentally different from the mainstream operating systems on the market, and the requirements for the core processor chip of the mobile phone are very high.
For this reason, Xu Cong established Sugon Semiconductor and began to study and develop chips. Last year, he designed a processor chip that can almost drive a smartphone system.
At the same time, the designed processor chips were also handed over to ZTE International for OEM production.
It's a pity that ZTE International is still undergoing continuous testing and debugging on the 128nm process, and until now it has not really allowed this new process technology to achieve commercial mass production.
In order to ensure that the product is launched on time, Xu Cong can only settle for the second best for the time being.
The original processor chip design was partially castrated, and at the same time the frequency of the processor chip was lowered. By means of castration and frequency reduction, ZTE International's 196nm process was used to temporarily produce part of it that could be used in smartphone products.
Ordinary chips.
After the Chinese New Year this year, because ZTE International was unable to truly break through 128nm, Xu Cong has arranged for Sugon Semiconductor to officially place 196nm orders with ZTE International.
It was decided to temporarily produce some castrated processor chips for use in smartphones.
In addition to the needs of chips, the needs of flash memory and storage are equally important.
RAM, to put it in easy-to-understand terms, is the running memory of a mobile phone.
As a kind of memory with long life and not easy to lose, RAM has been widely used in digital products, computers and digital cameras.
Flash memory is a memory well known to users and is used to store files and programs.
Nowadays, the top technologies of flash memory and storage are in the hands of foreign technology companies.
If domestic technology companies want to obtain these flash memories and storage, they need to spend a lot of money to purchase them.
Compared with the core components of the screen, the purchase of flash memory and storage is relatively simple, but the flash memory and storage that domestic technology companies can buy now are basically products of this level.
Of course, if you want to buy more top-notch flash memory and storage, you first need to have a certain in-depth cooperative relationship with these flash memory and storage companies, and secondly, the price will far exceed the strengths of domestic technology companies.
According to Xu Cong’s idea, current sub-level flash memory and storage can basically be used in smartphones.
However, as the first smartphone produced by the company and also the first smartphone on the market, Xu Tong still hopes to use better flash memory and storage in the product.
In addition to flash memory and processor chips, mobile phone camera sensors are also a problem.
Most of the current mobile phone cameras have 1 million pixels at most, and even the camera phones released by Nokia and other manufacturers at this stage have many pixels of hundreds of thousands of pixels.
The photos taken by these mobile phones look like blurry mosaics.
Daily photography requires careful viewing by the user, coupled with automatic decoding by the human eye and the human brain, to achieve a smooth photography experience.
Originally, Xu Cong planned to use some good image sensors on this product.
However, after thinking about it, we finally decided to use Huaqiangbei’s most advanced image sensor components for the image sensor.
First of all, taking pictures with today’s smartphones is not a rigid necessity, or even the primary demand experience.
When many users buy mobile phones in the future, their requirements for cameras are not particularly high, and there are even new requirements for mobile phone cameras.
“It’s not important to take pictures with your mobile phone, as long as you can scan the QR code!”
That’s right, your phone just needs to be able to scan QR codes!
However, current Internet communications and online payments have not really taken off. Although QR codes, a work of contemporary significance, have appeared, they have not yet become truly popular.
When most users use smartphones, the rear camera is mostly used to scan QR codes for payment, and the front camera is generally used for video chat on social software.
These have not yet become truly popular, which means that the cameras installed on new smartphones do not themselves need to be of high quality.
The camera sensors that Huaqiangbei can now provide are completely sufficient for the first product designed by the company.
Chapter completed!