From the end of July to the end of August, in just one month, major domestic brands launched their own functional phones and pseudo-smart phone products, including the big manufacturers that will become famous in the future: Huawei, Oppo...
It is also interesting to say that these two brands are not as eager to launch pseudo-smartphones as ZTE, Gionee, and Bird. Instead, they still choose button function phones, but they have their own characteristics in terms of styling.
The product launched by Huawei is a typical business feature phone. It is relatively large in size among feature phones and has a very tough appearance. It is also equipped with a capacitive screen on the front and a capacitive stylus can be taken out from the upper right corner.
Oppo's products are still old-fashioned button function machines, but in the back panel design, the unique smile + hidden camera will always impress people.
Some brands are eager to launch new products to occupy the market, while some brands are not in a hurry at all and are still waiting and watching. Such brands are more terrifying.
Because as soon as they appear on the scene, the time is right and they are rushing to occupy the market, without any chance of other brands reacting.
"The market is in chaos, there will be more disruptors soon, and Stardust Technology's first-mover advantage will gradually disappear, but for now we are still the only one..."
Chen Zifan sighed slightly, and Zhao Wushang immediately responded: "Our product line is more streamlined. The sales of the 'Hai' and 'Box' functional phones are not as good as the original, but they can still sell about 10,000 units every month...
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"Further reduce production capacity, clear out the final inventory, and maintain it until June next year. After the release of Stardust 2, these two mobile phones will be discontinued..."
"I understand, one more thing. Over at Xinghua Zhixing, Mr. Chen said that their new electric car, Chengfeng 2 Generation, is ready. It just needs the instrument assembly. When should we prepare it?"
When Chen Zifan heard this, he cursed in his heart: "Damn, there are so many things going on recently. I forgot about this matter. I have to go see how the progress is."
The so-called instrument assembly is actually an LCD screen + Bluetooth module + management chip that can display more functions. It has no technical difficulty for current Stardust Technology and can be built at will.
Chen Zifan is more concerned about whether Stardust Network can free up manpower to improve Xinghua Zhixing's APP. This project team was established very early, but recently many people have gone to the Stardust OS department.
There is no way, the research and development of Stardust OS requires too many engineers, and the requirements for professional skills are also very high, and the official side has also put in a lot of effort.
Some complex and laborious development work was directly outsourced to official engineers. They used the source code of Stardust OS to create a fully closed system, which was used in certain security scenarios and showed excellent results.
Chen Zifan went around the Stardust Network Building and checked the progress of the Xinghua Zhixing APP.
If there is nothing special happening, he really doesn't want to come to the Stardust Network Building. There are three floors of security. Fortunately, he is the chairman. If an ordinary employee comes in, his identity information will have to be verified several times.
After Chen Zifan went to the project team to check it briefly, he found that the Xinghua Zhixing APP was already very complete and could be put on the shelves at any time.
Now he felt relieved, and even went to visit other project teams. In the game project team, he also met An He again. When the girl saw him, the fierce look in her eyes seemed to kill someone.
"What happened? Did you offend her?"
Chen Zifan carefully recalled the recent contact between the two, and felt that there was nothing wrong with it... Then he shook his head and thought: Women are really inexplicable.
In fact, it's just that the workload of the game project team has increased significantly recently. The modeling drawings provided by domestic automobile manufacturers are more difficult to complete than the last one. After finally modeling it, people are still not satisfied when I take it out.
What to say: "What I want is the pushing feeling of pushing down the accelerator! Do you know the pushing feeling? When you press the accelerator, the start will be too slow, right?"
"And the body line. Is our car that ugly? It's a good coupe, but you look like a ghost village. Please change it!"
"The exhaust sound is not pleasant either. Our sound has been specially adjusted. It is best to add a flame-throwing device when the floor oil is started, the kind that sprays blue fire!"
Anhe:……
She really wanted to say: "Please, can you see what your car looks like in real life? I've tried my best to make it look good, but it's just ugly. What can I do? Can I really let myself go in the game?"
In reality, everyone is submissive, but in the game they all punch hard, each one more powerful than the other.
Chen Zifan did not understand these situations, and he chose to trust the skills of the game project team engineers.
Being so busy at work that you have to jog to drink water and go to the bathroom, and having all kinds of entertainment after get off work have become the daily routine of Stardust Network, or in other words, the entire Stardust Technology employees. Once you get used to it, it's actually pretty good.
After returning to Stardust Technology, Chen Zifan directly called Chen Jianjun: "Hello? Dad, there is no problem with the instrument assembly. How many cars are you planning to produce? What? 1 million? Are you sure?"
After hanging up the phone, Chen Zifan had some doubts about life. Producing 1 million electric vehicles? Is this still his father who pursues small profits? Is Xinghua Zhixing so powerful recently? Has it become a branded electric vehicle?
Out of curiosity, Chen Zifan took a look at Xinghua Zhixing's quarterly report. He didn't know what to expect. He was shocked when he saw that Xinghua electric vehicles have occupied 48% of the domestic electric vehicle market, with huge shipments.
"Damn, it's so fierce!"
It seems that I have gone out less frequently recently. If I had gone out a few more times, I would have definitely seen the Xinghua electric vehicles that can be seen everywhere on the streets of Haicheng City. They are affordable, have durable batteries, and are very fashionable and good-looking...
Coupled with the ban on motorcycles in cities and the good weather in summer, it is not surprising that the sales of Xinghua electric vehicles are high, but their development model is to let dealers sell their products at a profit.
Xinghua Zhixing does not have many brand flagship stores, and there is no need to build too many. The advantage of giving profit to dealers is that Xinghua Zhixing only needs to produce electric vehicles and advertise, and the brand expansion will be very fast.
The disadvantage is that the profits are low, and most of the profits are made by the dealers. However, this is not a problem for Chen Jianjun, who has always been pursuing small profits. He has now figured out that Xinghua Zhixing can make money if it can, and cannot be pulled down.
Anyway, I have made enough in this life and there is no shortage of money. What’s the use of having rice in the barn overflowing?
The pricing of Chengfeng 2 is relatively high this time. One million units are just sold to test market feedback. If the demand is large in the future, production capacity will be increased again.
Regarding the development of Xinghua Zhixing, Chen Zifan will not interfere too much. At most, he will occasionally pay attention to the recent situation and publicize it in the Stardust community. The rest has to be done by Chen Jianjun himself.
"LCD instrument, Bluetooth connection, record vehicle condition information, mileage, etc., keyless start... In fact, NFC keys are easier to use than Bluetooth keys..."
However, there is no NFC function on the Stardust 1. If nothing goes wrong in the next few generations of products, only the Stardust 3 series may be available. The Stardust 3 series will be released around June 2008, and there will be more products by then.
For example, Xinghan Zhixing's first new energy vehicle will be released in the same year as BYD F3DM and Tesla Roadster. Whether it can be mass-produced that year is still a question, and the sales volume should not be very good.
Another example is Stardust Technology's first smart watch... This is just a plan. Whether the project can be approved depends on the quality of MediaTek's chips. If Helio does well, it can customize a watch version.
It is too far away to mention these now. With the entry of ZTE and other brands, the Chinese market has three types of mobile phone products: button-function phones, pseudo-smartphones, and smart phones. The confusion has reached the extreme.
Even mobile phone dealers don’t know what to choose. Except for the Stardust 1, which is a unique model, buying anything else may result in losses, so they can only choose some big brands with good publicity and advertising to sell.
At a time when the mobile phone market is in a turmoil and genuine copycats are in chaos, Chen Zifan is already preparing the next generation of products. Stardust 2 and Stardust Tablet are naturally important, but there is a technology that is even more important:
"The problem of the charging port should be solved. We were preparing for it some time ago, but some USB technologies and products have not been collected. [Analysis of Counterfeiting] and [Synthetic Creation] cannot play their role..."
After Zhao Wushang helped collect the current mainstream USB technologies and products such as USB-A, Chen Zifan came to the core area laboratory of Stardust Factory again and began to [analyze copycats] of their technologies and products.
Then some documents appeared in his consciousness, all of which were the basic principles and technical analysis of USB technology, but these were not enough. At most, they could produce something similar to existing products.
[Analysis of Shanzhai] can obtain a perfect USB technology foundation, and [Synthetic Creation] can further develop on this basis. Soon Chen Zifan obtained a more powerful and perfect USB technology.
"The USB technology of lv.30 is equivalent to the original full-featured Type-C technology. It only needs to be upgraded in the future. Wait? What kind of shape is this?"
I saw that in the USB technology of lv.30, one end of it is not the flat oval C port that Chen Zifan knew, but a round port, similar to the round port of 3.5mm headphones. No, it is not a 3.5mm port.
Looking at this technology, Chen Zifan was silent at the time. Looking more carefully, he found that although the diameter of the interface was 3.5mm, its depth was not as deep as that of 3.5mm headphones, only about half the depth.
"The round mouth comes out straight, but the 3.5mm aperture is too big, and the direct strength is not enough when it is reduced, so the flat mouth is mostly flat. Wait, ugh~ can it still be like this?"
"With reference to this technology, it can be transformed into a flat oval mouth similar to Type-C, but... why should I go through such an extra step?"
Is it just to cater to a future that doesn’t exist yet? Are you worried about Type-C that hasn’t been born yet? Or are you afraid that Stardust Technology’s USB port won’t be popularized? Can it be popularized if it looks like Apple’s Type-C in the future?
Because it is Apple's technology, and there is indeed innovation, the flat mouth is more in line with the existing conditions, so it is promoted quickly, but as long as some of the defects of the round mouth can be solved, it is not impossible to use it.
Ever since, a project called "Speed USB" was born in the core area of Stardust Factory, aiming to create a more powerful USB interface belonging to Stardust Technology.
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