NOVEL NEXT Chapter 141
As the market share of Shenma Search increased, the traffic of Youtuan.com, Weibo and other websites gradually returned to their original levels. However, Qiandu was completely hit hard this time. Not only did its market share drop, but its stock price also fell by half. Rather than calling it BAT, it is better to call it SAT.
After all, in terms of the strength of Shanhai Group, it is no problem to surpass Qiandu.
People are in high spirits when they are happy. Qiandu was defeated in one battle. The entire Shenma Search and even the employees of Shanhai Group were all celebrating.
Su Chengyang was no exception.
All external pressure disappeared at this moment.
“Chairman, good news.”
Shanhai Technology General Manager Zhou Guangping was excited and rushed into Su Chengyang’s office with a box in his hand.
“Lao Zhou, what are you so happy about?”
“Chairman, the prototype sample machine is out.”
Zhou Guangping said excitedly
“oh?”
“The prototype is out?”
“Come on, show it to me.”
Su Chengyang was a little impatient. He took the box Zhou Guangping handed over and opened it. There was a black mobile phone inside. The frame was made of silver frosted aluminum alloy, which felt a little cool to the touch. The back panel was made of black tempered glass with special treatment. In the middle was the logo of Shanhai Mobile Phone, a circle with two horizontal strokes, which looked like a mountain.
The body was very thin and light, and the buttons were all stainless steel. There was no home button on the front. It was a whole screen. The top was the receiver, and the bottom was the power amplifier and charging port. The texture was very good in the hand. The 5-inch screen looked very atmospheric.
The appearance was definitely able to kill the so-called 3GS in seconds, and it was even hailed as the most classic generation of Apple, the Apple 4s.
The Apple 4s mobile phone also used a home button, which resulted in a very small screen display area, which was far less atmospheric than the mobile phone in his hand. He pressed the side power start button, and a small mountain animation appeared with a ripple of water drops, and the screen gradually lit up.
The speed was very fast, and it took only 13 seconds to enter the interface.
There are very few apps. In addition to some basic general apps, there are a few more apps than last time, including Weibo, WeChat, Youtuan and Yifutong.
These are all software under the Shanhai system.
Su Chengyang selected the app store again. This time there are a lot more apps. Compared with the releases in the past few months, there were only more than 20 apps. This time there are many more apps on each category page, including QQ mobile version, UC browser and other products. There are quite a lot of games, about 20 to 30, most of which are casual games. After all, the hardware at the moment can only play such casual games.
Snake Battle, Happy Candy Crush, Plants vs. Zombies, these three games are all Shanhai Games’ test works on the mobile terminal. The idea of the game was from Su Chengyang, and the specific way to play was set by the planner. After trying it out, it is quite satisfactory. The speed is very fast.
Basically, there is no lag, but when playing games for a long time, the phone still gets a little hot.
But there is no problem opening low-power applications such as WeChat and Weibo. Opening WeChat
, Su Chengyang casually registered an account and logged in. The interface is very beautiful, much more beautiful than WeChat of the same period. The UI interface is very delicate and exquisite. In terms of beauty, it is very similar to WeChat 16 years later. There are relatively few functions, such as public accounts.
There is no WeChat payment and so on.
There is no red envelope function, just a simple chat voice chat, and even the video chat function is not seen.
This is normal. With the current 3G network, even if the video function is launched, it is not practical, and it is still very stuck. As long as there are voice chat and voice call functions, it will be fine. These two are the most used.
“Feels good.‖ ．‖ ”
“There are fewer applications in it”
“The mobile novel reader launched by Shanhai Literature can make many novel websites such as Qidian and Jinjiang mobile.”
Before 4G network, the biggest function of smartphones, besides playing some basic games, was reading novels. With such a large screen, reading novels is definitely more comfortable than on an iPhone.”
“Previously, the group held a mobile conference, and Shanhai Literature had already proposed to develop a contemporary novel APP.”
“But they didn’t just make one, they made several. Almost every website has to make a novel APP.”
Zhou Guangping showed a helpless expression. In his opinion, only one is needed. Making more is meaningless and a waste of resources.
Su Chengyang didn’t think so. He would try to see the results first.
Then he would adjust according to the market.
Turn on the camera function of the mobile phone.
“Are the pixels okay? How many pixels are there?”
“Chairman, it is equipped with an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 3-megapixel front camera.
Su Chengyang nodded. This parameter configuration seems to be similar to the Apple mobile phone 4s version.
In this era, it is completely sufficient.
“Is the CPU chip self-developed?”
“Chairman, the chip is based on the Samsung architecture, temporarily optimized to create a chip, the optimized response speed is faster than the original 3-star chip, and the performance is more powerful!”
Su Chengyang was not surprised to hear that it was from the Samsung architecture. Fruit companies are all using Samsung CPU chip prices. In this case, Shanhai will naturally need it.
“Chairman, what should be the better way to name mobile phones?”
“How many announcements have there been?”
“There are 3 versions in total, 16g, 32g and 64g”
“Then choose air, pro, or max!”
“That is, standard, professional, and high-performance versions.”
Su Chengyang thought for a while and said.
He thought it was very practical to use the fruit model directly, and it would also facilitate the internationalization of Shanhai mobile phones in the future.
Zhou Guangping nodded and agreed with Su Chengyang’s naming method.
“When do you plan to launch it?”
“The plan is to launch on New Year’s Day”
“One month, is that enough time?”
“There is definitely enough time for production. We have already reached an agreement with more than a dozen domestic parts OEM factories. In addition, Leica, Sonata, Samsung and other companies will provide cameras, batteries, screens and other parts, and finally Foxconn will assemble them.”
“Only Foxconn?”
Su Chengyang raised his eyebrows, not having a very good impression of this company.
Zhou Guangping explained:”This company is a specialized OEM company. It has been in this industry for many years and has rich experience. Moreover, it also produces for many large companies, and its yield rate is very high.”
“Um~~”
Su Chengyang thought about it and stopped worrying about it.
The most urgent thing is to make the brand famous first, and the rest can be dealt with later.
Anyway, he is in the upstream chain, and the OEM factory can be changed at any time.
As long as the sales volume is large enough, more and more supply chain companies will be willing to join Shanhai Mobile Phone, just like Apple Mobile Phone.
“Channels, what is the situation here?”
Su Chengyang asked a very critical question. Zhou
Guangping said:”We are currently talking with China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom. If we can reach a cooperation, relying on the channel network of the three companies, it will be enough to cover most areas.”
“It would be best if you can cooperate with the three telecom operators, but my suggestion is that you still have to have your own channel network.”
“Open direct-sale flagship stores in first-, second- and third-tier cities in China, such as Yanjing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Yangcheng and Pengcheng. Each city will have at least one store, several stores or even dozens of stores, depending on the population structure of the city.”
After a pause, Su Chengyang continued:”¨‖ ¨‖ In addition, you can also adopt the e-commerce model”
“E-commerce?”
Zhou Guangping looked surprised.
“right”
“The official website sets up a rush ordering interface, limits the sales to 10,000 units per day, hypes up hunger marketing, and lets the marketing department plan the specific operation.”
“Besides, didn’t Weibo set up an e-commerce platform? Shanhai Mobile officially entered the platform and set a daily sales volume of 2,000 units.”
“After the customer places an order, the item will be sent to the customer by express delivery.”
“this…Chairman, is it appropriate to use a courier company to deliver this valuable item? I’m afraid it will be stolen by the courier!”
Zhou Guangping frowned, with a worried look in his eyes.
Obviously, he didn’t agree with Su Chengyang’s e-commerce.
Su Chengyang nodded:”What you said makes sense, so it is very important to choose a cooperative courier company.”
“I think SF Express is fine. I can talk to SF Express directly. If something is lost, they will compensate according to the price.”
“As long as our orders are big enough, no one will dare to do anything to us.”
When he said this, Su Chengyang exuded a strong sense of confidence.
“By the way, has the price been announced yet?”
Su Chengyang suddenly thought of this question and asked curiously.
“Standard version, planned price is 4399 yuan”
“The professional version is priced at 4999 yuan”
“The top version is priced at 5999 yuan (good (good)))”
Su Chengyang frowned and said in a deep voice:”This price is too low.”
“Too low?”
Zhou Guangping looked surprised.
“Yes.”
Su Chengyang nodded and said,”I think the starting price for the standard version is 4999 yuan.”
“The professional version is 6399 yuan.”
“The top-end version is priced at 7999 yuan!”
“Huh?”
Zhou Guangping was shocked when he heard the price Su Chengyang said, and hurriedly asked:”Chairman, isn’t this price a bit expensive?””
Expensive?”
Su Chengyang smiled and shook his head, looking at Zhou Guangping:”Old Zhou, our Shanhai mobile phone is positioned as a high-end mobile phone brand. In terms of hardware performance, we are better than fruit. Fruit can sell at this price, why can’t we sell it? And where is the cost? Just the operating system, it took several years and invested hundreds of millions of dollars. This account must be recovered.”
“Furthermore, those who can afford Shanhai phones will always be able to afford them. Those who cannot afford them will still think it is expensive even if you reduce the price by 1,000 or 2,000 yuan.”
“As the saying goes, things are valuable because they are rare. We at Shanhai have different customer groups. Selling at a higher price may bring unexpected results. After all, if the price is high, whoever owns it is equivalent to a symbol of status, and the sense of superiority it brings is something that many mobile phones cannot give.” As a person who has experienced it, Su Chengyang is well aware of the essence of the face and vanity of the Dragon people.