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Chapter 149 "New Tier [-]" Cities

Stardust-Chenji is not bad, because the technologies used are all existing Stardust Technology, but the process of combining them is relatively difficult, but it is not too easy to improve the process manufacturing.

With [Stardust Technology] present, the finishing ability of the Stardust Factory has reached a world-class level, and if all of it is used on products, there will be a result: just one look at the products of Stardust Technology will know that they are very expensive.

It is difficult to have a standardized description of the texture, but Stardust Technology has put labels such as "great texture" and "good quality" in the hearts of all consumers.

Just like people in the motorcycle field say that Haojue is "good quality", and people in the car field say that Volvo is "safe" and Honda is "fuel-efficient". Even if there is something wrong with their products, it will not affect the brand power.

Therefore, Stardust-Chenji is more like Chen Zifan's display of Stardust's technological strength. The super high price is destined to have nothing to do with mainstream consumers. On the contrary, the development progress of other products is a bit slow.

Especially Stardust-Jiangji, this UAV product looks like a "large remote-controlled aircraft". In fact, the marginal project team has already passed through more than a dozen proposals, and the products produced are not good.

After Chen Zifan settled the matter with Polestar Motors, he went straight back to the Stardust factory, took a sample machine and took a test flight in the factory. Although he played with drones less often, he also noticed the problem.

First of all, the control of Stardust-Edge is a bit difficult, and the screen of Stardust mobile phone is not big. Unless it is equipped with an accessory like a magic game controller, the dot screen is really difficult to control, and the feedback is not clear.

Secondly, the current engineering prototype does not have an obstacle avoidance function. Coupled with the unstable signal connection, there will be a feeling of pause when operating, which is a bit similar to game delay, which is very uncomfortable to use.

The last thing is to take pictures. The 500-megapixel camera is obviously not high enough in resolution, and it can only be regarded as barely usable. It is okay to take pictures of some scenery from a high altitude, but it is not enough to take pictures of people and complex scenes.

The R&D staff asked hesitantly:

"Chen Dong, look..."

What to look at?
"Which chip do you use?"

"It's the castrated 3G version of Long River 4..."

"What about the algorithm?"

"It's still the original shooting effect..."

"Okay, I get it."

The solution given by Chen Zifan is also very violent, release some technology from [Stardust Technology], and add some more powerful hardware, but in this way, the cost of Stardust-Margin will increase.

It is a bit difficult to maintain Chen Zifan's original price, but Chen Zifan doesn't care. It is impossible for him to offer this product to consumers in order to save costs and make profits.

The issue of selling price can be decided later. The product must be completed first, and he also gave a certain cost margin when formulating the product plan. If the requirements are really not met, then there is no need to follow the cost plan.

But this is an extreme case
The chips used by Stardust-Edge are also produced by Stardust Factory itself. Logically speaking, the signal connection should not be unstable. Chen Zifan checked it carefully and found that it was a mistake.

"It's not that the signal is unstable, it's that there is a problem with the APP logic, so this phenomenon occurs..."

A part of the Stardust Network engineers have to be allocated to be responsible for this, starting from the bottom layer to optimize and make the connection well, so as to avoid this phenomenon from happening again.

As for the Stardust game... Now that it has become independent from the Stardust network, it is responsible for game development, acquisition, release, operation and maintenance, etc. With An He and some veteran cadres around, there is no need to worry too much.

Chen Zifan occasionally asked them to pay attention to certain games based on the time in his memory, but because the appearance of Stardust Technology changed the original historical trend, it was not always possible to acquire a certain game 100%.

However, due to the emergence of smart phones, some web games have obviously stopped developing, and there is even a trend of regression. Even the website is not very good, such as 4399 and 7k7k are going downhill.

But they are not doing nothing. Now is the period of rapid development of smart phones, and they are also developing some mobile phone APPs, trying to transplant several main games into the APP, and planning to launch several mobile games.

However, in front of Stardust Games, their chances of failure are very high. Although there are many pirated games on the two game websites, Chen Zifan still asked An He to pay attention to them, maybe they can find something.

Because he also knows that these two "unscrupulous game websites" have actually contracted many people's childhood fun, such as spin racing, Reaper vs. Naruto, Forest Ice and Fire Man, Dream Journey to the West... Many people have played it.

Not to mention some nurturing games, catching elves and raising elves can kill all age groups. Stardust Games has also acquired one before. Now there are many daily active users and the income is also very considerable.

But Chen Zifan didn't care about the Stardust game for the time being, the focus was on solving the Stardust product first, Stardust-Margin was the most difficult, and the rest of the products had a foundation, including the electronic paper book product.

Stardust Technology has a very high level of screen technology, and it is very simple to extend it to ink screens. The newly established subsidiary Star Vision has easily produced the first batch of ink screens. There is nothing to say about the quality.

In order to improve the visual perception of the ink screen, Star Vision directly removed the capacitive screen and the light guide plate, and the light transmittance is at least twice that of the conventional ink screen.

Even Chen Zifan was a little surprised when he got the sample machine, because the text displayed on this screen seemed to be floating on the surface of the screen, the clarity was not only high, but the refresh rate was also ridiculously high.

With a resolution of more than 300dpi, a 256-level grayscale display, and an ultra-high refresh rate of 45hz, even in 2022, this screen is very capable.

Just having a good screen is not enough, the library and functions of the electronic paper book are the key points. Since the capacitor layer is canceled, the Stardust electronic paper book will come with a hidden electromagnetic pen to operate the pages of the electronic paper book .

For the reading of file formats, Stardust electronic paper books can not only read TXT, PDF, HTLM and other formats, but also directly optimize the non-library files and books, and the reading experience is almost the same as that of the library.

Equipped with an electromagnetic stylus, the Stardust electronic paper book can also record reading notes, etc., and the data can be synchronized to cloud storage, and these contents can also be viewed from other Stardust OS devices.

There are also many detailed functions. The Stardust electronic paper book is also very perfect, such as the built-in font adjustment, the pen type setting for handwriting recording, etc., not to mention the hardware configuration, which is as high as ever.

The ink screen itself saves power, coupled with a super-large lithium battery + fast charging, making its battery life reach a very scary level. The sample machine has not been tested, but it is initially estimated that the battery life will be more than 15 days.

Moreover, the battery life of the mass-produced version may be further improved, reaching the level of nearly a month. With the 30W fast charge of Stardust Technology, the full charge time only takes about one hour, which is very exaggerated.

A month on a single charge?

There is no doubt that the Stardust Electronic Paper Book will be another debut product of Stardust Technology. Even the R&D personnel of this product, as well as Wang Jinli and Zhao Wushang think it is too outrageous. The product is so powerful that it will explode the list :
"This product... Logically speaking, electronic paper books are only the needs of niche users, and niche products cannot become the mainstream of the mass market. This is common sense, but it is likely to break this common sense."

Common sense may not always be common sense. The Stardust e-paper book is already so strong that Chen Zifan still feels that it is not perfect. He has the following points in mind:

"How can we use finger touch without relying on an electromagnetic pen while ensuring the clarity of text, reducing the thickness of the screen, and removing the capacitive screen?"

"Half a month of battery life? One month? It still needs to be charged, and paper books don't need to be charged. If you want to replace most paper books with electronic paper books, you must let it go without charging and reach an infinite battery life."

If Stardust electronic paper books can really do this, Chen Zifan can guarantee that Haicheng will definitely give priority to piloting the use of Stardust electronic paper books to replace the original paper textbooks.

And this is a direction that even in the future, those technology companies have never set foot or tried. When that day comes, the influence may be no less than the development from bamboo slips to paper books in ancient times.

The Stardust electronic paper book, which seems to be extremely powerful and may turn a niche product into a mass product, is just the first generation of electronic paper book of Stardust Technology~

For this product, Chen Zifan did not give any fancy name, but named it "Stardust-Ink". Just by hearing the name, you can know what the product is, and it is more convenient for people to form an intuitive impression.

The remaining few products: Stardust Tablet, Stardust Bluetooth Headphones, and Stardust Smart Watch will undergo a regular update that is larger than before. The main purpose is to use the "new code name" rather than a great leap in product strength.

In fact, the update frequency of these products does not need to be so fast at all, so Chen Zifan has prepared to slow down the update frequency of several products, and the only one of the same generation as Stardust 4 and Stardust 4+ is the Stardust Tablet.

At the same time~

The Tiangong generation of Haihua chips is also in the overtime test. According to the plan, two chips will be produced, namely Tiangong 1- and Tiangong 1, and one will be used in low-priced Meizu Note and Redmi 1. on the phone.

The other is to sell mobile phones in the 1500-3000 price range. These models come from major mobile phone brands, but their positioning and workmanship are lower than those of Stardust 3, roughly equivalent to the 2G version of Stardust 3.

The Meizu Note sample machine has come out, and Boss Huang even sent someone to deliver hundreds of them to Chen Zifan, which made Chen Zifan a little speechless. For a courier, do you need to send someone to drive to deliver it?
Also, why did you give him so many sample machines, let him send them out as employee benefits?The problem is that the employees of Stardust Technology now have more than one Stardust mobile phone, and they will not use it if they send it to the employees!
After thinking about it, Chen Zifan left a few sample machines, and the rest were thrown into the warehouse for ashes.

Take it apart and take a look... I have to say that the Meizu Note is indeed youthful. The color of the back cover is very fashionable. It is obviously made of plastic, but it has a skin-like cool touch. It feels pretty good to the touch.

Because the configuration is not high, Meizu Note is very light. Chen Zifan weighed it, and it is only 126 grams.

This price is also understandable~
The rest of the configuration is also very general. It can be used, but it is definitely unrealistic to use it well. After getting used to Stardust 3+, using Meizu Note will give you the illusion of returning to the era of feature phones.

The equipped Tiangong 1-performance is about the level of Dimensity 200, and the gap with Changhe 3 is not a little bit, mainly because the peripheral configuration is too general, but if you don’t care, you can use it for 2 to 3 years.

It can be used for a longer period of time, but it is hard to say whether it can keep up with the development speed of the software. After all, Stardust 2 will be an obsolete product at that time, and Meilan Note is still worse than Stardust 2.

Xiaomi's progress is relatively slow, Wang Jinli went to urge it a few times, but Rebs is very confident, he thinks that a good meal is not afraid of being late, and Meizu will be fine for a Spring Festival, and I don't know where the confidence comes from...

That being the case, Chen Zifan will not say much, anyway, at this stage, he only needs a low-priced model, and he can cooperate with the official and the three major operators to push the product out and popularize smartphones in all directions.

The official details of the operation are already being arranged, and he just needs to wait patiently for a while.

After entering November, due to the early Spring Festival next year, some year-end work has already started ahead of schedule. While Chen Zifan was solving product problems, Zhao Wushang went to his office with a new document.

If it’s Wang Jinli, it must be about business cooperation and products. If it’s Zhao Wushang, it’s either company management or official rumors, but this time it’s about city ratings:

"There are new standards this year. A few new first-tier cities will be added. There will be new ratings for first-tier cities at the end of the year. There are many qualified cities. This is the specific list."

Chen Zifan was a little puzzled: "The new first-tier cities are rated? This one still needs to be rated? Who is on the list?"

"There are still a few cities that are about the same size as Haicheng in the past, and there are 10 cities in total including Haicheng, namely: Haicheng, Shacheng, Shancheng, Lanfeng City..."

"...what rating method?"

"Selected from various aspects such as economic growth rate, population flow trend, resident population, per capita GDP, total GDP, and urbanization level."

"I understand."

Having said that, in fact, this kind of city rating standard is very vague, such as the population. Taking the population of Haicheng in 2007 as an example, the population of 800 million has reached the standard of a "huge city".

This year's population will only increase, especially after the reputation of "4G city" is established, Haicheng has absorbed more floating population, and the boom in college students does not count, after all, there are only so many universities in Haicheng.

Most of them are migrant workers, and quite a few of them came here for Stardust Technology. Especially in the early days of the establishment of the 13 subsidiaries, crowds of people frequently appeared during the recruitment process.

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