China Entertainment: I became a capital tycoon

Chapter 241 Chapter 239. The First Generation of Smartphones
After leaving the "Avatar" crew, Cao Yu called Lu Huateng and took the flight that day to Pengcheng.

"By the way, Xiao Wu, do you have the quotations for Airbus and Gulfstream aircraft?"

Although it was first class, Cao Yu felt inconvenient. As soon as he got on the plane, Cao Yu asked in a low voice.

Xiao Wu took out a piece of information and said: "Only Airbus has submitted a bid, and Gulfstream's quotation has not yet been sent."

Cao Yu took it over and took a look. The information contained an A319 elite business jet, an A340 business jet, and an A380 ultra-luxury business jet.

He fell in love with the A380 at first sight, it was a giant in the sky.

But when he saw the price of more than 5 million US dollars, he could only shake his head: "I am not a wealthy person in the Middle East. This price is a bit high."

Xiao Wu smiled and said: "Boss, these are toys for rich people. If you buy one, I will also want to enjoy it."

"Tch, you pay half of it, and I'll buy it."

"You sold me."

"Ha ha."

Cao Yu smiled lightly and looked at the price of the A340, which was around 4 million US dollars, and thought it was high. Finally, he saw the A319, which was less than [-] million US dollars, which he could accept.

"Although it is luxurious, the range is a bit short. We will compare it after Gulfstream quotes."

Cao Yu thought about it in his mind. Anyway, after Facebook goes public, he can cash out at the highest point and buy a better one by then.

Handing the information to the secretary, he took out a piece of paper and wrote the title of a song "Dream It Possible".

He liked this song very much back then, listened to it many times, and learned it, but never learned it.

However, just when he was about to write the music score, he encountered a difficulty: "My English is not good, and I don't remember many English lyrics at all, but the artistic conception of the Chinese version is a little bit different."

"I will run I will climb I will soar"

In my mind, I can only hum the melody, occasionally a line of lyrics pops up, and write out the tune first.

I also added a few remaining lyrics that I remembered, as well as a few words that I could remember, below.

And we'll dream it possible, Possible,.beautiful,.
Looking at the broken lyrics, he was also a little helpless.

"There is nothing I can do. If I didn't work hard when I was young, it would be too late to fight."

Cao Yu laughed at himself and added the Chinese lyrics at the end. Although the Chinese version was almost meaningless, it still sounded good.

"Let Zhang Liangying sing it. His voice is suitable for this kind of song."

Cao Yu wrote, recalling the story in that MV, his nose was still a little sore: "Find someone to write the lyrics in English, and then shoot this MV, it will be perfect."

A beautiful music and a touching MV will also make Huawei famous in the communications industry.

"I don't know how the development of Steve Jobs's Apple is going. It seems that Apple 10 was only released in 4 years. I really have no impression of the previous models."

The plane flew over the Pacific for more than ten hours and stopped steadily at Pengcheng International Airport. After getting off the plane, I was picked up by Huawei.

"Mr. Cao, thank you for your hard work."

As soon as the car stopped, Ren Zhengfei led someone to greet him, which showed that he valued Cao Yu.

"Mr. Ren, how can I ask you to come out to greet me? I really don't dare."

Cao Yu still respected Ren Zhengfei very much and was polite to him.

"Yes, I think you have opened up a new pattern and direction for our company."

Ren Zhengfei held Cao Yu's hand and said enthusiastically: "Let's go to the technical department first and look at the phone. Or should we take a rest and drink some tea first?"

"Look at your phone first."

This is a company that Ren Zhengfei and Cao Yu invested together, mainly engaged in mobile phones, mobile phone systems and chips.

Since the technology required top secret, the secretary and bodyguards stayed in the reception room. Ren Zhengfei only brought Cao Yu to the technology department.

Everyone here was wearing dust-proof clothing, and Cao Yu also changed into it as required. Only then did he enter. A project leader carefully took out a prototype.

Cao Yu took it over and found that the phone was indeed designed according to the concept he said. It had a 3.5-inch multi-touch display on the front. There were no buttons and there was only a navigation button at the bottom.

The back cover is made of plastic material and is made into a light and trendy arc shape that matches the trend of young people. It is also equipped with a 200-megapixel camera.

But the biggest feature is that the unlocking method is sliding to unlock, and the system is almost the same as Android. It can control multiple software, but currently it only has QQ, browser, email, photos, games, etc.

Ren Zhengfei watched Cao Yu keep swiping on the phone screen, definitely testing the smoothness and stability, and introduced: "Mr. Cao, the chip suitable for this phone has not been developed yet, so we chose Samsung's S5L8900 chip. There’s better stability.”

"Where's the memory?"

"RAM is 128MB, ROM is currently 8G and 16G."

"That's enough for now." Cao Yu nodded. As a first-generation smartphone, before APPs were fully popularized, this memory was completely enough.

Of course, it must be improved in the future, otherwise it will be stuck even when watching videos, let alone playing mobile games.

For those who are accustomed to using Symbian or ordinary mobile phones, Cao Yu is sure that the mobile phone in his hand is absolutely epoch-making.

As long as the camera has good pixels and looks good, it is attractive enough.

"Mr. Ren, I didn't expect that in less than two years, I would get my cell phone out."

Cao Yu tested it and found that the smoothness and screen resolution were both good.

"If it weren't for the direction provided by Mr. Cao, I wouldn't have dared to think that the mobile phone would still be like this." Ren Zhengfei gave most of the credit to the young man who provided the ideas.

“What colors are currently available?”

"black and white."

"Okay."

Because the mobile phone was almost made according to Cao Yu's ideas and was already quite perfect. Cao Yu also raised some issues and asked: "How much is the first generation mobile phone going to cost?"

"This hasn't been decided yet. Does Mr. Cao have any suggestions?"

Ren Zhengfei has invested a lot in this phone, but there is no precedent for the price, so he can't say.

"Let's go outside and talk."

Although the air conditioning here is sufficient, Cao Yu felt suffocated in his dustproof suit.

When he came to the office outside, Cao Yu thought for a moment and said, "How much does a mobile phone cost?"

The two parties already have a cooperative relationship, and Ren Zhengfei has no reservations. He said: "The chip of this machine is from Samsung. The camera and screen are from Japan. The cost is a bit high. Not counting the development cost, it costs more than 8 to manufacture an 970G model and a 16G model." It costs more than 100.”

"In this way, the domestic retail price of the 8G model is 2199, the 16G model is 2599, and the overseas prices are 299 and 399 US dollars. How about it?"

The price suggested by Cao Yu, excluding the dealer's profit, the company should still have more than 50% profit, which is relatively considerable, mainly to open up the market first.

In the future, when the second generation is developed, it can be sold at a higher price.

"Why are foreign countries higher than domestic ones?"

Ren Zhengfei didn't understand.

"Foreigners are rich."

Cao Yu smiled without explaining, and then asked: "By the way, Mr. Ren, what is the model of the mobile phone? Does this system have a name?"

"We have many suggestions, but they haven't been decided yet."

"Any suggestions?"

"Some people say that the phone is called H-PHONE, and some call it Huawei. As for the system, everyone has a variety of names, but I prefer the name Hongmeng."

"Let's use Huawei's pinyin. This one will be called P1. We will add it to the second generation in the future."

Although Cao Yu also likes H-PHONE, he just feels that it is inappropriate to use English for domestic mobile phones, so he gave a suggestion and then said: "Since Pangu broke Hongmeng and opened up the distinction between clear and turbidity, the name of Hongmeng system is not bad."

"Okay, that's it."

When Ren Zhengfei heard that Cao Yu agreed with his idea, he smiled heartily, and then said: "In the early stage, we focused all our technology on mobile phones, but with this mobile phone, tablets will be much easier, and they should be available by the end of the year."

"This is not urgent."

The tablet is just an accessory product, so Cao Yu is not in a hurry and immediately said: "We will further test the mobile phone. If there are no problems, we will hold a press conference at that time and strive to launch it by the end of the year."

As he spoke, he took out the song written on the airplane and said: "Maybe this phone is the world's first-generation smartphone, so I made a song for this phone, and then I will shoot a MV promotional video, but Give me three months to make this film."

Ren Zhengfei took a look at the music score and said with a smile: "Mr. Cao is indeed in the entertainment industry. The press conference is a good idea. The cost of the MV will also be paid by the company."

"Then I'm welcome."

You are Huawei's song. If you give me money, why should I be so polite?

After talking about the business, Cao Yu was about to stand up and leave, and suddenly asked: "Mr. Ren, we have to work hard on the chip. After all, we can't use sticks all the time."

"I know."

Ren Zhengfei nodded solemnly. He didn't want to use China's chips, but developing chips was much more difficult than any other system.

However, as a Chinese entrepreneur, no matter how difficult it is, we must do it.

Fortunately, mobile phones and systems have been developed. As long as funds are withdrawn and used to support chips, a virtuous cycle can be formed.

(End of this chapter)