Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 163 S10 Madness and C3 Launch
Zhiyun Technology's plan for listing is relatively simple, because the strategic investment before listing was actually completed last year, and various preparations for listing have been made in the past six months.

At the same time, thanks to Zhiyun Technology's strength in the field of smartphones, such as the continued hot sales of S10 mobile phones and Yun Book notebooks, its software and Internet business is also gradually growing.

Therefore, the capital market generally views Zhiyun Technology as... basically comparing Zhiyun Technology to fruit, and it is a more powerful fruit.

The current market value of Apple is approximately 4 billion US dollars... In fact, in June, due to the strength of Apple iPhone , the company's market value once reached billion US dollars. Now the market value has declined, but it is still billion US dollars.

Zhiyun Technology, which is a competitor to Apple, is also basically priced at around US$2,000. The exact amount still needs to be negotiated with various investment institutions.

Although Zhiyun does not have a music player business, Apple does not have a mid-range mobile phone business. However, Zhiyun Technology's C series mobile phone business is very strong, occupying more than 60% of the global smartphone market, with a market share of about 3,000 yuan.

In terms of overall revenue and gross profit, Zhiyun actually exceeds Fruit.

At the same time, Zhiyun Technology has also demonstrated its strong diversity, with a lot of investments in various fields, and some of the results are quite good.

In addition, Zhiyun also develops various chips on its own, builds its own chip factories, etc., aiming at the entire industrial chain of electronic consumer products.

In addition, with the support of the super large market of China, this super large market alone is enough to maintain the huge scale of Zhiyun Technology.

Therefore, investors from all walks of life are still quite optimistic about Zhiyun Technology.

Before officially launching the listing, we need to get some big news to stimulate the capital market.

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On August 10, Zhiyun Technology held a press conference. Vice President Ji Chenghe officially announced the sales performance of the Zhiyun S mobile phone one and a half months after its launch.

Because the early stock was relatively sufficient, two million units were already stocked before the launch, and these two million phones were all sold out on the first day of the launch. The ones sold later were all newly produced phones after mid-June.

Therefore, its total sales volume is quite exaggerated... basically, as many as it can be produced can be sold!
"Since the S10 series of mobile phones were launched, the cumulative sales in markets around the world have reached million units!"

“Thank you for your support. We at Zhiyun Technology will continue to put technology first, create a better life, and continue to contribute better products to everyone!”

When Ji Chenghe announced the sales volume, the reporters at the scene all guessed that the sales performance of S10 would be very impressive, but they still couldn't help being shocked when they heard it with their own ears.

Damn, this is the Zhiyun S10 with an average price of more than yuan...

Such an expensive mobile phone was able to sell 4.6 million units in just one and a half months!
This is absolutely crazy!
This is even more shocking than the C series phones selling three to four million units a month!

After all, the main shipments of C series mobile phones are actually the low-end 8GB versions priced at or even around now. The overall average shipment price is not very high. There was an average price of in the early days of listing, but now it is less than .

However, what about the S10 mobile phone? The average price of this thing is more than 9 yuan, which is more than yuan more than the average price of the previous generation S of more than yuan.

And just like that, the sales volume was even more exaggerated than that of the S9!
After hearing the news, a large group of reporters were excited and raised their hands to ask questions.

After the brief announcement, Ji Chenghe began to answer reporters' questions one after another... and his answers were often quite sharp!

People don't hold press conferences simply to announce some news... If they just want to announce news, they can just announce it on the official website, there is no need to hold a special press conference.

The reason for holding this press conference is to create some topics and get some publicity... This is Ji Chenghe's specialty, and he basically has to do this once every one or two months.

In order to attract more topics, Ji Chenghe spoke without thinking, boasting about his own products and madly belittling his competitors.

The more Ji Chenghe said this, the more the reporters liked it...

Why does Zhiyun Technology hold a press conference every once in a while, but there are still so many reporters attending, not only from China, but also from abroad.

It’s because Ji Chenghe likes to talk nonsense at the press conference...the kind that any random excerpt from his words can be used as a news headline.

As soon as the press conference ended, a group of reporters worked on the spot, polished the prepared manuscripts slightly, and sent them back after making some changes.

Soon, news about Zhiyun Technology appeared on the Internet!
The S10 phone sold million units in just one and a half months after its launch, with sales reaching more than billion US dollars. The news quickly swept the Internet.

Not only the domestic Internet, but also the foreign Internet was swept by this news.

After the news was announced, the stock prices of a large number of companies in Zhiyun Technology's supply chain rose... Qualcomm's stock price rose strongly by at least one percentage point.

Domestic suppliers are no exception.

A group of investors, because Zhiyun Technology has not yet been listed and cannot buy Zhiyun Technology's stocks, have set their sights on Zhiyun Supply Chain Enterprise and bought any Zhiyun Supply Chain Enterprise stock they could find. Under such circumstances, a group of investment institutions are even more looking forward to Zhiyun Technology's listing.

But before it goes on the market, we need to add some more fuel!
Zhiyun Technology’s only major product is the S10 series, and the C3 will also be released in August!
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On August 7, in order to build momentum for its future listing, Zhiyun Technology officially held a launch conference for its C series products and other ecological chain products.

At the press conference, Xu Shenxue once again appeared in the public eye.

However, although the launch of the C3 series this time has many highlights, it appears much more low-key under the shining brilliance of the previous S10 series.

The new C3 series is also divided into C3 and C3 Pro.

而C3的两款标准版，继续维持8GB以及16GB标准，芯片采用了高通的MSM7230/7630芯片。

The mobile version uses Texas Instruments' OMAP3625 chip, which was also customized by Texas Instruments specifically for Zhiyun Technology. In fact, it is an overclocked version of the 3620 chip, which increases the default main frequency from 720MHZ to 800MHZ.

This year's Zhiyun mobile phones, whether the S series mobile version or the C series mobile version, all use Texas Instruments' customized chips... From this perspective, it can also be seen that Texas Instruments has been a bit lagging behind and can no longer keep up with Qualcomm's pace.

The C3 Pro uses the chip solution used in the previous generation S9, namely Qualcomm's MSM8250/8650 chip, plus Texas Instruments' OMAP3640 chip.

In terms of screen size, the C3 standard version uses a four-inch screen. Although they are both four inches and the resolution seems to be the same, the color performance is far inferior to the previous S9 and S10. The screen cost difference alone is huge.

The C3 Pro uses a 10-inch high-resolution screen. This screen looks the same as the S Pro, but the cost is twice as much!
Many things may seem the same on the surface, but they are actually very different...

Otherwise, Weiku Electronics would not have given you the Bluemax2 with a -inch screen for more than yuan... and the screen is even worse.

How should I put it? The official repair price for the S10 Pro screen is two thousand five hundred... which is more expensive than the Bluemax2 after the price reduction.

The same is true for running memory. It seems that the capacity is quite large, but the technological gap is also large.

Both C3 and C3 Pro use 512MB of RAM. At first glance, it seems that the memory is not small, the same as S10, but the actual difference is huge.

The running memory used by the S10 series is the most advanced DD3 memory of the current generation, while the memory used by the C3 series is the previous generation DDR2 memory. The cost difference is huge, and the actual performance difference is also not small.

Similar situations exist in other aspects. The C series mobile phones are actually, to some extent, a reduced-spec version of the S series mobile phones. They try to reduce costs as much as possible while maintaining a similar user experience.

Basically, many spare parts that can be used are domestically made. For example, the touch IC is now standard for the entire series.

The fuselage continues to use plastic, which saves a lot of costs.

Only by saving on various costs can we produce the C series mobile phone priced at 2,900 yuan... That's right, the price of the C series has increased this time.

For two consecutive generations of the C series, the lowest configuration was priced at 2799 yuan. This generation's C3 8GB version is priced at 2899 yuan.

The C3 16GB version is 3299 yuan.

The 3GB version of C32 Pro is priced at 3999 yuan.

Continue to assume the price range of 2,800 to 4,000 yuan in the Zhiyun mobile phone system.

The original C2 series of mobile phones have been reduced in price across the board, but the C2 Pro has not been discontinued and continues to be produced and sold.

After a series of preliminary preparations, and also because of the further intensification of market competition, mobile phone brand manufacturers continue to launch new mobile phones to try to seize the more than 2,000 yuan mobile phone market.

Therefore, after the C3 series was launched, the domestic price of the 2GB version of C8 had dropped to 2 yuan, and the 16GB version of C had also dropped to yuan.

As for C2 pro, the price is relatively firm, and its price is still around yuan.
In the C1 mobile phone series, C1 Pro has been discontinued.

The C1 16GB version is still on sale in China, priced at around yuan... This is the cheapest phone currently sold by Zhiyun in China.

As for the C1 8GB version, although it has not been discontinued, it has stopped selling in China... If this thing is to continue to be sold, the price can only be reduced to less than yuan, but if it is less than yuan, it will seriously damage the brand value of Zhiyun mobile phone.

Therefore, Zhiyun Technology would rather stop selling C1 8GB in China than continue to sell it at a lower price... Of course, it will not stop production, but will continue to sell it in emerging markets...

The C3 mobile phone was officially released and put on sale, which once again boosted Zhiyun Technology’s pre-IPO valuation!
(End of this chapter)