Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 185 Zhiyun Space
In February of 11, after the Lantern Festival, Zhiyun Technology held its spring press conference as usual.

Zhiyun Technology’s spring press conference was not as influential as its summer and autumn press conferences, and many people actually didn’t pay much attention to it.

However, in the industry, Zhiyun Technology's spring conference is still very important, because Zhiyun Technology likes to release some ecological chain products at the spring conference, such as the Yun Book released at last year's spring conference, and also releases some non-hardware products, such as the Yun OS3.0 system.

Many things may not seem that great, but they can still bring shocks to many industries!

This is the huge influence brought by Zhiyun Technology’s huge size!

February 25th, Friday afternoon.

Zhiyun Technology's spring press conference was officially held, and Xu Shenxue continued to serve as the host of the press conference and gave detailed explanations.

The hundreds of people attending the press conference were basically industry insiders, such as invited partners, channel partners, and software partners.

In addition, there are also media personnel, and there are even quite a few of them!

After all, the main purpose of a press conference is to promote the launch of new products, not simply to introduce them to partner factories.

The media is of utmost importance!

After the press conference started, Ji Chenghe first came to the stage and briefly talked about the recent achievements of Zhiyun Technology's series of products... There is actually nothing much to say about this, it was as explosive as always.

After the price reduction promotion, especially the sales surge before the Spring Festival, the monthly sales of the S10 series continued to climb to three million units in January. After half a year of sales, the sales of the phone have not weakened, but continued to rise.

This is mainly due to in-depth exploration of local markets and price reduction promotions.

The sales volume of the C3 series is even more exaggerated. Currently, the monthly sales volume of C3 has even reached nearly five million units... It is currently the best-selling mobile phone, sweeping the price range of around yuan.

However, due to the rapid development of hardware, the performance of older products cannot keep up and they have been greatly impacted. Especially in January 11, a large number of mobile phone manufacturers took the opportunity to release a large number of mobile phones with high-performance chips, which had a certain impact on the older Zhiyun smartphones.

The sales volume of S9 mobile phones has further shrunk and is now less than units.

The shipment focus of the C2 series has also gradually shifted to emerging markets, and current sales have dropped to less than one million units.

The C1 series seems to be lagging behind even in emerging markets, mainly because Zhiyun Technology is unwilling to significantly reduce prices. However, even so, sales have actually reached more than units...

Its sales volume is higher than that of a lot of so-called new mobile phones. At the same time, thanks to the fact that the various spare parts used in the C1 mobile phone have already been drastically reduced in price to very low prices, although the C1 mobile phone is sold cheaply now, only about two thousand yuan, the gross profit is very high, already reaching about %!
This is the typical low configuration and high price!
According to Zhiyun Technology's plan, this phone will continue to be sold until the fall of this year when the 2GB version of the C8 phone replaces the C1 16GB in price positioning, and then it will be discontinued completely. Its life cycle is expected to be two and a half years.

The total production is expected to reach 20 million units!
As Zhiyun Technology’s first mobile phone, and an antique-like phone in the embryonic era of smartphones, it is already very good to have such sales results.

Sales of various mobile phone models reached a staggering 9.5 million units in January.

Ji Chenghe boasted about Zhiyun Technology's achievements in various aspects over the past few months on the stage and then left the stage amid applause.

Then Xu Shenxue officially took the stage and started the new product launch session.

First, Xu Shenxue introduced the upgraded version of the Yun Book series of products, including the 13-inch and -inch series.

As for the 15-inch series, it was officially launched last fall, so the next generation won’t be released until the fall press conference.

The new generation of YunBook 11 models uses the same appearance as the previous generation of notebooks, and there is actually not much difference in the detailed design.

There have been some improvements in the hardware configuration, with a better CPU being used and the memory being upgraded to a certain extent, but the overall changes are not that big.

In terms of hardware, the biggest change is the addition of a very unique functional configuration, which is the addition of a fingerprint unlocking module. Zhiyun Technology has transplanted the fingerprint unlocking technology on the mobile phone to the notebook.

At the same time, a new PC software called "Zhiyun Space" was released. This is an integrated software that integrates many exclusive functions in the Zhiyun ecosystem. It can be carried not only on Zhiyun notebooks, but also on other notebooks. In fact, it can be downloaded and installed for use.

By using this PC-based 'Zhiyun Space', you can gain access to many convenient functions exclusive to Zhiyun.

For example, if you use a Zhiyun phone to cast the screen, when both parties are connected to the same local area network, you can directly cast the screen to the Zhiyun notebook.

There is also a file transfer function, which can transfer files from the Zhiyun mobile phone to the PC, and at the same time, some files can also be transferred from the PC to the mobile phone.

It also has built-in memo, cloud file editing and other functions, which can be edited on the PC, saved on the cloud and then synchronized to the mobile phone.

'Smart Cloud Space' is a file transfer and management system designed to connect PCs, tablets, and mobile phones. It mainly uses the local area network, but of course it can also use the network directly for data transmission.

At the same time, a cloud file editing function specifically for office groups was released, allowing different Zhiyun account users to create a group and invite others to edit online.

This is actually an online file editing system, a relatively professional office software system, more suitable for corporate use...

Zhiyun Space is an important application of Zhiyun Technology that collaborates on multiple platforms and connects its own product ecosystem... In fact, this is not an ordinary software in the usual sense.

The PC software of Zhiyun Space itself is actually just an entrance that integrates many unique functions.

The real core things are actually those seemingly insignificant functions...Behind these functions is a very complex and huge system that requires large data centers to provide support.

In order to provide its own system with many functions such as information notification, system update, APP download and update, cloud storage of Zhiyun accounts, multi-platform synchronization, etc., Zhiyun Technology is building data centers on a large scale around the world.

Zhiyun Technology is doing these things not for the purpose of developing pure software business... In fact, Zhiyun Technology has never liked to compete with software manufacturers for food!

Even when developing these office software, it is more for the purpose of bringing out the performance of their own hardware and providing a more convenient user experience for their own hardware terminal users. Therefore, these software services are often free!

In addition, Zhiyun Technology will not make these auxiliary software too large or too complicated. It is basically enough for them to have some core functions. It will not deliberately compete for business with those professional software manufacturers.

Just like the previous video call function, Zhiyun Technology has always integrated this thing directly into the call function, and does not release a separate APP installation package for users of other mobile phone brands to download and use.

After all, Zhiyun Technology is a hardware company, and even if it is developing software, it is to demonstrate and give full play to the performance of its own hardware. The previous video call function, the current multi-user online editing of files, the same user cross-platform editing system, etc. are all like this.

After introducing the new laptop, Xu Shenxue introduced several ecological products, including the second generation of Yun TV.

Its flagship product is a 101-inch high-end LCD screen, equipped with a Zhiyun S512 chip and 8MB of RAM, plus GB of storage, and a specially improved Yun OS system TV version, which also has built-in video content provided by video providers.

Then at the press conference, Xu Shenxue solemnly launched his second-generation dancing robot, Yun Robot.

The reason why it was released so solemnly is that the second generation of dancing robots has made great progress compared to the first generation.

Based on the music input by the user, the built-in algorithm can design and combine dance moves according to the beat of the music, and then dance.

It can also perform a specified or random dance move based on the user's voice commands...it can even move forward and backward and do some other moves based on the user's commands.

The software part mentioned above alone requires extremely sophisticated voice recognition, big data training models and many other aspects... This thing is not a product of a small project in Zhiyun Technology, but a product of a project team under the Intelligent Research Institute.

In a sense, this is actually a practical application of intelligent voice and big data models by the Intelligent Research Institute.

Of course, since it is a robot, other things are also indispensable. It uses electricity as energy, motors as a driving method, and then adds a lot of various sensors to maintain balance and perform basic perception of the surroundings, such as sound, images...

Just to achieve this, a large number of mathematicians and experts from other fields in the Institute of Intelligence designed a complete set of algorithms specifically for it.

This is not an easy task.

In the end, there are a lot of things that seem very sci-fi in modern times, and in the end there is a dancing robot, which is somewhat unprofessional.

However... the current level of robots is actually not that good and lacks practical application value... For example, if the terrain is a little more complicated, the robot will be dumbfounded, and the movement and reaction speed are not very good... According to the people at the Intelligent Research Institute, the size and function of this robot are not good, and it cannot drive chips with great computing power.

When connected to the computing center within the institute through wired means, and the computing power is supported by the small supercomputer in the computing center, this thing is very flexible...

Upgrade the sensor a bit.

This thing can do a handstand with just one finger.

But... that's all I can do.

This robot still lacks the ability to make independent judgments, and most of its actions are actually carried out according to preset programs. It is still far from being a truly intelligent robot.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t just be made into a dancing robot for people to play with!

The scene was also very joyful when a very cute little pink white rabbit danced on the stage.

This little gadget is quite expensive, costing more than 1,200 yuan... Don't be fooled by its high-quality appearance, but it is a serious smart device inside, with chips, memory, storage, many precision motors, and a large lithium battery capacity...

Although this product is launched into the consumer market after a substantial technological downgrade, its technological content is still very high, so the price is not cheap.

However, although the price is not cheap, there is no shortage of bored people in this world. Many people are willing to spend more than a thousand dollars to buy a seemingly useless dancing robot, and give it instructions to walk a few steps and twist a few times.

He then talked about a few other ecological chain products, but these were relatively common, so Xu Shenxue just briefly mentioned them and then skipped over them.

It was only at this point that the press conference entered the focus of the second phase.

In addition to the new notebook, Zhiyun Technology will release a truly blockbuster product at the press conference, which is also a product for the mainstream market: YunPad.

Zhiyun tablet!

As Xu Shenxue explained, the situation of this tablet computer gradually came into people's sight.

It uses Texas Instruments' OMAP4440 dual-core 1.5GHZ processor, which has the most powerful non-desktop processor performance currently available, at least one of them.

In order to catch up with the launch of YunPad, Texas Instruments has been pushing for mass production of this chip at full speed, and has already started mass production and supplying it to Zhiyun in January.

In addition to the WIFI version, there is also a 3G version with Zhiyun's self-developed 3G baseband, which still has all three network standards... It is very convenient to have our own self-developed 3G baseband.

YunPad has two versions, one is a nine-inch version and the other is an eleven-inch version... In terms of screen size, it seems to be a size larger than the iPad.

But in fact, the body sizes of the two are almost the same!
Because YunPad uses a narrow-frame design that is rarely used in current notebooks, PDAs, and tablets, it greatly increases the screen-to-body ratio and can fit a larger screen in a smaller body size.

When it comes to narrow bezels, we have to mention Zhiyun Technology's exclusive aluminum alloy technology. The aluminum alloy material formula, unique processing technology and even color matching technology developed by Anlong Precision are still the only ones in the world... Of course, this does not mean that other manufacturers do not have aluminum alloy body technology, in fact they do.

Fruit's notebooks and tablets are all made of aluminum alloy!
But the aluminum alloy material and processing technology they used are not good... As a result, if the body is made too thin, the strength will not be enough. Then, in order to ensure the strength, it is necessary to increase the thickness and make the frame larger.

But Zhiyun Technology doesn’t need to do this. They can make the aluminum alloy body of the laptop and tablet very thin, with extremely narrow bezels, while still ensuring the strength of the body!

This is why Zhiyun’s laptops and current tablets are particularly thin and have very narrow bezels... good materials and good processing!

Even the color matching is richer than other similar products, because Anlong Precision, a subsidiary of Zhiyun Technology, has a variety of exclusive patented colorants, which can produce very unique color matching such as gold, light pink, rose purple, deep space gray, sea blue gray, etc.

Although it is just a shell, it has very high technical content... Even the fruit industry can only watch helplessly. A lot of money has been invested in it in the past two years. Although there are signs of success, there is still a certain gap.

In fact, it is possible to force it. Since last year, some mobile phone manufacturers have followed Zhiyun's example and started to use aluminum alloy bodies. However, due to material problems, the bodies are relatively thick and the paint is easy to fall off. There are many problems... There is no way to make a product as beautiful and textured as Zhiyun Technology's.

But the problem is that fruit companies also have to save face, and they also pursue perfection in product making. It is impossible for them to produce a thick, ugly aluminum alloy phone, so they are still waiting for a technological breakthrough.

According to feedback from the intelligence department, their new mobile phones this year will most likely still use a glass back cover, and the aluminum alloy body will not be used for a while.

(End of this chapter)