Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 192 A new journey
Zhiyun Technology is now very large in scale. It has joined many various technical alliances for the development of the company, and there are even more various technical R&D project teams...and many R&D projects seem to have nothing to do with mobile phones.

Even if company executives don't pay much attention, they still can't figure out how many technology alliances the company has joined and how many R&D projects it has.

When Xu Shenxue suddenly mentioned the wireless charging project, several people were stunned. Ji Chenghe reacted quickly: "I know this. I remember that a Palm Pre phone was released overseas last year, which used wireless charging technology. At that time, we purchased samples of this phone and analyzed them. The conclusion was that the cost was too high, the charging was too slow, and the practical value was limited!"

Xu Shenxue said: "Although today's wireless charging technology is still a little behind, with the advancement of technology, I estimate that wireless charging technology will be able to enter the level of large-scale popularization and application in the next few years. To adapt to this wireless charging technology, you need a mobile phone with a glass body!"

“So we have to keep working on this glass body, keep working on it!”

Having said this, Xu Shenxue turned his attention back to the fourth technical solution in front of him: "This one looks good, let's choose this one, and take this opportunity to promote the construction and research and development of the glass body supply chain!"

Then he turned his attention to Gu Zhiming: "We need to pay more attention to the supply chain and strive to cultivate two or three qualified glass body suppliers!"

Gu Zhiming said: "There are already many supply chain manufacturers of glass manufacturers in our group company, including Corning from abroad, as well as Broadcom Optics and Weidao Technology, which we have supported. Now, the glass products of Weiku Electronics have fully adopted the products of these two domestic companies. Our current generation of C series glass also uses domestic glass, and the overall performance is quite good!"

"In the future, our supply chain department will further strengthen the relationship with glass suppliers to encourage them to develop high-strength and shatter-resistant body glass!"

Xu Shenxue said: "Old Gu, I feel at ease with you handling the supply chain!"

Xu Shenxue then raised his head and looked at everyone. After a quick glance, he said, "Everyone, the research and development of Plan A and its subsequent mass production and launch are very important. For our company, it is no less important than the launch of the S series two years ago."

"This is our company's third series. I hope that when people talk about our Zhiyun phones, no matter which series they are, they are the best in the same price range!"

"Besides, the A series also bears the responsibility of carrying our self-developed dual-core chip S200. I won't allow any mistakes to happen!"

"The R&D department needs to work overtime to get a prototype out as soon as possible. This phone doesn't have any major technological innovations. It's all about integrating existing technologies. The glass cover is not a difficult thing. We already had a glass cover solution when we made the S9 phone, and we even made a prototype for testing!"

"Now that the technical achievements of the C4 Pro project have been integrated, I hope the project team can come up with a mature and detailed design plan as soon as possible and make a prototype one day earlier for various tests."

“The supply chain department should do a good job in supply chain integration and communicate with supply chain manufacturers in advance, so that they can speed up the process of supporting our new project!”

"The marketing department also has a heavy task. This is our company's third mobile phone series product, which is related to the company's overall strategy. I hope the marketing department can come up with a practical and effective marketing plan so that the phone will be a hit when it is launched on the market."

"Everyone, a new journey has begun, work hard!"

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After the meeting, people from all departments of the company began to take action for Plan A.

The R&D department has the heaviest tasks... Although as Xu Shenxue said, it is all about the integration of mature technologies, and although Zhiyun Technology has never launched a mobile phone with a glass solution, in fact, many mobile phones have actually been prepared as alternative glass solutions.

The early S9 phones and last year’s S10 phones actually both have glass options!
Zhiyun Technology's S series of mobile phones are the company's flagship and main source of revenue, so there are actually a lot of alternative options during the research and development process.

It’s not that Xu Shenxue just thought about it and then directly decided on the appearance and technical solutions... In fact, the S series project team of Zhiyun Technology is promoting more than a dozen design solutions at the same time, and will repeatedly try different technical solutions... For example, the fingerprint recognition module. In fact, in addition to the front fingerprint recognition solution, there has always been a technical solution to deploy the fingerprint recognition module on the back.

It was available when the S10 was launched, and when the current S11 phone was being developed, there was also a solution to deploy a fingerprint on the back.

Then we will try to integrate some new technologies from others, such as wireless charging technology. In fact, the S series mobile phone team has already started to think about it and has developed some technical solution prototypes.

There are also more radical fast charging solutions.

The entire S series project team is very large, and there are many technical R&D and solution designs being carried out at the same time...but only one technical solution is finally launched on the market. The other technical solutions are either frozen as technical reserves and become part of countless R&D materials, or continue to be promoted until this technical solution is used one day in the future.

That’s the glass body technology solution!
Zhiyun Technology's S series project team has never stopped the research and development of this technical solution...it's just that it has never been used, so the outside world doesn't know about it.

To be honest, Zhiyun Technology started working on the glass body solution no later than Apple, and its technology is no worse than Apple's... Zhiyun Technology had already started thinking about this when it was first established.

Now that Plan A is going to use the glass body technology solution, it just needs to call on a series of technical achievements and personnel from the S series project team. It’s very simple!
This is actually how it is done!
The entire R&D team responsible for the glass body project in the S series was directly transferred to the A series project team, and many project teams transferred from the C4 Pro/X project team, especially those in the fields of screens and camera modules, also directly joined the project.

These are all very mature project teams, and they already have rich and mature technical achievements, so it will be easier to integrate them in the end.

After all, both the X project team and the A plan project team were actually mature project teams that had been established for a long time, and they were not starting from scratch in making the A series of mobile phones, so they were able to get it done very quickly.

Just half a month later, Gan Wenshan, the head of the A series project team, found Xu Shenxue with a prototype to report.

"Mr. Xu, we have already made this prototype. The chip used is still the test version of the S200 chip. However, the S200 project team said that if there are no major problems, there will be no difference between the test version and the mass production version!"

Compared to the empty shell of the phone that Xu Shenxue saw in the conference room last time, the phone in his hand this time, temporarily named A11, is a complete design and a prototype that can be turned on and used.

This naming is also interesting, it is not random.
Because the latest model of the S series is S11, and the latest model of the C series is C4... If 4 is used as the digital code, it will be easy for consumers to think that this is an upgraded version of C4.

If 11 is used as the digital code, consumers will think to a certain extent that this is a low-end version of S11.

Of course, you can also use the brand new A1 without any restrictions as the code name, but this will be a blank sheet of paper, giving people the feeling that it has just appeared and is immature.

After comprehensive consideration, the marketing department named the first mobile phone of Project A as A11... to take advantage of the popularity of its own S11 mobile phone.

Xu Shenxue held the phone in his hand and felt the texture. It felt pretty good. The 4.7-inch screen made the body size just right, and the glass back body brought the unique texture of glass.

The weight is also moderate, not too thick, nor too light and giving people a cheap feeling like a plastic-bodied phone.

The thickness of the body is also very thin, similar to the S11, estimated to be around eight millimeters.

The overall appearance, if you ignore the two capacitive touch buttons on the chin and the oval HOME button, is very similar to the Fruit 4, but larger in size and thinner in body.

In fact, it is precisely because of the larger size that the internal space is larger, so it can be made thinner and lighter... For example, the Fruit 4 cannot achieve a body thickness of about mm because its screen is too small and the internal space is extremely limited, so it cannot be made thinner and lighter.

At this time, Gan Wenshan also explained the phone in detail to Xu Shenxue: "We use our own S200 chip in this phone, with 1GB of RAM. For storage space, there are three types of flash memory solutions: 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB. The reason why we use the low-end 8GB solution is to further reduce the hardware cost and bring the price of the low-end version down to around 16 yuan. The high-end version starting with GB will be priced at yuan!"

"The screen uses a four-inch screen from LG and Sharp. Although the resolution is a little lower, the display effect is also very good, enough to meet the performance requirements of this price range!"

"The camera uses an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front camera!"

"The battery capacity is quite large, with 2,200 mAh of battery capacity. Mainly because the screen is quite large, the power consumption is also higher!"

"As for the thickness of the body, because it uses very good glass technology, the overall thickness is very well controlled, only 8.2 mm thick!"

"In terms of system, like other new mobile phones released this summer and autumn, it is equipped with Yun OS 4.0 system and can use Xiaoyun voice assistant."

(End of this chapter)