Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 209: Internet Sensation and Pricing
Looking at the surprised reactions of the audience, Xu Shenxue was in a good mood.

For today's new product launch, both Zhiyun Technology and Xu Shenxue himself have put in a lot of effort.

And now the reactions from the public have also brought very good positive feedback!
The release and subsequent launch of this wave of new products this year are stable!
While Xu Shenxue was still introducing Zhiyun AI Xiaoyun on the stage, the relevant information had quickly spread across the Internet.

Many media platforms even used information push directly to push the relevant information that was urgently produced to users in order to attract traffic as soon as possible.

For example, Weibo, a strategic investment by Xu Shenxue, sent a message notification five minutes after Xu Shenxue unveiled AI Xiaoyun at a press conference.

Not only was information pushed within the software, but notifications were also pushed through the Zhiyun YCN information notification system to all users of Zhiyun, Weiku and Xiaolan mobile phones who had installed the Weibo APP and had not blocked its information notifications. As soon as the user opened the message, they could see a message with an exaggerated title: Breaking news, Zhiyun Technology announced the launch of artificial intelligence, and mankind will usher in the era of artificial intelligence!

Many other APP manufacturers did not fall behind. Their on-duty personnel had been keeping an eye on Zhiyun Technology's press conference. Now that there was such important news, and seeing that APP manufacturers such as Weibo had pushed information first to grab traffic, they were unwilling to fall behind.

It is set on the APP information homepage, and information is pushed through the software. There are also many information manufacturers that push relevant information to many offline users directly through the YCN system or the IOS information system.

One is more exaggerated than the other. UC, which just accepted the strategic investment from Liuhe Technology in the first half of the year and occupied the top spot in the contemporary third-party browser, used such information push standards: The world was shocked, Zhiyun Technology released artificial intelligence, where is the future of mankind going?
The news about artificial intelligence released by Zhiyun Technology spread throughout the entire Internet in a very short time... Anyone who was using a PC to surf the Internet or holding a mobile phone during this time received similar news from almost every channel.

Because the information bombardment was too intensive, many users, especially other Android phone users who did not have perfect information management, received dozens of messages about Zhiyun Technology’s release of artificial intelligence in just a few minutes!
It can even be said that since humans entered the Internet age, there has never been such a high degree of consistency in the widespread promotion of a certain piece of information by major information media manufacturers.

Zhiyun Technology has released artificial intelligence and achieved this!
A technical discussion was taking place in a small conference room of a high-tech startup company engaged in artificial intelligence, but soon the cell phones of the participants began to vibrate.

It wasn't just once or twice, but someone's phone vibrated every few seconds... The vibration of one phone was nothing, but everyone's phone vibrated one after another.

The CEO above frowned, but he didn't say anything. After all, everyone had muted their phones.

Then he saw one of his employees took a quick glance at the phone and immediately showed a surprised expression!
Then the second one, and the third one. One of them seemed to be out of control: "This is impossible, absolutely impossible!"

“How did they do it?”

At this time, the CEO's Zhiyun S10 mobile phone also vibrated. He took a look, then lightly placed his finger on the fingerprint button. The screen was instantly unlocked, and then a Sina message was pushed.

"Incredible! Zhiyun Technology has officially released the artificial intelligence Xiaoyun. The on-site demonstration is so real that it is hard to believe!"

The CEO was a calm man. He continued to flip through the news quickly. This brief message was sent back directly by Sina's reporter from the press conference, and it also came with photos and videos.

The CEO clicked on a video, which showed a Zhiyun Technology press conference, where Xu Shenxue was demonstrating the "Xiaoyun" artificial intelligence on the S11 Pro phone with a high-definition camera.

When he heard a voice call "Xiao Yun Xiao Yun" and the phone screen lit up, he didn't think anything of it. It was just voice wake-up, not some amazing technology.

But the subsequent questions and answers made him more and more shocked... and at this point, he had actually begun to suspect that this so-called AI was secretly controlled by Zhiyun employees, and the so-called AI voice answers were actually manual answers.

However, when Xiaoyun AI directly opened the music player to play music and switched playlists, and finally opened the map software and automatically mapped out the navigation, he felt terrible!
He clearly remembered that Xu Shenxue said he was going back to the company, but did not give a clear address. However, the AI ​​system automatically recognized the meaning of "returning to the company", then called up the address of Zhiyun Technology's headquarters and directly set a navigation route.

Although he had guessed that the address of the 'company' must have been set on the map in advance.

But even so, the AI ​​still accurately identified and understood the command, and then made the correct judgment.

In addition, when playing music, AI recognizes the word "Chinese style" and directly searches the playlist to play music.

All of this seems so incredible.

When did artificial intelligence develop to this level?
And most importantly, compared with Zhiyun Technology's artificial intelligence, the so-called artificial intelligence developed by our company is still at the stage of recognizing commands and is full of errors.

Which leads to the question: "How did they do it?"

Similar situations have occurred in many places. Even in the United States where it is still late at night, many night owls have received similar messages.

In just a few minutes, the news that the S11 series of mobile phones released by Zhiyun Technology were equipped with artificial intelligence spread throughout the entire Internet around the world.

Various information push notifications are very intensive, not only limited to the domestic market, but also mobile phone users or PC users in many overseas regions have received relevant information.

Zhiyun Technology's press conference has attracted global attention, with countless people watching. A large group of media personnel are waiting on the press conference live broadcast platform, ready to capture valuable news for reporting at any time.

At this moment, almost all media outlets paying attention to the press conference released information related to artificial intelligence, so that various information pushes were very intensive.

In this way, more people will know the relevant information and then flock to various online live streaming platforms to watch the press conference live.

Zhiyun Technology's press conference live broadcast is allowed to be broadcasted and rebroadcasted for free by all qualified media, and is even encouraged. If live broadcasts are conducted on some major media platforms, Zhiyun Technology will also provide certain advertising sponsorship subsidies.

Because Zhiyun Technology’s press conference has never been a simple press conference, but a huge advertising marketing campaign!

Its coverage is quite wide.

There were already a lot of people watching this press conference, and now even more people have suddenly poured in, so that many live streaming platforms have to urgently expand their capacity, otherwise they will not be able to withstand this wave of influx of traffic.

At the same time, at the press conference, Xu Shenxue’s introduction to Zhiyun AI had actually come to an end. There was actually not much to introduce about this thing.

It's nothing more than a live demonstration, and blowing some whistle on its effects and that sort of thing.

As for the technical details, it is impossible for me to tell you. The relevant technology of this thing is highly confidential within Zhiyun Technology.

Many middle and senior management of Zhiyun Technology also heard about this thing for the first time, and they had no idea about the technical principles.

And detailed algorithms and the like are even less likely to be announced!

Xu Shenxue has no intention of making it public, let alone open-sourcing it. This thing is currently the only one of its kind in the world, and Xu Shenxue does not need other developers to help improve it, or it has not reached that stage yet.

Therefore, in the short term, Xu Shenxue does not want the outside world to follow suit and try out deep learning or big data training…

Therefore, the release of Xiaoyun AI is just a demonstration of the results, and then it will be deployed to the S11 series of mobile phones and A series of mobile phones and provided to users as a voice assistant function.

Zhiyun Technology does not even plan to deploy this function in the C series terminals. In addition to the computing power costs required, the more important thing is to maintain the high-end attributes of the S series and A series.

Just like fingerprint recognition, you can only experience this top-level function if you buy Zhiyun's high-end mobile phones, tablets, or notebooks. As for the C series, apart from the basic mid-range hardware, it only sells you a system and a logo...

In fact, Zhiyun Technology doesn’t want its users to buy the C series now, but wants them to buy the S series, or at least the A series...

Therefore, it is necessary to maintain sufficient high-end attributes in the A series and S series to maintain their appeal.

After finishing the introduction of Zhiyun AI Xiaoyun, Xu Shenxue continued with other parts of the press conference, but people's attention is still on Zhiyun AI, so they don't pay much attention to the following press conference parts.

However, even if you don’t pay attention, I have to continue introducing it... The phone mentioned earlier is only the S11 Pro version, and there is also a S11 standard version that hasn’t been mentioned yet.

The S11 standard version is actually a low-cost S11 pro. It still has an all-aluminum alloy body, the same chip, and other internal design components are of the same specifications.

However, the screen uses a 1-inch reticle screen, and the memory is reduced to GB.

In addition, because the body is smaller and the internal space is less, in order to cram in spare parts and maintain sufficient battery life, the body thickness is slightly thicker than the S11 Pro, reaching mm.

And this body thickness is still much thicker than a group of other mobile phones. Except for the S11 Pro, there is no other mobile phone that is thicker than it.

This phone is still extremely thin and light!
There is another small difference. The standard version of S11 does not have a bright black color. The process cost of this mirror paint is relatively high and it is also quite special. In order to maintain the high-end attributes of S11 Pro, this bright black will be the exclusive color of S11 Pro.

Whether it is the S11 Pro or the S11 standard version, they are both mobile phones that embody the pinnacle of current human technology!

Customized dual-core 1.6GHZ chips, it is expected that no chip will outperform them this year.

The latest technical specifications of running memory and flash memory... Although some other mobile phones use 1GB of memory, memory is not only about capacity, but also about frequency. The Zhiyun S series mobile phones use the current top -nanometer process self-developed high-frequency memory.

Its cost is much higher than the 11GB memory used in A1!
In terms of camera, the S11 Pro has 11 million pixels, the S standard version has million pixels, and the front cameras are million pixels, equipped with an intelligent dual-color flash... Not to mention other things, just this intelligent color-changing dual-color flash has not been adopted by other manufacturers yet.

This thing has a very high technical content and is also very expensive.

It's not enough to just put an LED lamp bead on it. It also requires a corresponding intelligent control module and a light sensor, combined with the light perception data of the camera, and then intelligently change the tone of the flash to provide better lighting and take better photos.

These seemingly small details are actually something that few mobile phone manufacturers can do, and the technical difficulty is very high... The only ones who can compete with Zhiyun in these areas are the fruits next door to Zhiyun.

Why are there only Zhiyun and Fruit in the current high-end mobile phone market? It is because these two companies have gone to extremes in these small details, leaving other mobile phone manufacturers far behind.

This brings users the ultimate user experience!

Other mobile phone manufacturers... are still at the early stages of stacking CPU and GPU, memory and screen!
How much should the S11 series of mobile phones, which have achieved perfection in all aspects, be sold for?

A group of people actually anticipated this question a long time ago: it will definitely not be cheap!
Most of Zhiyun Technology’s products are high-end and not cheap.

Laptops start at 7,000 yuan, and the new tablet computer that was just released starts at 3,800 yuan for the low-end WIFI version.

Even a shabby TV starts at tens of thousands, and the expensive ones even cost twenty or thirty thousand.

As for mobile phones, the S9 back then was okay, starting at 10 yuan, but last year's S went straight to or yuan, and the Pro version started at more than yuan.

Only the C series phones are relatively cheap, with last year's C3 starting at yuan. However, the C series phones have low configurations and high prices... Basically, you are just buying a LOGO and a system, and the hardware configuration is actually very average.

If you count the prices of Zhiyun's products, none of them can be considered cheap, let alone the cost-effectiveness... They never talk about cost-effectiveness.

Today's series of newly released products also cannot be said to have any cost-effectiveness.

Xu Shenxue did not keep everyone waiting too long and soon announced the domestic price of the S11 series.

S11 16GB version, 5299 yuan.

S11 32GB version, 5799 yuan.

S11 64GB version, 6499 yuan.

S11 Pro 32GB version, 6599 yuan.

S11 Pro 64GB version, 7299 yuan.

When everyone saw the price, many of them couldn't help but gasp. Damn, last year only the Pro version was priced over 6,000 yuan, but this year, even the standard version has reached 6,500 yuan.

The most important thing is that the low-end 16GB version costs yuan, a direct increase of yuan from yuan last year...

Sure enough, Zhiyun is still the same Zhiyun...just a money-grubber, the most shady mobile phone manufacturer in the world!

So, a group of people who were previously immersed in artificial intelligence started cursing after seeing the price.

Every year’s Zhiyun press conference is inevitably criticized by countless netizens after the selling price is announced. This year is no exception, and the criticism is even more fierce.

Many ordinary people drooled over the various introductions to the S11, such as the large-size retina display and the top-level dual-core chip, plus the rumored amazing artificial intelligence, and most importantly, the high-quality body that looks pleasing to the eye and you can tell at a glance that it is a high-end product...

Then I saw that the entry-level version costs 5,300 yuan, while the high-end Pro version costs 7,300 yuan, and I felt bad.

This damn Zhiyun, why does it pile up so much hardware and use so many black technologies... I can’t even afford it!

But... I really want one!

Especially the bright black Pro version. If you can hold it in your hand, you will definitely feel very proud when you take the bus or subway...

I’ll finish one chapter first, there will be more later, I’m writing it now.

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