Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 258 Crazy million and Bluetooth headset
Xu Shenxue had only been to the city of Ancheng once before, but he had read a lot of information about the place from various reports.

After all, the third super production base of Weiku Industrial is not just the business of Weiku Industrial alone. It also concerns the production tasks of the entire Zhiyun Group.

According to the plan, this Ancheng production base will be used for the production of mobile phone businesses of Zhiyun Technology and Wecoo Electronics.

According to the plan, in the first year of production at the Ancheng production base, it will produce at least 50 million mobile phones for Zhiyun Group.

The production capacity will continue to increase in the future, as several branches are built and put into production one after another, and the ultimate design goal will be achieved: an annual output of 300 million mobile phones!

This is a very crazy design capacity, and it is not easy to achieve this. It not only requires Zhiyun Technology and Weiku Electronics to have large enough mobile phone sales, but also requires smooth production at Weiku Industrial and strong cooperation from local authorities.

Only through the mutual cooperation of various aspects can we finally build a huge production base with an annual output of 300 million mobile phones.

Given the importance of this production base, Xu Shenxue came specially to attend the groundbreaking ceremony.

After leaving the airport, Xu Shenxue, sitting in the car, looked at both sides of the road. Just from both sides of the road, he could tell that the local economic conditions were indeed not very good. No wonder they had made such a great effort to get Weiku Industrial's production base to settle there.

But then again, places with good economic conditions would not be able to provide such good conditions to Weiku Industry. Similarly, if the economic conditions are good, Weiku Industry would not go to build such a large-scale production base if all costs increase significantly.

Among the three existing super-large-scale production bases of Weiku Industrial, the Shenzhen base is the earliest. At the same time, this place is also the headquarters of a series of companies under Xu Shenxue, such as Zhiyun Group and Weiku Electronics. Therefore, many companies under Xu Shenxue have set up production bases locally.

For example, the Weiku Industrial production base in the electronic consumer industry chain, the screen production base of Huaxing Technology, the Shenzhen semiconductor production base of Zhiyun Microelectronics, and the rapidly expanding automobile factory of Hailan Automobile are all located locally.

This is still talking about factories, but there are even more company headquarters and R&D centers.

Among the dozen or so important companies under Xu Shenxue, most of them are headquartered in Shenzhen.

There are only two exceptions. One is Weiku Microelectronics, whose headquarters is located in Tongcheng in the Yangtze River Delta... In order to retain Zhiyun Microelectronics and prevent Zhiyun Group from moving the headquarters of this important subsidiary, the local government has spent a lot of money and has been very attentive in all kinds of cooperation.

Another company engaged in commercial aerospace is Nanmen Aerospace, which is located on Qiongzhou Island. The reason why this company is on this island is purely because this place is relatively close to the equator in the country. Launching a rocket in such a place can enable the rocket to obtain a higher carrying capacity.

Simply put, it means that lower launch costs can be achieved.

In commercial space travel, cost is very critical, so after comprehensive consideration, the decision was made to build a corresponding launch site and production plant here, and the supporting R&D center and even the company headquarters were naturally located here.

Apart from these two, the headquarters, core R&D centers and production bases of other important companies are actually in Shenzhen.

As a local tyrant, he won’t run around unless there is something to do!
Of course, this only refers to some corporate headquarters, core R&D centers and core production bases, but it is impossible for all employees to be in Shenzhen. In fact, most employees are still in other places.

For example, Zhiyun Group has 250,000 employees worldwide, but only 40,000 of them are based in Shenzhen.

Zhiyun Group has R&D centers and important subsidiaries in many major cities in China, some of which even have 10,000 to 20,000 employees. For example, Jiangcheng is an important R&D and production base for storage semiconductors under Zhiyun Group, and it is also the R&D center for some other projects of Zhiyun Group.

The number of local R&D employees of various types has reached more than 10,000.

We also have important subsidiaries in Sichuan, Shanghai and Beijing, with more than 10,000 employees in each local area.

Then there are also a large number of employees in many places overseas. Basically, Zhiyun Group has employees in countries all over the world, and there are even more employees in several important regions. For example, Germany in Europe has Zhiyun's largest overseas R&D center and production base, with a total of more than 10,000 employees.

Most of Zhiyun Group's employees in overseas regions are actually local foreign employees, and the Chinese dispatched employees are only middle and senior management and some technical personnel of the company.

So far, Zhiyun Group has about 70,000 to 80,000 foreign employees.

Of course, only a very small number of these foreign employees are top business elites and core technical talents.

But the vast majority are still low-level employees, mainly sales personnel. There are very few workers in the manufacturing industry because Zhiyun has few production bases overseas, only a few scattered ones.

A typical example is Germany. When it took over Qimonda, it also took over the local chip factory and R&D department, and thereby accepted some local employees.

Zhiyun Group generally rarely takes the initiative to make manufacturing investments overseas, especially not to build factories.

Many of the existing factories were built through technology acquisitions and by taking over factories of acquired companies. This is how the memory chip factory in Germany came about.

Therefore, most of Zhiyun’s foreign employees are low-level sales staff or some ordinary clerical staff, and are mainly technical personnel engaged in local adaptation!
Of course, this does not affect Zhiyun's overseas business, especially in Europe, where it brags every day that it is a global enterprise and a European enterprise... it has tens of thousands of employees in Europe.

Zhiyun has a lot of employees in Europe, tens of thousands in total, and they are mainly concentrated in Germany, France and the UK, especially some technical positions and clerical positions... How to say it, due to special factors, in the view of Zhiyun Group's senior management, jobs in these countries are the real jobs.

As for the jobs in other small countries, they are not of much use... You can't take tens of thousands of jobs in your small country and go to negotiate with several big players in the EU.

Tens of thousands of people in small countries in the EU are unemployed, and it has nothing to do with the parliamentarians of big countries like Germany, France and the UK...

However, the fate of the EU is determined by these major powers.

Things like jobs are actually quite useful in some places, especially in Germany. Do you think Zhiyun acquired the local chip factory for nothing?

Ever since Zhiyun acquired the local chip factory and restarted the factory, and the R&D center also restarted and began recruiting personnel, local politicians who want to run for members of parliament need to obtain approval from the local Zhiyun subsidiary management in advance!

Because local Zhiyun employees and their families have a large number of votes, enough to decide whether local councillors can be elected!

Therefore, the councillors in this area are staunch supporters of Zhiyun in Germany. They will bite anyone who dares to say that Zhiyun is a Chinese company and tries to ban Zhiyun products from entering the European market!
Because apart from Zhiyun, no memory company would take over the local chip factory with backward process technology...

This is also the reason why Zhiyun did not close the local factory even though its process technology was outdated and it was not making much money.

Sometimes, companies often do things that appear to go against profits, such as continuing to do a business that is clearly not profitable.

This is because the business needs this business to gain profits from other businesses!
This kind of thing is normal in large multinational companies, and almost every one of them does this.

Zhiyun is no exception, and even does more.

What benefits does this bring?
Zhiyun's products continue to sell well in Europe. Zhiyun's smart terminal products such as mobile phones, notebooks and even tablets have an overall revenue that surpasses that of fruit in Europe.

Although there are often various lawsuits, fines, etc., these are the norm for multinational companies. In addition to Zhiyun, a large number of American giant companies have also been sued, so there is no need to make a fuss.

A multinational giant that is not prosecuted or fined is not a qualified multinational giant: it is too small and people are too lazy to pay attention to you!

However, it is quite difficult to fine these multinational giants. For example, the EU sued large American companies for using Ireland to evade taxes.

Don’t expect a verdict for this kind of lawsuit for at least five or six years or even longer. Even if a judgment is made in the first instance, the company will continue to sue for a second instance. This is a very long process, and conservatively estimated to take more than ten years!

This process often involves various private confrontations. After all, some politicians who want to deal with these multinational giants actually face great personal risks.

You need to be fearless and have the spirit of sacrifice for the untouchables, and then have strict personal and family security measures in place, and have strong support from rival companies, only then can you succeed.

Otherwise, you don’t know which will come first, a fine or an accident…

Of course, ordinary people don’t know about this kind of thing, because it usually doesn’t make the news.

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Zhiyun has many employees overseas and even more in Europe. These are measures to avoid unconventional market risks.

However, the core institutions and even production bases are all located in the country.

And Ancheng is the third important production base in the Zhiyun system!

Xu Shenxue, who attached great importance to this, attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the production base after arriving at the local area, and also took the opportunity to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of another branch factory.

The entire Ancheng production base is too large to be located in one place. In fact, it is divided into three locations. The factory that is now completed and ready for production is just one of the main factories.

The entire production base is expected to be fully completed and put into production around the year after next.

Things have to be done step by step!

After attending the groundbreaking ceremony and the foundation laying ceremony locally, Xu Shenxue held a round of talks with local representatives. Of course, nothing practical was said. It was all about praising each other and saying nice things to save each other's face.

On the third day, Xu Shenxue left Ancheng on a special plane. Before leaving, he also formally finalized the construction plan for the third phase of the Ancheng production base.

After returning to Shenzhen, Xu Shenxue, who had been running around for several days, rested at home for a few days and spent some time with Lin Yaxian before focusing on his work again.

After arriving at the company, Xu Shenxue began to deal with many daily affairs. After reading a lot of reports on daily affairs, he saw a report from the Bluetooth headset project team.

The Bluetooth headset project team reported that they have completed the development of the Bluetooth headset prototype and attached some technical parameter reports.

Xu Shenxue attaches great importance to this.

Xu Shenxue has always been paying attention to this Bluetooth headset project. After all, this project is not that important. It is more for making money and enriching the ecosystem of Zhiyun's product line.

At the same time, it promotes the progress of the Bluetooth wireless era.

In fact, many electronic products nowadays come with a lot of messy wires, including various charging cables, data cables, and connecting cables, and headphones are no exception.

Moreover, the cables of electronic products from different brands are often not universal.

For example, Zhiyun's series of smart terminal products have charging cables that serve as data cables, which are not compatible with Fruit and other Android products.

This is an interface developed by Zhiyun itself, which Zhiyun calls the USB-YUN interface. It is a small flat round interface that can be plugged in from both sides.

This is a self-developed interface of Zhiyun based on the USB type-c interface in Xu Shenxue's memory, but the interface is smaller. It is widely used in various smart terminal products under Zhiyun and Weiku Electronics, including mobile phones, computers, tablets and even other types of terminal devices.

At the same time, in order to ensure charging safety and data security, and also to make money by selling accessories, Zhiyun's interface connection cable requires self-developed chips... There is actually a small chip in the data cable.

Only data cables equipped with this small chip can be used for charging and data transmission of Zhiyun devices.

Of course, in addition to giving these cables away with their products, Zhiyun also produces and sells them separately. In addition, Zhiyun also follows Apple's example to perform data authentication on cables... In other words, it is selling cable chips.

But Zhiyun is not as shady as Fruit. The wire chips it sells to the outside are still quite cheap. A certified Zhiyun dedicated data cable produced by a third party can be bought on the market for about 20 or 30 yuan.

So relatively speaking, there are relatively few cracked versions of Zhiyun's cables on the market. Besides... where did Zhiyun start?
In Huaqiang South, Shenzhen!
This is definitely the local boss of Huaqiangnan!

Cracked versions are usually found in places like Huaqiang South. But if you use a cracked version under the nose of a local boss like Zhiyun in Shenzhen, Zhiyun will let you know what patents cannot be violated.

Of course, we can only say that they are relatively few and cannot be completely eliminated. There are still a lot of cracked versions of Zhiyun cables on the Internet.

Unlike Zhiyun’s dedicated cables, which are relatively cheaper and have relatively fewer cracked versions.

Fruit's special wires are more expensive, basically dozens of yuan, but there are also more corresponding cracked versions!

But then again, the revenue of both parties in terms of wire materials is actually similar, it’s just that Fruit chose to sell less at a high price, while Zhiyun chose to sell more at a low price.

There is no saying who is better or worse.

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Xu Shenxue believes that the large amount of wires in existing smart devices are very redundant and inconvenient. Therefore, in the past two years, Xu Shenxue has been trying to promote the model of wireless connection.

This is especially reflected in the ecological chain products, where a large number of Bluetooth connections have replaced wired connections.

For example, Zhiyun launched a wireless ultra-thin keyboard to match its tablet computer, and an independent keyboard and mouse to match its own notebooks.

All of them use Bluetooth connection.

Then in smart devices, a lot of connection work can also be done through Bluetooth connection, such as Bluetooth file transfer between Zhiyun devices, etc.

Of course, Zhiyun’s devices have these functions, but whether users use them is their own business. Many people still prefer wired mode and there is nothing we can do about it.

In the field of headphones, Xu Shenxue is also promoting wireless.

After all, when you want to listen to music or make a call on your mobile phone, it is somewhat difficult to connect with wired headphones. If you switch to Bluetooth headphones, it will be much more convenient.

In addition to promoting wirelessization, developing Bluetooth headsets is also about making money.

Bluetooth headsets are a type of smart device accessory with a very large potential market. Major mobile phone manufacturers in later generations have invested a lot of resources in this field to build their own Bluetooth headsets.

Under the impetus of Xu Shenxue, Zhiyun Technology started its technology research and development layout several years in advance.

However, Bluetooth headsets are much more difficult to deal with than ordinary Bluetooth devices. One is the battery life issue, the second is the latency issue, and the third is the sound quality of the headset itself.

But sound quality is closely related to transmission speed.

Overall, it is still very difficult for current industrial technology.

Not to mention anything else, the current Bluetooth protocol alone is not very good.

The current Bluetooth protocol only has Bluetooth 4.0, which has a certain gap in power consumption and data transmission speed compared with Bluetooth 5.0 after the widespread appearance of Bluetooth headsets in later generations. Once the data transmission is poor, it means that high-quality audio cannot be transmitted, and the sound quality will be poor when listening to music with these headphones.

At the same time, the battery technology is not as good as that of later generations. If the battery technology is relatively poor, the battery life of the headphones will be relatively poor. Once the battery life is poor, the Bluetooth headphones will not have much practical use.

This is also a common problem faced by many Bluetooth headsets today: the sound quality is too poor and the battery life is too short.

It is obviously impossible for Zhiyun Technology to produce such junk and push it into the market. It is not a question of making money or not, but rather lowering the brand value.

Products produced by Zhiyun must be high-quality!
This is the tone set by Xu Shenxue for each product department!

Zhiyun is a high-end consumer electronics brand that sells all kinds of high-end products. If you bring a rubbish Bluetooth headset, it will cause great damage to the brand. This is also the reason why Zhiyun Technology's Bluetooth headset project has been launched for several years, but has always been in the technical research and development stage and has not yet been launched on the market.

Because the technical performance of the Bluetooth headsets developed before did not meet the requirements of the Zhiyun brand!

However, after several years of technological research and development, the Bluetooth headset project team reported that they had developed a prototype.

This so-called prototype that was reported to Xu Shenxue seemed to have achieved a significant technological breakthrough.

Xu Shenxue immediately became interested and went directly to the Bluetooth headset project team in the neighboring office building C to take a look.

All business departments are gathered in one headquarters park, which is much more convenient than before. When Xu Shenxue wants to see a project, he doesn't have to run too far and can just walk a few steps to get there.

Unlike before, the headquarters park has not been built yet, and the Zhiyun Technology Building cannot accommodate so many business departments, so it can only be divided into pieces here and there.

After arriving at the Bluetooth headset project team in Office Building C, Sun Yitong, the project director of the Bluetooth headset project team, who had received the news in advance, was waiting at the elevator door with a few people.

After meeting Xu Shenxue in the project team's office, Sun Yitong showed the prototype to Xu Shenxue: "Boss Xu, this is the test prototype we made."

"In terms of the overall appearance design, I still referred to your previous suggestion, Mr. Xu, and made a battery compartment to store and charge the headphones."

Xu Shenxue picked it up and took a look. The white, round body didn't look much different from the Bluetooth headsets of later generations, except that it was slightly smaller in size, but still not much different.

How should I put it? This appearance gives me the feeling of a modern enhanced Bluetooth headset.

At this time, Sun Yitong continued: "In the design of this test prototype, although the appearance is not much different from the previous test prototype, the internal changes are huge. We have redesigned and developed the Bluetooth protocol, battery, and management chip!"

"Among the many prototypes we developed before, the biggest challenges we encountered were battery life and sound quality!"

"In order to solve the battery life problem, we contacted the battery supplier and jointly developed this small built-in cylindrical battery. This small battery uses the latest battery technology and has a higher energy density than the batteries we use in our current mobile phones!"

"At the same time, we also conducted cooperative research and development with the power management project team to develop a power management algorithm and even a chip specifically for our headphones."

"These all effectively improve the battery life of the headphones!"

"More importantly, after we found that we could not achieve satisfactory data transmission results with the previous Bluetooth 4.0 protocol, we contacted the Bluetooth SIG and conducted some research and development on the technology development of the next generation Bluetooth protocol."

As one of the current giant manufacturers of various smart devices, Zhiyun Technology is also a member of various messy protocol alliances, and even an important member.

The Bluetooth SIG is no exception.

"Through a series of efforts, we have launched a self-developed Bluetooth communication protocol based on the Bluetooth 4.0 technology. We call it the Bluetooth 4.5 protocol. This is a Zhiyun-specific protocol based on compatibility with the Bluetooth 4.0 protocol to achieve lower power consumption and transmission speed!"

After hearing this, Xu Shenxue became even more interested in this.

He also didn't expect that the Bluetooth project team would develop their own protocol because the current Bluetooth protocol was not enough.

But in this case, the hardware support is not very friendly.

Sure enough, Sun Yitong continued: "But there is also a problem, that is, our headset uses a new protocol, and this protocol must be supported at the hardware level, but our previous series of mobile phones and other devices that use Bluetooth 4.0 and 3.0 protocols do not have the corresponding hardware!"

"Therefore, when our headset is connected to various existing smart terminal products, it still cannot use our Bluetooth 4.5 protocol and can only be compatible with the Bluetooth 4.0 protocol. In this way, the sound quality cannot be guaranteed."

“In the future, if the group’s new smart terminal products add the Bluetooth 4.5 protocol and are paired with our Bluetooth headset, they will have perfect sound quality and low power consumption!”

"We have tested that the sound quality of our self-developed Bluetooth 4.5 protocol is comparable to that of our wired headphones, and the battery life can even reach three and a half hours!"

Xu Shenxue opened the earphone compartment and looked at the two white earphones inserted inside. He then took out one of them and looked at it carefully. "There is no way to solve the hardware adaptation problem. The existing universal Bluetooth 4.0 protocol is not enough. Even if there is a more advanced universal Bluetooth 5.0 protocol or Bluetooth 6.0 protocol in the future, the existing hardware terminals still do not support it!"

"This has little to do with whether it is our self-developed protocol. As for other manufacturers' terminal devices, our Bluetooth headset accessories are not adapted for them, so we don't need to consider whether other manufacturers' terminal devices support it!"

"So, you are on the right track by using our self-developed Bluetooth 4.5 protocol. Just wait for the new terminal products to be released later and add our self-developed Bluetooth 4.5 protocol to them."

Most manufacturers do not have the ability to develop their own communication protocols. It is not a matter of technology, but a matter of scale.

Of course, many manufacturers still like to do this. What people are most familiar with in later generations is the self-developed charging protocol of various mobile phone manufacturers.

Basically, every mobile phone manufacturer will develop its own fast charging protocol. If you want to use their fast charging, you have to use a specially matched charging head and charging cable.

Of course, most of them will also be compatible with universal fast charging protocols.

This also happens with the Type-C interface. Do you mean that if all manufacturers use this interface, then it will be unified? Can the data cable be used freely?
Actually, it’s not... If you look closely, you will find that the details of the type-c interface of each manufacturer are actually different.

This is because type-c is actually just a general specification that covers a large number of technical standards. A complete type-c actually has a lot of lines and the cost is relatively high.

But in fact, most devices only need a few of these 2 interfaces, so most type-c interfaces only have some of the contacts, and many of them have been modified.

In terms of actual usage, this thing is actually not as convenient as before. In the past, you could just look at the interface and know what can be used and what cannot be used...

But now, if you buy a type-c data cable, you may not even be able to use fast charging, or achieve high-speed data transmission, etc.

Type-c integrates a large number of various protocols, but manufacturers only provide you with a few, and even modify the interface to meet their own fast charging protocols. As a result, there are huge differences in the type-c data cables of various mobile phone manufacturers.

At the same time, the appearance of these type-c data cables is the same, and you can't tell the difference.

For ordinary consumers, if they don’t read the technical description carefully, there is a high probability that they will buy the wrong one... However, how many people understand the various complicated protocols and technical descriptions of type-c?

Therefore, for ordinary consumers, type-c is actually not a good thing. It greatly increases the cost and threshold for ordinary consumers to purchase data cables.

Type-c seems to have unified the interface, but in fact it has not. Instead, it has increased the confusion and made people even more confused!
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In addition to the mobile phone charging interface and data connection, which is a typical case, some large manufacturers will also develop some dedicated protocols, such as Zhiyun itself.

In order to make a Bluetooth headset, people even developed a self-developed protocol.

This is not the first time Zhiyun has done this. Previous charging protocols were actually Zhiyun’s self-developed special protocols, which are incompatible with the various messy general protocols on the market.

This is also a legacy of the era of feature phones!
At that time, each mobile phone manufacturer basically played on its own and did not play together with other manufacturers.

The era when Zhiyun grew up was also the era when feature phones were at their most powerful, so when it was developing smartphones, it was inevitably influenced by this trend. Under the leadership of Xu Shenxue, it independently developed a round flat head that can be plugged in from both sides, supporting charging and data connection.

In the following years, various relatively complete dedicated protocols were gradually formed in the Zhiyun/Weiku system.

The ship is already too big to turn around, and it is already difficult to ask Zhiyun to make changes... Zhiyun and Weiku sell hundreds of millions of terminals equipped with these protocol interfaces every year, and the global stock is hundreds of millions. If you change the protocol and interface, what will happen to such a huge amount of old equipment?
This is also the case with the current Bluetooth headset project. We already have our own 4.5 protocol, but we also need to be compatible with the 4.0 protocol. Incompatibility is not acceptable!

Even if the sound quality is a little worse in compatible mode, it is better than not being able to use it.

Xu Shenxue picked up the headphones, matched them with a specially modified Zhiyun S4.5 mobile phone equipped with a new Bluetooth 12 protocol chip, and started listening to music.

The sound quality feels pretty good and there is no delay, at least I can't feel it.

However, Xu Shenxue also had experience in the future, so he did not just listen to the song, but quickly opened a mobile game and simply tested the voice call function.

Then he found that when the voice call function was turned on, especially when the microphone was turned on, the background sound of the game sounded slightly delayed.
This is obviously because the data transmission of the Bluetooth 4.5 protocol is still somewhat insufficient. Xu Shenxue estimated that if this kind of headset is used to play games like PUBG that have high requirements for voice and game environment sound, the experience will probably not be very good.

But this is just a small problem. After all, there are not many mobile games like PUBG these days, and even ordinary mobile games rarely have voice call functions.

The main function of Bluetooth headsets of this day and even in later generations is still to listen to music and make phone calls.

At this point, the current Bluetooth headset prototypes are sufficient.

Afterwards, Xu Shenxue used this Bluetooth headset to connect to an unmodified Zhiyun mobile phone. This time, the compatible universal Bluetooth 4.0 protocol was used. Xu Shenxue listened and could not feel any big difference... After all, he is not a music enthusiast and cannot hear the slight changes in sound quality.

However, the sound quality difference detected by the testing equipment nearby was very obvious.

In addition, when Xu Shenxue used an ordinary mobile phone compatible with the 4.0 protocol to conduct game voice tests, he could feel a very obvious delay.

If the 4.5 protocol is used to play PUBG games, you can feel a little delay, but you can probably use it once you get used to it. However, if you use the compatible 4.0 protocol to play PUBG games, you will feel a very obvious delay, which will greatly destroy the gaming experience.

After carefully trying it out, Xu Shenxue said, "This headset is great, just as I expected!"

"The sound quality is good, and there is no noticeable delay. Given the current technical conditions, you have done an excellent job!"

“Great job listening to songs!”

"We will continue to polish it and wait until next year to see how it goes before launching it on the market. There is no rush now!"

There is no point in being anxious now. The core of this thing is the self-developed Bluetooth 4.5 protocol. Although it can be used in compatible mode, it is not amazing... Compared with some Bluetooth headsets on the market, except that it is smaller, has a more surprising appearance, and has a true wireless mode, it has no obvious advantages in sound quality and battery life.

This is not in line with Zhiyun’s product principles!

Therefore, if you want this Bluetooth headset to achieve relatively large sales and maintain its reputation after it is launched on the market, you have to wait until a series of new mobile phones are released next year that are equipped with Bluetooth 4.5 protocol chips before launching them simultaneously.

But it won’t take too long, just six or seven months.

That is to say, this Bluetooth headset has been developed now, and the new Bluetooth 4.5 protocol has also been perfected, and it can keep up with the research and development, design and production preparation stage of the new mobile phone.

If it is delayed by two or three months, the design of the new S13 mobile phone expected to be launched next year will be completely finalized and organized for mass production, and there will be no way to provide you with additional support for the Bluetooth 4.5 protocol.

After hearing Xu Shenxue's approval and that the product would be launched on the market next year, Sun Yitong and several engineers behind him immediately showed joy on their faces.

Especially Sun Yitong, she couldn’t stop laughing!
In recent years, the Bluetooth headset project team headed by Sun Yitong has actually been under a lot of pressure.

Their project team was actually established at the same time as the notebook project team, tablet computer project team and smart watch project team.

However, it was the project team that produced the last results.

It didn't take long for the notebook project team to come up with the first generation of YunBook, which was a huge success after it was launched on the market. It has now become one of the models of ultra-thin business notebooks, competing with Apple's notebooks on a global scale and has a huge market share in the domestic market.

Basically, when a respectable company chooses a high-end business notebook, it will choose Zhiyun's notebook. For example, a large number of domestic Internet companies are big users of Zhiyun notebooks. The purchase quantity is very large.

At the same time, when domestic institutions purchase high-end business notebooks, most of them buy Zhiyun notebooks without thinking.

There are also students, some college students from well-off families, the standard four-piece set for freshmen admission is Zhiyun S mobile phone, Zhiyun notebook, Zhiyun tablet or smart watch, etc.

Of course, Zhiyun products are very expensive, so the number of college freshmen who can purchase a complete set is still very small. Even though Zhiyun has special education-discounted notebooks and tablets for students, the number is still relatively small.

Zhiyun's notebook business has been successful.

The tablet business has also achieved considerable success and is also one of the most representative tablet computers at present.

Finally, there is the smart watch that was launched this year. This smart watch has no competitors in the current market, and with the huge sales of Zhiyun mobile phones, the ecological chain built by it has attracted a large number of Zhiyun users to buy it.

The sales volume of this smart watch exceeds 20 million units a year.

The above three projects have been launched one after another and have achieved success, becoming important revenue-generating projects in Zhiyun Group.

However, as a project team established at the same time, the Bluetooth headset project has never produced a finished product, which has put Sun Yitong, the project director, under great pressure.

This has taken so long to get done, I'm so anxious!

But Bluetooth headsets are really hard to use.

This thing looks small, but at present, its technical difficulty is higher than that of laptops, tablets, and smart watches.

Just look at Sun Yitong and others, they even developed their own Bluetooth protocol.

If you want to create something that is ahead of its time under the current general technological conditions, the price you have to pay is huge.

For this project, we developed our own Bluetooth 4.5 protocol and a matching self-developed Bluetooth 4.5 chip. Even the battery and power management had to be redesigned.

Each of these projects is technically difficult and requires considerable R&D investment.

Relatively speaking, headphones themselves are not a technical problem.

Finally, all these are combined to create this Bluetooth headset!

Such Bluetooth headsets also mean that once they are launched on the market, there will be no competitors, and it will even be very difficult for others to imitate them.

Because... their protocols and chips are self-developed, what can you imitate?
At most, they can imitate Bluetooth 4.0 and produce a bunch of garbage with very poor sound quality and even worse battery life.

Of course, even so, it is estimated that there will be a lot of manufacturers following suit, especially the copycat manufacturers in Huaqiangnan. It is estimated that it will not be long before they will come up with Bluetooth headsets with similar appearance and using Bluetooth 4.0.

After Xu Shenxue personally finalized the launch plan for Bluetooth headsets next year, he also instructed other terminal product departments, mainly the mobile phone department as well as notebooks and tablets to install the self-developed Bluetooth 4.5 protocol chip, so that when the time comes to launch Bluetooth headsets, their own mobile phones will not be able to support them.

At the same time, he also instructed Sun Yitong to continue polishing the technical details of the Bluetooth headset, to strive for excellence and make better products. As for the cost, there is no need to worry about it.

Zhiyun products have always been very expensive!
This Bluetooth headset is no exception!

(End of this chapter)