Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 82 Overseas Operators Are Here Too (th Update)

On March 4, as part of its publicity plan, Zhiyun Technology held another press conference to announce its sales volume in February.

At the press conference, Ji Chenghe announced that in the past February, the total sales volume of Zhiyun C1 (including online pre-sales without delivery) reached a staggering units.

The C1 Pro version was not well received at the beginning due to its high price, but its sales still reached an astonishing units.

Because a large number of high-quality customers buy the C1 phone just for its high-end reputation and high price... they only consider the C1 Pro and don't consider the so-called standard version at all.

There are also quite a lot of people who care about face, some young ladies who like to pursue fashion, who are going for the Star Sand color scheme of C1 Pro and don't even consider the standard version.

As a result, the sales of C1 Pro exceeded expectations.

The 32GB version was hot-selling and the 16GB version also sold a lot, which significantly lowered the average selling price of the C1 series phones.

With sales of 130,000 units and a relatively high average selling price, Zhiyun Technology raked in nearly 400 million yuan in just 20 days in February!

After the sales volume and sales revenue were announced, there was another uproar. Major portals and financial media newspapers were reporting on it crazily... This was also what marketing personnel like Ji Chenghe wanted.

They just want to use this kind of explosive sales news for publicity.

Using this kind of news and letting the media report it extensively is much more useful than simply buying a notice to brag about how great your Zhiyun phone is.

And that’s not all. Three days after announcing its sales volume and revenue for February, Zhiyun Technology announced that it had officially reached a strategic cooperation with a French operator, and the two parties signed an order for 1 Zhiyun C mobile phones.

This news has attracted a lot of attention again!
Domestic high-end smartphones are entering overseas markets and competing with fruits on the counters in the channels of overseas operators!

This news is enough to irritate the nerves of Chinese people. Many people will think: Damn, what’s going on? Our Chinese mobile phones are so awesome that they can even enter the European high-end market?

In fact, Zhiyun Technology does not have any complete plan to enter the overseas market, and it has not even taken any action... These overseas orders all come to us from overseas customers themselves.

Zhiyun C1 is the only Android phone in the world that supports full touch input and multi-touch (two-point). It is also one of the few truly smart phones in the world.

Moreover, it adopts the relatively mature and widely used WCDMA standard.

Its market is not only in the domestic market, but also in the vast overseas market...

Because just like domestic operators, overseas operators and users don’t have many choices…

Many so-called smart phones nowadays are just some random pseudo-smart phones, such as various Symbian, Blackberry, WM and other so-called smart phones...

Many of these phones don’t even have a virtual keyboard or multi-touch, let alone an open ecosystem or something like that.

Even the current HTZ does not support virtual keyboards due to the native Android system, and uses a weird interaction mode of full keyboard plus trackball...

If we finally reflect on the purchasing scenario, if consumers want to buy a real smartphone, they can either choose Apple or Zhiyun C1 which is rooted in the Android ecosystem... There is no third option for the time being.

Therefore, in the end, these operators, like consumers, have little choice... either fruit or Zhiyun C1. Why is Zhiyun C1 so popular now? It is because it is stuck at a very clever stage...

At this stage, if you don’t buy an Apple phone or can’t afford one, but want a real smartphone like an Apple phone, then Zhiyun C1 becomes your best choice... or even the only choice.

Because you don’t have a choice...

This is also the reason why Zhiyun C1 has not been promoted overseas, but it still attracted overseas operators to come and discuss cooperation and purchase mobile phones on a large scale.

These operators also want to give their users a second option besides fruit phones... There are always people who don’t like fruit or want a slightly cheaper smartphone.

Nowadays, the prices of Apple phones vary from country to country, but after adding taxes, the 8G version basically costs around four thousand or even five thousand.

Many so-called cheap prices, such as $199, are actually contract prices...you need to pay extra high phone bills, and the price of the phone itself is actually quite expensive.

The 1GB version of Zhiyun C8 only costs more than yuan including tariffs after being shipped overseas, which is much cheaper overall.

Therefore, Zhiyun C1 is actually quite competitive even in overseas markets. Not only do large French operators take the initiative to approach it to purchase, but some other small overseas operators or channel dealers also come to seek cooperation and place orders.

As for China Unicom, as a local operator, after tasting the sweetness of vigorously promoting and subsidizing the Zhiyun C1 mobile phone in February, it once again placed additional orders in March, and added units at a time.

This brings the total number of orders from China Unicom to 500,000 units!
Even China Mobile and China Telecom saw that the Zhiyun mobile phone era had already exploded, and China Unicom could no longer sit still and eat the meat. Regardless of the incompatibility of its own 3G network, it also began to purchase some Zhiyun C1 as contract phones... For no other reason, it wanted to tie up its own high-net-worth users first, otherwise they would all jump to China Unicom.

If 3G network is not available, you can still use WAPI, and you can also use WIFI in the future...

Well, China Mobile in the original time and space did this. It privately made a lot of Fruit 3 phones that did not support its own 4G network as contract phones.

At present, China Telecom and China Mobile are actually in active negotiations with Zhiyun Technology.

As for the telecommunications aspect, it is not difficult to say. Zhiyun Technology expects that a series of models to be released in the fall, including the future flagship model and the improved and upgraded model C1 of the C2 series, will have corresponding telecommunications versions, that is, the CDMA2000 standard version.

高通的8250/8650以及7227/7627这两款芯片，都是各自有WCDMA版以及CDMA2000版，客户可以自行选用。

Generally speaking, if the second digit is 2, it means WCDMA, such as the 8250 in 2 and the 7227 in 2.

第二位数字6，则是代表CDMA2000制式，比如8650里的6，7627里的6。

So now, to see what version of a mobile phone using Qualcomm SOC chip is, you can distinguish it by looking at the chip model. The one with the middle number 2 is the China Unicom version, and the one with the middle number 6 is the China Telecom version.

Zhiyun Technology, which is expected to adopt these two series of chips, plans to launch a number of models in the fall, covering both China Unicom and China Telecom versions.

In addition to covering the two domestic operators, these two standards can also cover most of the global markets. In particular, WCDMA is very mature and most operators in the world use this network.

However, the TD-CDMA standard of China Mobile, the largest operator in China, is not so easy to use...

(End of this chapter)