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Chapter 468 0458 [The Shocking Cutting-Edge Technology at the HarmonyOS New Phone Launch Event]

Tao Chenggang was unaware that another company he had invested in was already planning to start live streaming.

That's YY Voice!

He invested in YY purely because many players in his game used YY to command national wars.

However, after investing, he was unable to interfere with YY's operation and management.

After multiple rounds of financing and dilution, Tao Chenggang only holds 7.6% of YY's shares.

The largest shareholder is the founder, the second largest shareholder is Lei Jun, and the third largest shareholder is GGV Capital, in which Lei Jun is involved.

Lei Jun's influence can be seen everywhere; he has invested in at least dozens of companies in recent years.

Although Tencent did not follow suit and enter the live streaming industry, the battle between "League of Legends" and "Oracle Era" is in full swing.

Tencent tried to attract users to QQ, but found the results to be poor.

This is due to a variety of reasons, one of which is very clear: the game characters are too ugly!

Tencent immediately had the art team redo the skin.

As a shareholder of Riot Games, Tencent has extensive modification privileges. Aside from the core game logic code, which cannot be altered, they can freely modify other parts of League of Legends' code.

Currently, Oracle Era's peak concurrent online users have exceeded 75, while League of Legends' peak concurrent online users have exceeded 40.

QQ's ability to attract users is too abnormal. You can only suppress Tencent's games, but you can't completely destroy it.

Forget League of Legends, even Tencent's knock-off of Three Kingdoms Kill, Hero Kill, is still being played years ago. Although it doesn't generate much profit, it still makes money for Tencent every month.

Tencent has a whole host of games like this.

At the same time, Tencent also launched a customized phone for China Telecom based on the HarmonyOS operating system.

The back of the phone has a very prominent QQ logo, and at first glance, it looks like a gift phone that Tencent is giving away during promotions...

Tencent's mobile phones had a host of hardware problems, resulting in an extremely poor user experience, leading China Telecom to terminate its subsequent cooperation with Tencent.

Huawei's customized handset, developed in partnership with China Telecom, was also released in September, and it's also based on the HarmonyOS operating system. There are no major problems, but quite a few minor ones, but its low price makes it acceptable.

In the past two months, 12 mobile phones under the HarmonyOS camp have been released one after another.

Meizu, Panda, Bird, Tianyu, TCL, VIVO, OPPO... they all popped up.

Apart from Meizu, Xingyao, VIVO, and OPPO, which are mid-range phones, all the others are low-end phones.

Opposing camps seized the opportunity to discredit HarmonyOS as a low-end operating system, a claim that gained traction online, especially after the iPhone 4 and Samsung i9000 entered the Chinese market!

iphone4和三星i9000的定价一模一样，16GB版本售价4999元，32GB版本售价5999元。

However, there has been no news about the new HarmonyOS phone that Chen Guiliang mentioned.

Many die-hard fans even tag Chen Guiliang on Weibo every day, saying: "Old Master Chen, can you please stop neglecting your duties? One minute you're making games, the next you're doing live streams, can you at least release the new HarmonyOS phone first?"

After being urged for a while, Chen Guiliang had no choice but to reply: "We have already started stockpiling goods and contacted factories to expand production capacity. We will release 15 units this time to avoid running out of stock every few days."

A few days later, HarmonyOS Technology Co., Ltd. suddenly contacted the media and announced that it would soon hold a launch ceremony for the new HarmonyOS device.

This time, more than 500 people were invited, including not only various media outlets, but also a large number of executives from third-party IT companies and representatives from suppliers.

For example, NetDragon Chairman Liu Dejian came.

He not only makes money by bringing games to the Middle Eastern market, but also has a product called 91 Mobile Assistant, which has launched five versions: Android, HarmonyOS, Symbian, Apple, and Microsoft.

This device not only has the function of downloading and installing mobile apps, but also comes pre-installed with mobile apps such as Panda Reader. It boasts a market share exceeding 90%!

"Has Mr. Wu seen the new HarmonyOS machine?" Liu Dejian asked Wu Ying, who was standing next to him.

Wu Ying shook her head and said, "He's being very secretive, not letting anyone see it. I heard that even the contract manufacturers have signed confidentiality agreements with HarmonyOS, strictly prohibiting the leakage of information before the new machine is released."

The Xingyao mobile phone sold well, with sales exceeding 30 units in just a few months.

Wu Ying followed the traditional sales route, hiring Fan Bingbing as a spokesperson, then launching a massive advertising campaign, and selling mobile phones through mobile phone stores, shopping mall counters, and operator outlets.

People who don't use the internet much are more likely to fall for this.

VIVO and OPPO's marketing strategies are very similar to those of Wu Ying's Xingyao phones. However, their target audiences are different.

The users of Xingyao phones tend to be older.

VIVO and OPPO directly target young people, especially those who enjoy watching Hunan TV's entertainment programs!

In the past two or three months, almost all entertainment programs on various TV stations, including Hunan TV, have featured advertisements for VIVO and OPPO. Moreover, they all use popular Korean celebrities as spokespeople.

Suddenly, the lights went out.

The big screen lit up.

As soothing piano music began, a mobile phone appeared on the large screen.

At first glance, Wu Ying's pupils shrank sharply.

The phone has no chin on the front; it's all screen with no physical buttons!

Then, the phone rotated to the side, gleaming with a dazzling metallic sheen. Metallic side profile.

Rotating the phone to the back, there are no seams except around the camera, and it also gleams with a metallic sheen. It's a unibody metal design. On the large screen, the phone disappears, revealing four large characters: Seven Stars Series.

Next, the words "鸿蒙" (Hongmeng) appeared, in the dignified and elegant font of Lanting Hei.

Another "·" symbol appears.

Then, stroke by stroke, he wrote out the custom-designed cursive script "Tian Shu".

Of the more than 500 guests present, none of them paid attention to the calligraphy; they were all completely absorbed in the astonishment at the phone's appearance.

Even many supplier representatives stared at the big screen with question marks in their minds: How did HarmonyOS phones achieve this?
This is not just a matter of appearance design; it also requires solving a series of technical challenges!
The iPhone 4, with its unibody metal design this year, was plagued by the "Antennagate" scandal. These days, almost every iPhone 4 user owns a phone case; without one, signal loss is common.

The Samsung i9000, on the other hand, has a "pseudo-metal unibody" design, with a plastic strip subtly inserted there.

Now, even HarmonyOS is using a unibody metal design.

Did Apple, Samsung, and HarmonyOS agree on this beforehand?
What's even more terrifying is that Apple and Samsung both have a chin on their phones, but HarmonyOS has completely eliminated it. How can you just get rid of that? Suppliers have to improve their hardware technology.

The screen module supplier, who was sitting in the audience, was also confused about what was going on.

Because the stuff he sold to HarmonyOS Technology simply couldn't remove the chin from the phone!
The lights came back on, and Chen Guiliang appeared holding his phone.

"What do you all think of the 'HarmonyOS TianShu' phone?" Chen Guiliang asked with a smile.

A tech-savvy editor-in-chief of a mobile phone magazine asked, "Mr. Chen, how did you eliminate the chin on your phone? With your all-metal unibody design, won't it have signal issues like Apple?"

Chen Guiliang didn't answer, but instead asked, "Is it pretty?"

The editor-in-chief exclaimed, "Beautiful! I've never seen such a beautiful phone before. It's practically a work of art!"

Chen Guiliang was finally satisfied and picked up his phone, saying, "We directly covered the chin area with Gorilla Glass. This is easy to spot because the screen display area is illuminated, while the chin area is not.

“We vapor-deposited an extremely precise opaque black matrix layer on the inside of the glass chin and precisely cut out the display area. The uniformity and durability of this coating are crucial, otherwise bright spots and color differences will appear. We did this for a while last year, and we picked it up again this year.”

"We've solved that problem. We still need to address the issues with a bunch of components, such as the front-facing camera and the light sensor. They all need to have 'windows' at the chin to receive light and send signals. Covering them with a whole piece of black glass would render them ineffective."

"Therefore, we laser-engraved a matrix of tiny openings on the black optical layer. The human eye cannot perceive them, but they are enough to allow light to pass through. The sensor used must be more sensitive, and the image processing chip must also have stronger computing power to compensate for the loss of light intake during this process."

"There's also the issue of a larger glass area, which results in more complex stress and a higher risk of screen breakage. We've adopted a sturdy metal frame and used a special cushioning adhesive to absorb energy. We've also made the glass screen slightly concave against the metal frame..."

"in addition……"

Chen Guiliang said a lot, leaving all the guests in the audience dumbfounded.

This is a pseudo-full-screen phone; the chin appears to be gone, but it's simply hidden. That area is made very small, housing the three navigation buttons. Only the three navigation buttons are responsive; the surrounding area cannot be operated with fingers.

One reporter couldn't help but ask, "How much would it cost to do this?"

Chen Guiliang said, "If we include R&D expenses, the cost of each phone will increase by 120-180 yuan. This is just a rough figure. The higher the sales volume, the lower the increase in cost, because the R&D costs can be spread out."

"Will the all-metal unibody design affect the phone signal?" the reporter asked again.

“No,” Chen Guiliang smiled. “The HarmonyOS mobile phone R&D team is top-notch. We redesigned all the antennas and adopted nano-injection molding technology…”

Wu Ying was stunned. What was this about laser engraving of micro-hole matrices and nano-injection molding for antennas?

What kind of high-tech gadgets are these?

Chen Guiliang continued, "To demonstrate that our screen is not easily broken, I'm going to drop the phone on site. I've already consulted Mr. Zhou Guangping, the head of HarmonyOS phone R&D. Mr. Zhou has a strong temper and is very careful with his products, so I had to ask him for permission. In the end, I convinced him."

The guests thought Chen Guiliang was going to smash his phone on stage.

The podium was a temporary structure with wooden planks underneath, covered with carpet. It was designed to be durable and not easily damaged.

As a result, Chen Guiliang immediately walked off the stage and threw his phone onto the marble floor.

"Snapped!"

The camera lens quickly pointed over, and the guests in the front row craned their necks to look.

Chen Guiliang picked up the phone, but instead of showing it to everyone, he threw it back on the ground.

"My grass!"

A guest in the front row couldn't help but swear, and he was worried for Chen Guiliang.

Chen Guiliang picked up his phone again, finally pointed it at the camera lens, and then showed it to the guests.

In good condition.

Then, Chen Guiliang returned to the stage, placed his phone in front of the microphone, dialed ByteDance's Weibo customer service number, and pressed speakerphone.

"Hello, how can I help you?" ByteDance Weibo customer service said.

Chen Guiliang said, "I am Chen Guiliang, and I am demonstrating the call function at the new product launch event."

The customer service representative said, "Hello, please don't joke around. Do you have any other questions?"

"Hahaha!"

The audience burst into laughter.

Chen Guiliang said, "Did you hear that? There are many people here at the press conference. You continue speaking, and I'll hold different areas of the phone with my hand to demonstrate that the signal is strong..."

(End of this chapter)